Hi
Firstly let me say this is a requirement for a test\dev environment so not for production use..... but I want to change the Index location from a local disk to a CIFs Share.
The EV Indexes will not in fact be copied anywhere as the CIF's share I want to create will be a share from the server that currently hosts the indexes on it's local disk. EV 'Server A' needs to be removed from the EV site and currently hosts a Vault Store and EV Index from Exchange journal mailbox archiving from a test exchange server. I want to decommision the EV server and so need to change the Vault Store, Partitions and EV Indexes to be managed by one of the other EV servers. 'Server A' itself will not be turned off but I just want to remove EV and so had the idea of leaving the data in place and just configuring the locations as Network shares for the other EV server (Server B). I know this is ok for Vault stores but wanted to check the Indexes can be re-assigned in the same way. I understand that shares for Indexes isn't good in production solutions (this is just a dev environment) but wanted to check, at a technical level, if I can 'move' the EV indexes to a cifs share and update SQL to allow Server B to hos these Indexes vis a CIFs Share. The Technote on moving EV Indexes always talks about copying the indexes to the new location even if it's a UNC path.....
kind regards
Keir
