Showing posts with label SharePoint Crawl. Show all posts
Showing posts with label SharePoint Crawl. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 17, 2016

SharePoint 2013 Crawl job will not stop

When you are unable to stop a crawl (full or incremental) using the Central Administration UI, you can try one of the below steps

Approach 1 (Restart Search services)

1. Stop and start the SharePoint Server Search 15 service
2. Go to services.msc -> SharePoint Server Search 15 -> Restart
Run the PowerShell script on the SharePoint server

Approach 2 (Using net start command)

net stop OSearch15
net start OSearch15

Approach 3 (Using PowerShell command)

Stop-Service -name OSearch15
Start-Service -name OSearch15

Approach 4 (PowerShell script to stop the SharePoint Crawl Job)

Add-PSSnapin "Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell"
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")
     }
}

Approach 5 (Perform an Index rest)

Browse to Central Administration -> Search Service Application -> Crawling-> Index Reset -> Reset Now
Note: Resetting the crawled content will erase the content index. After a reset, search results will not be available until crawls have been run.