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SharePoint SP2 activates 180 day trial countdownMay 22, 2009 9:21
“During the installation of SP2, a product expiration date is improperly activated. This means SharePoint will expire as though it was a trial installation 180 days after SP2 is deployed. The activation of the expiration date will not affect the normal function of SharePoint up until the expiration date passes. Furthermore, product expiration 180 days after SP2 installation will not affect customer’s data, configuration or application code but will render SharePoint inaccessible for end-users.” The team is working as hard as possible to release a hotfix to address the issue. The Work around is also known: Re-enter the Product ID numbers on the Convert License Type page in Central Administration. More information at the Microsoft SharePoint team site. Tags: 180 days, bug, countdown, Microsoft, service pack, SharePoint.Audience compilation via the command lineMay 13, 2009 9:58
The only other option on the page is to schedule the compilation, but it can only be scheduled to run once a day. Not very useful during development. After some digging I found the command line application to control the audience job and luckily it wasn’t very complicated to use. Just run the application to get some more information:
c:\Program Files\Microsoft Office Servers\12.0\Bin>audiencejob.exe
AudienceJob.exe Application Id: Guid corresponding to Search application Command: 1 = Start, 0 = Stop Crawl Type: 1 = Full, 0 = Incremental (default = 1) Audience Name: Specific audience to compile (default = all) Application Id for SharedServicesProvider1: 23ec9668-ea04-4842-b9ba-8e39cfaeaa3d The best of it is that the application provides you the GUIDs of available Shared Service providers. To start a new compilation from scratch for all the audiences, run the command with the given GUID and the two other parameters:
c:\Program Files\Microsoft Office Servers\12.0\Bin>audiencejob.exe 23ec9668-ea04-4842-b9ba-8e39cfaeaa3d 1 1
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The Microsoft SharePoint Team announced that the SharePoint SP2 service pack by mistake activates a 180-day countdown.
Last month I had to work a lot with audiences and of course my development environment had an annoying malfunction. The manage audience page (/_layouts/Audience_Main.aspx) contains a nice compilation link, but it didn’t work.