Sunday, January 6, 2008

The crawler could not communicate with the server

Recently, I saw the following error message logged by Office SharePoint Server Search service.
"The crawler could not communicate with the server"

The Search service had been working perfecly just a few days back. So this error, out of the blue, did surprise me. A bit of calm investigation revealed that the password associated with the service account had expired. Changing the password and restarting the service fixed this issue!

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