Chris and Daves SharePoint and Tech Blog

  One of the greatest features of SharePoint in my opinion has always been the search capability, but out of the box you cannot index the content of PDF documents but the ability to achieve this is freely available with the Adobe PDF iFilter 9 for 64-bit platforms, the documentation for installing this is also available on the Adobe website but has not yet been updated for SharePoint 2010.

 So through this post I will show how to install and configure the iFilter for PDF, the first step is to make sure the PDF icon shows up  when you upload a PDF file if not how to achieve this is here.

 You may also wish to check out this post if every time you click on a PDF it only offers a save button.

 So now we have covered all the prerequisites we can now continue with our configuration. Once the iFilter is downloaded extract the MSI installer file and install this on your SharePoint servers.

The next step is to navigate to Central Admin | Manage service applications | Search Service Application and once there click on “file types” to add the PDF file type.

The next step is to make a registry change so as always be careful as this can have an adverse effects on your server if you make a mistake. First of all start up regedit and navigate to:- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office Server\14.0\Search\Setup\Filters, right click on the filters folder and create a new key and enter ‘.pdf’ as the value do not forget the full stop. Next enter the following values to your new key:-

<REG_SZ> Default = <value not set>
<REG_SZ> Extension = pdf
<REG_DWORD> FileTypeBucket = 1
<REG_SZ> MimeTypes = application/pdf

You should end up with the new key as illustrated below

Next navigate to

 HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\OfficeServer\14.0\Search\Setup\ContentIndexCommon\Filters\Extension  

Just one key to enter here, right click and choose new key and again enter ‘.PDF’ as the value double click on the default REG_SZ and enter {E8978DA6-047F-4E3D-9C78-CDBE46041603} as the value data.

 The final step is to restart your SharePoint server and initiate a full crawl, all of your PDF files will now be indexed and searchable.

Dave

Well it is September SharePoint 2010 came out in May and already we have had two sets of cumulative updates, now I will be honest and say that we did not keep our SharePoint 2007 totally patched, but new version out so time to turn over a new leaf and keep our SharePoint 2010 environment  totally up to date.

 So what I thought I would do is keep this post updated with all the latest patches, hotfixes, cumulative updates and service packs hopefully this will not only help me but you as well.

 To find out which version of SharePoint you have installed navigate to Central Administration| System Settings | Manage servers in your farm or from PowerShell (get-spfarm).buildversion don’t forget to run PowerShell as an administrator.

  Over the last few weeks we have completed quite a few installs of SharePoint 2010 and one of the questions we get asked time and time again is what is required to run SharePoint 2010, so I thought through this post I would write down exactly what is needed so I can point customers to this blog post and they would then have a reference chart of what is needed in their environment.

Hardware

Software

 I do hope this simple post helps in your decision on SharePoint 2010.

Dave

 Myself and Chris along with Darren White presented a session entitled “Our Journey To SharePoint 2010 Land” at the SUGUK meeting in Southampton on June 24th so i thought i wiould do a quick post to share this presentation with you, We tried to make it entertaining as well as informative hence the pirate themed presentation. WE hope you enjoyed it and see you again at the next meeting.

Dave And Chris

Myself and Alan Richards have so far given 3 presentations at the SharePoint 2010 in Education events organised by Mike Herrity and due to popular demand we have now put on another 2 events in September and October with 3 more dates penciled in for May 2011. We have been listening to the feedback we get so i have also included our updated presentation you can also follow the day on twitter by following the hashtag #SPEDU

Myself and Matt Hughes from Samworth Acadamy had the pleasure in presenting to a group of teachers and techies about branding SharePoint. Slides are below, we deviated quite alot during the presentation but you should get the gist!

Any questions im @crmckinley and Matt is @mattmoo2