Configure Search Scopes and Site Collection Display Groups with PowerShell

Note for myself again.

I wanted to create search scope which returned results from a specific area in my SharePoint site collection. I also wanted this scope to be available in the site collection's "Scopes drop down".

This code did the trick

$createdScope = New-SPEnterpriseSearchQueryScope -Name "Specific area" -Description "Project sites" -SearchApplication $searchapp -DisplayInAdminUI $true $rule = New-SPEnterpriseSearchQueryScopeRule -RuleType "Url" -Url "http://portal" -MatchingString "http://portal/SpecificArea" -FilterBehavior "Require" -UrlScopeRuleType "Folder" -scope $createdScope $Site = Get-SPSite -Identity http://portal $searchContext = [Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Administration.SearchContext]::GetContext($Site) $scopes = new-Object Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Administration.Scopes($searchContext) $displayGroup = $scopes.GetDisplayGroup("http://portal", "Search Dropdown") $displayGroup.Add($scopes.GetSharedScope("Specific area")) $displayGroup.Update()

This script was created based on the following posts so thanks the authors for pointing me in the right direction:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sharepointadminprevious/thread/6159b4b5-ec8a-4184-b5e8-1a226eff1cee/
http://onlinecoder.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/powershell-script-to-create-search.html

Configure Search Crawling with PowerShell

A note to myself really so that I can find it easily.

As part of an installation script I wanted to configure an incremental crawl schedule then start a full crawl. The following script met these needs:

$searchapp = Get-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceApplication "Search Service Application"

$contentsource = Get-SPEnterpriseSearchCrawlContentSource "Local SharePoint Sites" -SearchApplication $searchapp

$contentsource | Set-SPEnterpriseSearchCrawlContentSource -ScheduleType Incremental -DailyCrawlSchedule -CrawlScheduleRunEveryInterval 1 -CrawlScheduleRepeatInterval 170 -CrawlScheduleRepeatDuration 180 -Confirm:$false

$contentsource.StartFullCrawl()

This script was created based on the following posts so thanks the authors for pointing me in the right direction:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2010/09/28/how-to-use-sharepoint-2010-windows-powershell-cmdlets-to-manage-search-crawls.aspx
http://habaneroconsulting.com/en/insights/Setting-crawl-schedules-with-PowerShell.aspx#.Ubm3sfmG3LM