How to Enable/Disable Continuous Crawls in SharePoint 2013 using Powershell

This blog defines the procedure of enabling/disabling the continuous crawls in SharePoint 2013 using Powershell.

In this blog, you will see how to Enable/Disable the continuous crawls in SharePoint 2013 using Powershell. 

######### To Enable Continuous Crawls in SharePoint 2013 #########

$ssa = Get-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceApplication
$contentsource = Get-SPEnterpriseSearchCrawlContentSource -SearchApplication $ssa -Identity "Local SharePoint sites"
Set-SPEnterpriseSearchCrawlContentSource -Identity $contentsource -EnableContinuousCrawls $True

######### To Disable Continuous Crawls in SharePoint 2013 ######### 

$ssa = Get-SPEnterpriseSearchServiceApplication
$contentsource = Get-SPEnterpriseSearchCrawlContentSource -SearchApplication $ssa -Identity "Local SharePoint sites"
Set-SPEnterpriseSearchCrawlContentSource -Identity $contentsource -EnableContinuousCrawls $False