Force stop and then start a full crawl search in SharePoint 2013

In this blog i would like to share about Force stop and then start a full crawl on all content sources in a SharePoint 2010 farm using PowerShell

Steps

• Start your windows PowerShell on your computer.
• Right click and select Run as administrator option.
• Paste the below script on the PowerShell window and click the enter button.
• Check your SharePoint site Feature will activated successfully

The script below walks through each content source and does the following:

1. Checks whether the crawl status is set to “Idle”
2. If the content source is currently involved in a crawl activity, stop the activity and wait until the status changes back to Idle
3. If the content source is Idle, then start a full crawl

Get-SPEnterpriseSearchCrawlContentSource -SearchApplication "Search Service Application" | ForEach-Object {
    if ($_.CrawlStatus -ne "Idle")
    {
        Write-Host "crawl stooping currently for content source $($_.Name)..."
        $_.StopCrawl()

        do { Start-Sleep -Seconds 1 }
        while ($_.CrawlStatus -ne "Idle")
    }

    Write-Host "Full  crawl started for content source $($_.Name)..."
    $_.StartFullCrawl()
}

Run the script and following script if you want to display the crawl status of all content sources on your farm:

Get-SPEnterpriseSearchCrawlContentSource -SearchApplication "Search Service Application" | select Name, CrawlStatus