This script is what we used to rebuild the topology.  Notice the first section define variables this must be set to what you are using in your environment. or you can view the contents right down here! Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell#### Define Variables ### #where Database Server Name equals your database server ...

This is the script we used for the removal process… Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell #Removing Existing Search Service Applications $SSAS = Get-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceApplication ForEach ($SSA in $SSAS) { $SSA | FT Name, ID, ApplicationPool $Response = Read-Host -Prompt “Would you like to remove the above Search Service Application and all associated search data? Press Y ...

Sometimes for a multitude of reasons search topologies will fail.  This can be from anything from a cumulative update that failed, to a psconfig.exe execution that stopped or failed.  Also databases can get corrupted such as the search crawl database and the link store.  There are several topologies for search ...

Recently we had issues with our distributed cache system that was set up on are farm quite some time ago when I built it with SPAuto-Installer.  This could have been from rolling out cumulative updates or what have you.  There is very little documentation on the web for this.  In our case ...