How to Optimize Full-Text Indexing

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You must perform six steps to optimize full-text indexing. Follow this procedure and the referenced sub-procedures to optimize full-text indexing.

Before You Begin

This topic contains information about editing the registry.

Warning

Incorrectly editing the registry can cause serious problems that may require you to reinstall your operating system. Problems resulting from editing the registry incorrectly may not be able to be resolved. Before editing the registry, back up any valuable data.

Procedure

To optimize full-text indexing

  1. Move the property store and the property store logs. For detailed steps, see How to Move the Property Store and the Property Store Logs for Full-Text Indexing in a Non-Clustered Environment and How to Move the Property Store and the Property Store Logs for Full-Text Indexing in a Clustered Environment.

  2. Move the temporary directory. For detailed steps, see How to Move the Microsoft Search Server Temporary Directory.

  3. Move the index (catalog). For detailed steps, see How to Move the Index (Catalog) for Full-Text Indexing.

  4. Move the gather logs. For detailed steps, see How to Move the Gather Logs for Full-Text Indexing.

  5. Increase the message size limit. For detailed steps, see How to Increase the Message Size Limit for Full-Text Indexing.

  6. Set up checkpointing. For detailed steps, see How to Set Up Checkpointing for Full-Text Indexing.

The checkpointing feature was provided in Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server Service Pack 2 (SP2) and later to prevent possible indexing problems.