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links for 2010-03-31 « Jet Grrl — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 00:21:07 +0000

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By: Pablo Appezzato

Pablo Appezzato — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 15:55:40 +0000

YEAHHH!!! That fix my problem!! thanks a LOTTT!!!!

By: Björn Sållarp

Björn Sållarp — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 18:52:00 +0000

No offence Larry but if you don’t know that perhaps you shouldn’t mess around with psconfig.. Anyhow. Start the command shell by pressing win+r buttons and type cmd in the box. This will start your command shell. Make your way to the bin folder using the “cd” command. When you arrive at the bin folder, run psconfig.

Good Luck!

By: Larry

Larry — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 17:26:57 +0000

Hi,
Are you able to post the actual steps to run psconfig, i.e how do you start psconfig..? I can see it in the BIN folder but need to know how to use it.
Thanks

By: maxmorgan

maxmorgan — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 11:53:35 +0000

Yeah!
Magic words “psconfig -cmd upgrade -inplace b2b -wait”

By: jp matthew

jp matthew — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 13:48:57 +0000

excellent just like magic it was, “psconfig -cmd upgrade -inplace b2b -wait”, worked really well thank you..

By: Binoj

Binoj — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 19:31:17 +0000

Thanks for this great post. I ran into this same problem after I reset all crawled content. After restting the crawled content, I was not able to access the SSP search setting and started getting the same message you got. Before applying your solution I ran the command suggested by Micke and it worked like a charm.

By: Björn Sållarp

Björn Sållarp — Mon, 18 May 2009 20:32:39 +0000

First, did you test the solution Micke posted, using psconfig? If it solves the problem it will be the easiest solution (I havn’t tested it). If it doesn’t fix your problem, at least it won’t break anything.

In my case the farm was very small, only two servers. I don’t know what your setup is like but you could try to disconnect the server running the search service from the farm. Here’s a howto from MS: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointportaladmin/HA011604591033.aspx

Depending on your farm setup this could make certain features unavailable unless you host them on other servers as well. I’m not sure but I would think you loose the search index by doing this, but that’s usually not a problem unless your application/company relies heavily on search and there’s a lot to index. But if they do, the search isn’t working anyways….

Let me know how it works out! Others will also be curious about benefiting from your experience.

By: Hari

Hari — Mon, 18 May 2009 07:20:14 +0000

Hi,
i am getting same error “Search Service currently offline” and i am getting below error in evebt viewer –
Application Server Administration job failed for service instance Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Administration.SearchServiceInstance (3f22a128-d726-4184-9fd2-e9cee9ae275c).
Reason: Object e28ba8b5-41e2-4a6e-996a-c9b3bb9dae05 not found.
Techinal Support Details:
System.Collections.Generic.KeyNotFoundException: Object e28ba8b5-41e2-4a6e-996a-c9b3bb9dae05 not found.

Can u pls tell me steps to disconnect and connect from form server?

Will there be any loss in data’s? because this error is in production server and i need to make sure no data’s should get lost.

Kindly support me to solve this issue since its in production i cannot take more time to fix.

Regards,
Thiru

By: Micke

Micke — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 14:25:10 +0000

Hi!

Thank you for your post.
I had excatly the same problem and you pointed me in the right direction.
I run command:
psconfig -cmd upgrade -inplace b2b -wait
and just like magic the problems were gone!

Regard
Micke