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mjavedkhan
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Aug 09, 2023

The search service is not able to connect to the machine that hosts the administration component

Dear Team,

 

I am not able configure the SharePoint 2016 Search application and creating search application using GUI and throwing below error.  Please support and provide the resolution.

 

Errors were encountered during the configuration of the Search Service Application.
System.ComponentModel.Win32Exception (0x80004005): The Server service is not startedat Microsoft.SharePoint.Win32.SPNetApi32.DeleteFileShare(String name)at Microsoft.SharePoint.Win32.SPNetApi32.CreateFileShareWithSecurity(String name, String description, String path, String sddl)at Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Administration.AnalyticsAdministration.CreateAnalyticsUNCShare(String dirParentLocation, String shareName)at Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Administration.AnalyticsAdministration.ProvisionAnalyticsShare(SearchServiceApplication serviceApplication)at Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Administration.AnalyticsAdministration.CreateDefaultStoreLocation(SearchServiceApplication serviceApplication)at Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Administration.AnalyticsAdministration.ProvisionRawEventStore(SearchServiceApplication serviceApplication)at Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Administration.AnalyticsServiceAdministration.Provision()at Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Administration.SearchServiceApplication.Provision()at Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Administration.SearchAdminUtils.UpdateIgnoreSPUpdatedConcurrencyException(String description, SearchAdminUtilsUpdateDelegate updateDelegate, SearchAdminUtilsRefreshObjectDelegate refreshObjectDelegate)at Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Administration.SearchConfigWizard.CreateSearchApp()at Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Administration.SearchConfigWizard.ProvisionSearchServiceApplication()at Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Administration.SearchConfigurationJobDefinition.ExecuteTimerJob()
8/9/2023 10:01:19 AM


Event Log

 

The Execute method of job definition Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Administration.SearchConfigurationJobDefinition (ID e87f0f64-9bc4-4f33-9e29-f3475e036991) threw an exception. More information is included below.

The Server service is not started. (Correlation=b8b0cea0-ded9-20cd-0686-1d15766aeb6c)

Event ID 6398

Thank you,
Mohammad J. Khan

 

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