A little under 56,000 files, at 5 GB. They're accessed over a mapped drive from the desktops. I haven't gone through the directories, but I'm sure some of those are going to be screenshots saved as PDFs... I don't expect to search within those, and I have no plan of getting any OCR software...
Joe Heaton Employment Training Panel From: Kevin Lundy [mailto:klu...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, December 29, 2008 1:38 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Search software No, not at all. I've got it running under 2k3. How many files and what total size are you talking about? On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 4:33 PM, Joe Heaton <jhea...@etp.ca.gov> wrote: I looked at Search Server, but that's just a 2k8 thing, right? Joe Heaton Employment Training Panel -----Original Message----- From: Kevin Lundy [mailto:klu...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, December 29, 2008 12:05 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Search software +1 for the MS Search Server. Or have a look at the Google appliance I'd recommend against a desktop search if these are network shares of any size. Desktop search will index them across the network ... For each desktop. On 12/29/08, Michael B. Smith <mich...@theessentialexchange.com> wrote: > Have you looked at Windows Search Server? > > > > Regards, > > > > Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP > > My blog: http://TheEssentialExchange.com/blogs/michael > > I'll be at TEC'2009! http://www.tec2009.com/vegas/index.php > > > > From: Joe Heaton [mailto:jhea...@etp.ca.gov] > Sent: Monday, December 29, 2008 1:52 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Search software > > > > Anyone using any third party search software? We have archived contract > folders going back years, and we have a department that has to search > through these folders for keywords, dates, etc. Windows Search is extremely > lacking and extremely hit and miss. Does anyone have any other options, > free or paid for? > > > > Joe Heaton > > AISA > > Employment Training Panel > > 1100 J Street, 4th Floor > > Sacramento, CA 95814 > > (916) 327-5276 > > jhea...@etp.ca.gov > > > > > > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ -- Sent from my mobile device ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~