How To Fix Exchange 2013 \ 2010 \ 2016 Content Indexing “Crawling” State

This blog post will show you how fix the status of an Exchange Server Database content Indexing from crawling to healthy state.

Before you start don’t forget to read how to:

The first step is to find out which databases are affected by running the cmdlet below:

Get-MailboxDatabaseCopyStatus * | where {$_.ContentIndexState -eq "crawling"}

Once confirmed Stop and start the “Microsoft Exchange Search Indexer” Service.

Next you can leave Exchange sync the content search Index or you can start the process manually by running the cmdlet below (You need to use the passive copy):

Update-MailboxDatabaseCopy "MBX\ExchangePassiveServer" -CatalogOnly

If you want to monitor the indexing status open Performance monitor on the passive server and select the settings below from the MSExchange Search Indexer and indices

You can also use this fix to fix Exchange Databases Content Index status set to failed.


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