Create Search Service Application In SharePoint 2013 - Part 1

Using search service application you can rapidly search documents, people, etc. Inside the SharePoint intranet portal

Open SharePoint Central Administration.

SharePoint central administration

Click Manage service application.

Click Manage service application

Click New, then Search Service Application.

create Search service application

Provide the name for your search service application.

name for your search service application

Provide the service account for this search application. I have used spfarm.

Create a new application pool for Search administration web service.

Create a new application pool

Create the new application pool for search query and site settings web service.

application pool

Click OK.

Click Ok

Now it will start creating a new search service application.

creating a new search service

new search service

So now the search service application created successfully.

search service application

service application

Click on the created service application.

created service application

Click content sources on the right side

Click content sources

In the next article iI will discuss how to create new content sources, configure and use people search in SharePoint 2013.