In SharePoint 2007 (MOSS v3) we have an option in the Office Server Search User Interface to configure a specific Web Front End as the server to be used for crawling. This functionality is very useful as it allows us to have a dedicated WFE for crawling as that ensures the crawling load is not distributed...

Faced an odd problem today! I had installed Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (SP2 + Oct CU) on a Windows 2008 Server with IIS 7. I then tried to create a Content Deployment Path on the server. 1. Browse to http://centraladmin-url/_admin/DeploymentPath.aspx 2. Select the "New Path" option. 3. Type...

You might face a peculiar problem when you implement the custom dictionary functionality in SharePoint. This functionality is documented under "Plan dictionary customizations" section of article http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263367.aspx All the words in the file uploaded the...

Recently I researched on case where the SharePoint Service Pack 2 upgrade failed with the following exception. [SPIisWebSiteWssSequence] [ERROR] [7/18/2009 11:13:56 PM]: Action 3.1.3.0 of Microsoft.SharePoint.Upgrade.SPIisWebSiteWssSequence failed. [SPIisWebSiteWssSequence] [ERROR] [7/18/2009 11:13:56...

When you do a people search on SharePoint, you see the results in the "Results by Social Distance" view. The other view to choose is "View by Relevance". In case you find that the output shows the results by default in "Results by Relevance" and the link for "View by Social Distance" is missing, then...

If you apply the Obsidian Theme to your MySite, the Colleague tracker webpart might show some blank rows! It will look something like this, On investigating further by selecting that area using the mouse, you find that the text is actually there. This happens because the background color and the text...

What this blog describes is the steps you need to get SharePoint to crawl a Forms based Authentication site. What are the issues you may face and how to resolve them. Requirements: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 A forms based authentication enabled site (NOTE: This could be a SharePoint based...