Just been fixing the problem mentioned above. Lets set the scene here: Walk in this morning, coffee, boot up. Open up IE, need to update a record on our asset log. Enter the asset ID into the search bar, press enter. Easy day ended. 9:10am.
‘Your license for Office Server Search has expired’
We have recently upgraded from SharePoint standard to SharePoint Enterprise (recently being the middle of last week). It seems that whenever a configuration change (i.e change of license, installation of a language pack) occurs on a SharePoint server, some of the permissions that SharePoint require are changed on the server. These settings are then reset to their correct values by running the ‘SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard’. When running the wizard, ensure you select the options that leave your topology in the same configuration as it is now. (Assuming that you don’t want to change anything.) Afterwards, you should be able to search. Took a couple of refreshes in the browser, but all working.
I did find that straight afterwards, search performance was not as I expected. About 15 minutes later, performance resumed. On our system it started a crawl as soon as the wizard completed (which completed around 10-15 mins later). Not sure if this is a feature that happens on all installations or not. Might be a warning if you have a larger topology, and a crawl might negatively affect your performance. It may mean that you run the wizard afterwards.
So, today’s early morning lesson is: Runthe Sharepoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard after any change to the SharePoint server.
Now, asset updated, and back to the coffee.
Thanks! Running the Sharepoint Products and Technology wizard fixed the problem. I had re-entered the product key into central admin convert license type, but that didn’t help for my case. Running the wizard did the trick!
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