SharePoint Search Service Application recovery + WCF Endpoint

Wed, 17 Jan 2018 11:58:09 +0000

I recently had some fun and games trying to fix a broken SharePoint Search Service Application. Although I’m not entirely what caused the issue (other than, you know, SharePoint) although it may be to do with changing the Farm Passphrase but one way or another it was, fooked.

I opted to just delete it and create a new one. This didn’t go well. A new application was created, but it, also, was dead.

As many people have found, Central Admin and Remove-SPServiceApplication have a habit of doing entirely nothing when it comes to remove broken Search Applications.

Wcf on Matt Thornton

SharePoint Search Service Application recovery + WCF Endpoint