PowerShell Start SharePoint incremental crawl

Many times we have scenario where we want to start the incremental crawl after updating some data in SharePoint using power shell, here we can use the below script.


Get-SPEnterpriseSearchCrawlContentSource -SearchApplication "Search Service Application" | where-object { ($_.CrawlStatus -eq "idle") } | foreach { $_.StartIncrementalCrawl() }

Enjoy coding !!!

Read file from FTP location using Powershell

To read the file from the FTP, we can use below script:

$webclient = New-Object System.Net.WebClient
$webclient.Credentials = New-Object System.Net.NetworkCredential('ftp username','ftp password')

$uri = New-Object System.Uri('ftp path')

$webClient.DownloadFile($uri, 'local path')