Define Content Sources

The SharePoint 2010 search engine can crawl and index various types of contents. The crawled content sources can include the following types of sources:

• SharePoint sites

• Websites

• File shares

• Exchange public folders

• Line of business data

• Custom repository

One of the first steps is to get SharePoint Search to index the local SharePoint sites. To do so, perform the following steps:

  1. Go to the administration page of your search service application, and choose Content Sources from the Crawling group of the Quick Launch navigation bar.
  2. Click New Content Source.
  3. Enter a name for the new content source and choose SharePoint Sites as the type of the content source.
  4. Type the start addresses for the SharePoint sites. ...

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