Rescanning specific folders with Windows Indexing service

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I need to know if there is a way I can automate rescanning certain folders within Windows Indexing Service. Possibly through a batch file or something like that. I have several hundred folders that need to be rescanned and I don't feel like manually right clicking and hitting rescan on each one.

When ***rescan*** is required for ***Indexing Service*** ? – Kiquenet Aug 10 '16 at 12:05 — Kiquenet, Aug 10 '16 at 12:05

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 25 '09 at 21:05

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Here's a VBS script that should work for you. You could put this in a loop over your folder names.

Set objISAdm = CreateObject("Microsoft.ISAdm")
objISAdm.MachineName="MyServerName"
Set objCatAdm = objISAdm.GetCatalogByName("MyCatalog")
Set objScopeAdm = objCatAdm.GetScopeByPath("c:\FolderToReScan")
objScopeAdm.Rescan("TRUE")

In the last line, TRUE means do a full scan. Change it to FALSE to do an incremental scan.

Here's a good source for Indexing Service script samples.

answered Sep 25 '09 at 21:05

squillman

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I tried this script. It keeps bombing out with an application exception in ntdll.dll – Kevin Sep 28 '09 at 18:42
What version of Windows are you using? – squillman Sep 28 '09 at 18:48
Also, did you try just my code first or did you add it to something else to run? I don't get that error no matter what I change with my code. – squillman Sep 28 '09 at 18:53
XP. Only thing change was "MyServerName" "MyCatalog" and "c:\FolderToRescan" to reflect the specifics of the system – Kevin Sep 28 '09 at 19:22
Is the target system your XP machine or is it a remote host? If remote, what's its OS? – squillman Sep 28 '09 at 20:11
I am remote desktopped into a machine and executing locally there. It is xp as well – Kevin Oct 05 '09 at 13:11
No, you shouldn't. That script runs as-is on my XP box. – squillman Oct 05 '09 at 16:47
@Kevin did you tried again or using powershell or C# ? – Kiquenet Jun 21 '16 at 11:21
Script about `MsIndexServer`: http://www.activexperts.com/network-monitor/scripts/powershell/msindexserver – Kiquenet Jun 22 '16 at 07:51

Rescanning specific folders with Windows Indexing service

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