How do I disable Office SharePoint Server Search

Question

Dears;

When I rry to Disable Office SharePoint Server Search  from Centarl Administration i got the following error

"An error has occurred while establishing a connection to the server.  When connecting to SQL Server 2005, this failure may be caused by the fact that under the default settings SQL Server does not allow remote connections. (provider: Named Pipes Provider, error: 40 - Could not open a connection to SQL Server) "


Any help??

Answer 1

DEAR MAHMOUD,

plz, use the following command 

1- stsadm -o enumservices:then take service type of Office SharePoint Server Search.

2- like as:stsadm -o provisionservice -action stop -servicetype "Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPWebService, Microsoft.SharePoint, Version=12.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c"

Answer 2

Hi

The reason for this issue might be that SQL server 2005 instance is not configured to accept remote connections.
To configure SQL server 2005 to accept remote connections, please refer to the steps in this blog.
http://sqlservererror-info.blogspot.com/2009/07/error-has-occurred-while-establishing.html

If you would like to go with Ahmed Madany’s tip, please make sure you have the correct syntax based on this reference.

Provisionservice: Stsadm operation (Office SharePoint Server)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262031.aspx

Hope it will be helpful to you.