SharePoint Online Search

When I tried creating a new result source in SharePoint Online admin center got below message.
“This configuration change cannot be made at this time because the service is in read-only mode.”
Any idea on the error?
sudesh withanage

Hi Sudesh,
Please make sure your account has accurate permission to manage result source.
Since the issue is related to SharePoint online and it might checking on server side. I'd recommend you contact online support engineer for more professional assistance and sufficient resource:
http://community.office365.com/en-us/f/154.aspx
Thanks for the understanding.
Regards,
Rebecca Tu
TechNet Community Support

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https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/dn194079.aspx
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Hi,
I want to setup an outpund hybrid search for SharePoint 2013 on-premise to SharePoint Online.
But I'm not shure if this works with ADFS SSO.
Has somebody experience with this setup?
Here's my guide which I'm going to use for this installation:
Introduction
In this post I'll show you how to get search results from your SharePoint Online in your SharePoint 2013 on-premise search center.
Requirements
User synchronisation ActiveDirectory to Office 365 with DirSync
DirSync password sync or ADFS SSO
SharePoint Online
SharePoint 2013 on-premise
Enterprise Search service
SharePoint Online Management Shell
Instructions
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Set up Sever to Server Trust
Export certificates
To create a server to server trust we need two certificates.
[certificate name].pfx: In order to replace the STS certificate, the certificate is needed in Personal Information Exchange (PFX) format including the private key.
[certificate name].cer: In order to set up a trust with Office 365 and Windows Azure ACS, the certificate is needed in CER Base64 format.
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name].pfx Password: [password]
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Click the Details tab and then click Copy to File
On the Welcome to the Certificate Export Wizard page, click Next
On the Export Private Key page, click Next
On the Export File Format page, click Base-64 encoded X.509 (.CER), and then click Next.
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name].cer and then click Next
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Import the new STS (SharePoint Token Service) certificate
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to the following article for instructions on how to change this certificate: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=178475. Are you
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& iisreset
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[/code]
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[code lang="ps"]
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Hi Janik,
According to your description, my understanding is that you want to display hybrid search results in SharePoint Server 2013.
For achieving your demand, please have a look at the article:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn197173(v=office.15).aspx
If you are using single sign-on (SSO) authentication, it is important to test hybrid Search functionality by using federated user accounts. Native Office 365 user accounts and Active Directory Domain Services
(AD DS) accounts that are not federated are not recognized by both directory services. Therefore, they cannot authenticate using SSO, and cannot be granted permissions to resources in both deployments. For more information, see Accounts
needed for hybrid configuration and testing.
Best Regards,
Eric
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http://download.microsoft.com/download/8/5/8/858F2155-D48D-4C68-9205-29460FD7698F/[MS-SPACSOM].pdf
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsdesktop/en-US/54310f5f-e8a3-469e-86a3-63781b91670d/how-to-get-analytics-reports-programmatically-in-sharepoint-2013?forum=sharepointdevelopment

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On o365/SharePoint Online 2013
A few weeks Search stopped working on existing sites in SPO. New site seem to index fine. We can't find files and list entries inside doc libs and lists now.
I'm looking at Search Settings in o365 and have added myself to have access to Crawl logs,
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Hi,
According to your post, my understanding is that you wanted to see the crawl log in the SharePoint online.
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eDiscovery portal to check whether crawled content was successfully added to the search index, or whether indexing failed because of an error.
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http://office.microsoft.com/en-001/office365-sharepoint-online-enterprise-help/crawl-log-permissions-HA103675567.aspx
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http://community.office365.com/en-us/forums/154.aspx.
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What are the possibilities and limitation of using Out of the box content search webpart on SharePoint Online 2013/O365 ?

Hi All,
We are migrating from on-premise SharPoint 2010 to SharePoint online 2013.
I have few questions below:
What are the possibilities and limitations of using Out of the box content search webpart?
Also, how the cross site publishing will work in SharePoint online something with managed navigations and product catalog apporach? if it is not supported, then what are the alternatives to acheive the same?
Appriciate any commnets/clarifications.Thanks in advance.
Thanks,
Dhananjay.

