Have used Stop motion animation to explain this - in this video I have taken the topic of "Alternate Access Mappin" in lessthan5min :)  

Any feedback and suggestions are welcome { the video quality and audio is not as great as I expected to be, but will definitely work on it from the next video }

[View:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3s_uY983LXM]

Thanks

Anand 

Symptoms :

1. You find the following error when you try to search for a key word

2. You might also get an exception

Exception from
HRESULT: 0xC0041228"

3. This could be accompanied with an event ID "10032" which states that "database connection string is not available"

Steps needed to be taken ( in same order )  :

1. Try toggling the Office SharePoint server search - restart it . Make sure you have atleast one server which is serving the queries

2. Do the same for Windows SharePoint server search

3. Ensure that the DCA account has permissions on the web application

4. Go to the SSP and click on edit properties, and ensure that the Index server is selected, if not choose it from the drop down

5. Go to Manage Content databases --> Select the database and ensure that the search server is selected, if not choose it from the drop down

That should fix it

But wait, sometimes even after doing all of those you would not be able to see it under create site. Why ?

Here is why --> You would also need the site template to be enabled under the "Page Layout and Site Template" settings under site settings, which looks something like this :

But wait, sometimes when you go to Site settings page you do not find the option "Page Layout and Site Template" settings by default. What do you do then ? Well simple : append /_layouts/areatemplatesettings.aspx at the end of the URL

Please note that in order to have this you would have to have publishing feature enabled.

Symptoms

"The specified SPContentDatabase Name=<Content Database name>
Parent=SPDatabaseServiceInstance has been upgraded to a newer version of
SharePoint. Please upgrade this SharePoint application server before attempting
to access this object."

• And while trying to run the  psconfig -cmd
  upgrade -inplace b2b -wait -force  we get the following error messages in
  the Upgrade.log

"ERR            Task upgradebootstrap has failed with an unknown exception
"

"ERR            Exception: Microsoft.SharePoint.Upgrade.SPUpgradeException:
The specified SPContentDatabase Name= <Admin Content Database name>
Parent=SPDatabaseServiceInstance has been upgraded to a newer version of
SharePoint. Please upgrade this SharePoint application server before attempting
to access this object.
   at
Microsoft.SharePoint.Upgrade.SPSequence.get_CanUpgrade()
   at
Microsoft.SharePoint.Upgrade.SPManager.CanUpgrade(Object o)
   at
Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPPersistedUpgradableObject.get_CanUpgrade()
  
at Microsoft.SharePoint.Upgrade.SPManager.ReflexiveCanUpgrade(Object o)
   at
Microsoft.SharePoint.Upgrade.SPManager.NeedsUpgrade(Object o, Boolean
bRecurse)
   at
Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPPersistedUpgradableObject.get_NeedsUpgrade()
  
at Microsoft.SharePoint.Upgrade.SPManager.Initialize()
   at
Microsoft.SharePoint.PostSetupConfiguration.UpgradeBootstrapTask.Run()
   at
Microsoft.SharePoint.PostSetupConfiguration.TaskThread.ExecuteTask()"

Symptoms