How to Fix the Search Service in SharePoint 2007

The search request was unable to connect to the Search Service.

Difficulty: Moderate

Instructions

1. If Search was functioning fine yesterday, but seems to have taken a crap on you today you might want to try these quick and easy fixes followed by some maintenance on Service Accounts and their Logins.

2. Restart these services:
   
   Indexing Service
   Office SharePoint Server Search
   Windows SharePoint Services Search
   
   After this do a quick IISReset and test the search functionality.
   
   Or heres a quick script to restart all of the services and perform an IISReset for you.
   
   net stop "Indexing Service" && net start "Indexing Service"
   net stop "Office SharePoint Server Search" && net start "Office SharePoint Server Search"
   net stop "Windows SharePoint Services Search" && net start "Windows SharePoint Services Search"
   
   iisreset \\servername /noforce
   iisreset \\servername /status
   pause

3. If this worked for you then you might want to check the Service Accounts that you have tied to these services. They stopped or quit working for a reason. Investigate your Search and Query Server's Event Viewer and see what happened.

Resources

• Teh SharePointer

[dzeee]

on 4/17/2009 Interesting article on how to fix search errorshttp://home.dzeee.net/blogs/sp/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=53Hope this helps.