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The search application for 'SharedServices' on server [SERVERNAME] is not provisioned.

Happy New Year All,

I stumbled into an error "The search application for 'SharedServices' on server [SERVERNAME] is not provisioned. Confirm that the Windows SharePoint Services Timer service and Windows SharePoint Services Administration service are running on the server" when I tried to open search settings from my SSP site.

After some little reasearch on the Internet, I came to find that most likely the config database cache was corrupt, and to resolve this, I had to clear the cache.

So here is how I went about it:

1. Central Administration > Operations > Global Configuration > Timer job definitions > Application Server Administration Service Timer Job > Disable.

2. Then open windows administrative services (services.msc), stop Windows SharePoint Services Timer (aka OWSTIMER)

3. Navigate to C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\SharePoint\Config\GUID and delete only the XML files from the directory, then open the cache.ini and change the number in it to 1.

4. Start the OWSTIMER and give it a few seconds so that the new XML files from the location you deleted then are re-populated.

5. Central Administration > Operations > Global Configuration > Timer job definitions > Application Server Administration Service Timer Job > Enable.

and your search settings should now be accessible.

Thanks to Joe Rodgers for pointing me in the right direction.
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