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Is Windows Vista index-based full-text search powerful enough?
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I have a couple of questions about the new index-based full-text search of Windows Vista. 1) Is it powerful enough to handle huge amounts of data consisting of PDF documents, Word, Excel and Powerpoint files (around 20 GB)? Or would a third-party solution like dtSearch be the better choice? If this is the better choice, can the indexing by Windows Vista be disabled? 2) Is there any way I can manage or control the indexing process? a) Can I set the location of the index files? b) Can I create multiple indexes? c) Can I control in any way when the indexing takes place? 3) Can I perform advanced searches using Boolean operators? Peter |
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Is Windows Vista index-based full-text search powerful enough?
To answer you questions briefly:
- The Windows Search indexer should be able to handle these kinds of scenarios. If you decide you don't want it to run you need to disable the Windows Search service. - You can control what locations are indexed through the Indexing Options Control Panel, or programatically. We don't currently support multiple indexes. I think there's some control of when indexing happens programatically, it depends exactly what scenario you are trying to achieve. The root of the docs on Windows Search are he http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa965362.aspx - Yes we support a pretty rich query syntax, an overview of which is he http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Win...02ec61033.mspx I hope this helps, Dave Wood "Peter Frank" wrote in message ... Hi, I have a couple of questions about the new index-based full-text search of Windows Vista. 1) Is it powerful enough to handle huge amounts of data consisting of PDF documents, Word, Excel and Powerpoint files (around 20 GB)? Or would a third-party solution like dtSearch be the better choice? If this is the better choice, can the indexing by Windows Vista be disabled? 2) Is there any way I can manage or control the indexing process? a) Can I set the location of the index files? b) Can I create multiple indexes? c) Can I control in any way when the indexing takes place? 3) Can I perform advanced searches using Boolean operators? Peter |
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Is Windows Vista index-based full-text search powerful enough?
This might be a better references. Can it still do document summaries like
2000/XP Index Server. Advanced Query Syntax The Advanced Query Syntax (AQS) is used by Microsoft Windows Desktop Search (WDS) to help users and programmers better define and narrow their searches. Using AQS is an easy way to narrow searches and deliver better result sets. Searches can be narrowed by the following parameters: File kinds: folders, documents, presentations, pictures and so on. File stores: specific databases and locations. File properties: size, date, title and so on. File contents: keywords like "project deliverables," "AQS," "blue suede shoes," and so on. Furthermore, search parameters can be combined using search operators. The remainder of this section explains the query syntax, the parameters and operators, and how they can be combined to offer targeted search results. The tables describe the syntax to use with WDS, as well as the properties that can be queried for each file kind displayed in the Windows Desktop Search results window. Desktop Search Syntax A search query can include one or more keywords, with Boolean operators and optional criteria. These optional criteria can narrow a search based on the following: Scope or data store in which files reside Kinds of files Managed properties of files The optional criteria, described in greater detail following, use the following syntax: scope name:value file kind:value property name:value Suppose a user wants to search for a document containing the phase "last quarter," created by John or Joanne, and that the user saved to the folder mydocuments. The query may look like this: "last quarter" authorjohn OR joanne) foldername:mydocuments Scope: Locations and Data Stores Users can limit the scope of their searches to specific folder locations or data stores. For example, if you use several e-mail accounts and you want to limit a query to either Microsoft Outlook or Outlook Express, you can use storeutlook or storee respectively. Restrict Search by Data StoreUseExample Desktopdesktopstodesktop Filesfilesstofiles Outlookoutlookstoreutlook Outlook Expressoestoree Specific Folderfoldername or infoldername:MyDocuments or in:MyDocuments If you have a protocol handler in place to crawl custom stores, like Lotus Notes, you can use the name of the store or protocol handler for the store. For example, if you implemented a protocol handler to include a Lotus Notes data store as "notes," the query syntax would be stonotes. Common File Kinds Users can also limit their searches to specific types of files, called file kinds. The following table lists the file kinds and offers examples of the syntax used to search for these kinds of files. To