Crawl user profiles (Office SharePoint Server 2007)
Applies To: Office SharePoint Server 2007
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Topic Last Modified: 2016-11-14
You crawl the properties of user profiles to complete the user profile import process. Crawling user profiles brings the profile properties into the search system so that they can be searched. You can crawl the user profiles immediately, or you can schedule the crawl for a later time.
Before you perform this procedure, confirm that:
You have read the topic Manage user profiles for people search (Office SharePoint Server 2007).
The system is running either the Standard or Enterprise version of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.
You have applied the Infrastructure Update for Microsoft Office Servers (or subsequent service pack). For more information, see Description of the Microsoft Office Servers Infrastructure Update: July 15, 2008 (https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=121886).
Important
Membership in the Viewers SharePoint group on the Shared Services Administration site is the minimum required to complete this procedure. Membership in the Farm Administrators SharePoint group is insufficient to perform this procedure.
To crawl user profile properties
Use this procedure to crawl user profile properties. You can crawl the content index immediately or you can schedule a crawl of the content index.
Crawl the content index immediately
On the Shared Services Administration Home page for the Shared Services Provider,, in the Search section, click Search settings.
On the Configure Search Settings page, in the Crawl Settings section, click Content sources and crawl schedules.
On the Manage Content Sources page, in the Name column, point to the content source that you want to crawl, click the arrow, and then click Edit.
On the Edit Content Source page, in the Start Addresses section, scroll down the list and ensure that the URL to the profile properties store exists.
Tip
This URL will be in the form SPS3://<hostname>/.
Change any other settings as needed, and then click OK. The Manage Content Sources page opens.
On the Manage Content Sources page, in the Name column, point to the content source that you want, click the down arrow next to it, and then click Start Full Crawl. The Status column changes to Crawling Full. Click the browser’s Refresh option periodically until the Status column changes to Idle, which indicates the crawl has finished.
Schedule a crawl of the content index
For information about how to schedule a full crawl of the content index, see Schedule a full crawl (Office SharePoint Server 2007).
For information about how to schedule an incremental crawl of the content index, see Schedule an incremental crawl (Office SharePoint Server 2007).
See Also
Concepts
Limit or increase the quantity of content that is crawled (Office SharePoint Server)
Use crawl rules to determine what content gets crawled (Office SharePoint Server 2007)
About content sources (Office SharePoint Server 2007)