Tuesday, July 24, 2012

SharePoint 2013 – Unable to retrieve topology component health states…

 

I’ve just started playing with the SharePoint 2013 preview –

I had an issue provisioning the search service application in that the Search Service Application Administrative interface in Central Administration was reporting a “Unable to retrieve topology component health states.  This may be because the admin component is not up and running.”

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At this stage, it’s a single server farm.  It was a fresh build of Server 2008 R2 SP1 and the server is not a domain controller or hosting SQL.

Initially I did miss a couple of additional hot fixes required after the pre-requisite installer (see step 6 in this article or grab them below)

  • KB 2554876

  • KB 2708075

  • KB 2472264

     

    After installing these hot fixes, i was still getting the same issue…

    I managed to resolve it by simply running windows update and installing all patches/hotfixes reported as critical.

    Once this had been done (and a reboot or two later) the problem was resolved!

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    The updates in installed are below (so it’s one or more of them?)

     

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  • 3 comments:

    1. Yeah this is great unless you are using Windows 2012, then this doesnt fix anything

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    2. Awesome post mate !!!!

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    3. Guys - I ran into this issue and it took almost a weeks time to fix without reinstalling of SP 2013, but i had to recreate search application multiple times though the problem didn't fixed. Finally using ULS log viewer i noticed that my SharePoint Search Host Controller service / application was running with a different service account, after changing the service account to the same account used for search service account fixed the problem and all issues fixed within minutes.

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