Microsoft Sharepoint Products and Technologies Resource Kit eBook

620 Part VII: Information Management in SharePoint Products and Technologies
■ Starting, stopping, or pausing index build jobs.
■ Deleting a content index. You’ll delete a content index file only when the file is
no longer needed and there are no content sources assigned to that index file.
Content index management is performed from the Manage Search Settings And
Indexed Content section of the Site Settings page in SharePoint Portal Server 2003.
Resetting a Content Index
Resetting a content index is the best way to empty an index file and force a fullupdate
index to run for all the content sources that are using that index file. You’ll
want to do this if the index file becomes corrupted or if you want to quickly start a
manual full update of all assigned content sources.
Perform the following steps to reset a content index:
1. On the Manage Content Indexes page, rest the pointer on the index name and
then click the arrow that appears.
2. On the menu that appears, click Reset Content Index.
3. On the message box that appears, click OK.
Resetting the index stops any updates that are in progress and empties the
index completely. In a server farm configuration, the old index exists on the search
servers until index propagation has occurred.
Deleting a Content Index
Deleting a content index is performed from the Manage Search Settings And
Indexed Content section on the Site Settings page. You’ll delete a content index only
when you’ve either moved the content sources to another index file or if you no
longer need the content in the index to appear in the search results for your users.
Note You can delete a content index only if you have enabled Advanced
Search Administration Mode. You cannot delete the Portal_Content or
Non_Portal_Content indexes.
Perform the following steps to delete a content index:
1. On the Manage Content Indexes page, point to the content index name and
then click the arrow that appears.
2. On the menu that appears, click Delete.
3. In the confirmation message box that appears, click OK.