Security Considerations

In the next few sections, we will look at security from a crawling perspective. Security is obviously essential in regard to document management tasks and the search function in particular. It is critical to restrict access to sensitive information, whether this involves restricting the viewing of a document to only those who may edit or approve it, or “hiding” documents from those with no reason to even know that they exist. In this latter case, when viewing the results of searches, a user will not even be aware of the fact that documents to which they have no access are not displayed—they simply do not exist for this user.

Configuring Security

SharePoint Portal Server recognizes any security policies currently assigned ...

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