Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server 2007 Administrator's Companion

Enterprise Administration for Farms

This section covers some of the Central Administration links that deal with administrating Search at the farm level. Within Central Administration, on the Application Management page, there is a single link, Manage Search Service, to manage farm-wide settings for Search. When you click this link, you’re presented with the page shown in Figure 17-1.

Figure 17-1. Upper portion of the Manage Search Service page

You’ll note that on this page, there are three main sections:

• Farm-Level Search Settings

• Query And Index Servers

• Shared Services Providers With Search Enabled (not shown in Figure 17-1)

  Let’s discuss each section ...