Tuesday, December 28, 2010

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\