What ’s New — ces 4 sp4

release information

 

Product: Coveo Enterprise Search

Version: 4 Service Pack 4

Build Number: 2528

Release Date: August 2nd 2007

 

License

 

Coveo Enterprise Search 4 Service Pack 4 uses the same license as Service Pack 3 All customers having a valid Support Plan have already received this license.  

Features

 

Categories

Requirements

Features

Connectors

 

Index more repositories.

Addition of connectors to the following repositories:

 

·         EMC Documentum

·         Microsoft Exchange (new version)

·         Symantec Enterprise Vault

 

Note: Unlike the previous MAPI connector, the Microsoft Exchange connector supports file monitoring and is able to seamlessly index numerous mailboxes.

Enhancements

Categories

Requirements

Enhancements

Search Interface

Provide more information in XML search.

Addition of collaborative rating support for XML search.

SharePoint Interface

 

Query SharePoint content by scope (using ScopeSelector) and collection even if the collection content is outside the scope. 

Addition of an OR parameter to this type of search.

Service

Index secure Web content.

Addition of source certificate authentication for HTTPS 

Connectors

Improve ODBC crawler

Live Indexing for ODBC crawler

Update Procedure s

General Notes 

All servers related to the same index (i.e. main, mirror, slice and front-end)—starting with the main or back-end server—must be upgraded to SP4. Note that indexes are compatible for all service packs, therefore collections, sources and parameters remain identical.

 

Important: During the update process—which usually takes 5 to 10 minutes per server—it is impossible to query the index or add sources to it.

 

How to Manually Backup Files

Important: CES creates a backup of the files whose addresses correspond to <installation path>/Web/* and <installation path>/Instance/* (except for Web/Admin/*, Web/Bin/*, Web/Coveo/Help/*, Web/Coveo/CoveoDesktopSearch_en.bin and Web/Coveo/CoveoDesktopSearch_fr.bin). However, if the path of any of these files has been modified or the Web.config files of an SPS 2003 or WSS 2.0 environment have been edited, a manual backup is required:

 

 

1.     Create a folder named SP3backup on the local drive (right-click and select New>Folder).

2.     Locate the file to backup. By default, the Web and Instance files are located in C:\Program Files\Coveo Enterprise Search 4; whereas the Web.config files are located in C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\60\TEMPLATE\LAYOUTS\web.config.

3.     Right-click the file and select Copy.

4.     In SP3backup, right-click and select Paste.

 

How to U pgrade from SP3 to SP4

The following procedure must be repeated for each server, starting with the main or back-end server.

 

1.     Log onto the server using an administrator account.

2.     On the local drive, download the installation program.    

3.     Double-click the file to launch Windows Installer and follow the procedure.

4.     When asked whether to backup the files or not, enter the path of a target folder and click Yes.

5.     Once the update is complete, copy all manually backed up files to their original locations (folder structure is identical in SP3 and SP4).