Get-SearchCatalog

Gets settings and status of all search catalogs or for a specified one.

Syntax

Get-SearchCatalog
   [[-Catalog] <String>]
   [<CommonParameters>]

Description

The Get-SearchCatalog cmdlet gets settings and status of all search catalogs or for a specified one.

Examples

Example 1: Get settings for all search catalogs

Get-SearchCatalog

Catalog                : SystemIndex
ConnectTimeout         : 0
DataTimeout            : 0
DiacriticSensitivity   : False
Status                 : CATALOG_STATUS_PROCESSING_NOTIFICATIONS
PausedReason           : CATALOG_PAUSED_REASON_NONE
ItemCount              : 23930
ItemsToIndexCount      : 0
NotificationQueueCount : 47
HighPriorityQueueCount : 0
PathBeingIndexed       : file:C:/Users/Bob/Documents/foo.txt

While it is possible to create, manage, and query multiple catalogs, Windows Search currently uses only one catalog, which is named SystemIndex.

Example 2: Get settings for a specific catalog

Get-SearchCatalog -Catalog SystemIndex

Parameters

-Catalog

Specifies the name of the catalog to return information about. If omitted, settings and status of all search catalogs are returned.

Type	string
Position	0
Default value	None
Accept pipeline input	False
Accept wildcard characters	False

Inputs

None

You can't pipe objects to this cmdlet.

Outputs

SearchCatalogInfo

This cmdlet returns one or more SearchCatalogInfo objects.