Good Day; My question has to do with content orphans, specifically what is the impact on content orphans, what is the impact on performance to these content orphans? It appears that we are creating 2 to 4 content orphans per day in our system and I am currently working to resolve that issue seperately, but from my research I cannot find out what if any impact there is on performance or crawl time expectations when Orphans are in the system. Thanks CHS

Essentially, an orphan is unreachable, so the impact on crawling should be negligable. However, lots of orphans has a size implication in your content DB's and backups as its wasted content so could affect performane that way, again its likely small so not a lot to worry about - but it still needs resolving as part of maintenence if it gets to be cumbersome and is generating support calls. There is a very good technet article on dealing with orphaned objects you should rad as it has a strategy defined for handling this issue: http://blogs.technet.com/b/corybu/archive/2007/05/31/sharepoint-orphans-explained.aspx Regards John Timney

Thank you John, this was simlilar information that I was finding in my searches on the net, nice to get confirmation however, our environment is 300,000+ mysites with 3 to 4 TB of data so we are wasting some space here as well as prolonging the backups a bit. I think that from this and from the other information I have read, I can remove this as a concern for why a full crawl is so terribly slow. Again, Thank You Christopher