Searching for Numbers in SharePoint

If you have been trying to search for a number or a combination of numbers in SharePoint such as an IP address or strictly version numbers, you have probably been coming up short. This is due to "Noise Filtering." There is a text file that filters noise words such as "a," "the," "and," numbers, etc.

Here's what I did:

Edit the noiseenu.txt file
Go to "Sharepoint Portal Server Install directory"/Applications/Guid/Config/noiseenu.txtRemove the "numbers" from the file
Restart the SharePoint Search Service
Reset the search indexes and perform a full crawl

Once the crawl is finished you should now be able to search for numbers.

-Brian Grabowski