Indexing windows server for searching

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Is there a way to index file shares on a windows file server so that they can be quickly searched by end users, that isn't part of sharepoint?

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 07 '11 at 18:43

you can use Windows Search (or the built in Vista/Win7 search to index shares. The downside is that each client maintains their own index. This seem like a less than optimum solution. Alternative might be to use a web-based indexer like SharePoint, Google, etc. to do it. Microsoft has a high-end indexing solution too. There are open source indexers as well like Apache's lucene

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:41

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Use the Search Service, built in to windows server. (Formerly called: Index Server)

Details to set up: https://stackoverflow.com/a/24567543/147637

edited May 23 '17 at 12:41

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