FIX: Items that contain Adobe PDF documents as attachments are not listed in the search results when you search an Exchange Server 2003 content source in SharePoint Portal Server 2003 (837063)

SYMPTOMS

If you configured Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003 to crawl and to index the public folder store of a computer that is running Microsoft Exchange Server 2003, and you search for content in the public folder store, you may find that items that contain Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) documents as attachments are not returned in the search results.

For example, when you search for content, links to .eml files that contain Microsoft Word documents as attachments are listed in the search results, but links to .eml files that contain PDF documents are missing from the search results.

RESOLUTION

This problem was first fixed in a hotfix that is now contained in a service pack. If you installed the latest SharePoint Portal Server 2003 service pack, you do not have to install the hotfix.

Service pack information

This problem is corrected in Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server 2003 Service Pack 1.

To resolve this problem, obtain the latest service pack for Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server 2003. For additional information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

889380 How to obtain the latest service pack for SharePoint Portal Server 2003

Hotfix information

A supported hotfix is now available from Microsoft, but it is only intended to correct the problem that is described in this article. Only apply it to systems that are experiencing this specific problem. This hotfix may receive additional testing. Therefore, if you are not severely affected by this problem, we recommend that you wait for the next SharePoint Portal Server 2003 service pack that contains this hotfix.

To resolve this problem immediately, contact Microsoft Product Support Services to obtain the hotfix. For a complete list of Microsoft Product Support Services telephone numbers and information about support costs, visit the following Microsoft Web site:

http://support.microsoft.com/contactus/?ws=support

Note In special cases, charges that are ordinarily incurred for support calls may be canceled if a Microsoft Support Professional determines that a specific update will resolve your problem. The usual support costs will apply to additional support questions and issues that do not qualify for the specific update in question.

Prerequisites

This update requires SharePoint Portal Server 2003.

Restart requirement

You may have to restart your computer after you apply this update.

File information

The global version of this hotfix has the file attributes (or later) that are listed in the following table. The dates and times for these files are listed in coordinated universal time (UTC). When you view the file information, it is converted to local time. To find the difference between UTC and local time, use the Time Zone tab in the Date and Time tool in Control Panel.

Date         Time   Version      Size    File name
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19-Feb-2004  17:47  11.0.5716.3  38,608  Mimefilt.dll

MORE INFORMATION

For more information about how to administer and configure SharePoint Portal Server 2003, see the Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003 Administrator's Guide. The Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003 Administrator's Guide (Administrator's Help.chm) is located in the Docs folder of the SharePoint Portal Server 2003 CD.

For more information about SharePoint Portal Server, visit the following Microsoft Web site:

http://www.microsoft.com/office/sharepoint/prodinfo/default.mspx

For more information about the Adobe PDF IFilter, visit the following Adobe Web site:

http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=1276

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