The Managed Metadata Service or Connection is currently not available. The Application Pool or Managed Metadata Web Service may not have been started. Please Contact your Administrator.
The steps to resolve this (for me) were :
- Central Admin > Manage services on server
- Make sure the Managed Metadata Web Service is “started”. Click Start if it’s not.
- Back to Application Management > Manage service applications
- Same error (!!)
- Check if the Application Pool is running – in IIS Manager
- Make sure the AppPool is started
- Back to Central Admin > Manage service applications
- Same error (!!)
- Just as a guess/hunch – I did an IISRESET and it worked!!.