Here are the possibilities of Content search webparts
http://office.microsoft.com/en-in/office365-sharepoint-online-enterprise-help/configure-a-content-search-web-part-in-sharepoint-HA104119042.aspx
http://office.microsoft.com/en-in/office365-sharepoint-online-enterprise-help/when-to-use-the-content-query-web-part-or-the-content-search-web-part-in-sharepoint-HA104206662.aspx
Compare the strengths and limitations of the Web Parts
It’s important that you understand the strengths and limitations of the two Web Parts because if you choose the wrong one, your site could run into performance problems. You can use both Web Parts to show content that is based on a query. In a simplified
world, here’s how you can decide between the two:
Use the CQWP when you have a limited amount of content, your query is simple, and you don’t expect your content to grow much in the future.
Use the CSWP in all other scenarios when you want to show content that is based on a query.
The table below gives a comparison of the two Web Parts:
Web Part behavior
Content Query Web Part
Content Search Web Part
Query configuration
Easy
You’ll need to know about certain search features such as
managed properties.
Query across large amounts of content
Limited
Yes
Handle complex queries
Limited
Yes
Scale to handle future content growth
Limited
Yes
Display content from other site collections
No
Yes (see
section below)
Design of query results can be customized
Yes, by using XSLT.
Yes, by using HTML.
Maintenance cost in a complex site architecture
High
Small (see
section below)
Narrow down the query results that are displayed in the Web Part
No
Yes, in combination with the
Refinement Web Part.
It was not there previously but then it was added to Office 365
http://blogs.office.com/2013/10/29/search-innovations-for-site-and-portal-design-in-sharepoint-online/
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Any help would be greatly apprieciated.
Thanks in advance,
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Perhaps a better approach might be to run your searches within the AppPart using the REST interface for search. Chris O'Brien has a pretty good example of this on his blog..
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Paul.
Please ensure that you mark a question as Answered once you receive a satisfactory response. This helps people in future when searching and helps prevent the same questions being asked multiple times.

Cannot see managed properties values in search result webpart- Sharepoint online

Hi,
Cannot see custom managed properties at site collection level in ResultScriptWebPart for SharePoint online. where as it is visible when i create managed properties @SSA (Search Service Application) level.
Below are the steps which I followed:
1) I have added few custom managed properties at Search Site collection level in SharePoint online.
2) Mapped those properties to user profile crawled properties
3) We are using those custom managed properties in ResultScriptWebPart(People Search Core Results) by using ItemTemplate
I cannot see those managed properties in search result.When I debug it in browser it comes as null.
But when I add these managed properties @SSA (Search Service Application) level I can see the value in search result webpart.
What is the reason value doesn't get populated at Site Collection level?
Thanks,
Prashant A

Hi Prashant,
Based on your description, the site collection managed property cannot work in SharePoint Online.
For troubleshooting this issue, I recommend to verify the things below:
Please make sure that the full crawl has been run after creating the managed property.
Please check if the managed property is set to be searchable.
Please search with this managed property to see if the results can be returned.
Thanks,
Victoria
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Please let us know whether the SharePoint 2010 search webservice is compatible with SharePoint 2013.
When we try to hit the SharePoint 2013 search service with the query developed in the Sharepoint 2010 , we are getting "System.Not supported" exception as response from server.
Below is the search query we are using:
"<soap:Envelope xmlns:xsi=\"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance\" xmlns:xsd=\"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema\" xmlns:soap=\"http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/\">"
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            + "<Format>urn:Microsoft.Search.Response.Document:Document</Format>"
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and (contentClass = 'STS_Web' OR contentClass = 'STS_ListItem_DocumentLibrary' OR contentClass = 'STS_List_DocumentLibrary') ORDER BY lastModifiedTime DESC </QueryText>"
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            + "</Query>"
            + "</QueryPacket>"
            + "</queryXml>"
            + "</Query>"
            + "</soap:Body>"
            + "</soap:Envelope>";
Please help

