Its a monday morning and we ran into a issue where the search wasnt working. The error message I was getting was
The search request was unable to connect to the Search Service
I followed the following options to resolve the error. Hope you will find your solution within them.- Central Admin > Application Management > Manage Web Application > select your SharePoint site > Service Connections
- Check whether the Search Service Proxy is checked or not, if not please tick the same and save. This will resolver your issue.
- Central Admin > General Application Settings > Farm Search Administration > click on your search service
- Under Search Application Topology on the bottom of the page, make sure the status for all the categories is ONLINE. My problem was that the Query Component 0 was saying "Not Responding" which was running on my Web Front End Server. So I logged in to my WFE and followed the following steps to resolve the issue :
- Go to Services.msc and make sure SharePoint Server Search 14 service is Running
Issue Resolved !! Hope this helps someone.
