Issue: Your crawl component stops responding and the content source is is stuck on a crawling, starting, or stopping status.  You may try a multitude of solutions and eventually attempt to delete and recreate the service application.  Upon creation of the search service application and opening it you are greeted by this message. Resolution:  This…

Detail:  Using built-in accounts like Network Service or Local System as application pool or as service identities is not supported in a farm configuration.  The following services are currently running as built-in identities on one or more servers: SPTraceV4(Windows Service) SPSearch4(Windows Service) Solution:  SPSearch4 will be assigned to run under a domain user with no…

Detail:  A default zone url is pointing to the machine name of a web front end.  Since this installation has more than one web front end, this can result in a variety of errors including incorrect links and failed operations. Solution:  A unique domain name will be created for the web application and once the…

Detail: (Truncated due to length) [MissingFeature] Database [WSS_Content] has reference(s) to a missing feature: Id = [fc5e2840-0b48-42eb-9ad7-076f5add58ad]. The feature with Id fc5e2840-0b48-42eb-9ad7-076f5add58ad is referenced in the database [WSS_Content], but is not installed on the current farm. The missing feature may cause upgrade to fail. Please install any solution which contains the feature and restart upgrade…

Detail: DOMAIN\farm_account, the account used for the SharePoint timer service and the central administration site, is highly privileged and should not be used for any other services on any machines in the server farm.  Solution: To clear this error we must change the identities for the services and application pools to domain accounts that are…

This error occurred in SharePoint Designer 2010 when attempting to edit a masterpage.  Like many errors with SharePoint 2010, this is related to Alternate Access Mappings.  The server was being connected to by its short form url of http://site.  If connected via the long form, http://site.domain.extension, it would work with issue. To permanently resolve the…