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Enabling Search against your Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) site, such as SBS 2003's companyweb

I went looking for this post from me today on the web site and was astounded to discover that I had not done it.

So, here is the deal - your nice WSS sites can all have search enabled by default - and this means search inside all the documents with them understood (rather than some poor quality text search that can not deal with binary file formats).

To enable this it is very simple:

1) Load SQL onto your system choosing to upgrade the instance called SHAREPOINT

2) Go to the SharePoint Admin Page (on SBS this is http://localhost:8081/SearchAdmin.aspx) and tick the box

3) go to the home page of your WSS site and notice the search box in the top right corner

If you want to add more search providers, go look for IFilters and for PDF capability, go to http://davidoverton.com/blogs/doverton/archive/2006/06/27/674.aspx

 

ttfn

 

David

Posted Mon, Aug 7 2006 12:24 PM by David Overton
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David Overton's Blog wrote Getting IE to search UKSBSGUY.com, companyweb or any other site you happen to like
on Mon, Aug 7 2006 1:01 PM

I like using IE 7 - I use the tabs all the time, I like the integrated search, I use the Live Toolbar

Jportelas wrote re: Enabling Search against your Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) site, such as SBS 2003's companyweb
on Thu, Oct 28 2010 11:30 PM

The link to "IFilters and for PDF capability " is broken.

David Overton wrote re: Enabling Search against your Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) site, such as SBS 2003's companyweb
on Fri, Oct 29 2010 2:28 PM

Jportelas - I've updated the link.

Thanks

David

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