MSG IFilter - Workstation - V2.1.0

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Search for information within MSG documents. Alna’s MSG IFilter expands standard functionality of Microsoft Internet Information Server, Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server and all other products, based on top of Microsoft Index Server. MSG IFilter performs searches inside saved e-mail messages (of MSG format) and indexes all valuable information, so that users can easily search for text within MSG documents and their attachments. The Workstation version can only be used on a Windows workstation operating system.

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MSG IFilter Workstation V2.1.0

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What's new in V2.1.0?

• MSG IFilter certificated on following platforms/environments:
  • SharePoint Portal Server 2003
  • MAPI library that comes with Microsoft Outlook 2003

• Extraction of following new MSG properties implemented:
  • Message creation time
  • Message last modification time
  • Message received time
  • Message sent time

• Following problems reported for previous versions fixed:
  • When processing large amounts of files, MSG IFilter fails with error
  • 'Unable to initialize MAPI (80004005)'
  • Properties of attached files override MSG file properties
  • MSG IFilter does not use supported Indexing Service API

• Following improovments added:
  • Support for IPersistStream and IPersistStorage interfaces
  • Temporary files for attachments are not created, if attachment IFilter supports either IPersistStream or IPersistStorage interface

New in Version 2.0:

• General performance improved
• Extraction of a property "Categories" implemented
• Querying by distinct property implemented
• E-mail properties are extracted as separate IFilter properties
• E-mail properties are mapped to standard IFilter properties
• All languages are supported, including East Asian (Microsoft Outlook XP should be installed on a server machine)

New in Version 1.0.1:

• Support of MAPI library. (included withMicrosoft Office XP)

IFilter overview

MSG IFilter is a Dynamic Link Library (DLL) file that provides a bridge between a Microsoft indexing client and MSG files. It consists of code that understands the MSG file format as well as code that can interface with the indexing client. When an indexing client needs to index content from documents, it will look in its registry for an appropriate DLL and it will find the MSG IFilter. MSG IFilter will return text to the indexing client. The indexing client will then index the results and return the appropriate results to the user.

Key benefits

• Integrates with existing tools
• Provides easy search within MSG documents located throughout companys network and intranet
• Greatly increases the accuracy of search results due to the ability of searching within MSG documents

Information retrieval: The following information is extracted from a MSG file:

• Message body
• Subject
• From
• To
• Cc
• Bcc
• File attachments (if appropriate IFilters are installed)
• MSG attachments

Supported MSG file formats:

• Microsoft Outlook 97
• Microsoft Outlook 98
• Microsoft Outlook 2000
• Microsoft Exchange client

MSG IFilter also supports the following components, as an addition to one of the above environments:

• Microsoft Site Server 3.0
• Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server 2001

Workstation Edition - best suited to run on Windows 2000 or XP Workstation