SharePoint 2013: Configure Search using PowerShell (Part 1 of 2)

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1/17/2024

Configuring the Multi Farm SharePoint 2013 Search Service application

Application pool

The first step is to create an Application Pool which will be used by search service application:

 

               $appPool = New-SPServiceApplicationPool -name "ssaAppPool" -account contoso\girish

Start the search service instance on all the servers (WFE and Application server)


 

      $host    1 = Get-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceInstance -Identity "GIRISHDSCS-APP1"
      $host    2 = Get-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceInstance -Identity "GIRISHDSCS-APP2"
      $host    3 = Get-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceInstance -Identity "GIRISHDSCS-WEB1"
      $host    4 = Get-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceInstance -Identity "GIRISHDSCS-WEB2"
   
      Start-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceInstance -Identity $host    1  
      Start-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceInstance -Identity $host    2  
      Start-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceInstance -Identity $host    3  
      Start-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceInstance -Identity $host    4

Start the search query and site settings service instance on the Application server:


 

      $host    1    = Get-SPEnterpriseSearchQueryAndSiteSettingsServiceInstance -Identity     'GIRISHDSCS-APP1'  
      $host    2    = Get-SPEnterpriseSearchQueryAndSiteSettingsServiceInstance -Identity     'GIRISHDSCS-APP2'  
   
      Start-SPEnterpriseSearchQueryAndSiteSettingsServiceInstance $host    1  
      Start-SPEnterpriseSearchQueryAndSiteSettingsServiceInstance $host    2

Set the custom index location


 

      $indexPath =     "path of the custom index location"  
      $searchServiceInstance    1 = Get-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceInstance -Identity "GIRISHDSCS-APP1"
      $searchServiceInstance    1 | Set-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceInstance -DefaultIndexLocation $indexPath
      $searchServiceInstance    2 = Get-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceInstance -Identity "GIRISHDSCS-APP2"
      $searchServiceInstance    2 | Set-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceInstance -DefaultIndexLocation $indexPath
      $searchServiceInstance    3 = Get-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceInstance -Identity "GIRISHDSCS-WEB1"
      $searchServiceInstance    4 | Set-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceInstance -DefaultIndexLocation $indexPath
      $searchServiceInstance    4 = Get-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceInstance -Identity "GIRISHDSCS-WEB2"
      $searchServiceInstance    4 | Set-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceInstance -DefaultIndexLocation $indexPath

Create the search service application and proxy:

 

      $searchServiceApp = New-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceApplication -Name     "Search Service Application" -ApplicationPool "ssaAppPool" -DatabaseName "SearchServiceApplication_DB"
      $searchServiceAppProxy = New-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceApplicationProxy -Name     "Search Service Application Proxy" -SearchApplication $searchServiceApp

Now the search service application is created as shown:

New search topology

Create the new search topology that is associated with the search service applications:

$searchServiceApplication = Get-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceApplication "Search Service Application"
 
$initialTopology = Get-SPEnterpriseSearchTopology -SearchApplication $searchServiceApplication -Active
 
$newSearchTopology = New-SPEnterpriseSearchTopology -SearchApplication $searchServiceApplication -Clone -SearchTopology $initialTopology

Search admin components

Create the search admin components

New-SPEnterpriseSearchAdminComponent -SearchTopology $newSearchTopology -SearchServiceInstance $host1
New-SPEnterpriseSearchCrawlComponent -SearchTopology $newSearchTopology -SearchServiceInstance $host1
New-SPEnterpriseSearchContentProcessingComponent -SearchTopology $newSearchTopology -SearchServiceInstance $host1
New-SPEnterpriseSearchAnalyticsProcessingComponent -SearchTopology $newSearchTopology -SearchServiceInstance $host1
New-SPEnterpriseSearchQueryProcessingComponent -SearchTopology $newSearchTopology -SearchServiceInstance $host2
New-SPEnterpriseSearchIndexComponent -SearchTopology $newSearchTopology -SearchServiceInstance $host2
New-SPEnterpriseSearchAdminComponent -SearchTopology $newSearchTopology -SearchServiceInstance $host3
New-SPEnterpriseSearchCrawlComponent -SearchTopology $newSearchTopology -SearchServiceInstance $host3
New-SPEnterpriseSearchContentProcessingComponent -SearchTopology $newSearchTopology -SearchServiceInstance $host3
New-SPEnterpriseSearchAnalyticsProcessingComponent -SearchTopology $newSearchTopology -SearchServiceInstance $host3
New-SPEnterpriseSearchQueryProcessingComponent -SearchTopology $newSearchTopology -SearchServiceInstance $host4
New-SPEnterpriseSearchIndexComponent -SearchTopology $newSearchTopology -SearchServiceInstance $host4 -IndexPartition 0

Activate the search topology:

   


      Set-SPEnterpriseSearchTopology -Identity $newSearchTopology  
      $initialTopology = Get-SPEnterpriseSearchTopology -SearchApplication $searchServiceApplication | ? {($_.State) -eq     "Inactive"    }   
      Remove-SPEnterpriseSearchTopology -Identity $initialTopology -Confirm:$false

The search topology will be as follows:

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