SharePoint Search Queries Test Utility

Found a new very helpful windows utility today to test SharePoint Search Queries. Also displays scopes and managed properties.
http://www.codeplex.com/SPSearchBench

Export MOSS (SharePoint) page library (or any other List) to file system

Exporting a page library in MOSS can be quite tricky. One great alternative ist to use SPIEFolder (http://www.codeplex.com/SPIEFolder) that can export the files quite fast to a file system folder of your choice as follows.

Example command:
SPIEFolder.exe http://win2003-moss1/DE/MediaMessageImport Seiten C:\OutputTest export

The files can then easily be reimported for instance via web browser (upload files).

Save/export MOSS (SharePoint) Page Library as STP

Unfortunately there is no "save list as template" option in MOSS for page libraries. A simple work around is to use the /_layouts/savetmpl.aspx page and add the query string value for list manually. This might finally look something like this:

http://win2003-moss1/DE/MMImport/_layouts/savetmpl.aspx?List=%7B19216C57%2D1B09%2D4CDB%2DB766%2DF0289E3D28F5%7D

Explorer.exe high CPU on Windows Server 2008

I had very high CPU usage for explorer.exe today on a web server running Windows Server 2008. Task manager showed that it was running under the Administrator Account.

I did not log off the last time I worked on this machine and it seams that explorer.exe bug out meanwhile. Thus the solution for now is logging of and log on again. If I find out more or if the problem reoccurs I will post that here.