SharePoint® 2010 Administration: Instant Reference

Create a New Content Source

Content sources track the locations of content that you want indexed for search. SharePoint 2010 creates a default content source for indexing all the content stored inside SharePoint. If you want to search any other content stored on the network, you will need to create additional content sources to index.

A content source can reference more than one start address, but each start address must be of the same type—that is, SharePoint must use the same protocol for accessing all the addresses. Content sources are crawled based on a schedule configured for each content source. All of the addresses in the content source are crawled under the same schedule.

The decision to create a new content source is therefore based ...