One Liners for Powershell with SharePoint for Search Service Applications

Search Service Application

1.      Get the content Source for Search Service Application

Get-SPEnterpriseSearchCrawlContentSource -SearchApplication "Search Service Application" | select *| out-gridview

2.      Search for a particular service application like Search

Get-SPServiceApplication |?{$_.Name -like "*search*"}| select Name

3.      Get the Content Database for Search Service Application

Get-SPServiceApplication -Name "Search Service Application" | select activetopology | format-list

4.      Get the sites where continuous crawl is enabled.

Get-SPEnterpriseSearchCrawlContentSource -SearchApplication "Search Service Application" | ?{$_.EnableContinuousCrawls -eq $true}


$ssa = Get-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceApplication



#This example retrieves the active search topology of the search service application

Get-SPEnterpriseSearchTopology -SearchApplication $ssa -Active

#View all Search Components for a topology ID from Get-SPEnterpriseSearchTopology

Get-SPEnterpriseSearchComponent -examples



# Get Search Administration Component

Get-SPEnterpriseSearchAdministrationComponent -SearchApplication $ssa

# Get Search Crawl Component

Get-SPEnterpriseSearchCrawlDatabase  -SearchApplication $ssa

# Get Search Links Component

Get-SPEnterpriseSearchLinksDatabase  -SearchApplication $ssa


#View all Search Result Item Types

#Get-SPEnterpriseSearchResultItemType -Owner $ssaOwner -SearchApplication $ssa | select *  | out-gridview

#Get metadata crawled property

Get-SPEnterpriseSearchMetadataManagedProperty -SearchApplication $ssa

#View Crawled Property of Category People

Get-SPEnterpriseSearchMetadataCrawledProperty -SearchApplication $ssa -Category People

#View Metadata Category of a UserName

Get-SPEnterpriseSearchMetadataMapping -SearchApplication $ssa -ManagedProperty UserName

#Get the Ranking Model
Get-SPEnterpriseSearchRankingModel -SearchApplication $ssa -Owner $ssaOwner

#View all the Display Properties for Email Search Result(or Person etc)
Get-SPEnterpriseSearchResultItemType -SearchApplication $ssa -Owner $ssaOwner |?{$_.Name -eq "Email"}

#View all Property Rules
Get-SPEnterpriseSearchPropertyRuleCollection

#gets the current status of the linguistic query and document  processing components
Get-SPEnterpriseSearchLinguisticComponentsStatus -SearchApplication $ssa

#Get reference to query and site settings service
Get-SPEnterpriseSearchQueryAndSiteSettingsService


#Get the authoritative page

Get-SPEnterpriseSearchQueryAuthority -SearchApplication $ssa -Owner $ssaOwner

#Get the demoted rule

Get-SPEnterpriseSearchQueryDemoted -SearchApplication $ssa -Owner $ssaOwner

#Query Keywords(User Query Rules instead)Get-SPEnterpriseSearchCrawlRule -SearchApplication $ssa

Get-SPEnterpriseSearchQueryKeyword -Site "http://w15-sp"

#Query Scope(User Result Source instead)Not identified yet

Get-SPEnterpriseSearchQueryScope -SearchApplication $ssa

#Query Scope Rule(Use Result Source instead)

Get-SPEnterpriseSearchQueryScopeRule -SearchApplication $ssa -Scope People



#Get the current configuration for the Query Spelling Correction component

Get-SPEnterpriseSearchQuerySpellingCorrection  -SearchApplication $ssa

#Get the a list of popular queries that can be displayed in a related queries Web Part

Get-SPEnterpriseSearchQuerySuggestionCandidates -SearchApplication $ssa -Owner $ssaOwner

#Get the pluggable security trimmers registered in the search service application

Get-SPEnterpriseSearchSecurityTrimmer -SearchApplication $ssa

#Get the SearchService object when the search service is updated or deleted.

Get-SPEnterpriseSearchService

#Get Most Recent Backup of Service Application

Get-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceApplicationBackupStore -BackupFolder "c:\backup" -Name $ssa -UseMostRecent

#View Search Service Application Proxy
Get-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceApplicationProxy

#View reference to the local search service instance
Get-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceInstance

#View or retrieves diagnostic information for all or specified search components in the active topology of a Search Service Application
Get-SPEnterpriseSearchStatus

#View Site hit rule
Get-SPEnterpriseSearchSiteHitRule

#View / get the index paths for all active index components on the current server.
Get-SPEnterpriseSearchVssDataPath

5.      Get the Access Service Application

Get-SPAccessServiceApplication | select * | out-gridview