PowerShell™ for SharePoint® 2013 How-To

Get a Specific Metadata-Managed Property

Scenario/Problem: You need to obtain a metadata managed property reference for use in other search cmdlets.

Solution: Use the Get-SPEnterpriseSearchMetadataManagedProperty cmdlet to assign a variable the results using the -Identity and -SearchApplication parameters.

Providing the identity of the metadata-managed property with the Get-SPEnterpriseSearchMetadataManagedProperty cmdlet retrieves a specific metadata-managed property for the specified search service application. Use this to assign the results to an object for use in other cmdlets, as shown in Listing 13.16.

Listing 13.16. Assigning a Variable to a Specific Metadata-Managed Property

$ssApp = Get-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceApplication-Identity ...