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Indexing Service is (up to Windows Vista) a Windows service that maintains an index of most of the files on a computer without compromising the performance for the user. The service improves searching performance on PCs and computer networks. It has been replaced by Windows Search in Windows 7.

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How to get Indexing Service and MODI to produce Full-text over OCR?

I have configured Indexing Service to index my files, which also include scanned images saved as hi-res TIFF files. I also installed MS Office 2003+ and configured MS Office Document Imaging (MODI) correctly, so I can perform OCR on my images and…
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Full-text search using Windows Search Service and SQL Server 2008 R2

Currently I'm trying to query the Windows Search Service from a SQL Server 2008 R2 instance (also tested on SQL Server 2012) . Windows Search is being exposed as an OLE DB datasource, giving me several options to query the search index. When…
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How to force Windows Indexing "activity"

The Windows Indexing Service pauses itself when it detects the "user is active." Is there a registry entry or something to make it continue indexing regardless of user activity? Clarification: in Windows XP
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Need Replacement for MS Index Service on Server 2012 with Classic ASP (VB)

I have just migrated a website from Server 2003 to Server 2012, and MS Indexing service is not available. In doing some research, I found that MS Search Service is the 'replacement,' and, as such, I installed it on Server 2012. Beyond this, I…
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Moved from Windows server 2000 to 2008 now classic ASP catalog queries not working correctly

This one is driving me crazy. Replaced our old Windows 2000 web server with a Windows 2008 one which means moving to IIS7. Now the move went smoothly except for the search catalogs we had set up on the old machine. I added the Indexing Service and…
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How to query the Windows 2008 x64 Index Service from 32-bit ASP applications?

Recently I stumbled upon a problem that involves moving asp classic sites from a w2k3 server to a w2k8 64 environment. It involved getting indexing services to work with asp classic. I searched every where tried many solutions and they all failed.…
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Visual Studio Cannot Find CIODMLib Project Reference On Windows 7 64 Bit Machine

I am currently in the process of upgrading our developer environment to Windows 7 64 bit. I have a C# project reference to CIODMLib which is a COM reference to "C:\windows\system32\ciodm.dll" on Windows XP. For some reason, that COM component does…
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How to check whether windows file indexing is ON or OFF

Is there an API in C that I can use to check whether file indexing is on or off? Code is appreciated.
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Create a catalog for Windows Search Service programmatically

I've been reading through the Windows Search Service documentation and samples for more than a day now, and while I've learned a lot, I still feel no closer to the answers I was looking for. The context is I have a web app that uses Indexing Service…
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How to define the scopes for network drives in windows indexing service?

I'm stuck on a problem here with Indexing Service I send query's against the Indexing Service from an ASP.NET Application which works fine as long as I search on a whole Catalog. SELECT ... FROM testCat..Scope('Deep traversal of "\"') But if I…
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index service in classic asp "No such interface supported"

I want to use Microsoft indexing service to search a folder which includes the static pages, the following is the source code. <% ' This section sets the various configuration variables formscope="/" pagesize =…
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Can the Windows Indexing Service restart an app pool if it doesn't index the Web.Config?

I am having a slight debate with a colleague of mine on this subject. Scenario: A web site has a sub directory that is indexed using the Windows Indexing Service. There is not a web.config in this directory and the indexing service is not indexing…
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Windows Server 2008 R2, the Indexer service cannot index the custom properties of a document

On Window 2008 R2 server, when I try to use the custom property of indexing service like: <meta name="decription" content="this is description details" /> I cannot get the decription property. I found the this hotfix:…
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Windows Search equivalent to Indexing Services "vpath" and "characterication"

I'm trying to move a website that was on: Windows 2003, IIS 6, and Indexing Services to: Windows 2008, IIS 7, and Windows Search It's Windows Search that's giving me a problem. I've set up a Windows Search to index the physical folder that…
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Microsoft Indexing Service Cisso.dll interop library: upper limit of 4 byte integers?

This question uses Microsoft Indexing Services (Dialect 2) and IixssoQuery interface of the Cisso.dll interop library from a C#/.NET program. There are columns in our index defined as the vt_i8 data type (8 bytes) however the CreateRecordSet method…
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