SOLIDWORKS PDM can use the Windows Search service to perform content searches.
Microsoft does not support the Indexing Service for Windows 10 or Windows
Server 2016 operating systems. SOLIDWORKS PDM uses the Windows Search service to support
content search on these operating systems.
To use the Windows Search for Content Search:
- The administrator must configure the Windows Search service and
index a file vault archive folder.
- The file vault archive folder that is being indexed must be:
- On the same machine as the configured Windows Search
service.
Windows Search does not support
indexing remote network shares or mapped network drives. The archive
folders must be accessible on locally attached storage or SAN
storage.
- Accessible to the Windows Search service to build a
system index.
- If the archive server is on a different machine than the SQL
server:
- The administrator must share the file vault archive
folder.
- The logged in user running the SQL server service must
have full permission to the shared folder.
- The Windows Search service must be installed on the SQL
server machine as well as the Archive server hosting the vault
archives.
When the Windows Search service builds the system index, the
administrator can set up SOLIDWORKS PDM to use the system index.