{"id":1427,"date":"2015-01-11T05:27:46","date_gmt":"2015-01-11T05:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmman.itgroove.net\/?p=1427"},"modified":"2023-02-24T21:39:48","modified_gmt":"2023-02-24T21:39:48","slug":"sharepoint-2013-moving-the-search-index-partition-to-the-wfe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regroove.ca\/archive\/2015\/01\/11\/sharepoint-2013-moving-the-search-index-partition-to-the-wfe\/","title":{"rendered":"SharePoint 2013 Moving the Search Index Partition to the WFE"},"content":{"rendered":"

Following up on my last post “SharePoint 2013 Moving the Search Query Component to a WFE<\/a>“, again, I’ve used a variety of others (blog) posts to do this in the past, some of which have gone offline and as such, I wanted to keep track of how to do this for myself, so I’ve gone ahead and grabbed the PowerShell from the following blog post.<\/p>\n

Once again, a great many thanks to Steve Mann for this post, and I truly appreciate your efforts in figuring out the proper PowerShell to do this correctly.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/stevemannspath.blogspot.ca\/2013\/03\/sharepoint-2013-search-moving-query.html<\/a><\/p>\n

Step #1: Get the Search Service Instance and Start on the WFE<\/strong>
\n#Get Search Service Instance and Start on WFE
\n$ssi = Get-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceInstance -Identity “[[WFE Server Name]]<\/span>”
\nStart-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceInstance -Identity $ssi<\/span><\/p>\n

Step #2: Wait for the Search Service to Come Online<\/strong>
\nGet-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceInstance -Identity $ssi<\/span><\/p>\n

Step #3: Clone the Active Search Topology<\/strong>
\n#Clone Active Search Topology
\n$ssa = Get-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceApplication
\n$active = Get-SPEnterpriseSearchTopology -SearchApplication $ssa -Active
\n$clone = New-SPEnterpriseSearchTopology -SearchApplication $ssa -Clone \u2013SearchTopology $active<\/span><\/p>\n

Step #4: Create the New Index Component on the WFE <\/strong>
\n#Create New Index Component for Index Partition 0
\nNew-SPEnterpriseSearchIndexComponent \u2013SearchTopology $clone -SearchServiceInstance $ssi -IndexPartition 0 <\/span>
\n-RootDirectory “E:\\SPIndex”<\/span><\/p>\n

Ahead of time, a folder named SPIndex was created on the E: drive of the WFE. Modify this for your own location.<\/p>\n

Step #5: Activate the Cloned Search Topology with the New Index Component<\/strong>
\n#Activate the Cloned Search Topology
\nSet-SPEnterpriseSearchTopology -Identity $clone<\/span><\/p>\n

Step #6: Monitor the Distribution of the Index<\/strong>
\nGet-SPEnterpriseSearchStatus -SearchApplication $ssa<\/span><\/p>\n

Step #7: Clone the Active Search Topology Again<\/strong>
\n# Clone Again
\n$ssa = Get-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceApplication
\n$active = Get-SPEnterpriseSearchTopology -SearchApplication $ssa -Active
\n$clone = New-SPEnterpriseSearchTopology -SearchApplication $ssa -Clone \u2013SearchTopology $active<\/span><\/p>\n

Step #8: Get the ID of the Index Component to Remove<\/strong>
\n# Get the Index Search Component ID To Remove
\n$indexComponentID = (Get-SPEnterpriseSearchComponent -SearchTopology $clone -Identity IndexComponent3).componentID<\/span><\/p>\n

**Note** in this instance, the component was IndexComponent3 – yours may be different.
\nUse Get-SPEnterpriseSearchStatus -SearchApplication $ssa <\/span>to see which components you have.<\/span><\/p>\n

Step #9:\u00a0Remove the original Index Component<\/strong>
\n# Remove Search Component
\nRemove-SPEnterpriseSearchComponent -Identity $indexComponentID.GUID -SearchTopology $clone -confirm:$false<\/span><\/p>\n

In this case there was two components on two servers so steps #8 and #9 were repeated.<\/p>\n

Step #10: Activate Search Topology Again<\/strong>
\n# Activate\u00a0 Search Topology Again
\nSet-SPEnterpriseSearchTopology -Identity $clone<\/span><\/p>\n

Step #11: Monitor the Distribution of the Index (this time it should be instantaneous)<\/strong>
\nGet-SPEnterpriseSearchStatus -SearchApplication $ssa
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

Once Again, all the credit to Steve Mann, much appreciated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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