Updated: 2009-08-10

In this section:

• Security considerations for search (Search Server 2008) — Learn about security trimming and how to exclude content from a crawl so that users get only the search results that they are authorized to view.

• Security for federation (Search Server 2008) — Learn about security best practices for federated search, including information about authentication types and security trimming.

• Add or remove a search services administrator (Search Server 2008) — Learn how to become a search services administrator to configure the Shared Services Provider (SSP) settings and access the Search Administration page in Microsoft Search Server 2008.

• Change passwords for administration accounts and service accounts (Search Server 2008) — Learn how to change the passwords for services, application pool identities, the SSP, the content access account, and more.

• Configure SSL certificate warning (Search Server 2008) — Learn how to configure Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) certificate warnings on trustworthy sites.

• Remove URLs from search results (Search Server 2008) — Learn how to exclude specific URLs from being displayed in search results.