I recently came across an issue relating to crawling people information in SharePoint and the use of crawl rules to exclude certain content. The issue revolved around a requirement to exclude content contained within peoples’ MySites, but include user profile information so that people searches could still be …

Office 2007/2010 format documents stored in SharePoint 2010 which have their title field populated show an incorrect title in the default search results. The screen shot below shows the search results for the following document: Filename: Test document 1.docx Title: Test Document 1 Title First line of document: First …

One of the SharePoint farms we’ve built recently runs on Windows Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008. As usual, the installation is a least privileged account setup, with individual accounts running the various services and app pools. The farm is also patched to the latest level. We’ve experienced one or two issues with …