WSS 3 Search Index Rebuild
From: Stefan Koell <StefanKoell discussions microsoft com>
Subject: WSS 3 Search Index Rebuild
Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2007 04:01:01 -0800
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.sharepoint.general
Hi,
my configuration is Windows 2003 (most recent patch level) 32-bit and Windows Sharepoint Services V3 (with the integrated "tailored" database which is distributed with WSS).
After setting up my sharepoint site which already contains hundreds of PDFs I stumbled accross the following MS KB article
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/927675
This article states, that I have to change a metadata property of every single pdf file to get it in the search index. This is impossible for me and would take me days to go through all documents. I mean is there no other way to reset the index?
I'm stuck here and getting more and more frustrated...
cheers
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From: "Jeff Lynch"
Subject: Re: WSS 3 Search Index Rebuild
Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2007 16:35:50 -0600
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.sharepoint.general
I "believe" that you could change the last modified date on each document using a SQL query and the next time the database was crawled, the search service would pick this up as a changed document and index it. I haven't tried this yet but since I have over 10,000 pdf documents I'm certainly not going to "touch" each document manually. I'll let everyone know how it goes.
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Best regards,
Jeff Lynch
MVP Windows Server System - Commerce Server
http://codebetter.com/blogs/jeff.lynch
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From: Stefan Koell <StefanKoell discussions microsoft com>
Subject: Re: WSS 3 Search Index Rebuild
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 07:33:01 -0800
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.sharepoint.general
I contacted Jeff privately for an update and this was the outcome:
First, it's working! Pretty easy:
start up cmd.exe
change directory to "Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\BIN"
execute
stsadm.exe -o spsearch -action fullcrawlstop
stsadm.exe -o spsearch -action fullcrawlstart
now wait a bit...
Actually Jeff told me to execute the fullcrawlstart command. I thought, just to be on the safe side, do a stop before. So it may work without the fullcrawlstop command as well.
Thanks to Jeff for helping me (us) out on this.
cheers
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