diff --git a/src/LanguageServer.spec.ts b/src/LanguageServer.spec.ts
index 77a770c31..73a826c31 100644
--- a/src/LanguageServer.spec.ts
+++ b/src/LanguageServer.spec.ts
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 import { expect } from './chai-config.spec';
 import * as fsExtra from 'fs-extra';
 import * as path from 'path';
-import type { DidChangeWatchedFilesParams, Location, PublishDiagnosticsParams, WorkspaceFolder } from 'vscode-languageserver';
+import type { ConfigurationItem, DidChangeWatchedFilesParams, Location, PublishDiagnosticsParams, WorkspaceFolder } from 'vscode-languageserver';
 import { FileChangeType } from 'vscode-languageserver';
 import { Deferred } from './deferred';
 import { CustomCommands, LanguageServer } from './LanguageServer';
@@ -402,15 +402,41 @@ describe('LanguageServer', () => {
         });
 
         it('ignores bsconfig.json files from vscode ignored paths', async () => {
+            const mapItem = (item: ConfigurationItem) => {
+                if (item.section === 'files') {
+                    return {
+                        exclude: {
+                            '**/vendor': true
+                        }
+                    };
+                } else if (item.section === 'search') {
+                    return {
+                        exclude: {
+                            '**/temp': true
+                        }
+                    };
+                } else {
+                    return {};
+                }
+            };
+
             server.run();
-            sinon.stub(server['connection'].workspace, 'getConfiguration').returns(Promise.resolve({
-                exclude: {
-                    '**/vendor': true
+            sinon.stub(server['connection'].workspace, 'getConfiguration').callsFake(
+                // @ts-expect-error Sinon incorrectly infers the type of this function
+                (items: any) => {
+                    if (typeof items === 'string') {
+                        return Promise.resolve({});
+                    }
+                    if (Array.isArray(items)) {
+                        return Promise.resolve(items.map(mapItem));
+                    }
+                    return Promise.resolve(mapItem(items));
                 }
-            }) as any);
+            );
             await server.onInitialized();
 
             fsExtra.outputJsonSync(s`${workspacePath}/vendor/someProject/bsconfig.json`, {});
+            fsExtra.outputJsonSync(s`${workspacePath}/temp/someProject/bsconfig.json`, {});
             //it always ignores node_modules
             fsExtra.outputJsonSync(s`${workspacePath}/node_modules/someProject/bsconfig.json`, {});
             await server['syncProjects']();
diff --git a/src/LanguageServer.ts b/src/LanguageServer.ts
index 030661112..9ccb6172b 100644
--- a/src/LanguageServer.ts
+++ b/src/LanguageServer.ts
@@ -653,10 +653,22 @@ export class LanguageServer {
      * Ask the client for the list of `files.exclude` patterns. Useful when determining if we should process a file
      */
     private async getWorkspaceExcludeGlobs(workspaceFolder: string): Promise<string[]> {
-        const config = await this.getClientConfiguration<{ exclude: string[] }>(workspaceFolder, 'files');
-        const result = Object
-            .keys(config?.exclude ?? {})
-            .filter(x => config?.exclude?.[x])
+        const filesConfig = await this.getClientConfiguration<{ exclude: string[] }>(workspaceFolder, 'files');
+        const fileExcludes = this.extractExcludes(filesConfig);
+
+        const searchConfig = await this.getClientConfiguration<{ exclude: string[] }>(workspaceFolder, 'search');
+        const searchExcludes = this.extractExcludes(searchConfig);
+
+        return [...fileExcludes, ...searchExcludes];
+    }
+
+    private extractExcludes(config: { exclude: string[] }): string[] {
+        if (!config?.exclude) {
+            return [];
+        }
+        return Object
+            .keys(config.exclude)
+            .filter(x => config.exclude[x])
             //vscode files.exclude patterns support ignoring folders without needing to add `**/*`. So for our purposes, we need to
             //append **/* to everything without a file extension or magic at the end
             .map(pattern => [
@@ -666,7 +678,6 @@ export class LanguageServer {
                 `${pattern}/**/*`
             ])
             .flat(1);
-        return result;
     }
 
     /**
diff --git a/src/lsp/ProjectManager.spec.ts b/src/lsp/ProjectManager.spec.ts
index 43b7c227a..93a55e561 100644
--- a/src/lsp/ProjectManager.spec.ts
+++ b/src/lsp/ProjectManager.spec.ts
@@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ describe('ProjectManager', () => {
             fsExtra.outputFileSync(`${rootDir}/subdir/bsconfig.json`, '');
             await manager.syncProjects([{
                 workspaceFolder: rootDir,
-                excludePatterns: ['subdir/**/*']
+                excludePatterns: ['**/subdir/**/*']
             }]);
             expect(
                 manager.projects.map(x => x.projectPath)
diff --git a/src/lsp/ProjectManager.ts b/src/lsp/ProjectManager.ts
index 03cd083cc..ee75a197d 100644
--- a/src/lsp/ProjectManager.ts
+++ b/src/lsp/ProjectManager.ts
@@ -646,20 +646,22 @@ export class ProjectManager {
      * If none are found, then the workspaceFolder itself is treated as a project
      */
     private async getProjectPaths(workspaceConfig: WorkspaceConfig) {
-        //get the list of exclude patterns, and negate them (so they actually work like excludes)
-        const excludePatterns = (workspaceConfig.excludePatterns ?? []).map(x => s`!${x}`);
-        let files = await rokuDeploy.getFilePaths([
-            '**/bsconfig.json',
-            //exclude all files found in `files.exclude`
-            ...excludePatterns
-        ], workspaceConfig.workspaceFolder);
+        //get the list of exclude patterns, negate them so they actually work like excludes), and coerce to forward slashes since that's what fast-glob expects
+        const excludePatterns = (workspaceConfig.excludePatterns ?? []).map(x => s`!${x}`.replace(/[\\/]+/g, '/'));
+
+        let files = await fastGlob(['**/bsconfig.json', ...excludePatterns], {
+            cwd: workspaceConfig.workspaceFolder,
+            followSymbolicLinks: false,
+            absolute: true,
+            onlyFiles: true
+        });
 
         //filter the files to only include those that are allowed by the path filterer
-        files = this.pathFilterer.filter(files, x => x.src);
+        files = this.pathFilterer.filter(files);
 
         //if we found at least one bsconfig.json, then ALL projects must have a bsconfig.json.
         if (files.length > 0) {
-            return files.map(file => s`${path.dirname(file.src)}`);
+            return files.map(file => s`${path.dirname(file)}`);
         }
 
         //look for roku project folders