Create SharePoint Search Service Application With PowerShell

When the Search service application is created from Central Admin, all created Search databases have GUIDs at the end. I like to like to create Databases with a friendly name rather than a nasty GUID. If we create the Search service with PowerShell, we can specify the database names SharePoint uses. The following script will do this for you... 


The next step is to manually create the crawl component, and index partition and query component. Fortunately this only take a few seconds from the GUI.