Microsoft® SharePoint 2010: Administrator’s Pocket Consultant

Chapter 8. Configuring the Search Service Application

• Farm-Wide Search Settings

• Managing Crawler Impact Rules

• Creating the Search Service Application

• Examining the Search Administration Page

• Creating and Managing Content Sources

• Creating and Managing Crawl Rules

• Managing Server Name Mappings

• Managing File Types

• Managing the Search Application Topology

• Managing Host Distribution Rules

• Troubleshooting Search with Crawl Logs

Aggregated search and indexing is one of the most important features of Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010. This chapter shows you how to create a search service application and configure the crawl process. Configuring and customizing the query process will be covered in the following chapter.

At the heart of the search engine is the crawler. ...