SharePoint

WSS 3.0BetaTR PDF search configuration and setup

Stan Spotts — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 14:50:00 GMT

It was like pulling teeth trying to get a solution for this until I contacted my old bud Mike Gannotti, now down in Microsoft's North Carolina offices. He supplied the key to the solution after checking on an internal discussion list.

Of all the things I tried, I believe these steps did the trick:

Install the Adobe iFilter for PDF's on the WSS front end machine. I didn't install this on the SQL Server where the content database or configuration database live.
In RegEdit, check to see if HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Web Server Extensions\12.0\Search\Setup\ContentIndexCommon\Filters\Extension\pdf is present and has a GUID for a default value (mine was {4C904448-74A9-11D0-AF6E-00C04FD8DC02})
Check to see if HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Web Server Extensions\12.0\Search\Setup\Filters\.pdf is present and has:
Default = (value not set)
Extension = pdf
FileTypeBucket REG_DWORD = 0x00000001 (1)
MimeTypes = application/pdf
Open the key HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Web Server Extensions\12.0\Search\Applications\some GUID here\Gather\Search\Extensions\ExtensionList. This is the part that Mike clued me in on that I've never seen documented anywhere.
1. There should be values 0-37 (plus default). Given that, Add a new REG_SZ value and name it 38.
2. Set this new string value to pdf.
3. Exit RegEdit.
stop and start the Sharepoint Search Service. (net stop spsearch, net start spsearch).

I did this and added some PDF documents, then checked after some phone calls and found that search was now finding them. Yay! I don't know if this applies to MOSS 2007, but WSS 3.0 is what I needed.

Philly Code Camp II: Application Server Edition

Stan Spotts — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 20:17:00 GMT

The speakers are set, and registration is open for the Philadelpha Area Code Camp II: Application Server Edition event. For the BizTalk track, we've got the following sessions:

10:00-11:30 Stan Spotts (Computer Aid, Inc.) Intro to BizTalk Orchestrations

11:30-1:00 Geoff Snowman (Microsoft) Deploying BizTalk Applications Using the Management Console and Other New Features of BizTalk 2006

1:30-3:00 Dave Hoerster (Ciber, Inc.) Calling the Business Rules Engine from Your Applications

3:00-4:30 Tom Beerley (Microsoft) BizTalk 2006 Best Practices

4:30-6:00 Dave Ateek (Microsoft) Providing Process Visibility through Business Activity Monitoring

Be sure to sign up early, these Code Camps fill up quickly!

Philadelphia Code Camp II: Application Server Edition

Stan Spotts — Tue, 23 May 2006 15:02:00 GMT

These fill up quickly, so be sure to register for the next Philadelphia Code Camp that's focused on application servers like BizTalk 2006 and SharePoint.

I'm looking for speakers for BizTalk topics, so if you're interested please respond to this blog post.