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Integration with Windows Search Service

Windows Search Service provides fast file searches on a server.
See Windows Search Overview, Windows Search 4.0 Administrator's Guide, Wiki: Windows Search

Windows Search Service provides a faster way to search files and folders and support of full-text search¹ in files,
To make HTTP Commander use Windows Search service to search files and folder, follow steps below.

• Enable the Windows Search Service on the server that is hosting the HTTP Commander and on all the file servers, which network folders used as Shared folders in the HTTP Commander on Folders tab.
  For example, you installed HTTP Commander on a server A and configured it to use network folders from servers B (\\b\somefolder\) and C (\\C\\anotherfolder\).
  You need enable Windows Search Service on all 3 servers : A, B and C.
  
  By default, the Windows Search Service is enabled in Windows 7, 8 and 10. However, you must manually enable it in Windows Vista, Servers: 2003, 2008, 2008 R2, 2012, 2012 R2, 2016.
  
  To enable the Windows Search Service in Windows Server 2012+:
  
  • Start Server Manager. Click
  • Manage, and then click Add Roles and Features.
  • On the "Before You Begin"" page, click Next.
  • On the "Installation Type" page, select Role-based or Feature-based Installation, and then click Next.
  • On the "Server Selection" page, select the server or virtual hard disk on which to install Windows Search Service.
  • On the "Features" page, select Windows Search Service, and then click Next.
  • On the "Confirmation" page, verify that Windows Search Service is listed, and then click Install.
  
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  To enable the Windows Search service in Windows Server 2008, 2008 R2:
  
  • Start Server Manager. Click Roles in the left navigation pane.
  • Click Add Roles in the Roles Summary pane.
  • On the Server Roles page, select the File Services role, and then click Next.
  • On the Role Services page, select the Windows Search Service role service, and then click Next.
  • On the Confirmation page, verify that Windows Search Service is listed, and then click Install.
    
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  To enable the Windows Search Service in Windows Server 2003 (or Vista):
  download and install the appropriate component of Windows Search 4.0 for Windows Server 2003 (or Windows Search 4.0 for Windows Vista). See Description of Windows Search 4.0, KB940157.
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  Note! If the Windows Search Service is already installed on the server, make sure that the Windows Search service (Control Panel → Administrative Tools → Services) is running and startup type is Automatic or Automatic (Delayed Start).
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• Next, you need add to the list of indexed locations each folder (physical path) used on the Folders tab (in admin panel). Depending on the type of folder : network or local, you need to carry on the server where corresponding folder is physically located . Add folder path to the list of indexed locations. (ie., for local folders it should be done on the server with HTTP Commander, for network folders(for example, \\server1\share), it should be done the remote server (server1)).
  
  Here are steps to add a folder to the list of indexed locations:
  
  • Start Control Panel and click Indexing Options.
  • Click Modify button in the Indexing Options window.
  • In the Change selected locations list (of the Indexed Locations window), locate and check the box, the physical path of the folder to be added.
  • Next, click OK and Close buttons.
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  Note 1. If in the physical path to the folder wildcards are used (such as %USERNAME%, %GROUPNAME%, %HOME%, etc.), then it is necessary to add to the index all possible permutations of the physical path, or if these folders are in common parent folder, then it is enough to add only path to parent folder.
  Note 2. In the folder properties window on the Folders tab in admin panel, at lower right side of the physical path field there is the "Test indexing" link. By click on this link you can test if specified path is already added to the list of indexed locations or not. In case if the path is local, you can use this link to add folder to the list of indexed locations. Please note, that if the path contain wildcards, to the index will be added path with the current parameters of the logged in user. Also you can not add network folders to index using this link.
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• Final step is configuration of HTTP Commander to use Windows Search Service to search files/folders.
  Set the value of the SearchMethodOfFiles parameter to the OnlyWindowsSearch or FirstTryWindowsSearchThanStandard (by default), click Save settings and than Restart application buttons in admin panel on Settings tab.
  If the value is set to OnlyWindowsSearch, then HTTP Commander will use only Windows Search Service to search files and folders. Please note, that in this case search would not work for non-indexed locations.
  If the value is set to the FirstTryWindowsSearchThanStandard, then HTTP Commander will try to use Windows Search Service firstly, and then if nothing is found, or found less than the expected value, the search is carried out by standard method (recursive listing subdirectories with a comparison pattern).
  But in both cases, the search results can be incomplete if the directory is not yet indexed, or it is in the process of indexing. Or if by additional indexing settings prohibited indexing of files with some file extensions or indexing of their attributes (contents, date, etc.)
  For a more complete search it is recommended to use the value FirstTryWindowsSearchThanStandard, but it is possible that it is less productive, so depending on your folder settings, you can specify the value of OnlyWindowsSearch.
  

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Advanced settings

To test and validate SQL queries to the Windows Search Service (for example, caught in the error log), you can enable the hidden option EnableWindowsSearchQueryBuilder (only applies if used Windows Search in HTTP Commander). If this option is enabled, in the Folders tab of the admin panel, will be available button "Windows Search Query Builder" to call the Query Builder window.
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Noise Words

The search query by content, contained only ignored words.

Indexing of XLSX, PPTX files