SharePoint 2013 Search Service

I would like to blog a bit of what I know on the SharePoint 2013 search in the coming posts. Will start off by creating the search service. So here are the steps.

Step 01 - Creating the search service

In the central admin page, select “Manage Service Applications” under Application Management.
Then, in the Service Applications tab, select “New” drop down and select, “Search Service Application”

                                                                                                                                                                                                     
In the create dialog specify:

1. Search Service application name
2. Specify the service account
3. Application pool for Search Admin Web Service
• Specify the security account
4. Application pool for Search Query and Site Settings Web service
• Specify the security account 

Once the search service is created you will be able to see the search administration service along with the search service in the servises listing.

                                    
Step 02 - Configure

Specify the default content access account. By default the name you specify at search service creation is set as the content access account.

Step 03 - Create Content Sources

When the Search service application is created a content source named “Local SharePoint sites” is created. This is configured to crawl all sites in the local farm.
To create a new content source in the Search service application, click content sources and select “New Content Source”.


Provide:
1 Content source name
2 content source type
3 addresses one below the other
4 Crawl schedule (Full and incremental)
5 content source priority

                                                                                                                        
                                              
Step 04 - Set Crawl rules
Crawl rules can be explicitly set for either exclude or include site from the crawl.