System Admins

• Click File Types  under “Crawling” in the left navigation area:

• Click New File Type.
• Enter pdf for the “File Name Extension” and click OK.

• Using Regedit on the server, navigate to

\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftOfficeServer14.0SearchSetupFilters

•  Right-click the Filters  folder and select New Key. Enter “.pdf” for the key value.
• Add the following values to this key:

<REG_SZ> Default =<value not set>
<REG_SZ> Extension = pdf
<REG_DWORD> FileTypeBucket = 1
<REG_SZ> MimeTypes = application/pdf
The key should look like:

• Navigate to: \HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftOffice Server14.0SearchSetupContentIndexCommonFiltersExtension
•  Right-click the Filters  folder and select New Key. Enter “.pdf” for the key value.
• Set the “default” value to {E8978DA6-047F-4E3D-9C78-CDBE46041603}

The key should look like:

You can now add an image to beused for the icon for PDF documents:

• Add an image (typically gif or png, use Google images to find an example) for the PDF icon to the folder:

C:Program FilesCommonFilesMicrosoft SharedWeb Server Extensions14TEMPLATEIMAGES

•  Open the file docicon.xml from the location:

C:Program FilesCommonFilesMicrosoft SharedWeb Server Extensions14TEMPLATEXML

•  Add a link to map the pdf extension to the image by adding a link like the following to the ByExtension element:

<Mapping Key=”pdf” Value=”pdf_icon.gif” OpenControl=””/>

•  Finally, issue an IISReset and restart the Windows services “SharePoint Foundation Search V4” and “SharePoint Server Search 1”.