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This is a discussion on Re: Installing pdf ifilter on a MOSS large server farm within the Sharepoint forums in Microsoft Tools category; KSachit, the pdf ifilter should only be installed on the sharepoint servers. Here is some information about that: adobe ifilter 6 http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/blog...0bc3866&ID=138 (this one refers to trying to get it to index lots of already existing pdfs (note the useful registry keys) http://www.kevincornwell.com/blog/index.php/2007/01/ it was based on this MS KB article: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927675/en-us adobe ifilter 8 http://blogs.msdn.com/ifilter/archiv...moss-2007.aspx Adobe/MS don't have a 64 bit pdf ifilter (but it doesn't matter if you're sharepoint isn't running 64 bit, however...), but you can get the one by FoxIT. I think MS basically gave up doing it themselves and fobbed it off as a "partner ...
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10-22-2007, 03:02 PM
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 Re: Installing pdf ifilter on a MOSS large server farm Here is some information about that: adobe ifilter 6 http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/blog...0bc3866&ID=138 (this one refers to trying to get it to index lots of already existing pdfs (note the useful registry keys) http://www.kevincornwell.com/blog/index.php/2007/01/ it was based on this MS KB article: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927675/en-us adobe ifilter 8 http://blogs.msdn.com/ifilter/archiv...moss-2007.aspx Adobe/MS don't have a 64 bit pdf ifilter (but it doesn't matter if you're sharepoint isn't running 64 bit, however...), but you can get the one by FoxIT. I think MS basically gave up doing it themselves and fobbed it off as a "partner opportunity." http://blogs.msdn.com/ifilter/archiv...available.aspx Nowhere that I have ever heard of do you need to install it on the SQL cluster. HTH, -callahan "KSachit" <KSachit@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:E8E33E24-7C83-4251-B694-611EB3849B73@microsoft.com... >I am trying to install pdf IFilter from adobe site. My server configuration > that I trying on is a large server farm with multiple front-end servers, > one > app server and a 64 bit-SQL cluster. > > To my knowledge it is just enough to install the IFilter on the > Application > server. But this doesn't seem to work. Crawling fails asking me to install > IFilter. > > Here are few questions that I've in this regard: > 1. Should I install IFilter on SQL cluster also? > 2. If so would the adobe filter work on a 64 bit SQL cluster? > 3. Is there a documented approach to install the pdf filter? > > Please advice.  |
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10-22-2007, 03:30 PM
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| Re: Installing pdf ifilter on a MOSS large server farm To summarize: I installed pdf IFilter v6.o on the index server. (My index server was 32-bit). Things worked fine! Thanks "callahan" wrote: > KSachit, the pdf ifilter should only be installed on the sharepoint servers. > Here is some information about that: > > adobe ifilter 6 > http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/blog...0bc3866&ID=138 > > (this one refers to trying to get it to index lots of already existing pdfs > (note the useful registry keys) > http://www.kevincornwell.com/blog/index.php/2007/01/ > it was based on this MS KB article: > http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927675/en-us > > adobe ifilter 8 > http://blogs.msdn.com/ifilter/archiv...moss-2007.aspx > > Adobe/MS don't have a 64 bit pdf ifilter (but it doesn't matter if you're > sharepoint isn't running 64 bit, however...), but you can get the one by > FoxIT. I think MS basically gave up doing it themselves and fobbed it off > as a "partner opportunity." > http://blogs.msdn.com/ifilter/archiv...available.aspx > > Nowhere that I have ever heard of do you need to install it on the SQL > cluster. > HTH, > -callahan > > "KSachit" <KSachit@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > news:E8E33E24-7C83-4251-B694-611EB3849B73@microsoft.com... > >I am trying to install pdf IFilter from adobe site. My server configuration > > that I trying on is a large server farm with multiple front-end servers, > > one > > app server and a 64 bit-SQL cluster. > > > > To my knowledge it is just enough to install the IFilter on the > > Application > > server. But this doesn't seem to work. Crawling fails asking me to install > > IFilter. > > > > Here are few questions that I've in this regard: > > 1. Should I install IFilter on SQL cluster also? > > 2. If so would the adobe filter work on a 64 bit SQL cluster? > > 3. Is there a documented approach to install the pdf filter? > > > > Please advice. > > > |
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10-22-2007, 05:03 PM
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| Re: Installing pdf ifilter on a MOSS large server farm Excellent. That is good to hear. : ) -callahan "KSachit" <KSachit@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:2369EE39-7ECF-4211-A651-C35357F6DCB3@microsoft.com... > To summarize: I installed pdf IFilter v6.o on the index server. (My index > server was 32-bit). Things worked fine! > > Thanks > > > "callahan" wrote: > >> KSachit, the pdf ifilter should only be installed on the sharepoint >> servers. >> Here is some information about that: >> >> adobe ifilter 6 >> http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/blog...0bc3866&ID=138 >> >> (this one refers to trying to get it to index lots of already existing >> pdfs >> (note the useful registry keys) >> http://www.kevincornwell.com/blog/index.php/2007/01/ >> it was based on this MS KB article: >> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927675/en-us >> >> adobe ifilter 8 >> http://blogs.msdn.com/ifilter/archiv...moss-2007.aspx >> >> Adobe/MS don't have a 64 bit pdf ifilter (but it doesn't matter if you're >> sharepoint isn't running 64 bit, however...), but you can get the one by >> FoxIT. I think MS basically gave up doing it themselves and fobbed it >> off >> as a "partner opportunity." >> http://blogs.msdn.com/ifilter/archiv...available.aspx >> >> Nowhere that I have ever heard of do you need to install it on the SQL >> cluster. >> HTH, >> -callahan >> >> "KSachit" <KSachit@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message >> news:E8E33E24-7C83-4251-B694-611EB3849B73@microsoft.com... >> >I am trying to install pdf IFilter from adobe site. My server >> >configuration >> > that I trying on is a large server farm with multiple front-end >> > servers, >> > one >> > app server and a 64 bit-SQL cluster. >> > >> > To my knowledge it is just enough to install the IFilter on the >> > Application >> > server. But this doesn't seem to work. Crawling fails asking me to >> > install >> > IFilter. >> > >> > Here are few questions that I've in this regard: >> > 1. Should I install IFilter on SQL cluster also? >> > 2. If so would the adobe filter work on a 64 bit SQL cluster? >> > 3. Is there a documented approach to install the pdf >> > filter? >> > >> > Please advice. >> >> >> |
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