New Post: Creating Index Partitions using AutoSPInstaller

Hi paulbeck

I've customized the autospinstaller 'cause I had the same problem.
What I did:
Addition to the AutoSPInstallerInput.xml:
Inside the <EnterpriseSearchServiceApplication> changed the following part:

<IndexComponent>
            <Server Name="localhost" IndexPartition="0" />
</IndexComponent>

then I made an addition/change to the AutoSPInstallerFunctions.ps1 inside the "If (!($IndexingComponents) ....)" statement:

 Add the following lines:

$indexComponent = ($appConfig.IndexComponent.Server | where {MatchComputerName $_.Name $env:COMPUTERNAME})
$indexPartition = $IndexComponent.IndexPartition

 Changed the following line:

New-SPEnterpriseSearchIndexComponent –SearchTopology $clone -SearchServiceInstance $searchSvc -IndexPartition $indexPartition @rootDirectorySwitch | Out-Null

I've tested it with two Search Servers each running a separat indexPartition and it worked fine.
Another thing I've changed was, that I had to add the search service account to the local administrator group during the search configuration and removed it later on. This is something I also customized in the AutoSPInstaller and the everything work really fine.

Thanx to everybody who already did great jobs an the existing scripts!