SearchServer2008Express Search Webservice
- by Mike Koerner
I was working on calling the Search Server 2008 Express search webservice from Powershell. I kept getting <ResponsePacket xmlns="urn:Microsoft.Search.Response"><Response domain=""><Status>ERROR_NO_RESPONSE</Status><DebugErrorMessage>The search request was unable to connect to the Search Service.</DebugErrorMessage></Response></ResponsePacket>I checked the user authorization, the webservice search status, even the WSDL. Turns out the URL for the SearchServer2008 search webservice was incorrect. I was calling $URI= "http://ss2008/_vti_bin/spsearch.asmx?WSDL"and it should have been$URI= "http://ss2008/_vti_bin/search.asmx?WSDL"Here is my sample powershell script:# WSS Documentation http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb862916.aspx$error.clear()#Bad SearchServer2008Express Search URL $URI= "http://ss2008/_vti_bin/spsearch.asmx?WSDL"#Good SearchServer2008Express Search URL $URI= "http://ss2008/_vti_bin/search.asmx?WSDL"$search = New-WebServiceProxy -uri $URI -namespace WSS -class Search -UseDefaultCredential $queryXml = "<QueryPacket Revision='1000'> <Query > <SupportedFormats> <Format revision='1'>urn:Microsoft.Search.Response.Document.Document</Format> </SupportedFormats> <Context> <QueryText language='en-US' type='MSSQLFT'>SELECT Title, Path, Description, Write, Rank, Size FROM Scope() WHERE CONTAINS('Microsoft')</QueryText> <!--<QueryText language='en-US' type='TEXT'>Microsoft</QueryText> --> </Context> </Query></QueryPacket>" $statusResponse = $search.Status()write-host '$statusResponse:' $statusResponse $GetPortalSearchInfo = $search.GetPortalSearchInfo()write-host '$GetPortalSearchInfo:' $GetPortalSearchInfo $queryResult = $search.Query($queryXml)write-host '$queryResult:' $queryResult
