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I need to know if there is a way I can automate rescanning certain folders within Windows Indexing Service. Possibly through a batch file or something like that. I have several hundred folders that need to be rescanned and I don't feel like manually right clicking and hitting rescan on each one.

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  • When rescan is required for Indexing Service ?
    – Kiquenet
    Aug 10, 2016 at 12:05

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Here's a VBS script that should work for you. You could put this in a loop over your folder names.

Set objISAdm = CreateObject("Microsoft.ISAdm")
objISAdm.MachineName="MyServerName"
Set objCatAdm = objISAdm.GetCatalogByName("MyCatalog")
Set objScopeAdm = objCatAdm.GetScopeByPath("c:\FolderToReScan")
objScopeAdm.Rescan("TRUE")

In the last line, TRUE means do a full scan. Change it to FALSE to do an incremental scan.

Here's a good source for Indexing Service script samples.

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  • I tried this script. It keeps bombing out with an application exception in ntdll.dll
    – Kevin
    Sep 28, 2009 at 18:42
  • What version of Windows are you using?
    – squillman
    Sep 28, 2009 at 18:48
  • Also, did you try just my code first or did you add it to something else to run? I don't get that error no matter what I change with my code.
    – squillman
    Sep 28, 2009 at 18:53
  • XP. Only thing change was "MyServerName" "MyCatalog" and "c:\FolderToRescan" to reflect the specifics of the system
    – Kevin
    Sep 28, 2009 at 19:22
  • Is the target system your XP machine or is it a remote host? If remote, what's its OS?
    – squillman
    Sep 28, 2009 at 20:11

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