[THIN] Re: Turning on Windows Search on XenApp servers
- From: James Rankin <kz20fl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2014 14:22:46 +0100
Thanks! I've already dug up the Registry value to turn on the "search file
contents in non-indexed locations", hopefully with this I can configure a
robust policy set.
Cheers,
JR
On 21 October 2014 14:20, Greg Reese <gareese@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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
>>
>
>
--
*James Rankin*
---------------------
RCL - Senior Technical Consultant (ACA, CCA, MCTS) | The Virtualization
Practice Analyst - Desktop Virtualization
http://appsensebigot.blogspot.co.uk
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