This tip came about because we came out with security patch that only affected FAST Search for SharePoint 2010 deployments that have the ‘Advanced Filter Pack’ enabled. By default, it is disabled. My customer wanted to definitively check to see if it was enabled in order to prepare to install the security patch.

How to check:

Option 1: run the command to disable it, if its already enabled or disabled it will tell you in the output

Option 2: Go to \FASTSearch\etc\config_data\DocumentProcessor\optionalprocessing.xml. In that file there is a line like this: <processor name="SearchExportConverter" active="no" />

If it is enabled, active will be set to “yes”

Problem: Customer had a site that was migrated from MOSS 2007 to SP 2010, when they would try to ‘request change’ or ‘reassign’ a workflow, it would not set original task as complete and create another task as expected.

Troubleshooting:

• tested other workflows within the site collection, this problem seemed to be specific to this list
• We found that the lists that had working workflows had a field called ‘Status’, whereas the one not working had a field called ‘Task Status’
• Created new list and new approval workflow but that workflow had a field called ‘Status’ as expected so something was definitely not right with problem workflow. ‘Task Status’ is a field we see when a Project Tasks list is created which a SharePoint workflow does not like as its Task list because of the ‘Task Status’ field
• Found this great link on the subject: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sharepointgeneralprevious/thread/cb3ac6b2-e610-4673-b8b5-1020bd25043b

Resolution: Since this problem only existed on this one specific list and I could not reproduce, I figured something is corrupted on this specific list. Just like the social.technet.microsoft.com link above states, I verified that a similar case was resolved by deactivating and activating the following features:

We ran the following stsadm commands on the site collection in the given order to reprovision the task content type.
stsadm -o deactivatefeature -filename "Fields\feature.xml" -force -url "http://Server/sites/siteCollection"
stsadm -o deactivatefeature -filename "CTypes\feature.xml" -force -url "http://Server/sites/siteCollection"
stsadm -o activatefeature -filename "CTypes\feature.xml" -force -url "http://Server/sites/siteCollection"
stsadm -o activatefeature -filename "Fields\feature.xml" -force -url "http://Server/sites/siteCollection"

Then we created a new task list and voila…it had the Status field as expected.

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