Error in crawling User Profiles in SharePoint 2010 Beta

While setting up Search in SharePoint 2010. I faced this problem that the user profile were not being crawled. I got the following error

“Error in Portal Crawl Web Service” when I checked the logs I got the following message

“PortalCrawl.GetSite(): System.UnauthorizedAccessException: Attempted to perform an unauthorized operation. At Microsoft.Office.Server.Administration.UserProfileApplicationProxy.DemandAdministrationAccess(UserProfileApplicationAdminRights rights) at Microsoft.SharePoint.Portal.Search.PortalCrawl.PortalCrawl.GetSite(_PortalSite& sSite).”

It seemed to be permission related issue so I opened the Central Admin site and checked the Permissions on the Search Service Application to make sure that my service account has permissions on the Service Application.

Then I went to the Web Application UserPolicy settings (Central Admin -> Security -> User Policy for Web application) and gave my Content access account full control on the Web Application which hosted my site. But after doing all this also I was not able to successful y crawl the User Profiles.

Then I went to Search Service Application -> Content sources and removed the path for User Profile crawl (“sps3://”) from “Local SharePoint Sites” content source and created a new content source called People. Then I changed the path for UserProfile crawl to include ’/my ’ . So now the new path that I added to the content source was “sps3:///my” . I also changed the Crawl Settings from “Crawl everything under the hostname for each start address” to “Only crawl the Site Collection of each start address”.

Then I ran a full crawl and it worked :)

So now if you face a problem in crawling User Profiles in SHarePoint 2010 ..you know what to do.