Import SharePoint Managed Properties

Import-SpSearchManagedProperties.ps1

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# Name:            Import-SpSearchManagedProperties.ps1 
# Description:     This script will Import create Crawled and Managed Properties from Enterprise Search 
#                 
# Usage:        Run the function with a required parameters 
# By:             Ivan Josipovic, Softlanding.ca 
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Function Import-SpSearchManagedProperties([string]$SearchServiceApplication,[string]$FileName) 
[System.Xml.XmlDocument] $xd = new-object System.Xml.XmlDocument 
$xd.load(resolve-path($FileName)) 
$nodelist = $xd.selectnodes("/ExportedPropreties/ManagedProprety") 
 
$searchapp = Get-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceApplication $SearchServiceApplication 
$category = Get-SPEnterpriseSearchMetadataCategory –Identity SharePoint -SearchApplication $searchapp 
 
#Create Crawled Propreties 
foreach ($Node in $nodelist) { 
    $Name = $node.selectSingleNode("Name") 
    $type = 1 
    $ManagedType = $node.selectSingleNode("ManagedType") 
    switch ($ManagedType.innertext)  
    {  
        "Text" {$type = 1}  
        "Integer" {$type = 2}  
        "Decimal" {$type = 3}  
        "DateTime" {$type = 4}  
        "YesNo" {$type = 5}  
        "Binary" {$type = 6}  
    } 
    $managedproperty = New-SPEnterpriseSearchMetadataManagedProperty -SearchApplication $searchapp -Name $Name.innertext -Type $type 
    $managedproperty.EnabledForScoping = $true 
    $managedproperty.PutInPropertyBlob = $true 
    $managedproperty.update() 
     
    $Mappings = $node.selectnodes("Mapping") 
        foreach ($Mapping in $Mappings){ 
            $CrawledPropset = $Mapping.selectSingleNode("CrawledPropset") 
            $CrawledPropertyName = $Mapping.selectSingleNode("CrawledPropertyName") 
            $CrawledPropertyVariantType = $Mapping.selectSingleNode("CrawledPropertyVariantType") 
            $crawledproperty = New-SPEnterpriseSearchMetadataCrawledProperty -SearchApplication $searchapp -Category $category -VariantType $CrawledPropertyVariantType.innertext -PropSet $CrawledPropset.innertext -Name $CrawledPropertyName.innertext -IsNameEnum $false 
            $cp = get-SPEnterpriseSearchMetadataCrawledProperty -SearchApplication $searchapp -Name $CrawledPropertyName.innertext 
            New-SPEnterpriseSearchMetadataMapping -SearchApplication $searchapp -ManagedProperty $managedproperty -CrawledProperty $cp 
        } 
} 
write-host "Done" 
} 
 
Import-SpSearchManagedProperties "Search Services Application" "ExportedProperties.xml"