Microsoft KB Archive/831194

= You receive a &quot;Search resources changed. Please redo your search&quot; message when you search for content in your server farm deployment of SharePoint Portal Server 2003 =

Article ID: 831194

Article Last Modified on 8/1/2006

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003

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SYMPTOMS
When you search for content in your server farm deployment of Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server 2003 after an index is propagated from the index management server to a search server, you may receive the following message:

Search resources changed. Please redo your search. If this behavior continues, please contact your portal site's administrator.



CAUSE
This problem may occur if the sequence number of the catalogs is incorrectly updated after the index is propagated. As a result, the catalogs do not have the correct ID numbers, and the server does not respond correctly to search requests from clients. This problem may occur in situations where your server farm has more than one search server, and you restart one search server in your server farm after an index is propagated.



RESOLUTION
This problem was first fixed in a hotfix that is now contained in a service pack. If you installed the latest SharePoint Portal Server 2003 service pack, you do not have to install the hotfix.

Service pack information
This problem is corrected in Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003 Service Pack 2.

To resolve this problem, obtain the latest service pack for SharePoint Portal Server 2003. For more information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

889380 How to obtain the latest service pack for SharePoint Portal Server 2003

How to obtain the hotfix
This issue is fixed in the SharePoint Portal Server 2003 post-Service Pack 1 Hotfix Package that is dated September 17, 2004. For additional information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

883919 Description of the SharePoint Portal Server 2003 post-Service Pack 1 hotfix package: September 17, 2004



WORKAROUND
To work around this problem, restart all the search servers on your server farm.



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed in the &quot;Applies to&quot; section. This problem was first corrected in SharePoint Portal Server 2003 Service Pack 2.

Additional query words: sps

Keywords: kberrmsg kbbug kbfix kbqfe kbshareptportalsvr2003presp2fix kbshareptportalsvr2003sp2fix kbhotfixserver KB831194

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