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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... Posted Feb 16 2012, 10:23 PM by CoreyRoth with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: SharePoint, Error, Enterprise Search, SharePoint 2010, FAST Search for SharePoint

• 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... Posted May 30 2011, 09:41 PM by CoreyRoth with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: SharePoint, Error, Enterprise Search, SharePoint 2010

• 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... Posted Jun 22 2009, 03:05 PM by CoreyRoth with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: SharePoint, Error, MOSS, Enterprise Search

• 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... Posted May 19 2009, 03:03 PM by CoreyRoth with | with 5 comment(s) Filed under: SharePoint, Error, MOSS, Enterprise Search, Business Data Catalog

• 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... Posted Mar 25 2009, 10:20 AM by CoreyRoth with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: SharePoint, Error, MOSS, Enterprise Search

• 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... Posted Feb 26 2009, 04:14 PM by CoreyRoth with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: SharePoint, Error, MOSS, Enterprise Search

• 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... Posted Feb 24 2009, 01:45 PM by CoreyRoth with | with 23 comment(s) Filed under: SharePoint, Error, MOSS, Enterprise Search

• 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... Posted May 01 2008, 02:15 PM by CoreyRoth with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: SharePoint, Error, MOSS, Enterprise Search

• 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... Posted Feb 28 2008, 02:12 PM by CoreyRoth with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: SharePoint, Error, MOSS, Enterprise Search