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Configuring a Dedicated “Crawl Front End” with Request Management

I keep getting asked about how to use Request Management in SharePoint 2013 to configure a dedicated “crawl front end”. In other words how to use RM to ensure that your search crawl traffic gets sent to a specific machine or machines in the farm, which do not serve end user requests. Hopefully you already know that by simply turning on RM on your Web Servers in your farm and with no additional configuration, you get health based routing for free. And this is health based routing that actually works, unlike the default configuration of the most popular “intelligent”...

Article: Request Management in SharePoint Server 2013

SharePoint Server 2013 introduces a new capability called Request Management. Request Management allows SharePoint to understand more about, and control the handling of, incoming requests. Request Management employs a rules based approach, which enables SharePoint to take the appropriate action for a given request based upon administrator supplied configuration. This new article series will provide comprehensive coverage of the new Request Management capability in three parts: Feature Capability and Architecture Overview Example Scenario and Configuration Step by Step Deployment Considerations and Recommendations Please...

Article: Request Management in SharePoint Server 2013 Part Two: Example Scenario and Configuration Step by Step

In the first part of this article series I covered the feature capability and provided an architecture overview of Request Management, a new capability introduced with SharePoint Server 2013. Request Management allows SharePoint to understand more about, and control the handling of incoming requests. This second part details an example scenario and provides a step by step of the necessary configuration. Please note that this article applies to SharePoint Server 2013 RTM. Feature Capability and Architecture Overview Example Scenario and Configuration Step by Step (this article) Deployment...