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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Windows Power Shell for SharePoint Command Builder

 Windows Power Shell for SharePoint Command Builder

                

Very useful to get the power shell command easily for SharePoint.

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/technet/en-us/office/media/windowspowershell/windowspowershellcommandbuilder.html

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The Search request was unable to connect to search service

The Search request was unable to connect to search service

While we try for the search in the site, it comes with the below error,

   sorry something went wrong

   The Search request was unable to connect to search service                    

                        

Solution: The issue is due to the web site that we are searching is not connected with the Search service application. To connect the site with the search application, Follow the below steps.

·        Go to central administration->Application management->manage web applications

·        Select web application which you need search

                 

·        Click on Service connections on Ribbon

·        Check the Search service application is in connection with the website.                 

·        If not then connect the search service application with the website, to do this, check the box of search service application and Ok.                

           

·        Once done, you were able to connect the search service to web site. 

Note: If two sites are created with the Enterprise search template in same farm, This error should occur.

If search service is in stopped state also, this issue could occur    

                                 

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SharePoint default page not loading by default.aspx

I find that I can't browse SharePoint 80 or SharePoint Central Administration v4 or any sites using the default URL (http://webserver/). I’m trying to do this locally from the actual server SharePoint is running on. It gives a HTTP 404 'Webpage cannot be found' error in IE. If I want to view either of these, I have to specifically type default.aspx manually:

http://webserver/default.aspx to view the SharePoint 80 site
http://webserver:port/default.aspx to view central admin. 

                       

It is the same when using local host instead of web server. I again will have to enter default.aspx to come the pages up.

Here are some things I've tried already but had no luck:

Added http://webserver and other relevant names in Alternate Access Mappings
Ensured Default.aspx is top of the list in 'Default Documents' in IIS7
Checked the hosts file
Set DisableloopbackCheck in registry and restarted.

Solution: I resolve the issue once I run the products and technologies wizard. Once the wizard is successful, All the sites including central admin came up by default without manually typing the default.aspx.

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Importing a site, list, or document library in SharePoint 2013

Importing a site, list, or document library in SharePoint 2013

You can use Windows Power Shell to manually import a site, list, or document library

To import a site, list or document library by using Windows Power Shell

On the Start menu, click All Programs, click Microsoft SharePoint 2013 Products, and then click SharePoint 2013 Management Shell.

At the Power Shell command prompt, type the following command:

Import-SPWeb -Identity  <SiteURL>  -Path <ExportFileName>  [-Force] [-NoFileCompression] [-Verbose]

Where:

• <SiteURL> is the URL for the site that you are importing to.
• <ExportFileName> is the name of the file that you are exporting.

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