On one of our farm we noticed that search had not been working, and the search administration page would give this message: “Crawl status The search application for 'SharedServices' on server [SERVERNAME] is not provisioned. Confirm that the Windows SharePoint Services Timer service and Windows SharePoint Services Administration service are running on the server. “
Even though search had been previously configured there, and required services were running, there was not obvious things that would usually jump out .
To troubleshoot it, I first tried stopping Office search from the UI. The status of “stopping” had been not switched to “Stopped” and kinda hang there for a while.
Trying to stop through stsadm –o osearch –action stop, yielded no result as well.
Running: “Net stop osearch” just gave me the “the service could not be controlled in its present state”, same message was observer when I hit stop the services console.
Kill utility was not available on that server and restarting the server was not an option as it was a production server.
Here is the list of steps that resolved the issue:
- End the process it’s self through tasks manager
- In central admin the “stopping” message for this Office search disappeared and instead I saw “stopped”
- Stopping WSS search was not an issue after these steps
- Then go and delete index from the index location.
- Start wss search services
- Start Office search services
- Edit properties of existing SSP –
- this is when I realized that db the SSP was referencing does not exist. And That was the problem all along
- I created new ssp, associated mysites with this new ssp.
- Changed association of other web apps with the new SSP, made the new ssp default
- Started full crawl, a bingo.
Hope it helps :-)
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