Why did this happen? No idea. How did I fix it, read below.
- Open central admin
- Goto Operations
- Goto Services on server and located your index server
- On “Office SharePoint Server Search” click “Stop”. This deconfigures it.
- Now click “start”
- Then click “Shared Services Administration”, hover over the failing SSP and select edit.
- You will notice now the indexer is not selected. Select it from the drop down.
- HERE IS THE IMPORTANT PART. The server you have selected is probably the same server as you used before. If it is, go to that server and locate the indexer files. It is in the textbox right below the drop down you just used. For me it was “F:\Program Files\Microsoft Office Servers\12.0\Data\Office Server\Applications”. In there you will find a folder with Guid name. At the end of that folder add “_old”. Now go back to your SSP and click OK. Wait 1 minute and the index will recreate the guid folder.
- Tada, all fixed.
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