Tag: Computer Configuration
Turn off location scripting
This policy setting turns off scripting for the location feature. If you enable this policy setting scripts for the location feature will not run. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting all location scripts will run.
Prevent indexing of certain file types
Enabling this policy allows you to edit the list of file types to exclude from indexing. The end user cannot modify this list. You should separate each extension type with a semicolon. Note that limitations of Group Policy Object Editor require this list to be split across multiple values. Desktop Search combines all these into a single exclusion list. When this policy is disabled or not configured the user can edit the default list of excluded file types. If you enable and then disable this policy the user’s original list is restored. If you want to specify an initial default list of excluded file types that users can change later see the administration guide for information about how to set up the initial machine preference.
Select OCR languages from a code page
This policy setting allows selecting of OCR (Optical Character Recognition) languages that belong to one of the supported code pages. If you enable this policy setting the selected OCR languages are used in OCR processing during the indexing of TIFF files. The default system language is ignored unless it is among the selected OCR languages. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting only the default system language is used. All selected OCR languages must belong to the same code page. If you select languages from more than one code page the entire OCR language selection is ignored and only the default system language is used. Re-indexing is not initiated when you enable this policy and selecting OCR languages. This policy setting only applies to the indexing of new files unless re-indexing is initiated manually.
Force TIFF IFilter to perform OCR for every page in a TIFF document
This Group Policy setting lets users turn off the performance optimization so that the TIFF IFilter will perform OCR for every page in a TIFF document which allows indexing of all recognized text. By default the TIFF IFilter optimizes its performance by skipping OCR (Optical Character Recognition) for document pages that have non-textual content (for example pictures). In some cases pages that contain text can be misclassified as non-text pages. If this is the case the text in these pages will not be indexed. If you enable this setting TIFF IFilter will perform OCR for every page in a TIFF document to index all recognized text. Therefore the OCR process will be slower. This decrease in performance can be significant if there are lots of non-textual pages (pictures) in TIFF documents on the system. If you disable or do not configure this setting TIFF IFilter will optimize its performance by skipping non-textual content during the OCR process.
Turn on Security Center (Domain PCs only)
This policy setting specifies whether Security Center is turned on or off for computers that are joined to an Active Directory domain. When Security Center is turned on it monitors essential security settings and notifies the user when the computer might be at risk. The Security Center Control Panel category view also contains a status section where the user can get recommendations to help increase the computer’s security. When Security Center is not enabled on the domain neither the notifications nor the Security Center status section are displayed. Note that Security Center can only be turned off for computers that are joined to a Windows domain. When a computer is not joined to a Windows domain the policy setting will have no effect. If you do not congifure this policy setting the Security Center is turned off for domain members. If you enable this policy setting Security Center is turned on for all users. If you disable this policy setting Security Center is turned off for domain members. Windows XP SP2———————-In Windows XP SP2 the essential security settings that are monitored by Security Center include firewall antivirus and Automatic Updates. Note that Security Center might not be available following a change to this policy setting until after the computer is restarted for Windows XP SP2 computers. Windows Vista———————In Windows Vista this policy setting monitors essential security settings to include firewall antivirus antispyware Internet security settings User Account Control and Automatic Updates. Windows Vista computers do not require a reboot for this policy setting to take effect.
Turn off sensors
This policy setting turns off the sensor feature for this computer. If you enable this policy setting the sensor feature is turned off and all programs on this computer cannot use the sensor feature. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting all programs on this computer can use the sensor feature.
Turn off location
This policy setting turns off the location feature for this computer. If you enable this policy setting the location feature is turned off and all programs on this computer are prevented from using location information from the location feature. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting all programs on this computer will not be prevented from using location information from the location feature.
Add secondary intranet search locations
Enabling this policy allows you to add intranet search locations in addition to the primary intranet search location defined in the Add Primary Intranet Search Location policy. The value of this text should be:name1url1;name2url2;. . . nameNurlNFor example:MySearchhttp://mysearch. aspx?q=$w;MySearch2http://mysearch2?q=$w. For each search scope provide:1) A name for the scope such as ‘IT Web’. 2) The URL to the search service. Use $w in place of the query term for the search service URL. If your intranet search service is SharePoint Portal Server your query should resemble the following:http://sitename/Search. aspx?k=$wIf your intranet search service is Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) the query should resemble the following where XXXX is the locale ID of your WSS Service. For example the English locale ID is 1033. http://sitename/_layouts/XXXX/searchresults. aspx?SearchString=$wThese additional intranet search locations are added to the All Locations list in the Desktop Search results.
Preview pane location
Enabling this policy allows you to set the location of the preview pane in the Desktop Search results. You can also turn off the preview pane. The four options are:- Auto- Right- Bottom- OffYou should consider enabling this policy to turn off the preview pane if your environment does not support Office XP or later. The full preview pane functionality is only available for Office documents in Office XP or later. When this policy is disabled or not configured the preview pane shows automatically to the right of the Desktop Search results and your users can choose the location of the preview pane
Set large or small icon view in desktop search results
Enabling this policy allows you to specify whether you want large icon or small icon view for your Desktop Search results. The two options are:- Large Icon- Small Icon. If you have disabled the preview pane because your organization does not support Office XP or above you should enforce the large icon view so that users can see snippets related to their desktop search query. When this policy is disabled or not configured the default is small icon view.