Core Indexing Service Administration

Now that you know how the Indexing Service works, let’s look at the core techniques for managing it. In this section you’ll learn how to specify the resources to index, create catalogs, tune performance, and more.

Setting Web Resources to Index

You configure Web resources for indexing using the IIS snap-in. You can apply indexing settings globally or locally. Global settings affect all IIS Web sites that inherit the settings, which means that all indexable files on all sites and in all subdirectories use this setting. To configure global indexing settings, follow these steps:

  1. In the IIS snap-in, expand the node for the IIS server you want to work with. Then right-click Web Sites and select Properties.

  2. In the Web ...

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