Differences Between Windows SharePoint Services Search and Portal Sites Directory Search

Windows SharePoint Services in a standalone environment that is without SharePoint Portal Server 2003 provides full-text search capabilities for Windows SharePoint Services site collections using the Microsoft SQL Server 2000 full-text search engine. If the Microsoft SQL database engine is being used to store content instead of Microsoft SQL Server 2000, search is not available. Even with Microsoft SQL Server 2000, search is an option enabled or disabled when Windows SharePoint Services sites is installed. When it is enabled, an empty catalog is created and named “ix_databasename.” The site content is then indexed by Microsoft SQL Server 2000, and as content ...

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