We are using the default AD import for an environment to crawl user profiles. The customer requested the ability to exclude some users from the search results. This can be done by changing the search web part to exclude these users or by changing the user profile...
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SearchSharePoint birthday and anniversary web part using search results
This blog will show you in detail how you can create a birthday and anniversary web part using a search results web part with a custom Display Template and CSS. This web part uses the user profile birthday property which people can fill in their self. I’ve started...
SharePoint: Unable to retrieve topology component health states
We encountered the below error during a fresh SharePoint 2013 installation using AutoSPInstaller. ‘Unable to retrieve topology component health states. This may be because the admin component is not up and running.’ I have seen a few blogs that mentions this error but...
SharePoint 2013 search error ‘Sandbox worker is closed’
I encountered the following error while crawling our site collections. Processing this item failed because of an unknown error when trying to parse its contents. (Error parsing document ‘<doc>’, Sandbox worker pool is closed ; ; SearchID = <GUID> Only...
Search not crawling items in SharePoint 2013
I was recently troubleshooting the issue that Search wasn't crawling the SharePoint Web Applications. The following information was seen on the Search Administration. - Recent crawl rate = 0.00 items per second - Searchable items = 0 - Recent query rate = 0.00 - Full...