@Chris Buley Thanks for reaching out to Microsoft Q&A, apologize for any inconvenience caused on this.
Please find the below responses for the above questions
- You can delete and recreate the search service with the same. When you are recreating the search service with same name if you are facing any issues. I would suggest you try changing the location for the new search service.
- When you delete a search service, the indexes and indexers associated with that service will also be deleted. However, the documents in your Azure Cosmos DB will not be deleted.
- Yes, you can use the import wizard, or create indexers for pulling in data. It is a completely n ew indexing.
Feel free to reach back to me if you have any further questions on this.