Search

From the session description:

Successful SharePoint deployments have one thing in common: great search!

So, true – here are my session notes from the Search Architecture, Sizing, and Migration in Microsoft SharePoint 2013 session.

The refiner count is a very useful indicator in the Search Center whether the click on the refinement is worth it or nor – and the implementation is so intuitive that even end-users understands it. But: It is disabled by default in SharePoint 2013. This post shows you how to enable the Refiner Count for SharePoint 2013 - manually and with PowerShell. Refiner Count in SharePoint 2010 The refiner count was introduced in SharePoint 2010 and is a FAST for SharePoint feature.

I installed SharePoint 2013 on a test system yesterday and was faced with the problem that the search, after successfully provisioning it - did not work. Boo! Symptoms There are several noticeable Symptoms The crawl log shows 1 Top Level Error and 1 Error: Crawl log with 1 Top Level Error and 1 Error The Eventlog shows some warnings and an error Eventlog with the error “The gatherer service cannot be initialized”