One reason for: “The crawler could not communicate with the server. Check that the server is available and that the firewall access is configured correctly..”

Posted by Eric Bartels

Today the crawler of the search service of my MOSS-Development system stopped working from “one second to another”. The crawl-log showed me this error. The crawler could not communicate with the server. Check that the server is available and that the firewall access is configured correctly.. The start is essential I reconfigured everything, I checked [...]

Redirect from the OnException-method inside the controller with ASP.Net MVC

Posted by Eric Bartels

If your controller uses the HandleError-Attribute it handles exceptions thrown by action methods. I wanted to catch these exceptions and redirect to a custom error page. A simple RedirectToAction inside the OnException method does not work. But the ExceptionContext is all we need. #region Error handling protected override void OnException(ExceptionContext filterContext) { // Make use [...]

Fixing – Provisioning failed: File or arguments not valid for site template ‘OSRV’ error during Shared Service Provider creation

Posted by Eric Bartels

Today I downloaded and installed the Search Server Express 2008 on a newly created development environment. After installing the required binaries the setup-routine creates the Shared Service Provider required to run the search. When visiting central administration it showed up that the creation of the SSP failed. The error message was: Provisioning failed: File or [...]