MOSS Search PDF 64-bit using IFilter 9

Install the PDF Ifilter 9 for 64-bit

1. Download and extract the contents of "PDFiFilter64installer.zip" to your local drive.
2. Double click "PDFFilter64installer.msi" to launch the installer.
3. Follow the instructions in the installer wizard to complete the installation.
4. After installing the PDF iFilter, it is recommended that you set your system PATH environment variable to the "bin" folder of the "Ifilter" installation. For example, from the "Control Panel\System\Advanced\Environment Variables" tab, append to PATH "C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe PDF iFilter 9 for 64-bit platforms\bin\" and then restart the computer.
5. Follow the Sharepoint IFilter Configuration Guide
   

Add the PDF extension to Search File Types

1. SharePoint Server Search Administration page by adding ‘pdf’ to list of File Types in Search Administration->File Types

Add the PDF File Icon to MOSS

1. Download the icon for pdf file from http://www.adobe.com/images/pdficon_small.gif , save it to \TEMPLATE\IMAGES directory and name it pdficon_small.gif.
2. Open the docicon.xml file from .\template\xml .
3. Add a new Mapping element to the ByExtension element.
4. Save the docicon.xml file.
5. Restart IIS using iisreset command line.

Restart all SharePoint services as well as IIS.

1. Run these command-lines:
   “net stop osearch”. Wait for success message.
   “net start osearch”. Wait for success message.
2. Restart IIS using iisreset command line and wait for success message.

Re-Crawl

Make sure that you Full Crawl !!!

*** Troubleshooting ***

Important step that will solve this error message "The filtering process could not process this item. This might be because you do not have the latest file filter for this type of item. Install the corresponding filter and retry your crawl."

Make sure to change the \\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office Server\12.0\Search\Setup\ContentIndexCommon\Filters\Extension\.pdf to the GUID {E8978DA6-047F-4E3D-9C78-CDBE46041603}. The original value was {4C904448-74A9-11D0-AF6E-00C04FD8DC02}. (thanks to Russell Wright for that one)

URLs:

http://download.adobe.com/pub/adobe/acrobat/win/9.x/PDFiFilter64installer.zip
http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=4025
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/832809
http://www.adobe.com/special/acrobat/configuring_pdf_ifilter_for_ms_sharepoint_2007.pdf
http://www.adobe.com/images/pdficon_small.gif
http://sharepointsolutions.blogspot.com/2009/01/installing-adobes-64-bit-pdf-ifilter-9.html

WebService "Service Unavailable" error message

When changing the application pool user it is important to add the user to the IIS_WPG group.

Yesterday, we so this error message and found the solution here which says that the reason for this kind of error message may be because one of the following occurs:

1. The application pool is not running.
2. The application pool account uses an incorrect password.
3. The application pool account is not a member of both the IIS_WPG group and the STS_WPG group on the server.

In our case it was the third one, after adding the application pool user to the IIS_WPG group the WebService run like a magic.....

MOSS S.W.A.T Blog

Hi All,

Just wanted to let you all know about a new blog i'm involved in...
The promising MOSS S.W.A.T Blog running by a highlly experiance MOSS team , I'm bribed cause it's my team :-) , but you can check it out and add it to your "Favorites" folder since there are new posts on daily basis.

In Moss We Trust : http://mosswat.blogspot.com/

I hope it would be interesting and handy.

Liron

Enterprise Search Videos

Watch the following Training Videos on Enterprise Search that were published on TechNet:
Module 1: Workshop Overview
Module 2: Enterprise Search Overview
Module 3: SharePoint Search 2007 Walkthrough
Module 4: Search Architecture and Deployment Scenarios
Module 5: Crawl and Query Processes
Module 6: Relevance Ranking
Module 7: Customizing the End-User Experience
Module 8: Developing Search Solutions
Module 9: Business Data Catalog Search
Module 10: Extensibility and Integration for Search
Module 11: Search Administration
Module 12: Security for Search
Module 13: Performance Scalability and Capacity Planning for Search
Module 14: Search Operations

Enjoy,

Liron

Off Topic:Guten Morgen Germany

That is good morning in German, the weather is ok, and the food is fine (lots of sausages and beer)...

I'm staying in Darmstadt, located a little south of Frankfurt.
Got here to participate in two webMethods courses at SoftwareAG (yep, I know...it's not part of the MS technology) and till now it's interesting and easy.



Darmstadt is a small city and most pedestrians don't speak English and guess what - my German is not so good either....so it's a little bit difficult to manage around.

I'm planning to visit here the original Castle Frankenstein and to visit Heidelberg on the weekend.

If you happend to see me down the street....say hi :-)

MOSS Search for emails and attachments context

Some of our customers requested to have the ability to search context within email messages and within its attachments.

Searching the web for a solution came with results that indicate that a third-party development is needed to achieve this ability...
Then I found Gavin Adams post and Tom Vandaele post that wrote that the ability to deep search within msg files is a MOSS out-of-the-box option that need to be configure.

Followed their instructions I tried to search context in a docx file attachment with in a msg file that was uploaded to a document library. I succeed to get the msg file by searching its context , but failed to get results related to the email's attachments.

After some tests of my own, I figure out that the registry should look like that:

1. Make sure that this key exists in the MOSS registry
   HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office Server\12.0\Search\Setup\ContentIndexCommon\Filters\Extension\.msg
2. Add these keys and values to the .msg
   “Extension”=”msg”
   “FileTypeBucket”=dword:00000001
   “MimeTypes”=”application/msoutlook”

The MimeTypes application/msoutlook is the one I use to gain the deep search ability (couldn't do it using the MimeTypes = application/vnd.ms-outlook)

A note to those of you using hebrew documents, I checked it and it's working for hebrew attachments as well.

Lirliron

File size limitation

Hi all,

Lately I faced a problem when tried to upload a huge size file and got an Oversize limitation error message,
searching the SharePoint administration came out with nothing.

I found the solution within the STSADM.EXE:

stsadm -o setproperty -propertyname max-file-post-size -propertyvalue 120 -url http://myportalserver/

The propertyvalue represent a numerical value, in megabytes (MB).

Make sure to set the site size limitation as well.