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Server search for windows (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 day ago by bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works to c/techsupport@lemmy.world

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So our work has a few systems in place. The abysmal SharePoint, which most people hate (other than HR) and a typical set of servers mapped to network drives on all our laptops.

My question. What is a good solution for searching on that server? Explorer search is abysmally slow and offers no option for customizing a search. Its not even that I want to search the entire server, even just 1 "project" folder within it to find a document that has the word "list" in it instead of combing through 45 folders.

This really shouldnt be hard. But our management is more concerned with getting inaccurate answers from slopbots and degrading quality of work than solutions to actual problems, so theyve never looked into this. Half the people at this place dont know what a server or win explorer even is.

I would guess a solution would have to be implemented by the IT team and not on a per-employee basis. Is it just a matter of them turning in indexing? Really I'd prefer something more robust than explorer search.

Obviously IT would have to approve it if its 3rd party.

Thank!

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[–] bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Ah I have used tree but didnt even think about writing it to text to search! Very clever. Thank you for the ideas !

I'm almost positive if i go to the team with this solution, they will instantly go bug eye and say "we can have ai do that!!!!!!!!!1!!1!1!1!" Which I really do not want. We already waste tens of thousands a month for useless slopbots that do nothing and are inaccurate, just plain dangerous for our line of work too. I think people have completely forgotten that software tools exist, not only a scam altman supercomputer subscription.

[–] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Le sigh.

I'm all about locking down machines, I get it - social engineering and the inattentiveness of users is a real risk.

But wow (and I don't even know how you restrict the command prompt like that, wonder of they're using a third-party security tool).

Can you run those commands without output to a text file, and just copy the results? The command prompt got a lot better with like XP and lets you copy all (click on the icon in it's title bar, it should show a few commands).