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Looking for simple searchable DMS

We have a project with a looooot of documents (Word,Excel, TXT, Pdf, ...). Currently, we simply store it on a shared folder. But it has soon become not manageable. Do you know any simple open source ...
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Tool to search text in big files [closed]

I'm looking for a tool to find a line containing a searced text inside a file that has a size of 4 GB
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How to prevent search engines indexing a specific url

I have a url which i don't want indexed: http://www.mysite.com/moduleA?param=secretkey So when i google search for "mysite.com", i don't want the above link to appear in the search results. However,...
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LAN FIle and/or Service Search

Anyone know of a tool/script that I can use to find if a single file is present on machines on my LAN? The file would be in the same place every time. Same applies to a service. Need to know which ...
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Default Search provider in Internet Explorer 8 Via GP?

Does anyone know how to change the default search provider in IE8 Via Group Policy? IE7 seemed to work okay but once I rolled out the IE8 browser update via WSUS, it defaults back to Bing search on ...
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Need suggestions on making Network File Share, Internal Wiki, Google Docs, and emails searchable from a single location for my organization

I want my coworkers to be able to type a search into a single box and have it return information from all those sources. Network File Share Internal Wiki (based on MediaWiki) Google Docs (we use ...
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Are there any scenarios I need both 32-bit and 64-bit IFilter on the same machine?

Since 32-bit applications run mostly fine on 64-bit Windows are there any scenarious where I will have 32-bit Microsoft Search IFilter consumers on a 64-bit machine? Can I just install the 64-bit ...
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Can translation of user interface and list names be disabled in a multilingual Sharepoint site?

I'm in the process of configuring Microsoft Office Server Search for a Sharepoint web site. The web site needs multilingual support, so for indexing and search queries to work properly we need to ...
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Help with searches in Linux

I'm kinda a newbie to the whole Linux thing but I'm having a doozie of a time trying to figure out how to sift through a my qmail log files. At this point, what I want to do is do a search that ...
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Removing Paths/ Landing Pages From SharePoint Search Results

We've been asked by a client to remove a number of pages from being shown up in their public website search results page. I've been into the SSP and created Crawl Rules to remove these pages. All ...
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Google Mini - How to open the case?

I have a Google Mini and I cannot open the case? It seems to be a simple case, but I cannot figure it out. I removed the two screws in the back and I am expecting to slide the top back and it would ...
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Windows desktop search other than google desktop?

As a developer, i frequently need to perform complex searches for files. For example, search for file that starts with 'buf' and ends with '.c' or '.h' in a c:\sdk and c:\project\include. Windows ...
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How do SharePoint search statistics get generated?

We have a heavily customised SharePoint publishing (WCM) site that uses no web parts in order to meet with XHTML and (AA) accessibilty guidelines. The trouble is that the search functionality is not ...
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Google Mini Search Appliance

HI All, A friend of mine has a Google Mini-0020 3GHz Search Appliance that he said I can have. I have heard about these, but never put one into production. What kinds of things can I do with it? (...
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Google Mini Seems to Miss Some Documents

I have a site with dynamic pages on them (e.g. record.aspx?id=657). These get added to occasionally. Each of these pages can be found by following various tags, and there's a page (ip restricted so ...
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Google mini ignoring sitemap

I'm in the processing of setting up a Google Mini device to index our site which has a lot of dynamically generated content. I've created a dynamic site.map file which lists all of the dynamic URL's. ...
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Why is my SharePoint people search WorkEmail property blank?

I have an SSP setup for my site and I am trying to get the presence bubble working correctly. However, I cannot get the people search core results webpart to display the workemail. I have output the ...
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Local full text index for a directory tree, a quicker alternative for grep -R

I have a large directory tree of source files. I want to search around all these files. My first instinct is to use grep -R or ack, but either way they just sequentially read all the files. Is there ...
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google Safe Search web filtering

I had an issue raised that a student did a google images search on Reece Bennett and on the second page, after removing safe search from moderate to off, they got some inappropriate images. Blocking ...
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How to recursively search and replace from command line on unix/linux system

So I want to change several files at one with one command. This is what I have so far: find -regex ".*\.ext$" | xargs grep -l searchText 2> /dev/null | xargs -i sed 's/searchText/replaceText/' >...
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Sharepoint Crawler is denied access to sites

We create all our site collections programatically with a custom site def/template. Everything works as expected, except for the crawler. It's apparently denied access to the sites. The crawl logs ...
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What's a good way to provide a searchable interface to Mailman mailing list archives?

If you have a collection of mailing list archives from Mailman (example here) is there a good way to make them searchable from a web-based interface?
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SharePoint Search issues after replacing WFE server

We have a small intranet installation of MOSS SP2 with a single WFE and a separate SQL Server. I recently switched out the old WFE server that was running Windows Server 2003 Standard 32-bit, the ...
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enterprise search engine deployment asking for advice

I am asked to either deploy or develop an enterprise (intranet) search engine which could index all web pages of a couple of internal servers, and have a search portal to display all related content, ...
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How to search an entire MS SQL 2005 DB for a value?

