Windows Search Supporting Documents

Review these supporting documents for information on deploying, configuring, and customizing Windows Search for your organization. The Administrator's Guides offer Group Policy information and customization options, and the Software Development Kits share Windows Search APIs, code samples, and other guidelines for incorporating search into your applications.

The Windows SDK contains a number of samples and tools to help with development.

Third parties can create applications which consume the data in the index through programmatic queries, and can extend the data in the index for custom file and item types to be indexed by Windows Search.

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Find supporting documentation for legacy versions of Windows Search.

Use the Administrator's Guide to assist with setting up, configuring and customizing the Windows Search functionality in Windows Vista for your organization. The Administrator's Guide also includes Group Policy information.

The Microsoft Windows Software Development Kit provides the documentation, samples, header files, libraries, and tools you need to develop applications that run on Windows.

Windows Vista provides users with the tools to turn the raw data on their systems into useful information. Developers can use tools to extend functionality in the following areas: storage optimization, retrieval, and native data and file type organization.

This site offers resources for building distributed applications on Windows Vista.

Use the Administrator's Guide to assist with setting up, configuring, and customizing Windows Search 4.0 for your organization. The Administrator's Guide also includes Group Policy information.

The Troubleshooting Guide describes troubleshooting tips and prepares you to answer support questions about the new version of Windows Search.

Download the Windows SDK to explore sample applications and develop using Visual Studio, C#, and .NET technology.