List of "My Sites" with SharePoint 2013

I have constructed a query which returns all site collections and webs. This query is then transformed  into a tree and used to display a list of all sites a user have access to.

The query was not returning all items from the index. If I searched for the sites manually the sites was returned.

When setting "TrimDuplicates" to false all items are returned, but one can also set "TrimDuplicatesOnProperty" to "Path" instead. It have the same effect as setting TrimDuplicates to false.

Multilanguage whitepaper for MOSS

Building Multilingual Solutions by Using SharePoint Products and Technologies

* Learn how to create web parts to use the variation feature
* Get more info how the index and search web parts can be configured to support multilanguage sites
* Understand the variation feature with constraints and rules to remember

Crawled properties for HTML documents

We are currently running an intresting project including the index engine in cooperation with Tamino XML server. One action in the project is to index HTML documents from the Tamino XML server and use the MOSS Query Web Service to present search results.

The HTML contains the classic meta tag ">meta name="Keywords" content=""<" which still provides information to some crawlers. Here we encounter a problem. After the content source had been setup and the HTML documents had been crawled the "Keywords" properties didn´t show up in the crawled properties view, but other "meta" tags was, i.e ">meta name="Region" content="Sweden"<". For some reason the "Keywords" meta tag is skipped.

The solution to this case was to add another meta tag, "KeywordsCust" and add the same information as in "Keywords" from the source. After a full crawl the meta tag apperad in crawled properties, then just map it to "Keywords" in managed properties and you are ready to go.

Two test tools for the Query Web Service in MOSS / SPPS
http://www.gotdotnet.com/Community/UserSamples/Details.aspx?SampleGuid=89b3cda7-aad9-4919-8faf-34ef9b28c57b
http://www.mosssearch.com/searchwebservice.html

Introduction to 'SharePoint Enterprise Search'

A good introduction to the index engine, ifilters and the query interface. I have always considered the search engine the one component that is really worth the license cost of SPPS 2003 and with the improvments made in MOSS (change log crawling, continouse propagation) it will enable more accurate search results and better administration.

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/technetmag/issues/2007/01/Search/

If you are using Windows Desktop Search, then check out this tip to enable integration to the Search Center: http://markharrison.co.uk/blog/2006/10/sharepoint-search-directly-from.htm