Lab setup

I'm still having issues with searching areas.

Originally my lab setup was using vmware. after we got the sharepoint
installed we couldn't create a portal, it would stop at 49-51% showing
some SQL error.

SO we switched to Microsoft Virtual Server. Created everything just
fine, including a portal. Created a few areas and document libraries,
but could not search areas. No errors were returned. I can search
sites with no problem. It's just areas. To further confuse the issue
I established a keyword with a best bet to a link of a document in an
area. As expected it worked fine.

Is this an issue with Microsoft Virtual server and/or vmware. I
believe the vmware problem was sql in nature. Not sure.

Thanks,

Mitch

James
Fri Apr 08 08:28:08 CDT 2005

We run all of our lab machines on MSVS and have had no issues up to this
point.

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<johnmitc@soc.mil> wrote in message
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> I'm still having issues with searching areas.
>
> Originally my lab setup was using vmware. after we got the sharepoint
> installed we couldn't create a portal, it would stop at 49-51% showing
> some SQL error.
>
> SO we switched to Microsoft Virtual Server. Created everything just
> fine, including a portal. Created a few areas and document libraries,
> but could not search areas. No errors were returned. I can search
> sites with no problem. It's just areas. To further confuse the issue
> I established a keyword with a best bet to a link of a document in an
> area. As expected it worked fine.
>
> Is this an issue with Microsoft Virtual server and/or vmware. I
> believe the vmware problem was sql in nature. Not sure.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mitch
>

Shane
Fri Apr 08 10:36:35 CDT 2005

You are not getting any gather log errors? Does your crawler account have
permissions to the areas? Try this for giggles change your crawler account
to a domain admin and see if you can the return the areas?

Also, there are diagnostic logs under central admin for the search service.
SPS Central admin > Configure diagnostic settings > then you should have
search service logs there. Any errors?

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<johnmitc@soc.mil> wrote in message
news:1112962949.635488.198270@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
> I'm still having issues with searching areas.
>
> Originally my lab setup was using vmware. after we got the sharepoint
> installed we couldn't create a portal, it would stop at 49-51% showing
> some SQL error.
>
> SO we switched to Microsoft Virtual Server. Created everything just
> fine, including a portal. Created a few areas and document libraries,
> but could not search areas. No errors were returned. I can search
> sites with no problem. It's just areas. To further confuse the issue
> I established a keyword with a best bet to a link of a document in an
> area. As expected it worked fine.
>
> Is this an issue with Microsoft Virtual server and/or vmware. I
> believe the vmware problem was sql in nature. Not sure.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mitch
>