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Hi, Out of box SharePoint search does not includes the PDF file support which means it didn't recognize that you have uploaded a file with extension .pdf. There is very easy integration of Adobe Ifilter with SharePoint just by doing some administrative changes on SharePoint server. I am documenting the steps below: 1) Install PDF iFilter 9.0 (64 bit) from  PDFiFilter64installer.zip . 2) Download PDF icon picture  pdf16.gif from Adobe web site and copy to C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\TEMPLATE\IMAGES\ 3) Navigate to Central Admin | Manage service applications | Search Service Application and once there click on “file types” to add the PDF file type. 4) Add the following entry in docIcon.xml file, which can be found at: C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\TEMPLATE\XML <Mapping Key="pdf" Value="pdf16.gif" /> 5) Open regedit. 6)Navigate to the following location:HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\...

Hi, Concept of search scopes was introduced just to allow user to narrow the searches on the basis of the content sources, external sites and metadata properties. Scopes are the integral part of the search UI by providing user to select the desired scope using the drop down. These can also be per-configured search web parts such as search result web part. Scopes works on the logically "And" option on user searches. Suppose if you have defined a scope for a content type then search results will be narrowed down only for specified content type. Search scopes set at the service application level are available to all sites and site collections within the service application. These scopes cannot be modified or deleted at the site administration level. Create a Search scope: Open up Central Administration, go to Manage Service Applications, click on your Search Service Application and then click on manage on the ribbon. This takes you to the search administration page. On the left ...

Hi, In my few previous post , I described how search service application has been created and configured. But just creating a service application doesn't solve our purpose. We must have some page or site where user can use this application to perform search. SharePoint has some built in site templates(Enterprise search) to use search application features. In this post I will explain how one can create search site by performing simple steps. As per the project infrastructure, we can either create a separate web application for search  but I will create search site collection under the same web application where default SharePoint site is configured. Creating an "Enterprise search center" site: Navigate to Central Administration > Application Management > Site Collections, then click on Create site collections . Ensure you are creating the Site Collection below the relevant Web Application. Enter your Title , Description etc and select the Enterprise Tab under Temp...

Hi, In my previous post( Creating and configuring Search service application ) I explained how to configure the search service application and its configuration. We can also search the external sites content using the SharePoint search just by creating new content source. Follow the given steps to create the new content source for external site. To get to the Manage Content Sources page Verify that the user account that is performing this procedure is a service application administrator for the Search service application. On the Home page of the SharePoint Central Administration Web site, in the Application Management section, click Manage service applications . On the Manage Service Applications page, click Search Service Application . On the Search Administration Page, in the Crawling section, click Content Sources .                     After clicking on the link you will be redirected to the page where all the available content sources are displayed.                    To ...

SP 2010 provides all the basic search functionalists like MOSS 2007 search was providing. Along with default features it also facilitates end user with few interesting features. With batter enhancements in search query, new search model enables end users to create and run more effective search queries. It also enables users to search the enterprise from the Windows 7 desktop. Below are few new features listed: Boolean query syntax for free-text queries and for property queries Prefix matching for search keywords and document properties Suggestions while typing search queries Suggestions after users run queries Federated search connectors for searching the enterprise from Windows 7 Search results are also restructured to use refinement panel, improved in people search area, enhanced to display and filter only relevant results. In this post, I will start explaining from scratch to create/configure search service application and later on we discuss how we can configure custom sc...