Create A Search Service Application Part- 3 (People search)

Please follow the following articles published by me showing how to create a search service application and content sources in SharePoint 2013.

• Search service application part-1
• Search service application part-2

After configuring search application the normal search engine works, but people search do not work.

Here I will explain about how to refrain from this problem.

Now I am going to create an enterprise search center site.



Now the enterprise search center has been created successfully.



Open the site.

Search for some documents it works perfect.



So now I am going to search for people.



Its showing nothing matches your site.

Now open SharePoint central administration page.

Open Search service application.

Open content sources.

Click on create new content source.



Before creating a content source for people search.

Create a root site collection under hostname.

Click create site collection.



So now the root site collection has been create successfully.



Create a content source for searching people.



Add SharePoint protocol handler for searching people.

Use http://winserver/

Instead of http: add sps3:

Now the host name url looks like the following:

Sps3://winserver/



Click Ok to complete.



New content source has been created successfully.

Click on content source and start full crawl.

Open the crawl log then check if any error occurs. Crawled successfully!



Now let us search “vinodh ” again.



It works like a charm!