Problem: You deleted the Search Service Application in Sharepoint 2013 Foundation and are now unable to recreate it, as your web application is not named “Sharepoint – 80” (so the wizard will not work).
Solution: Microsoft disabled the option to create the DB via powershell for some reasons, but Gary found a solution to perform the tasks via powershell as mentioned here. Here is the code I´m using (similar to Garys one).
What it does:
– Create a new pool (modify the script if you wish to use a existing one)
– Use a existing Service Taskuser which I added via the central administration
– Create the search application and the proxy
Start-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceInstance $env:computername
Start-SPEnterpriseSearchQueryAndSiteSettingsServiceInstance $env:computername
$serviceAppName = "Search Service Application"
$appPool=Get-SPManagedAccount -Identity "Contoso\SpFarmSearch"
New-SPServiceApplicationPool -Name SearchApplicationPool -Account $appPool -Verbose
$saAppPool=Get-SPServiceApplicationPool -Identity SearchApplicationPool
$svcPool = $saAppPool
$adminPool = $saAppPool
$searchServiceInstance = Get-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceInstance –Local
$searchService = $searchServiceInstance.Service
$bindings = @(“InvokeMethod”, “NonPublic”, “Instance”)
$types = @([string], [Type],
[Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPIisWebServiceApplicationPool],
[Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPIisWebServiceApplicationPool])
$values = @($serviceAppName,
[Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Administration.SearchServiceApplication],
[Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPIisWebServiceApplicationPool]$svcPool,
[Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPIisWebServiceApplicationPool]$adminPool)
$methodInfo = $searchService.GetType().GetMethod(“CreateApplicationWithDefaultTopology”, $bindings, $null, $types, $null)
$searchServiceApp = $methodInfo.Invoke($searchService, $values)
$searchProxy = New-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceApplicationProxy -Name “$serviceAppName Proxy” -SearchApplication $searchServiceApp
$searchServiceApp.Provision()
