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Installing DWG IFilter for WSS, MOSS 2007
To install DWG IFilter on your WSS or MOSS Server, you can allow the DWG IFilter 2007 Configurator tool to make all settings for you. Alternatively, you may choose to manually enter the settings.
Automatically register DWG IFilter with WSS, MOSS using the Configurator tool
At install time of DWG IFilter 2007, the Configurator tool is started to help you register the IFilter with current popular Search/Indexer tools. The Configurator tool can be accessed at any time.
If the Configurator tool detects a WSS or MOSS install on the system, the option is enabled to register the IFilter with eighter WSS or MOSS. You now click the checkbox and the required registration entries are added to your system's registry. When unchecking the checkbox, the registration entries will be removed from your system.
You will need to restart your Indexing service to allow the changed settings to take effect.
If you find the WSS option is not enabled, please double check if WSS is installed on target machine. In a farm, you only need to install and register DWG IFilter on the content indexing server.
Manually registering DWG IFilter with WSS
If desired, you can follow these instructions to complete the registration manually. Preferrably you would not use this method, refer to the automatic method instead.
1. Install DWG IFilter 2007 on the target machine. In a farm, this is the WSS content indexing server. Further steps apply to this server only.
2. Add the extension to the File types crawled by the gatherer:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Web Server Extensions\12.0\Search\Applications\<>\Gather\Search\Extensions\ExtensionList]
Find the next available free number, probably 37 or 38. Add a text value, name of the value is the next free number; value is dwg. Repeat for dxf.
3. Add the following registry keys and default values to allow the gatherer to find the DWG Ifilter components:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Web Server Extensions\12.0\Search\Setup\ContentIndexCommon\Filters\CLSID\{e03f612b-ef9e-4d62-b023-dc42c88d6960}]
Default REG_SZ = "C:\\Program Files\\DWG IFilter 2007\\bin\\DWGIFilter2007.dll"
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Web Server Extensions\12.0\Search\Setup\ContentIndexCommon\Filters\Extension\.dwg]
Default REG_SZ = "{e03f612b-ef9e-4d62-b023-dc42c88d6960}"
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Web Server Extensions\12.0\Search\Setup\ContentIndexCommon\Filters\Extension\.dxf]
Default REG_SZ = "{e03f612b-ef9e-4d62-b023-dc42c88d6960}"
4. Optionally, you may want to comply with the official Microsoft IFilter information and add the mime types. In our installer we skip this step as it is not required for our IFilter.
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Web Server Extensions\12.0\Search\Setup\Filters\.dwg]
Default = (value not set) Extension = dwg
FileTypeBucket = 0x00000001 (1) (REG_DWORD)
MimeTypes = application/acad
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Web Server Extensions\12.0\Search\Setup\Filters\.dxf]
Default = (value not set) Extension = dxf
FileTypeBucket REG_DWORD = 0x00000001 (1)
MimeTypes = application/dxf
5. Stop and start the Sharepoint Search Service. (net stop spsearch, net start spsearch). You may need to re-index to have your existing dwg content added to your index.
If you have any comments on this documentation, please let us know at ifilter@cadcompany.nl