Hi Raghuramk,
is the web service is a search query web service? if yes, i suppose sharepoint 2013 already deprecated,
Search Query web service
Description: The Search Query web service is deprecated in SharePoint 2013.
In SharePoint Server 2010, the Search Query web service exposes the SharePoint Enterprise Search capabilities to client applications. This enables you to access search results from client and web applications outside the context of a SharePoint site.
Reason for change: The Search Query web service is deprecated because the client object model (CSOM) and a new REST-based web service are available for developing Office-wide extensibility scenarios. The CSOM exposes the same functionality
as the Search Query web service, and a larger set of functionality for stand-alone client applications.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff607742.aspx#section2
Regards,
Aries
Microsoft Online Community Support
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Error 1
The gatherer is unable to read the registry ContentSourceID missing..
Context: Application 'Search_index_file_on_the_search_server', Catalog 'Search'
Details:
The operation completed successfully.
(0x00000000)
Error 2
Component: add2c3f0-cc4c-41ae-aa1e-ce8ac2088d23
An index corruption of type WidSetFormat was detected in catalog Search. Stack trace is
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     tquery offset=0x000000000001E39D (0x000007FEBE7EE39D)
     tquery offset=0x00000000000EDF54 (0x000007FEBE8BDF54)
     tquery offset=0x000000000012C5B4 (0x000007FEBE8FC5B4)
     tquery offset=0x000000000012CD77 (0x000007FEBE8FCD77)
     tquery offset=0x0000000000124AF6 (0x000007FEBE8F4AF6)
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     tquery offset=0x0000000000126F9D (0x000007FEBE8F6F9D)
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The plug-in in SPSearch4.Indexer.1 cannot be initialized.
Context: Application 'add2c3f0-cc4c-41ae-aa1e-ce8ac2088d23', Catalog 'Search'
Details:
(0xc0041800)
Error 4
Content index on Component: add2c3f0-cc4c-41ae-aa1e-ce8ac2088d23
could not be initialized. Error Search.The content index is corrupt.   0xc0041800
Error 5
The application cannot be initialized.
Context: Application 'Search_index_file_on_the_search_server'
Details:
Unspecified error
(0x80004005)
Error 6
The gatherer object cannot be initialized.
Context: Application 'Search_index_file_on_the_search_server', Catalog 'Search'
Details:
Unspecified error
(0x80004005)
Critical Error
The Execute method of job definition Microsoft.SharePoint.Search.Administration.SPSearchJobDefinition (ID 776e67a1-4b09-4da4-8544-25d0b287f49e) threw an exception. More information is included below.
The device is not ready.

Larry,
I have an online backup that is backing up the data, the SBS backup worked the day before, but failed last night.
The forum said I couldn't post a link, so I modified it below. Spaces are slashes.
www dot altaro dot com hyper-v sbs-2011-backups-failing-vss-error-0x800423f3-event-id-8230-spfarm-spsearch
Below are two of the errors that I'm getting. Maybe if I fix sharepoint search, then that would fix my problem??
Volume Shadow Copy Service error: Failed resolving account spsearch with status 1376. Check connection to domain controller and VssAccessControl registry key.
Operation:
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The backup operation that started at '‎2013‎-‎08‎-‎24T03:00:33.076000000Z' has failed because the Volume Shadow Copy Service operation to create a shadow copy of the volumes being backed up failed with following error code '2155348129'. Please review the
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Sharepoint 2013 search error - The search application 'Search Service Application 1' on server is not provisioned.Confirm that the Microsoft SharePoint Foundation Timer service and Central Administration service are running on the server.

