This week it’s back to discussing Microsoft Search Server Express 2008. First I’ll spend a little time discussing some of the configuring options that I didn’t mention when we looked at the initial installation and crawl configuration. I was somewhat eager to test out the product, so I didn’t want it crawling content at a super low priority. If you visit the Search Administration page, find your server’s name next to “Server status,” click the server name, and scroll down, you’ll find an area titled “Indexer performance.” Your choices are reduced, partly reduced, and maximum. Yeah baby – maximum sounded good to me.
Now to set up a test content source. MSSX lets you configure various content sources – Sharepoint site, file server share, and Internet location. (Usefully, if you choose Internet location, you can specify how many pages deep you want Search Server to go. Be advised that, depending on the website, going from 1 level deep to 2 levels deep can mean hundreds of megabytes of difference in the content that Search Server will crawl.)
I chose a file share on the local server that was 12MB in size, and instructed the program to begin a full crawl immediately. The share contained an EXE file as well as a couple of TXT files. In the “Crawling” section of the admin page, I checked the file types settings. EXE was not there, but TXT was. OK, the TXT files only accounted for a few kilobytes, so Search Server should scream through that little job, since it would be ignoring the EXE.
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