Creating and configuring 2 Search Service Application in same SharePoint 2013 farm - Having Multiple index

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Description : This is for specific need of having 2 different Search Indexes in the same farm and make use of both in a same Search center site. You can have different search topologies on different search service applications in the same farm.

Steps

  • Create 2 Search service application namely “Search Service Application 1(Consuming)” and “Search Service Application 2(Publishing)”

  • Create 2 web application “SSA1” and “SSA2” for 2 search center sites

SSA1 https://sp:5001/  

SSA2 https://sp:5002/

  • Create 2 Enterprise search center site collection on these web applications

SSA1 site: https://sp:5001/sites/Search5001   (Consuming)

SSA1 site: https://sp:5002/sites/Search5002   (Publishing)

  • Added 2 different content sources to each Search Service application as below

For Search service application 1:

    1. Local SharePoint resource : https://sp:5001

For Search service application 2:

    1. Local SharePoint resource : https://sp:5002
    2. Websites: https://onlinehelp.microsoft.com/en-in/bing/ff808487.aspx
  • Perform full crawl on all the content sources in both the Search service applications
  • Change the proxy associations of the 2 web applications as given below, deselect the other search service application proxy

SSA1 web application - Search Service Application 1  [default]

SSA2 web application - Search Service Application 2  [default]

  • Verify if you can search and get the results on both the search center sites according to the content source added to it

https://sp:5001/sites/Search5001/Pages/results.aspx?k=site

https://sp:5002/sites/Search5002/Pages/results.aspx?k=site

  • Now open Search service application 1, go to Result sources
  • Add new result source with name “SSA2”

  • Configure this “SSA2” result source as below

Protocol: Remote SharePoint

Remote service URL: https://sp:5002/sites/Search5002/

  • Go to consuming search center site -> pages library -> Create a page  with name “SSA2”

  • Now go to site setting and then Search settings -> Configure Search Navigation
  • Add link -> Select the new created page “SSA2” with title “SSA2”

  • Edit the existing “Everything” link as “SSA1”

  • Click Ok to save and apply
  • Now consuming Search center site should look like below

  • Edit the search center site and edit the search result web-part query to display the results from result source created “SSA2”

  • Save the webpart and then the page.
  • Clicking the Search vertical links namely “SSA1” and “SSA2” will display results from corresponding search service application

       

Note:- You can modify the result source or the search result web part query to display the results differently for both the Search service applications in the consuming search center site

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