WSS Search not working!!
As some of you may be aware, WSS (Windows SharePoint Services) and SPS2003 (SharePoint Portal Server) don't use the same indexing and search technology. WSS uses SQL based full-text searching and SPS uses the MSSearch service.We had 2 similar issues (but will explain individually) with 2 separate WSS and SPS servers recently.
One of the servers is our development instance of SPS2003 and the other is our newly migrated production intranet SPS2003 server.
On the development server we noticed that when you search for content that would exist in a WSS site from the portal, the search would return the expected results, but when you use the Search from the WSS site itself, it would not return anything.
Resolution here was to rebuild the Full-Text Catalog that WSS creates in the PortalName_Site database. It is usually called ix_PortalName_Site.
On the production intranet server however, the portal returned no results from the WSS sites aswell as the WSS site search themselves. Upon closer inspection I noticed that there was no full-text catalog created in the PortalName_Site database. Worse still if I manually tried to create it, I got the following error:
So I found on the web a way to reinstall the Full-Text Catalog component on a SQL server, to do this I had to spoof the install into thinking that full-text catalog was not installed. How? Well all you do is locate the following key in the Registry:
{E07FDDA7-5A21-11d2-9DAD-00C04F79D434} which is in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE \MICROSOFT\MSSQLSERVER\Tracking
and rename or delete it (I renamed it with an X in front)
Then insert the SQL Server installation CD again and modify/add components to existing install. Select Full-Text Search as the component, and continue with the installation wizard.
Now we had an instance of Full-Text searching that we could create catalogs in without error.
I then let WSS create its own Full-Text Catalog. To do this, go to SharePoint Central Administration of your SPS portal and then select Windows SharePoint Services. Click on "Configure Full Text Search" and then disable the checkbox "Enable full-text search and index component" and click OK.
Then go back in and re-enable it, this will then go off and create the full-text catalog that should have been there in the first place.
Weird I know but true (make sure to reapply the SP3a after re-installing the full-text search component)
posted by Graham Quinn @ 2:15 PM
12 Comments:
Hi Graham,
"Resolution here was to rebuild the Full-Text Catalog that WSS creates in the PortalName_Site database. It is usually called ix_PortalName_Site."
But how can I rebuild the index/catalog ? After I reenable the "full text search" at Sharepoint Services Administration page, the new catalog keeps empty. How can I make WSS reindex existing documents ?
Tks,
(Sorry my poor english)
Paulo D'Angelo
You can do that from within SQL Enterprise Manager. Open the content-database. Last item in the list is the index. Right-click and choose "rebuild index" (or something like that).
Yep thats what I did all right, it was just the catalog was missing, and how to recreate it as opposed to rebuild it...
Hi Graham,
After I unchecked "Enable full-text search and index component" and clicked "ok", I got the error:
Cannot complete this action
Please try again.
Any idea?
Hi Jhon
I've got the same error "Cannot complete this action". Should we restart the MSSearch service or something like that?
Please let me know if you solved that issue.
Thks!
Cutterine
Rebuilding the full-text catalog worked with me, WSS creats the physical catalog/index in a FTdata directory. However, the space on this harddisk is limited.
Does anyone know how I can relocated the catalogs to a different harddisk?
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