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The error being returned in the UI was the usual ubiquitous message that simply said ‘Sorry, something went wrong.’ and ‘Search has encountered a problem …’ – very, very helpful messages. The error being thrown in Event Viewer and in the ULS logs was as follows:
What does Microsoft forms say when something went wrong?
Microsoft Forms shows the following error for all users in a SharePoint Online tenant: Sorry, something went wrong. You may see the following error in a web traffic trace captured when the error occurs: Required resource is disabled. Inner Message: AADSTS500014: The service principal for resource ‘https://lists.office.com’ is disabled.
How to reproduce the ” something went wrong ” error?
For more information about the deprecation of Site Content and Structure, see the Office support article Features enabled in a SharePoint Online publishing site. The steps to reproduce the error are as follows: Navigate to the Site Pages Library. Create a new Site Page. Insert the Pages library web part on the page.
How to reset the search index in SharePoint?
The cache is now refreshed so that just leaves the search index to reset. To reset the search index, go into Central Administration / Application Management / Manage service applications. Scroll down the list until you find Search Service Application and click on it to open. On the left hand side, click the Content Sources link.
In simplistic terms, this is basically saying that the SharePoint search index and the local configuration cache on the server are out of sync. I then went into the Search Service Application within Central Administration and I saw that there was a warning sign under Index Partition. So there was definitely something wrong with the search index.
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