The Content Index status of all or most of the mailbox databases in the environment may show “Failed.”Symptom 2The Application log may display the following events:Log Name: ApplicationSource: MSExchangeFastSearchEvent ID: 1009Task Category: GeneralLevel: WarningKeywords: ClassicUser: N/ADescription:The indexing of mailbox database DB6 encountered an unexpected exception. Error details: Microsoft.Exchange.Search.Core.Abstraction.OperationFailedException: The component operation has failed. — Microsoft.Exchange.Search.Fast.FastConnectionException: Connection to the Content Submission Service has failed.
— Microsoft.Ceres.External.ContentApi.ConnectionException: Given CSS specification failed:Could not connect to CSS node at net.tcp://localhost:17028/ContentSubmissionServices/content with flow: Microsoft.Exchange.Search.Writer.12.14. Error: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
We have Infrastructure Agent 1.0.292 installed on a 2008 R2 server and it seems to be causing MsiInstaller to spam the Application log for just about every windows process, continuously until the service is stopped. Event ID 1013 — Windows Installer Service Availability. Updated: December 16, 2008. Applies To: Windows Server 2008 R2. The Windows Installer service is an operating system component that centrally manages application installation and configuration tasks, and also the process of uninstalling applications.
%ExchangeInstallPath%BinSearchCeresHostControllerDataNodesFsis NODENAMEConfigurationLocalHere, “%ExchangeInstallPath%” is the Exchange installation root path (available in the environment variable of that name), and the placeholder NODENAME represents one of the following names. (There is one name for each of the four files that are to be edited.).
AdminNode1. ContentEngineNode1. IndexNode1.
Event Id 1013 W3svc
InteractionEngineNode1These are text files. You can use Notepad or any other convenient plain text editor to change them.
Make sure that you make only the change that is described here.Each file contains at most one line that contains the following:ContentSubmittersRemove this line, and then save the file. Repeat this operation for each of the four files, and then restart the Microsoft Exchange Search Host Controller service.