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What is iFilter ? * IFilters are components that allow SharePoint to index content of specific file types, letting users to search for content in those files. * Using the SharePoint Search we can find documents based on their filename, metadata or content within a document. * By default the content of Office documents is indexed by the SharePoint crawler, but PDF files are not crawled. * To add support for PDF files you have to add an I-Filter which the SharePoint crawler uses to read through PDF files and add the information to the search index. There are two steps in configuring PDF Search IFilters for SharePoint 1.       Install the PDF iFilter 2.       Configure the iFilter Installing IFilter The Installation of the iFilter 9.0 has to be done on the Index Server(s) How to install ifilter in SharePoint 2010? Download  and install the iFilter installation file for 64-bit machine from http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=4025 Cho

If you experience issues with WSS and MOSS timer jobs failing to complete are receiving errors trying to run psconfig, clearing the configuration cache on the farm is a possible method for resolving the issue. The config cache is where we cache configuration information (stored in the config database) on each server in the farm.  Caching the data on each server prevents us from having to make SQL calls to pull this information from the configuration database.  Sometime this data can become corrupted and needs to be cleared out and rebuilt.  If you only see a single server having issues, only clear the config cache on that server, you do not need to clear the cache on the entire farm. To do a single server, follow the steps below on just the problem server. To clear the config cache on the farm, follow these steps: 1. Stop the OWSTIMER service on ALL of the MOSS servers in the farm. 2. On the Index server, navigate to:                    Server 2008 location: Drive:\ProgramData\M