At the suggestion of a sharepoint add on product vendor, we recently enabled the ability to automatically create manage properties from crawled properties. Interestingly, this configuration change resulted in the creation of 5700+ managed properties that negatively impacted this same vendor product being slowed down tremendously by the need to read all managed properties in their interface.
They've since suggested that we shouldn't have done that... Now the question...
What tools/guidelines/procedures can/should I use to determine how to begin formulating a powershell script to yank the superfluous managed properties without damaging existing components depending on some of them?
Thoughts?