resetting search on 2007

[mike]

I had install difficulties with the fast search so turned it off by
setting a couple of registry keys to 0

(HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\OneNote\Options\Other
\EnableWDSIndexing = 0
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\OneNote\Options\Other
\ShowWDSUpdateWarning = 0)

Now I have successfully installed the fast search by setting the
permissions of various keys, but after a couple of days no index seems
to have been created.

Two questions:
What should I reset the above keys to (1 or FFFF or what)? I tried both
without any obvious effect.

And are the indexes stores somewhere so that i can check if they are
growing or not?

Thanks.

 

[Patrick Schmid]

Hi Mike,

I would simply delete those values from the registry. Your best bet to
see if the index is growing and/or to trigger a manual rebuild is
Control Panel, Indexing Options. It will tell you most likely though
that indexing is paused when you check it, because the indexer tries not
to index while you are working on the computer. However, it gives you a
statistic how many items are already indexed and if you check back after
several idle hours, that number should have increased.

Patrick Schmid

 

[mike]

Hi Mike,

I would simply delete those values from the registry. Your best bet to
see if the index is growing and/or to trigger a manual rebuild is
Control Panel, Indexing Options. It will tell you most likely though
that indexing is paused when you check it, because the indexer tries not
to index while you are working on the computer. However, it gives you a
statistic how many items are already indexed and if you check back after
several idle hours, that number should have increased.

Patrick Schmid

thanks for the advice Patrick.

I deleted the keys and checked the indexing options.
It says the index is up to date and doesn't seem to be getting any
bigger.
It shows lots of included locations which would seem to relate to the
original desktop search.
However, any search comes up with the "0 matches in all notebooks" box.

I'm in a bit of a muddle....

 

[Patrick Schmid]

Lovely...in the included locations, does it list one or two entries that
start with oneindex:// ?
I am running out of ideas...I think my next reply will be to file a bug
on Connect.

Patrick Schmid

 

[mike]

Lovely...in the included locations, does it list one or two entries that
start with oneindex:// ?
I am running out of ideas...I think my next reply will be to file a bug
on Connect.

Patrick Schmid

Yup, there are two:

OneIndex://{S-1-5-21-746137067-1606980848-1957994488-1003}/LocalHost
(MIKE\Michael)

OneIndex://{S-1-5-21-746137067-1606980848-1957994488-1003}/LocalHost/
(MIKE\Michael)

What does this tell you?

 

[Patrick Schmid]

That it is correctly installed...*sigh*
Leave it open for a few hours in a period where you are guaranteed not
working on it and also no anti-virus scan, backup or anything else that
puts a load on your computer is running.
If after that it still doesn't do anything, file a bug on Connect.

Sorry, I am out of ideas.

Patrick Schmid

 

[Grant Robertson]

Mike, there are at least 4 different things that I know of that need to
be in place for indexing to work correctly.

First, you need to set the following services to either Manual or
Automatic:
Indexing Service
Remote Procedure Call (RPC)
(This is required by Terminal Services.
If this doesn't show up in the list try installing the
Client for Microsoft Networks networking client. I don't have
that installed and RPC is still in my services list but I have
seen documentation that says the RPC service is only installed
when the Client for Microsoft Networks is installed.)
Terminal Services
(This is required by Windows Desktop Search.)
Help and Support
(I enabled it just for good measure. I don't know if this really
affects indexing or not.)

The Windows Desktop Search service won't be installed till you install
the WDS software


Second, you need to go to { Control Panel ; Add or Remove Programs ;
Add/Remove Windows Components } and make sure Indexing Service is
checked. You would think that if this isn't checked then the Indexing
Service wouldn't even be in the list of services but that is not the
case. I can't figure out if this is a case of Microsoft's left foot not
knowing what the right hand is doing or if it is another case of SMD
(Standard Microsoft Deception) Regardless, it has to be checked here.

Third, open the properties dialog for the drive on which the notebooks
will reside and make sure [x] Allow Indexing Service to index this disk
.... is checked.


{All of the above are set by default but some people (like me) turn them
off to increase performance. I am not positive that all of these things
are absolutely required but it didn't work for me till I went through and
set them all. I am not motivated to go through and determine exactly
which ones I can turn back off. I suspect they are all needed.}


Reboot your PC then, finally, uninstall and reinstall the WDS 3.0 beta.

You may also have the same issues you had with registry entries. I didn't
have those problems so I don't know whether these settings will affect
those registry entries.

Good Luck.

 

[mike]

Thanks for the advice.

Tried it all but still no joy.
Left it for a few days.
Indexing status says it has indexed 29,000 items but onenote still comes
up with 0 finds, so goodness knows what it is indexing.

Oh well, I'll wait for the next update. Hopefully that will work.

, there are at least 4 different things that I know of that need to
be in place for indexing to work correctly.

First, you need to set the following services to either Manual or
Automatic:
Indexing Service
Remote Procedure Call (RPC)
(This is required by Terminal Services.
If this doesn't show up in the list try installing the
Client for Microsoft Networks networking client. I don't have
that installed and RPC is still in my services list but I have
seen documentation that says the RPC service is only installed
when the Client for Microsoft Networks is installed.)
Terminal Services
(This is required by Windows Desktop Search.)
Help and Support
(I enabled it just for good measure. I don't know if this really
affects indexing or not.)

The Windows Desktop Search service won't be installed till you install
the WDS software


Second, you need to go to { Control Panel ; Add or Remove Programs ;
Add/Remove Windows Components } and make sure Indexing Service is
checked. You would think that if this isn't checked then the Indexing
Service wouldn't even be in the list of services but that is not the
case. I can't figure out if this is a case of Microsoft's left foot not
knowing what the right hand is doing or if it is another case of SMD
(Standard Microsoft Deception) Regardless, it has to be checked here.

Third, open the properties dialog for the drive on which the notebooks
will reside and make sure [x] Allow Indexing Service to index this disk
... is checked.


{All of the above are set by default but some people (like me) turn them
off to increase performance. I am not positive that all of these things
are absolutely required but it didn't work for me till I went through and
set them all. I am not motivated to go through and determine exactly
which ones I can turn back off. I suspect they are all needed.}


Reboot your PC then, finally, uninstall and reinstall the WDS 3.0 beta.

You may also have the same issues you had with registry entries. I didn't
have those problems so I don't know whether these settings will affect
those registry entries.

Good Luck.