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This blog has been discontinued. Please visit my new site based on a completely different concept:
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- …Your gateway to all things Sharepoint…
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I haven’t posted anything in quite a while. Spent the last 7-10 days making configuration changes to my company’s intranet and basically re-doing our hosting platform more or less from scratch so it’s finally working properly and ready for new clients.
Not having much experience in the sharepoint hosting area our infrastructure guys configured things in a way that while providing an operational hosting platform introduced quite a few issues (content crawling and search mainly) and inefficiencies (redirection from HTTP to HTTPS done through a custom .asp script ??) .
After lots of research we managed to sort out most issues. However, the configuration was still rather patchy and not exactly in line with MS guidelines. I’ve decided to re-do the whole thing from scratch.
The last few days have been full of pain, hair-pulling and banging my head against my desk. Getting web applications, host-named site collections, HTTPS, crawling, search and AAM working together is so much fun. Not!!. Add to it content migration and you end up with days of grief…
I have taken some notes of the different things I’ve gone through and some of the bits of knowledge I’ve picked up along the way (like troubleshooting Wss crawling and search by analysing entries in dbo.MSSCrawlURL and other tables in search database – never thought I’d have to look directly into Sharepoint databases).
Hopefully, I’ll find some time to post an article or two with some tips soon. There’s still plenty of things on my plate (e.g. just found that stsadm –import breaks site column lookups in my migrated site collections meaning I’ll have to go through tens of sites, recreate columns, manually update workflows etc.). Hope there’ll be some respite next week so I can get back to blogging.
Have a nice weekend!.
Recommended resource:
Creating Shared Hosteing Solutions on Windows Sharepoint Services 3.0 – a must-read 120-page MS whitepaper on Wss 3.0 hosting.
Filed under: Hosting, SharePoint Administration
