Sweet - I am definitely giving this a whirl.
The tool I wrote takes about 90 minutes to run every night, and has about 96% success in finding things. Right now, Windows Search might actually be harder to use right now, since our data structure is pretty poor. Each of the 500+ departments has a pair of folders that are shared - one for the department share, and one for users in the department. Media is allowed in the department share (ad copy, resort images, etc) but not in the user's home share. The tool has to enumerate each department folder and then only the user subfolder.
I'm in the process of changing the structure while migrating to storage on the new SAN. There will be one share for Departments and one for Users, so now I can specify the \Users root and locate all the inappropriate media. I think the other advantage of this is is that it reports media inside of compressed folders (ZIP files), which the previous tool did not find. Since I need to rewrite this to support the new structure, this is perfect timing for me. Thanks, Rad!!
Glenn
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