I was chatting today with ఆగ్నెస్ మోల్నార్ (నేను హంగేరి లో తెలుసు తెలుసు వ్యక్తి) about a strange search configuration problem. Namely, search was missing from the "services on server" ప్రదర్శించడానికి (ద్వారా సెంట్రల్ అడ్మిన్ -> ఆపరేషన్స్ -> సర్వర్ సేవలు).

నేను కలిసి నా సొంత మెషీన్లో ఒక క్రియాత్మక VM వద్ద ఒక లుక్ కలిగి మరియు, we determined that search was not installed on that server. There are probably a few ways to do this, but we did it by confirming that "Office SharePoint Server Search" was missing from the list of services via Start -> Administrative Tools -> Services.

Oddly, the associated .exe *was* on the server ("C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office Servers\12.0\Bin\mssearch.exe").

I did a quick search and found this blog entry: http://msmvps.com/blogs/obts/archive/2006/10/19/189466.aspx

That’s an email chain with this key point:

"I solved this problem. It was my mistake. I choose "Web front end" instead of "Complete" during install."

This was promising, but we weren’t sure if the installer had actually picked WFE instead of complete when installing MOSS.

We checked for the first (earliest) version of the PSCDiagnostics* file in the 12 hive log directory and in there, we found that the installer had, నిజానికి, configured this server to be a web front end. End of story and it had a happy ending.

(సంవేర్ లైన్ వెంట, Bob Fox got involved, but all I remember him contributing to the discussion was a comment about Fable 2).

అప్డేట్: Agnes blogs about this subject here: http://dotneteers.net/blogs/aghy/archive/2008/11/06/wfe-vs-complete-installation.aspx

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