Facilitating Search with Content Indexes

To facilitate searches, SharePoint Portal Server 2003 creates indexes of content. The content index enables searching text or properties associated with documents such as the document author or keywords associated with the document. In addition to indexing content contained in the SharePoint site, SharePoint Portal Server 2003 can create indexes for content external to the site defined to SharePoint Portal Server 2003 as a content source. SharePoint Portal Server 2003 content sources can include Lotus Notes databases, Exchange folders, external websites, and file shares. After the content source has been indexed, its contents can appear in search results. Indexes are created and updated by crawling a location ...

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