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.

Preview of Office Documents (this includes PDF) is a huge benefit when you are searching for information – you can quickly identify if the document is the one you are looking for or skimming/scanning a document efficiently. To get the preview up and running you have to install Office Web Apps 2013 – PDF preview was added in March Public Update 2013 – that’s great, many clients have asked me why there is no support in the 2010 stack.

Previously I had a little console app to efficiently empty large SharePoint lists. Today I converted it to powershell. SharePoint Online? Read this: Efficiently empty a large Sharepoint Online List Compared to the simple item by item delete with item.Delete() its 30 times faster; on my dev machine it deletes ~30 items per second. It works for SharePoint 2010 and should for 2013 (not tested, yet). Script param($weburl,$listname) if ($weburl -eq $null -or $listname -eq $null) { write-host -foregroundcolor red "