From time to time, I get asked about how to determine why the SPS 2003 crawler/gatherer take a long time to crawl data and build the index. There are many reasons for this but it takes some digging to really determine the exact cause. In this series I...

I am currently a Senior Escalation Engineer for the SharePoint Portal Server and Windows SharePoint Services team. I started with Microsoft in Feb. 2000 as an Escalation Engineer (EE). An EE is typically the last line of support for most products within...