Managed Metadata Service or
Connection is currently not available
Issue: Managed Metadata Service or Connection is currently not available. The Application Pool or Managed Metadata Web Service may not have been started. please contact your administrator.
Cause: The issue is due to the service that we are
trying to connect is not available.
Solution: This issue could be of many reasons and has many solutions. In this article I am providing all the solutions which is used to get rid of the error. I am sure that one below will be your saver.
Solution 1:
1.
Go to SharePoint Central
Administration Site –> Application Management –> [Service Applications]
–> Manage service applications
2.
Highlight the Managed
Metadata Service that your web application is associated with. (Do not click on
the link, just click somewhere else on that row to highlight it)
3.
Click on Permissions button in the ribbon area.
4.
Add the application pool
account used by your web application and give it at least ‘Read
Access to Term Store’
5.
Click OK.
Solution 2:
1.
Make sure the managed
metadata service is started.
2.
Central Administration ->
manage services on server -> managed metadata service -> start
3.
Once the service is in
started mode then check the results again by clicking on the managed metadata
service application, it has to open the page without any errors\exceptions
Solution 3:
1.
Do IIS reset on the server
Solution 4:
2.
Ensure to have available
disk space on the DB server
Solution 5:
3.
Ensure to have the Farm, App
pool account has sufficient permissions on the DB
Solution 5:
4.
Check your IIS and
check IUSR is added in Anonymous Authentication
1.
Ensure that the IIS Admin
service is running in services.msc
2.
Ensure that the ApppPool
related to the service is running
3.
Ensure that the DB server
that application is located is running and have enough space.
4.
Ensure that the Apppool is
set with the correct credentials and password
