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A search talk for the SharePoint UK community
Search is an operations story disguised as a product feature. That was the argument I took to SPSUK.
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Search
Crawling, indexing, result quality and the operational cost of a useful search service.
Search is easy to switch on and difficult to keep honest. This topic looks at crawl budgets, index health, content sources and the decisions that determine whether results feel trustworthy.
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Search / SharePoint 2007
Search crawls need a budget, even in SharePoint 2007
A full crawl is not a maintenance button. It is a large read of the content estate with a cost that must be planned.
Outside reading
Useful references
Keep the current product documentation close when applying advice from an older entry.
- Microsoft Learn: SharePoint search (opens in a new tab)Documentation for search architecture, crawling and result management.
- Microsoft Learn: SharePoint administration (opens in a new tab)Operational guidance for service settings, site management and the modern admin experience.
- Microsoft Learn: SharePoint documentation (opens in a new tab)The starting point for current SharePoint administration, development and hybrid guidance.
- Microsoft Tech Community (opens in a new tab)Community discussion, product announcements and practical posts from Microsoft teams.
- Microsoft Learn: PowerShell documentation (opens in a new tab)Language reference, cmdlet documentation and guidance for repeatable automation.
- PowerShell Gallery (opens in a new tab)A public repository for PowerShell modules and scripts. Review package provenance before use.
- Microsoft Learn: SQL Server documentation (opens in a new tab)Official reference material for database engine configuration, performance and recovery.
- Microsoft Learn: Server memory configuration (opens in a new tab)How SQL Server allocates memory and how the maximum server memory setting is applied.