Chapter 5. Search Administration

After completing this chapter, you will be able to

  • Understand the relationship between Shared Services Providers (SSPs) and Search.

  • Administer search settings at the farm level, at the level of SSPs, and at the site collection level.

  • Configure the search engine to index content from different sources.

  • Configure the search engine to index other file types such as Adobe Acrobat PDF and Microsoft Office OneNote 2007.

  • Influence crawls by creating crawl rules.

  • Manage search scopes.

  • Manage metadata in the search index.

  • Optimize search result ranking.

  • Manage the Search service.

  • Control the crawler using crawler impact rules.

  • Work with the thesaurus.

  • Automate administration tasks using Microsoft Windows PowerShell.

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