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But first of all, make sure you have the correct double quotes in docIcon.xml. If they do not, consider going back to Zubair’s site for his troubleshooting steps. The Adobe PDF icon should now appear next to all PDFs.

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Now, open Central Administration in SharePoint 2010, go to the Search Service Application, and perform a Full Crawl.

In the command prompt window, simply type: We need to restart SharePoint search services.

Open a command prompt as Administrator.

Add the following GUID for the default value:.

Right-click > Click New > Key to create a new key for.

Navigate to the following location in regedit: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office Server\14.0\Search\Setup\ContentIndexCommon\Filters\Extension Go into the Search Service Application, File Types page (found on the left-hand navigation) and add the pdf file type.

Add the following entry in docIcon.xml file, which can be found at: C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\TEMPLATE\XML.

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Download the 16 x 16 PDF icon from the Adobe web site or just right-click and Save this one: Then, copy it to C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\TEMPLATE\IMAGES\.

The process, therefore, for setting up the Adobe iFilter for 64-bit on SharePoint 2010 is thus: The double quotes in the section for pdf are different than the quotes in the other sections.ĭocIcon.xml with the CORRECT double quotes Upon very close inspection, sure enough, it contained the wrong double-quotes.

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I had copied the code directly from SharePoint Sharon’s site. Most importantly, it was his Troubleshooting Step 9 (with the bright red Gotcha! ) that ultimately resolved my problem.

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He just says in Step 8 to copy it but doesn’t provide for how to get it. One minor flaw: he doesn’t provide the link (like the other two articles cited) for getting the 16 x 16 Adobe icon. He offers several registry changes to make/confirm, he explains how to restart the Search service, and he offers several helpful troubleshooting steps. Zubair Alexander offers a very thorough article on this issue. Simply put, this article doesn’t cut it either. (I’ll show you in the double quotes section below.) It does correctly remind to restart IIS and to perform a Full Crawl but doesn’t mention restarting the Search Service at all. Fatal flaw: I copied the code there for the section of the docIcon.xml file but it contains the wrong characters. NO! The good news is that the icon there is 16 x 16, which are the correct dimensions. First, it gives the correct url to the Adobe website for downloading the icon but then states to download the 17 x 17 icon. Going back to my Google results, I found this article which makes several mistakes as well but one stands apart. It is correct on the fourth item to perform a Full crawl. And third, there is absolutely no need to create a Test site collection and a document library to see if the PDF icons are working. Besides, wouldn’t rebooting the farm thus restart the Search Service thus making Step 1 unnecessary? Think about it. (I have posted the instructions at the end of this article.) Second, you do not need to reboot the SharePoint servers in the farm for this procedure. First, I had trouble with “Restart the SharePoint Server Search 14” but another article clued me in on that. Namely, the first three bullet points at the end are either vague or inaccurate. I figured I would just use the Microsoft KB article for installing the PDF iFilter since it also covers setting up the display of the PDF icon. SharePoint Sharon’s article has a fatal flaw The Microsoft KB article does not sufficeĢ. I’ve broken up this message into five sections since it’s long.ġ. So I’m writing about my adventures to spare you all from the anguish I faced. It took a lot to resolve this issue, which is crazy. I inherited a SharePoint 2010 environment that had the PDF iFilter installed but was not showing the PDF icon for any of the PDF files.