Posts tagged Search

SharePoint iFilter addon

Found this on Joel Oleson’s Blog

Looking to index these file types on your SQL full text search, SharePoint, Desktops, or whoever else uses mssearch.exe? You can now index the following for free with this ifilter pack: .docx, .docm, .pptx, .pptm, .xlsx, .xlsm, .xlsb, .zip, .one, .vdx, .vsd, .vss, .vst, .vdx, .vsx, and .vtx

Office System 2007 Filter Pack download

Love to see the visio formats zip and various new formats.  I now I’ve seen people purchase the .zip formats so it’s cool to see that.  I’ve also heard of people installing Visio on the server :)   So this should be a welcome download.  I forget where I saw this recently, but know it’s been something many search people have been on the watch for.

Below are the steps to add these IFilters for Indexing with the appropriate specific Search product, please see the associated KB article below:

To add search capability for PDF files in WSS and MOSS please see this guide made by Sundar Narasiman:

http://msmvps.com/blogs/sundar_narasiman/archive/2008/02/06/configuring-moss-2007-to-search-pdf-documents-install-and-configure-pdf-ifilters.aspx

You vill need Adobe iFilter 6.0 located @ http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=2611

Good Luck!

WSS 3.0: View and edit Search Scopes in Search Administration

Just installed Search Server 2008  Express for your WSS 3.0 app?? And now you want to add a new scope to the search dropdown for you FARM? But you can’t seem to find the scopes on the Search Administration site? Well Daniel Berg gave me a good tip and told me that the link to the “View Scopes” page in Search Administrator seems to be hidden.. and to access the page you need to know the exact URL which he provided:

http://ExampleSite:PortToSearchAdministration/ssp/admin/_layouts/ViewScopesSSP.aspx?Mode=ssp

Just add this link to you “Links” Web Part on the Search Administration Start Page for future use. This will make it possible to Manage Search Scopes for your WSS farm.

If you want to edit your Search Scope the old fashion way then it’s Site Actions -> Site Settings -> Site Collection Administration -> Search Scopes