Not able to crawl SP 2003 website in SP 2013

Question

Hi,

I  am not able to crawl SP 2003 website in SP 2013.  however It is getting crawled in SP2010 without any issue. While crawling in SP2013 I am getting below error:

The SharePoint item being crawled returned an error when requesting data from the web service.

Have looked into event logs as well. Getting event Id of 1314.

 I Have also tried to get client context of SP2003 site by passing the network credential but always getting 500 internal server error.

This behavior is totally different as site is getting crawled in SP2010 without any issue.

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Ashish Baranwal To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge

Answer 1

Try crawling it as a website. Given that 2003 is about to fall out of support and noone should be using it anymore it's possible that the 2013 search engine isn't capable/very good at crawling 2003.

Answer 2

Hi Ashish,

The connector named "Sts2 Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 and SharePoint Portal Server 2003 sites" and prior versions are not supported.

Sts2 is not listed as supported connector in SharePoint 2013.Can refer the below urls.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj219746%28v=office.15%29.aspx.

Can read the Supported versions by the respective content source in SP2013 under the heading named "Plan to crawl different kinds of content" in the below url.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj219577%28v=office.15%29.aspx

It is working in SP2010,because it is listed as supported connector here.Can refer the below url

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-in/library/gg153530%28v=office.14%29.aspx

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s p kumar

Answer 3

Hi Alex,

It did not help, Even after crawling it as website it is giving error

The SharePoint item being crawled returned an error when requesting data from the web service.

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Ashish Baranwal To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge

Answer 4

Thanks Pavan ,

Is there anyway  to crawl this 2003 site.

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Ashish Baranwal To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge