If you have have Office 2007 or a Windows Vista or Windows Desktop Search (WDS) then you probably have V2.6 or V3 of this fantastic search product. Version 4 has a wealth of updates, but most importantly, is more stable and faster. One of the things I love about this is that if you put this on a client...
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Filed under: SBS 2003, Windows 7, Vista and XP, Support and Tools, Windows Server 2003, Windows Home Server, Microsoft, Windows Client, Windows XP, SBS 2003 R2, Windows Server 2008, Search, SBS 2008
There is a feature that I 1st found of Windows Home Server that can be applied to SBS, Windows Server, Windows Vista / XP and any other Windows system with Windows Search 3 or 4 on it. This feature is the ability to search the other machine’s index rather than the files, meaning that you can go to a...
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Filed under: Windows 7, Vista and XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Home Server, beta, Windows Client, Windows XP, Windows Server 2008, Search
If you use Windows XP and need WDS to index Office 2007 files, or SharePoint, Search Server or any other product that used IFilters then this is the KB article and download for you. This obviously includes Windows Home Server which uses WDS to enable you to quickly search for a file on a file share from...
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on Sun, Jan 27 2008
Filed under: Windows SharePoint Services, SQL Server, Exchange, Windows Home Server, SQL Server 2005, SharePoint, SQL Server 2008, Search
Obviously when I wrote the last blog entry on installing search server , not quite everything was working, although I did not realise it until a few errors appeared in the event log. The errors appear below - one is a DCOM permissions error and the other is a Gather error. The DCOM error Event Type:...
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on Fri, Nov 9 2007
Filed under: Office System, Support and Tools, Windows SharePoint Services, Windows Home Server, beta, Tips, Search
I wrote about the search products the other day, but I then decided to take it for a spin. The easiest server for me to install on was a Windows Home Server, so here is the process. Download the software and run the setup program and run the preparation tool: Now run the installation tool. For me, I...