How can I search an entire MS SQL 2005 DB for a value? For example 'ABC12345'. Thanks.
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Single user returns mulitple entries for LDAP query

After asking this question, I had an LDAP query that looked like this: (&(cn=*)(networkAddress=*)(objectClass=user)) However, if a user has multiple cn's, they are returned multiple times. Is ...
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Small (Business) Server - Microsoft Windows Search or Microsoft Search Server 2008 Express

Users would like to able to quickly search shared folders etc. on the server. What are the PRO's and CON's of these two technologies?
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Open Source alternative to "Google Appliance" for intranet search? [closed]

Are there any alternative open source solutions (with a web console)?
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Faster IMAP searching for Courier IMAP server on Linux

I am looking for tips on improving IMAP search performance using Courier IMAP. The current version is 4.2.1. Unlike in the question "Fast search for IMAP?", I'm specifically looking for server side ...
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Which DHCP Client OS Support DHCP Option 119 Domain Suffix Search?

The ability for DHCP servers (Microsoft, ISC, VitalQIP, IPControl, Infoblox, etc.) to deliver DHCP Option 119 - Domain Suffix Search Lists has been around for a long time. Initially, DHCP Client ...
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How to offer searchable IRC logs?

How can I offer indexed, searchable (full text search) IRC channel logs to my users? Also nice to have would be that users logging on to the channel could get a recap of what they missed since their ...
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Good tool for searching E-Mail in Outlook? [closed]

As a System Administrator, I tend to accumulate a lot of E-Mail. And, unfortunately, my current employer requires Windows on the desktop and Outlook for e-mail. My question is, are there any good ...
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Searching two sites at once using Google? [closed]

How can I limit a Google search to two sites at once? I can search Serverfault by doing site:serverfault.com windows xp, but I can't seem to figure out how to include another site in my search. ...
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Do SharePoint farms have to be on the same service pack to share Shared Services?

I have a parent farm on MOSS 2007 SP1. I'd like to share the parent's SSP search service with a child farm on MOSS 2007 SP2. But, I'm having trouble crawling content from the parent farm. Could it ...
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Searching a number of files for a string in LInux

How do I search files, some of which might be directories (in this case recursively) for a given string? I'd like to search source files for a class definition, so it would also be great if there was ...
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Which is the best Windows XP tool for indexing the hard disk? [closed]

After trying Windows 7, I miss the start menu search in my Windows XP. I don't like the Windows XP search because I think it requires much mouse work to get a search done, and it's indexing isn't fast ...
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What is a good bulk find / replace tool for windows? [closed]

I'm looking to find / replace in alot of files and was wondering if anybody could recommend some good tools for Windows. I'd prefer them to be free. Thanks
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Search LDAP for a user with a specific IP address

I am doing passthrough authentication against a Novell eDirectory server. Currently I perform the following request: results = server.search_s( self.basedn, ldap.SCOPE_SUBTREE, '(...
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Search inside of text files

So here is the situation. I currently run a mail server for my small non-profit company. My mail server (Merak Mail Server) keeps logs in .log files and mail as .tmp files. Essentially these are just ...
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Search for just folders in Windows Explorer

Is there a way to search in Windows Explorer for just folders? I know folders get sorted to the top, but I'm always looking for that extra option.
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Incremental crawl in MOSS corrupts the search result

I'm having problems with a MOSS setup that after an incremental crawl, the search results will get corrupted. Troubleshooting it further using the search web service, the resulting XML looks like this:...
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Search Service Error

I'm getting the following error when I try to go into the "Content Sources" section of the Search Administrator in the SSP. The search service is currently offline. Visit the Services on Server ...
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Script to search jars for class in Windows

I'm looking for a Windows script/batch file that will search a specified directory and subdirs (or possibly use the CLASSPATH?) for jar files, then search in those jars for a specified class. It'd be ...
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How to I setup search on SharePoint Farm A to use the query server on Farm B?

We have two farms. Farm B handles all indexing of content and has the query server. We have sites on Farm A, and we want all of their searches to be run on the query server in Farm B. How can we ...
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Fast search for IMAP?

I have an IMAP account with over 10 years' worth of emails in it, and I'd like to be able to search it quickly from my Windows machine. I'm looking for something that will give me an indexed search ...
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What tools are available to scan remote desktops for certain types of files?

I need to scan about 50 desktop computers and check to see if any *.doc, *.xls, *.ppt etc... files are being stored locally. I am wondering what tools might be available for this. A quick Google ...
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How to find two months old password users in a Windows domain?

how can I search for two or three months old passwords on a Windows domain controller? I am an administrator on this domain.
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Is there a way to avoid reindexing files on each Microsoft Search Service crawl?

I need to index heavyweight format files with Microsoft Search Service. I created an IFilter and a backend that stores indexing results. So now if extracting text from some given file takes too long ...
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Locate, Find, Which - How do I launch an index/scan command for these utilities?

How do I re-scan my drive so my 'search utilities' are able to find a new file on my system? I'm having a tough time googling HOW TOs for launching an index/scan command to any of this applications. ...
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Fastest way to search for file attributes on windows?

I have many files, 2TB be exact, and must find/search for files by creator and creation date and others file attributes. What in your opinion would be the best way to do these kinds of searches? ...
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