With regard to Windows Search on servers. One particular question regularly comes up, driven by a customer query. It goes like this.
The customer has seen a TechNet presentation and seen a link or two: http://biztechmagazine.com/article.asp?item_id=416.
Then the customer wants to do it against the shares he has hosted on NetApp CIFS volumes.
What the customer simply didn't read is that, on the Windows feature setup screen, Microsoft specifically call out the fact that this feature is NOT FOR THE ENTERPRISE.
NetApp storage controllers host untold millions of files. They serve the files out to tens of thousands of clients. If indexing a 'handful' of files on a Windows server is too much for Microsoft to recommend for customers just think of the challenges it would pose for NetApp and EMC Celerra systems.
So if you see it as a feature, read the warnings on the Windows screen in front of you. If you are in an enterprise and need to remove your socks to keep track of how many users are accessing the file server you don't want to implement the indexing feature on the server.
There are many client-side features where you can archive server data - the Library to name but one.
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So, windows file servers could never host untold millions of files?? Not sure what you getting at here but I cannot seem to find any solutions to indexing Netapp filers. Not easy ones.
What I am getting at is simple. Microsoft SPECIFICALLY state not to enable the feature on enterprise file servers. Read the message on the feature installation.
There was no comment on whether or not Windows /could/ index or whether NetApp, or Celerra for that matter, could or should do it.
The point is that MICROSOFT, MICROSOFT, says not to if you're in anything larger than a small departmental environment.
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