The custom MMC works well and performs searches in seconds. However, I've come
across two quirks you need to be aware of:
When you're searching for a specific term such as Root Kit Virus, be sure
to enclose the term in quotes and select the Advanced Query option. If you
don't select the Advanced Query option, the Indexing Service will return every
document that has any of those words within its contents. Although there's
a Tips for searching link that has a Query Syntax button to help with
search syntax, I've found that the button doesn't work on my machine. The
workaround is to use the Help Topics option on the Help menu.
If you right-click a drive in Windows Explorer and select Properties, you'll
see the Allow Indexing Service to index this disk for fast file searching
check box. Do yourself a big favor and leave this check box selected, which
is the default. I disabled this one time for a test, thinking I could just
re-enable it, but doing so broke the Indexing Service's ability to index Microsoft
Internet Explorer's (IE's) .mht file type.
If Microsoft's Indexing Service is of interest to you, you can find more information
about it in "How to create and configure a catalog for indexing" (http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=308202).
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Reader Comments
Great article. No problems indexing anything on local drive. For some reason, unable to index any network drives, whether a drive letter or unc path. Cannot add any directorys other than C. Get a "Invalid directory name" for anything that doesn't begin with C. Tried adding the directory through the registry and it does then show up, but doesn't index it. I have full rights to the network folders so it's not permissions issue.
jsramrod- March 14, 2007
Article Rating 4 out of 5
Hi jsramrod,
I don't know about the network paths, but as far as local drives, make sure that you have not disabled "Allow Indexing Service to index this disk for fast file searching check box".
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