MSSearch Administration Tool

The Exchange Server MSSearch Administration tool can be used to determine which Exchange Stores in the domain have Full-Text Indexes, provide status on indexes, and provide administration tasks all via the command line.

MSSearch Administration tool overview:

Provide a way to determine which Exchange Stores in the domain have Full-Text Indexes.
Provide a way to get the status of the existing Full-Text Indexes on an Exchange Server and provide additional information than what Exchange System Manager displays.
Provide a way to repair any existing Exchange Full-Text Indexes after any of the following has occurred:
- Domain Rename
- Change Primary SMTP Address for Default Recipient Policy
Provide a way for an admin to perform actions against an existing Full-Text Index via a command line tool. The main actions being:
- Enable the Index for searching
- Disable the Index for searching
- Start a Full Population
- Start an Incremental Population
- Pause the current population
- Resume the current population
- Stop the current population
- Reset the Index (Should only be used as a replacement for Deleting the Full-Text Index and then recreating it)