Configure a Crawl Schedule for Enterprise Search Content Source in SharePoint 2010 using powershell

In this article we will be seeing how to configure a crawl schedule for enterprise search content source in SharePoint 2010 using C#.

In the Search service application, you can schedule a full or incremental crawl of a content source. There are four types of Schedules:

• DailySchedule - Used to specify the number of days between crawls.
• WeeklySchedule - Used to specify the number of weeks between crawls.
• MonthlyDateSchedule - Used to specify the days of the month and months of the year when the crawl should occur.
• MonthlyDayOfWeekSchedule - Used to specify the days of the month, the weeks of the month, and the months of the year when the crawl should occur.

Through UI:

• Go to Central Administration => Application Management => Manage service applications => Search Service Application.
• In the Navigation go to Crawling => Content Sources.
• You could be able to see the content sources.
• I am going to edit the content source "Local SharePoint sites" and schedule the crawl.
• Go to ECB menu of Local SharePoint Sites =>Edit.
  
  
   
• You could see "Crawl schedule section" where you could schedule the Full Crawl and Incremental Crawl.
  
  
  
   

Powershell script:

• Open SharePoint 2010 Management Shell as an administrator.
• Run the following script.
  
  $ssaName="Search Service Application"
  $context=[Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Administration.SearchContext]::GetContext($ssaName)
  
  
  $daily=New-Object Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Administration.DailySchedule($context)
  $daily.BeginDay="25"
  $daily.BeginMonth = "1"
  $daily.BeginYear = "2010"
  $daily.StartHour = "2"
  $daily.StartMinute = "30"
  $daily.DaysInterval = "1"
  
  
  $weekly=New-Object Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Administration.WeeklySchedule($context)
  $weekly.BeginDay="25"
  $weekly.BeginMonth = "1"
  $weekly.BeginYear = "2010"
  $weekly.StartHour = "23"
  $weekly.StartMinute = "15"
  $weekly.WeeksInterval = "1"
  
  
  $contentsource = Get-SPEnterpriseSearchCrawlContentSource -SearchApplication $ssaName -Identity "Local SharePoint Sites"
  
  $contentsource.IncrementalCrawlSchedule=$daily
  $contentsource.FullCrawlSchedule=$weekly
  $contentsource.Update()
   
• You could see the Full Crawl and Incremental Crawl has been scheduled successfully which is also reflected in the UI.