Chapter 7. Administering SharePoint Search

Any company that works with content quickly generates a large body of work, and this body of work continues to expand as projects are completed, new products are brought to market, and the company expands. In most cases, this content is also created in a wide variety of formats: Office documents may be the most common, but PDF files, photos, videos, Silverlight applications, and other media are also popular, and your company may also use specialized file types, such as Computer-Aided Design (CAD) projects. The depth and breadth of the content you store can become dizzying even for a relatively small company. Faced with this challenge, how can you enable users to rapidly locate all the documents relevant to their task on any given day? Enterprise search is the tool that addresses this problem and SharePoint Server 2010 is equipped with two search engines. In this chapter, you will understand SharePoint Search and learn how to configure it.

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