Sharepoint Search Service can not be Started

Posted on August 28th, 2008 by wilson

I had to recreate my sharepoint search service as it was not doing the full crawl again! This time, the process hanged and it was not able to completely remove the search database. It would just say “Stopping”.
No amount of restarts could fix the problem.
Some posts on the internet mentions using this:

stsadm -o [...]

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Missing Sharepoint Search results

Posted on August 21st, 2008 by wilson

Symptom: Sharepoint V3.0 Users are unable to search for more recently added items in sharepoint site that uses sql2005. The search still works for older items. These older items were being returned by the sharepoint search.
Doing some research on the net, I found out that the tempDB may run out of disk space. The [...]

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