I had just installed SharePoint 2010 and wanted to work with the Business Connectivity Service. As soon as I tried to create the external data source in SP2010 I got the error "BDC Metadata Store is Currently Unavailable." I found this
post. This seemed to indicate that I needed to install the patch found here. I'm sure I probably needed it, but even after installing it I still got the error.
Finally I went into Central Administration to Application Management. I selected Manager Service Applications and selected the current Business Data Connectivity entry and deleted it. Then I created a new one and everything was working in SPD 2010 and I no longer got the error.
On my server, the Business Data Connectivity Service did not even exist. After creating it, the error was resolved. Thanks for the information!
ReplyDeleteI had to specifically address my application server that was running the bcs service to get this working. When I referenced the web server it wouldn't work.
ReplyDeleteSo:
Connecting to SPWEB1 gave me the error.
Connection to SPAPP1 works fine.
Cheers,
Xopher