R – SharePoint Search with Network Load Balancing (NLB)

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SharePoint MOSS 2007 on 64 bit OS and SQL. Added a new Web Front End to our farm, all sites seem to work fine – but now we've noticed that the search service has completely stopped working. It works if I change my host file to point to the original WFE, but if I use the NLB IP or the IP of the new WFE, it says "Unable to Connect to the Search Service.

Help.

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As someone who was recently a sharepoint developer one of the biggest issues I have come across is load balanced environments. Does your alternate access mapping file contain the proper references?

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R – Moss Farm Issue (Front End) Web Application Service Won’t Start

I would guess that either you have something up with IIS on Server 2 or that there's a deeper MOSS problem on Server 2. First thing is to figure out which web application is causing the problem.

Under Central Administration > Application Management > Web Application List. When you click on a web application name you'll see the ID for it in the query string. (i.e. /applications.aspx?WebApplicationId=ID-here)

Find the matching ID and you know that's the web application having issues. Check to make sure there's nothing wrong with that web application in IIS on Server 2.

If everything looks fine, I would remove server 2 from the farm and re-add to provision. If that doesn't work, remove server 2 from farm, reinstall MOSS, and then add back to farm.

Sql – Migrating MOSS 2007 from SQL 2000 to SQL 2005 – Addendum

stsadm setconfigdb

stsadm -help setconfigdb

shows:

stsadm.exe -o setconfigdb
           [-connect]
           -databaseserver 
           [-databaseuser ]
           [-databasepassword ]
           [-databasename ]
           [-hh]
           [-adcreation]
           [-addomain ]
           [-adou ]

Also see Technet which says PSConfig has superseded stsadm.

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