When troubleshooting search problems you may want to be able to see search results without the XSLT transformation.  In other words in XML without the formatting.  This can be useful when troubleshooting search results because it enables you...

This is a very useful tool that is available on codeplex - http://www.codeplex.com/ExportCrawlLog   It aims to give administrators the ability to export the Crawl log (formerly known as the Gatherer log) and is installed as a stsadm extension. ...

Error messages are a means of trying to understand why we hit a problem.  Some are helpful while others are not.  Something like "An error occurred" is not meaningful enough to help us drill deeper into an issue to assist in identifying...

There is a rich diagnostic logging facility in MOSS which can provide us with a powerful set of data in order to drill deeper into problems or allow us to observe what is happening under the hood.  Diagnostic logging is one of the most important...