Here is a simplified process for restoring an SSA, using a previous SSA Admin DB. For example, if you suspect the current SSA is broken and you want to rebuild the SSA in the same farm. You would restore the original SSA Admin DB with a new name. If you are moving the SSA Admin…
Searching within an “Extended” Zone, throws error: “Object reference not set to an instance of an object.”
Summary/Symptom Users will browse an extended zone URL Default Zone = http://v7.contoso.comIntranet Zone = https://v7intranet.contoso.com They will insert a search term in the search box and after hitting enter, they will get a “Sorry, something went wrong“, along with a correlation IDThe query should work fine from the Default Zone If you look at the ULS logs,…
Problems Crawling the Non-Default Zone for a SharePoint Web Application
In a nutshell, there is an undocumented assumption baked into SharePoint Search that the Default Public URL of a Web Application will be crawled. If you want everything to work auto-magically, crawl the Web Application’s Public URL for the Default zone (*Note: the crawler requires Windows Authentication [NTLM or Kerberos] in whatever zone your crawl …meaning…
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