Restrict by File Type:UseExample All file typeseverythingkind:everything Communicationscommunicationskind:communications Contactscontactskind:contacts E-mailemailkind:email Instant Messenger conversationsimkind:im Meetingsmeetingskind:meetings Taskstaskskind:tasks Notesnoteskind:notes Documentsdocskind:docs Text documentstextkind:text Spreadsheetsspreadsheetskind:spreadsheets Presentationspresentationskindresentations Musicmusickind:music Picturespicskindics Videosvideoskind:videos Foldersfolderskind:folders Folder namefoldername or infoldername:mydocs or in:mydocs Favoritesfavoriteskind:favorites Programsprogramskindrograms Boolean Operators Search keywords and file properties can be combined to broaden or narrow a search with operators. The following table explains common operators used in a search query. Keyword/SymbolExamplesFunction NOTsocial NOT securityFinds items that contain social, but not security. -social -securityFinds items that contain social, but not security. ORsocial OR securityFinds items that contain social or security. Quotation marks"social security"Finds items that contain the exact phrase social security. Parentheses(social security)Finds items that contain social and security in any order. date:11/05/04 size:500Finds items with a date after 11/05/04 Finds items with a size greater than 500 bytes. date:11/05/04 size:500Finds items with a date before 11/05/04 Finds items with a size less than 500 bytes. ...date:11/05/04..11/10/04Finds items with a date beginning on 11/05/04 and ending on 11/10/04. Note The operators NOT and OR must be in uppercase and cannot be combined in one query (e.g., social OR security NOT retirement). Boolean Properties Some file types let users search for files using Boolean properties, as described in the following table. PropertyExampleFunction is:attachmentreport is:attachmentFinds items that have attachments that contain report. Same as isattachment:true. isonline:report isonline:trueFinds items that are online and which contain report. isrecurring:report isrecurring:trueFinds items that are recurring and which containreport. isflagged:report isflagged:trueFinds items that are flagged (Review, Follow up, for example) and which contain report. isdeleted:report isdeleted:trueFinds items that are flagged as deleted (Recycle Bin or Deleted Items, for example) and which contain report. iscompleted:report iscompleted:falseFinds items that are not flagged as complete and which contain report. hasattachment:report hasattachment:trueFinds items containing report and having attachments hasflag:report hasflag:trueinds items containing report and having flags. Dates In addition to searching on specific dates and date ranges using the operators described earlier, AQS allows relative date values (like today, tomorrow, or next week) and day (like Tuesday or Monday..Wednesday) and month (February) values. Relative to:Syntax ExampleResult Daydate:today date:tomorrow date:yesterday Finds items with today's date. Finds items with tomorrow's date. Finds items with yesterday's date. Week/Month/yeardate:this week date:last week date:next month dateast month date:coming year Finds items with a date falling within the current week. Finds items with a date falling within the previous week. Finds items with a date falling within the upcoming week. Finds items with a date falling within the previous month. Finds items with a date falling within the upcoming year. Properties by File Kind Users can search on specific properties of different file kinds. Some properties (like file size) are common to all files, while others are limited to a specific kind. Slide count, for example, is specific to presentations. The following tables list these properties by file kind. File Kind: Everything These are properties common to all file kinds. To include all types of files in a query, the syntax is: kind:everything property:value where property is a property listed below and value is the user-specified search term. PropertyUseExample Titletitle, subject or abouttitle:"Quarterly Financial" Statusstatusstatus:complete Datedatedate:last week Date modifieddatemodified or modifiedmodified:last week Importanceimportance or priorityimportance:high Sizesizesize: 50 Deleteddeleted or isdeletedisdeleted:true Is attachmentisattachmentisattachment:true Toto or tonameto:bob Cccc or ccnamecc:john Companycompanycompany:Microsoft Locationlocationlocation:"Conference Room 102" Categorycategorycategory:Business Keywordskeywordskeywords:"sales projections" Albumalbumalbum:"Fly by Night" File namefilename or filefilename:MyResume Genregenregenrock Authorauthor or byauthor:"Stephen King" Peoplepeople or withwithsonja or david) Folderfolder, under or pathfolder:downloads File extensionext or fileextext:.txt Attachment These are properties common to attachments. To limit the search to attachments only, the syntax is: kind:attachment property:value where property is a property listed below and value is the user-specified search term. PropertyUseExample Peoplepeople or withpeople:john or with:john Contacts These are properties common to contacts. To limit the search to contacts only, the syntax is: kind:contacts property:value where property