Index Server Does Not Filter Documents with Large Property Sets (273992)


The information in this article applies to:

  • Microsoft Index Server 2.0
This article was previously published under Q273992

SYMPTOMS

Microsoft Index Server, which is included in the Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Option Pack and with Microsoft Windows 2000, indexes but does not filter documents that contain property sets that are over 256 kilobytes in size. Index Server does not report an error in this case.

CAUSE

This problem occurs because of a limitation in OLE32 in Windows NT and Windows 2000. The OLE32 property set size is hard coded to 256 KB. Office 2000 products, and possibly other products, support property sets greater than 256 KB.

WORKAROUND

Include fewer hyperlinks in the document or break the document into multiple documents.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in Index Server version 2.0.

MORE INFORMATION

This problem was confirmed with Microsoft Word 2000, which stores all of the out-bound hyperlinks as a big blob in the document property set. This way, if the Word document is stored in a FrontPage Web, and links are changed, then FrontPage can fix the links easily by updating the property set.

Steps to Reproduce Behavior

  1. Open the DocFile Viewer file, dfview.exe, that is included in Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0, and then open the suspect file.
  2. Expand the tree and open the IDocumentSummaryInformation branch. Note that the size is reported in hex in the title bar.
  3. Convert the size in the title bar to decimal to see if it is larger than 256 KB.
Modification Type:MajorLast Reviewed:10/23/2000
Keywords:kbbug KB273992
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