SharePoint Administrator Insights, Concepts and Scripting: Installing and configuring PDF iFilter

1. Install Adobe PDF iFilter 9 for 64-bit platforms (Server holding Crawl\Index role).

2. Verify that PDF has been added to the registry.

a. Run Regedit

b. Within left-side tree, browse to: \\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office Server\14.0\Search\Applications\{site GUID}\Gather\Portal_Content\Extensions\ExtensionList

c. If PDF extension is present, skip to Step 3. If PDF extension is not present, continue with Step d.

d. Right click on right-side Extension List pane and choose New > String Value

e. Add a name to the new Registry Key (e.g. “48”)

f. Double click the new Registry Key. For “Value data”, enter “pdf”

Note: This can also be achieved via SharePoint Server Search Administration page by adding ‘pdf’ to list of File Types in Search Administration->File Types. This would automatically add an entry for ‘pdf’ filetype as mentioned above in step 1

3. Verify that PDF has the correct settings in a second registry location.

a. While still in Regedit, within the left-side tree, browse to: \\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office Server\14.0\Search\Setup\Filters\.pdf

b. Verify the following values. If values are not as shown, edit them.

i. <REG_SZ> Default = <value not set>

ii. <REG_SZ> Extension = pdf

iii. <REG_DWORD> FileTypeBucket = 1

iv. <REG_SZ> MimeTypes = application/pdf

4. Verify that PDF has the correct settings in a third registry location.

a. While still in RegEdit, within the left-side tree, browse to: \\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office Server\14.0\Search\Setup\ContentIndexCommon\Filters\Extension\.pdf

b. Verify the following values.

If values are not as shown, edit them.

i. <REG_MULTI_SZ> Default = {E8978DA6-047F-4E3D-9C78-CDBE46041603} Warning: You need to verify that this GUIS is there. The original value won’t work!