INTRODUCTION

Hi guys, I just tried to install Search Service Application today but whenever I went to the administration page I get the following error message:

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The search service is not able to connect to the machine that hosts the administration component. Verify that the administration component ‘bae8d161-c132-4570-aa0d-57baf6cf9d9b’ in search application ‘Search Service Application’ is in a good state and try again.”

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Please note that the GUID may be different from yours.

RESOLUTION

In the end it turns out to be that the application pool that hosts the search service application somehow doesn’t have the correct access.

Some people suggested that I rebuilt my farm but as a simpler solution you can simply change the application pool to use SharePoint Web Services System. This should fix it.

Or alternatively you can create a new application that uses the same account as the SharePoint Web Service System’s.

Hope this helps,

Tommy