All right stop! Collaborate and listen (Sharing Points)

Well the preview of Desktop search has been released.  You can get it here..

Windows XP people can now add a search to their MOSS search center. It is less than complete I feel. Ideally I think it would have been good to include the search results in the desktop search results rather than in the Sharepoint search center. Although that may change down the track.

I would like to be able to search my local AND Sharepoint.

I followed these rules but I guess XP is different to Vista so this is what I did (I copied a little from the previous site, sorry)

• Click on Start Button
• Type Gpedit.msc, Group Policy Editor will open (Click Allow if prompted for elevated privileges)
• Navigate down and expand the following tree nodes: User Configuration – Administrative Templates – Windows Components - Search
• Double Click “Add primary intranet search location”
• Choose to “Enable”
• Enter :
  MOSS Search,http://yourmossurlhere/searchcenter/pages/results.aspx?s=Intranet&k=%w
• Click OK
• Close Group Policy Editor
• Reboot or run the following command in a command window as Administrator – Gpupdate /force

You can also add some secondry ones but they are not as visible as the primary. Bring on version 5.