SharePoint Best Practices and Beyond
October 12, 2011
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A series of Best Practices articles for SharePoint Server 2010 by Microsoft TechNet includes an article on the best practices for enterprise search, “Best Practices for Search in SharePoint Server 2010.” The article also applies to Microsoft Search Server and covers everything from the deployment to antivirus policies.
Some useful information is covered; one learns to test the crawling and querying subsystems after changing any configuration or applying updates:
We recommend that you test the crawling and querying functionality of the server farm after you make configuration changes or apply updates. An easy way to do this is to create a temporary content source that is used only for this purpose. To test, we recommend that you crawl ten items — for example .txt files on a file share — and then perform search queries for those files. Make sure that the test items are currently not in the index.
Management also needs to be aware of planning the search topology, planning for capacity and performance, and planning for findability. Users must be able to easily find what they are looking for, and managed properties and scopes will enhance the end-user search experience. You must start with a well-configured infrastructure. Defragmenting the search database after a series of crawls and queries can help with content management.
Overall, it is important to test the subsystems, be prepared, and review the anti-virus policy to avoid any unexpected problems.
For more articles in the series, see Best practices (SharePoint Server 2010).
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Iain Fletcher, Vice President, Search Technologies October 12, 2011
Search Technologies is the world’s largest independent provider of search engine expertise, consulting and implementation services.
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