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Parameter
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Value
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Required?
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Description
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action
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Any one of the following values:
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Yes
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Specifies the action to perform. The required parameters for "start" (if not already set) are role, farmcontactemail, and farmserviceaccout, and farmservicepassword.
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f
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<none>
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No
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Suppresses prompts. Used with the action parameter.
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role
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Any one of the following values:
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Specifies whether a particular server is an index server, a query server, or both.
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farmcontactemail
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A valid e-mail address in the form: someone@example.com
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No. However, this parameter is required when you use it with the start value.
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Specifies an e-mail address that external site administrators can contact if problems occur when their site is being crawled. This setting applies to all servers in the farm.
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farmperformancelevel
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Any one of the following values:
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Reduced
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PartlyReduced
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Maximum
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No
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Adjusts the indexing performance level for each index server. The default setting is Reduced. You can only configure this setting for a specific index server, not for the Shared Services Provider (SSP).
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farmserviceaccount
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<none>
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No
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The user name for the account under which the Office SharePoint Server Search service account will run. Configuring or modifying this account affects all index and query servers in the server farm.
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Note:
The farm search service account must not be a service account for security reasons and for it to access the database and content index. Examples of built-in accounts are Local Service and Network Service.
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farmservicepassword
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<none>
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No
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The password for the farmserviceaccount parameter.
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defaultindexlocation
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A valid folder location in the form: C:\Folder\Subfolder
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By default, the search index will be located at this path on this server. For index servers, you can specify a different path when you create an SSP. To change the index file location for an existing SSP, use the indexlocation parameter of the Editssp operation.
Note:
Changing the index location will reset the index. To move an index with a reset, use the noreset parameter of the Spsearchsensitive or Osearchsensitive operation.
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propagationlocation
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A valid location, such as “C:\Searchindexes”
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This is the location where search indexes propagated to a server are stored. This path must be shared to allow propagation to the server to occur. A search service account will be given write access to the propagation shared folder and the shared folder will be named “Searchindexpropagation.”
Note:
This setting is available when the Use this server for serving search queries check box is the only check box selected.
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reprovisionindex
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A valid SSP name, such as "Shared_Service1"
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No. However, the ssp parameter must be used.
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Re-initializes a query server for a single SSP.
Note:
This parameter was introduced in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 with Service Pack 1 (SP1).
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cleansearchdatabase
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Either one of the following:
| No. However, the ssp parameter must be used. | When the cleansearchdatabase parameter is set to true, it enables cleanup of the database table that stores document properties. The cleanup occurs during service startup. For additional information, see the Remarks section. Note: This parameter does not require a full crawl of an index to occur. Note: This parameter was introduced in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 with Service Pack 1 (SP1). |
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ssp
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A valid SSP name, such as "Shared_Service1"
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No. However, it is a required parameter if either the reprovisionindex or cleansearchdatabase parameter is used.
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Specifies the catalog of the SSP name to reinitialize.
Note:
This parameter was introduced in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 with Service Pack 1 (SP1).
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