Wednesday, October 14, 2009

MOSS Search Content Source “Stopping”

Sometimes when you stop a content source from indexing, it gets stuck with a status of “Stopping”.  I’ve waited this out before for over 24 hours and this doesn’t change.

A simple fix is to force the office search process to start using the following stsadm command:

stsadm –o osearch –action start

Run this on your index server and the troublesome content source should switch back to idle.