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emsantos
Nov 19, 2020Copper Contributor
Exchange 2019 Search Issues
Hi, Recently in the organization, we performed the migrating email infrastructure from Exchange 2016 to Exchange 2019 All new Exchange servers are running 2019 CU7, the Outlook client is the Off...
farismalaeb
Dec 05, 2020Steel Contributor
Hi
You can follow this post if the users who have the problem are located in Exchange 2019
https://tkolber.medium.com/fixing-search-indexing-issues-within-exchange-2019-mailboxes-eba04d207312
in short, try to move the users to another database or if the command
Start-MailboxAssistant -Identity <Mailbox id> -AssistantName BigfunnelRetryFeederTimeBasedAssistant
If the users on Exchange 2016 having this issue, you will need to confirm that Content Indexing on the database Level and ensure that it's healthy.
https://practical365.com/exchange-server/exchange-2016-failed-content-index/
- JonasBackMar 05, 2021Steel ContributorThere is no Start-MailboxAssistant, not on Exchange 2019 CU8 at least. Anyone else successfully ran this command?
- Jan_BostromApr 01, 2021Copper Contributor
If you run this command first, Start-MailboxAssistant becomes available: Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.Exchange.Management.PowerShell.SnapIn
However, it won't help since the specific assistant, BigfunnelRetryFeederTimeBasedAssistant, does not seem to exist, at least not on Exchange 2019 CU9. If anyone has any information about how to restart indexing of Exchange 2019 mailboxes, without moving them to another database, I would be very grateful.- PascalDVJun 09, 2021Copper Contributor
Jan_BostromThe assistant exists (also in CU8), but it seems to be case-sensitive for me, so if I use
BigFunnelRetryFeederTimeBasedAssistant
(capital F in BigFunnel), it works for me. Let me know if it works for you.