Before creating and configuring the required search service application, we have to create the accounts which we use for enterprise search. Here I have an account in AD called SP_search. Now we will add this account as managed account.
To do that go to central administration page and click on security.
Click on Configure Managed accounts under general security. It will open below screen shot : Registered Managed Account. Please enter the Username, Password. If you want to set the automatic password change click on the check box against the "Enable automatic password change" otherwise leave as it is and click ok. The account will get added to the list of managed accounts.
Create search service application:
Click on "Manage Service Applications" under Application Management from central administration.
Click on search service application from new service application list.
Scroll down a little bit from the "Create New Search Service Application" popup screen, then Select the create a new application pool and enter the application pool name as "SP-Search Admin Web Service"and select the account as "spsearch". Please see the below Figure.
Scroll down a little bit more from the popup screen, then Select the create a new application pool and enter the application pool name as "SP-Search Query and Site Settings Web" and select the security account as "spsearch".
You have entered all the required values to create the search service application, hit the OK button.
It will show the below dialog box "Please wait while your changes are processed for search service application".
It will the show the below screen as the final status of completion of creating the search service application. Please see the below Figure.
To verify it you can go and check under the "Manage Service Applications" section you will have newly created "Search Service Application".
Configure search service application:
Click on Search Service Application from the above figure to see the administration page details of search.
It will display the below figures.
By selecting various parameters under system status of search administration you can configure search.
You can observe that the "default Content access account" here is "SPSearch". Please see the below screen.
Second half of the search administration and main one is Search Application Topology. Please see the below screen there are four databases created by creation of Search service application.
- Administration
database
- Analytics
Reporting Database
- Crawl
Database
- Link
Database
In SharePoint 2013 Analytics services also included in the search. As I said before there are lots of changes in Search in 2013, we will cover each one of them.
Create Content Source:
We have created search service application successfully. Now to create content source to get the desired content show to the user.
Go to search central administration and click on content sources under Crawling section.
From the Figure: Content Sources, you can observe that by default it will create Local SharePoint sites content sources, but in the real world we will create individual content source for each web application. So let’s create a content source.
To create it click on "New Content Source" from the.
Enter the details shown in the below figures for
Name: SharePoint-
Select the type of content to be crawled: SharePoint sites
Type Start address below: http://sharepoint.com
Leave the remaining setting by default shown in the below Figure.
Crawl
schedules:
Leave Enable Continuous Crawl. Create Incremental Crawl and Full Crawl based on your requirement.
After configuring both schedules click ok. New content source "SharePoint" will get added to a list of content sources. For first time if you add a content source by default Full crawl it get initiate automatically.
Enable
Continuous Crawls:
While creating the content source the incremental crawl will get disabled. This it says that you don't require the incremental crawl because it has been set to "Enable Continuous Crawl".
But to enable it you should have enough Infrastructures in place so that performance will get affected.
One more thing to note here is if you set continuous crawl, while creating the content source for the first time it will show the crawl status as continuous crawl by default.
Now we have created content source and have seen what the purpose of Continuous crawl is.
New improvements in search results page:
You have everything ready for search let’s start searching. Open the Enterprise Search center site collection.
New Improvements in Search results page are:
See the below Figure where you have different options to search like.
- Everything
- People
- Conversations
- Videos
1. Result Type - you can search based on document type like PDF, web page, word etc.
2. Author - who created the document?
3. Modified date - where you can change the search results based on date can be changed using slider.
Once you select the document from the search results small popup
opens where you can see
- Document name
- Document type
- Last modified
- Contributor
There are three
more options to Open, send via email and View library to see the details of the
library where the document or item stored.
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