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Indexing on Windows Server 2008R2

Hyrikan
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Hi Guys,

 

I recently did a complete reinstall of my NAS (running 2x3TB WD Reds with FlexRAID) to Win Server 2008R2. It all went good, write and read speeds are fantastic and everything in general works fine.

I only have a little problem with indexing my files:

I installed the indexing module under the file server rule built up my index and everything was detected and searchable on my clients (Win 7 HP, Win 8 Home). The issue I have is that any new files I add to my NAS aren't indexed by the NAS. So if I add like a new music album to the drive, I can't find it in windows search on my Clients. The drive is selected under indexing options and if I rebuild the whole index the files are indexed and searchable.

Is there any way the new files will be added to the index automatically without having to rebuild the whole index?

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Hi Guys,

 

I recently did a complete reinstall of my NAS (running 2x3TB WD Reds with FlexRAID) to Win Server 2008R2. It all went good, write and read speeds are fantastic and everything in general works fine.

I only have a little problem with indexing my files:

I installed the indexing module under the file server rule built up my index and everything was detected and searchable on my clients (Win 7 HP, Win 8 Home). The issue I have is that any new files I add to my NAS aren't indexed by the NAS. So if I add like a new music album to the drive, I can't find it in windows search on my Clients. The drive is selected under indexing options and if I rebuild the whole index the files are indexed and searchable.

Is there any way the new files will be added to the index automatically without having to rebuild the whole index?

Are you using the old Indexing service? It was deprecated as of Server 2008 and Windows 7, and was removed in Windows 8.

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason and intellect has intended us to forgo their use, and by some other means to give us knowledge which we can attain by them. - Galileo Galilei
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I don't know. I've installed Win Server 2008 R2 with all available updates. Server role is "File Server" and I used the indexing module beneith it. Every tutorial I found on that topic uses this indexing option. If there's a newer/other method to index could you maybe give me a hint were to find it?

  • Primary PC: i7-3770K@4,6GHz | Thermalright Macho | ASRock Z77 Extreme 4 | 16 GB Corsair Vengeance@1866MHz | 2x Gigabyte 660ti 3GB@1130MHz | 256 GB Samsung 840 | WD Black 1TB | BeQuiet! DarkPower Pro 650W | Zalman Z11
  • Secondary PC: i7-860@3,1GHz | Scythe Katana 3 | ASUS Maximus III Formula P55 | 8GB Corsair Vengeance 1600MHz | 2x Zotac GTX 280@650MHz | WD Velociraptor 500GB | Seagate Barracuda 2TB | BeQuiet! DarkPower Pro 750W | Coolermaster Cosmos S

 

 

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I don't know. I've installed Win Server 2008 R2 with all available updates. Server role is "File Server" and I used the indexing module beneith it. Every tutorial I found on that topic uses this indexing option. If there's a newer/other method to index could you maybe give me a hint were to find it?

I'm not an expert on Server 2008, but I recommend checking out the Microsoft Knowledge Base. Here's something on indexing and here's the deprecation article.

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason and intellect has intended us to forgo their use, and by some other means to give us knowledge which we can attain by them. - Galileo Galilei
Build Logs: Tophat (in progress), DNAF | Useful Links: How To: Choosing Your Storage Devices and Configuration, Case Study: RAID Tolerance to Failure, Reducing Single Points of Failure in Redundant Storage , Why Choose an SSD?, ZFS From A to Z (Eric1024), Advanced RAID: Survival Rates, Flashing LSI RAID Cards (alpenwasser), SAN and Storage Networking

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@wpirobotbuilder: Ok thanks for that input, but that isn't the problem. I'm using the new Windows Search enabled index.

  • Primary PC: i7-3770K@4,6GHz | Thermalright Macho | ASRock Z77 Extreme 4 | 16 GB Corsair Vengeance@1866MHz | 2x Gigabyte 660ti 3GB@1130MHz | 256 GB Samsung 840 | WD Black 1TB | BeQuiet! DarkPower Pro 650W | Zalman Z11
  • Secondary PC: i7-860@3,1GHz | Scythe Katana 3 | ASUS Maximus III Formula P55 | 8GB Corsair Vengeance 1600MHz | 2x Zotac GTX 280@650MHz | WD Velociraptor 500GB | Seagate Barracuda 2TB | BeQuiet! DarkPower Pro 750W | Coolermaster Cosmos S

 

 

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@wpirobotbuilder: Ok thanks for that input, but that isn't the problem. I'm using the new Windows Search enabled index.

I'm not sure what to do then, sorry.

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason and intellect has intended us to forgo their use, and by some other means to give us knowledge which we can attain by them. - Galileo Galilei
Build Logs: Tophat (in progress), DNAF | Useful Links: How To: Choosing Your Storage Devices and Configuration, Case Study: RAID Tolerance to Failure, Reducing Single Points of Failure in Redundant Storage , Why Choose an SSD?, ZFS From A to Z (Eric1024), Advanced RAID: Survival Rates, Flashing LSI RAID Cards (alpenwasser), SAN and Storage Networking

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