{"id":3309,"date":"2018-08-04T13:28:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-04T18:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lisa.rushworth.us\/?p=3309"},"modified":"2018-08-04T13:28:00","modified_gmt":"2018-08-04T18:28:00","slug":"reinitializing-the-exchange-content-index-database","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=3309","title":{"rendered":"Reinitializing The Exchange Content Index Database"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When you search your inbox by copying a word from a message subject and searching for it by subject &#8230; but get nothing back, that&#8217;s a good indication that the content index database has gone corrupt. With Exchange 2013, you can manually reinitialize that database as follows:<\/p>\n<p>Stop-Service MSExchangeFastSearch<br \/>\nStop-Service HostControllerService<\/p>\n<p>rename &#8220;C:\\program files\\microsoft\\Exchange Server\\V15\\Mailbox\\Mailbox Database 1440585757\\1CDB1E55-A129-46BC-84EF-2DDAE27B808C12.1.Single&#8221; &#8220;c:\\program files\\microsoft\\Exchange Server\\V15\\Mailbox\\Mailbox Database 1440585757\\1CDB1E55-A129-46BC-84EF-2DDAE27B808C12.1.Single.bad&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Start-Service MSExchangeFastSearch<br \/>\nStart-Service HostControllerService<\/p>\n<p># Wait a bit for the content indexing process to start<br \/>\nGet-MailboxDatabaseCopyStatus | FL Name,*Index*<\/p>\n<p>ContentIndexState of &#8220;Crawling&#8221; means it&#8217;s still working on it. Healthy means it&#8217;s done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you search your inbox by copying a word from a message subject and searching for it by subject &#8230; but get nothing back, that&#8217;s a good indication that the content index database has gone corrupt. With Exchange 2013, you can manually reinitialize that database as follows: Stop-Service MSExchangeFastSearch Stop-Service HostControllerService rename &#8220;C:\\program files\\microsoft\\Exchange Server\\V15\\Mailbox\\Mailbox &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[627,64],"class_list":["post-3309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-system-administration","tag-content-index","tag-exchange"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3309"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3310,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3309\/revisions\/3310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}