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SharePoint 2013: The search service is not able to connect to the machine that hosts the administration component

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The search service is not able to connect to the machine that hosts the administration component. Verify that the administration component ‘GUID′ in search application ‘Search Service Application’ is in a good state and try again.

Cause: Search admin timer job was disabled

Analysis: Execute below PS command in SharePoint Management Shell for verification of cause of this issue

Get-SPTimerJob job-application-server-admin-service | fl

It will return IsDisabled: True (See below screen)
 

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Solution: Execute PowerShell command in SharePoint Management Shell to fix this issue

Enable-SPTimerJob job-application-server-admin-service

Now it will return IsDisabled: False

To verify it, execute the command

Get-SPTimerJob job-application-server-admin-service | fl

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Restart SharePoint Timer Service

IISRESET