Cody Konior looks at a couple errors in full-text indexing:
The first error message holds the key. It’s not enough to just enable the service, you need to run that command also (which will also start the service for you as well as doing something internally) or restart SQL Server after the service is enabled.
Here’s where we go to the next level. You now know that full-text indexing can have a problem on startup that isn’t visible externally but surely this could never happen to you, right? But I guarantee you that if you have 500 servers many of them currently have this issue. When a developer or application support person encounters it that’s going to take half an hour or an hour of investigation, then logging incidents, then passing it on to you, for another half hour or hour of investigation, and then more time, and more time, and then doing a root cause analysis, and then sharing it with your team, and then…
Wouldn’t it be so much easier to just write a validation test for this now so that if this ever occurs you can just proactively go fix it? Well you can!
It’s a good read.