Created by Gary Newman MCSE, MCT, CCNA, MCDBA, MCAD, MCDST, MCTS Server 2008, MCTS SharePoint Development and Administration, MODL MOUS Master Instructor, CIW Instructor

 Enterprise Search and its Free Source - Search Server 2010Search Server 2010 Express Scalability A highly scalable enterprise search solution. Search- topology components can be scaled out to multiple servers to distribute the search functionality and workload, thus increasing performance, capacity, and availability of the search system. An entry-level enterprise search solution that has limited scalability. Topology components of any particular Search service application must be on one server. Adding topology components requires advanced configuration. Maximum capacity of full- text index Approximately 100 million items Approximately 300,000 items with Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Express, or 10 million items with SQL Server Product key required?Yes No. Available as a free download from Microsoft, with no time restrictions.

 Install Foundation Server 2010 –  Download Search Server 2010 Express

 Install Search Server Express 2010…

 The Filter Pack includes: Legacy Office Filter ( ;.doc,.ppt,.xls) Metro Office Filter (2007;.docx,.pptx,.xlsx) Zip Filter OneNote filter Visio Filter Publisher Filter Open Document Format Filter Other available at The Microsoft Filter Pack is a single point-of-distribution for Office IFilters. IFilters are components that allow search services to index content of specific file types, letting you search for content in those files. They are intended for use with Microsoft Search Services (Sharepoint, SQL, Exchange, Windows Search). Source : 875E-ABA93459FBEE

Copy PDF icon to images folder In SharePoint root folder. Path to the images folder is C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\Template\Images Path for the DOCICON.xml file is C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\Template\XML This line Needs to be added to the ByExtensions section. Here you need to add the file type to SharePoint. To get here open Central Administration… Click Manage Service Application… click Search Service Application… click on the left side… File Types Click… New File Type Type in file extension You will know you did this correctly if you see your pdf icon image. You add a new key to the registry for the pdf extension. Path is HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Office Server\14.0\ Search\Setup\ContentIndexCommon\Filters\E xtension You will need to create this key Full Crawl… then search Notice this is from a child site, notice that its searching on words inside the document, and the document was on the grandfather to this site! All on Foundation server 2010 with Search Server Express 2010!!

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