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Error: Unable to communicate with WCF Service (FAST Search for SharePoint)

During configuration of FAST Search for SharePoint, you will need to use PowerShell to finalize your configuration. One common error you might receive is the one below. This error occurs when you execute any PowerShell command for FS4SP. Failed to communicate with the WCF service. This error...

Posted to Corey Roth [MVP] (Weblog) by CoreyRoth on 02-16-2012
Timeout error when modifying Search Service Application Topology

In a multiple server SharePoint farm, you often find yourself modifying the Search Service Application topology at some point in the initial configuration process. The scenario is that you typically go into your Search Service Application, add query components or indexers, and then save your topology...

Posted to Corey Roth [MVP] (Weblog) by CoreyRoth on 05-30-2011
Issue when querying on a Managed Property of type Decimal

I’ve been working on putting some stuff together for my talks at SharePoint Saturday Ozarks ( #SPSOzarks ) and ran into this interesting issue. Now this may just be an isolated incident, but I have discovered a few errors that occur when trying to query a managed property of type decimal. ...

Posted to Corey Roth [MVP] (Weblog) by CoreyRoth on 06-22-2009
The object was not found. (The item was deleted because it was either not found or the crawler was denied access to it.)

I’ve seen a few people asking about this in the Crawl Logs and thought I would take a few minutes to address it. First and foremost this is a warning and not an error message. Sometimes when you receive this message, it is the crawler behaving normally. Other times it is because of...

Posted to Corey Roth [MVP] (Weblog) by CoreyRoth on 05-19-2009
Error: This crawl has been paused by the search system while a new query server is added. After the new query server is online, the crawl will be resumed.

This is kind of a strange error that I sometime receive when trying to startup a crawl in Enterprise Search. I have only received it on MOSS servers with the Infrastructure Update applied, but it might occur on other versions as well. The issue is when I try to start a crawl (on a BDC content...

Posted to Corey Roth [MVP] (Weblog) by CoreyRoth on 03-25-2009
ArgumentNullException when calling Enterprise Search Web Service

Last week, I demonstrated how to call the Enterprise Search web service to get search results to a colleague. I pointed him to my post on querying a web service and he was able to easily put the code together to call the web service. However, when his code called the service, he got the following...

Posted to Corey Roth [MVP] (Weblog) by CoreyRoth on 02-26-2009
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.

There seems to be a huge plague of the following error sweeping through the SharePoint community right now. This occurs when you go to the Search Settings page on your SSP. You will probably notice it before this by a user trying to search and getting an error. Here is the text. The search service is...

Posted to Corey Roth [MVP] (Weblog) by CoreyRoth on 02-24-2009
Error: HRESULT E_FAIL has been returned from a call to a COM component

I was working on an Enterprise Search deployment the other day and I encountered this lovely error. I found the answer buried in some forum posts, but I wanted to tell you what side effects I found when implementing the solution (and I wanted to make sure I could find the answer again someday when I...

Posted to Corey Roth [MVP] (Weblog) by CoreyRoth on 05-01-2008
Help! My SearchBox Web Part won't Submit

I have caused this to happen a number of times and the answer isn't obvious at first, so I thought I would post on it and explain what causes it and how to fix it. The behavior usually occurs for me when I am deploying a SearchBoxEx web part via a feature using an elements.xml file. What you will...

Posted to Corey Roth [MVP] (Weblog) by CoreyRoth on 02-28-2008

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