Most of the developers have encountered this question, when exactly do we need to run the sharepoint full crawl? Why does incremental crawl is not enough.
Here are the following scenarios where full crawl is mandatory.
a) Search service application created in the farm and configured with content source(Its obvious)
b) New content source added/created.
c) Adding new managed property/ updating the existing managed property.
d) After CRUD operation of Crawl Rules
d) If search index throwing errors
e) The credentials of user account that is assigned to the default content access account have changed
f) Sharepoint Service pack installed
Atleast for the above scenarios its mandatory to run the full crawl else search does not return the required results :(
Here are the following scenarios where full crawl is mandatory.
a) Search service application created in the farm and configured with content source(Its obvious)
b) New content source added/created.
c) Adding new managed property/ updating the existing managed property.
d) After CRUD operation of Crawl Rules
d) If search index throwing errors
e) The credentials of user account that is assigned to the default content access account have changed
f) Sharepoint Service pack installed
Atleast for the above scenarios its mandatory to run the full crawl else search does not return the required results :(
