Afternoon, How do you force a reindex of e-mails in Exchange 2007 Sp1? When searching in OWA, it was the index is not availible. Thanks! Shawn

Can you run the Test-ExchangeSearch <DB-Name> cmdlet and see if it gives you any useful information? I don't have an E2K7 server right in front of me right now, so I can't test this. I have never had to rebuild an E2K7 index and could not find any "official" guidance on this, so this is a bit of a guess, but try this: 1) Stop the search service 2) Delete the catalog files under the database in question 3) Restart the search service If that does not do it, then try this: 1) Disable indexing for the database Set-MailboxDatabase <DB-Name> -IndexEnabledFalse 2) Stop the search service 3) Delete the catalog files 4) Restart the search service 5)Stop the search service 6) Enable indexing again Set-MailboxDatabase <DB-Name> -IndexEnabledTrue 7) Start the search service again

Those "smiley faces" in my previous post should be a colon ( and a $. (oops)

Steps are perfect given by Jim, however I found TechNet help on rebuilding index catalog. How to Rebuild the Full-Text Index Catalog You can run test for a user. Test-ExchangeSearch -Identity UserID@Domain.com How to Diagnose Exchange Search Issues