is a property listed below and value is the user-specified search term. PropertyUseExample Job titlejobtitlejobtitle:CFO IM Assistant's phoneassistantsphoneassistantsphone:555-3323 Assistant nameassistantnameassistantname:Paul Professionprofessionprofessionlumber Nicknamenicknamenickname:Tex Spousespousespouseebbie Business citybusinesscitybusinesscity:Seattle Business postal codebusinesspostalcodebusinesspostalcode:98006 Business home pagebusinesshomepagebusinesshomepage:www.microsoft.com Callback phone numbercallbackphonenumbercallbackphonenumber:555-555-2121 Car phonecarphonecarphone:555-555-2121 Childrenchildrenchildren:Timmy First namefirstnamefirstname:John Last namelastnamelastnameoe Home faxhomefaxhomefax:555-555-2121 Manager's namemanagersnamemanagersname:John Pagerpagerpager:555-555-2121 Business phonebusinessphonebusinessphone:555-555-2121 Home phonehomephonehomephone:555-555-2121 Mobile phonemobilephonemobilephone:555-555-2121 Officeofficeoffice:sample Anniversaryanniversaryanniversary:1/1/06 Birthdaybirthdaybirthday:1/1/06 Web pagewebpagewebpage:www.microsoft.com Note Phone numbers are indexed as entered. For example, if a user did not include a country or area code when entering the phone number, users will not be able to locate a contact if searching with country or area code in the phone number. Communications These are properties common to communications. To limit the search to communications only, the syntax is: kind:communications property:value where property is a property listed below and value is the user-specified search term. PropertyUseExample Fromfrom or organizerfrom:john Receivedreceived or sentsent:yesterday Subjectsubject or titlesubject:"Quarterly Financial" Has attachmenthasattachments, hasattachmenthasattachment:true Attachmentsattachments or attachmentattachmentresentation.ppt Bccbcc, bccname or bccaddressbcc:dave Cc addressccaddress or Follow-up flagfollowupflagfollowupflag:2 Due dateduedate or duedue:last week Readread or isreadis:read Is completediscompletedis:completed Incompleteincomplete or isincompleteis:incomplete Has flaghasflag or isflaggedhas:flag Durationdurationduration: 50 Calendar These are properties common to calendars. To limit the search to calendars only, the syntax is: kind:calendar property:value where property is a property listed below and value is the user-specified search term. PropertyUseExample Recurringrecurring or isrecurringis:recurring Organizerorganizer, by or fromorganizer:debbie Documents These are properties common to documents. To limit the search to documents only, the syntax is: kind:documents property:value where property is a property listed below and value is the user-specified search term. PropertyUseExample Commentscommentscomments:"needs final review" Last saved bylastsavedbylastsavedby:john Document managerdocumentmanagerdocumentmanager:john Revision numberrevisionnumberrevisionnumber:1.0.3 Document formatdocumentformatdocumentformat:MIMETYPE Date last printeddatelastprinteddatelastprinted:last week Presentation These are properties common to presentations. To limit the search to presentations only, the syntax is: kindresentation property:value where property is a property listed below and value is the user-specified search term. PropertyUseExample Slide countslidecountslidecount:20 Music These are properties common to music files. To limit the search to music only, the syntax is: kind:music property:value where property is a property listed below and value is the user-specified search term. PropertyUseExample Bit ratebitrate, ratebitrate:192 Artistartist, by or fromartist:John Singer Durationdurationduration:3 Albumalbumalbum:"greatest hits" Genregenregenrock Tracktracktrack:12 Yearyearyear: 1980 1990 Picture These are properties common to pictures. To limit the search to pictures only, the syntax is: kindicture property:value where property is a property listed below and value is the user-specified search term. PropertyUseExample Camera makecameramakecameramake:sample Camera modelcameramodelcameramodel:sample Dimensionsdimensionsdimensions:8X10 Orientationorientationorientation:landscape Date takendatetakendatetaken:yesterday Widthwidthwidth:1600 Heightheightheight:1200 Video These are properties common to videos. To limit the search to videos only, the syntax is: kind:video property:value where property is a property listed below and value is the user-specified search term. PropertyUseExample Namename, subjectname:"Family Vacation to the Beach 05" Extext, fileextext:.avi Related Topics Perceived Types WDS Schema Calling WDS from the Command Line Calling WDS from Web Pages Manage Your Profile | Legal | Contact Us | MSDN Flash Newsletter ©2007 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Terms of Use | Trademarks | Privacy Statement "Dave Wood [MS]" wrote in message ... To answer you questions briefly: - The Windows Search indexer should be able to handle these kinds of scenarios. If you decide you don't want it to run you need to disable the Windows Search service. - You can control what locations are indexed through the Indexing Options Control Panel, or programatically. We don't currently support multiple indexes. I think there's some control of when indexing happens programatically, it depends exactly what scenario you are trying to achieve. The root of the docs on Windows Search are he http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa965362.aspx - Yes we support a pretty rich query syntax, an overview of which is he http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Win...02ec61033.mspx I hope this helps, Dave Wood "Peter Frank" wrote in message ... Hi, I have a couple of questions about the new index-based full-text search of Windows Vista. 