SharePoint 2010 Event ID 6482 Application Server Administration job failed for service instance Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Administration.SearchServiceInstance

Have you ever seen this error in your ULS and wondered what it was?

SharePoint 2010 Event ID 6482 Application Server Administration job failed for service instance Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Administration.SearchServiceInstance

I used to always ignore it because although it showed up once a minute in the logs SharePoint Search worked fine.


I got curious about it and decided to do some digging which lead me to this great article by Jeff DeVerter that explained what the issue was and how to resolve it.


And now thanks to Jeff, my ULS has been error free for 3 days!