Microsoft KB Archive/178849

= INFO: Index Server OLEDB Provider Cannot Be Installed Separately =

Article ID: 178849

Article Last Modified on 7/19/2001

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft OLE DB Provider for Index Server 2.0

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This article was previously published under Q178849



SUMMARY
The OLE DB Provider for Index Server (MSIDXS) cannot be installed without also installing Index Server 2.0.



MORE INFORMATION
The OLE DB Provider for Index Server (MSIDXS) ships as part of Index Server 2.0 in the Windows NT Options Pack 4.0. The provider does not support a separate install on a computer without Index Server.

To use ADO with the OLE DB Provider for Index Server (MSIDXS) in a Visual Basic or Visual C++ application to query Index Server 2.0, you need to install Index Server on that machine.

Any mechanism that lets you query data remotely, such as ActiveX Data Objects (ADO) or Remote Data Service (RDS) within an Internet Information Server (IIS)/Active Server Pages (ASP) script, can use the MSIDXS provider to remotely query the content of the server computer. This, however, is not because MSIDXS inherently supports querying data remotely, but because you have configured MXIDXS on a server to use a technology that can support querying data remotely.

