{"id":731,"date":"2013-03-15T15:59:36","date_gmt":"2013-03-15T22:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmman.itgroove.net\/?p=731"},"modified":"2023-02-24T21:48:47","modified_gmt":"2023-02-24T21:48:47","slug":"changing-the-sharepoint-2013-search-topology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regroove.ca\/archive\/2013\/03\/15\/changing-the-sharepoint-2013-search-topology\/","title":{"rendered":"Changing the SharePoint 2013 Search Topology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unlike in 2010, where you can change the search topology with a few clicks of your mouse in the UI (found about half way through <a href=\"https:\/\/sharepointsolutions.com\/sharepoint-help\/blog\/2011\/02\/how-to-scale-out-a-sharepoint-2010-farm-from-two-tier-to-three-tier-by-adding-a-dedicated-application-server\">this article<\/a> under the title \u201cAdjusting the Search Application Topology\u201d), SharePoint 2013 does not play as nicely, at least if your mouse is your precious. <\/p>\n<p>In SharePoint 2013, this is all done via PowerShell, and there\u2019s no two ways about it.&nbsp; The following article does a great job of walking you through the technique.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.sharepointsalvation.com\/?p=71\">Change SharePoint 2013 Search Topology<\/a> by Kathryn Birstein<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a couple of issues I\u2019ve noted in the article (unfortunately there\u2019s no contact information for the author, so I was unable to pass these along to her).<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/mmman.itgroove.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/mmman\/2013\/03\/image52.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"image\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/mmman.itgroove.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/mmman\/2013\/03\/image_thumb49.png\" width=\"481\" height=\"144\"><\/a><br \/>Be aware that when the article is using the terms \u201cwww\u201d (in the image above) and \u201cappserv\u201d, they\u2019re referring to your server DNS short names.&nbsp; So if your server names are SPWFE1.domain.com and SPAPP1.domain.com, replace \u201cwww\u201d with \u201cSPWFE1\u201d.\n<li>About half way through the article, the author refers to the following PowerShell command \u201c<font face=\"Courier New\">NewSPEnterpriseSearchTopology<\/font>\u201d, it\u2019s actually \u201c<font face=\"Courier New\">New-SPEnterpriseSearchTopology<\/font>\u201d, so it should read <br \/><font face=\"Courier New\">$newTopology = New-SPEnterpriseSearchTopology -SearchApplication $ssa<\/font><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Otherwise, that article is a great step-by-step procedure, and help you end up in a situation where you\u2019ve got all the roles on the APP server, and only the \u201cQuery Processing\u201d role on the WFE (as everything should be) \u2013 See below.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mmman.itgroove.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/mmman\/2013\/03\/image53.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"image\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/mmman.itgroove.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/mmman\/2013\/03\/image_thumb50.png\" width=\"644\" height=\"118\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Alternatively, there\u2019s a <a href=\"http:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/jj862356.aspx\">TechNet<\/a> article which goes through a similar same procedure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unlike in 2010, where you can change the search topology with a few clicks of your mouse in the UI (found about half way through this article under the title \u201cAdjusting the Search Application Topology\u201d), SharePoint 2013 does not play as nicely, at least if your mouse is your precious. 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