Tuesday, January 27, 2009

SharePoint WSS 3.0 Searching Error

We are running WSS 3.0 and were having issues with Searching on the Site. We would recieve the following error when a search was performed:

"Your search cannot be completed because this site is not assigned to an indexer"

After digging around on the Central Administration site I was able to find a section that was not completely filled out:

  • Goto Central Management
  • Application Management
  • Content Databases
  • Click onto your main Database in the Database Name Column
  • Towards the bottom of the screen you will see a section titled Seach Server. Use the dropdown and select you Sharepoint search server.
  • Click OK

Depending how you have your search frequency setup, Search on your site should now be operational, or at the very least, you should no longer see the error message.

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