Upgrading Sitecore Lucene indexes to Coveo

Recently we updated the Sitecore_master_index to use coveo instead of Lucene. Below are the simple steps which you can follow for this upgrade, you can follow the same steps to replace any Lucene index with Coveo.


1. Replace <index id="Sitecore_master_index" /> node in Sitecore.ContentSearch.Lucene.Index.Master.config by <index id="Coveo_master_index" />  </index> node from Coveo.SearchProvider.config.

2. Change back the index id to "Sitecore_master_index" in  Sitecore.ContentSearch.Lucene.Index.Master.config.

3. This step you have to do only for releases before December 2015 (Please do not do it for after December 2015 releases you will not see Sitecore_master_index in indexing manager if you do this for after december 2015 releases) . Change your Configuration node type attribute.

<configuration type="Coveo.SearchProvider.Configuration.CoveoSearchConfiguration,
 Coveo.SearchProvider">

4. Delete "Sitecore_master_index" from your data/indexes folder and do 
reindexing for"Sitecore_master_index".If you are able to see "Sitecore_master_index" in
 indexing manager and it is getting indexed then we are good :) :)

Have a good day :)