Indexing Service now only indexes 30 documents

Hello All

I previously had indexing service running on SBS2003 Premium nicely indexing
the contents of the shared document folders on SBS with a link (via Simon
Gibson's ASP search) to the companyweb home page which gave a very convenient
way for our staff to search all company documents.

When I went to use it the other day, I could not find any(!) documents.
Checking the indexing service, it now only lists 30 documents being indexed
rather than the several thousand I had previously.

If I reindex, I don't get any more. If I start a new index and add the
appropriate directory, still no more.

I allowed WSUS to upgarde windows desktop search to clients and servers, I
don't know if this has messed something up.

I don't want to use windows search on clients and server as it slows down
all the machines, I want it to work the way it did before.

Any tips or pointers? Any more information I can give to narrow down the
problem.

I have various versions of SQL server installed, I don't know if this could
have affected anything.

TIA

Inigo

Cliff
Thu Jun 26 05:44:20 PDT 2008

If you don't want to use windows search then it doesn't need to be installed
(it isn't a default component of SBS anyways.) And then WSUS won't try to
update it. It is possible the update broke the indexing service as the
dll's they use are intermingled.

-Cliff

"Inigo" <Inigo@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:A31AB472-D329-4167-A6AA-34E6F32EA23C@microsoft.com...
> Hello All
>
> I previously had indexing service running on SBS2003 Premium nicely
> indexing
> the contents of the shared document folders on SBS with a link (via Simon
> Gibson's ASP search) to the companyweb home page which gave a very
> convenient
> way for our staff to search all company documents.
>
> When I went to use it the other day, I could not find any(!) documents.
> Checking the indexing service, it now only lists 30 documents being
> indexed
> rather than the several thousand I had previously.
>
> If I reindex, I don't get any more. If I start a new index and add the
> appropriate directory, still no more.
>
> I allowed WSUS to upgarde windows desktop search to clients and servers, I
> don't know if this has messed something up.
>
> I don't want to use windows search on clients and server as it slows down
> all the machines, I want it to work the way it did before.
>
> Any tips or pointers? Any more information I can give to narrow down the
> problem.
>
> I have various versions of SQL server installed, I don't know if this
> could
> have affected anything.
>
> TIA
>
> Inigo

Inigo
Thu Jun 26 07:40:02 PDT 2008

Hello Cliff

Thanks for the response.

I have uninstalled Windows search, uninstalled indexing service and
reinstalled indexing service. Still the same problem.

I was wondering if there was any way I could find out which 30 documents it
had chosen to index, this might point me in the right direction.

Thanks

Inigo

"Cliff Galiher" wrote:

> If you don't want to use windows search then it doesn't need to be installed
> (it isn't a default component of SBS anyways.) And then WSUS won't try to
> update it. It is possible the update broke the indexing service as the
> dll's they use are intermingled.
>
> -Cliff
>
> "Inigo" <Inigo@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:A31AB472-D329-4167-A6AA-34E6F32EA23C@microsoft.com...
> > Hello All
> >
> > I previously had indexing service running on SBS2003 Premium nicely
> > indexing
> > the contents of the shared document folders on SBS with a link (via Simon
> > Gibson's ASP search) to the companyweb home page which gave a very
> > convenient
> > way for our staff to search all company documents.
> >
> > When I went to use it the other day, I could not find any(!) documents.
> > Checking the indexing service, it now only lists 30 documents being
> > indexed
> > rather than the several thousand I had previously.
> >
> > If I reindex, I don't get any more. If I start a new index and add the
> > appropriate directory, still no more.
> >
> > I allowed WSUS to upgarde windows desktop search to clients and servers, I
> > don't know if this has messed something up.
> >
> > I don't want to use windows search on clients and server as it slows down
> > all the machines, I want it to work the way it did before.
> >
> > Any tips or pointers? Any more information I can give to narrow down the
> > problem.
> >
> > I have various versions of SQL server installed, I don't know if this
> > could
> > have affected anything.
> >
> > TIA
> >
> > Inigo
>