The search service application handles the core functionality of search in SharePoint. In this recipe, we will provision a new search service application.
Tip
You can create multiple search service applications for a farm. This can be useful to segment indexed content for different web applications. For instance, the search service application used by a public-facing web application may be configured to index the content of the public-facing sites only, whereas a separate search service application used by an internal-facing web application may be configured to index all of the content on the farm.
Follow these steps to provision a search service application:
Navigate to Central Administration in your preferred web browser.
Click on Manage service applications from the Application Management section as shown in the following screenshot:
Click on Search Service Application in the New menu from the SERVICE APPLICATIONS tab in the ribbon as shown...