1) Is it powerful enough to handle huge amounts of data consisting of PDF documents, Word, Excel and Powerpoint files (around 20 GB)? Or would a third-party solution like dtSearch be the better choice? If this is the better choice, can the indexing by Windows Vista be disabled? 2) Is there any way I can manage or control the indexing process? a) Can I set the location of the index files? b) Can I create multiple indexes? c) Can I control in any way when the indexing takes place? 3) Can I perform advanced searches using Boolean operators? Peter |
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Is Windows Vista index-based full-text search powerful enough?
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa965711.aspx
. wrote in message ... This might be a better references. Can it still do document summaries like 2000/XP Index Server. Advanced Query Syntax The Advanced Query Syntax (AQS) is used by Microsoft Windows Desktop Search (WDS) to help users and programmers better define and narrow their searches. Using AQS is an easy way to narrow searches and deliver better result sets. Searches can be narrowed by the following parameters: File kinds: folders, documents, presentations, pictures and so on. File stores: specific databases and locations. File properties: size, date, title and so on. File contents: keywords like "project deliverables," "AQS," "blue suede shoes," and so on. Furthermore, search parameters can be combined using search operators. The remainder of this section explains the query syntax, the parameters and operators, and how they can be combined to offer targeted search results. The tables describe the syntax to use with WDS, as well as the properties that can be queried for each file kind displayed in the Windows Desktop Search results window. Desktop Search Syntax A search query can include one or more keywords, with Boolean operators and optional criteria. These optional criteria can narrow a search based on the following: Scope or data store in which files reside Kinds of files Managed properties of files The optional criteria, described in greater detail following, use the following syntax: scope name:value file kind:value property name:value Suppose a user wants to search for a document containing the phase "last quarter," created by John or Joanne, and that the user saved to the folder mydocuments. The query may look like this: "last quarter" authorjohn OR joanne) foldername:mydocuments Scope: Locations and Data Stores Users can limit the scope of their searches to specific folder locations or data stores. For example, if you use several e-mail accounts and you want to limit a query to either Microsoft Outlook or Outlook Express, you can use storeutlook or storee respectively. Restrict Search by Data StoreUseExample Desktopdesktopstodesktop Filesfilesstofiles Outlookoutlookstoreutlook Outlook Expressoestoree Specific Folderfoldername or infoldername:MyDocuments or in:MyDocuments If you have a protocol handler in place to crawl custom stores, like Lotus Notes, you can use the name of the store or protocol handler for the store. For example, if you implemented a protocol handler to include a Lotus Notes data store as "notes," the query syntax would be stonotes. Common File Kinds Users can also limit their searches to specific types of files, called file kinds. The following table lists the file kinds and offers examples of the syntax used to search for these kinds of files. To Restrict by File Type:UseExample All file typeseverythingkind:everything Communicationscommunicationskind:communications Contactscontactskind:contacts E-mailemailkind:email Instant Messenger conversationsimkind:im Meetingsmeetingskind:meetings Taskstaskskind:tasks Notesnoteskind:notes Documentsdocskind:docs Text documentstextkind:text Spreadsheetsspreadsheetskind:spreadsheets Presentationspresentationskindresentations Musicmusickind:music Picturespicskindics Videosvideoskind:videos Foldersfolderskind:folders Folder namefoldername or infoldername:mydocs or in:mydocs Favoritesfavoriteskind:favorites Programsprogramskindrograms Boolean Operators Search keywords and file properties can be combined to broaden or narrow a search with operators. The following table explains common operators used in a search query. Keyword/SymbolExamplesFunction NOTsocial NOT securityFinds items that contain social, but not security. -social -securityFinds items that contain social, but not security. ORsocial OR securityFinds items that contain social or security. Quotation marks"social security"Finds items that contain the exact phrase social security. Parentheses(social security)Finds items that contain social and security in any order. date:11/05/04 size:500Finds items with a date after 11/05/04 Finds items with a size greater than 500 bytes. date:11/05/04 size:500Finds items with a date before 11/05/04 Finds items with a size less than 500 bytes. ..date:11/05/04..11/10/04Finds items with a date beginning on 11/05/04 and ending on 11/10/04. Note The operators NOT and OR must be in uppercase and cannot be combined in one query (e.g., social OR security NOT retirement). Boolean Properties Some file types let users search for files using Boolean properties, as described in the following table. PropertyExampleFunction is:attachmentreport is:attachmentFinds items that have attachments that contain report. Same as isattachment:true. isonline:report isonline:trueFinds items that are online and which contain report. isrecurring:report isrecurring:trueFinds items that are recurring and which containreport. isflagged:report isflagged:trueFinds items that are flagged (Review, Follow up, for example) and which contain report. isdeleted:report isdeleted:trueFinds items that are flagged as deleted (Recycle Bin or Deleted Items, for example) and which contain report. iscompleted:report iscompleted:falseFinds items that are not flagged as complete and which contain report. hasattachment:report hasattachment:trueFinds items containing report and having attachments hasflag:report hasflag:trueinds items containing report and having flags. Dates In addition to searching on specific dates and date ranges using the operators described earlier, AQS allows relative date values (like today, tomorrow, or next week) and day (like Tuesday or Monday..Wednesday) and month (February) values. Relative to:Syntax ExampleResult Daydate:today date:tomorrow date:yesterday Finds items with today's date. Finds items with tomorrow's date. Finds items with yesterday's date. Week/Month/yeardate:this week date:last week date:next month dateast month date:coming year Finds items with a date falling within the current week. Finds items with a date falling within the previous week. Finds items with a date falling within the upcoming week. Finds items with a date falling within the previous month. Finds items with a date falling within the upcoming year. Properties by File Kind Users can search on specific properties of different file kinds. Some properties (like file size) are common to all files, while others are limited to a specific kind. Slide count, for example, is specific to presentations. The following tables list these properties by file kind. File Kind: Everything These are properties common to all file kinds. To include all types of files in a query, the syntax is: kind:everything property:value where property is a property listed below and value is the user-specified search term. PropertyUseExample Titletitle, subject or abouttitle:"Quarterly Financial" Statusstatusstatus:complete Datedatedate:last week Date modifieddatemodified or modifiedmodified:last week Importanceimportance or priorityimportance:high Sizesizesize: 50 Deleteddeleted or isdeletedisdeleted:true Is attachmentisattachmentisattachment:true Toto or tonameto:bob Cccc or ccnamecc:john Companycompanycompany:Microsoft Locationlocationlocation:"Conference Room 102" Categorycategorycategory:Business Keywordskeywordskeywords:"sales projections" Albumalbumalbum:"Fly by Night" File namefilename or filefilename:MyResume Genregenregenrock Authorauthor or byauthor:"Stephen King" Peoplepeople or withwithsonja or david) Folderfolder, under or pathfolder:downloads File extensionext or fileextext:.txt Attachment These are properties common to attachments. To limit the search to attachments only, the syntax is: kind:attachment property:value where property is a property listed below and value is the user-specified search term. PropertyUseExample Peoplepeople or withpeople:john or with:john Contacts These are properties common to contacts. To limit the search to contacts only, the syntax is: kind:contacts property:value where property is a property listed below and value is the user-specified search term. PropertyUseExample Job titlejobtitlejobtitle:CFO IM Assistant's phoneassistantsphoneassistantsphone:555-3323 Assistant nameassistantnameassistantname:Paul Professionprofessionprofessionlumber Nicknamenicknamenickname:Tex Spousespousespouseebbie Business citybusinesscitybusinesscity:Seattle Business postal codebusinesspostalcodebusinesspostalcode:98006 Business home pagebusinesshomepagebusinesshomepage:www.microsoft.com Callback phone numbercallbackphonenumbercallbackphonenumber:555-555-2121 Car phonecarphonecarphone:555-555-2121 Childrenchildrenchildren:Timmy First namefirstnamefirstname:John Last namelastnamelastnameoe Home faxhomefaxhomefax:555-555-2121 Manager's namemanagersnamemanagersname:John Pagerpagerpager:555-555-2121 Business phonebusinessphonebusinessphone:555-555-2121 Home phonehomephonehomephone:555-555-2121 Mobile phonemobilephonemobilephone:555-555-2121 Officeofficeoffice:sample Anniversaryanniversaryanniversary:1/1/06 Birthdaybirthdaybirthday:1/1/06 Web pagewebpagewebpage:www.microsoft.com Note Phone numbers are indexed as entered. For example, if a user did not include a country or area code when