Access Denied Crawling sps3 Content Source in SharePoint 2013

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No User Profiles Being Crawled

Another quick one. You might notice that no user profiles are being found when you search for them. If you take a look at crawl logs, you’ll probably this error in the crawl logs and think it’s related.

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You’d be right – no profiles & this error are very much related.

It’s a simple fix however; the search account just need access to the user profile application as profile data isn’t normal HTTP so your web security policy for the crawler account doesn’t have any effect.

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Add the search account & give permissions to retrieve data only.

Crawl again and profiles should start to show up in search results.

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Yes, that is a real kitten. She’s a bit bigger now.

 

Cheers,

Sam Betts