How to Move the Property Store and the Property Store Logs for Full-Text Indexing in a Non-Clustered Environment

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To improve performance of your full-text indexing server, move the property store database files to your RAID array. You need to move the property store and the property store logs only one time for each server because all indexes on a server use the same property store.

Before You Begin

This procedure is one of six steps that you should perform when optimizing full-text indexing. For more details about this entire procedure, see How to Optimize Full-Text Indexing.

Procedure

To move the property store in a non-clustered environment

  1. From a command prompt, use the Pstoreutl tool to move the database to the new drive. (For details, see the example below.)

  2. Restart the Microsoft Search service.

Example   Your Exchange Server 2003 property store database is on drive C and your server name is 01. You want to move the property store to drive D. From a command prompt, run the Pstoreutl tool. Use the –m option to move the database to the specified location and the –l option to change the directory for log files. Enter the following command on the same line. It is shown on separate lines for readability:

pstoreutl.exe ExchangeServer_01 -m

d:\exchsrvr\ExchangeServer_01\ExchangeServer_myserver.edb -l

d:\exchsrvr\ExchangeServer_01