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Hmm. Great. But like...

I hope this means that it will simply become a part of Vista in a service pack (e.g. SP1) or something. Because it should be 100% integrated it the shell. And NOT be bolted on like WDS3 for XP. Because if you start having toolbars and appear in Vista for WS4 it would make things very confusing.

What I would like to know is.

What does WS4 improve on over Vistas inbuilt search?

OK I have to keep my Brandons straight here - Brandon LeBlanc points to a post by Brandon Paddock , announcing

OK I have to keep my Brandons straight here - Brandon LeBlanc points to a post by Brandon Paddock , announcing

But why not rename the whole thing (WDS 3+Windows Search 4) either "Windows Search" or "Windows Desktop Search". Dont enterprises contain desktop servers? Or desktop only means client machines? Just keep it separate from Live Search which is for the web. Simple.

The way i see it is,

Live Search is the web search. To Vs google etc.

Thats not a problem. And they HAVENT made that confusing!

But Casino was apart of the Live Branding and now its become apart of the shell team.

Which is COOL. Since it hasnt got anything to do with the Web Services per say.

So im just saying. Update Vista Via a Service Pack to the new WS4. Which must be fully  into Integrated Vistas seach features.

"Someone" -

The current plan is that Windows Search 4 *is* Windows Desktop Search 4.  

Further details about WS4 (like features, release date, etc) won't come until next year.

I'm confused about the direction of WDS / Windows Desktop Search 4.  As I understand WDS for XP or Vista, it will only do indexed searching on files that are below your profile directory path.

This limmitation has prevented me from using WDS in XP or Vista.  I can think of several scenarios where this would be true, but here is one that I would think would be common for most enterprise deployments:

Our goal when deploying workstations, is to create an environment where the applications run locally from the workstation and the users data is centrally located on file servers where they are properly backed up.  

By turning on the folder redirection GPO, the user can access any workstation in the enterprise and access their documents from their "My Documents" folder.  This does mean however, that the physical "My documents" folder underneath the users profile directory is always empty.  A consequence of this is that you can never to indexed searches of your documents!

Am I overlooking something?

kshenry -

On Vista or XP (with WDS) you can index files from any directory.  The default index locations are limited to the user profiles (plus e-mail stores) - but you can choose to index any filesystem location.  You can also install the UNC add-on (currently only availabe for XP) to index network locations.

On Vista, there are two more options worth noting:

1)  If you are searching a fileshare on another Vista machine (that is indexed) from the Vista shell - it will remote the query to the computer hosting the share and search against its index.

2)  If you make use of the "Offline Files" function for a remote share on your Vista client, those files will automatically be indexed (using the Client Side Cache).

I hope you find that with that information, you'll give WDS/Vista a try =)

This post for what will now be WDS 4 is the first indication I'd seen that WDS 3 had shipped...

Though I suppose I could have guessed since the Office 2007 beta was using a beta version of it.

You guys need a way of making the availablity of these new components visible to people (I only just noticed PowerShell had shipped too).

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Before I'll drill down about the new version - I guess many of you Vista users are wondering right