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Windows Desktop Search & portal server... bad integration :( Jéjé 01-16-2006
Posted by Jéjé on January 16, 2006, 9:42 am
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Hi,

the desktop search is excellent...
but I want to integrate it with my Portal Server.
So I have setup a group policy to allow the user to search through the
portal.
but the result is bad:
the desktop search redirect the user to the portal search page instead-of
retrieving the results and displaying these results in the search panel!!!

there is a way to do this integration?

I want to display to the user the content of his outlook, his my documents
and any results indexed in portal server.

thanks.

Jerome.



Posted by mrdavey on January 16, 2006, 6:27 pm
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Jerome,

This is what i thought 'integration' into Sharepoint Portal Server
meant. But i guess it was just hype. Hopefully the next major relase of
WDS will provide some better form of 'intergration'.

To answer your question, this is currently the best integration you can
get with WDS. Passing search variables to the SPS search page and
seeing them on the SPS search page. :P

David


Posted by Michel Lemay on February 2, 2006, 5:11 pm
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Indeed.. pretty disapointing..

We are a house that develop a standalone Sharepoint Search product and it
would have been interesting to integrate our results into WDS.. However, I
guess we will have to wait..

Not only to display results into the search page.. We have plenty of ideas
for a Desktop search that could mean a lot to business peoples. But It's not
quite our business to develop yet another desktop search tool.. Anybody at
MS that could contact me about this topic?

Mike

"mrdavey" wrote:

> Jerome,
>
> This is what i thought 'integration' into Sharepoint Portal Server
> meant. But i guess it was just hype. Hopefully the next major relase of
> WDS will provide some better form of 'intergration'.
>
> To answer your question, this is currently the best integration you can
> get with WDS. Passing search variables to the SPS search page and
> seeing them on the SPS search page. :P
>
> David
>
>

Posted by SizzleMaster on February 3, 2006, 7:51 am
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Map a drive to your portal using WebDAV, I use WebDrive, and then have WDS
crawl that drive. It works.

> Indeed.. pretty disapointing..
>
> We are a house that develop a standalone Sharepoint Search product and it
> would have been interesting to integrate our results into WDS.. However,
> I
> guess we will have to wait..
>
> Not only to display results into the search page.. We have plenty of ideas
> for a Desktop search that could mean a lot to business peoples. But It's
> not
> quite our business to develop yet another desktop search tool.. Anybody
> at
> MS that could contact me about this topic?
>
> Mike
>
> "mrdavey" wrote:
>
>> Jerome,
>>
>> This is what i thought 'integration' into Sharepoint Portal Server
>> meant. But i guess it was just hype. Hopefully the next major relase of
>> WDS will provide some better form of 'intergration'.
>>
>> To answer your question, this is currently the best integration you can
>> get with WDS. Passing search variables to the SPS search page and
>> seeing them on the SPS search page. :P
>>
>> David
>>
>>



Posted by Jéjé on February 3, 2006, 8:55 am
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its really a bad idea.

each desktop will scan the webdav server while this server has allready a
centralized and better indexing tool!
I really don't know why Microsoft has not integrated this feature in the
first release of this tool. Specially because all the microsoft products
turn around Sharepoint today! and also, because Office 2003 allready support
this!!!! (you can add your portal search result into the search pane of
Office 2003)



> Map a drive to your portal using WebDAV, I use WebDrive, and then have WDS
> crawl that drive. It works.
>
>> Indeed.. pretty disapointing..
>>
>> We are a house that develop a standalone Sharepoint Search product and it
>> would have been interesting to integrate our results into WDS.. However,
>> I
>> guess we will have to wait..
>>
>> Not only to display results into the search page.. We have plenty of
>> ideas
>> for a Desktop search that could mean a lot to business peoples. But It's
>> not
>> quite our business to develop yet another desktop search tool.. Anybody
>> at
>> MS that could contact me about this topic?
>>
>> Mike
>>
>> "mrdavey" wrote:
>>
>>> Jerome,
>>>
>>> This is what i thought 'integration' into Sharepoint Portal Server
>>> meant. But i guess it was just hype. Hopefully the next major relase of
>>> WDS will provide some better form of 'intergration'.
>>>
>>> To answer your question, this is currently the best integration you can
>>> get with WDS. Passing search variables to the SPS search page and
>>> seeing them on the SPS search page. :P
>>>
>>> David
>>>
>>>
>
>



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