Sharepoint Search not working

If you are running Sharepoint with SQL (not WMSDE), you’re supposed to be able to perform full text searchies. If searching is not working for you, make sure it’s enabled. Here’s how:


1. Click Start > Administrative Tools > Sharepoint Central Administration.
2. Scroll down to the Component Configuration section
3. Click on the Configure full text search link
4. Click the box to enable full text search
5. Click OK, and then wait several seconds while it updates.

11 thoughts on “Sharepoint Search not working

  1. I have instaled sps 2.o with msde, in I have selected full text searching, but my search give me back don’t find anything.

  2. I am getting the follwing error when I try to configur the search in SPS2003

    "Key Already entered" roundtrippublish error……………..

    Please suggest a solution to remove this error without reinstalling the application

  3. Does anybody have a solution for this….The sharepoint search is not working on portal level…when i go inside a site then i am able to search a document inside that site

  4. I came across this problem a long time ago when first working with Windows SharePoint Services sites. After a lot of testing I came up with a solution to resolve the issue. I know it works because I have used it quite a number of times over the past couple of years. I still don’t know the cause however and Microsoft don’t seem to have documented the issue at all.

    Follow the steps at:

    http://spaces.msn.com/members/nickporter/Blog/cns!1p9xP44krkAbpdib2DZRYu-Q!135.entry

  5. I stopped the search service in Sharepoint Server and now it does not work. It can not be started again. Can you help?
    Thanks

  6. Hi,
    People search is not working in my site, it returns ‘The page cannot be found”.
    But as i go to step 2 “Scroll down to the Component Configuration section”, I am not able to see this Component Configuration Section anywhere in central Admin of my sharepoint.
    Please tell me where is this.
    Thanks

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