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I'm getting the below error in My SHarepoint 2013 search Administration page.
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on the server.
and when i click on Crawl Log and content source
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the service is enabled. This might also be because an indexer move is in progress
When i check the search status
Get-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceInstance, it shows all the components are online.
As of now search service application is online and search is working.But not sure why it throws the above error.
I have restarted timer service,search service in services.msc and cleared the sharepoint cache as well.
But no luck,This is happening in my prodcution environment.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
There are the logs i have found
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05/23/2014 13:03:22.71 w3wp.exe (0x46E70) 0x4CBA4 SharePoint Foundation Authentication Authorization agb9s Medium Non-OAuth request. IsAuthenticated=True, UserIdentityName=, ClaimsCount=0 d4c6939c-b10d-4000-6d95-14caeefe67df
05/23/2014 13:03:22.73 w3wp.exe (0x46E70) 0x4CBA4 SharePoint Foundation Logging Correlation Data xmnv Medium Site=/ d4c6939c-b10d-4000-6d95-14caeefe67df
05/23/2014 13:03:22.79 w3wp.exe (0x46E70) 0x4CBA4 SharePoint Server Search Administration djs2 High [Forced due to logging gap, cached @ 05/23/2014 13:03:22.76, Original Level: VerboseEx] {0} d4c6939c-b10d-4000-6d95-14caeefe67df
05/23/2014 13:03:22.79 w3wp.exe (0x46E70) 0x4CBA4 SharePoint Server Database 8acb High [Forced due to logging gap, Original Level: VerboseEx] Reverting to process identity d4c6939c-b10d-4000-6d95-14caeefe67df
05/23/2014 13:03:22.80 w3wp.exe (0x46E70) 0x4CBA4 SharePoint Server Search Administration djj1 High Unable to find application 'b9c8106c-c7ed-4eb3-96c9-ae1881ffb695' d4c6939c-b10d-4000-6d95-14caeefe67df
05/23/2014 13:03:22.82 w3wp.exe (0x46E70) 0x4CBA4 SharePoint Server Search Administration djj1 High Unable to find application 'b9c8106c-c7ed-4eb3-96c9-ae1881ffb695' d4c6939c-b10d-4000-6d95-14caeefe67df
05/23/2014 13:03:22.82 w3wp.exe (0x46E70) 0x4CBA4 SharePoint Foundation General 8nca Medium Application error when access /_admin/search/listcontentsources.aspx, Error=The search service is currently offline. Visit the Services
on Server page in SharePoint Central Administration to verify whether the service is enabled. This might also be because an indexer move is in progress.   at Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Internal.UI.SearchCentralAdminPageBase.ErrorHandler(Object
sender, EventArgs e)     at Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Internal.UI.SearchCentralAdminPageBase.OnError(EventArgs e)     at System.Web.UI.Page.HandleError(Exception e)     at System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequestMain(Boolean
includeStagesBeforeAsyncPoint, Boolean includeStagesAfterAsyncPoint)     at System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequest(Boolean includeStagesBeforeAsyncPoint, Boolean includeStagesAfterAsyncPoint)     at System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequest()
at System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequest(HttpContext context)     at System.Web.HttpApplication.CallHandlerExecutionStep.System.Web.HttpApplication.IExecutionStep.Execute()     at System.Web.HttpApplication.ExecuteStep(IExecutionStep
step, Boolean& completedSynchronously) d4c6939c-b10d-4000-6d95-14caeefe67df
05/23/2014 13:03:22.82 w3wp.exe (0x46E70) 0x4CBA4 SharePoint Foundation Runtime tkau Unexpected Microsoft.SharePoint.SPException: The search service is currently offline. Visit the Services on Server page in SharePoint Central
Administration to verify whether the service is enabled. This might also be because an indexer move is in progress.    at Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Internal.UI.SearchCentralAdminPageBase.ErrorHandler(Object sender, EventArgs e)
at Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Internal.UI.SearchCentralAdminPageBase.OnError(EventArgs e)     at System.Web.UI.Page.HandleError(Exception e)     at System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequestMain(Boolean includeStagesBeforeAsyncPoint,
Boolean includeStagesAfterAsyncPoint)     at System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequest(Boolean includeStagesBeforeAsyncPoint, Boolean includeStagesAfterAsyncPoint)     at System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequest()
at System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequest(HttpContext context)     at System.Web.HttpApplication.CallHandlerExecutionStep.System.Web.HttpApplication.IExecutionStep.Execute()     at System.Web.HttpApplication.ExecuteStep(IExecutionStep
step, Boolean& completedSynchronously) d4c6939c-b10d-4000-6d95-14caeefe67df
05/23/2014 13:03:22.82 w3wp.exe (0x46E70) 0x4CBA4 SharePoint Foundation General ajlz0 High Getting Error Message for Exception Microsoft.SharePoint.SPException: The search service is currently offline. Visit the Services on
Server page in SharePoint Central Administration to verify whether the service is enabled. This might also be because an indexer move is in progress.     at Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Internal.UI.SearchCentralAdminPageBase.ErrorHandler(Object
sender, EventArgs e)     at Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Internal.UI.SearchCentralAdminPageBase.OnError(EventArgs e)     at System.Web.UI.Page.HandleError(Exception e)     at System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequestMain(Boolean
includeStagesBeforeAsyncPoint, Boolean includeStagesAfterAsyncPoint)     at System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequest(Boolean includeStagesBeforeAsyncPoint, Boolean includeStagesAfterAsyncPoint)     at System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequest()
at System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequest(HttpContext context)     at System.Web.HttpApplication.CallHandlerExecutionStep.System.Web.HttpApplication.IExecutionStep.Execute()     at System.Web.HttpApplication.ExecuteStep(IExecutionStep
step, Boolean& completedSynchronously) d4c6939c-b10d-4000-6d95-14caeefe67df
05/23/2014 13:03:22.82 w3wp.exe (0x46E70) 0x4CBA4 SharePoint Foundation General aat87 Monitorable  d4c6939c-b10d-4000-6d95-14caeefe67df
05/23/2014 13:03:22.82 w3wp.exe (0x46E70) 0x4CBA4 SharePoint Foundation DistributedCache ah24q Unexpected SPDistributedCachePointerWrapper::InitializeDataCacheFactory - No cache hosts are present in the farm. d4c6939c-b10d-4000-6d95-14caeefe67df
05/23/2014 13:03:22.82 w3wp.exe (0x46E70) 0x4CBA4 SharePoint Foundation DistributedCache ah24w Unexpected Unexpected Exception in SPDistributedCachePointerWrapper::InitializeDataCacheFactory for usage 'DistributedViewStateCache'
- Exception 'System.InvalidOperationException: SPDistributedCachePointerWrapper::InitializeDataCacheFactory - No cache hosts present in the farm.     at Microsoft.SharePoint.DistributedCaching.SPDistributedCachePointerWrapper.InitializeDataCacheFactory()'. d4c6939c-b10d-4000-6d95-14caeefe67df
05/23/2014 13:03:22.82 w3wp.exe (0x46E70) 0x4CBA4 SharePoint Foundation General ajb4s Monitorable ViewStateLog: Failed to write to the velocity cache:
http://dca-app-617:90/_admin/search/listcontentsources.aspx?appid=e830c1b3-c3e4-4097-85fd-aa5248346d2e d4c6939c-b10d-4000-6d95-14caeefe67df
05/23/2014 13:03:22.82 w3wp.exe (0x46E70) 0x4CBA4 SharePoint Foundation Monitoring b4ly Medium Leaving Monitored Scope (Request (GET:http://dca-app-617:90/_admin/search/listcontentsources.aspx?appid=e830c1b3%2Dc3e4%2D4097%2D85fd%2Daa5248346d2e)).
Execution Time=109.695855199474 d4c6939c-b10d-4000-6d95-14caeefe67df
Anil Loka

