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1a.: Sanity Check--Dedicated WFE for crawling in SP2010 From: hmspiegs
1b.: Re: Sanity Check--Dedicated WFE for crawling in SP2010 From: Paul Stork
1c.: Re: Sanity Check--Dedicated WFE for crawling in SP2010 From: Harry Spiegelman

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1a.: Sanity Check--Dedicated WFE for crawling in SP2010

Posted by: "hmspiegs" hspiegelman@askcts.com hmspiegs

Tue Dec 27, 2011 7:26 am (PST)

Hello all and Happy Holidays--
Just needed a sanity check..
Was perusing several blogs about how to accomplish this in 2010 and almost all of them have the exact same PS script.

Here is an example of one..
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vijgang/archive/2010/04/26/how-to-configure-a-dedicated-web-front-end-for-crawling-in-sharepoint-2010.aspx

My question is this, since the WFE I want to dedicate to the crawl is not part of the load balancer (on purpose of course) and is not hosting any web apps I cannot browse http://dedicated_WFE_url..I get a 404.
Which of course will make the crawl fail..right?
So in order to accomplish this, I need to do what?
Extend the web app to the url of the dedicated WFE?
Otherwise I anticipate a ton of crawl errors..
Any clarity on this would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!

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1b.: Re: Sanity Check--Dedicated WFE for crawling in SP2010

Posted by: "Paul Stork" pstork@att.net pstorkoh

Tue Dec 27, 2011 7:37 am (PST)

You won't be able to use the WFE for crawling if it doesn't host any of the
web apps. Things are routed through the load balancer based on the IP
address resolved by DNS. To use a dedicated WFE for crawling you set the
WFE up normally but don't include it in the load balancer. The script just
swaps the load balancer FQDN for the FQDN of the dedicated Web front end.

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Sent: Tuesday, December 27, 2011 10:27 AM
To: sharepointdiscussions@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [sharepointdiscussions] Sanity Check--Dedicated WFE for crawling in
SP2010

Hello all and Happy Holidays--
Just needed a sanity check..
Was perusing several blogs about how to accomplish this in 2010 and almost
all of them have the exact same PS script.

Here is an example of one..
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vijgang/archive/2010/04/26/how-to-configure-a-dedica
ted-web-front-end-for-crawling-in-sharepoint-2010.aspx

My question is this, since the WFE I want to dedicate to the crawl is not
part of the load balancer (on purpose of course) and is not hosting any web
apps I cannot browse http://dedicated_WFE_url..I get a 404.
Which of course will make the crawl fail..right?
So in order to accomplish this, I need to do what?
Extend the web app to the url of the dedicated WFE?
Otherwise I anticipate a ton of crawl errors..
Any clarity on this would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!

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1c.: Re: Sanity Check--Dedicated WFE for crawling in SP2010

Posted by: "Harry Spiegelman" hspiegelman@askcts.com hmspiegs

Tue Dec 27, 2011 7:44 am (PST)

So in other words..just include the servername.domain name in the value for $listOfUri.Add("Your Dedicated WFE Server URL");?
And the WFE in question has already been excluded from the LB.
FYI, here is another post that is similar but seems to be more specific for server values..
http://blogs.technet.com/b/nathbr/archive/2011/02/22/setup-a-sharepoint-crawl-target-front-end-machine-properly-in-sp2010.aspx

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Sent: Tuesday, December 27, 2011 10:37 AM
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Subject: RE: [sharepointdiscussions] Sanity Check--Dedicated WFE for crawling in SP2010

You won't be able to use the WFE for crawling if it doesn't host any of the web apps. Things are routed through the load balancer based on the IP address resolved by DNS. To use a dedicated WFE for crawling you set the WFE up normally but don't include it in the load balancer. The script just swaps the load balancer FQDN for the FQDN of the dedicated Web front end.

Paul Papanek Stork

Chief Architect . ShareSquared, Inc. . <http://www.sharesquared.com/> http://www.ShareSquared.com

The SharePoint Solution Experts!

<https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/stork> SharePoint MVP, MBA, MCT,
MCSE+I, MCSA, MCSD, MCDBA, MCITP, MCPD

<mailto:Paul.Stork@ShareSquared.com> Paul.Stork@ShareSquared.com .
800.445.1279 x404

blog: <http://dontpapanic.com/blog> http://dontpapanic.com/blog . twitter:
<http://twitter.com/pstork> @pstork

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[mailto:sharepointdiscussions@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of hmspiegs
Sent: Tuesday, December 27, 2011 10:27 AM
To: sharepointdiscussions@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [sharepointdiscussions] Sanity Check--Dedicated WFE for crawling in
SP2010

Hello all and Happy Holidays--
Just needed a sanity check..
Was perusing several blogs about how to accomplish this in 2010 and almost all of them have the exact same PS script.

Here is an example of one..
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vijgang/archive/2010/04/26/how-to-configure-a-dedica
ted-web-front-end-for-crawling-in-sharepoint-2010.aspx

My question is this, since the WFE I want to dedicate to the crawl is not part of the load balancer (on purpose of course) and is not hosting any web apps I cannot browse http://dedicated_WFE_url..I get a 404.
Which of course will make the crawl fail..right?
So in order to accomplish this, I need to do what?
Extend the web app to the url of the dedicated WFE?
Otherwise I anticipate a ton of crawl errors..
Any clarity on this would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!

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