Configure search and indexing (Office SharePoint Server)

Applies To: Office SharePoint Server 2007

This Office product will reach end of support on October 10, 2017. To stay supported, you will need to upgrade. For more information, see , Resources to help you upgrade your Office 2007 servers and clients.

Search and indexing settings can be configured at the farm level and at the Shared Services Provider (SSP) level. You can find information about farm-level settings in the following:

• Manage farm-level search settings (Office SharePoint Server)

• Manage crawler impact rules (Office SharePoint Server Central Administration Help)

Search and indexing settings at the SSP level can be divided into three sections: crawl settings, global scope settings, and relevance settings.

You can find information about crawl settings in the following:

• Manage content sources (Office SharePoint Server)

• Manage crawl rules (Office SharePoint Server)

• Manage file types (Office SharePoint Server)

• View crawl logs (Office SharePoint Server)

• Configure default content access account (Office SharePoint Server)

• Manage metadata property mappings (Office SharePoint Server)

• Manage server name mappings (Office SharePoint Server)

• Configure search-based alerts (Office SharePoint Server)

• Reset crawled content (Office SharePoint Server)

You can find information about configuring scopes at the SSP level in the following:

• Manage search scopes (Office SharePoint Server)

• Edit scope settings (Office SharePoint Server)

• Manage scope rules (Office SharePoint Server)

• Update search scopes (Office SharePoint Server)

You can find information about configuring authoritative pages in the following:

• Configure authoritative pages (Office SharePoint Server)