Many services like Search and Developer Dashboard depend directly on "Usage and Health Service" Application. Let’s see how to create the service application through UI and PowerShell.
From Central Administration, select Configuration Wizards.
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Configuration wizard can be used to create multiple service applications in a single shot. Check the check box against ‘Usage and Health Data Collection’.
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Clicking on Next will create the Service Application. We can also create it using PowerShell. Spin up SharePoint 2016 Management Shell as administrator.
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Run the below command.
- New-SPUsageApplication -Name "Usage and Health Service Application" -DatabaseName "SP2016Usage_DB"
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Checking the list of Service Applications, we can see the new Service Application listed out.![]()
Summary - Thus, we saw how we can create the "Usage and Health Service" Application through UI as well as through PowerShell, in SharePoint Server 2016.