Hi

I am setting up Search on a new SP2013 farm using this article. My setup is different in that respect that I have two combined web/app servers and two dedicated search servers (called IDX1 and IDX2).

When running the script to create the index components, it fails:

New-SPEnterpriseSearchIndexComponent : Cannot bind parameter 'RootDirectory' to the target. Exception setting "RootDirectory": "Could not find a part of the path ...

The reason is apparently that the script that is running on the CA-server is looking for the locations for the primary and replica copies on the local server rather than on the two IDX-servers.

How can I change the script in order to tell it to look on specific servers?

And what security permissions are nescessary in the index directories?

Thanks,

Jakob

Hi J.Rohde,

This is an know issue.

Cannot bind parameter 'RootDirectory' to the target. Exception setting ""RootDirectory"": ""Could not find a part of the path 'd:\index4'."

Workaround    You can create the new index component using the following procedure instead:

$host02 = (Get-SPServer"<Name of server>").Name

$ssa = Get-SPEnterpriseSearchserviceApplication

$t = $ssa.ActiveTopology.Clone()

$ic = (New-Object Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Administration.Topology.IndexComponent $host02,1);

$ic.RootDirectory =""d:\index4"

$t.AddComponent($ic)"

Thanks,

Jack