Understanding Index Server

An integral part of Internet Information Server (IIS), Index Server is designed to index the full text and properties of documents on an IIS-based server. Index Server can index documents for both corporate intranets and the Internet.

This section contains:

What's New?: Gives details about how to build and configure search complex forms.
Query Forms: Briefly defines query forms.
Basic Querying Features: Defines the three basic features of querying: scope, restriction, and results set.
Querying: Describes how Index Server searches documents on a site.
Basic Indexing Features: Gives a brief overview of indexing and summarizes indexing features.
Support for Multiple Languages: Describes how Index Server supports sites with documents in multiple languages and how to query servers in different locales.

Clients can formulate queries by using any Web browser to fill in the fields of a simple Web query form. The Web server forwards the query form to the query engine, which finds the pertinent documents and returns the results to the client formatted as a Web page.

Index Server can index the text and properties of formatted documents, such as those created by Microsoft® Word or Microsoft® Excel and Microsoft®Active Server Pages. With this feature, you can publish existing documents on your intranet Web without converting them to HTML.