blocking indexing applications?

8 Nov 2007 8:27 PM

Transam388

Is there a way to somehow block indexers from accessing an exchange 2007
system? Now with many downloadable search and indexing things many do this
and do not realize it hammers the disks on exchange a lot. I want to see if
besides monitoring Exmon and then checking the high usage users machines is
there a tool and way to block indexing from hitting the mailboxes. Sort of
think I am out of luck since exchange probably does not differntiate what is
coming in to a mailbox and for what reason. Thank you.

8 Nov 2007 8:29 PM

Andy David {MVP}

On Thu, 8 Nov 2007 12:27:01 -0800, Transam388
<Transam***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>Is there a way to somehow block indexers from accessing an exchange 2007
>system? Now with many downloadable search and indexing things many do this
>and do not realize it hammers the disks on exchange a lot. I want to see if
>besides monitoring Exmon and then checking the high usage users machines is
>there a tool and way to block indexing from hitting the mailboxes. Sort of
>think I am out of luck since exchange probably does not differntiate what is
>coming in to a mailbox and for what reason. Thank you.

Generally group policy against the clients is the way to do this.