Create a Search Center for people search (Office SharePoint Server 2007)
Applies To: Office SharePoint Server 2007
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Topic Last Modified: 2016-11-14
Search Center enables end users to run queries and see the results of those queries. There are two editions of Search Center: Search Center with Tabs and Search Center (without tabs). A Search Center that is created by using the Search Center with Tabs template enables search service administrators to offer end users multiple sets of search and search results pages. Each set of search and results pages can be configured differently and are assigned to different tabs in the Search Center.
You can create a Search Center (without tabs) to add people search to both of the following kinds of site collections:
Site collections where the Office SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure is activated
Site collections where the Office SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure is not activated
The procedure for creating a Search Center (without tabs) differs depending on whether the Office SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure is activated or not activated. Both procedures are linked to in this article. To select the correct procedure to use for creating a Search Center (without tabs), you first determine whether the Office SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure feature is activated in the site collection.
To determine whether the site collection publishing features are activated in the site collection, do the following:
Open the top-level site of the site collection where you want to create the Search Center.
Click Site Actions, and then click Site Settings. If an option for Modify All Site Settings appears, click it.
On the Site Settings page, in the Site Collection Administration section, click Site Collection Features.
On the Site Collection Features page, in the Name column, locate the feature named Office SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure.
Look in the Status column. If the Status is set to Active, the Publishing Infrastructure feature is activated for the site collection. If the Status is not set to Active, the Publishing Infrastructure feature is not activated for the site collection.
Before you perform either of the following procedures, confirm that:
You have read the topic Administer Search Center for people search (Office SharePoint Server 2007).
The system is running either the Standard or Enterprise version of 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
You must be a site collection administrator on the site collection where you want to create the Search Center to complete this procedure.
To create a Search Center for people search
Use the appropriate procedure to create a Search Center to add people search to the site collection.
Create a Search Center for people search