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I ran into a problem with the Search Administration link whilst working with a customer the other day. They had successfully upgraded their MOSS 2007 environment from SP1 to SP2 – or so they thought!
Service pack 2 for MOSS 2007 contains a large number of fixes and some UI changes, one of these is a flashy new dashboard that can be used to manage search. This is accessed using the “Search Administration” link that can be found within the Shared Service Provider (SSP) Administration site.
I’ve previously seen botched upgrades not add this link, I Blogged a fix to this here – http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/blogs/fromthefield/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?List=0ce77946%2D1e45%2D4b43%2D8c74%2D21963e64d4e1&ID=80
In this particular case the link was there but it didn’t work and generated the dreaded “Unexpected Error” when the link was clicked. To troubleshoot this I made the following configuration changes to the Web.config to (hopefully) provide me with a detailed error message:
· Open the web.config for the Web application in question, in this case the SSP administration site. The following change will not be automatically propagated so will need to be made manually to all other servers hosting the site if required. It's also advisable to take a backup of this file first – just in case!
· Search for CallStack
· Set this to “true”
· Search for customErrors
· Set this to “off”
· Save the web.config
· MOSS 2007 should now present more in-depth error messages within the browser
System.ArgumentException: Could not find the sitemap node with URL '/SearchAdministration.aspx'
After much scratching my head and inspecting the 12 hive it turned out that the layouts.sitemap file within the _app_bin directory of the root of the SSP site had not been upgraded on one of the servers hosting the SSP site and was still using the SP1 version of the file. I could tell this because the file was 31KB in size on the faulty server but 35KB on all other servers.
The SSP administration site had been configured with a host header and DNS configured to resolve this site to a specific server rather than load balancing the requests across all servers hosting the site - in this case all requests for the SSP administration site were being routed to the faulty server.
To resolve the issue I copied this file from one of the other web front end servers (that was working) performed an IISRESET and then the search administration link magically worked.
Morale of the story, test all new functionality on all servers within the farm when you deploy a service pack or cumulative update.
Brendan Griffin
Category: SSP;SP2;Troubleshooting
Published: 3/8/2010 2:24 AM 
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- - From Microsoft Office 2010 Engineering ...
In addition to the Office 2010 Technology Guarantee, were excited to confirm that Office 2010, SharePoint 2010, Visio 2010 and Project 2010 are on schedule and will release to manufacturing (RTM) next month.
For businesses, we will launch the 2010 set of products, including Office 2010, SharePoint 2010, Visio 2010, and Project 2010 worldwide on May 12. To find out more about the Worldwide Business Launch, visit http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/businessproductivity/proof/pages/2010-launch-events.aspx .
For consumers, Office 2010 will be available online and on retail shelves this June. Until then, you can get the Office 2010 beta at www.office.com/beta .
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- - To accompany the launch of HP TRIM 7, HP and AIIM have produced an easy-to-use online assessment to help understand the records management competency of an organisation.
Records management competency has been classified into five stages, with a questionnaire is in three parts focusing on people, processes and systems. This immediately identifies and explains your stage of records management competency.
You can find this here:
http://www.rmcompetency.org/
 
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- - For every 10 searches made, Bing.com will donate 5p to Sport Relief 2010, enabling you, and your friends and family, to raise money just by searching with Bing until the end of March.
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- - The Productivity Hub is a SharePoint Server 2007 site collection that comes packed with over 300 pieces of content, including videos, documents and PowerPoint slides. This gives you a great start at building a learning community behind your firewall.
The Hub centralizes Microsoft end user training content while providing a great use case for using SharePoint Server throughout your organization. It removes the need for you to have to find, centralize and publish Microsofts free end user training to an internal site.
You can customize the Hub to fit your branding and needs. The flexibility and rich feature set of SharePoint Server 2007 allows you to add web parts, remove web parts, and add your own content to the Hub.
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- - Two announcements re the Outlook Social Connector - the set of new features that bring together communications history, contact information, and professional and social networking information into the Outlook experience.
- The LinkedIn download for the Outlook Social Connector is available today at http://www.LinkedIn.com/outlook.
- Integrations with Facebook and Myspace are on the horizon
 
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| - - A (rather major) memory leak has been found in SharePoint, caused by the failure of SPHttpApplication objects to be properly cleaned up - read all about it in Todd Carter's great post The Sharepoint Sasquatch Memory Leak
I have quickly whipped up a WSP that implements Todd's fix and thought I would attach it here for anyone else who might find it useful. It simply deploys a DLL to the GAC which implements the classs he describes in his post. I have done it as a WSP so that the DLL will be auto deployed to all web front-ends used by the web application it is deployed to.
The install process is as follows:
1) Install the wsp to the central admin solution store (using "stsadm -o addsolution -filename [filename]
2) From Central Admin, deploy the solution to your targeted web application. This will deploy the SPHttpApplicationLeakFix DLL to the GAC on all the web front-ends for that web application.
3) Go onto all the web front-ends and change the global.asax file (found at: '\InetPub\wwwroot\wss\VirtualDirectories\[Web App Dir Name]'). The two lines that need to be modifed are:
they should be changed to:
That's it - at this stage your sharepoint web application should still load and behave as normal, though hopefully its w3 worker process won't be consuming the huge levels of memory it was previously!
A zip containing the WSP and a small readme is attached to this article.
NOTE:
Now the update contains the wsp - apologies for the complete balls-up ;)
 
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- - Today at Mobile World Congress 2010, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer introduced the next generation of Windows Phones, Windows Phone 7 Series.
The new interface also has a series of 'hubs', which bring together the most important related content from the web, applications and services into a single view. The six hubs are people, pictures, games, marketplace, music and office.
 
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- - Halo: Reach is poised to become the definitive Halo and it's Bungies most ambitious game yet. Get your early, inside look with this brand new ViDoc.
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- - Point8020 have decided to give their Silverlight eLearning Courseware player away for free. It allows you to display videos and other training resources (such as PPTs, PDFs, Docs, etc in a nice format like the following: http://www.point8020.com/SharePointEndUserTraining.aspx )
The free software is called Point8020.CourseViewer and you can grab it from:
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- - Another really short bog entry - another pointer to someone elses blog!
This is a great little walkthrough re: creating a development vm with DNS and AD and Mail -
http://blogs.msdn.com/johnwpowell/archive/2008/07/07/walkthrough-build-a-windows-sharepoint-services-3-0-development-virtual-pc-with-sql-server-active-directory-and-e-mail.aspx
 
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