People Search Not Working SharePoint 2013

People Search Not Working SharePoint 2013                  

               

No people show up in the people search.  You have everything set up correctly for User profiles and search application.

Issue: In my case, it was that the default content access account did not have correct permissions set in the My Site service application.  It was also that I didn't tell the search content sources that there was a My Site. I also added a crawl rule, but I suspect this was overkill and would have worked with the first two steps.

Resolution:

Set the permissions for the search crawler to Retrieve People Data. Go into Application Management -> Manage Service Applications page.  Highlight the User Profile Service Application line.  In the ribbon, click on Administrators.  Add the Default content access account (check what it is on the front page of the Search Administration page) and make sure that Retrieve People Data for Search Crawlers is checked.  Click on OK.

Make sure you type the sharepoint://hostname into the content sources.  This tells the search that this is not just content - it is a My Site service app.  If you don't add it, but just list the URL of the My Site Host, the crawler will crawl the content, but not the profiles.


Create a crawl rule. Go to Search Administration -> Crawl Rules -> Add Crawl Rule. In the Path box, type sharepoint://<hostname>, where <hostname> is the URL for the Web application where you deployed the My Sites site collection.

Do a full crawl.

MS Article: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh582311.aspx  

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