Problem with SharePoint Products AD DS Container after updating server with SharePoint updates

Following Text from: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff730261.aspx

MySites orphaned / old memberships not updated

Run the command stsadm -o sync -listolddatabases 1 You should then get a list of database GUID

Run the command stsadm -o sync -deleteolddatabases 1 This will remove the record from the SSP database but will not touch the actual Content Database.

(Run this commands as a User which has Full Control to the User Profile Service Application!)

“Object not found” error in search service crawl Logs

My problem was that the crawler jobs "Content Source" was the "Default Zone" without alternate access mapping.
As soon I've modified the Content Source to the AAM Zone, the error was gone.

eg for my Content Source:
 Not working: http://intranet (Default Zone)
 Working: http://intranet.domain.lcl (AAM)

Necessary Firewallports if SharePoint is in a DMZ using a One-Way-Trust

Direction: ALL SharePoint Servers --> Domain Controllers in Trusted Domain

53/TCP/UDP --> DNS
88/TCP/UDP --> Kerberos
135/TCP --> RPC
389/TCP/UDP --> LDAP
3286/TCP --> LDAP GC

Direction: ALL SharePoint Servers --> SMTP Servers in Trusted Domain

25/TCP --> SMTP


Direction: Clients --> ALL SharePoint FrontEnd Servers
80 or 443 /TCP

Direction: Admin Clients --> ALL SharePoint Application Servers
e.g.:9090/TCP for Central Administration

First Query after Crawl takes up to 60 seconds

You have SharePoint 2010 SP1 CU12:

Every time you are performing a search query on any web application the first query always takes about 60 seconds.
When you are performing the second search query for the same term or another term the query response time is under 3 seconds.

Activate a Feature on all SiteCollections

$FeatureId = $(Get-SPFeature -limit all | where {$_.displayname -eq "OfficeWebApps"}).Id
Get-SPSite -limit ALL |foreach{Enable-SPFeature $FeatureId -url $_.URL }

Search service is not able to connect to Administration component server

$AdminComponentServer = "ServerName"

$varInstance = Get-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceInstance -local  

Start-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceInstance -Identity $AdminComponentServer

$varSearchApp = get-spenterprisesearchserviceapplication

set-spenterprisesearchadministrationcomponent –searchapplication $varSearchApp –searchserviceinstance $varInstance

...Wait a few minutes.....

(http://blogs.technet.com/b/poojk/archive/2011/11/28/sharepoint-2010-search-service-is-not-able-to-connect-to-administration-component-server.aspx)

Reporting: List all Webs --> Output to Document Library

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