Advanced Topics

There are several advanced topics that do not necessarily fall under the classification of a particular server management function. For the sake of planning and server management, we decided to group these together here. In this section we will discuss the following:

  • Configuring IFilters

  • Using Robots.txt and HTML tags to prevent access

  • Installing Outlook Web Access Help files

  • Reclaiming disk space from the Web Storage System

Configuring IFilters

Before we talk about how to configure IFilters, many of you may be asking questions such as “What is an IFilter and why are they useful?” IFilters enable you to register a particular file extension and begin crawling for documents and including these file types within the index. The actual ...

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