SharePoint loves GUIDS! For some unexplained reason, the automated processes that create databases love to add the GUIDs to the names as if administrators could actually remember them. There are many times when the complicated database names with the appended GUIDs created by the wonderful wizards and central administration pages need to be cleaned up [...]

FAST ESP used “Collections” as boundaries for portions of the index. Crawlers for different content sources could placed content in different collections which could then be used in queries in a manner similar to Scopes in SharePoint Search. With SharePoint Search, the content source could be used in rules defining a scope. However, with the [...]

The crawl database used by SharePoint 2010 Search crawlers has a limit of 25 million items. Actually it is a performance limit, not a hard limit, but still creates issues for organizations that place large amounts of content under the same hostname URL. Why? Because SharePoint distributes content crawl lists to crawl databases according to [...]