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Fuzzy Logic Microsoft releases “Windows Search 4.0” for XP, Vista, Server 03, 08 and Home Server
Fuzzy Logic Microsoft releases “Windows Search 4.0” for XP, Vista, Server 03, 08 and Home Server | Microsoft releases “Windows Search 4.0” for XP, Vista, Server 03, 08 and Home Server |
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| by Alex Zaharov-Reutt | |
| Monday, 09 June 2008 | |
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Page 2 of 2 LeBlanc notes that Windows Search 4.0 also “offers manageability improvements that IT Pros should take note of.”Featured Whitepaper
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LeBlanc continues for several paragraphs: “Speaking of accessing Microsoft Exchange Server - if your organization selects not to use Microsoft Office Outlook in cached mode, you can set a Group Policy to index Exchange in online mode. Windows Search 4.0 will then index with minimal impact to the server. Our internal testing of this configuration shows significant decrease in the load on the server and the network as compared to Windows Desktop Search 3.01.” “IT Pros can deploy a new link that will be added to the Instant Search UI of Windows Vista (or Windows Search UI on Windows XP) on client PCs and allow the query entered in the search box to access your company's search server, by opening the search UI of the server in your browser and executing the query in it. With this functionality, users get a single launch pad for all of their searches.” “Based on a large amount of customer feedback, we have added support for indexing files encrypted with EFS. Users in an organization can now encrypt files and still be able to search their contents. When running on Windows Vista, they also can get an additional level of data protection by using BitLocker and storing their index on the protected drive.” Windows Search 4.0 can be downloaded from this Microsoft Help and Support page. However if you don’t want to download it now, it will become available to download from Windows Update in the not too distant future. XP users will see it as an “optional update”, while Vista will see it as a “recommended update”. LeBlanc advises Vista users that: “By default, recommended updates are installed automatically; however, users can prevent automatic installation of Windows Search 4.0. We will publicly post specific instructions prior to publishing Windows Search 4.0 on Windows Update.” Windows Server 2008 users are advised that “the update will be applicable only if the File Server Role is enabled.” So, unless you’re a firm user of Google Desktop or some other search tool, updating Windows own built-in search to a claimed faster version should be a great idea. If I experience any hiccups I’ll let you know, but for now the index is rebuilding and all is good so far! |
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