ZIP IFilter Server Edition Release 3.0 README

CONTENT OF README FILE

General Information
System Requirements
Information Retrieval
Installation Instructions

Basic Installation Steps
Additional Setup Steps

How to Uninstall
Known Issues
What's new in this version
Contact Information

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:

Windows Server 2012
Windows Server 2016
Windows Server 2019
Windows Server 2022

ZIP IFilter supports the following Microsoft desktop operating systems:

Windows 10
Windows 11

ZIP IFilter supports the following Microsoft Search products

SharePoint Server 2013
SharePoint Server 2016
SharePoint Server 2019
SQL Server 2014
SQL Server 2016
SQL Server 2017
SQL Server 2019
Windows Search

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.

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

Additional Setup Steps

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

SharePoint Server:

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

Microsoft SQL Server:

Restart SQL Server service
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:

Through "Add/Remove Program". Open Control Panel ->Add/Remove Program. Select "IFilterShop ZIP IFilter" in currently installed list. Press "Remove" button.
Through ZIP IFilter Uninstall program. Go to the directory there ZIP IFilter was installed (C:\Program Files\IFilterShop\ZipFilter by default). Run uninstall.exe program.