Is the WDS 3 be realeased this week?

Keep an eye on my blog over the next few days.

I installed as it seems to be required for using Office 2007 beta 2; and it seemed ridiculous to also install Google Desktop. However, the lack of UI is reducing my productivity… I realize it’s a beta and intended for testing but it’s been some months and some transparency into your roadmap even if it shift would be of use.

I have a problem with Windows desktop search. I downloaded and install Windows Desktop Search from Microsoft web site and everything works 100%. I have office 2003 on my Desktop. On my Laptop computer i can’t get it installed. I have Outlook 2007 beta and rest of office applications are 2003 (When installing the office 2007 beta i chose only outlook).

Now when i’m trying to install i get “You already have the latest version of Windows desktop search” but i can’t see the search bar to search my PC. As far as i see it adds search box to outlook that searches outlook only.

How can i install/tweak it to have the nice “Search Desktop” box on bottom tray?

Many Thanks!

Oren

I am looking forward for the next WDS 3 version. Do you have any idea when it will be available?

Thanks
Marcus

What I would like to know about the WDS3.0 API is whether there’s any explicit support for indexing of Alternate Data Streams, which as far as I can work out has only been possible until now by writing a special iFilter for the file types that have metadata stored in this fashion.
Since a key tenet of the WinFS data model is the use of metadata (that initially, out of the box, fits the well-defined schemas), and a number of organizations have moved beyond the confinement of propertypages for metadata, it would be nice to have some standardized tools to use the WDS on current platforms (XP, 2000, 2003) for ADS metadata search.

Windows XP, Windows 2003 Server, and IE already make use of the Alternate Data Stream for download security (Attachment Execution Service) and for graphics images.

As I understand it, the use of WinFS over XP SP2 or in Vista (when a user decides to ‘convert’ an NTFS volume) will “promote” the ADS to Items – and I assume there will be some standard way that this is handled.

Where can I find out about this standard way of handling ADS to Items promotion?

It would be lovely to have some guidance on this. And it may be possible for Microsoft to gently shove those of us relying on our own metadata implementations for information search in the current Windows NTFS file system, towards a less traumatic migration path to the WinFS metadata model. I think you in the WDS team could do that with some code samples, some extensions to the WDS API, and some words of wisdom in an article or whitepaper.

I really do see desktop search as a killer app, and its something I’m itching to give my users. Any insight as to when we might expect a fuller 3.0 beat release would be useful info. as well!

Thanks as always,

Janson

I posted this same question on the MSDN Forum – ‘Search, Organize and Visualize in Windows Vista’ just over a month ago and never received any replies from MS to the question.

http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=327921&SiteID=1

So hopefully the API documentation will make it into the Beta2 SDK release.

Cheers

Cheers
Matt

I’ll post about that when I see it go out.

Any links to the API documentation for the WDS 3.0 engine? I wanted to try a couple of things with the Vista Feb CTP but couldn’t find any API documentation in the Feb Windows SDK on the WDS indexing engine.

Cheers