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You’re no doubt aware that you can go into Administration: Select Utility: Search Service Manager, then click on “Status” to see the status of your Search Server:

You probably also know in 6.1 (if you remember to import the searchserver.pte) that there’s also a Search Cluster Manager in Administration.
This tip is about checking out the search [...]

Virtually all text strings in the portal have been extracted to XML files, mostly for internationalization. Check out %PORTAL_HOME%\ptportal\6.1\i18n\en\ for these files. Why should you care? Here are a couple reasons:

I had a customer who didn’t like calling Communities Communities. They wanted to call them “Spaces” or something like that. [...]

Automatically checking links in the portal is hard. The problem is, the same page could have multiple URLs that resolve to the same item. Here, both of the following links open a community with an ID of 200:

http://server/portal/server.pt?open=512&objID=200&PageID=0&cached=true&mode=2&userID=226
http://server/portal/server.pt?in_hi_userid=226&spaceID=8&space=CommunityPage& parentid=&control=SetCommunity&PageID=0&CommunityID=200&parentname=

This makes automated crawling a pain, even for Google to some extent.
Today’s Cool Tool won’t [...]

You can do lots of interesting things with Javascript and style sheets. Take printing: there is not only a Javascript event that you could use to get the browser to print a page:
<a href=”#” onClick=”window.print(); return false;”>Print</a>
… you can also use style sheets to dynamically hide or show sections of the page:
<link type=”text/css” href=”print.css” [...]

SSL is great for protecting HTTP traffic, particularly if your portal is open to the Internet. But in some circumstances, it can cause issues with file downloads. If you get a blank page when you try to download a file (particularly using Collaboration Server), or an error that says something like:
The path or [...]

There is a major change that you need to make to the configuration of Publisher before deploying it into production and it is a change that is overlooked in a lot of ALUI deployments. When you install Publisher, it is not set up to use as much memory as a production instance of Publisher should [...]