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Sometimes documents with the same date are not sorted by relevance when sorting by date.

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Sometimes sort by date does not sort documents that are chronologically close in the correct order.

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Documents with dates that are in the future are not sorted properly when sorting by ascending dates.

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Error on GSA when configuring Google Apps: “Cannot enable Google Apps Integration.”

2311340

GSA Admin API fails to authenticate requests if timezone is not set to US/Pacific.

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Some Word documents can not be converted resulting in a crawling error.

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GSA cannot convert some documents that contain embedded docs.

2327144

Some internal indexing processes are not properly terminated.

2435021

Stalled connections are not properly detected in replication setup.

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System logs are not properly rotated which can fill disks.

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Search Latency graph is broken under ‘Status and Reports>Serving Status’.

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Encoded non-ascii filenames become garbled if saved with Internet Explorer.

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SupportCall via proxy server fails with Error establishing TCP connection to supportcall.google.com:443: (111, ‘Connection refused’).

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Permanent Redirect URLs with extensions that require Conversion(.doc, .pdf, .xls, etc) are not followed if at redirect time the content-length response is different than 0.

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The Crawl Queue URLs in 6.2 are shown as encoded.

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In federation the primary node tries to authorize urls that have already been authorized by secondary nodes.

2335370

Results with same snippet and title do not get filtered in the search results when using the ‘filter=p’ search parameter.

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The lang_zh-tw language filter fails to show search results beyond the first page.

2358978

RK parameter is not working properly.

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In 6.2.0.G.44-P6 Admin Console is only available in English.

Here it is again and an example of the syntax.

c:\python26\python db_sync.py –hostname 10.10.10.29 –username backup –password Replacewithyourpassword –source db_product

where:

• 10.10.10.29 is the host name or the ip of the server
• backup is the name of the user that will be logging in.
• Replacewithyourpassword is the password (in this case, backup’s password)
• db_product is a db_connector

You can download the zip file here: db_sync

JavaScript Crawling

The search appliance now can detect links and content generated dynamically.  I wonder if this will help the forms authentication wizard?

Serve Time Authentication

You will no longer need to enable or disable security manager and legacy auth.

Administrative Improvements

There are various administrative improvements and organization.

The documentation is here.

Metadata Base64 Encoding

In software release 6.2, you can now base64 encode both metadata names and metadata values.

 <record url=<a href="http://www.mcplusa.com">http://www.mcplusa.com</a> action="add" mimetype="text/html">
<metadata>
<meta encoding="base64binary" name="acdJvamFXQWjdF9uWEXl" content="asdfLKZUoiuoiasdfmoaioeit">
</metadata>
</record>

Note: the correct encoding attribute is base64binary and not base64 as Google’s documentation states.

• A new margin ruler
• Better numbering and bullets
• Better placement of images
• “Higher Fidelity” document import
• Faster JavaScript process
• Faster Collaboration

Check it out below

www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_hJ3R8jEZM

A few weeks ago there was a thread on the Google Groups regarding how to display search history on a Google Search Appliance query results page.  Our approach typically at MC+A is to utilize the xslt as much as possible as it provides less complicated infrastructure.  Because of this, we tend to utilize JQuery to provide some dynamics features to the interface.  In this case, it’s search history.  This article assumes you have some idea about jQuery, specifically the Ready function.

Step 1 – Create A DIV

Create a HTML DIV in your results page that you would like the history to be displayed.  For example:

<div id=”recentHistory”>No Recent Searches</div>

Note the id that you use for later in this process. You can also place text with the div that will be displayed until the jQuery finishes loading.

Step 2 – Add A Function Call to jQuery.Ready

$(document).ready(function(){
    setHistory(); //Function to set the Div
});

Step 3 – Add the Function Call

The following function relies on 5 other functions:

1. GetCookieVal – Get’s the Cookie Value
2. GetCookie – Get’s a raw Cookie
3. DeleteCookie – Delet’e’s a Cookie
4. SetCookie – Set’s a Cookie
5. GetParameter – Get’s a Query String Value

function setHistory(){
    var gsaCollection = getParameter(window.top.location.search.substring(1), "site");
    var gsaClient = getParameter(window.top.location.search.substring(1), "client");
    var gsaStylesheet = getParameter(window.top.location.search.substring(1), "proxystylesheet");
    //var gsaAccess =getParameter(window.top.location.search.substring(1),"a");
    var recentHistory = "<ul>";
    var historyTemp = GetCookie("searchhistory");
    var history;
    if (historyTemp == null) {
        var q = getParameter(window.top.location.search.substring(1), "q")
        if ((q == null) || (q == "")) {
            //no history
            recentHistory = recentHistory + "<li>None</li>";
        }
        else {
            recentHistory = recentHistory + "<li><a href=\"search?site=" + gsaCollection + "&client=" +
            gsaClient +
            "&proxystylesheet=" +
            gsaStylesheet +
            "&access=a" +
            "&q=" +
            q +
            "&output=xml_no_dtd" +
            "\" > " +
            q +
            "</a></li>";
            SetCookie("searchhistory", q, expiry);
        }
    }
    else {
        historyString = new String(historyTemp);
        history = historyString.split("|");
        var newHistory = new Array(5);
        var newHistoryString = "";
        newHistory[0] = getParameter(window.top.location.search.substring(1), "q");
        newHistoryString = newHistory[0];
        recentHistory = recentHistory + "<li><a href=\"search?site=" + gsaCollection + "&client=" +
        gsaClient +
        "&proxystylesheet=" +
        gsaStylesheet +
        "&access=a" +
        "&output=xml_no_dtd" +
        "&q=" +
        newHistory[0] +
        "\" > " +
        newHistory[0].replace(‘+’, ‘ ‘) +
        "</a></li>";
        for (var i = 0; i < history.length & i < 4; i++) {
            newHistory[i + 1] = history[i];
            newHistoryString = newHistoryString + "|" + history[i];
            recentHistory = recentHistory + "<li><a href=\"search?site=" + gsaCollection + "&client=" +
            gsaClient +
            "&proxystylesheet=" +
            gsaStylesheet +
            "&access=a" +
            "&output=xml_no_dtd" +
            "&q=" +
            history[i] +
            "\" > " +
            history[i].replace(‘+’, ‘ ‘) +
            "</a></li>";
        }
        SetCookie("searchhistory", newHistoryString, expiry);
    }
    recentHistory = recentHistory + "</ul>";
    document.getElementById("recentSearches").innerHTML = recentHistory;
}

I am planning on cleaning up the function and posting it here it its entirety in the next couple of days.;

Reply with a comment to nudge me along if I forget.

What is interesting is if you scroll down a little you’ll see some biasing options.   Here there is an option for “more shopping sites” and “less shopping sites’”

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Kerberos with SharePoint can provide a Single Sign On technology that is silent.  However, the reason that most companies have not implemented Kerberos because it’s difficult to debug.  I have found this tool develop by Brian Murphy to save weeks of debugging time.  It’s easy to set up and provides tests for Kerberos authentication as well as delegation.

http://blogs.iis.net/brian-murphy-booth/archive/2007/03/09/delegconfig-delegation-configuration-reporting-tool.aspx