When building a farm, use powershell to create your central adminstration site database, configuration database, and all other databases. This will provide your DBA, who often times is yourself, with a cleaner backend environment which will be easier to script backups … Read More
As this great blog on repairing the SharePoint 2013 On-Prem reset index stuck resolution, states it’s best to reset your index using powershell. Sometimes when you search service is paused, you can run
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$ssa = Get-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceApplication “YOUR Search Service Application name here” Resume-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceApplication $ssa |
OR
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$ssa = Get-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceApplication “Search Service Application” $ssa.resume() |
When you want to know what search is up to, check it out with the management shell and these handy hints I copied in from Microsoft Technet – https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn745901(v=office.15).aspx Run this
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$ssa = Get-SPServiceApplication -Name "Search Service Application" $ssa.IsPaused() -ne 0 |
if it returns false, the search … Read More
You can use this script to create a new search service application after you have removed your search service application. WARNING: This creates the search service in an existing application pool named “SharePoint Hosted Services”. Edit the $saAppPoolName, $serviceAppName, and … Read More