People search yielding no results in spite of a successful User Profile Synchronization?

Question

I have used the sharepoint farm configuration wizard to setup all services under spfarm account and everything works fine. However I am having trouble with Searching for people. Here is the link I have followed: http://www.dotnetfunda.com/articles/article1259-enterprise-people-search-in-sharepoint-2010.aspx

Although I have run a successful User Profile Synchronization, I get the following error while checking the crawl log:

What am I missing?

Answer 1

Two things, the start address for Profiles should be sps3://mysitehost. The permissions on the User Profile Service for the default crawl account has to be allowed to "Retrieve People Data for Search Crawlers". Go to Central Administration | Application Management | Manage Service Applications. Select the User Profile Service Application (don't click the link just select the app). Choose Administrators from the ribbon. Add the Crawl Account and check "Retrieve People Data for Search Crawlers.

Rerun the crawl. M

Answer 2

Add a brand new crawl job and do a full crawl.