Failing timer job – Search Custom Dictionaries Update
In my SharePoint 2016 lab I can see the following appearing repeatedly in the logs: OWSTIMER.EXE (0x0D20) 0x15FC SharePoint Foundation Timer 6398 Critical The Execute method of job definition Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Administration.CustomDictionaryDeploymentJobDefinition (ID f637505e-2ce6-4785-8d88-37a210be6cc4) threw an exception. More information is included below. …
w3wp.exe: All query processing components are in ‘Failed’ status
Users are currently unable to use the Search Centre in our SharePoint 2013 environment, they see the following error: Sorry, something went wrong. Search has encountered a problem that prevents results from being returned. If the issue persists, please contact…
Search has encountered a problem that prevents results from being returned. If the issue persists, please contact your administrator
In our SharePoint 2013 farm we have some Content Search Web Parts that display content based on a search query. These work fine in our production environment but in the DR environment they just produce an error (as per the…
The search service is not able to connect to the machine that hosts the administration component
I have discovered a problem with the Search Service Application in my DR farm. Any query in the Enterprise Search Centre produces an error: Search has encountered a problem that prevents results from being returned. If the issue persists, please…
Microsoft recommendations on scaling out Search components
I’m currently preparing to take the 70-332 exam (Advanced Solutions of Microsoft® SharePoint® Server 2013) and suspect there may be questions relating to Search Service capacity planning. These are the Microsoft recommendations for scaling out the Search Service components that…
Error in the Microsoft SharePoint Server People Protocol Handler
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…
Configure continuous crawl on an existing content source
I’m working on a SharePoint farm where documents don’t appear in search results until the next day. To ensure they appear in search results within one hour of being uploaded I will configure a continuous crawl on the content source:…
SharePoint 2013 – Search Query Suggestions not working
If you find that query suggestions do not work in your SharePoint 2013 Search then here are a few things you can try. Enable search suggestions 1. Log into Central Administration 2. Navigate to Manage Service Applications -> Search…
Event ID 2548 – SharePoint Server Search
I have built a new SharePoint 2013 environment and after provisioning a new Search Service Application the following was regularly being logged in the Application Event Log: Content Plugin cannot be initialized – list of CSS addresses is not set…
Event ID 14 – The start address cannot be crawled
I have just spent hours trying to get to the bottom of an issue with search in SharePoint 2010. No results were being returned and the following error was reoccurring in the Application Event Log: The start address http://wprintranet cannot…
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