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: