Great article Jeff. Thank you for your time and attention.
The footnote about the “BITING ASP.NET SERVICE SECURITY CREDENTIALS” really did save me - albeit after a day’s “where the hell are the documents, the query runs fine and there are no errors!” frustration. Well, better late than never.
One quick note: the real power of indexing service is the iFilter API. Most companies develop filter for their propriety document types and with this API the indexing service is able to index virtually all documents that you have filters for (pdf, raw image files (with XMP), dwg, mp3, doc, excel, jpg, gif etc). From this perspective, there is no alternative to this immensely powerful monster that is embedded in your server, and I’d go as far to say that any serious web developer would be foolish not to try and master this free tool. Learn and use all the capabilities of your environment, if not, sooner or later someone who does will come and kick your a**.
Hi. I am trying to index a network share (ex. \server\share) The only way I can get it to work is to plug in an admin account when creating the directory in indexing service. It will index the network share then. I want to be able to index our file server from our IIS server…
Well, I have a question: I want to Index a directory that is in another server, but when I use the map name like “\directory” or “Z:/directory” it seems to not work because says no results and in Total Docs just appears 2 (I dont know which ones) but there are at least hundreds of documents in that directory. There’s something I’m missing? What do I have to do?
Better later than never I’ve found your site and this article. Thanks for start.
I am having a hard time inspecting the content of some of my catalogs. every custom property in all of these catalogs is declared with secondary storage level. Most of all with type VT_LPWSTR (length 4) with some catalogs queries return with rowsets with data in every column, some not. Some hint. thanks for your time. If you can help me please write me your thoughts at pivt17@yahoo.com. Thanks anyway
Hi, as per my knowledge Indexing Services uses IFilters of respective file formats to index its contents. Is there any way to get list of properties that are supported by each IFilter especially by IFilters in Office Filter Pack 2007
I have seen your post blog. codinghorror . com/getting-started-with-indexing-service/ and others like w w w . iislogs. com /articles/W2k8R2IndexService/
Mindly notes:
Any script in C# or Powershell for check if Index Service is installed and running - listening? or
Any script in C# or Powershell for check if Provider=MSIDXS is installed ?
Any script in C# or Powershell for List the OLEDB providers available in the system ?
How install Microsoft OLE DB Provider for Index Server?
Provider=MSIDXS.1
C:\WINNT\System32\Query.dll
Microsoft OLE DB Provider for Microsoft Index Server and Microsoft Site Server Search
version 5.0.1781.3
msidxs.dll
Downloading and installing Windows Search Server does not install the OLE DB provider. Neither does installing the Windows SDK. The provider is installed when the
Windows Search Service is installed.
On Win7/8 desktop OS, this is installed be default (I believe). On server Windows Server 2012, you have to enable the feature.
Microsoft OLE DB Provider for Microsoft Indexing Service is MSIDXS . Windows Search Server is the same Microsoft Indexing Service?
Windows Server 2008 r2 using Indexing Server ?
Windows Server 2012 r2 using Microsoft Search ?
Indexing Service is no longer supported as of Windows XP and is unavailable for use as of Windows 8. Instead, use Windows Search for client side search and Microsoft
Search Server Express for server side search.
Proveedor Microsoft OLE DB para servicios de Index Server
Provider=MSIDXS.1
C:\WINNT\System32\Query.dll