Running an Exchange Mailbox Content Indexing Job On-demand

Updated

You can run a content indexing job on-demand. You can run the job at the backup set, subclient, or mailbox level. Typically, content indexing jobs are run according to the schedule defined in the server plan.

Before You Begin

  • Each access node that is used to run content indexing jobs must have the following packages installed:

    • Exchange Mailbox application

    • Web Server

    • Content Analyzer

      A new content analyzer cloud is automatically created when you install the Content Analyzer package. To view the content analyzer cloud, go to Manage > Server groups, and then click Content Analyzer Cloud.

  • You must create the Exchange archiving plan or the Exchange Journal mailbox plan with the appropriate entity types selected from the entities list. You must enable the entity detection feature in either the Exchange archiving plan or the Exchange journal mailbox plan (whichever one applies to your mailbox environment).

    Note: On-demand previews of messages are available whether or not content indexing is configured.

Procedure

  1. In the navigation pane, go to Protect > Exchange, and then click the Exchange_Mailbox_server.

  2. In the Agents area, click Exchange Mailbox.

  3. In the Content area, click the backup set.

  4. Do one of the following:

    • To content index the subclient, in the upper-right, click Run content indexing.

    • ContentStore Mailbox and Journal Mailbox: To content index a mailbox, in the Actions column, click the action button , and then click Run content indexing.

    • User Mailbox: To content index a mailbox, select User from the backup_set list, then in the Actions column, click the action button , and then click Run content indexing.

    • User Mailbox: To archive all mailboxes that belong to an AD group or database, select the group_type from the backup_set list, then in the Actions column, click the action button , and then click Run content indexing.

      The content indexing job starts running immediately.