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After moving SQL Databases from one server to another in my WSS Farm, Search had a little hissy fit on me.   When trying to force a SharePoint crawl… STSADM -o spsearch -action fullcrawlstart   I got this… ‘fullcrawlstart’ action failed. Additional information: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.   And …

I’ve pieced together this batch file as I find I’m always reinventing the wheel, when it comes to installing SharePoint Solutions that don’t come with an installer (setup.exe type deal).   So, here it is, ready to be used by you (and easy to find, by me…) 🙂 @ECHO OFF SET PATHTOSTSADM=C:Program FilesCommon FilesMicrosoft Sharedweb …

I create site templates all the time, based on look, feel and lists that I’ve defined. But today, I wanted to move a SharePoint site (that didn’t have much content, note that Site Templates are recommended to be under 10MB to add as ‘new sites’) and have that site and content as the ‘root’ or …

Wow, what an ugly problem tonight. And a whole bunch of FUD I found on Google that produced no help whatsoever.   Inventory Here’s the inventory of systems I had here (yours may differ) Windows Server 2008 IIS 7 WSS 3.0   Errors Event ID 7023, 7036, 5172, 5036 and 5005 Error text included things …

You can do it the hard way Stop/Start SQL Server to release current ERRORLOG files and then delete them from C:Program FilesMicrosoft SQL ServerMSSQL.1MSSQLLOG or wherever they might be   Or, you can…   Do it the easy way Recycle the Error Logs, by running the following SQL Query command… DBCC ERRORLOG Such as…  

I keep having to look for this syntax, so I figured others might be looking for it as well.  I’m assuming you have your search settings configured properly (and there are lots of ways THAT can go wrong), so this is just syntax for forcing a full crawl on your content Data.   The STSADM …

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Ok, unless I’m mistaken (and that happens precisely 1.5x per day), this is what I can make of ‘Spell Check’ in SharePoint. Spell Check Support WSS 3.0 (free SharePoint) does not include Spell Checker functionality MOSS 2007 ($$$) does, with certain lists/components There is a 3rd party plug-in from Telerik – but it’s expensive http://www.telerik.com/products/aspnet-ajax/spell.aspx …

Discovered today that something that was very familiar in WSS 2.0 (the necessity to exclude managed paths for directories that you don’t want ‘managed’ by SharePoint, was done in Central Admin in WSS 2.0), is even easier in WSS 3.0.    In WSS 2.0, to exclude a managed path: Reference: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc287929.aspx   In WSS 3.0 …

I’ll continue to compile some sample documents for SharePoint searching purposes.  At this writing, I’ve put up some various versions of Word, Excel and PDF files, with sample (and safe, nothing confidential) data, so that you can simply ‘plug and search’, to ensure your SharePoint libraries are searchable or for your templat’ing purposes.   The …