From time-to-time we have incremental deployments fail because of issues with checked out pages or other objects.  So, I searched for a way to find all the checked out files and came across Ryan Steeno’s blog.

Here is an overview of the process:

1. Create a new managed property in the Shared Service Provider (SSP)
2. Perform a full crawl on the SharePoint content source
3. Use the new managed property by searching something like: checkoutuser:<author_name>

Go to Ryan’s blog post for details: Find checked out files using MOSS Enterprise Search