Start SharePoint Search Crawl using PowerShell
For some reasons, SharePoint search crawl scheduled didn’t trigger. So I used this PowerShell script and Windows Task scheduler to trigger Incremental crawls.
Start SharePoint Search Full/Incremental Crawl using PowerShell:
Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.SharePoint.Powershell -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
#Get the search service application
$SSA = Get-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceApplication -Identity "Search Service Application"
#Get the Local SharePoint sites content source
$ContentSource = $SSA | Get-SPEnterpriseSearchCrawlContentSource -Identity "Local SharePoint sites"
#Check if Crawler is not already running
if($ContentSource.CrawlState -eq "Idle")
{
Write-Host "Starting Incremental Crawl..."
$ContentSource.StartIncrementalCrawl()
#$ContentSource.StartFullCrawl();
#$ContentSource.PauseCrawl()
#$ContentSource.StopCrawl()
}
else
{
Write-Host "Another Crawl is already running!"
Write-Host "NAME: ", $ContentSource.Name, " - ", $ContentSource.CrawlStatus
}
We can also start / stop Search crawls in SharePoint 2013 or in SharePoint 2010 using this single line of PowerShell script:
Get-SPEnterpriseSearchCrawlContentSource -SearchApplication "Search Service Application" | where-object { ($_.Name -eq "Local SharePoint Sites") -and ($_.CrawlStatus -eq "idle") } | foreach { $_.StartIncrementalCrawl() }
Start Incremental Crawl in MOSS 2007 using PowerShell:
[void] [System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("Microsoft.SharePoint")
[void] [System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("Microsoft.Office.Server")
[void] [System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("Microsoft.Office.Server.Search")
$ServerContext = [Microsoft.Office.Server.ServerContext]::Default
$context = [Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Administration.SearchContext]::GetContext($ServerContext)
$SSPContent = new-object Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Administration.Content($context)
$SSPContentSources = $SSPContent.ContentSources
foreach ($ContentSource in $SSPContentSources)
{
if ($ContentSource.Name -eq "Local Office SharePoint Server sites")
{
Write-Host "NAME: ", $ContentSource.Name, " - ", $ContentSource.CrawlStatus
if ($ContentSource.CrawlStatus -eq [Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Administration.CrawlStatus]::Idle)
{
Write-Host "Starting Incremental crawl"
$ContentSource.StartIncrementalCrawl();
}
else
{
Write-Host "Another Crawl is already running!"
}
}
}
This was helpful when user came with an requirement to run incremental crawl for each 15 min!
Hi there,
Thank you for posting this solution! Quick question: Do any of these PowerShell script adhere to the exclusion rules set on the content source in SharePoint Central Administration?
Yes! The Central Admin Crawl rules take precedence.
Thank you! I actually have a use case for trying to use PowerShell initiate a SP crawl and to bypass the exclusion rules set in central administration. Do you know if there is a way to do this via PowerShell?
Many thanks.