After you restart your Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003 server, you may find that the server does not respond to search requests from clients.
This problem may occur when you restart the server during propagation of the index after a catalog is copied to the search server and before the search server uses the new catalog. If you restart the server during this period, the search server does not change catalogs correctly to use the new catalog, and the ID number of the catalog is out of sequence. As a result, the server cannot respond to search requests from clients.
A supported hotfix is available from Microsoft. However, this hotfix is intended to correct only the problem that is described in this article. Apply this hotfix only to systems that are experiencing this specific problem. This hotfix might receive additional testing. Therefore, if you are not severely affected by this problem, we recommend that you wait for the next software update that contains this hotfix.
If the hotfix is available for download, there is a "Hotfix download available" section at the top of this Knowledge Base article. If this section does not appear, contact Microsoft Customer Service and Support to obtain the hotfix.
Note If additional issues occur or if any troubleshooting is required, you might have to create a separate service request. The usual support costs will apply to additional support questions and issues that do not qualify for this specific hotfix. For a complete list of Microsoft Customer Service and Support telephone numbers or to create a separate service request, visit the following Microsoft Web site:
Note The "Hotfix download available" form displays the languages for which the hotfix is available. If you do not see your language, it is because a hotfix is not available for that language.
The English version of this hotfix has the file attributes (or later) that are listed in the following table. The dates and times for these files are listed in coordinated universal time (UTC). When you view the file information, it is converted to local time. To find the difference between UTC and local time, use the
Time Zone tab in the Date and Time tool in Control Panel.
Date Time Size File name
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06-Oct-2003 00:59 794,112 Mssrch.msp
Because of file dependencies, this hotfix requires SharePoint Portal Server 2003.
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed in the "Applies to" section of this article.
For more information about index propagation, see the "Managing Index Propagation" topic in the "Managing Search Settings for the Server Farm" section of the "Managing Search Settings" section of the "Administration" chapter in the
Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003 Administrator's Guide. The
Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003 Administrator's Guide (Administrator's Help.chm) is located in the Docs folder in the root of the SharePoint Portal Server 2003 CD.
For more information about SharePoint Portal Server, visit the following Microsoft Web site: