What's the most efficient (fastest execution) query to
retrieve a specific file from the index? I want to build a
list of scopes where the user has permissions. To do this
I search for a specific file that I know exists in each

Sorry for the stupid question but does Windows 2003 use Index Service 3?

Playing with this stuff for a few weeks now. But not
succesfully. I've made a index server. The index server
works great, also the "query the catalog" works good. Find
everything i want. But now i want to have the seacrh

we installed the Adobe IFilter for the MS IndexServer.
The installation run without any errror but the
Server can not find any pdf files on the server, but there are a lot.
Any solution???

I find the following phrase in my IIS log file. OPTIONS / -
200 Microsoft-WebDAV-MiniRedir/5.1.2600 . I know 2 types
of request Get and Post. Whats this Option type? Any idea
what could be this? Im just making some RnD on why my IIS

Further to previous posts, my investigations now lead me to believe that
the Microsoft iFilter just will not index any node below a depth of 2! Can
this really be true??? My test files are:
This works, giving properties of:

I've had to uninstall then reinstall IS 2 on NT machine
with sp6a, running IIS4.  New catalog seems to be working
but search query page returns blank filenames.  Will have
http://www.mywebsite.com/17 but no file extension.  Seem

Seems documentation on Index Server is scant indeed. Is there any particular
way to kick the thing in the rear-end and force a reindex of a catalog RIGHT
NOW -- regardless of server loading, user active, and all the other things
that seem to conspire to make it index when it's good ...

somehow I think this should be really easy to explain: I'd like to do a full
text search on PDF files.
My setup is working (IFilter, peoprtiy caching, etc is all well setup) and
this sampleSQL statement works just fine

If I've got a word document with the title "Party of
Pigs", and also containing the words "Party of Pigs" more
than once, contained in directories I'm indexing, and I
also have several html documents with the words "party of

I need to use different noise word lists for different catalogs on the same
server.
According to MS documentation, parameters can be placed under the
Catalogs\<myCatalog> subkey that override entries under ContentIndex in the

My search is set up so that the user can search the entire
site or select individual folders within the site. The
search is fine when selecting specific folders but when a
search is done of the entire site, it returns files from

I know I have asked this question before......but I don't remember what the
answer was....so sorry for asking this again.
1. How does ranking work in index server and is it something that can be
tweaked coding wise?

I'll stipulate that subject facility isn't designed into IS, but I wonder
whether some creative type here hasn't been able to develop some way of
accomplishing that.  (That is, given a document, find its best/closest
match.)

We have been using a date custom metatag with HTMLPROP.dll to sort
results returned by Index Server. However we have sudenly started
getting 'no results found' and it seems the custom tags are being
returned empty. We have checked that htmlprop.ini & htmlprop.dll are