Access denied while crawling sps3://domain in SharePoint

By Santhosh N

This explains how to configure SharePoint server correctly to avoid access denied messages while crawling content of the site.

Follow these steps to configure SharePoint server correctly

• Go to the Manage Service Applications page.
• Select the User Profile Service Application.
• Click on the Administrators button.
• Add your crawl / indexing account.
• Give it the permission: Retrieve People Data for Search Crawlers
• Click Ok

This will solve the problem of access denied messages and now perform full crawl of your content sources. You should not see any more “access denied” messages.

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