Understanding SharePoint - Part 6 - Duplicate Content Sources bound to multiple indexes causes duplicate alerts to be fired

posted by  mvrok (14)  12 months ago (blogs.msdn.com)

I had a theory that this caused problems and validated it today while working with a customer who has a large number of content sources spread across multiple indexes.

Note: First of all, poking around through the UI to look at all the details of indexes, content sources, etc is a real pain.  Thus (You guessed it :)) I wrote a tool to gather and export this information so that I could look at it holistically.  It was actually a modification to the SPSAddCS tool in the SharePoint utility suite, just modified to use XML and added a "Read" ope