Microsoft Windows Desktop Search plug-in for Lotus Notes available

April 12 2006

Interesting -- like Google Desktop and X1, Microsoft has now extended their desktop search tool to support indexing Lotus Notes e-mail.  Somehow I missed the press release on this :-) (Thanks, Mathias)

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  1. 1  Henny Breijer http://www.breijer.com | 4/12/2006 8:33:59 AM

    Since a couple of weeks I kicked-off Google Desktop Search and replaced it with X1. I love it !!!

    Let's see what MSFT comes up with..

    Greetz,

    Henny Breijer

  1. 2  Mathias Persson  | 4/12/2006 9:05:02 AM

    You're welcome... I installed it and it seems to work ok! Must wait a couple of days to see if it behaves... My first impression is that it is nicer than Google desktop...

  1. 3  David DeWell http://workdomosphere.blogspot.com | 4/12/2006 9:39:14 AM

    That is interesting, I could not get it to work worth a poot. Maybe it is because I am using Notes 7. It apparently works with Notes 6 at the moment.

  1. 4  Nathan T. Freeman  | 4/12/2006 10:18:27 AM

    I wonder if it's as accurate as RedBull? hehe

  1. 5  Henny Breijer http://www.breijer.com | 4/12/2006 10:37:15 AM

    Oh yeah.. the specs note the tools only works for Notes 5.x and 6.x... Hmm... missed opportunity I'de say

  1. 6  Irv Schor  | 4/12/2006 10:44:43 AM

    Haven't looked at it, but is it really new? Wasn't Sharepoint Server already able to search Domino DBs? Okay, perhaps for the local DT its new, but is their technology itself new?

  1. 7  Darren http://www.dadams.co.uk | 4/12/2006 11:25:41 AM

    Shouldn't Microsoft be concentrating on improving the searching in their own tools (e.g. Outlook)?

  1. 8  Jerry Glover http://www.jerryglover.com | 4/12/2006 1:21:50 PM

    Well this makes for a nice interesting little anti-FUD factoid. The next time someone from MS claims that "no one uses Notes anymore" or something similar, you can ask, if that's true, why waste any resources on enabling search for it?

  1. 9  Ed Brill www.edbrill.com | 4/12/2006 1:29:43 PM

    @8 Jerry, I suspect this is why the support was added with little fanfare.

  1. 10  Darren http://www.dadams.co.uk | 4/12/2006 2:23:37 PM

    @8 - because Google have done it? Mind you, Google Desktop works with Notes 7.

    If you want some more anti-FUD, one of the Lotus Business Partners today told me they're working on 17 (yep, 17) Exchange to Domino migration projects.

  1. 11  Mathias Persson  | 4/14/2006 1:58:45 AM

    It works for me and I have Notes 7. I did install the latest Beta of Desktop Search though...

  1. 12  Alexey khaolition@blogspot.com | 6/22/2006 10:39:16 AM

    When I add LN indexing to my Windows Desktop Search (2.6.xxx) it won't index any more. (LN 6.5). Any suggestions?

    What I find strange is that it doesn't ask me for my LN password.

  1. 13  Ben Moore  | 11/8/2006 1:05:55 PM

    I'm using Notes 6.5 and I've pointed this plug-in to my .nsf file but Windows Desktop Search 2.6.5 won't index it. Suggestions?

  1. 14  Lotus Guy  | 7/24/2008 1:17:22 AM

    Does the latest Windows Desktop Search v.4.0 support Lotus Notes?

    I have Notes 6.5.3 w/WinXPSP2.