This page describes how to install Microsoft Index Server and get it quickly setup to work for you. Just start the installation program, point to the sample search page from your home page, and issue a query. On Microsoft Windows NT Workstation, you need 16 megabytes of RAM minimum. Index Server program files require anywhere from 3 to 12 megabytes of disk space, depending upon the number of languages installed.
Index Server can index documents in several different languages.
Disk space needed for storing Index Server data depends upon the size of the corpus and type of documents. The free disk space must be roughly 40 percent of the size of the corpus. For more information on security, see the Security page in the Microsoft Index Server Guide. The optimum configuration depends upon the size of the corpus, number of documents, and the search load on the server. More memory and faster processors make indexing and querying faster.