The
SharePoint 2010 search engine can crawl and index various types of
contents. The crawled content sources can include the following types of
sources:
SharePoint sites
Websites
File shares
Exchange public folders
Line of business data
Custom repository
One of the first steps is to get SharePoint Search to index the local SharePoint sites. To do so, perform the following steps:
1. | Go
to the administration page of your search service application, and
choose Content Sources from the Crawling group of the Quick Launch
navigation bar.
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2. | Click New Content Source.
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3. | Enter a name for the new content source and choose SharePoint Sites as the type of the content source.
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4. | Type
the start addresses for the SharePoint sites. By default, you have to
type the following URLs (in this example, the URL of the main SharePoint
site is https://home.companyabc.com and the My Site web application is https://mysite.companyabc.com):
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5. | Choose
one of the following options: Crawl Everything Under the Hostname for
Each Start Address or Only Crawl the Site Collection of Each Start
Address.
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6. | Define
full and incremental scheduling for the content source crawling. During
the full crawling, all items of content source will be crawled from
scratch. Incremental crawling means that only the differences to the
last crawling will be crawled.
Schedules can be daily, weekly, or monthly; each of them can be configured granularly. For example, Figure 1 shows the settings for a weekly schedule.
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7. | Select
the priority of this content source. Content sources with high priority
will be processed over the content sources with normal priority during
the crawling.
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8. | Select Start Full Crawl of This Content Source if you want to start the crawling process immediately.
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The settings of content
sources can be modified later. Just click on the name of the content
source, select Edit operation from its context menu, and you get the
same configuration page.
