Hi all, hope someone can help. I have been googling on this one for a
while and I now have a headache!
We have IIS 5.0 running on Windows 2000 Server with Index Server.
When I query using the "Query the Catalog" page in MMC I get results

Whenever problems with the XML filter are raised (are there are many, both
very real and some red-herrings!), the helpful advise generally is that
you must use the Admin console to cache the XML elements as properties in
order to get it to work at all.

I'd like to use Index Server to crawl my web site, and I'm planning on using
the Index Server Companion as well.
Can anyone point me to a good book or website that has an overview of Index
Server and how it's used? Everything that I've found so far seems to be

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I am experiencing exactly the same problem as described in the 16 Feb
2004 thread with subject "cisvc at 100% CPU after indexing some
documents".
Unfortunately the solution - if any - is not present.

Dear Sir,
i want to use ole db provider for microsoft index service to search
index service, first i try to search local index service, my connection
string is:

I have a Windows 2003 Server that Index server has now stopped working for
me.
It all started when the cisvc process was taking all of the CPU.  I had more
than 400 hours logged on the process.  The service would not respond to a

I am having trouble sorting a query with Index server. the code is as
follows:
SQLString = "SELECT filename, size, Vpath, Path, Rank, Write,
Characterization FROM SCOPE() WHERE Contains "

Is it possible to have Index Server search for specific filenames only? I'd
like to have an "Advanced Search", where they can search by content, date,
author, or filename.
It appears you can search on date, filesize, author, content, but not just

How does one get the file folder in a index directory to apear with
the blue globe on it so that is can be searchable. It looks to me like
one is supposed to attach a web site to it via the drop down box.
Which I have seem to have done.

    Hmm I read this, but vpath is not any clearer to me. My issue
with it is that I have a web server specd in the properties but
searches all return the same url for any document selected.  Vpath
doesnt seem to be working by default.

Is there a way of excluding files with the extension .xml
or anything similar from the users search?
Thanks
Duncan

Indexing Services Problem
( On a W2K Adv Server SP4 )
Test performed :
1) creation of a new catalog tracking a "www server" on the

We are using the adobe PDF ifilter to search through PDF files. However,
there is no way to add custom properties/metadata to the PDF files. We are
planning to use the Adobe XMP SDK which allows adding/updating of custom
metadata on PDF files. So similar to the dsofile utility we ...

I am trying to create an application on my intranet site using ASP.Net and Index Server.  The app allows users to search my document library.  The web is on a Windows 2000 server running IIS 5 and Index Server.  My web.config file specifies '<authentication mode="Windows" />' and ...