How can I find and/or copy Manage Service settings for a service in Central Admin from one server to another?

Question

I am trying to figure out the specifics of Managed Metadata Web Service on our Production server to reproduce the same settings in our development server.

I was wondering if there might be an easy way to do this.

Answer 1

To move/copy Managed Metadata Service from one farm to another, you should do the following:

• First, it's recommended to stop the managed metadata service before move using PowerShell.

   Get-SPServiceInstance
   Stop-SPServiceInstance -Identity <ServiceGUID>
  

• Get the service database by running the below command

  Get-SPDatabase | Where {$_.Type -like "*MetadataWebService*"} | Select Name
  

• In your production, open SQL server, perform a database backup for the Managed Metadata service database, to do that check Back Up and Restore of SQL Server Databases. or you can use Database Detach and Attach (SQL Server) as the following:

  • Right click on database > de-attach.
  • locate the .mdf, .ndf, and .ldf files for Managed Metadata database files and paste it to your dev farm.
• In production, attach the database again.

• Start the service instance again.

  Start-SPServiceInstance -Identity <ServiceGUID>
  

• In your development env, Perform a attach to the database files or restore the database backup based on your selected backup and restore method.

• Now Point the Managed Metadata service application to a new database server by using Windows PowerShell

   $app = Get-SPServiceApplication -Name "<ServiceApplicationName>"
   Set-SPMetadataServiceApplication -Identity $app -DatabaseName "<DbName>"
  

Note:

For performing the move operations, you must have the following permissions:

• A member of the Farm Administrators SharePoint group.
• A member of the Administrators group on the local server
• Have the Securityadmin fixed server role on the SQL Server instance.
• Have the db_owner fixed database role for all of the databases that you are moving.

For more details check Move the Managed Metadata Service service application databases in SharePoint Server 2013