When the database status for a Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 site collection has been set to offline, you may be unable to find items that are saved in the site collection when you search for them.

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This problem may occur if you run the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 site collection on a server that is also running Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. Search indexing of the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 site collection may require several crawls to index the offline site collection.

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How to obtain the hotfix

This issue is fixed in the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Hotfix Package that is dated May 25, 2007. For more information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

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Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed in the "Applies to" section.

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