We do not want theMSExchangeSearch service to run as the catalog files are growing too large and clients are in cache mode. However, after we stop and disable the MSExchangeSearch service and delete the catalog, and then attempt to activate a store we receive an error as others have reported...
Cannot activate database copy ‘Activate Database Copy…’.
Activate Database Copy…
Failed
Error:
An Active Manager operation failed. Error: The database action failed. Error: An error occurred while trying to validate the specified database copy for possible activation. Error: Database copy ‘xxx′ on server ‘xxx' has content index catalog files in the following
state: ‘Failed’.
Once we enable and start the MSExchangeSearch service again, the store activates fine.
How can we run without this service enabled and still be able to manage the database copies??
TIA
(Exchange 2010)