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Search Crawl status = Paused for:External request

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Just checked my search crawl history and it hasn't run in a week.
Saw another post that said it may be a Symmantec issue, but we're not using Symmantec.
Thanks,
Scott
Friday, May 9, 2014 2:30 PM
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Curious if you're on at least SP2 or Infrastrucuture Update? There were major changes to the search infrastucuture delivered in those releases
http://blog.dafran.ca/post/2013/08/16/SharePoint-2010-Scheduled-Crawls-not-Running.aspx1) Stop the Windows SharePoint Timer Service
2) Navigate to C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\SharePoint\Config
3) Go into the single folder in there that has a GUID type name.
4) You see a whole bunch of XML files and a file cache.ini
5) Copy all the XML files to another folder somewhere (for backup), then delete them but do not delete cache.ini
6) Edit cache.ini to contain just the number "1" in the file - erase whatever is there and replace with "1"
7) Restart the Windows SharePoint Timer Service
8) You should see XML files being regenerated in the folderhttp://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/sharepoint/en-US/26883a1b-13f8-4614-9552-e8ca910987c9/scheduled-crawls-not-running
- Marked as answer by Lindali Monday, May 19, 2014 1:20 AM
Friday, May 9, 2014 2:44 PM -
My crawl pauses like that due to backups from time to time. This PS command usually gets it going again for me, just be sure to replace the "Search Service Application" with the name of yours, if it's different
$ssa = Get-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceApplication “Search Service Application”
Resume-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceApplication $ssa
- Edited by John from Cincinnati Friday, May 9, 2014 2:52 PM
- Marked as answer by Lindali Monday, May 19, 2014 1:20 AM
Friday, May 9, 2014 2:51 PM
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Curious if you're on at least SP2 or Infrastrucuture Update? There were major changes to the search infrastucuture delivered in those releases
http://blog.dafran.ca/post/2013/08/16/SharePoint-2010-Scheduled-Crawls-not-Running.aspx1) Stop the Windows SharePoint Timer Service
2) Navigate to C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\SharePoint\Config
3) Go into the single folder in there that has a GUID type name.
4) You see a whole bunch of XML files and a file cache.ini
5) Copy all the XML files to another folder somewhere (for backup), then delete them but do not delete cache.ini
6) Edit cache.ini to contain just the number "1" in the file - erase whatever is there and replace with "1"
7) Restart the Windows SharePoint Timer Service
8) You should see XML files being regenerated in the folderhttp://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/sharepoint/en-US/26883a1b-13f8-4614-9552-e8ca910987c9/scheduled-crawls-not-running
- Marked as answer by Lindali Monday, May 19, 2014 1:20 AM
Friday, May 9, 2014 2:44 PM -
My crawl pauses like that due to backups from time to time. This PS command usually gets it going again for me, just be sure to replace the "Search Service Application" with the name of yours, if it's different
$ssa = Get-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceApplication “Search Service Application”
Resume-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceApplication $ssa
- Edited by John from Cincinnati Friday, May 9, 2014 2:52 PM
- Marked as answer by Lindali Monday, May 19, 2014 1:20 AM
Friday, May 9, 2014 2:51 PM -
Hello
In my case , the below two methods are not working, the powershell commands
$searchapp = Get-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceApplication EPM_Search
$searchapp.resume()
And
$ssa = Get-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceApplication –Identity EPM_Search
$ssa | Resume-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceApplication
Any IdeaKarim El Zarka, MCTS Sharepoint 2010 , MCITP SharePoint Administrator 2010 Whenever you see a reply and if you think is helpful, click "Vote As Helpful"! And whenever you see a reply being an answer to the question of the thread, click "Mark As Answer
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