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Installing Microsoft Filter Pack

Prerequisites: If you have CMS 10.1+ installed, follow the version note details.
Version Notes: CMS 10.1+
For binary files to be indexed for search, administrators must set the location of the containing folder where the binary files are located. See Indexing CMS 10.1+ Assets for details.

The Microsoft Filter Pack interface is a component of the Microsoft Indexing Service. The Filter interface scans documents for text and properties. It extracts chunks of text from these documents, filtering out embedded formatting and retaining information about the position of the text. The Filter also extracts chunks of values, which are properties of an entire document or of well-defined parts of a document.

See the installation instructions on the Microsoft Site for details.

Version Notes: CMS 10.2 and Below, CMS 10.3+, InSite Search 2.13+ and Legacy Asset Indexing Mode

Additional enhancements were made in indexing of binary assets published from the CMS. In earlier InSite Search versions, the indexing of binary documents happened at the same time as the indexing of asset metadata. In InSite Search 2.13+, binary document indexing occurs after metadata indexing to reduce the amount of time for metadata search results to return.

This optimized indexing change applies to the following content indexing scenarios:

  • The published content is from a CMS 10.3+ instance.
  • Only a single CMS Search Source is configured for InSite Search.

If you are indexing content from CMS 10.2 or below, or if you have multiple CMS search sources to index, enable the Legacy Asset Indexing Mode by adding a custom setting to your CMS InSite Search configuration prior to upgrading your search package to 2.13+. You can add this custom setting from within the CMS > Administration > InSite Search Configuration > Settings > Custom Settings area.

To install the Microsoft Filter Pack:
  1. Download the Microsoft 2010 filters.
  2. Before installation, read the installation instructions on the Microsoft site.
  3. After installing the initial filters, install the Service Pack 2 (SP2) update.
  4. Install the Microsoft Filter Pack.
    Important
    Ensure that you install these packages on the DSS server.
  5. Rebuild the search index.

Next Steps: Publish binary assets to include them in the search index. See Publishing Assets for details.

Note
While asset indexing configurations take place within the CMS, the actual indexing takes place on the published file system, so binary assets must be published before they can be indexed and then searched by users.