Stopping a full text index Exchange 2003

steinooo · 12 Mar 2011 at 16:29

hi all,

I started a full text index creation earlier and want to stop it, any idea how?

the First Administrative Group > Servers > server > First Storage Group > Mailbox store name > Full Text Indexing "index state" shows that there is no full text index for this store, I don't seem to have a method of stopping it, help please!

Dogers · 12 Mar 2011 at 19:42

Try the command line stuff, here:
http://www.msexchange.org/tutorials...Exchange-Full-Text--Index-MSSEARCH_ADMIN.html

Skidilliplop · 16 Mar 2011 at 10:24

You can try stopping it but unless it's killing the IS performance I'd be inclined to just leave it to it.

steinooo · 16 Mar 2011 at 20:10

cheers guys, I did Skidilliplop's suggestion and to all intents and purposes I think it's still running :eek:

very strange but I get the impression this Full Text Indexing is a bit unstable! Will try on smaller mailstores.

Skidilliplop · 17 Mar 2011 at 09:31

Just out of interest how big is your information store?

steinooo · 18 Mar 2011 at 21:29

can find out soon, but FYI I did the same operation on a Mail Store containing 1 x 146KB mailbox and it hung my Exchange System Manager and still don't think it's actually Indexed that mailbox!!!!!!! Is it flakey or am I doing something wrong!? should I just use CLI?