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I’ve put together a screencast that carries on from my previous post on installing and configuring Microsoft Search Server 2008 Express.

This screencast covers:

• Setting up a new external content source (my example is this indexing this site)
• Viewing the crawl log to determine the success or failure of a crawl
• Adding a search scope to give the end users the option to focus there search query to a particular area
• Enabling the search scope in the site collection
• Setting up the search centre page web parts to show the search scope dropdown

In the screen cast I mention that the navigation links in central admin or the search administration don’t link to the search scopes settings page. I manually added the url:  http://<server-name>/ssp/admin/_layouts/viewscopes.aspx?mode=ssp

The higher quality screencast can be found here or the youtube version: