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Chapter 22: Managing External Content in Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003 609
To enable Advanced Search Administration Mode, click Enable Advanced
Search Administration Mode on the Configure Search And Indexing page (also
shown in Figure 22-1). Remember that this is a one-way, one-time change that is
user-specific and cannot be reversed.
Creating and Managing Content Sources
SharePoint Portal Server 2003 content aggregation can extend past its physical server
farm and actual portal site through the use of content sources. A content source is
really a set of rules that informs the gatherer service about where to connect to crawl
content that is hosted on servers outside the portal. The content can be located in a
multitude of places that are outlined in Table 22-1. SharePoint Portal Server 2003 can
crawl the following content types in content sources:
Table 22-1 SharePoint Portal Server 2003 Content Sources
Content Source Description
Microsoft Exchange Server
public folders
SharePoint Portal Server 2003 can crawl Exchange Server
folders, including messages, discussions, and collaborative
content. Including Exchange Server folder content in
a SharePoint Portal Server can open Exchange-based discussions
and collaborative content.
File share File shares are still in wide use in many organizations.
SharePoint Portal Server 2003 can use file shares as content
sources. For example, the WoodGrove Bank Share-
Point Portal Server 2003 implementation can use the
following file shares as content sources:
\\WoodGroveBank\shareddocs\ file://WoodGroveBank
/shareddocs/
Web content SharePoint Portal Server 2003 can crawl a variety of Web
content as content sources, including singe static Web
pages, entire websites, SharePoint Portal Server sites, and
Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services sites content,
including HTML content, documents, and lists.
Windows SharePoint Services–
based sites and SharePoint
Team Services–based sites
SharePoint Portal Server 2003 can index content hosted in
these two site platforms. This indexing feature in the site
itself is a SQL-based full-text indexing engine, which is
different than the MSSearch.exe indexing engine that we
are discussing in this chapter.
Lotus Notes database Content stored in Lotus Notes databases is not off limits to
SharePoint Portal Server 2003 as a content source. Using a
Lotus Notes database as a content source requires the
Lotus Notes administrator to make some configuration
changes to the Lotus Notes Index Management Server,
and then to make configuration changes to the Lotus
Notes protocol handler.