Programing Search Queries

A good article by a MOSS MVP on the programming MOSS Search
http://blog.mastykarz.nl/sharepoint-people-search-lessons-learned-programmatically-running-search-queries/

WSS 3 - No search results returned

Well I've been banging my head against this error for quite a while and finally managed to resolve it.

Everything was setup correctly, none of the usual problems ... however one thing was missing. Indexing service had NOT been installed. Once the service was installed, and server restarted, search results started working correctly.

Hopefully this will help somebody else out there.

Exporting / Importing Profile Properties from your Shared Services Provider

If you ever had to customise Profile Properties in the Shared Services Provider, you'll know what a royal PITA it is to migrate the properties from one SSP to another (especially in a Staging environment). Typically, you would either backup and restore the SSP, or recreate the Profile properties from scratch. With the latter you would have the problem of possibly not recreating the properties identically to the latest version.

Sahil Malik comes to the rescue with the following great utility to Export and Import Profile Properties

Hats off to Sahil!