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Retrieve Enterprise Search Services

Before we examine the cmdlets that we will use to provision the Enterprise Search Services Service Application, we should first look at how to retrieve some of its core components. When it comes time to provision Enterprise Search Services, this will allow us to focus on the core provisioning aspects without worrying about component retrieval. In the following sections, we introduce the relevant retrieval cmdlets and some simple examples of how to use them.

Retrieve the Service Application

You can retrieve an instance of the Enterprise Search Services Service Application using either the Get-SPServiceApplication cmdlet, as shown in previous chapters, or the Get-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceApplication cmdlet. This ...