Microsoft Innovation Day- Riyadh Saudia

Microsoft Innovation day in Riyadh on 4th Nov-2008 ......great i must be there.....For technology seekers its great oppt. So, don't miss it.

Who should attend?
Business decision makers, technical decision makers, IT professionals, solution architects and consultants.

If you haven’t registered yet, then click here to register.....

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Office SharePoint Server Search stuck in Stopping Status

Today when I get entered in my office I received a number of emails that
“Search is not working”
“Dear Mr. Tariq Younas, we are unable to search leave application form,”
“What’s wrong with search”

There was a long list of emails like that…..when I open our index server I found this server is in stopping state and unable to show restart/start options.


After some search we found a work around.

Go to Application (Search index and query server) Server

1. Start command prompt

2. Run taskkill /F /IM mssearch.exe /T

3. Navigate to the C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12 \bin folder and run “psconfig -cmd upgrade -inplace b2b -wait –force”

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Best Practices Analyzer tool (Office SharePoint Server)

You can run the Best Practices Analyzer tool to check for common issues and best security practices. The tool generates a report that can help you optimize the configuration of your system. The tool can be run locally or from a server that is not attached to the server farm.

I generate a report by using this tool on test server then it look like given below.
It shows your Errors & Warnnings.....what you are missing on your server e.g as i have not configure out-going email settings, Trusted DCL's on servers.
You can download it from Microsoft Official Site...Click here to download

Simply a tool which helps to help administrators to achieve greater performance, scalability, and uptime........So, be ready and start generate reporting.

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