2 ways to access the SharePoint Search Schema
I recently wrote a series of articles on SharePoint Crawled and Managed Properties. Understanding how those work will help you build custom queries and searches on your SharePoint sites. An…
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How to only search for contents of the files in SharePoint Online
When you often execute a search in SharePoint Online, you only intend to find the documents that match the specific keyword you typed in. However, because SharePoint search is pretty…
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How to configure Search Verticals on a SharePoint site
Some time ago, I introduced you to the ability to alter SharePoint search settings in modern SharePoint. There are a few ways to customize search results, and one of the…
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How to configure SharePoint Search Settings
I have been waiting for a long time to write this post. Back in SharePoint classic days, we used to configure the SharePoint search page where we could add custom…
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What is Keyword Query Language and how to use it in SharePoint Online
In one of my earlier posts, I explained how you could use Boolean Search Operators when searching for content in SharePoint. This allowed you to expand or limit results based…
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How to use commands in a search bar in Teams
Did you know that you can access certain Teams features just by typing simple commands within a search bar there? In this post, I would like to explain the feature…
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How to combine Filtered and Keyword search in a SharePoint Document Library
In case you are using metadata in place of folders in your document library – Mazel Tov! This means you have additional means to sort, group, and filter your documents.…
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How to use Boolean Operators in SharePoint Search
Today I want to introduce you to a trick that I hope will make your SharePoint search results more relevant. As you migrate all the content from file shares and…
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4 Levels of Search in SharePoint Online
As a SharePoint consultant, I get this question all the time (and I quote): “Now that we have uploaded all of our documents to SharePoint, how the hell do we…
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Does metadata still make sense in SharePoint Online?
Unlike most of my other posts, which are instructional, this one is philosophical. I am writing this post late at night while sipping a glass of red wine (because my…
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I’m Greg Zelfond, a U.S. based SharePoint consultant, and I provide affordable out-of-the-box SharePoint consulting, training, and configuration assistance to small and medium-sized businesses all over the world.
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