Configure the farm for search (Search Server 2008)

Applies To: Microsoft Search Server 2008

Topic Last Modified: 2009-06-02

The articles in this section provide information and procedures for search configuration.

In this section:

• Configure global search settings (Search Server 2008)

  Learn about how to change the contact e-mail address and about how to specify time-out settings and proxy settings for the crawler.

• Configure Web servers (Search Server 2008)

  Learn how to put the query server role on Web servers and how to configure a dedicated Web server for crawling.

• Configure index and query servers (Search Server 2008)

  Learn about how to configure index and query server roles and about how to view or change the location of the content index for index servers and query servers.