Rebuild index (again)

[honkman]

I want to rebuild the indexes. Because there are some thousend mailboxes I can't rebuild them in one step (performance of the server) and I don't want to do it each by each manually (my peformance ).

• Is there a proper solutions to do that?
• Is there a shell tool like FSAUtility, etc. available I could use for that? I have not found one. I then could write a script to do that.
• Is there a flag in the database I can change to tell EV to rebuild the index for a mailbox?
  

Thank you and best regards

[Liam_Finn1]

honkman,

I dont have an answer to your question but i have a question for you

What size are your indexes and how long does it take to rebuild them

Liam

[sym_se_support0]

Why would you want to rebuild all the indexes though, unless you are changing the Index Level?


The table IndexVolume has a column Rebuilding.

You can manually or using SQL change a handfull of these tables to "1" or "True" (depending on the version of EV).

Then cycle the Index Server service and those indexes will begin to rebuild.

The only real reason that I can think of to ever "rebuild" an index though it to change the Index Level (full, medium, brief).  Make sure you do a complete backup of the index locations before you begin the rebuilds.  In a week or month you may decide this was not a good idea.