Resume paused search service application

When Search service application shows crawl status as “Paused by system” or “External Request”, it can be fixed below PowerShell script:

(Optional) If not running SharePoint Management:

Add-PSSnappin "Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell"

Then:

$ssa – Get-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceApplication "Your Search Service Application Name"
Resume-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceApplication $ssa

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Patrick Lee | Technical Consultant | FiveP About the author: Patrick is passionate, professional, efficient, hardworking and humble. As a Microsoft certified IT Professional of SharePoint, he helps people to get enterprise technologies in order to improve their business processes.