Optimizing Ektron's Use of Search Server

After installing Microsoft Search Server 2010, you can do several things to optimize Ektron's use of that technology. These actions ensure you are doing everything possible to make appropriate CMS content accessible to site visitors via search.

Issue	See this section
You want Ektron to search text within a Visio file	Installing the Visio IFilter
You want Ektron to search aliased pages, and their extension is not one of Search Server's standard file types	Defining Unusual File Extensions Used in Aliasing
The crawl is taking a long time and your Web site has over 1 gigabyte of assets, and over 100 PDFs	Install Foxit PDF Filter from http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/ifilter/installation. After installing, update the registry as shown below: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office Server\14.0\Search\Setup\Filters\.pdf] "Extension"=".pdf" "FileTypeBucket"=dword:00000001 "MimeTypes"="application/pdf" [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office Server\14.0\Search\Setup\ContentIndexCommon\Filters\Extension\.pdf] @="{987f8d1a-26e6-4554-b007-6b20e2680632}" See Also: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/opal/archive/2009/10/20/index-and-search-pdf-files-in-sharepoint-server-2010.aspx
Either the crawl or the response time for search queries is too slow	Setting Up a Load Balanced Search

Defining Unusual File Extensions Used in Aliasing

Ektron's Aliasing feature lets you create human-readable URLs, such as www.ektron.com/support. The URL Aliasing Configuration screen lets you define file types that may be applied to aliased pages. See Also: Creating User-Friendly URLs with Aliasing

If you define an aliasing file type that is not on Search Server's file type list, you must add the missing type to Search Server. Follow these steps to accomplish that.

1. Go to Windows Start button > All Programs > Microsoft Search Server > Search Administration.

2. Click File Types (as illustrated in the following figure).

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3. Review the Search Server's file type list.

4. If you do not see all extensions defined on the URL Aliasing Configuration screen, click New File Type (illustrated in the above figure), then add the missing file types.