Thursday, April 8, 2010

Search Server Express on a Domain Controller... The search request was unable to connect to the Search Service

Had a situation where I was working on a WSS Farm with 2 servers.
1 WFE and 1 App Server

The App Server was a backup domain controller for a domain.

We installed Search Server Express (great low cost search option for WSS) and all seemed to go fine.
That was until I tried to run a search. 

I got the following error when I tried to run the search:
The search request was unable to connect to the Search Service

The problem turned out to be related to the  SharePoint Search Service Account not having the correct local user rights on the domain controller.

To resolve the problem I added the user to the IIS_IUSRS group which is in the Builtin folder/OU in Active Directory Users & Computers.

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