Thursday 15 July 2010

This Site and This List Scopes Not Working in MOSS 2007

Hi Guys,
Long time didn't post useful stuff in our site. I had to work on many projects and documentations, so that didn't have a chance to get hold with sharepointlk blog. Sorry for that..

Recently I'm assigned to a project for Intranet on SharePoint 2007. I managed to deploy all the components of MOSS 2007 on Windows Server 2008 using SharePoint 2007 SP2 setup.

While working on the site and adding web parts, I discovered that I couldn't do search within the site or list in particular sub site or the list.

Was struggling and going through various blogs and resolved the issue, so I thought of share the workaround with you guys...

My environment;
• Windows Server 2008 32 bit
• MOSS 2007 with SP2
• Installed Arabic language Pack (MOSS 2007 & WSS 3.0)
• Arabic Language Pack SP (MOSS 2007 & WSS 3.0)
• Latest Cumulative update for MOSS 2007 & WSS 3.0
(June Cumulative Update (CU)
Released June 29, 2010
This update provides hotfixes for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (KB 983311) and Office SharePoint Server 2007 (KB 983310))


After having installed above mentioned software and hotfixes, I have created the collaboration website and few sub sites with in the same web application

Configured alternative access mapping for my sever name and was able to access successfully. When access the SharePoint web site being in the windows sever 2008, it is keeping prompting me for user name and password and finally its gives me blank white page but I can access the website using the local machine name and it succeeded without any errors. I could access the web site from client machines using AAM name and was successful.

So I ignored accessing the web site from windows sever 2008.

Configured the search and started the crawl, I got access denied error for the web site I created in SharePoint even though the default content access account has full rights to the web site, the error is;

Access is denied. Verify that either the Default Content Access Account has access to this repository, or add a crawl rule to crawl this repository. If the repository being crawled is a SharePoint repository, verify that the account you are using has "Full Read" permissions on the SharePoint Web Application being crawled. (The item was deleted because it was either not found or the crawler was denied access to it.)




Then I change the content source from AAM name to local machine name, crawl was success and I could do the search using central search site but I couldn’t do the search using “This Site & This List”.



Was going through some blogs and MS articles, found below workaround to solve the issue for above mentioned “Access Denied” error and search no result when you search using “This Site & This List

To resolve the issues, you need to disable the loop back check in the registry mentioned in below article
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/896861

That fixed the issue I had and I was able to crawl the website using AAM and could search “This Site & This List” Search

Hope above information is useful

Cheers !!!