Creating catalogs

During installation, Indexing Service creates a default catalog called System. You can add and remove catalogs at any time. You can also configure existing catalogs.

If Internet Information Services is detected, Indexing Service also creates a catalog called Web. For more information about catalogs, see Catalogs

Adding a catalog

You add catalogs with the Indexing Service snap-in. For information about how to add a catalog, see To create a catalog

Adding and excluding directories from the catalog

After you add a catalog, you must add the directories that are to be included within the catalog's scope. This is the set of directories that it covers, both those to be indexed and those to be specifically excluded from being indexed. By default, the System catalog includes all directories on all local storage, except temporary Internet files and history files. You can add directories to a catalog's scope, and you can specifically exclude directories from being indexed. For example, suppose your local drive D has the following directories:

D:\Marketing

D:\Marketing\Personal

D:\Marketing\Miscellaneous

If you include D:\Marketing in the scope of a catalog, then D:\Marketing\Personal and D:\Marketing\Miscellaneous are also indexed. If you do not want documents in D:\Marketing\Personal to be indexed, add it to the Directories list and under Include in Index, click No.

If a directory is contained within another directory that is excluded from being indexed, the contained directory is also excluded, even if you add it to the catalog as a separate entry and under Include in Index, Yes is selected.

You can use wildcard characters to limit the scope of a catalog. For instance, you can add the following to the list of directories:

Directory	Include in Catalog	Explanation
C:\	Yes	Include everything on drive C.
C:\Winnt\Profiles\\ Temporary Internet Files\	No	Exclude all documents under any folder named Temporary Internet Files under the C:\WINNT\Profiles directory.

For information on how to add or exclude directories from catalogs, see To include or exclude a directory from a catalog

Configuring the catalog

To configure a catalog, specify:

Whether network share aliases are added automatically.
What Web server to index, if any.
Whether you want to index documents with unknown extensions.
Whether you want Indexing Service to produce abstracts of indexed documents, and if so, the maximum size of the abstract.

For more information on configuring a catalog, see Configure a catalog

Specifying properties to save

The following property values are stored by default in the property cache of the System catalog:

Property	Friendly name	Cache storage level	Description
0x8	FileIndex	Primary	Unique identifier of a document in an NTFS partition. This is used to track changes to documents.
0xd	Attrib	Primary	Document attributes (such as Archive, Read-Only, or Directory). These are cached to optimize queries that exclude directories (as opposed to documents).
0x5	-----	Primary	Volume ID. This is the unique volume identifier for NTFS volumes. It is used in conjunction with FileIndex to uniquely identify an NTFS file.
0x6	-----	Primary	Parent Work ID. Work ID is the internal cross-file system identifier. The parent Work ID is the Work ID of the parent directory (for example, the Parent Work ID for C:\Allwork\Reports is the Work ID of C:\Allwork). This is cached to optimize scope checking of queries.
0x7	-----	Primary	Secondary Storage ID. This is the ID of record in the secondary level of the property cache corresponding to this primary record. This is reserved for internal use.
0xe	Write	Secondary	Time document was last written.
0xc	Size	Secondary	Size of document.
0xb	Path	Secondary	Path name of document.
0x2	DocTitle	Secondary	Title of document (HTML <TITLE> or ActiveX Summary Info title).

You can add other property values to be stored in either level of the cache.

Important

Removing a property value means that it might not be displayed in a results lists. Adding property values to either level, and especially to the primary level, can degrade performance and require a large amount of disk space.
For information about how to save property values, see To add a property to the property cache