Found yourself in the position of wanting to find out what is going on on the server when you are crawling ? How about cranking up the logging level ? Nice but if you do it for all , you will rapidly get big log files that will not be so easy to analyze...

Here's a troubleshooting tip for you all having problems figuring out the hidden meaning of the message : "Error in the sitedata webservice" Say you are crawling a site and you receive the above error .What can you do to investigate what does that...

Ran into a funny behavior these days, checking the timer job status on a Sharepoint server ( totally new, new box, new OS , new Sharepoint) I fount the page blank. I have never encountered this before so I was puzzled, stunned, blocked and intrigued...