We’ve been using WDS 3.01 in our Search Application. We use “System.Search.AutoSummary” property to retrieve the preview text
from WDS. But to our suprise in WS 4.0, this property is not supported. I’ve tried to find out alternate property to use with
WS 4.0 but no luck.
And also, the “System.Search.AutoSummary” retrieves the first 2K data from the WDS, which is not useful in most cases. Our
requirement is to retrieve the text that is near to the Search word hit.

Could you please point us to the right property to use?

Regards,
Sha

I asked our WS4 experts and found out that WS 4.0 does not index items marked “private” in the delegate store. I am unsure if the preview release had this fix or not, but it is in our RC and will be in the final RTW version. I hope this helps =)

Thanks,
Brandon

I tested several desktopsearch products and WDS 2.66 was the best. 3.01 lost because it could not index conected delegated mailboxes, which was a requirement for us.

Just very recently we discovered a serious security problem. WDS 2.66 does not respect “Private” flag on connected delegate mailboxes. Secretaries cannot normally see bosses “Private” marked items, but the can search for them and read on WDS 2.66 preview pane!

I wish 4.0 final version had just a GPO setting “Prevent indexing of private items in delegate mailboxes”.

Best regards,

Tomek

I have been trying to get WDS pushed out to all my company’s employees as I think it’s an awesome tool which really increases productivity. Plus, the price is right. ($0)
With WS4, is it possible to search SharePoint 2003 sites? I would really like to see this option become available. We have a large SharePoint deployment in our company and WDS/Sharepoint integration would make this product nearly perfect.