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• Querying Multiple Federated Locations in Enterprise Search with the QueryManager class

  Last week, I showed you how to use the QueryManager class to query SharePoint Enterprise Search. In that post, I mentioned that we can actually use the QueryManger class to harness the true power of federated search and query multiple locations at once... Posted Aug 25 2010, 11:54 AM by CoreyRoth with | with no comments Filed under: SharePoint, Enterprise Search, SharePoint 2010

• Adding a link to a document’s folder in SharePoint 2010 Enterprise Search

  One request I have seen a lot from people since MOSS 2007 is the desire to add a link to the subfolder of a document on the search results page.  This is useful when the user wants to see what else is in that folder or if they want to perform other... Posted Aug 23 2010, 11:19 AM by CoreyRoth with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: SharePoint, Enterprise Search, SharePoint 2010

• How to: Use the QueryManager class to query SharePoint 2010 Enterprise Search

  Last week, I talked about the KeywordQuery class and how to use it in SharePoint 2010.  I mentioned that a new way to query also existed using the QueryManager class.  This class is extremely powerful and can allow us to issue federated queries... Posted Aug 15 2010, 09:46 PM by CoreyRoth with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: SharePoint, Enterprise Search, SharePoint 2010, FAST Search

• How to: Use the SharePoint 2010 Enterprise Search KeywordQuery Class

  By now, I’m sure you know that there have been a ton of changes and improvements in SharePoint 2010 Enterprise Search.  The underlying architecture of Enterprise Search has been ripped out of the old SSP model and is now based on Service Applications... Posted Aug 12 2010, 04:49 PM by CoreyRoth with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: SharePoint, Enterprise Search, SharePoint 2010, FAST Search

• Creating a Content Source Scope Rule using PowerShell

  Two weeks ago, I posted about how to create scopes and scope rules using PowerShell .  At the end of the post I mentioned that there was no rule type for creating scope rules by content type.  I knew there had to be a way to do this, so I created... Posted Aug 11 2010, 01:33 PM by CoreyRoth with | with 7 comment(s) Filed under: SharePoint, Enterprise Search, SharePoint 2010, PowerShell

• Introducing the SharePoint PowerShell Community Toolkit

  This weekend, I got inspired to create what I think could be a great new CodePlex community Project.  Last week, I saw a post in the forums as well a comment on the blog asking if specific PowerShell commands existed in regards to Enterprise Search... Posted Aug 09 2010, 03:04 PM by CoreyRoth with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: SharePoint, Enterprise Search, SharePoint 2010, PowerShell, SharePoint PowerShell Community Toolkit

• Where did my Search Scopes list on the home page go in SharePoint 2010?

  On a recent SharePoint 2010 migration I completed, this was one of the first questions I was asked.  After seeing versions of SharePoint all these months, it never occurred to me that the dropdown list wasn’t there any more until someone pointed... Posted Aug 02 2010, 11:45 AM by CoreyRoth with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: SharePoint, Enterprise Search, SharePoint 2010

• Some handy keywords you might find useful in SharePoint Enterprise Search

  Enterprise Search is one of my favorite SharePoint topics to speak about.  Often in my talks, I use various keyword queries to display results that people often end up asking me about.  Today, I thought it would be useful to show you some of... Posted Jul 20 2010, 03:30 PM by CoreyRoth with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: SharePoint, Enterprise Search, SharePoint 2010

• Slides from my talks at NWA TechFest

  I had the opportunity to give two talks at NWA TechFest yesterday in Rogers, AR.  It was a pretty good event organized by the one and only @DavidWalker .  I got to meet a lot of new people and talk about all sorts of things related to SharePoint... Posted Jul 09 2010, 02:32 PM by CoreyRoth with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: SharePoint, Enterprise Search, Presentations, Business Connectivity Services, SharePoint 2010

• Creating Enterprise Search Metadata Property Mappings with PowerShell

  One of the things that drove me absolutely nuts about Enterprise Search in MOSS 2007 was that there was no built-in way to export your managed property mappings and install them on a new server.  A third party utility on CodePlex helped, but it was... Posted May 26 2010, 03:07 PM by CoreyRoth with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: SharePoint, Enterprise Search, SharePoint 2010, PowerShell

• How to: Create an OpenSearch Provider for SharePoint

  A while back, Kevin Williams pointed out to me that certain web sites could be searched in Google Chrome using the syntax <ur> query in the address bar. For example, once I have been to youtube.com, I can later type in youtube to initiate a search... Posted May 17 2010, 05:07 PM by CoreyRoth with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: SharePoint, MOSS, Enterprise Search, SharePoint Designer, SharePoint 2010, Windows 7, OpenSearch

• Slides from my talks at SharePoint Saturday Houston #SPSHOU

  I had a great time this weekend at SharePoint Saturday Houston.  The event was well run and @danluciano , @victor_chat , @davidfrette , and everyone else involved did a great job.  I’m not sure what the final turnout numbers were, but it sounds... Posted May 03 2010, 02:42 PM by CoreyRoth with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: SharePoint, Enterprise Search, Presentations, SharePoint 2010, PowerShell, SharePoint Saturday

• Mapping Enterprise Search managed properties from the BCS in SharePoint 2010

  When I was mapping some managed properties from one of my Content Sources using the BCS, I noticed that the crawled properties were named slightly different in SharePoint 2010.  I thought this was worth a quick note, so here we are.  In MOSS... Posted Apr 15 2010, 01:59 PM by CoreyRoth with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: SharePoint, Enterprise Search, SharePoint Designer, Business Connectivity Services, SharePoint 2010, SP2010 Beta

• A quick guide to CoreResultsWebPart configuration changes in SharePoint 2010

  Lots of things have changed in Enterprise Search and the CoreResultsWebPart is no exception.  Of course, I’ve already mentioned that you can override certain methods now to affect how queries execute.  A number of options have moved around and... Posted Apr 05 2010, 04:38 PM by CoreyRoth with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: SharePoint, Enterprise Search, SharePoint 2010, SP2010 Beta

• Slides from my SharePoint Enteprise Search at OKC SharePoint Users Group

  I had the honor of being the first speaker at the new OKC SharePoint Users Group ( OKCSUG ) last night.  Wendy Schopf did a great job organizing the location and event and there was a pretty decent turnout.  I’m very excited to see the SharePoint... Posted Mar 30 2010, 03:30 PM by CoreyRoth with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: SharePoint, Enterprise Search, Presentations, SharePoint 2010, SP2010 Beta, OKC SharePoint Users Group