4.5WS SP2 Crawler Issue

We have redeployed our portal to new hardware as well as upgrade the portal from 4.0SP1 to 4.5 then to 4.5WSSP2. We have a issue with crawlers duplicating cards in the catalog. Because we deployed on new hardware we have a new file server the stores the file, we used SQL scripts to change this url in Plumdb (ptobjectproperties & ptcardproperties).
Anyone else seen this problem??

If I recall correctly, GetSession was a function call that was in utility.asp (which is in the common folder.) but might have previously (prior to 4.5WS) resided in one of the gadget utility files. Regardless, GetSession was an integral functional call for a lot of gadgets. Your gadget code is failing because it can not locate this function. This is likely because it was once included by virtue of including another file. I sure miss the good ole days.
Any who. to correct, find the GetSession function in the PTUI and move it to somewhere that your code can find it.
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Hi Everyone
I am after some general advice or a suggested place to start when troubleshooting crawler issues after an unplanned, out-of-sequence server restart.
Specifically, the SQL Database in the SharePoint 2010 farm. Better yet, is there a standard practice way of resolving such issues?<o:p></o:p>
So far articles I have found suggest options from reviewing the crawl logs, creating a new crawl component, right through to using fiddler to monitor the crawler.
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Thanks,
Mike

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Thx for your reply, i'm not so sure about the <noscript> tag because i have red posts about reasons why not using the <noscript> tag : http://javascript.about.com/od/reference/a/noscriptnomore.htm. The main reason is :
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Many thanks for the link Pieter.
I recently created a wiki that lists all of the fixes, their tracking numbers, associated Kbase numbers, Kbase titles and links to the kbases:
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I've been suffering from two issues when setting up a crawl of an intranet website hosted on a proprietary web CMS using SharePoint 2010 Search. The issues are:
1: The crawler appears to remove trailing slashes from the end of URLs.
In other words, it turns http://mysite.local/path/to/page/ into http://mysite.local/path/to/page. The CMS can cope with this as it automatically forwards requests for http://mysite.local/path/to/page to http://mysite.local/path/to/page/ -
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all of which seem to end without resolution, which is particularly disappointing given that URLs in this format (with a trailing slash) are pretty common. (Microsoft's own main website has a few in links on its homepage - http://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/mobile/
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2: The Regex implementation for crawl rules does not allow you to escape a question mark
... despite what it says
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I'm more familiar with maintaining crawls in Google systems which have much better regex implementations - indeed (again, after two days of banging my head against this) I'd almost think that the regex implementation in 2010 search crawl rules was cobbled
together at the last minute just because the Google Search Appliance has one. If so (and if I genuinely haven't missed something obvious - which I really hope I have) I'd say it wasn't worth Microsoft bothering because the one they have released appears to
be entirely unfit for purpose?
I'm sure I'm not the first person to struggle with these problems and I hope there's an answer out there somewhere (that isn't just "upgrade to 2013")?
I should also point out that my client is an organisation with over 3000 staff, so heaven knows how much they are paying MS for their Enterprise Agreement. Plus I pay MS over a grand a year in MSDN sub fees etc, so (unless I'm just being a numpty) I would
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Hi David,
as i know in sharepoint 2010 crawl there is a rule to include or exclude the URL that using '?' characters, if i may know have you implemented the rule?
In the Crawl Configuration section, select one of the following options:
Exclude all items in this path. Select this option if you want to exclude all items in the specified path from crawls. If you select this option, you can refine the exclusion by selecting the following:
Exclude complex URLs (URLs that contain question marks (?)). Select this option if you want to exclude URLs that contain parameters that use the question mark (?) notation.
Include all items in this path. Select this option if you want all items in the path to be crawled. If you select this option, you can further refine the inclusion by selecting any combination of the following:
Follow links on the URL without crawling the URL itself. Select this option if you want to crawl links contained within the URL, but not the starting URL itself.
Crawl complex URLs (URLs that contain a question mark (?)). Select this option if you want to crawl URLs that contain parameters that use the question mark (?) notation.
Crawl SharePoint content as HTTP pages. Normally, SharePoint sites are crawled by using a special protocol. Select this option if you want SharePoint sites to be crawled as HTTP pages instead. When the content is crawled by using the HTTP
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for the trailing slash issue, may i have your latest cumulative update or your sharepoint database number? as i remember there was a fix on SP1 + june update regarding trailing slash, but not quite sure if the symptoms are the same with your environment.
Sharepoint may use sharepoint connector regarding regex, but older regex may not able to have a capability to filter out the parameters so, a modification regarding the trailing slash may happend.
please let us know your feedback.
Regards,
Aries
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I have a multi-tenant environment in SharePoint 2010 server. Different tenants are hosted by one web app.
One content source has been created to crawl the all shared environment. (the only URL added in the content source settings = URL of the
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Baldo,
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Dear friends,
We have EP 6.0 SP 16 and TREX 6.1 SP 16 installed on a linux box. We are using our portal as a public website. When I try to do a web crawling on our portal, I just get one result. I also tried crawling the portal using a third party software and it also returns only 1 result. Do I need to enable some configuration on portal so that crawling the portal itself will work? The crawler does work fine with other web sites.
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