I am at a severe disadvantage here at work... I do not have access to the
server that has Index and IIS on it... therefore I cannot get any of the
samples to look at.
How can I get hit highlighting to work?  There don't seem to be many

Doesn't seem to be much activity in this index server newsgroup...but
I'll give it a try anyway...
I want to use multiple .idq files with a single .htx template. Each
idq will query a specific folder in the website, showing the results

I have migrated our intranet pages from our Windows 2000 Server box to our
new Windows 2003 Server box.  All works fine on the Windows 2000 box, but on
Windows 2003, I get an error:
CreateRecordSet error '80041663'. Expecting date.

I got a lot of error logs with the message that many searches with
ignored words are made. But some of the words can't be ignored.
Does someone know how to handle it?
Example of a request:

I'm hard coding some .idq files so each one shows all the files in a
certain folder.
I seem to be required to specify a CiRestriction....
Is there a 'magic word' or a catch-all phrase I can use to make it

I wish to query an indexing services catalog from a different server through
a firewall.  I am using the OLEDB provider MSIDXS.
Please would someone say if this is possible and which port needs to be
opened?

I want to add a shared folder on another machine to a catalog on my
machine's Indexing server. I am doing this using C#.NET. Can some one
please answer following
1. How to give location of the shared folder to the AddScope?

I have .Net client application that is invoking a webservice method
that calls a SQL 2k (sp3) stored procedure.  I have a Linked Server in
SQL called FileSystem that I created using the defaults to connect to
the Index Server (Ole DB provider Indexing Service).

 I have 2 Server 2003 machines. Both have IIS6, SQL2000, NLB(Microsoft
Hardware Level)
These 2 machines are split up 50/50 in the NLB. Indexing service is set on
both machines, which have the same content in the web folders. Each server is

In the past, we've had good success with using the Adobe component that
attaches to Index Server to index PDF files, and now we'd like to know if
there is anything that can do the same for TIFF Group 4 files?
Thanks!!

It occured to me to ask here whether MS Index Services is available on
Windows Server 2003? I'm wondering because when I search for "Index
Services" on microsoft.com, there is no page that describes the service,
like www.microsoft.com/indexservices  [not found]. Can anyone point me ...

Wonder if anyone can help.
I need to quickly know if its possible to use the same search query to
search both a database table and files in a specified folder (using
IndexServer); or - whether it is possible in anyway to combine

I found Hilary Cotter's nifty script to use IXSSO within SQL, but I'm
having a problem since I also want to search a custom document property
from a Microsoft Word document. I've done it in an ASP script like so:
objQuery.DefineColumn "LIMSNumber(DBTYPE_I4) =

I'm having some difficulty getting some code to work and am hoping that
someone here can offer some help.
Let me first start by saying that on the development box, this bit of code
works like a charm. On the deploy server, however... The deploy is a Win2003

I am in the process of designing a Windows 2003 Web solution with all of the
content residing on an HP EVA SAN.  Our applications leverage Index Server
and I need to keep it that way.  I found an MS KB article
(http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;319506) stating