At my clients SharePoint 2007 farm we have had a very hard to solve error. The error decription in the Application log was:
Failure trying to synch site 3e545b3e-4ddf-4fd2-8c46-00f73fad5864 for ContentDB ecabb92e-caa6-4a37-bebe-cacf64bc31d6 WebApp d2fc32fc-607b-4c5b-902e-b33f58705e74.  Het uitzonderingsbericht is: Cannot insert duplicate key row in object ‘dbo.UserMemberships’ with unique index CX_UserMemberships_RecordId_MemberGroupId_SID’. The statement has been terminated.
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MarC on August 3rd, 2010

The STS3S protocol is used for crawling SharePoint content that is exposed using SSL, without having to have URL links that lead to every possible content item in the web site. This protocol is used to index WSS 3.0 server farms using SSL (which MOSS 2007 is layered on top of ) STS3S protocol achieves [...]

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MarC on July 27th, 2010

Only until now I realize that there is a dependency between the user information list and crawling the site. After a full crawl the user information list is updated with information in the User Profiles.
In a customer farm there are some accounts in the Imported User Profiles list where the display name is in the [...]

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MarC on July 9th, 2010

Today a client indicated to me that in the c:\users directory on the SharePoint server a lot of directories where created, every day again. Eventually I came to setting permissions to the User Profile Service Application in the SharePoint 2010 Central Administration. Let me explain what has happened and what the solution is:
First I saw [...]

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