SPSearchManagedProperty: Can't define Searchable

Details of the scenario you tried and the problem that is occurring

I tried to add a search managed property. I wanted it to be searchable. This is the configuration I tried:

SPSearchManagedProperty TargetAudience
{
	ServiceAppName				= "Search Service Application"
	Name						= "TargetAudience"
	PropertyType				= "Text"
	Searchable					= $true
	Queryable					= $true
	Retrievable					= $true
	HasMultipleValues			= $true
	Refinable					= $true
	Sortable					= $true
	NoWordBreaker				= $false
	IncludeAllCrawledProperties	= $false
	Ensure						= "Present"
	PsDscRunAsCredential		= $SetupAccount
}

Running this goes smoothly, but trying Test-DscConfiguration will give an error (see below).

Without Searchable = $true there is no error in Test-DcsConfiguration, but still reports as “not in desired state”. If I check Central Administration, the property has been created, but is not searchable.

Information from the node itself:

$status = Get-DscConfigurationStatus
$status.ResourcesNotInDesiredState

ConfigurationName    : SharePoint
ModuleName           : SharePointDSC
ModuleVersion        : 4.3.0
PsDscRunAsCredential :
ResourceId           : [SPSearchManagedProperty]TargetAudience
SourceInfo           : C:\xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
DurationInSeconds    : 0,469
Error                :
FinalState           :
InDesiredState       : False
InitialState         :
InstanceName         : TargetAudience
RebootRequested      : False
ResourceName         : SPSearchManagedProperty
StartDate            : 10.2.2021 11.46.28
StateChanged         : False
PSComputerName       :

Verbose logs showing the problem

When running Test-DscConfiguration with Searchable = $true:

Exception calling "Add" with "2" argument(s): "Item has already been added. Key in dictionary: 'Searchable'  Key being added: 'Searchable'"
    + CategoryInfo          : NotSpecified: (:) [], CimException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : ArgumentException
    + PSComputerName        : xxxxxxxx

The PowerShell DSC resource '[SPSearchManagedProperty]TargetAudience' with SourceInfo 'C:\xxxxxxxx' threw one or more non-terminating errors while running the Test-TargetResource functionality. These errors are
 logged to the ETW channel called Microsoft-Windows-DSC/Operational. Refer to this channel for more details.
    + CategoryInfo          : InvalidOperation: (root/Microsoft/...gurationManager:String) [], CimException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : NonTerminatingErrorFromProvider
    + PSComputerName        : xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Suggested solution to the issue

N/A

The DSC configuration that is used to reproduce the issue (as detailed as possible)

See beginning.

The operating system the target node is running

N/A

Version and build of PowerShell the target node is running

PSVersion 5.1.14393.3866 BuildVersion 10.0.14393.3866

Version of the DSC module that was used

SharePointDSC 4.3.0

[ykuijs]

Hi @rurikon, I found the cause of this issue. Apparently it helps if you only check a property once 😜: https://github.com/dsccommunity/SharePointDsc/blob/90f23bc730cd8d651cc4d195429d7ee659598f13/SharePointDsc/DSCResources/MSFT_SPSearchManagedProperty/MSFT_SPSearchManagedProperty.psm1#L472-L474

Will fix this issue in my next Bugfix PR, which will be included in v4.6.

[rurikon]

Oh sorry, stupid me 😃 It doesn’t give much more info, but here it is:

VERBOSE: [XXXXX]: LCM:  [ Start  Resource ]  [[SPSearchManagedProperty]TargetAudienceTest]
VERBOSE: [XXXXX]: LCM:  [ Start  Test     ]  [[SPSearchManagedProperty]TargetAudienceTest]
VERBOSE: [XXXXX]:                            [[SPSearchManagedProperty]TargetAudienceTest] Testing Managed Property Setting for 'TargetAudienceTest'
VERBOSE: [XXXXX]:                            [[SPSearchManagedProperty]TargetAudienceTest] Getting Managed Property Setting for 'TargetAudienceTest'
VERBOSE: [XXXXX]:                            [[SPSearchManagedProperty]TargetAudienceTest] Executing as the local run as user XXXXX
VERBOSE: [XXXXX]:                            [[SPSearchManagedProperty]TargetAudienceTest] Leaving BeginProcessing Method of Get-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceApplication.
VERBOSE: [XXXXX]:                            [[SPSearchManagedProperty]TargetAudienceTest] Leaving ProcessRecord Method of Get-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceApplication.
VERBOSE: [XXXXX]:                            [[SPSearchManagedProperty]TargetAudienceTest] Leaving EndProcessing Method of Get-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceApplication.
VERBOSE: [XXXXX]:                            [[SPSearchManagedProperty]TargetAudienceTest] Leaving BeginProcessing Method of Get-SPEnterpriseSearchMetadataManagedProperty.
VERBOSE: [XXXXX]:                            [[SPSearchManagedProperty]TargetAudienceTest] Leaving ProcessRecord Method of Get-SPEnterpriseSearchMetadataManagedProperty.
VERBOSE: [XXXXX]:                            [[SPSearchManagedProperty]TargetAudienceTest] Leaving EndProcessing Method of Get-SPEnterpriseSearchMetadataManagedProperty.
VERBOSE: [XXXXX]:                            [[SPSearchManagedProperty]TargetAudienceTest] Current Values: Ensure=Absent; Name=TargetAudienceTest; PropertyType=Text; ServiceAppName=Search Service Application
VERBOSE: [XXXXX]:                            [[SPSearchManagedProperty]TargetAudienceTest] Target Values: Ensure=Present; HasMultipleValues=True; IncludeAllCrawledProperties=False; Name=TargetAudienceTest; NoWordBreaker=False; PropertyType=Text; Queryable=True; Refinable=True; Retrievable=True; Searchable=True; ServiceAppName=Search Service Application; Sortable=True; TokenNormalization=True; Verbose=True
Exception calling "Add" with "2" argument(s): "Item has already been added. Key in dictionary: 'Searchable'  Key being added: 'Searchable'"
    + CategoryInfo          : NotSpecified: (:) [], CimException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : ArgumentException
    + PSComputerName        : XXXXX

