Hello experts.
We have hundreds of users on 2012 R2 RDS session host servers and have a non-stop problem with the Windows Search .edb file growing extremely large and filling up all disk space.
This looks to be a major problem for IT departments everywhere, based on a few seconds of searching around.
The main items we have in place to try and combat this problem:
1.) We have enabled the "DisableSearchBackoff" and added the Corecount registry key found in this post:
http://www.cyberdrain.com/?p=116
2.) We have a batch file that runs the commands found below on a nightly basis, which defragments the search index database.
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2838018
3.) We have moved the index from C volume to dedicated drives.
The problem is, no matter how much space we add, the files just keep growing. Is the only resolution to add a massive volume to each session host for this file to grow as large as it wants? I have seen many threads on various forums where people have reached out to Microsoft support on multiple occasions for this issue and the work around is to rebuild or defrag the database. I know there are lots of these threads out there but I'm curious if anyone has found a solution yet. Thanks in advance.