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The index component manages both index partitions and index replicas. Each index component in the search topology represents an index replica.

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Moving SharePoint Index location to another drive but gatherer still uses default location

I'm in the process of moving the index location for SharePoint 2016 from C drive to a dedicated drive. I used the method to clone the topology, modify and then activate it but I have conflicting ...
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Search IndexComponent is becoming too large

I have a problem with a Search Service IndexComponent where it has become large enough to cover up the whole of the Local System Drive. I would like to ask you some question about what are the actions ...
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How to create index variable in SharePoint Designer 2013

I am creating a Call HTTP Web service in SharePoint Designer 2013 and looking to create a index variable but don't know how can I ? Is the local variable and the index variable same?
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SharePoint 2019: SSA topology Index Partition shows State Degraded when Windows Service SearchHostController is running as the "services" account

This is a test SharePoint 2019 MinRole farm with 2 servers (1 App with Search, 2 Front-End with Distributed Cache). In Central Administration I see the yellow warning under Index Partition 0 since it ...
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Adding a extra index partition to an index server

If there is already an index partition, then we add an another partition to index server. How the new index files are crawled to this new partition? There is no option in content source to crawl to ...
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Removing a search index component SP2016

I have a SP2016 farm with 2 index servers. Since I have a lot of data on the farm, I wanted to remove the index from the C: Drive to another drive with more space. I went ahead an followed this ...
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Create new Index Component and add it to a clone topology?

I'm in the Search Service Application crawling a file server containing 480k items. The SharePoint Server only have a system disk with 20 GB free space, and there are no other servers available. Upon ...
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Search Index degraded, index reset never completes

I cannot for the life of me get search services running on a new server. When I open up the service administration web panel for search it shows a yellow exclamation mark on the Index. PS> Get-...
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Sharepoint online not indexing Publishing Pages

I have a publishing site containing pages with custom pages page layout and custom content type. All the documents, and site pages are appearing on search results but it is not showing results from ...
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How to check if items are missing from search index

In SharePoint 2013 farm we have a Search Service Application running. Due to a very long time required to run a full crawl, decision has been made few months ago to not to run full crawl regularly and ...
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What is the search Index file location?

Our company is running SP2013 on-premise. According to some articles, the search index files are stored at C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office Servers\15.0\Data\Office Server\ by default. On the WFE ...
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What is the source of this Crawl Error `The item could not be indexed successfully because the item failed in the indexing subsystem`

Once in a while my full-crawl fails and stops working properly. The crawllogs show this error for all items crawled. The item could not be indexed successfully because the item failed in the ...
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SharePoint 2016 and "Shared Role" Application with Search

I want to install SP 2016 using "Shared Roles" and use 2 servers that have the role "Application with Search" so I get High Availability. I just want to use the search capabilities of SharePoint, I ...
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Deliberately corrupt the search index

On our SharePoint 2013 on-premise (test farm) I want to deliberately corrupt the search index. This to test backups, fail-over and multiple index components. Any clues or tips on how to do this? ...
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how to crawl pdf documents in sharepoint 2010 search

How to crawl pdf documents in sharepoint 2010 search,i added a content source but when i search for pdf documents i can not found pdf documents except all documentes,before cumulative updates it was ...
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How to delete a non-responsive query component from search topology using PowerShell?

How to delete a stuck and not responding query component from a search topology in SharePoint 2010? This query component worked fine before but it is not responding because the web front end server ...
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Set-SPEnterpriseSearchTopology : Topology activation failed during attemt to fix degraded index

Im trying to fix a degraded index, using the script from this post. How do I fix a degraded SharePoint 2013 index partition when there is only one of them? But the last line Set-...
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Processing this item failed because of a IFilter parser error

Sp2013 Standard Server. Search Type: continuous Crawl Search Content Source: Local SharePoint Site Configuration DB Version:15.0.4551.1001 Processing this item failed because of a IFilter parser ...
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Revert Index Location to Default

In SP2013, if you use a method such as this one to change the location of your search index, is there an easy way to revert it to the default location? Or do you have to do the whole process again and ...