Wednesday, May 13, 2009

WSS Sharepoint Search - no results

In order to turn search ON in WSS 3.0, There two steps

1). Under Operations > Services on Server setup Windows Sharepoint Search Service. Use a domain account when setting this up. If service is already running then skip Step 1 but make sure its properly setup.

2). Under Application Management > Content Databases, click on your content database and then on the page make sure Search Server is selected.

After the above two steps, wait few minutes so Sharepoint crawls your site collection. WSS only lets you search a single site collection. Anything you search under a sub site will give you result at the site collection level.

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