SHAREPOINT 2013 SEARCH SERVICE APPLICATION CREATION USING POWERSHELL

When we need to create a Search Service using user interface following is the process -

1)      Go to ->Central administration

2)      Go to ->Manage Services on server

3)      Start “SharePoint Server Search” service

4)      Application management -> Manage Service applications

5)      New Service application

6)      Specify accounts + app pool names and proxy servers

7)      We may get errors and time-out exceptions

So we can use POWERSHELL to create and configure SEARCH SERVICE with a single click

• We have to specify INDEX location
• App pool name
• Account to use in search service
• Server name
• Database name
• Proxy name

 Please find the script below, it will run in PowerShell window. Remember to run it as “Administrator” privileges.

# Create a new Search Service Application in SharePoint 2013

Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue

# Settings

$IndexLocation = “C:\SearchFolder\Search15Index” #Location must be empty, will be deleted during the process!

$SearchAppPoolName = “Search App Pool”

$SearchAppPoolAccountName = “DEV\administrator”

$SearchServerName = (Get-ChildItem env:computername).value

$SearchServiceName = “Search15″

$SearchServiceProxyName = “Search15 Proxy”

$DatabaseName = “Search15_ADminDB”

Write-Host -ForegroundColor Yellow “Checking if Search Application Pool exists”

$SPAppPool = Get-SPServiceApplicationPool -Identity $SearchAppPoolName -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue

if (!$SPAppPool)

{

   Write-Host -ForegroundColor Green “Creating Search Application Pool”

   $spAppPool = New-SPServiceApplicationPool -Name $SearchAppPoolName -Account $SearchAppPoolAccountName -Verbose

}

# Start Services search service instance

Write-host “Start Search Service instances….”

Start-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceInstance $SearchServerName -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue

Start-SPEnterpriseSearchQueryAndSiteSettingsServiceInstance $SearchServerName -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue

Write-Host -ForegroundColor Yellow “Checking if Search Service Application exists”

$ServiceApplication = Get-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceApplication -Identity $SearchServiceName -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue

if (!$ServiceApplication)

{

   Write-Host -ForegroundColor Green “Creating Search Service Application”

   $ServiceApplication = New-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceApplication -Partitioned -Name $SearchServiceName -ApplicationPool $spAppPool.Name -DatabaseName $DatabaseName

}

Write-Host -ForegroundColor Yellow “Checking if Search Service Application Proxy exists”

$Proxy = Get-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceApplicationProxy -Identity $SearchServiceProxyName -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue

if (!$Proxy)

{

   Write-Host -ForegroundColor Green “Creating Search Service Application Proxy”

   New-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceApplicationProxy -Partitioned -Name $SearchServiceProxyName -SearchApplication $ServiceApplication

}

$ServiceApplication.ActiveTopology

Write-Host $ServiceApplication.ActiveTopology

# Clone the default Topology (which is empty) and create a new one and then activate it

Write-Host “Configuring Search Component Topology….”

$clone = $ServiceApplication.ActiveTopology.Clone()

$SSI = Get-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceInstance -local

New-SPEnterpriseSearchAdminComponent –SearchTopology $clone -SearchServiceInstance $SSI

New-SPEnterpriseSearchContentProcessingComponent –SearchTopology $clone -SearchServiceInstance $SSI

New-SPEnterpriseSearchAnalyticsProcessingComponent –SearchTopology $clone -SearchServiceInstance $SSI

New-SPEnterpriseSearchCrawlComponent –SearchTopology $clone -SearchServiceInstance $SSI

Remove-Item -Recurse -Force -LiteralPath $IndexLocation -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue

mkdir -Path $IndexLocation -Force

New-SPEnterpriseSearchIndexComponent –SearchTopology $clone -SearchServiceInstance $SSI -RootDirectory $IndexLocation

New-SPEnterpriseSearchQueryProcessingComponent –SearchTopology $clone -SearchServiceInstance $SSI

$clone.Activate()

Write-host “The Search Service Application $SearchServiceName is now ready”