how to globally search for a file on the active directory?
so an employee who works at our office has pirated a file which has caught the eye of a major network. we now have to find this file on one of our 150 computers without knowing which one has it. we are using an Active Directory but have been going through "net use" to search for this file on each computer. its been very slow and we cant access every computer that way. how do i go about searching all of these computers for this specific file (we'll call it "illegal.avi"). is there way to do a faster search for this file?
February 15th, 2011 4:24pm

On Tue, 15 Feb 2011 21:17:47 +0000, sysKnaps wrote: >so an employee who works at our office has pirated a file which has caught the eye of a major network. we now have to find this file on one of our 150 computers without knowing which one has it. we are using an Active Directory but have been going through "net use" to search for this file on each computer. its been very slow and we cant access every computer that way. how do i go about searching all of these computers for this specific file (we'll call it "illegal.avi"). is there way to do a faster search for this file? That's not an Exchange server problem. But you'll have to search each machine to find the file in question. --- Rich Matheisen MCSE+I, Exchange MVP --- Rich Matheisen MCSE+I, Exchange MVP
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February 15th, 2011 5:41pm

On Tue, 15 Feb 2011 21:17:47 +0000, sysKnaps wrote: >so an employee who works at our office has pirated a file which has caught the eye of a major network. we now have to find this file on one of our 150 computers without knowing which one has it. we are using an Active Directory but have been going through "net use" to search for this file on each computer. its been very slow and we cant access every computer that way. how do i go about searching all of these computers for this specific file (we'll call it "illegal.avi"). is there way to do a faster search for this file? That's not an Exchange server problem. But you'll have to search each machine to find the file in question. --- Rich Matheisen MCSE+I, Exchange MVP --- Rich Matheisen MCSE+I, Exchange MVP yeah, do you know a fast way to globally search them?
February 15th, 2011 5:58pm

You can try using Windows Search (you have SDK for it so you can develop something that will automate searching) or you can use the hard way and add search locations by hand \\computername\c$With kind regards Krystian Zieja http://www.projectnenvision.com Follow me on twitter My Blog
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February 15th, 2011 6:25pm

On Tue, 15 Feb 2011 22:52:48 +0000, sysKnaps wrote: [ snip ] >yeah, do you know a fast way to globally search them? That depends on the client and what's installed on it. XP could install Windows Search, and so could Vista. Windows 7 already has it installed. Otherwise you'll have to try connecting with either WMI or attaching to the administrative share. But, as I said, this isn't an Exchange subject and it's the wrong forum for this. --- Rich Matheisen MCSE+I, Exchange MVP --- Rich Matheisen MCSE+I, Exchange MVP
February 15th, 2011 8:12pm

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