I am unable to crawl content in my SP 2013 farm... I am receiving the following Access Denied message in the event viewer/windows logs, any ideas? What is being denied access to what? Why would this error only show on one of my two index servers? Must be local access I am missing for the crawl or search account..

System.UnauthorizedAccessException: Access is denied. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80070005 (E_ACCESSDENIED)) at Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Administration.SearchServiceInstance.Synchronize() at Microsoft.Office.Server.Administration.ApplicationServerJob.ProvisionLocalSharedServiceInstances(Boolean isAdministrationServiceJob)


Log Name:      Application
Source:        Microsoft-SharePoint Products-SharePoint Server
Date:          1/13/2014 11:06:28 AM
Event ID:      6482
Task Category: Shared Services
Level:         Error
Keywords:      
User:          LENNOXEXTERNALQ\nh_spqasp_farm
Computer:      RCHSPAPT2.lennoxexternal.QA
Description:
Application Server Administration job failed for service instance Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Administration.SearchServiceInstance (35c42e9e-138a-469a-9342-edb2f3f443e5).

Reason: Access is denied. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80070005 (E_ACCESSDENIED))

Technical Support Details:
System.UnauthorizedAccessException: Access is denied. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80070005 (E_ACCESSDENIED))
   at Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Administration.SearchServiceInstance.Synchronize()
   at Microsoft.Office.Server.Administration.ApplicationServerJob.ProvisionLocalSharedServiceInstances(Boolean isAdministrationServiceJob)
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
  <System>
    <Provider Name="Microsoft-SharePoint Products-SharePoint Server" Guid="{C33B4F2A-64E9-4B39-BD72-F0C2F27A619A}" />
    <EventID>6482</EventID>
    <Version>15</Version>
    <Level>2</Level>
    <Task>3</Task>
    <Opcode>0</Opcode>
    <Keywords>0x4000000000000000</Keywords>
    <TimeCreated SystemTime="2014-01-13T17:06:28.549170300Z" />
    <EventRecordID>63675</EventRecordID>
    <Correlation ActivityID="{E4EB699C-626C-401B-1B83-09D060CCAB7B}" />
    <Execution ProcessID="4272" ThreadID="3132" />
    <Channel>Application</Channel>
    <Computer>RCHSPAPT2.lennoxexternal.QA</Computer>
    <Security UserID="S-1-5-21-3318176949-3268708859-1676841823-1130" />
  </System>
  <EventData>
    <Data Name="string0">Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Administration.SearchServiceInstance</Data>
    <Data Name="string1">35c42e9e-138a-469a-9342-edb2f3f443e5</Data>
    <Data Name="string2">Access is denied. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80070005 (E_ACCESSDENIED))</Data>
    <Data Name="string3">System.UnauthorizedAccessException: Access is denied. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80070005 (E_ACCESSDENIED))
   at Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Administration.SearchServiceInstance.Synchronize()
   at Microsoft.Office.Server.Administration.ApplicationServerJob.ProvisionLocalSharedServiceInstances(Boolean isAdministrationServiceJob)</Data>
  </EventData>
</Event>

LENNOXEXTERNALQ\nh_spqasp_farm should have atleast "Read" Access to all the contents being crawled. Please check if the user has those permissions.

Hi Rick,

Please try adding the search service account on that index server local administrator group and see if it is related to permission issue.

Please also try to disable the loopback check for that one SharePoint index server, see if it helps.

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/sharepoint/en-US/9d489ad7-0f2c-4daf-bee1-9deff01b1114/sharepoint-2013-search-not-workingnot-crawling?forum=sharepointsearch

If it still doesn't work, please check if there are some other Event IDs/errors along with this event 6482, and also check the SharePoint ULS log about this error see if we can get more useful information.

Thanks