Perhaps we'll see this out-of-band when Longhorn server arrives?
Ah, another Vista disappointment!

"Hurricane Andrew" <hurricane_andrew@verizon_no_spam.net> wrote in message
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>I agree. This was a huge letdown for me and my company. 20 users on 1
>server, 8 on the second. It would have been great to have the network
>drives indexed. As it is, it's still a nice search feature, but if the
>network drives could be indexed....WOW it would have been nice.
>
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> "Hurricane" Andrew
> Milford, DE
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> "Valisystem" <Valisystem@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:62C5A9BF-BED1-4F00-A772-C4B54649A4B5@microsoft.com...
>> I've been trying to find information online. As near as I can tell,
>> indexing
>> network shares was removed from Vista at some point during the beta/RC
>> cycle.
>> One comment by a developer suggests that the reason is that it doesn't
>> scale
>> well for hundreds of users to be reaching into the same folders
>> continuously.
>>
>> That may be true, but I work with businesses that have 15-20 users who
>> immediately realized the power of finding company documents instantly
>> with
>> Windows Desktop Search. This single omission will cause them to postpone
>> or
>> avoid Vista.
>>
>> It makes me wonder if Microsoft's promotional language is out of date.
>> For
>> example, on the Vista web site: "Windows Vista helps organizations
>> effectively manage complex data collections and provides new search
>> capabilities so that users can quickly find almost anything on their
>> computer
>> _or company servers_."
>> http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvist...s/finduse.mspx
>>
>> That isn't really true, is it?
>>
>> Arrggh!
>