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r00tb00t
Posts:0
 | | 03/15/2010 3:37 PM |
| Hey all,
We are seeing some strange behavior in that Outlook clients are unable
to get any results back when they perform a search. Looking in the
catalog directory for our mailbox database, the entire directory size
129KB so I'm guessing there is something wrong with the cataloging
process so I have stopped the search service, deleted the directory
and then restarted the service. The directory and files are remade and
its still only 129KBs in size? I have no idea what size it should be
but that seems rather small?
I have also ran the power shell script ResetSearchIndex but the same
results are received. Does anyone have any idea why this might be
happening or how I can make the catalog rebuild forcefully?
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Regards,
James 
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| michael1
Posts:426
| | 03/15/2010 4:16 PM |
| Well, you've done the right things to reset the catalog. Are you receiving
any event log errors? If not, the next thing I would investigate is the
configuration for Index Server.
Regards,
Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com
-----Original Message-----
From: activedir-owner@mail.activedir.org
[mailto:activedir-owner@mail.activedir.org] On Behalf Of James Bensley
Sent: Monday, March 15, 2010 11:36 AM
To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org
Subject: [ActiveDir] [OT] Exchange Catalog
Hey all,
We are seeing some strange behavior in that Outlook clients are unable to
get any results back when they perform a search. Looking in the catalog
directory for our mailbox database, the entire directory size 129KB so I'm
guessing there is something wrong with the cataloging process so I have
stopped the search service, deleted the directory and then restarted the
service. The directory and files are remade and its still only 129KBs in
size? I have no idea what size it should be but that seems rather small?
I have also ran the power shell script ResetSearchIndex but the same results
are received. Does anyone have any idea why this might be happening or how I
can make the catalog rebuild forcefully?
--
Regards,
James
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| r00tb00t
Posts:0
| | 03/15/2010 4:24 PM |
| On 15 March 2010 16:15, Michael B. Smith
<michael@theessentialexchange.com> wrote:
> Are you receiving
> any event log errors?
Sadly no.
If not, the next thing I would investigate is the
> configuration for Index Server.
I see how can I check the configuration?
Just to confirm;
Get-MailboxDatabase |select name, indexenabled
Shows that our MBDB has indexing enabled but I can use
Test-ExchangeSearch <any mailbox name> and it returns results found as
false with a response time of -1
I'm stumped by the fact that I have reset the cataloging two or three
times and it just isn't rebuilding!
--
Regards,
James
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| michael1
Posts:426
| | 03/15/2010 5:41 PM |
| Test-ExchangeSearch -debug
Confirm it (twice) with "A" (for All). Should be informative.
Regards,
Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com
-----Original Message-----
From: activedir-owner@mail.activedir.org
[mailto:activedir-owner@mail.activedir.org] On Behalf Of James Bensley
Sent: Monday, March 15, 2010 12:22 PM
To: activedir@mail.activedir.org
Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] [OT] Exchange Catalog
On 15 March 2010 16:15, Michael B. Smith <michael@theessentialexchange.com>
wrote:
> Are you receiving
> any event log errors?
Sadly no.
If not, the next thing I would investigate is the
> configuration for Index Server.
I see how can I check the configuration?
Just to confirm;
Get-MailboxDatabase |select name, indexenabled
Shows that our MBDB has indexing enabled but I can use Test-ExchangeSearch
<any mailbox name> and it returns results found as false with a response
time of -1
I'm stumped by the fact that I have reset the cataloging two or three times
and it just isn't rebuilding!
--
Regards,
James
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| r00tb00t
Posts:0
| | 03/16/2010 10:20 AM |
| On 15 March 2010 17:41, Michael B. Smith
<michael@theessentialexchange.com> wrote:
> Test-ExchangeSearch -debug
>
> Confirm it (twice) with "A" (for All). Should be informative.
>
Sadly that returned Result Found : False and a Search Time: -1
I just can't understand why the catalog doesn't build its self. Am I
missing something extra that should be turned on else where? The
service is enabled, I can see the related processes running in the
Task Manager, the database has indexing enabled?
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Regards,
James
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