A Microsoft MOSS Search Fix
April 22, 2009
A happy quack to the reader who sent me a link to “Fixing MOSS Search”. You can read the article in the SharePoint Farmer’s Almanac here. You probably think that SharePoint is easy to learn, easy to deploy, and just plain comfy as a findability partner. If you have these thoughts in mind, scurry over to one of the azure chip consultants who are SharePoint cheerleaders. You don’t want to read the Farmer’s Almanac article and you won’t find much utility in this Web log item.
The “fix” is singular, but you will learn when you download, print out, and read the article that you are dealing with multiple “fixes” and there a lots of steps. I mean lots and lots of steps.
I can’t summarize the method. You will find dozens of steps with explanations like this:
If that checked out ok then the next thing I would check is to make sure your web application is set to integrated authentication and not basic authentication. MOSS will not pass basic authentication by default. So if you changed your web application from integrated to basic, so people users don’t have to enter their domain for example, then you need to setup a custom crawl rule to pass basic authentication.
I read the procedure twice and even then I am not sure I was able to keep the dependencies straight. The most interesting comment in the write up was this statement:
I am guessing since I didn’t realize this is an option (or more probably I knew and forgot) you probably didn’t either. So run stsadm –o help like below and take a look at the output.
Note this is from the last three or four sentences of the method.
Let’s step back. The method is not complex. The method is series of hacks. Enterprise search is complex. The MOSS implementation takes complexity into hyperspace. Keep that in mind when you estimate on going maintenance fees.
Stephen Arnold, April 22, 2009
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