Search and Get a Null Result
January 10, 2009
You will want to read, download, and save Stefan Gossner’s article about SharePoint content deployment. He does a much needed, clear write up about the issues of mixing incremental and full deployments. You can find the information here. To make a long and somewhat convoluted Microsoft procedure brief, think in terms of a source and a destination not having the same information objects. The search system returns a hit but the document is gone. Alternatively, a deleted document turns up in a search result list and it is available. What happened? One likely cause is the different behaviors of incremental and full deployment functions in SharePoint. The trick is to use full deployment only one time. Then only use incremental deployments. Need to redo a full deployment. Then deploy only to an empty site collection. A happy quack to Mr. Gossner.
Stephen Arnold, January 10, 2009