Microsoft SharePoint 2013How to search for people in SharePoint 2013

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How to search for people in SharePoint 2013.

In SharePoint 2013 you can use People search vertical to find users inside your organization. The more information added to users profiles the better search results people search returns. All the results of people search can be sorted by name, relevance and social distance. Learn more about SharePoint 2013 people search on PlexHosted Wiki site.

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Microsoft SharePoint 2013How to customize search results page in SharePoint 2013

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How to customize search results page in SharePoint 2013.

Basic and Enterprise Search Center sites in SharePoint 2013 contain a number of pages including the default search page, advanced search page, people results search page etc. All search results pages are the web part pages that consist from the same set of search web parts. You can easily modify search results page according to your preferences, change web part settings and add or remove web parts. Take a look on how to do it on the page below.

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Microsoft SharePoint 2013Influencing the relevance rank in SharePoint 2013

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Influencing the relevance rank in SharePoint 2013.

SharePoint 2013 provides users with the ability to create custom search rules to influence search relevance rank. For example, you can create a custom query rule to define specific results set that will be shown above all other results when particular search query runs. Or you can setup a rule to display certain result on top of the search results for all search queries. The details how to setup query rules and influence search relevance rank you may find in PlexHosted Knowledgebase.

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Microsoft SharePoint 2013How to use advanced search in SharePoint 2013

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How to use advanced search in SharePoint 2013.

SharePoint 2013 Search Center provides the ability to use the advanced search page. On this page you can construct a search query, narrow down the results by language, document format, content properties, include specific words or exclude them from the search query. More information about SharePoint 2013 advanced search you may find on the page below:

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Microsoft SharePoint 2013How to configure search behavior in SharePoint 2013

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How to configure search behavior in SharePoint 2013.

On the top level SharePoint site you can easily configure search behaviour according to specific needs of your organization. In the search settings you can specify the Search Center URL if you would like to use a custom center instead of the default one. Additionally, you can create and specify custom results page and all search queries will be sent to this page. Take a look how to do this on PlexHosted Wiki.

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