Specify a different index server for an SSP (Office SharePoint Server 2007)

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Applies To: Office SharePoint Server 2007

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Topic Last Modified: 2009-06-02

This article describes how to change the index server that is associated with a Shared Services Provider (SSP). An SSP can be associated with only one index server and one content index at a time. You can change the index server associated with an SSP only if you have more than one index server in the farm. However, an index server can be associated with multiple SSPs and can have a content index for each SSP. There are two ways to change the index server for an SSP:

  • By using the SharePoint Central Administration Web site

  • By using the Stsadm command-line tool

When you specify a different index server for an SSP by using the Edit Shared Services Provider page in the UI, the content index from the original index server is permanently deleted and all of the content sources that were crawled for that index must be recrawled. When you specify a different index server by using the Stsadm command-line tool, the existing content index for that SSP continues to be used, and the associated content sources do not need to be recrawled.

To specify a different index server for an SSP by using the Edit Shared Services Provider page

Use the following procedure to change the index server associated with an SSP by using the Edit Shared Service Provider page.

Important

To perform the following procedure, you must be a farm administrator.

Specify a different index server for an SSP by using the Edit Shared Services Provider page

  1. On the SharePoint Central Administration home page, click the Application Management tab.

  2. On the Application Management page, in the Office SharePoint Server Shared Services section, click Create or configure this farm’s shared services.

  3. On the Manage this Farm's Shared Services page, point to the SSP whose settings you want to edit, click the arrow that appears, and then click Edit Properties.

  4. On the Edit Shared Services Provider page, in the Index Server section, select an index server on the Index Server list.

  5. Click OK.

To specify a different index server for an SSP by using the Stsadm command-line tool

Use the following procedure to change the index server associated with an SSP by using the Stsadm command-line tool.

Important

To perform the following procedure, you must be a farm administrator and a member of the Administrators group on the index server.

Specify a different index server for an SSP by using the Stsadm command-line tool

  1. Open a Command Prompt window.

  2. At the command prompt, type the following and then press ENTER to go to the folder that contains the Stsadm command-line tool:

    cd %COMMONPROGRAMFILES%\Microsoft shared\Web server extensions\12\bin

  3. Type the following command, and then press ENTER:

    stsadm –o editssp –title ssp name –indexserver server name

    where ssp name is the name of the SSP to which you want to assign a different index server and where server name is the name of the server that you want to crawl content for this SSP.

  4. The Command Prompt window displays Operation completed successfully.

See Also

Concepts

Configure index and query servers (Office SharePoint Server 2007)
Configure index and query server roles (Office SharePoint Server 2007)
View or change content index locations (Office SharePoint Server 2007)