There is quite odd behavior with MOSS cache: Imagine you create a site with two areas, one that can be accessed by http and one which must be accessed using https.
So you need to enable https in your site, etc… Alright, so how do you make the users access the secure zone by using https, you do two things:
You link to the secure zon... [Read More]

This one took us a couple of hours (stressful hours) to spot. We rebooted a server and the crawler stopped crawling ;)
We have two webapps published in the server, the first one is attending to the machine name, and the second (the faulty one) is attending to an alias in the dns (using a host header like “app.company.int” ). The two applic... [Read More]

This one happened today… We discovered that for the pdf files the search results pointed to the dispform.aspx instead of pointing to the file itself.
The procedure we used to fix it was:
First insert a new pdf in the site and make an incremental crawl. When the crawl finishes search for the file in the crawl log, we saw that MOSS... [Read More]

Here is a list of steps that can help you when something goes wrong with the search:
You search for an specific file and it’s not found First of all you must see if the file is actually crawled, you can use the central admin, but there are another options like ExportCrawlLog that can be useful when, for example you need to report tons of br... [Read More]

Everybody knows that moss search is security trimmed, but there are certain circumstances where it is not enough, for example:
Imagine a site that is using a custom master page with some links or text in the header, footer and may be in the lateral menu, the problem is that, when you search for a word located in the master page all the pages... [Read More]

This one happened today:
After publishing a page and waiting a few minutes, the page does not get propagated to the other variations, so you go to the variation propagation page and see something like this:

The job seems to start, but it does nothing, and the updated variation logs are empty,and it never ends…
The logs (a... [Read More]

Today an odd thing happened… After adding a new server to the farm (same hardware, drive letters, etc.) the new server lacked the logs directory, it was configured in an alternate drive, but is was present in all servers in the farm but this.
In case you don’t know it, I think is a good practice to have both IIS and MOSS logs in a different ... [Read More]