Just came across this paragraphy in some of the documentation for Windows Workflow Foundation. The first sentence is okay, but it goes downhill from there…
Workflow Task Content Types
By default, all SharePoint task types are assigned content types. If you do not specifically assign a content type to a task type, the task type uses the Task base content type. All task-type content types must be based on the Task base content type.
WTF?
Microsoft have released the second beta of SharePoint 2007 today, and I’m going to be installing it by lunch time. We’re actually going to be building project on this (yes, even though it’s a beta).
There is also a new Windows SharePoint Services Developers Center. Shame about the spelling.
So, one of my colleagues set up Sharepoint to index some external blogs. Just as a bit of an experiment, and maybe a way of capturing people’s (possibly, though not normally) temporary blog postings.
Well, the server dutifully set off to index the Internet. Yeah, not a few blogs but the whole enchillada. Unsurprisingly, when I went to the machine, it was reporting ‘Low Disk Space’. A brief search showed up some ma-hooo-sive (i.e. large) index files.
“Right”, I thought as I looked at a report saying ‘0 bytes free’, “I’ll clear the indexes”
Wrong. I went to the search administration pages, and tried to reset the indexes. I got no response – no error, nothing. My browser just showed the ‘page loading’ bar. No page ever loaded.
So I set the blogs path to be excluded, and tried to run a full index – again, no result.
In the end, the only answer I found was (get this), deleting the index file by hand. Then you can do exciting things like, I dunno, reset the indexes or run a full reindex. It appears that having the disc full prevented Sharepoint from being able to do anything with the indexes. Which was fun, as they were filling the disc.
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