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After applying SP2 on a MOSS farm, search indexing stopped working. We were getting errors like: ”The object was not found. (The item was deleted because it was either not found or the crawler was denied access to it.)” Googling the error, we found out that the problem is not appearing if you have a site collection in the root path of our web application (in example http://myserver/ ). Actually, I have blogged about this issue before, regarding a different problem. It seems that SharePoint has some...
UPDATE: Since this post was published, lots of updates and fixes was released that effected implicit wildcard search for properties - The "Contains" operator was removed from advanced search UI. You CAN revert this. About keyword search - seems to default to "Equal" instead of "Contains", expet for searching by "Author" or user profiles properties. More info here: http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/itaysk/archive/2009/04/16/contains-operator-disappeared-from...
A new update is available for your SharePoint farm! The updates mainly applies to tow of MOSS's features: Search, and Content Deployment. (The Infrastructure Update has more to offer for other Office products, but for us SharePoint guys those I listed are the relevant ones.) Search Earlier this year Microsoft has released a new product called Microsoft Search Server 2008. This product was the successor of MOSS for Search and provided with an extensive search solution for the enterprise. Based...
Microsoft Search Server 2008 Express is available for download: http://www.microsoft.com/enterprisesearch/serverproducts/searchserverexpress/download.aspx Microsoft Search Server 2008 will be available for purchase in April (Next month). The Federation and Administration features of Search Server will be available for download and install on MOSS2007 in Q2 of 2008 as a feature pack. Just reminding you : Microsoft Search Server (MSS) 2008 Express is a free product that provides the basic enterprise...
If you ever tried to use SharePoint's Content Types with search, you'll find it simply doesn't work. This article tries to help you overcome this issue. In the following article I use the term ' IMT' to address the Internet Media Type (AKA MIME type) of the file (text/plain, application/vnd.ms-word, image/gif, etc...). I use the term ' SP Content Type' for a SharePoint content type (Item, Event, Document, etc...). I use the MOSS Query Tool to quickly execute search queries...
Today Microsoft has announced a new product called Microsoft Search 2008. As you can guess it is an enterprise search solution. Very much like Moss Search, and it's FREE! (the express edition). More info on this here: http://www.microsoft.com/enterprisesearch/default.aspx This is how Microsoft's Search products family looks today: Product Features click each to learn more Microsoft Search Server 2008 Express (FREE!) Microsoft Search Server 2008 Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007* Search...
It's an often DBA task to rebuild indexes for a database as part of a maintenance plan, but watch out! MOSS search DB's don't like it! This post explains it all: http://blogs.vertigo.com/personal/michael/Blog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=4 And some official word from the Knowledge Base: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/930887/en-us I've read somewhere that SQL SP2 fix this (can't recall where), can someone confirm this?