SharePoint Search

Application Server Administration job failed for service instance – SharePoint Search error

Application Server Administration job failed for service instance Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Administration.SearchServiceInstance (GUID) – Event 6482, SharePoint Server is popping up in the server running Search service once every minute. Search is working fine without any issues, Content sources are crawled, indexes are created normally. No issue on user side of things.But the above error is flooding the event […]

SharePoint Search Index partition error

If something goes wrong with SharePoint Search 2013 and under Search Application Topology section if you see Search Index partition error – a yellow triangle. This defenitely meant something is wrong with Index partition in that particular server. Try the following things before you pull your hair, or reset index or even rebuild the whole […]

SharePoint Search Index Location

While configuring SharePoint 2013 Search service, we have the option to change the SharePoint search index location. If we don’t change it during configuration, it is configured to use default location, which is C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office Servers\15.0\Data If you have already changed your index location during or after configuration and need to find that, you […]