If you haven't already heard, Google Desktop Search came out of beta testing this week and added some kewl new features. Since I'm working on a new ghost image to deploy in a few weeks, I figured I'd add this to the image. Testing soon revealed that Google Desktop has to be installed under the username that will utilize it...and only that username can use the app :-(
A quick search of the help docs verified this: "Google Desktop Search can be installed under only one Windows username per computer, and it can be accessed only by someone logged in with that username. If you log in to Windows as an administrator in order to install Desktop Search, you'll only be able to use the program when you're logged in with that same administrator account."
NUTS! Hopefully in later releases Google will add multi-user functionality. Since only a very few select network users have local admin rights allowing software installs, the majority of our end users won't be able to use this sweet tool.
Of course I wonder how much our network traffic would increase if everyone was using Google Desktop...our users "My Documents" are all mapped to the server so the search engine would have to crawl those files across the LAN. Hmm, surely I'm not the first person to wonder about this?
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