Monthly Archives: November 2010

How to set the SharePoint 2010 Enterprise Search Service Application “Default Content Access Account” by using PowerShell

Posted on by
1

If you want to set the SharePoint 2010 Enterprise Search Service Application "Default Content Access Account" by using PowerShell you can use this script:

$searchapp = Get-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceApplication "Search Service Application"
$c= New-Object Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Administration.Content($searchapp)
$c.SetDefaultGatheringAccount($crawlUser, (ConvertTo-SecureString $crawlPwd -AsPlainText -force))

($crawlUser is – of cause – the login of the account and $crawlPwd is the password in plain text)

How to set the identity of a SharePoint Windows Service, e.g. “SharePoint Server Search”

Posted on by
1

I have had the problem to set the SharePoint Sevice Account of "SharePoint Server Search" to a special user account during a automatic setup.

In other words: I want to automate this step:

Central Administration -> Security -> Configure Service Accounts

blog-201011030017

There is no PowerShell command as far as I can see.

You can use this script for this job:

  

$farm =(Get-SPFarm)

$farm.get_Services() | ? { $_.typename -ieq "SharePoint Server Search" } | % {

  $searchservice=$_

  $i = $searchservice.get_ProcessIdentity()

  $i.set_CurrentIdentityType(3)

  $i.set_Username($searchUser)

  $i.Update()

  $i.Deploy()

}