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Chapter 22<br />

Managing External Content<br />

in <strong>Microsoft</strong> Office SharePoint<br />

Portal Server 2003<br />

In this chapter:<br />

Advanced Search Administration Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 608<br />

Creating <strong>and</strong> Managing Content Sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 609<br />

Working with Content Indexes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 617<br />

Managing <strong>and</strong> Editing Search Scopes <strong>and</strong> Source Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . 621<br />

Windows SharePoint Services Search <strong>and</strong> MSSearch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 623<br />

The Topic Assistant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 623<br />

Manage Crawls of Site Directory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 623<br />

Manage Keywords <strong>and</strong> Best Bets. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 624<br />

End-User Experience. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 625<br />

Attribute Mapping for Advanced Search . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 628<br />

Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 628<br />

One requirement for building a robust information management system is to pull<br />

together information that is located in disparate data isl<strong>and</strong>s. <strong>Microsoft</strong> Office<br />

SharePoint Portal Server 2003 does an outst<strong>and</strong>ing job of helping you pull that<br />

information into the portal site without having to actually move it to the portal<br />

site’s database.<br />

SharePoint Portal Server accomplishes this through the crawling <strong>and</strong> indexing<br />

features—features that enable us to extract data from external sources of content<br />

(called content sources) <strong>and</strong> then place that extracted data in text files (that cannot<br />

be edited) that can be searched with the results displayed in a result set. Therefore, by<br />

simply crawling <strong>and</strong> indexing information, you can greatly exp<strong>and</strong> the usefulness of<br />

the portal site in assisting users when they need to find information quickly <strong>and</strong> easily.<br />

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