My IT Experiences

While trying to configure Search Settings in my new Index Server, I received this error when I clicked "Search Settings" from SSP: In my farm I was planning to run both Index and Query services on same server. I did some research and found that this could be because of corrupted SSL for the Office Web service. The reason it seems to be .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 !! Yes it seems if we enable search service or configure Index server on a box which has .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 the SSL of the Office web service in IIS would go corrupted. I had a similar situation; I was replacing the Index server in my MOSS farm version 12.0.0.6219 I brought up this new server with same OS and framework patch level as the existing index server. That was a mistake because my existing Index server was setup in 2008 and that time there was no .NET Framework 3.5 that time. It got installed later during a patching window. But in my case when I made the patch level same on my new server I installed all frame...