Updated: 2008-07-31

This topic provides links to topics that help you plan to install, deploy, and manage Microsoft Search Server 2008 and Microsoft Search Server 2008 Express.

In this section:

• Determine hardware and software requirements (Search Server 2008) — This topic provides information about the minimum and recommended hardware and software requirements of Basic and Advanced installation of Search Server 2008.

• Plan to deploy Search Server 2008 or Search Server 2008 Express — This article provides information about planning considerations for installing and configuring Search Server 2008 or Microsoft Search Server 2008 Express.

• Plan for administrative and service accounts (Search Server 2008) — Learn about the different server administrator roles and the account requirements for setting up and running Search Server 2008.

• Plan to crawl content (Search Server 2008) — This topic introduces concepts about what it means to crawl content, how content is crawled, and best practices for set up crawling.

• Plan the end-user search experience (Search Server 2008) — See how to create a search experience for users to quickly find the information that they want.

• Plan for redundancy (Search Server 2008) — This article describes the options for scaling out redundant server roles included in a Search Server 2008 farm. After reading this article, you will be able to determine and record the redundancy options that are appropriate for the environment.

• Plan for availability (Search Server 2008) — This article describes availability in general, costs and challenges for availability in a SharePoint Products and Technologies environment, and strategies and solutions that you can use to improve availability in the environment.