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  • Friday, July 25, 2008 11:10 AMGouranga1 Users MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers Medals
     
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    This has now happened at 3 different clients and I have not found anything helpful to figure out what is going on. We have a medium server farm (2 WFE's, 1 App/Index) server. It is configured up to specs, has all the correct service accounts. Runs like a champ. Then without warning and for no apparant reason (usually 2 days - 2 weeks later), the WSS timer service and Search service (on the Query server only) fails. What it is failing on is login for the service account assigned to it. There will be services on other servers that utilize the account, those will not fail to run. The password for the accounts have not been changed at all. In fact to get it up and running again, I go into the services console and type in the SAME password and everything works again.

    Anyone see this or have any idea why it happens?
     

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  • Friday, July 25, 2008 11:26 AMFrancesco Sodano Users MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers Medals
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    In the Central administration Site, when you change same parameters and there is a text box that need a password, You ALWAYS need to insert the password again and then press Save.

    have your AD the option to lock account after a few number of password error? try also to check this.

    Regards,

    Francesco
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  • Friday, July 25, 2008 11:26 AMFrancesco Sodano Users MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers Medals
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    In the Central administration Site, when you change same parameters and there is a text box that need a password, You ALWAYS need to insert the password again and then press Save.

    have your AD the option to lock account after a few number of password error? try also to check this.

    Regards,

    Francesco
    www.sharepointinside.it
     
  • Friday, July 25, 2008 7:25 PMmcnga1 Users MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers Medals
     
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    I've had problems with memory leaks in the timer service itself that cause strange errors in the Windows event log.

    You could try, from the Windows services console, to restart the timer service to see if connections are "restored".
     
  • Tuesday, July 29, 2008 12:42 PMBrador7 Users MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers Medals
     
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    Have you check the AD account on the sessions (Number of, timeouts, etc?)