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Gandhi@discussions.microsoft.com Viral Gandhi

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Jul 17, 2006, 10:01:02 AM7/17/06
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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

Jeff R.

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Jul 26, 2006, 1:11:50 PM7/26/06
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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

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Viral Gandhi

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Jul 26, 2006, 2:05:03 PM7/26/06
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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.

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Jul 31, 2006, 6:30:25 PM7/31/06
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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

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jcaum

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Feb 18, 2011, 4:06:54 PM2/18/11
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jcaum wrote:
Check web page out:

http://www.geekzone.co.nz/content.asp?contentid=3939


This references how to set up and use Google Desktop to run on a single
computer (server) and how to get it to index mapped drives. Then you can
point each computer to use a proxy to browse that index search server (web
page) to search their files. Then the results would show a mapped drive
letter. As long as those workstations also have the mapped drives, it
would then open the documents fine when they click on their results.


Jon


Jeff R. wrote:

> hth,

> Jeff

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