I ran across an issue this morning that had the Sharepoint WSS Search Server in a “Pausing” state.  I had to restart the Office SharePoint Server Search service in order to resolve the issue. Now to see if it will complete successfully.

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: Create a new managed property in the Shared Service Provider (SSP) Perform [...]

One day, we noticed that our search was not working.   Well really, one of the applications managers noticed that it wasn’t working.  Anyway, we found the following errors in the event viewer on our SharePoint 2007 Server: Event Type:      Warning Event Source:      Windows SharePoint Services 3 Search Event Category:      Gatherer Event ID:      2436 Date:            4/11/2009 [...]