Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Advanced Search Web Part Problem after SP1

After applying SP1 for MOSS we found that the Advanced Search Web Part doesnt work if you have the 'Show Properties' option unselected. It displays the error;

Object reference not set to an instance of an object.

A frantic google later and i came across the hotfix pack for February 08 which contains a somewhat suprising number of fixes and ultimately my ray of light : http://support.microsoft.com/kb/948947/en-us

So overall lesson when applying SP1 - make sure you grab the post SP1 Hot Fixes. Spence Harbar has a nice cumulative list over on his blog.