Since Service Pack 2, it's not possible anymore to crawl a MOSS 2007 Web Application, without the presence of a root Site Collection. And if you use IIS 7.0 HTTP Redirection to redirect the root to a different URL, MOSS 2007 can't see there is actually a root Site Collection. If that sentence...
And now for something completely different , me for once not talking about problems or screwed up stuff in Sharepoint, BUT about something I actually like. Well, I really like Search Server 2008 Express . When customers nowadays want to install Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 I always recommend SS 2008...
As you all know, in SQL Server (any version actually) you have the options "Auto Create Statistics" and "Auto Update Statistics". By default this is enabled (these parameters are set to true on the model database and thus to all newly create databases). So, what happened? At a customer...
This week we had a huge performance issue with SharePoint at a customer. The w3wp process took a huge amount of memory for itself (1,4 - 1,5 gigabyte) without any user activity. Another symptom was that while performing a full / incremental crawl, the server suffered from very high CPU usage. Since I...
When you have your MOSS 2007 Web Applications configured for using SSL, there is a very big possibility you see this error in your Crawl Logs: https://URL:port The secure sockets layer (SSL) certificate sent by the server was invalid and this item will not be crawled. So, does this mean you cannot crawl...
It seems actually pretty logical that you would like to search into your email messages, saved in a MOSS 2007 environment. Well, there are third-party companies, selling a .msg iFilter. But... you don't need one. There is a build-in msg iFilter on MOSS 2007. It's just not active be default. Gavin...