Installing Adobe iFilter to SharePoint

5) Enable PDF Search
• Download and install the Adobe PDF IFilter
http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=2611
• Edit Registory entries - Click Start, click Run, type regedit,
• Locate HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Web Server Extensions\12.0\Search\Applications\GUID\Gather\Search\Extensions\ExtensionList
• On the Edit menu, point to New, and then click String Value.
• Type 38, and then press ENTER.
• Right-click the registry entry that you created, and then click Modify.
• In the Value data box, type pdf, and then click OK.
• Stop and then start the Windows SharePoint Services Search service.
• Net start spsearch
• Net stop spsearch
• Note -Confirm following entries - These registry subkeys and the values that they contain are created when you installed the Adobe PDF IFilter on the server -
o open - HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Web Server Extensions\12.0\Search\Setup\ContentIndexCommon\Filters\Extension\.pdf

This registry subkey must contain the following registry entry:
Name: Default
Type: REG_MULTI_SZ
Data: {4C904448-74A9-11D0-AF6E-00C04FD8DC02}
o open - HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Web Server Extensions\12.0\Search\Setup\Filters\.pdf.

This registry subkey must contain the following registry entries:
Name: Default
Type: REG_SZ
Data: (value not set)

Name: Extension
Type: REG_SZ
Data: pdf

Name: FileTypeBucket
Type: REG_DWORD
Data: 0x00000001 (1)

Name: MimeTypes
Type: REG_SZ
Data: application/pdf

• Display .pdf icon -
o Download PDF Icon from http://lh5.ggpht.com/mark.deraeve/SEz5O7l1DwI/AAAAAAAAB6o/r07MeX2e_5U/s144/pdficon_small.gif
o Copy file in Images folder on 12 hives(c:\Program Files\Common FIles\Microsoft Shared\Web Server extensions\12\TEMPLATE\IMAGES).
o Open DOCICON.xml file (C:\Program Files\Common FIles\Microsoft Shared\Web Server extensions\12\TEMPLATE\XML)
o Add new key for pdf icon.The new key will be
o Save file and reset iis - IISRESET

Program Files-Common Files-Microsoft Shared-Web server extensions-12

SharePoint Portal Server 2003 - Drive:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web server extensions\60\
SharePoint Server 2007- Drive :\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web server extensions\12\
SharePoint Server 2010- Drive:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web server extensions\14\

MOSS TAM TAMe PD (Tivoli Access Manager) Integration - Part (III)

The expand and collapse of SharePoint list items is not working when accessed through TAMe junction.
It just keeps saying “Loading….”.

Solution: To use -J (uppercase/capital) while creating junction and putting the javascript junction cookie in header.

MOSS TAM TAMe PD (Tivoli Access Manager) Integration - Part (II)

Its couple of months now since my last post part(i) and that project went nowhere.

Now suddenly one more requirement came and re-org happened so suddenly integrating TAMe became necessity.

Its was decided by security team to stick with Junction approach.

1) Create a NT auth based Sharepoint site, at default zone.
2) Create Forms based extension in any other zone.
3) Junction this Forms based extension with TAMe.

4) PDF were show properly but none of the word or excel documents. The trick was to disable client integration for the document library.

5) Today Nov 15 2010 the search is not working when accessed through TAMe
This issue has been fixed. Our IIS admin had added an entry for host header - sw999
Once we removed this explicitly added host header entry
and added sw999.xxx.domaijavascript:void(0)n.ext entry in AAM (Alternate Access Mapping),
Search started working.
Search was sending requests for sw999.xxx.domain.ext which we had to enter in AAMs

SharePoint’s Document Lib Explorer View Issues

Getting SharePoint’s Explorer View in IE8 on Windows Server 2003
or


Refn:

1) http://sharepointandstuff.blogspot.com/2009/06/getting-sharepoints-explorer-view-in.html

2) http://tihomirignatov.blogspot.com/2009/08/sharepoint-error-message-your-client.html

Most likely your WebClient service is not running on your local machine. Simply crank it up using the following steps.

1. Go to START >> RUN
2. Type services.msc
3. Locate the WebClient service
4. Open the Properties

1. Start up type to Automatic (otherwise on the next boot you will have this issue again)
2. Click Apply
3. Click Start
4. Click OK

Debug Search on a WSS Forms authenticated site

Search on a WSS Forms authenticated site is not returning any results.

The reason being the extended Windows auth site stopped working.
So created a new extended Windows auth site.
Added it to the configured Content sources.
Also updated the Search scope.

How to Add Properties To advanced Search in MOSS 2007

Creating and Exposing Managed Properties in the Advanced Search Page

To make a custom column appear as one of the property restrictions in the SharePoint 2007 Advanced result page, you need to:

(1)Map the crawled property to a managed property.
(2)Edit the XML of the Advanced Search Box webpart to show the managed property.

(1)Central Admin – Shared Services Administration – Search Settings - Metadata Poperty Mappings
(1.1) Add the property.
(1.2) Map the property i.e. ows_...

(2)Add PropertyDef and PropertyRef to Properties XML as show below:





Refn:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/bgeorgi/archive/2007/03/22/adding-a-custom-property-to-the-advanced-search-box-filters.aspx

http://vspug.com/andymay/2006/11/09/moss-2007-advanced-search-on-your-own-metadata/