How to Stop 'Search Service Application' & 'State Service' using PowerShell in SharePoint Server?

Question

How to Stop 'Search Service Application' & 'State Service' using powershell,

Tried Suspend-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceApplication but it's not working still showing status 'Online'.What other ways are there to stop the 'Search Service Application'?

Example:

$ssa = Get-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceApplication -Identity 'Search Service Application'

$ssa | Suspend-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceApplication Similarly, we are not getting output for Dismounting 'State Service', is there any way to stop 'State Service' & 'Search Service Application' in SharePoint Server. We are using SharePoint Server Subscription Edition.

This is urgent, so quick reply is appreciated!

Thank You

Answer 1

Hi @Snehal Sutar ,

Suspends a search service application, pausing all crawls and search operations, to perform a task such as system maintenance:

$ssa = Get-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceApplication -Identity MySSA $ssa | Suspend-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceApplication

Steps to suspension of search service applications:

1. Verify that the user account that is performing this procedure is a member of the Farm Administrators group.
2. Start a SharePoint Management Shell on one of the servers in the farm.
3. At the Microsoft PowerShell command prompt, type the following command(s) to find out if the Search service application is paused. PowerShellCopy

      $ssa.IsPaused() -ne 0
   

   If this command returns False, the Search service application is running. If this command returns True, the Search service application is paused.

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