Administration of Shared Services Providers

This section covers all aspects of preparing and configuring the appropriate search services in a new SharePoint farm. Administrators must master the topics described here when deploying SharePoint using any topology other than a single-server deployment. The installation program for Office SharePoint Server 2007 offers an option to install a ready-to-use farm with one preconfigured SSP, allowing you to get started fast. But you should still study this section, even if you’re using only single-server deployments, to learn about the Search service and how to create a new SSP instance.

Configuring and Starting the Search Service

Before you create a new SSP instance, you first need to know a little about ...

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