I'm having a very aggravating problem with windows search server service, happening with MULTIPLE customers, and so far, happening with Server 2012 R2 and Server 2016.
What we have is the windows search service running, with content indexing, and it is indexing a network share folder with files such as word, pdf, txt, etc.
It works fine when it works, the content indexing is fine, but the PROBLEM is that it stops working routinely. I have to RESTART the search service almost daily to fix it. This is a major pain. When it stops working, there are no indication it stops working. The only indication is when someone makes a search, results come up but they are blank. You cannot double click the file, and there is no content info about the file, etc. It ONLY gets fixed by restarting the search service.
I've already done a ton of troubleshooting and rebuilt indexes, and so on and nothing has work. It keeps breaking. Cannot find anything online about this. This seems like a Microsoft server bug that no one knows about, with no solution.
Halp?