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Wednesday, December 17, 2008 9:40 PM

Displaying PDF icons in search results

I received some questions today on how to display the pdf icons in search results. After you can index pdf documents (installing the pdf ifilter, bouncing the search service and all that good stuff), please use the instructions on the blog given below
Posted by Deb Haldar | 1 Comments
Wednesday, December 10, 2008 8:01 PM

Adobe releases a 64-bit IFilter

Adobe has finally released a true 64 bit version of the pdf ifilter. Adobe has successfully tested the filter on the following platforms : Environment Operating System Application Desktop Windows XP x64 SP2 * Windows Desktop Search 3 and 4 * Windows Indexing
Posted by Deb Haldar | 8 Comments
Friday, January 04, 2008 6:33 AM

Errata for Filter Pack KB .

This correction applies to both Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Search Server 2008. 1.In step 2, the correct registry key to set the CLSID of the filter is : HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office Server\12.0\Search\Setup\ContentIndexCommon\Filters\Extension\
Posted by Deb Haldar | 7 Comments
Wednesday, December 19, 2007 1:08 AM

MS Filter Pack released !

I'm pleased to announce that after months of blood, sweat and toil, the MS Filter Pack is finally available !!! The package can be downloaded from : http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=60C92A37-719C-4077-B5C6-CAC34F4227CC&displaylang=en
Posted by Deb Haldar | 62 Comments
Wednesday, November 14, 2007 7:37 PM

FOXIT vs. Adobe PDF IFilter [ 32-bit only ]

Sometimes back I had the chance to run a performance and international sufficiency analysis on the Adobe and FOXIT ifilters for some of our customers. The following report is now made available for a broader audience. PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF 32-BIT FOXIT
Posted by Deb Haldar | 16 Comments
Wednesday, November 14, 2007 7:27 PM

64-bit support for Adobe PDF IFilter finally available.

Finally Adobe has come up with an interim solution to address the non-availability of a 64 bit ifilter. Now one can use the 32-bit Adobe IFilter on 64-bit platforms after installing a DCOM addin from Adobe. The installation instructions can be found on
Posted by Deb Haldar | 10 Comments
Wednesday, June 27, 2007 6:05 PM

DWG (Autocad) Filter is now available.

I'm pleased to announce that after a lot of trails and tribulations, the DWG IFilter is finally ready. Those who have been following the posts by Marco and myself under Chronicles of an IFilter development must be curious to know as to what the end result
Posted by Deb Haldar | 21 Comments
Thursday, May 10, 2007 2:54 AM

Long awaited 64-bit PDF IFilter finally available.

Finally we have a 64 bit PDF IFilter - surprisingly the solution is not from Adobe or Microsoft, but from a company called Foxit Software.The IFilter is compatiable with the following Microsoft products: Windows Indexing Service, MSN Desktop Search, Internet
Posted by Deb Haldar | 35 Comments
Thursday, March 29, 2007 5:12 AM

Indexing pdf documents with Adobe Reader v.8 and MOSS 2007

The version 8 of the adobe reader has some significant architectural changes (for the better of course) including an inbuilt IFilter to index PDF documents. Previously the adobe IFilter was available as a seperate download. This new change in architecture
Posted by Deb Haldar | 71 Comments
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Saturday, March 24, 2007 7:26 PM

Indexing XPS documents with MOSS 2007

With the XML Paper Specification (XPS) document format gaining popularity, many are wondering how to integrate MOSS 2007 to index and search XPS documents. Here's a quick recipe to configure your index server to crawl and catalog tokens in XPS documents:
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Thursday, February 08, 2007 11:07 PM

Insights into MS IFilter Testing Strategy.

Ever since I started dealing with filters, I've seen numerous questions regarding "What does the proper validation of an IFilter mean? What tests should we execute and how to excute them?" . Hence, its only appropriate that we publish a document detailing
Posted by Deb Haldar | 2 Comments
Tuesday, February 06, 2007 3:59 AM

Debugging IFilters with WDS 3.0 and Windows Vista.

With the public release of Vista a week back, soon developers will be wondering how to write and debug IFilters in the vista environment. Here's a quick and easy way, in addition to the one stated by Marco under Chronicles of an IFilter development -
Posted by Deb Haldar | 5 Comments
Tuesday, February 06, 2007 3:56 AM

Debugging IFilters in MOSS/WSS.

The steps we use to debug searchfilters with MOSS/ WSS are listed below: 1. Disable filter host termination, add Assert to suspend filter host when it starts: MOSS [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office Server\12.0\Search\Global\Gathering Manager]
Posted by Deb Haldar | 6 Comments
Monday, January 08, 2007 6:57 AM

Co-existence of 32 bit and 64 bit IFilter binaries in MS Search Products.

Over the last few months we've seen numerous questions from consultants and customers alike on: 1. Why are certain IFilter binaries not available in BOTH 32 bit and 64 bit incarnations? 95% of the questions in this category pointed to the unavailability
Posted by Deb Haldar | 11 Comments
Monday, December 25, 2006 9:19 AM

Chronicles of an IFilter development - inception to deployment.

I often asked myself the question - How do independent vendors develop IFilters for MS Search Products and what are the challanges they face? It occurred to me that if I could somehow document the development lifecycle of an IFilter developed by someone
Posted by Deb Haldar | 55 Comments
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