Search in SharePoint does not work after running SharePoint Proccessing Wizard to process the server. Error message in the crawl log after the processingof migrated users: Error in the Site Data Web Service
Migration Manager is using the same API as Microsofts stsadm.exe utility that can be used to migrate users. There is a known issue with this API described in the following Microsoft article:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/941422
To resolve the problem, download and install the update pack wss-kb941422-fullfile-x86-glb.exe from the link above
Also check the following link for additional procedures after installing the upgrade :
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sharepointadmin/thread/556d0e5d-bd1f-4478-acfc-9a2c9ef873cc/
You can use the following stsadm commands to finalize the solution against any remaining site collections that still display the Error:
1. stsadm -o export -url <URL to be exported> -filename <export file name> -versions 2
2. Delete the site collection. Then, run a import using the following command:
3. stsadm -o import -url <URL to be Imported> -filename <import file name> -updateversions 2 -nofilecompression
Note: Do not use the command switch -includeusersecurity. Some customers, rightfully so, will use this by default when doing a export/import. However, in this instance, when issuing the -includeusersecurity switch, you are effectively bringing the short user SIDs back over into the site collection. When doing so, after issuing a full crawl, you will note that the error will still appear in the crawl logs.
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