entering the phone number, users will not be able to locate a contact if searching with country or area code in the phone number. Communications These are properties common to communications. To limit the search to communications only, the syntax is: kind:communications property:value where property is a property listed below and value is the user-specified search term. PropertyUseExample Fromfrom or organizerfrom:john Receivedreceived or sentsent:yesterday Subjectsubject or titlesubject:"Quarterly Financial" Has attachmenthasattachments, hasattachmenthasattachment:true Attachmentsattachments or attachmentattachmentresentation.ppt Bccbcc, bccname or bccaddressbcc:dave Cc addressccaddress or Follow-up flagfollowupflagfollowupflag:2 Due dateduedate or duedue:last week Readread or isreadis:read Is completediscompletedis:completed Incompleteincomplete or isincompleteis:incomplete Has flaghasflag or isflaggedhas:flag Durationdurationduration: 50 Calendar These are properties common to calendars. To limit the search to calendars only, the syntax is: kind:calendar property:value where property is a property listed below and value is the user-specified search term. PropertyUseExample Recurringrecurring or isrecurringis:recurring Organizerorganizer, by or fromorganizer:debbie Documents These are properties common to documents. To limit the search to documents only, the syntax is: kind:documents property:value where property is a property listed below and value is the user-specified search term. PropertyUseExample Commentscommentscomments:"needs final review" Last saved bylastsavedbylastsavedby:john Document managerdocumentmanagerdocumentmanager:john Revision numberrevisionnumberrevisionnumber:1.0.3 Document formatdocumentformatdocumentformat:MIMETYPE Date last printeddatelastprinteddatelastprinted:last week Presentation These are properties common to presentations. To limit the search to presentations only, the syntax is: kindresentation property:value where property is a property listed below and value is the user-specified search term. PropertyUseExample Slide countslidecountslidecount:20 Music These are properties common to music files. To limit the search to music only, the syntax is: kind:music property:value where property is a property listed below and value is the user-specified search term. PropertyUseExample Bit ratebitrate, ratebitrate:192 Artistartist, by or fromartist:John Singer Durationdurationduration:3 Albumalbumalbum:"greatest hits" Genregenregenrock Tracktracktrack:12 Yearyearyear: 1980 1990 Picture These are properties common to pictures. To limit the search to pictures only, the syntax is: kindicture property:value where property is a property listed below and value is the user-specified search term. PropertyUseExample Camera makecameramakecameramake:sample Camera modelcameramodelcameramodel:sample Dimensionsdimensionsdimensions:8X10 Orientationorientationorientation:landscape Date takendatetakendatetaken:yesterday Widthwidthwidth:1600 Heightheightheight:1200 Video These are properties common to videos. To limit the search to videos only, the syntax is: kind:video property:value where property is a property listed below and value is the user-specified search term. PropertyUseExample Namename, subjectname:"Family Vacation to the Beach 05" Extext, fileextext:.avi Related Topics Perceived Types WDS Schema Calling WDS from the Command Line Calling WDS from Web Pages Manage Your Profile | Legal | Contact Us | MSDN Flash Newsletter ©2007 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Terms of Use | Trademarks | Privacy Statement "Dave Wood [MS]" wrote in message ... To answer you questions briefly: - The Windows Search indexer should be able to handle these kinds of scenarios. If you decide you don't want it to run you need to disable the Windows Search service. - You can control what locations are indexed through the Indexing Options Control Panel, or programatically. We don't currently support multiple indexes. I think there's some control of when indexing happens programatically, it depends exactly what scenario you are trying to achieve. The root of the docs on Windows Search are he http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa965362.aspx - Yes we support a pretty rich query syntax, an overview of which is he http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Win...02ec61033.mspx I hope this helps, Dave Wood "Peter Frank" wrote in message ... Hi, I have a couple of questions about the new index-based full-text search of Windows Vista. 1) Is it powerful enough to handle huge amounts of data consisting of PDF documents, Word, Excel and Powerpoint files (around 20 GB)? Or would a third-party solution like dtSearch be the better choice? If this is the better choice, can the indexing by Windows Vista be disabled? 2) Is there any way I can manage or control the indexing process? a) Can I set the location of the index files? b) Can I create multiple indexes? c) Can I control in any way when the indexing takes place? 3) Can I perform advanced searches using Boolean operators? Peter |
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Is Windows Vista index-based full-text search powerful enough?
It doesn't do PDFs by default.
"Dennis" wrote in message ... On Mon, 05 Mar 2007 21:11:31 +0100, Peter Frank wrote: Hi, I have a couple of questions about the new index-based full-text search of Windows Vista. 1) Is it powerful enough to handle huge amounts of data consisting of PDF documents, Word, Excel and Powerpoint files (around 20 GB)? Or I have indexing enabled on my data drive. It contains approx 44Gb total. 16Gb is documents, mostly pdf's and other smaller files. The rest is mainly lager files 10Mb in size. And it works like a charm , that is, when it was done indexing ) Search result are VERY fast. I'm really impressed, i was kind 'a expecting to having to turn indexing off for that drive again. Regards |
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Is Windows Vista index-based full-text search powerful enough?
If one needs to install acrobat for it to work then it DOES NOT do it by
default. "Dennis" wrote in message ... On Tue, 6 Mar 2007 09:20:31 +1100, . wrote: It doesn't do PDFs by default. Nonsense. It does. I haven't changed ANY options other than adding the data drive to indexed locations. Needless to say Acrobat reader have to be installed. Regards |
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Is Windows Vista index-based full-text search powerful enough?
Why it matters is I use version 5 of Acrobat Reader.
. wrote in message ... If one needs to install acrobat for it to work then it DOES NOT do it by default. "Dennis" wrote in message ... On Tue, 6 Mar 2007 09:20:31 +1100, . wrote: It doesn't do PDFs by default. Nonsense. It does. I haven't changed ANY options other than adding the data drive to indexed locations. Needless to say Acrobat reader have to be installed. Regards |
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Is Windows Vista index-based full-text search powerful enough?
LOL, let alone the fact that he couldn't open and read them after finding
them if he didn't have a reader ;-0 "Dennis" wrote in message ... On Tue, 6 Mar 2007 09:33:56 +1100, . wrote: If one needs to install acrobat for it to work then it DOES NOT do it by default. Dohh.... The OP asked about if it could index PDF's. Don't you think it's highly likely that he's got either the Acrobat reader or Pro installed ?? Sigh..... |
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Is Windows Vista index-based full-text search powerful enough?
Acrobat 5, which works quickly, can open any PDF I've seen and I see a lot
every day. Installing it doesn't enable indexing of contents. "Geta Klew" wrote in message ... LOL, let alone the fact that he couldn't open and read them after finding them if he didn't have a reader ;-0 "Dennis" wrote in message ... On Tue, 6 Mar 2007 09:33:56 +1100, . wrote: If one needs to install acrobat for it to work then it DOES NOT do it by default. Dohh.... The OP asked about if it could index PDF's. Don't you think it's highly likely that he's got either the Acrobat reader or Pro installed ?? Sigh..... |
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Is Windows Vista index-based full-text search powerful enough?
The deault is file properties only. The plain text ilter has no utility with
pdfs. "Dennis" wrote in message ... On Tue, 6 Mar 2007 10:22:12 +1100, . wrote: Acrobat 5, which works quickly, can open any PDF I've seen and I see a lot every day. Installing it doesn't enable indexing of contents. I havent myself checkedmarked PDF in indexing options for file types to be indexed. I just checked it now, and PDF file type are set to be indexed with properties AND contents. I did nothing, but installing Acrobat Reader and adding my drive to indexed locations. But, hey, my Vista could be broken Regards |