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I'm pleased to announce that after months of blood, sweat and toil, the MS Filter Pack is finally

I'm pleased to announce that after months of blood, sweat and toil, the MS Filter Pack is finally

Hy!

nice to see the support for Office2007 file formats but how about XPS?

You mentioned Metro, but Metro in my understanding also includes XPS, so it is already working?

Regards

Mike

Deb, in http://blogs.msdn.com/ifilter/archive/2007/03/24/indexing-xps-documents-with-moss-2007.aspx#5424346">http://blogs.msdn.com/ifilter/archive/2007/03/24/indexing-xps-documents-with-moss-2007.aspx#5424346 you said the filter registration is on your radar, so I thought it is still not possible to use XPS inside of WSS 3.0?!?

What do I have to do to use XPS on WSS 3.0? http://blogs.msdn.com/ifilter/archive/2007/03/24/indexing-xps-documents-with-moss-2007.aspx describes only the way for MOSS 2007.

Just to speculate to get it done: I install the XPS Essential Pack, then I follow the instruction in http://support.microsoft.com/?id=946338 and use .XPS and {1E4CEC13-76BD-4ce2-8372-711CB6F10FD1}??? If yes, any problems with foreign languages?

Thanks for your help!

Mike

Is this filter pack supposed to do Full Text searches?  We have it installed and it doesn't return results for information contained within these filetypes.

I also encoutered same problem. Who can tell me how to solve it? Thanks!

Have any of you been able to get the onenote documents to appear in MOSS searches?

We are running SQL2005 in 32bit mode on a Windows 2003 x64 Server. I see in the event log that the Filter Pack was installed, but even after the restart of the server, the files types are not listed.

select document_type, path from sys.fulltext_document_types

The Fulltext Indexes uses language "neutral." Could that be my problem? Or is it the x32 SQL on a x64 Platform?

I've got the Adobe pdf filter installed and MOSS returns text within the document.  Is the filter pack also supposed to do this with these document types also.

I guess I stated my question wrong.  I was wondering if MOSS 2007 does full text searching on these types of documents (docx, vsd [which the crawler states the wrong IFilter is installed], zip, etc.) because the crawler is not picking up the content in these files.  Does MOSS do a full text search on the document types listed above?

It appears the correction is only for a one note type and doesn't mention anything about vsd or docx types.

David, the first correction applies to all the filters.You should set the values under this reg key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office

Server\12.0\Search\Setup\ContentIndexCommon\Filters\Extension\

The CLSIDs of the all the filters except OneNote is correct.

HTH,

Deb.

Deb, Here is the response from the crawl logs after running the errata.

Crawled (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. )

Deb, I re-ran my crawl it the full text search on vsd file works!  Whats the story on zip files?  Thanks for the help.

On my test system I can confirm that .docx files contained in a .zip file are filtered. Search results do show up in a MOSS 2007 in this case. However: .doc and .txt files included in a .zip archive are not filtered. I also used "ifilttst /i test.zip /v 3 /d" and examined the resulting .dmp file. This confirmed that only the .docx file was accessed. Any hint? (.txt and .doc files themselves are filtered, of course)

I'm configuring a sharepoint search site, that should support indexing of tiff documents. Unfortunately, this is no longer support in MOSS 2007.

Does anyone has any experience with tiff ifilters?

Currently there is a problem filtering Office97-2003 files within the Zip package.

We're looking into the issue.

There are no OOB TIFF filters in MOSS2007 -

we're evaluating some solutions presently.I'll

post an update once we have an ETA.

TIFF filter is important as this gets some OCR-like features.

Does the iFIlter for OneNote work on a x64 system (Windows 2008/MOSS2008)?  It does not appear to.

Is this included in Vista SP1 or Office 2007 SP1? Thanks.

No Filter pack is not a windows or office component and hence has to be downloaded seperately.

Earlier post: OneNote Filter should work on x64 system.

Is there any news on the alternative solution for the TIFF filter which was not shipped with the Filter Pack? You suggested last August this would be shipped in the Pack. Then, in December, you said you were were working on this alternative, but there seems to be no further information over the last four months. Just the barest bones of a roadmap would be helpful.

This question had been asked a month ago already. My customer urgently needs this. Is there ANYTHING except "sorry again" I can tell them?

Thx

Frank

Hello, for myself...i got 2 systems, 1 x64 and another x86. I installed the MS iFilter pack on both, and on x86 all is working fine, but i cant search for vsd files on the x64 system. Crawllog shows no errors, he just said "*.vsd file crawled" but the search gives no result. :(

any known workaround?

Another hand in the air for TIFF OCR content indexing, or ANY idea of timescales.

Also, Acrobat iFilter (Acrobat 8.1.2) does not work out of the box, I have compiled instructions here (from various sources):

http://nickwhite.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!94355F53A65D0989!734.entry