Questions tagged [search]
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google Safe Search web filtering
I had an issue raised that a student did a google images search on Reece Bennett and on the second page, after removing safe search from moderate to off, they got some inappropriate images.
Blocking the preferences page wont help because there is a…

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SharePoint Search issues after replacing WFE server
We have a small intranet installation of MOSS SP2 with a single WFE and a separate SQL Server.
I recently switched out the old WFE server that was running Windows Server 2003 Standard 32-bit, the process I followed was the following:
Bring up a…

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enterprise search engine deployment asking for advice
I am asked to either deploy or develop an enterprise (intranet) search engine which could index all web pages of a couple of internal servers, and have a search portal to display all related content, like what Google is doing but for intranet.
Any…

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Single user returns mulitple entries for LDAP query
After asking this question, I had an LDAP query that looked like this:
(&(cn=*)(networkAddress=*)(objectClass=user))
However, if a user has multiple cn's, they are returned multiple times. Is there a way to stop this happening?

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WikiMedia. Search with french accents. Result differ's
I have MediaWiki 1.19 with MySQL 5.1.58 and php-5.3.6 installed in a SANDBOX.
On the MediaWiki, I do a search with the word ''Québec'' or ''Quebec'' and I have different results...
Is there anything I can change in Apache or MySQL to fix that issue?…

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Force incremental crawl
I am plannning a Search Server 2010 and a MS SQL 2012. Can I be sure that when someone updates a record and searches for it immediately after that, the query will return the new record as well?
If it will be only indexed at the next scheduled time,…

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Searching for outdated CMS versions on server
I'm interested if there is a way to search for all outdated installations of CMS systems on my server ( RHEL). For example, is there a way to automatically search for all old versions of Joomla CMS that would need updating ?

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Do SharePoint farms have to be on the same service pack to share Shared Services?
I have a parent farm on MOSS 2007 SP1. I'd like to share the parent's SSP search service with a child farm on MOSS 2007 SP2. But, I'm having trouble crawling content from the parent farm. Could it be a problem with the service pack levels?
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Searching an Exchange Mailbox
I've been searching all over without any specific answer that helps me.
Basically, I need to search a mailbox in our Exchange 2010 Server for a specific attachment. But due to the user accounts mailbox being so large, it is impossible to just…

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Find files by creation date on Windows Server 2003
What's the easiest way to find all files on a server (Windows Server 2003) created on or before a certain date? (BTW, Windows Search has been and is currently disabled.)

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Windows Text Search Tool Including PDFs
Looking for recommendations for tool/process to search through roughly 2TBs of data looking for certain phrases. This would include office docs, .txt, and PDFs.
I see a lot of tools out there for this, but not seeing many that can do PDFs.
Thanks.

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No search results after reseting index on Google Mini Appliance
A few days ago I reset the index (following instructions from help) on a client's Google Mini Appliance after a complete site redesign. Of course at first there were no search results. But at this point the crawl stats seems to be similar to their…

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Linux search tool for a server
I would like to search my server (or even the entire local area network) for files with possibility of indexing (even the content of txt, pdf, ... files).
I got suggested this link…

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Incremental crawl in MOSS corrupts the search result
I'm having problems with a MOSS setup that after an incremental crawl, the search results will get corrupted. Troubleshooting it further using the search web service, the resulting XML looks like this:

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Apache Solr: What is a good strategy for creating a tag/attribute based search for an image
I recently read an article about YayMicro that descries how they used
solr to search their photos.
I would like doing something similar (but on a smaller scale).
I have figured out how to have solr to search text files, but I would like to
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