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  • Saturday, July 26, 2008 11:09 AMMike Walsh MVPMVP, ModeratorUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers Medals
     
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    (The following was posted by Frank Sconzo. It was a duplicate of an earlier post to the Search forum and also added extra content. Unfortunately when deleting the duplicate I deleted this one by mistake. Here it is again. Sorry Frank.)

    Hi all,

    Hoping for some guidance here.

    I have a MOSS farm with six servers: four web front ends and two database servers.
    The indexer service runs on server#1 but I need to move it to server#3.
    Server#3 is in a different data center than server#1 and we regularly exercise migrating services from one data center to the other. This is my first time trying to migrate MOSS to the backup data center.
    It is starting to seem that migrating the farm from one set of servers to another is not an easy task. Anyone have any best practices on this?
    We've got the database figured out; using a database alias and mirroring.

    However, Search is causing some trouble.
    After stopping the Office Sharepoint Server Search on server#1, we started the service it on server#3.
    However, I cannot start Windows Sharepoint Services Search. It wants to create a new database. The current search database is named after server#1 (literally WSS_Search_Server1). I tried just reusing that database, but sharepoint wants the database to be completely empty.
    Will I need to create yet another database schema to support moving the search service from one server to another?

    Perhaps I can just drop all the objects in that database and reuse it for server#3 (though it will still be named WSS_Search_server1).

    Assuming I get that working (and it is the right thing to do... What is the next step with regard to the SSP?
    Do I just need to select server#3 from the Index Server option in the "Edit Shared Services Provider" page?

    Have I missed any steps in this endeavor?

    Thanks in advance for your time!
    -Frank
     

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  • Tuesday, July 29, 2008 1:45 AMFrank Sconzo Users MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers Medals
     
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    Hi Mike,

    Thanks - I was wondering why my threads weren't showing up anymore.
    Sorry I cross-posted, but figured this question was more of a setup and admin question, than a search question.

    Regards,
    Frank
     
  • Tuesday, July 29, 2008 8:59 AMFrancesco Sodano Users MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers Medals
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    For start Windows Sharepoint Server Search try to use this command:

    Stsadm -o spsearch -action attachcontentdatabase -databasename <content database name> [-databaseserver <server\instance>] [-searchserver <search server name>]

    and after this:

    stsadm -o spsearch -action start

       -farmserviceaccount <domain\name> (service credentials)

       [-farmservicepassword] <password>

    Reference : http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc288507(TechNet.10).aspx

    Regards,

    Francesco

    www.sharepointinside.it