Article ID: 970113 - Last Review: May 21, 2009 - Revision: 1.0

A discussion board item does not index when a crawl is run against the site if the subject contains a period (.)

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SYMPTOMS

If the subject of a discussion board item contains a period (.), the item does not index when a crawl is run against the site. The following error message appears in the crawl log:
Content for this URL is excluded by the server because of a no-index attribute.

RESOLUTION

To resolve this issue, apply both the following updates:
  • 968857  (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/968857/ ) Description of the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 hotfix package (Sts.msp): April 28, 2009
  • 968859  (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/968859/ ) Description of the Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 hotfix package (Coreserver.msp): April 30, 2009

STATUS

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

APPLIES TO
  • Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
  • Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
Keywords: 
kbfix kbqfe kbexpertiseinter kbsurveynew kbprb KB970113
 

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