Install the Windows TIFF IFilter
If, like me, you would like the contents of TIFF files crawled and included in SharePoint search results then this is easy to achieve by installing the Microsoft TIFF IFilter on your SharePoint server(s). Here’s how: 1. Open Server Manager…
Configuring a Thesauraus for Search
I have just stumbled upon the Thesaurus for SharePoint Search which allows an administrator to configure replacements and synonyms for search queries. These can be very useful when one or more common terms are used to search for the same…
Configuring Noise Words for Search
Noise words are words that are disregarded during a search and SharePoint includes some predefined noise words, such as it, is and a. To further refine search results I have added additional words to C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office Servers\14.0\Data\Office Server\Applications\GUID-query-0\config\noiseenu.txt using a…
Adding file types for Search
By default only certain file types will be included when crawling content sources. Many common file types, such as PDFs, are not included so I’ve just added the PDF file type to my server. This is how: 1. Log on…