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In this post I will describe in details how to refine SharePoint search results by Web application Display name. In SharePoint as OOTB there is no managed property stores the web application name in SharePoint 2013.

Firstly, in order to filter the search results using web application display name we need to create new managed property of type text and make it refinable and active.


Secondly, to get the web application name and store it in the new refinable managed property we just created. We need to  utilize the Content Enrichment callout architecture and create new WCF service to process the search items and write the appropriate value to managed property “WebApplicationDisplayName”

I followed this MSDN article with little changes, the input property in my example will be the siteID which represents the site collection Guid. In the ProcessItem method I create new instance of SPSite object using this unique Guid and then get the web application display name and dispose of the SPSite object.


After wards, I created a new IIS application and deployed the WCF service to it and run the below shell script to configure the search content enrichment service.



To run this script you need to stop all crawling if you have continuous crawling enabled you need to disable it 


Important: FileNotFound Exception

I notice that the service causes FileNotFound exception in the line responsible of the creation of the new SPSite instance. The reason was the default application pool identity need to be configured as the SharePoint application pool identity so it will be granted access to Content Database.
After a successful run I opened my search center, edit the refiner Webpart in the search result page and added the WebapplicaitonDisplayName to the top of my refiners.


and at the end the new search refiner will appear as below in the search page:


Full code is available in MSDN Code gallery here