Unable to Delete Microsoft Sharepoint 2019 Search Application

Question

Answer 1

Try clearing the config cache and run the below commands to delete your Search Service Application.

#Get ID for the Search Service Application
Get-SPServiceApplication

# Paste  the service application ID in place of searchserivceapplicationid
Remove-SPServiceApplication searchserivceapplicationid -removedata

If the above commands didn't work for you try with the below commands again.

Get-SPServiceApplication

STSADM.EXE -o deleteconfigurationobject -id <GUID of the service>

Clear the Config Cache script

Below article for more information to delete corrupted search service application.

https://blog.greenbrain.de/2013/11/removing-corrupted-search-service-from.html

Thanks & Regards,

Answer 2

Hi, DebabrataDas-9036 ,

Just like sharatha said, you can try to clear the config cache and use stsadm to remove the search service application.

Here is a thread with similar issue:
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/4602ad39-f4f1-4965-a9a0-e1716cdaea02/no-search-service-instances-found-in-this-farm?forum=SP2019

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