4-Share: Home of ZFilter, the ZIP iFilter for Microsoft servers

The ZIP iFilter for SharePoint, Exchange Server, Indexing Service and SQL Server, supporting Windows 2000, 2003, XP and NT ZFilter is a ZIP iFilter that reads zip archives, returning indexable text and value properties for full text indexing. The iFilter handles all zip archives created with WinZip, PKWare and DynaZip - any archive created using the PKWare compression format. ZIP files are archives used for distributing and storing files. Zip files are often used to compress groups of files to save space, for example when sending emails. However, there is a problem when using indexing engines and ZIP files. Most indexing engines will simply ignore zip files and their contents, so the files carefully archived by your users will become invisible to people performing searches. This could leave a hole in your indexing product's searchable files. This 'hole' can be filled by using ZFilter on your indexing server. Most files available on ftp sites, bulletin boards and electronic services such as AOL are distributed as archives. Two benefits of using archives for electronic file distribution are that only one file transfer operation is required to obtain all related files, and file transfer time is minimized because the files in an archive are compressed. If you run a similar FTP site using ZIP archives, you may want to include that content in an index, without having to maintain a separate "unzipped" site that can be trawled using normal filters. This is where ZFilter fits in. Some files are important but used infrequently. To save disk space or if space is running short on your indexing server, you may choose to create ZIP archives of the content. ZFilter will make that content searchable in the normal way, using other iFilters you may have installed to index the compressed files. Requires: Windows 2000 with SP1 or later, Windows NT4.0 with SP5 or later, SharePoint (Team Services, Windows SharePoint Services or Portal Server 2001/2003), Site Server 3.0 IIS4 and Index Server (from NT Option Pack) IIS5/IIS6 and Indexing Service Exchange Server 2000 or 2003 SQL Server 2000

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Welcome to 4-Share, the home of ZFilter, the ZIP indexing filter for Microsoft Windows, Exchange Server, SharePoint, SQL Server and Site Server 3.0.
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23 June 2003 - ZFilter Release 1.2 released, now supporting Windows Server 2003: click here for further information. Release 1.2 is available for download and 30-day evaluation in the downloads section. The upgrade is free to all registered users.