Search engine failure

We have a number of WSS sites running for around 5 months which are pretty
much out-of-the-box with a little customisation in terms of colours, banners
etc. We've just received a report that the search engine has ceased to work,
it doesn't find anything whatever keywords are entered. This is across all
sites and no customisation has been done on the search engine, it certainly
has worked at some stage.

Any ideas?

Engelbert
Tue Mar 28 03:16:40 CST 2006

SharePoint Timer Services has stopped working ? (i.e. check and turn it back
on). It does happen.

(Virus Checker added and blocking port 25 ? Probably not this - usually
affects alerts)

Engelbert

"Mac" <Mac@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:DE93EE77-AE22-4E9B-B94E-F0CC4167B9E2@microsoft.com...
> We have a number of WSS sites running for around 5 months which are pretty
> much out-of-the-box with a little customisation in terms of colours,
> banners
> etc. We've just received a report that the search engine has ceased to
> work,
> it doesn't find anything whatever keywords are entered. This is across all
> sites and no customisation has been done on the search engine, it
> certainly
> has worked at some stage.
>
> Any ideas?

Todd
Tue Mar 28 15:59:01 CST 2006

Trying toggling the Full Text Search option in Sharepoint Central Admin. It
will put everything it needs in place for search to work. You'll need to
wait a couple of hours for the indexes to rebuild after you do that.

tk
"Mac" <Mac@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:DE93EE77-AE22-4E9B-B94E-F0CC4167B9E2@microsoft.com...
> We have a number of WSS sites running for around 5 months which are pretty
> much out-of-the-box with a little customisation in terms of colours,
> banners
> etc. We've just received a report that the search engine has ceased to
> work,
> it doesn't find anything whatever keywords are entered. This is across all
> sites and no customisation has been done on the search engine, it
> certainly
> has worked at some stage.
>
> Any ideas?