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  • This is a test SharePoint 2019 MinRole farm with 2 servers (1 App with Search, 2 Front-End with Distributed Cache).

  • In Central Administration I see the yellow warning under Index Partition 0 since it was set up.

  • When running Get-SPEnterpriseSearchStatus -SearchApplication $ssa |ft -Autosize Name, State, Details IndexComponent State shows Degraded.

  • If I change the Windows Service SearchHostController Service Account in Central Admin from the "services" account to the "farm" account, this issue will get fixed.

  • I have checked all permissions to make sure they are correct.

Any idea about how to resolve this issue with the account used to run SearchHostController?

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    Services account need to have policy rights: "Run as Service", has it ? You can try to add this account to Server Administrators, if it works too, if yes, there will be only some rights problem. Try it please
    – Zdeněk Vinduška
    Mar 7, 2019 at 13:39
  • @ZdeněkVinduška Added "services" account to the Server Administrators and State changed from Degraded to Active. As I can not leave this account in the admin group, I need to find out what permission it is missing so it can work properly for the IndexComponent as for the other components. Any ideas?Thank you very much.
    – MLC
    Mar 7, 2019 at 20:22
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    policy right - Run As Service - for windows service of search, add this account as Admininstartor - Go to CA > Service Applications > Select Search Service Application > in ribbon Permission > add account with full control
    – Zdeněk Vinduška
    Mar 7, 2019 at 22:25
  • 1- "services" account already had "Log on as a service" in the server's Local Security Policy. 2- Added "services" with Full Control under Permissions in Search Service Application 3- removed the account from the Server's administrator group in Active Directory.
    – MLC
    Mar 8, 2019 at 20:21
  • I added answer, you can mark it as correct :) your will be probably deleted cause it "thank youL answer
    – Zdeněk Vinduška
    Mar 8, 2019 at 20:38

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  1. policy right - Run As Service - for windows service of search
  2. add this account as Admininstartor - Go to CA > Service Applications > Select Search Service Application > in ribbon Permission > add account with full control

Hope it helps!

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Assigning Modify permissions for the "services" account at the folder level on the server on D:\SearchIndex (where the index partition is located) fixed the Degraded State.

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