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mikjac21549
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Jul 10, 2019
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Sharepoint 2016 no search results.

I have used sharegate desktop to move all sites lists and libraries from a SharePoint 2010 site to a new 2016 installation.  I believed that search initially worked but then at some point stopped ret...
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  • paulpascha's avatar
    paulpascha
    Jul 12, 2019

    mikjac21549 no proxy? A proxy should exist. You could try creating one using PowerShell 

    https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/sharepoint-server/new-spenterprisesearchserviceapplicationproxy?view=sharepoint-ps

     

    Alternatively, if you haven't configured your search service application a lot or you know exactly what you did you could as well recreate your search service application too. I wonder what way you provisioned your search service application. If you create one using Central Administration the proxy should be automatically created. If you used PowerShell you probably missed some steps...

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mikjac21549
Copper Contributor
Jul 11, 2019

paulpascha 

 

I am not completely sure which account is performing the searching.  How do I find that?  How do I check it's permissions.  There is a lot more that i don't know than what I do know about all this.  

 

Thank you so much for your response

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paulpascha
Bronze Contributor
Jul 11, 2019

mikjac21549that account is just the account you're logged in with. In other words, are you able to browse to the content you're searching for?

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    mikjac21549
    Copper Contributor
    Jul 12, 2019

    paulpascha 

     

    yes I can open a list, look at an item, try to search for an item that I see, and it can't find it.

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      paulpascha
      Bronze Contributor
      Jul 12, 2019

      mikjac21549So you don't receive an error message after performing your search, just an empty results page? Is this the same when you search from inside the library/list instead of using the site wide search? Did you take a look at the logs on the server? (Event log, ULS log). Are you able to find other content that was not part of your migration? 

       

      Few more thoughts / hints:

      • Does your Query Processing component show a green checkmark in Central Admin / Search Service Application Settings / Search Application Topology 
      • Are your searches being performed against the correct Result Source?
      • Do you have any query rules configured that might have impact on your search results?
      • Have you 
      • I assume you have only 1 Search Service Application configured in your Farm and it is associated to your Web Application via the correct Service Application Proxy group.

       

       

       

       

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        mikjac21549
        Copper Contributor
        Jul 12, 2019

        paulpascha 

         

        Thanks for your help. 

        1.  No errors just no results.

        2.  no search ever returns anything.

        3. on the front end server the Event log shows some information issues with trying to install a language proof with error = 0

         

        "Windows Installer reconfigured the product. Product Name: Microsoft Server Proof (Arabic) 2016. Product Version: 16.0.4351.1000. Product Language: 1025. Manufacturer: Microsoft Corporation. Reconfiguration success or error status: 0."

         

        then a followed by warning saying failed to connect to server

         

        4.  The ULS logs are over my head.  I downloaded the ULSviewer and it crashed after starting to load the info.  I viewed the files with notepad but I'm not sure which file and what I'm looking for.

         

        5.  How do I know what result source I'm searching against?

        6. no query rules

        7. 1 search service app and no proxy.  do I need a proxy?

         

        can I kill all search and reconfigure?  delete my content source and recreate?

         

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