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Monday, May 21, 2007

SharePoint V3: Fresh MOSS 2007 Search Configuration for Medium Server Farm

Description
After configuring and starting MOSS Search, you wish to have a clean configuration. Maybe the indexing process doesn't seem to be working correctly. Or, perhaps there are issues with the propogated index share folder. Or, maybe the crawler doesn't seem to complete its process. Or, maybe the first time around you forgot about your database naming convention and you want to rename the search database to something more relevant. Whatever the issue or reason, the solution below offers a way to gain a fresh start with MOSS search configuration. This solution creates a new search database, it clears the index and propogated index file shares and creates new ones.

Solution
From each of the search servers
* Start > Run > CMD
* net stop osearch

From each of the query servers
* Central Admin > Services on Server
* Stop/Remove MOSS Search (query) from each of the query search servers

From the index server
* Central Admin > Services on Server
* Stop/Remove MOSS search (index)

From the index server
* Central Admin > Services on server
* Note the database name
* Stop/Remove WSS search

From the index server
* Central Admin > Services on server
* Start/Add the WSS Search (this requires creating a new db)

From the index server
* Central Admin > Services on server
* Start/Add the MOSS Search (select only the index checkbox)

From each of the query servers
* Central Admin > Services on server
* Start/Add MOSS Search (select only the query checkbox)

From the SSP
* SSP Admin > User Profiles

* Verify that user profiles have been imported

From the SSP
* SSP Admin > Search Settings
* Verify all content sources, crawl rules, schedules, scopes are configured properly
* Perform a full crawl of content

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