MOSS 2007 Search topics

Some of Search relates issues: Issue 1: When you go to Search Settings from SSP Administration page: Error: An indexer is not assigned to the Shared Service Provider "MySharedService". Configure an indexer and a search database for this Share Service Provider. To resolve this error, first make sure Office SharePoint Search Service is started on Index server. Now go to SSP settings to assign the indexer. From CA - Click on Shared Services Administration. Click to edit properties of your Share Service. At the bottom of settings page, there will be a section for Indexer - select your Index server from drop down. (If no server is listed, make sure Search Service is started with Index role). Issue 2: When you open Search Settings from SSP : Error: The search service is currently offline. Visit the Services on Server page in SharePoint Central Administration to verify whether the service is enabled. This might also be because an indexer move is in progress. Sometimes it takes time for indexer to be ready. If error is still displayed after long time, there might be issue with running service. Try to stop and start Office SharePoint Search Service (Never stop it from Central Admin - Operations - Services On Server). From Cmd line : stsadm -o osearch -action stop then stsadm -o osearch -action start Issue 3: If your search crawl suddenly stops - and you see error about "Access denied" from crawl, this may be caused by Microsft Security Patch came out during 1st qtr 2009. Check out Microsoft link -http://support.microsoft.com/kb/926642/. Quickest way to resolve this issue will be to apply registry workaround to disable loopback check. Learning: Training videos for enterprise search (from Microsoft): 14 recorded presentations are based on training modules from three-day, in-person training sessions. "http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc505994.aspx" Video demos and training for Office SharePoint Server 2007: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262880.aspx