We've been having a few good (meaning "interesting") discussions lately about custom claims providers and search. As it turns out, there are instances when you need to install your custom claim provider on a search box ("box" being something I'll define down below) in order to get security trimming working correctly in your search results. …
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Troubleshooting Tip for Debugging Crawl Issues in SharePoint 2010
I recently came across a very nice troubleshooting methodology when I was trying to debug some authentication issues that were occurring during a SharePoint 2010 crawl. I was getting some errors and also having difficulty getting the information I needed out of the crawl log to some other issues that were occurring. Strangely enough, enter…
Debugging the Crawler Parsing in FAST Search for SharePoint 2010
I was recently clued into an pretty interesting little tool that can be useful when debugging how a document is crawled using FAST Search for SharePoint 2010. It will crack a document and break out for you exactly what properties are being extracted and with what values, as well as how it’s crawling the contents…
Finding Which Crawled Property Data Types Match a Managed Property Data Type in SharePoint 2010
Not sure how often this will come up, but it was something that took me a while to track down so I thought I'd share here. Suppose you are working with a ManagedProperty in SharePoint search, and you want to look at mapping it to a crawled property. Now a managed property usually just has…
Free Developer Search Tool for SharePoint 2010 Search and FAST Search for SharePoint
I've been working on a developer tool off and on for months now to help working with the query engine in SharePoint 2010. It's come far enough along that it's probably ready for some folks to start using it. I've been debating about putting it up on CodePlex as more of a community project so others…
Unexpected Error When Adding a Search Connector Link from SharePoint 2010 to Windows 7
Search connector links are a really slick feature that integrates SharePoint 2010 search with Windows 7. When you search in a SharePoint 2010 site from a Windows 7 machine, you will see a little icon in the search results on the top left part of the results pane. It looks like a folder with a…
Why Can’t I Save My Changes to the Refiner Web Part in SharePoint 2010
Hey folks, here's a problem that keeps coming up over and over again, and I'll admit it confused me for some time as well. The refiner web part, for those of you who aren't familiar with it, is used on the search results page in SharePoint 2010. It's designed to give you a faceted search…
Getting Search Service Applications and Proxies in SharePoint 2010 Object Model
I've been doing a lot of digging around this topic this morning for my Search Explorer for Developers application (more on that in a future post). In general it can be kind of tough to get search service applications and proxies when working without an HttpContext (like in a winforms app). Even with context, it's…
Manually Adding Query Suggestions in SharePoint 2010
One of the great new features around Search in SharePoint 2010 is the concept of query suggestions. There are pre-query and post-query suggestions. A pre-query suggestion is a type-ahead feature that appears in the search box on the search page. As you start typing in your query, SharePoint will go find other queries that have…
Use LINQ to Find All Web Applications that Use a Specific Service Application in SharePoint 2010
I was working on some code today when I had a bit of an unusual problem. I had a SearchServiceApplicationProxy and I wanted to find out all of the web applications that were using it. There were a few different routes I could take, most of them which would require churning through some number of…