[THIN] Re: Turning on Windows Search on XenApp servers
- From: Greg Reese <gareese@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: Thin <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2014 08:20:22 -0500
this is a little dated but might get you going the right direction.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc732491(v=ws.10).aspx
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windows/en-US/60fdd642-6c2c-493b-887f-6213ca01cfd5/registry-keysentries-of-the-default-indexed-paths-and-default-excluded-paths-policies?forum=w7itprogeneral
On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 8:14 AM, James Rankin <kz20fl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> That sounds like an idea, provided I can enable the Windows Search service
> without actually selecting a drive. I'm not interested in the local drives
> at all - it's a network drive where the users will be searching, so
> effectively we simply want Windows Search to work in non-indexed network
> drives only, completely ignoring (and also not indexing!) the local drives.
>
> Cheers,
>
>
>
>
> JR
>
> On 21 October 2014 14:07, Greg Reese <gareese@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> I haven't tested this and I am not full up on my coffee yet, but i think
>> this gets disabled because Windows search is going to index all the files
>> on the disk. Thinking about how PVS works, this will end up causing the
>> entire image to stream as the index service does its thing. Not good and
>> it kind of defeats the purpose.
>>
>> If your users don't need to search that drive, you might be able to get
>> away with changing the settings to skip the system drives. I'm not
>> entirely sure that's possible but it seem like it should be. Maybe it
>> would work if you let it index prior to capturing the disk for PVS.
>>
>> Turn it on for a while and see what you notice. If you don't see your
>> storage get hammered and your disk cache doesn't explode, you should be
>> ok. Are you using cache in ram with disk overflow? That will give you the
>> best steady state iops performance.
>>
>> Greg
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 7:55 AM, James Rankin <kz20fl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I have a requirement for users to be able to search in file contents
>>> from published versions of Windows Explorer.
>>>
>>> However, as these are PVS images, it seems that the PVS Device Optimizer
>>> turns off the Windows Search functionality which is needed to allow
>>> searching for keywords in file content (I've tested by reinstalling the
>>> Windows Search Role Service and this allows the search to function as
>>> required)
>>>
>>> My question is, how much of a performance impact are we likely to see by
>>> enabling Windows Search on PVS imaged XenApp servers? Would it be
>>> recommended to enable it, or is there another way to enable this
>>> functionality for the users?
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> *James Rankin*
>>> ---------------------
>>> RCL - Senior Technical Consultant (ACA, CCA, MCTS) | The Virtualization
>>> Practice Analyst - Desktop Virtualization
>>> http://appsensebigot.blogspot.co.uk
>>>
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> *James Rankin*
> ---------------------
> RCL - Senior Technical Consultant (ACA, CCA, MCTS) | The Virtualization
> Practice Analyst - Desktop Virtualization
> http://appsensebigot.blogspot.co.uk
>
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