Full-Text Search and Automatic Indexing

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Full-Text Search and Automatic Indexing | MS Tech News — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 23:53:37 GMT

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re: Full-Text Search and Automatic Indexing

GaryLW — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 05:50:32 GMT

Since when?? The picture you're showing is of a Vista-like window. WHS has old-type XP windows with NO search options that I can find in its version of Explorer. What gives with this misleading blog??

re: Full-Text Search and Automatic Indexing

c4sp14nx — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 06:15:27 GMT

Yikes, calm down there GaryLW! The screenshot is of a client browsing the shares on a WHS box -- not of the WHS desktop itself. Indeed, the documents are indexed as claimed and search from within the Explorer window on a client works beautifully.

re: Full-Text Search and Automatic Indexing

krabago — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 07:23:16 GMT

When I try this on my Vista machine with the WHS client installed, I get a message saying "Network locations and connected devices are searched more slowly than indexed locations" which suggests that search is not accessing the indexed data on WHS to generate the search results. Is there something that needs to be done to turn on this feature?

re: Full-Text Search and Automatic Indexing

emed795 — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 10:43:46 GMT

GaryLW, that's not just a Vista like window, that is a Vista window! And they are showing that you can use Vista's intergrated serach bar in explorer to instantly search for files in a WHS share.

krabago, you will need to manually update Windows Search on WHS to version 4 through Windows Update on WHS if you want Vista to be able to use WHS's index for search. It's marked as an optional update so it will not install automatically.

Do note however once Windows Serach 4 is installed it will need to rebuild it's index which could take a while depending on the number of files you have stored in WHS.