Re: Help I cannot get the customizing of Full-Text Indexing To work

From: Tom Rizzo [MSFT] (thomriz_at_microsoft.com)
Date: 03/28/04

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    You may want to drop the leading 0 in your proptag so 0x0003212 becomes
    x00003212 as an example.

    Also, if you're using contact properties, they are in a different
    propertyset than PS_PUBLIC_STRINGS so you would need to specify the entire
    propertyset and propid, not just the propid.

    Tom 

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"Forrest Dickinson" <fdickinson@morganhunter.com> wrote in message
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> I have posted questions on this on here about a year ago to no avail.
> I have found several other post where people had the same problem and
> no one got a resolution.  However, as an optimist, I hope one of the
> MVPs on here knows how to do this, or at the very least knows whether
> or not its a bug and even though Microsoft says you can do it, it cant
> be done.
>
> That said, I am running Exchange 2000 SP3 on Windows 2000 SP4 with
> Outlook XP as
> the client.  We have a public contacts folder with about 21,000 items
> in it.  Searches on it by the company or the name fields can take as
> much as 30 seconds so I figured I would enable full text indexing on
> the public store.  Doing so had no effect on search times for contact
> items and after searching Microsoft I found out that Full Text
> Indexing on Exchange 2000 by default only indexes common fields in
> mail items like Subject, Body and attachments.  I found a knowledge
> base article though detailing how to customize what fields are indexed
> when full text indexing is ran.
>
> The following is an excerpt from the article:
>
> Customizing Full-Text Indexing
> You can add properties to participate in full-text indexing and add or
> remove noise words that are excluded in a search.
> Adding Properties
> If you are familiar with adding keys to the Microsoft Windows
> registry, you can set up other properties to be full-text indexed in
> addition to the httpmail namespace properties listed in Full-Text
> Indexing. You create a text file of properties that are referred to in
> the registry by the following key:
>
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Search\1.0\ExchangeParameters\SchemaTe
xtFilePathName
>
> To add properties for full-text indexing:
> Create a text file of a list of properties that you want to be
> full-text indexed. The full name for each property must on a separate
> line. As described here, the form of the name to be used depends on
> the type of property.
> For properties created by ADO, OLEDB, or WebDAV, use the property
> name.
> For MAPI-named properties (such as those created by using Microsoft
> Outlook forms), use the following format comprised of the property set
> GUID (such as PS_MAPI, PS_PUBLIC_STRINGS, or a user-defined value),
> and the property name:
> http://schemas.microsoft.com/mapi/string/{propset GUID}/property-name
>
> For example, for a property named myproperty in the PS_MAPI property
> set, use:
>
http://schemas.microsoft.com/mapi/string/{00020329-0000-0000-C000-0000000000
46}/myproperty
>
> For standard MAPI properties, the format to use is:
> http://schemas.microsoft.com/mapi/proptag/value
>
> For example, for the PR_DISPLAY_NAME property that has a property tag
> 0x3001001E, use:
> http://schemas.microsoft.com/mapi/proptag/0x3001001E
>
> NOTE: The DAV:href and DAV:displayname properties cannot be full-text
> indexed.
> Start Registry Editor by typing regedt32 at a command prompt.
> Click the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE window.
> Locate the Software\Microsoft\Search\1.0 subkey.
> If it does not already exist, add a key under 1.0 called
> ExchangeParameters.
> Under Exchange Parameters, add a value with the name
> SchemaTextFilePathName, a data type of REG_SZ, and a string value of
> the path to the text file of properties, such as
> "E:\Exchsrvr\Fulltextprops.txt".
> Quit Registry Editor. The properties will be full-text indexed the
> next time full-text indexing is run as configured in Exchange System
> Manager.
> I did this and created Fulltextprops.txt file with the following
> contents:
>
> http://schemas.microsoft.com/mapi/proptag/0x3A16001E
> http://schemas.microsoft.com/mapi/proptag/0x3A06001E
> http://schemas.microsoft.com/mapi/proptag/0x3A44001E
> http://schemas.microsoft.com/mapi/proptag/0x3A11001E
>
> Basically directing Exchange to index the Company and Name fields on
> contact items.
>
> I then deleted the index, recreated it, peformed a full population and
> made it available for searching in the System Manager.
>
> After I did so Advanced Searches on the Company or Full Name fields
> still took up to 30 seconds to process (like Company contains Acme),
> but if I do an Advanced Search on the folder using the subject field
> results are returned instantly (like Subject contains Acme) it seems
> as though Subject on Contact Items equates to what the item is filed
> as.  Anyway because searches on the Subject field are so fast the
> folder must be being indexed, but even though I followed Microsoft's
> instructions precisely the Company and name fields are apparently
> still not being indexed.
>
> I am at a loss here, what I am doing wrong?
>
> Thank you for any assistance you can provide me in advance.
>
> Forrest Dickinson
> System Administrator / Programmer
> Morgan Hunter Companies
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