Configure the Crawl Account for Enterprise Search
Scenario/Problem: You need to configure the crawl account for the Enterprise Search Service.
Solution: Use the Set-SPEnterpriseSearchService cmdlet with the crawl account parameters.
You may set the crawl account information for the search service by using the ServiceAccount and ServicePassword parameters with the Set-SPEnterpriseSearchService cmdlet, as shown in Listing 13.4.
Listing 13.4. Configuring the Search Service Crawl Account
Set-SPEnterpriseSearchService-Identity 9e19864d-8b4b-4fda-bcb1-10645457ad70-ServiceAccount "SP\SharePointCrawl"-ServicePassword (ConvertTo-SecureString -asplaintext -force -string "SharePoint1")
The password needs to be a secure string; therefore, the ConvertTo-SecureString ...
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