Yet another unexplained SharePoint log entry. This one looks like

11/20/2008 06:51:27.78  OWSTIMER.EXE (0x0888)                    0x1340 Office Server                  Setup and Upgrade              8u3j High     Registry key value {SearchThrottled} was not found under registry hive {Software\Microsoft\Office Server\12.0}. Assuming search sku is not throttled. 

If I had a regular reader, s/he would know that I have encountered mysterious log entries before, and not one of them has ever been explained, whether to my satisfaction or not.

The priority of this one is rated "High", so it presumably means something reasonably important. Some chained-to-his-desk coder implemented this message thinking it had some purpose, but the usual search engines turn up, once again, nothing but questions with no answers.

Now I'm not one of those dinosaurs who thinks that all software should still come with a hefty manual (I'm a different kind of dinosaur who believes in Weinberg's Second Law), but I do think that software should be documented. I don't expect MS to print an explanation of thousands of obscure error messages, but I do expect them to at least make the explanations available. Isn't that what the Internet is for? Well, besides the porn. And YouTube. And Twitter. And SarahPalinAsPresident.com, which sadly has disappeared.

End rant.