Windows SharePoint Services 3 Search Event ID 2436

I was combing through the event logs on a server I set up recently when I ran across an Warning event occurring exactly every hour.

Log Name:      Application Source:        Windows SharePoint Services 3 Search Date:          7/22/2009 6:34:03 PM Event ID:      2436 Task Category: Gatherer Level:         Warning Keywords:      Classic User:          N/A Computer:      server.domain.com Description: The start address <sts3://SSP_URL/contentdbid={GUID}> cannot be crawled. Context: Application 'Search index file on the search server', Catalog 'Search' Details:     The object was not found.   (0x80041201)

After much research to no avail I had almost given up and decided it didn’t actually matter as there was nothing in the SSP that I actually needed to search. However, it finally dawned on me that the issue was that there was no root site for the SSP Web Application, just the /ssp/admin. I created an empty root and the issue immediately went away.

Also, I slept much better knowing that my event logs were nice and clean. :-)

Windows Live Writer

This is a test with Microsoft’s offline blog editing tool Windows Live Writer.

I do not like blogspot’s online editor and, working at a Microsoft Gold Partner, figured I would see what Microsoft has to offer.

So, here we go….

Web Part Management

There are times we want to manage Web parts on a SharePoint page but could not use "Edit Page" option, such as unhandled exception occurs in code and an error page is shown. In this case we normally use the Web part management page. SharePoint usually provides this link on the error page, but sometimes doesn't. So remembering the page will be helpful.

This is an application page called SPContnt.aspx. It takes one parameter url in the query string. So It would look something like

http://server/site/_layouts/spcontnt.aspx?url=http://server/site/default.aspx

This brings you to a page that will allow you to Close, Reset, and Delete Web Parts from the page.