Configure global search settings (Search Server 2008)

Applies To: Microsoft Search Server 2008

The articles in this section explain how to change the contact e-mail address and how to specify time-out and proxy settings.

In this section:

• Change the contact e-mail address (Search Server 2008)

  Use this procedure to provide the e-mail address of a contact person in your organization. You must provide a contact e-mail address before Microsoft Search Server 2008 can crawl any content sources.

• Specify time-out settings (Search Server 2008)

  Use this procedure to specify how long the crawler will wait to connect to other services and how long it will wait to receive acknowledgement of content requests.

• Configure proxy settings (Search Server 2008)

  Use this procedure to specify proxy server settings for sending HTTP requests to crawl content and query federated sources.