Moss 2007 SSP Error "Search application '{0}' is not ready."

Answer 1

Maybe you can make sense of this - I'm new to sharepoint, so it makes little sense to me: "Service Shared, after looking for the solution much encontre this forum where a person tapeworm the same problem. After reading a infinity of commentaries, which I made to solve the problem was to create a new shared service, later it assigns the other applications to him and later I put it like predetermined, it initiates the import of profiles, and later the hearings, clearly first I did it in a site of tests just in case something happened, later eliminates the First Shared Service and finally the error I am solved. The snapshot of the Registry of the configuration of the application in the data base has been stored correctly. Context: application `SharedServices2 ′"

You didn't mention anything about tapeworms, so maybe you're running a newer version.

Translation of:

http://tecnologiainformaticait.wordpress.com/2008/11/21/error-sharepoint-search-application-0-is-not-ready/

Personally, I'd try the msdn forums.

Answer 2

So it seems that the problem was a corrupted Shared Service Provider ( no idea how it came about, but there you go ) and the only working solution I could find was to delete it and start again.

I suspect there may have been a more elegant fix by changing something in the database somewhere, but I don't know the Sharepoint Database model well enough to find it in the time available.

Answer 3

As an additional warning to this, if you do delete your SSP you may find that it doesn't delete cleanly so that you get a bunch of SQL server tasks that still try to run on an empty database, which can cause problems if you have anything else running on the same database server.

Answer 4

Same problem. My DBA delete correctly the search database and it still doesn't work. I'll post the solution on my blog when I found something. For the moment, we open a MS call.

1. Created a new SSP 2- In central admin, click on shared Services Administration
   3- Click on "Change Associations" and move all the web apps to the new SSP

Choose a new search_DB and select the good server that will index if you are in a farm

Problems created by this operation: We notice that we lose statistics information for our sites.

if you tried this solution, give us your feed back too

Thanks.

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