After setting up a new web application for a new portal I faced a crawling problem of the new site collection. Description: Right after starting the crawler it stops, giving 2-3 error messages, all with the same syntax: Error in the Site Data Web Service. (Value does not fall within the expected range.) The crawl log was the only place the error was logged, with no additional information regarding the cause of the problem. Searching the web came up with very little solutions, while only one of them seemed to apply to our case: 1. stsadm -o export -url http://intranet/sites/it -filename D:\it.back.11.21.08.cmp -versions 2 2. Delete the site collection 3. stsadm -o import -url http://intranet/sites/it -filename D:\it.back.11.21.08.cmp -updateversions 2 –nofilecompression (See here) While option 1 and 3 are reasonable, deleting the site collection didn’t apply since the portal was already in production stage. (along with the fact faze 1 didn’t pass either due to some technical issues…
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