Query Server in Not Responding State when there is a space issue in Query Server in SharePoint 2007

Wish you a Happy New Year and Advance Happy New Year for PST guys

I had a space issue in our query server. I performed the two below commands which fixed the issue.

stsadm -o osearch -action stop

stsadm -o osearch -action start -role query

please make sure that you have another environment and make sure that is live to users.

And take the problem environment out of rotation and perform the commands and also pause any crawls if they are running.

Second command highlighted will remove the server from the farm, re-add it and initialize it.

During the period the crawls you paused will not run.

It took around 6 to 7 hours for me to get all the space back and once it is back release all the crawls and keep this environment back to rotation and remove the other environment from rotation from live.

How to Fix SharePoint People Picker Issue while working with with Multiple Domains

When there is a multiple domain concept people picker doesnt recognize the people from all the domains.

In order to fix the issue please follow the below link.

Select users from multiple forest domains

This is working for SharePoint 2007/SharePoint 2010/SharePoint 2013 as well.

It should work with any version of SharePoint as the command is with STSADM.

Regards
Prasad Bolla