have been many times where I have needed to run a full crawl of all content sources on a SharePoint 2010 farm, but I quite often there are already crawls taking place, which I prefer to stop before starting a new one.
The script below walks through each content source and does the following:
- Checks whether the crawl status is set to “Idle”
- If the content source is currently involved in a crawl activity, stop the activity and wait until the status changes back to Idle
- If the content source is Idle, then start a full crawl
To use, run the following script in the SharePoint Management Shell, replacing “Search Service Application” with the name of your Search service application:
Get-SPEnterpriseSearchCrawlContentSource -SearchApplication "Search Service Application" | ForEach-Object
{
if ($_.CrawlStatus -ne "Idle")
{
Write-Host "Stopping currently running crawl for content source $($_.Name)..."
$_.StopCrawl()
do { Start-Sleep -Seconds 1 }
while ($_.CrawlStatus -ne "Idle")
}Write-Host "Starting full crawl for content source $($_.Name)..."
$_.StartFullCrawl()
}
For info, you can use the following script if you want to display the crawl status of all content sources on your farm:
Get-SPEnterpriseSearchCrawlContentSource -SearchApplication "Search Service Application" | select Name, CrawlStatus
This will give you an output similar to the following:
