The MSSearch component of Exchange provides a way to create Full-Text Indexes for Exchange Stores which allows for faster searches. Microsoft has now released a VBScript based tool to manage, fix and get the status of Full-Text Indexes in the entire organization.
It requires the ArrayConvert.Exe module that helps vbscript convert a variable of one type to another. The module is available here:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;250344
The customer should run this tool using the command line cscript.exe shell. This tool is not for beginners as it requires some learning, has no GUI, and provides XML output. One might complain that some of the tool's functions should be available using the Exchange System Manager but at least this tool is 100 percent open source code.
The tool is available for download here:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=46FD5644-BD0D-4CFA-95F8-64BA34BDE6A7&displaylang=en
About Amit Zinman
Currently working as Project Manager and Systems Consultant, heading and consulting on Exchange and NT/Windows 2000 based migrations and deployments for large companies such as Checkpoint, Comverse, Smarteam, Nice, Aladdin and leading Israeli Banks, Also involved in writing scripts and custom solutions for clients based on ADSI, CDO and Visual Basic and teaching Windows 2000 and Exchange 2000 in MSCE colleges and lecturing in Microsoft User Groups.
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