Office sharepoint server search server - Stopping

Written by KbNk

Monday, 14 September 2009 07:24

When you for some reason (or reason that is mentioned bellow) have to remove "Office sharepoint server search server" role from farm topology and for some reason it remain in stopping state following could help you.
Stop "Windows SharePoint Services Search" in computer management, or by typing net stop oSearch in command line on the Indexing server.
Then on affected server type stsadm -o execadmsvcjobs this will force all jobs that are hanging to complete. And after that you should be able to see that this role is Stopped.
After this, you can readd the role if you need and then start oSeatch service on index server by typing net start oSearch.

Possible reasons then this can happen.

You may face issue that index remain in propagating status and following errors appears on almost all servers:

Event Type:   Error
Event Source:   Office SharePoint Server
Event Category:   Office Server Shared Services
Event ID:   6482
Date:       9/12/2009
Time:       7:06:19 PM
User:       N/A
Computer:    Server1
Description:
Application Server Administration job failed for service instance Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Administration.SearchServiceInstance (a305ebd9-5ac5-4a0a-baeb-303591dda2ce).

Reason: Object 99d683d3-10f4-4ff6-a85a-a3d03a8646ea not found.

Techinal Support Details:
System.Collections.Generic.KeyNotFoundException: Object 99d683d3-10f4-4ff6-a85a-a3d03a8646ea not found.
at Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Administration.SearchApi.get_App()
at Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Administration.SearchApi.SetUsersPermittedToQuery(String[] userNames, Boolean force)
at Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Administration.SearchServiceInstance.Synchronize()
at Microsoft.Office.Server.Administration.ApplicationServerJob.ProvisionLocalSharedServiceInstances(Boolean isAdministrationServiceJob)

Or warnings:

Event Type:   Warning
Event Source:   Office Server Search
Event Category:   Search service
Event ID:   10039
Date:       9/12/2009
Time:       7:07:03 PM
User:       N/A
Computer:    Server1
Description:
Retry of query machine 'Server1' has failed with error: The system cannot find the file specified.   0x80070002. It will be retried again in 120 seconds. Component: 99d683d3-10f4-4ff6-a85a-a3d03a8646ea

This errors can be solved by removin search role from affected servers and re-add it, this will allow replication of index again and note correct paths. You might want to do it one by one, and maybe delete the index on affected server, so it can be replicated again. In this state when i tried to remove the role it remained in status Stopping, and so i did steps described in this article, so maybe you can try read it from beginning :)

Cheers