In between some meetings today I did some reading around Windows Desktop Search and Vista Search. Although its not something we currently ‘officially’ supply, we’re seeing more people using WDS and Google Desktop. Not really a problem but when people start indexing the network shares our file servers and network don’t like it much…<\/p>\n
So anyway I was reading up on how best to manage WDS, and it turns out its nice and simple as MS have provided an .adm<\/a> file for Group Policy. During my reading though I found this good article<\/a> on the search syntax supported by WDS and Vista. <\/p>\n The syntax is quite intuitive, and there are a surprising number of filters there, so you can do some pretty complex searches quite easily. <\/p>\n Here’s a few examples, but check out the full list here<\/a>.<\/p>\n
| \n Property<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/td>\n Example<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/td>\n Function<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n author:name<\/p>\n<\/td>\n author:patrick<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/td>\n Finds items with patrick in the author property.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n from:name<\/p>\n <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/td>\n from:patrick<\/p>\n<\/td>\n Finds items with patrick in either fromName OR fromAddress, since "from" is a property name for both fromName and fromAddress.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n kind:meetings<\/p>\n<\/td>\n Date<\/p>\n<\/td>\n date<\/p>\n<\/td>\n date:lastweek<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n Album<\/p>\n<\/td>\n album<\/p>\n<\/td>\n album:"greatest hits"<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In between some meetings today I did some reading around Windows Desktop Search and Vista Search. Although its not something we currently ‘officially’ supply, we’re seeing more people using WDS and Google Desktop. Not really a problem but when people start indexing the network shares our file servers and network don’t like it much… So … <\/p>\n |