So our work has a few systems in place. The abysmal SharePoint, which most people hate (other than HR) and a typical set of servers mapped to network drives on all our laptops.
My question. What is a good solution for searching on that server? Explorer search is abysmally slow and offers no option for customizing a search. Its not even that I want to search the entire server, even just 1 “project” folder within it to find a document that has the word “list” in it instead of combing through 45 folders.
This really shouldnt be hard. But our management is more concerned with getting inaccurate answers from slopbots and degrading quality of work than solutions to actual problems, so theyve never looked into this. Half the people at this place dont know what a server or win explorer even is.
I would guess a solution would have to be implemented by the IT team and not on a per-employee basis. Is it just a matter of them turning in indexing? Really I’d prefer something more robust than explorer search.
Obviously IT would have to approve it if its 3rd party.
Thank!
You can enable filename, and even fulltext indexing on windows. It will then cause search to be much faster, and even search file contents.
Not enabled by default though.
Edit: hmmm, I actually read the post now.
Maybe you can interact with the index under the hood, via interfaces other than explorer?
Indexing for them is on, in explorer anyway. I don’t think I can access more than that.