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Windows Desktop Search Centralized Index for a server Viral Gandhi 07-17-2006
Posted by Viral Gandhi on July 17, 2006, 10:01 am
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Hello all,
I am looking to use WDS for all the computers on the network (about 50
total). They all have the shared drive mapped onto the computers. This data
is stored onto the server. Is there a way i can have a centralized index
such that all the employees don't have to individually index the shared drive
onto their computer.
Or is there any other type of solution to this problem.
Thanks,
Viral




Posted by Jeff R. on July 26, 2006, 1:11 pm
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Hi Viral,

WDS works on a 1 index per system per user paradigm. However, that being
said, if you are using SharePoint Server or Share Point Services WDS can
call SPS to submit a query that can be run on the SPS index. This doesn't
get you away from having a WDS index on each system, but it does allow you
to have all systems search a shared index.

hth,

JR

> Hello all,
> I am looking to use WDS for all the computers on the network (about 50
> total). They all have the shared drive mapped onto the computers. This
> data
> is stored onto the server. Is there a way i can have a centralized index
> such that all the employees don't have to individually index the shared
> drive
> onto their computer.
> Or is there any other type of solution to this problem.
> Thanks,
> Viral
>
>
>



Posted by Viral Gandhi on July 26, 2006, 2:05 pm
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does that mean that each computer has a index of what is on the computer, but
when it comes to searching the shared drive, WDS can use the shared index?



"Jeff R." wrote:

> Hi Viral,
>
> WDS works on a 1 index per system per user paradigm. However, that being
> said, if you are using SharePoint Server or Share Point Services WDS can
> call SPS to submit a query that can be run on the SPS index. This doesn't
> get you away from having a WDS index on each system, but it does allow you
> to have all systems search a shared index.
>
> hth,
>
> JR
>
> > Hello all,
> > I am looking to use WDS for all the computers on the network (about 50
> > total). They all have the shared drive mapped onto the computers. This
> > data
> > is stored onto the server. Is there a way i can have a centralized index
> > such that all the employees don't have to individually index the shared
> > drive
> > onto their computer.
> > Or is there any other type of solution to this problem.
> > Thanks,
> > Viral
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>

Posted by Jeff R. on July 31, 2006, 6:30 pm
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um.. no. WDS will keep a local index of what ever you index, mapped drives,
shares etc. The exception to this rule is if you are running SharePoint
Server or the SharePoint serveices (such as with SQL) which are servers that
have their own index. In this case WDS knows how to pass a query to the
Servers index and pull results using this protocol.

hth,

Jeff

> does that mean that each computer has a index of what is on the computer,
> but
> when it comes to searching the shared drive, WDS can use the shared index?
>
>
>
> "Jeff R." wrote:
>
>> Hi Viral,
>>
>> WDS works on a 1 index per system per user paradigm. However, that being
>> said, if you are using SharePoint Server or Share Point Services WDS can
>> call SPS to submit a query that can be run on the SPS index. This
>> doesn't
>> get you away from having a WDS index on each system, but it does allow
>> you
>> to have all systems search a shared index.
>>
>> hth,
>>
>> JR
>>
>> > Hello all,
>> > I am looking to use WDS for all the computers on the network (about 50
>> > total). They all have the shared drive mapped onto the computers. This
>> > data
>> > is stored onto the server. Is there a way i can have a centralized
>> > index
>> > such that all the employees don't have to individually index the shared
>> > drive
>> > onto their computer.
>> > Or is there any other type of solution to this problem.
>> > Thanks,
>> > Viral
>> >
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>>



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