ZIP IFilter Server Edition Release 3.0 README

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General Information

ZIP IFilter is a plug-in that allows Microsoft Search products and services to index ZIP archives, enabling customers to search and organize their content. ZIP IFilter extracts all valuable information from files stored inside ZIP archive. This information includes archived directory names, list of archived files, archived files' metadata and content. ZIP IFilter also supports recursive indexing of ZIP files included in the archive. ZIP IFilter indexes archives created with any compression program that uses PKWARE compression format such as WinZip or PKZIP.

ZIP IFilter supports SharePoint Server, SQL Server Full-Text Search, Window Search and all other products based on Microsoft Search technology.

System Requirements

ZIP IFilter supports the following Microsoft server operating systems:

ZIP IFilter supports the following Microsoft desktop operating systems:

ZIP IFilter supports the following Microsoft Search products

Information Retrieval

ZIP IFilter indexes files within ZIP archives. Out of the box ZIP IFilter indexes archived Microsoft Office, HTML and plain text files. For other file types it may invoke appropriate IFilters. Its functionality can be further extended by installing IFilters from IFilterShop or other providers. ZIP IFilter supports recursive indexing of ZIP files included in the archive.

ZIP IFilter outputs names of directories and files stored in ZIP archive as text content of ZIP file. Text content is defined as standard Indexing Service "Contents" property with Property Set GUID = {B725F130-47EF-101A-A5F102608C9EEBAC} (PropertyStorage) and Property Name = 19 (0x13).

Installation Instructions

Setup file is a self-extracting archive that must be downloaded and opened on the machine where you wish to use ZIP IFilter.

  1. Stop all appropriate Search services.
  2. Uninstall any previous version of ZIP IFilter.
  3. Start setup file and follow the on-screen instructions.
  4. Start all appropriate Search services.
  5. Re-index catalogs containing ZIP files.

Additional Setup Steps

Some Microsoft Search products require additional setup steps as described below:

SharePoint Server:

  1. In SharePoint Central Administration go to "General Application Settings" page
  2. In the "Search" section click on "Farm Search Administration"
  3. Click on " Search Service Application" link
  4. On the left side menu select "File Types"
  5. Make sure that zip file type is included
  6. Restart SharePoint Search Host Controller service

Microsoft SQL Server:

  1. Restart SQL Server service
  2. Perform a Full Population

Windows Search:

When integrated with Windows Search, ZIP IFilter uses a temporary directory to process ZIP archives. Due to Windows Search security restrictions, IFilters are not able to utilize the default system temporary directory. Therefore, ZIP IFilter must be set to work with a user specified temporary directory. To change the ZIP IFilter temporary directory's settings:

  • Stop Windows Search service.
  • Open registry key "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\IFilterShop\ZipFilter"
  • Add new String value named "TempPath" and enter the full path to the new temporary directory. If this value is missing, empty or the path is not pointing to a valid directory, system temporary directory will be used. Please make sure that "Users" or "Authenticated Users" Group has "Full Control" permissions to the custom temporary directory.
  • Start Windows Search service.
  • When using custom temporary directory, we recommend that you set it as "not indexable" in all your indexing products. Otherwise temporary files may be indexed. This will pollute the index and also can prevent temporary files from proper removal by ZIP IFilter.

    How to Uninstall

    If you ever have to uninstall ZIP IFilter application you can easily do it using any of the following methods:

    Known Issues

    ZIP files are not searchable with Windows Search

    Custom temporary directory has to be configured as described in "Additional Setup Steps" for Windows Search section above.

    What's new in this version

    Version 3.0

    Version 2.0

    Version 1.6

    Version 1.5

    Version 1.4

    Version 1.3

    Version 1.2

    Contact Information

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    https://www.ifiltershop.com
    E-mail:
    support@ifiltershop.com

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