How to Use Content Deployment to Propagate Search Catalogs

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1. Save the Setpropdest.vbs file to your <siteserver dir>\bin directory. The Setpropdest.vbs file is available at the end of this article.
   
   
   1. Start Notepad.
   2. Copy and paste the SetPropDest.vbs information below.
   3. The beginning of the line is:

                     Sub Usage
      								

      The end of the line is:

                     call Main

   4. Save the file as SetPropDest.vbs in the <siteserver dir>\bin directory.
2. Start the Microsoft Management Console (MMC). Go to Search, select Catalog Build Server property, and then select <Catalog>. Select Propagation.
3. Add the name of your search server and enable it by selecting the check box.
4. Go to a command prompt and create a directory called c:\prop (or a different directory of your choice).
5. Go to <siteserver dir>\bin and run the following:

   cscript setpropdest.vbs <catalogname> <search server name> c:\prop.

   NOTE: Your search server name is the one you added in step 3.
6. Rebuild the catalog. This will put all the related indexed files in c:\prop.
7. Go to the MMC. Click Publishing, click Projects, and click Project Wizard. This creates a Content Deployment project that will prop the catalog from c:\prop to ..\drop directory on your search server.
8. Specify the source directory, which is c:\prop.
9. Specify the destination directory, which is

   <siteserver dir>\data\search\projects\<catalog name>\search\drop.

   Please consult the Site Server online documentation for more information about creating a content deployment project.
10. Go to your search server.
11. Go to <siteserver dir>\bin and run the following command:

    cscript sssadmin.vbs add catalog /catalog:<catalog> /build:false /search:true

    NOTE: This creates the directory structure for Content Deployment to replicate to.
12. If the deployment is through a firewall, make sure the port 507 is open on the firewall.
13. Go back to the gatherer server and run the Content Deployment project.
14. Go back to the search server, go to the MMC, and press F5 to refresh and manually enable the catalog.

SetPropDest.vbs Starts Here

 Sub Usage
     WScript.Echo "Usage: setpropdest <catalog> <search server>
 <destinationdir>"
     WScript.Quit(1)
 end Sub

 Sub Main

     On Error Resume Next

     if WScript.Arguments.Count <> 3 then
         Usage
     end if

     Set objHost = WScript.CreateObject("Search.SearchAdmin.1")
     if not IsObject(objHost) then
         WScript.echo "Cannot connect to host"
         WScript.Quit(1)
     end if

     Set objBuildServer = objHost.BuildServer
     if not IsObject(objBuildServer) then
         WScript.echo "Cannot connect to build server"
         WScript.Quit(1)
     end if


     Set objBuildCatalogs = objBuildServer.BuildCatalogs
     if not IsObject(objBuildCatalogs) then
         WScript.echo "Cannot connect to catalogs"
         WScript.Quit(1)
     end if

     Set objBuildCatalog = objBuildCatalogs.Item( WScript.Arguments(0) )
     if not IsObject(objBuildCatalog) then
         WScript.echo "Cannot obtain catalog " & WScript.Arguments(0)
         WScript.Quit(1)
     end if


     Set objSearchServers = objBuildCatalog.SearchServers
     if not IsObject(objSearchServers) then
         WScript.echo "Cannot obtain Search Servers"
         WScript.Quit(1)
     end if

     set objSearchServer = objSearchServers.Item( WScript.Arguments(1) )
     if not IsObject(objSearchServer) then
         WScript.echo "Cannot obtain Search Server : " &
 WScript.Arguments(1)
         WScript.Quit(1)
     end if


     wscript.echo "Search Server Name             :" &
objSearchServer.Name
     wscript.echo "Search Server Prop Destination :" &
 objSearchServer.PropDestination

     wscript.echo "Setting destination to : " & WScript.Arguments(2)
     objSearchServer.PropDestination = WScript.Arguments(2)

     wscript.echo "Search Server Prop Destination :" &
 objSearchServer.PropDestination


 End Sub

 call Main