SharePoint 2007: The Definitive Guide
by James Pyles, Christopher M. Buechler, Bob Fox, Murray Gordon, Michael Lotter, Jason Medero, Nilesh Mehta, Joris Poelmans, Christopher Pragash, Piotr Prussak, Christopher J. Regan
Advanced Configuration Options
The next few options are typically used with bigger farms, or when there is a need to gather data from external sources or to fine-tune the querying or search results.
Advanced Configuration Options
Application Management: Manage Search Service
One of the Search administration pages actually lies within the Application Management page, within the Manage Search Service section (Figure 27-12). It is a mishmash of farm-wide and application-specific settings, which generally ties the integration between the application, the farm, and the SSP on a single page. The Shared Services section simply indicates and links to the Shared Services Provider associated with a given WebApplication, as well as the management pages we've worked with throughout this chapter.

Figure 27-12. Manage Search Service
The Manage Search Service page is the place where you can change the options that were originally set during the configuration of the farm, either on the Farm-Level Search Settings page or via the Office SharePoint Server Search Indexing and Query link.
The Managing Farm-Level Search Settings deals with configuration for external searches, and allows you to configure information such as:
An email address associated with the crawler
Proxy settings to be used when crawling other servers
Connection and request acknowledgement timeouts
SSL certificate name warnings settings
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