Full-text indexing is the method by which Exchange 2000 creates and manages full-text indexes to provide faster search and lookup functionality. Previous versions of Exchange searched every message in every folder, thereby increasing search times and expanding databases.
With full-text indexing, every word in a database is indexed, thereby decreasing search and retrieval times.

Full text indexes are not backed up as part of your Exchange 2000 database backups. If a disaster occurs that requires you to rebuild your server, you need to re-create your full-text indexes.

For more information about how to repair or rebuild a server running Exchange 2000 that includes full-text indexing, see ôRepairing Full-Text Indexingö in Part 3 of this document.

The information in this article applies to:

• Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 Enterprise Edition
• Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 Standard Edition
• Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2003, Premium Edition
• Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2003, Standard Edition
• Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server