Stopping Index Propagation

You might stop propagating a content index if, for example, you lose your network connection or if the propagation is taking an exceedingly long time.

Propagation of indexes containing a large number of documents takes longer than propagation of indexes containing fewer documents. The time for propagation also depends on the network connection to the search servers.

Indexes are propagated to all search servers. If you stop propagation of an index, you will not be able to see it on any search server, unless you stopped the propagation after it was successful on some servers but not on others. When this occurs, the propagation page will show that the propagation was successful, but with errors on specific servers.

For more information about search content propagation, see About Search Content Propagation.

Stop index propagation

1. On the SharePoint Portal Server Central Administration for Server server_name page, click Configure search and indexing.
2. On the Manage the Search Service for SharePoint Portal Server page, in the Indexes section, click Manage propagation.
3. On the Search Propagation page, rest the pointer on the index name, and then click the arrow that appears.
4. On the menu that appears, click Stop Propagation.

   Note  Once you stop propagation, you cannot resume it. However, you can propagate the index again. For more information, see Propagating a Content Index.