After installing a fresh SharePoint 2010 standard farm I kept on receiving this error when I try to search something in the search center: CoreResultsWebPart::OnInit: Exception initializing: System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object. at Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.WebControls.CoreResultsWebPart.SetPropertiesOnQueryReader() at Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.WebControls.CoreResultsWebPart.OnInit(EventArgs e) After trying the following actions: ensuring that hotfix 976462 is installed ensuring … Continued
Advance Search webpart, contains is missing
Default the “contains” option is missing in the property select field of the Advance Search Webpart in SharePoint 2007. The reason for this is the hugh load on the SQL server if this option is used to query the SharePoint index. So be careful when adding this option. Add following line <Option Name=”AllowOpContains” Value=”True”/> underneath … Continued
Crawling Large Library`s in SharePoint 2007
I had been experiencing issues crawling a large document library of over 60,000 items in a SharePoint 2007 farm 64x after the index was corrupt and I had to reset the crawled content. The only error I could find in the crawl log was the error “The item may be too large or corrupt.” The … Continued
The crawler could not communicate with the server
The crawler could not communicate with the server. Check that the server is available and that the firewall access is configured correctly This is a rather generic error message and I found out that it generally covers problems communicating with the index server, i.e. the target server is responding with a http response code 5xx … Continued
