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PAL Thresholds for MOSS Crawling Performance

Over the last couple of months I’ve been helping my customer work through MOSS Crawling Performance issues. The sad part of this task is, there isn’t an easy way to do it, because there are so many moving parts and variables. A couple of months ago, some Read More...
Posted Wednesday, July 08, 2009 2:18 PM by ronalg | 0 Comments
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PSConfig/Content Database Attach Error - "Unknown server error number: d"

I recently ran into an issue when applying the MOSS August CU. This issue is not necessarily isolated to this patch. When the patch ran, the B2B upgrade process was failing in the site collection action upgrade sequence. The specific step was 12.1. 6301 Read More...
Posted Friday, January 09, 2009 9:03 PM by ronalg | 1 Comments

Adobe Releases 64 bit PDF iFilter

Adobe has FINALLY released a 64 bit PDF iFilter. For everyone out there running 64 bit MOSS, without a proper 64 bit PDF iFilter, please go get this for yourself. I haven't seen any performance data, but it should increase your indexing performance of Read More...
Posted Tuesday, December 09, 2008 11:32 AM by ronalg | 1 Comments
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Setting up cross farm searches via Federated Search

In recent months I've seen significant issues with search crawl times at numerous customers who have deployed MOSS globally. The issues often are caused by the need to crawl other farms across the world, so "global" results will show up on one search Read More...
Posted Tuesday, October 07, 2008 4:02 PM by ronalg | 1 Comments

Advanced Search "Contains" Option

In some of the more recent builds of MOSS, the "contains" and "does not contain" options for advanced searches have been removed. This was done because of query performance concerns expressed by a significant number of customers. If you are not worried Read More...
Posted Tuesday, August 19, 2008 4:04 PM by ronalg | 1 Comments
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SharePoint PDF iFilters

I often work with customers who are running the 64 bit version of MOSS, and they always want to know what the story with PDF support is. Yes, you can hack the Adobe 32 bit iFilter to work on your 64 bit farm, but it's probably not a good idea, as it's Read More...
Posted Tuesday, July 22, 2008 2:58 PM by ronalg | 1 Comments

SharePoint 2003/2007 Index Files

SharePoint uses the file system to store data files created by the indexing process. Over time, the index files grow due the indexing process. I recently ran across a case, where a disk filled up due to the continuous growth of the SharePoint index files. Read More...
Posted Thursday, August 16, 2007 2:29 PM by ronalg | 1 Comments
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