VERBOSE: [XXXXX]:                            [[SPSearchManagedProperty]TargetAudienceTest] Test-TargetResource returned False
VERBOSE: [XXXXX]: LCM:  [ End    Test     ]  [[SPSearchManagedProperty]TargetAudienceTest] False in 0.6090 seconds.
VERBOSE: [XXXXX]: LCM:  [ *FAILED*Compare  ]     Completed processing compare operation. The operation returned False.
The PowerShell DSC resource '[SPSearchManagedProperty]TargetAudienceTest' with SourceInfo 'C:\XXXXX::SPSearchManagedProperty' threw one or more non-terminating errors while running the Test-TargetResource functionality. These errors are logged to the ETW channel called Microsoft-Windows-DSC/Operational. Refer to this channel for more details.
    + CategoryInfo          : InvalidOperation: (root/Microsoft/...gurationManager:String) [], CimException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : NonTerminatingErrorFromProvider
    + PSComputerName        : XXXXX

VERBOSE: Operation 'Invoke CimMethod' complete.

We had to work on the actual property to get our project forward, so I went to Central Administration and manually checked the “Searchable” checkbox for the TargetAudience I created before. It might be relevant that after I manually checked it, the error disappeared for that property, even though it still has Searchable = $true. Here are the verbose logs for that one:

VERBOSE: [XXXXX]: LCM:  [ Start  Resource ]  [[SPSearchManagedProperty]TargetAudience]
VERBOSE: [XXXXX]: LCM:  [ Start  Test     ]  [[SPSearchManagedProperty]TargetAudience]
VERBOSE: [XXXXX]:                            [[SPSearchManagedProperty]TargetAudience] Testing Managed Property Setting for 'TargetAudience'
VERBOSE: [XXXXX]:                            [[SPSearchManagedProperty]TargetAudience] Getting Managed Property Setting for 'TargetAudience'
VERBOSE: [XXXXX]:                            [[SPSearchManagedProperty]TargetAudience] Executing as the local run as user XXXXX
VERBOSE: [XXXXX]:                            [[SPSearchManagedProperty]TargetAudience] Leaving BeginProcessing Method of Get-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceApplication.
VERBOSE: [XXXXX]:                            [[SPSearchManagedProperty]TargetAudience] Leaving ProcessRecord Method of Get-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceApplication.
VERBOSE: [XXXXX]:                            [[SPSearchManagedProperty]TargetAudience] Leaving EndProcessing Method of Get-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceApplication.
VERBOSE: [XXXXX]:                            [[SPSearchManagedProperty]TargetAudience] Leaving BeginProcessing Method of Get-SPEnterpriseSearchMetadataManagedProperty.
VERBOSE: [XXXXX]:                            [[SPSearchManagedProperty]TargetAudience] Leaving ProcessRecord Method of Get-SPEnterpriseSearchMetadataManagedProperty.
VERBOSE: [XXXXX]:                            [[SPSearchManagedProperty]TargetAudience] Leaving EndProcessing Method of Get-SPEnterpriseSearchMetadataManagedProperty.
VERBOSE: [XXXXX]:                            [[SPSearchManagedProperty]TargetAudience] Current Values: Aliases=(); Ensure=Present; HasMultipleValues=True; IncludeAllCrawledProperties=True; Name=TargetAudience; NoWordBreaker=False; PropertyType=Text; Queryable=True; Refinable=True; Retrievable=True; SafeForAnonymous=False; Searchable=False; ServiceAppName=Search Service Application; Sortable=True; TokenNormalization=True
VERBOSE: [XXXXX]:                            [[SPSearchManagedProperty]TargetAudience] Target Values: Ensure=Present; HasMultipleValues=True; IncludeAllCrawledProperties=False; Name=TargetAudience; NoWordBreaker=False; PropertyType=Text; Queryable=True; Refinable=True; Retrievable=True; ServiceAppName=Search Service Application; Sortable=True; TokenNormalization=True; Verbose=True
VERBOSE: [XXXXX]:                            [[SPSearchManagedProperty]TargetAudience] Test-TargetResource returned False
VERBOSE: [XXXXX]: LCM:  [ End    Test     ]  [[SPSearchManagedProperty]TargetAudience] False in 2.3280 seconds.
VERBOSE: [XXXXX]: LCM:  [ End    Resource ]  [[SPSearchManagedProperty]TargetAudience]