SharePoint for Squirrels - by Natalya Voskresenskaya [MVP]: SharePoint search does not crawl People profiles or Error in PortalCrawl Web Service

I was having trouble moving an Index server and getting an error while trying to crawl the user profiles.

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SharePoint for Squirrels - by Natalya Voskresenskaya [MVP]: SharePoint search does not crawl People profiles or Error in PortalCrawl Web Service