In this blog, you will see how to Enable/Disable the continuous crawls in SharePoint 2013 using Powershell.

######### To Enable Continuous Crawls in SharePoint 2013 #########

  1. $ssa = Get-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceApplication
  2. $contentsource = Get-SPEnterpriseSearchCrawlContentSource -SearchApplication $ssa -Identity "Local SharePoint sites"
  3. Set-SPEnterpriseSearchCrawlContentSource -Identity $contentsource -EnableContinuousCrawls $True
######### To Disable Continuous Crawls in SharePoint 2013 #########
  1. $ssa = Get-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceApplication
  2. $contentsource = Get-SPEnterpriseSearchCrawlContentSource -SearchApplication $ssa -Identity "Local SharePoint sites"
  3. Set-SPEnterpriseSearchCrawlContentSource -Identity $contentsource -EnableContinuousCrawls $False