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Click Start, point to All
Programs, point to Administrative Tools, and then
click SharePoint 3.0 Central Administration.
Click the Operations tab, and then click
Services on Server.
For the Windows SharePoint Services Help Search service,
click Stop.
Click OK when you receive the following
message:
The Windows SharePoint Services Search service
that was enabled on this server will be uninstalled and all index files will be
deleted permanently.
Repeat step 1 through step 4 on each server where the
Windows SharePoint Services Search service is running.
On the server in the farm in which you want the Search feature to be available,
start the Windows SharePoint Services Search service.
On the Configure Windows SharePoint Services Search Service
Settings page, specify the required account settings. Also, specify a new
Search database. You can delete the original Search database. Or, you can
specify a new name for the Search database to avoid a conflict.
To prevent this problem, stop the Windows SharePoint
Services 3.0 Search service before you upgrade Windows Server 2003 to Windows
Server 2008. To do this, follow these steps:
On the Windows Server 2003-based computer that is running
Windows SharePoint Services, click Start, click
Run, type services.msc, and then click
OK.
Locate the Windows SharePoint Services Search service,
right-click the service, and then click Properties. In the
Startup type list, click Disabled, and then
click OK.
Locate the Windows SharePoint Services Search service,
right-click the service, and then click Stop.
Upgrade Windows Server 2003 to Windows Server
2008.
After you upgrade Windows Server 2003 to Windows Server
2008, click Start, click Run, type
services.msc, and then click
OK.
Locate the Windows SharePoint Services Search service,
right-click the service, and then click Properties. In the
Startup type list, click Manual, and then
click OK.
Locate the Windows SharePoint Services Search service,
right-click the service, and then click Start.
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