Error in the Microsoft SharePoint Server People Protocol Handler

July 7, 2015 · by dave.webb · in Search, SharePoint 2013, Troubleshooting

Today I noticed the following error in my search crawl log:

Error in the Microsoft SharePoint Server People Protocol Handler

After a bit of troubleshooting I realised that I had to update the content source to replace sps3://mysite.mydomain.local with sps3s://mysite.mydomain.local (note the subtle change from sps3 to sps3s) as I had recently changed the MySite host to use SSL. After changing the SPS3 to SPS3S the crawl errors went away.