Wednesday, August 28, 2013

Search status stuck in “Waiting on Initialization” or “Propagating to query server” messages for a long time

Symptom:

After a P2V process performed on our environment, we found that the indexes were not getting propagated to our Query server (Server01 / Server02).

Within Central Admin, we would see messages like “Waiting on Initialization (Server01) (on Search Admin screen above).

Search propagation would be stuck in this state forever.

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Resolution:

Turns out that “Windows SharePoint Administration Service” was not started on Query server Server01. We have started it:

Propagation2

Once re-started, indexes started getting propagated to the Query server:

Propagation3

2 comments:

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