I would like to setup a page to query our index server that has the same
functions as the ciquery (mmc snapin to query index server) If you look at
the actual ciquery that MMC uses - most of the working code is buried in the
binary it appears to my untrained eye.

Is there a way to find out all available properties of a catalog using
ADO? Is it possible at all?
I want to retrieve all properties of a particular property set (GUID).
Regards, Alex

We are trying to make an desktop application that can be used to search
our proprietary files on a local system (no web based and don't use
IIS). So I thought to use Microsoft Indexing Service that is part of the
Windows XP System!

I'm using the SQL syntax and OleDB connection method to search using
the indexserver. While experimenting i added "size > 0" to the WHERE
clause, which to my surprice gave a factor 2-3 improvement in
performance, still returning the same number of records.

We have a live server and a development server, which is supposed to be
identical (but clearly isn't!).
We are using htx/idq file. Our search page has a combo box to select a
particular sub folder, or the whole site ("/") to search. This value is used

Is there a way to configure Indexing Service to ignore words like about, our,
out which are in the noise.eng/noise.dat files at the catalog level.  So, in
other words, say I have 3 catalogs (Cat1, Cat2, Cat3) on the same server.  I
want Indexing Service to search for words in the ...

I have following purpose (problem). I execute query
"term1 ~ term2". I want to receive only (!) results in
which words "term1" and "term2" are on distance no more
than 50 words. Documents in which "term1" and "term2"

We have migrated our Web from NT4/IIS4 to Windows 2003 / IIs6. We have a
search page using .htx/.idq file. The search facility still works, but it
returns different results. On the old system searching for
donkey  elephant

I want to be able to search the IS for words allowing wildcards (% or
*) in the beginning, the middle or the end of words.
The most prommising keyword seems to be LIKE in the SQL syntax.
This does work for the columns that I have defined (and cached), but

is there a way to manage the permissions on index server?  I want to
grant rights to a group to add/remove indexes and modify existing
scopes without granting admin rights on the box.
I checked local security policy but nothing there seems to ring a bell.

I'm trying to use IXSSO COM library (CissoQueryClass) to query Index
Server from ASP.NET because I heard that it was the fastest solution,
even despite the COM interop.
My test starts out with very promising results, but quickly (within a

How can I filter the delivered results by at least rank value of xy?
cqc.Query = strQuery + " AND #Rank>800";
Does not work...
Markus

I have been playing around with index server for a little while and want to
know if there is a way to return the search term in the context of the
document.
Example: I search for blah and it returns a short length of text such as:

I am using index server for html files. On the disk is a lot of files with
extension
.htm and a lot of files with extension .html.
I only want the index server to include the .htm filen in the index, NOT the

Help! :(
I have a directory in a website that is being secured via NTFS permissions.
The directory is needs to be locked so that only a few people have access. I
need to be able to index the directory via the indexing server, but it seems