Microsoft Windows Search 4.0

Microsoft heeft enkele dagen terug een nieuwe versie van Windows Search uitgebracht. Het gaat dit keer om versie 4.0, die zijn werk kan doen op de 32bits- en 64bits-versies van Windows XP, Vista, Server 2003 en Server 2008. De nieuwe versie kan in het Nederlands en het Engels gedownload worden. Windows Search stelt je in staat om naar keywords, zinnen of stukken tekst te zoeken die voorkomen in onder meer documenten, bookmarks, e-mailberichten en mediabestanden. De gevonden bestanden kunnen vervolgens in een previewscherm bekeken worden. De beknopte aankondiging ziet er als volgt uit:

Windows Search 4.0

Windows Search 4.0 lets you perform an instant search of your computer. Windows Search 4.0 helps you find and preview documents, e-mail messages, music files, photos, and other items on the computer.

The search engine in Windows Search 4.0 is a Microsoft Windows service that is also used by programs such as Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 and Microsoft Office OneNote 2007. You can use this search engine to index a program's content and to obtain instant results when you search in a particular program.

Windows Search 4.0 includes the following improvements:

• Support for indexing encrypted documents of local file systems
• Reduced affect on Microsoft Exchange when you index e-mail in online mode, and there is no local cache (.ost)
• Support for indexing online delegate mailboxes
• Support for client-to-client remote query to shared indexed locations
• Improved indexing performance
• Faster previewer updates for Windows XP
• Per-user Group Policy settings
• Windows software updates for Watson errors
• Support for the following new enterprise Group Policy objects:
  
  Computer policies
  • Prevent adding Universal Naming Convention (UNC) locations to index from Control Panel
  • Prevent customizing indexed locations in Control Panel
  • Prevent automatically adding shared folders to the index
  • Allow for indexing of encrypted files
  • Disable indexer back-off
  • Prevent clients from querying the index remotely
  • Allow for indexing of online delegate mailboxes
  • Prevent adding user-specified locations to the All Locations menu
  • Enable throttling for online mail indexing
  Per-user policies
  • Prevent adding UNC locations to the index from Control Panel
  • Prevent customizing indexed locations in Control Panel
  • Prevent indexing certain paths
  • Default indexed paths
  • Default excluded paths