Please try below mentioned steps:
1. Central Administration > Monitoring > Review job definitions > Look for following timer job "Application Server Administration Service Timer Job" > Disable
2. Then open windows administrative services (services.msc), stop SharePoint Timer Service
3. Clear SharePoint Timer configuration cache by following steps mentioned in below blog:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/jamesway/archive/2011/05/23/sharepoint-2010-clearing-the-configuration-cache.aspx
4. Start SharePoint Timer Service and give it a few seconds so that the new XML files from the location you deleted then are re-populated.
5.Central Administration > Monitoring > Review job definitions > Look for following timer job "Application Server Administration Service" Timer Job > Enable
Please ensure that you mark a question as Answered once you receive a satisfactory response.

SharePoint 2013 Search - Disaster Recovery Restore

Hello,
We are setting up a new SharePoint 2013 with a separate Disaster Recovery farm as a hot-standby. In a DR scenario, we want to restore all content and service app databases to the new farm, then fix any configuration issues that might arise due to changes
in server names, etc...
The issue we're running into is the search service components are still pointing to the production servers even though they're in the new farm with completely different server names. This is expected, so we're preparing a PowerShell script to remove
then re-create the search components as needed. The problem is that all the commands used to apply the new search topology won't function because they can't access the administration component (very frustrating). It appears we're in a chicken &
egg scenario - we can't change the search topology because we don't have a working admin component, but we can't fix the admin component because we can't change the search topology.
The scripts below are just some of the things we've tried to fix the issue:
$sa = Get-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceApplication "Search Service Application";
$local = Get-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceInstance -Local;
$topology = New-SPEnterpriseSearchTopology -SearchApplication $sa;
New-SPEnterpriseSearchAdminComponent -SearchTopology $topology -SearchServiceInstance $local;
New-SPEnterpriseSearchQueryProcessingComponent -SearchTopology $topology -SearchServiceInstance $local;
New-SPEnterpriseSearchCrawlComponent -SearchTopology $topology -SearchServiceInstance $local;
New-SPEnterpriseSearchContentProcessingComponent -SearchTopology $topology -SearchServiceInstance $local;
New-SPEnterpriseSearchAnalyticsProcessingComponent -SearchTopology $topology -SearchServiceInstance $local;
New-SPEnterpriseSearchIndexComponent -SearchTopology $topology -SearchServiceInstance $local -IndexPartition 0 -RootDirectory "D:\SP_Index\Index";
$topology.Activate();
We get this message:
Exception calling "Activate" with "0" argument(s): "The search service is not able to connect to the machine that
hosts the administration component. Verify that the administration component '764c17a1-4c29-4393-aacc-de01119aba0a'
in search application 'Search Service Application' is in a good state and try again."
At line:11 char:1
+ $topology.Activate();
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [], MethodInvocationException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : InvalidOperationException
Also, same as above with
$topology.BeginActivate()
We get no errors but the new topology is never activated. Attempting to call $topology.Activate() within the next few minutes will result in an error saying that "No modifications to the search topology can be made because previous changes are
being rolled back due to an error during a previous activation".
Next I found a few methods in the object model that looked like they might do some good:
$sa = Get-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceApplication "Search Service Application";
$topology = Get-SPEnterpriseSearchTopology -SearchApplication $sa -Active;
$admin = $topology.GetComponents() | ? { $_.Name -like "admin*" }
$topology.RecoverAdminComponent($admin,"server1");
This one really looked like it worked. It took a few seconds to run and came back with no errors. I can even get the active list of components and it shows that the Admin component is running on the right server:
Name ServerName
AdminComponent1 server1
ContentProcessingComponent1
QueryProcessingComponent1
IndexComponent1
QueryProcessingComponent3
CrawlComponent0
QueryProcessingComponent2
IndexComponent2
AnalyticsProcessingComponent1
IndexComponent3
However, I'm still unable to make further changes to the topology (getting the same error as above when calling $topology.Activate()), and the service application in central administration shows an error saying it can't connect to the admin component:
The search service is not able to connect to the machine that hosts the administration component. Verify that the administration component '764c17a1-4c29-4393-aacc-de01119aba0a' in search application 'Search Service Application' is in a good state and try again.
Lastly, I tried to move the admin component directly:
$sa.AdminComponent.Move($instance, "d:\sp_index")
But again I get an error:
Exception calling "Move" with "2" argument(s): "Admin component was moved to another server."
At line:1 char:1
+ $sa.AdminComponent.Move($instance, "d:\sp_index")
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [], MethodInvocationException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : OperationCanceledException
I've checked all the most common issues - the service instance is online, the search host controller service is running on the machine, etc... but I can't seem to get this database restored to a different farm.
Any help would be appreciated!

Thanks for the response Bhavik,
I did ensure the instance was started:
Get-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceInstance -Local
TypeName : SharePoint Server Search
Description : Index content and serve search queries
Id : e9fd15e5-839a-40bf-9607-6e1779e4d22c
Server : SPServer Name=ROYALS
Service : SearchService Name=OSearch15
Role : None
Status : Online
But after attempting to set the admin component I got the results below.
Before setting the admin component:
Get-SPEnterpriseSearchAdministrationComponent -SearchApplication $sa
IndexLocation : E:\sp_index\Office Server\Applications
Initialized : True
ServerName : prodServer1
Standalone :
After setting the admin component:
Get-SPEnterpriseSearchAdministrationComponent -SearchApplication $sa
IndexLocation :
Initialized : False
ServerName :
Standalone :
It's shown this status for a few hours now so I don't believe it's still provisioning. Also, the search service administration is still showing the same error:
The search service is not able to connect to the machine that hosts the administration component. Verify that the administration
component '764c17a1-4c29-4393-aacc-de01119aba0a' in search application 'Search Service Application' is in a good state and try again.

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