Crawls: Start and Stop Crawls

1. CrawlStart.ps1

Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell

$SSA = Get-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceApplication -Identity "Search Service Application"

$ContentSource = $SSA | Get-SPEnterpriseSearchCrawlContentSource -Identity "My Content Source"

if ($ContentSource.CrawlStatus  -eq "Idle" )

{        

                $ContentSource.StartIncrementalCrawl()    

                Write-Host "Starting Incremental Crawl"

                if ($ContentSource.CrawlStatus  -eq "Paused" )

                {        

                $ContentSource.ResumeCrawl()    

                Write-Host "Resuminging Incremental Crawl"

                }

}

2. CrawlPause.ps1

Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell

$SSA = Get-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceApplication -Identity "Search Service Application"

$ContentSource = $SSA | Get-SPEnterpriseSearchCrawlContentSource -Identity "My Content Source"

Write-Host $ContentSource.CrawlState

if (($ContentSource.CrawlStatus  -eq "CrawlingIncremental" ) -or ($ContentSource.CrawlStatus  -eq "CrawlingFull" ))

{

                $ContentSource.PauseCrawl()

                Write-Host "Pausing the current Crawl"

}

Write-host $ContentSource.CrawlState