I've managed to do the upgrade the Ms Search Server 2008 Express in conjuction with WSS 3 SP1.
According to the http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc297193.aspx - "Configure site collections to use the Search Center" section, I think I am missing the procedure to use this.
It said that I need to have different URL (See: 4.Type the address of your Search Center in the text box, for example, http://servername:port.)
So what did I miss here? At the moment, my search seems ok but I don't think I am using the right interface.
Any ideas?
When you installed Search Server, did it provision a Search Center?
Because that is where you need to point all site collections' search to.
When you do a search it will append ?k=yourkeyword to the url. (at least that's how it works in MOSS, should be the same here)
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I am trying to make a kind of 'faceted search' in ASP.NET and am looking for good ways to filter data. That's why I have the following question:
Is it possible to use FAST search on a SQL database using Microsoft Search Server 2010 without using SharePoint? (in other words: can a SQL DB be a content source for the search?) I can't seem to find a definitive answer to this anywhere.
I have found this on the MS website:
The following connectors come out of the box in Search Server 2010
Express and SharePoint Server 2010:
SharePoint sites
Windows file shares
Exchange public folders
Lotus Notes
Web sites
IFilters for additional repositories
Structured content in databases
Federation object model
I would like to be sure that it 'can' work before I start messing around with it.
You will need to install SharePoint Foundation (free version), as well as install the cumulative updates/service packs to install and configure the Secure Store Service. From there, you can use Business Connectivity Services to model your database and present it to Search Server Express. FAST Search is another product altogether and would require additional software installation and configuration.
"Windows SharePoint Services Search" is not showing in the my APP server. I checked in WFE als, there also it is not there. I checked in "Services->Windows SharePoint Services Search" is running in all servers. It was shown before. When I am playing around this. I lost it.
How to get back it?
Run the SharePoint configuration wizard again. but in your screen shot i'm not seeing anything missing. is it the old screen shot
When you install MOSS, the Enterprise search (Office SharePoint Server Search) takes over and the WSS search becomes Windows SharePoint Services Help Search.
I have installed and configured SharePoint 2010 to run on the same box as the SQL Server its running from in Windows Server 2008 R2. Everything is working fine except the search. I have uploaded several documents and tagged several items (documents, tasks, announcements etc), however whenever I search the site using the defaul search, i get nothing returned no matter what i search on, I simply get "We did not find any results for [search term]". I know there is setup needed if you wish to use "FAST search", but do I have to do anything to get the standard default search to work?
Found the answer on SharePoint.SE:
After installing the system you need to configure your indexing job.
Navigate to CA > Service Applications > Search.
You will see a link to your Content Sources. If you edit that it will give you the opportunity to setup a schedule for both Full and Incremental indexing.
You can kick off a full crawl, once completed you will have results if everything is configured correctly.
It does work for people search too . if you edit this content source you will see sps protocol which is for user profiles .
To make people search to work, in Central Administration > Manage Service Applications, make sure to provide a valid domain\user account as administrator in User Profile Service Application.
To add on to Chensformers answers, the account has to have "Retrieve People Data for Search Crawlers" enabled. They have to have it in the Administrators button, even if the Permissions is set to Full Control! Quite misleading.
We've setup the sharepoint services sites and works nicely. We've also setup multiple sites such as: http://192.168.100.52/, http://192.168.100.52/sites/IT, http://192.168.100.52/sites/Finance and couple other sites under the root.
We've setup the search service as per Ms said BUT my impression that when you search you only search within site that you are on so it can't not search a global search. How do I achieve this? From what I heard this is a limitation of WSS, correct? I've also heard that there is another Ms Search Server service that allow to do this. Is this right?
BTW ... we are using WSS 3.0 not SPPS 2007.
I am appreciated your comment.
Thanks
This is indeed a limitation of WSS, for full blown cross sitecollection search you need MOSS. There are some workarounds (like this) and third part tools (KwizCom). Also it is possible to "upgrade" your wss 3.0 installation to Search Server 2008, as per this Technet article.
You can setup a Search Server Express outside the WSS. Then in SSE admin create an index that includes the WSS sites. Finally, create a WSS site called "our company global search" and use it for the cross-wss site searches.
Other than that WSS will only give you search option of searching the currrent site and below.
For some reason my search in the sharepoint site does not work.
I have set up the SSP, the scopes, the crawls, everything but it still does not work
Can someone explain to me how to setup the search? Maybe I did something wrong in the process.
It's not the simplest thing in the world to setup, as it's comprised of a number of components.
You need to check each one to determine where your problem is.
Start from the crawl, and work your way forward to the search production on the page.
So check the following:
Check some servers have been setup to index pages. (You can see this under services on servers in the central administration pages.)
Make sure they're all running correctly. (Not in a half started state.)
Check your crawl log in your SSP to see if it is indexing anything.
(Index different types of content, like file shares, web sites, and sharepoint itself. (check each one.)).
(Note you need a special plugin to index PDF's.).
Check your index is copied to the front end server where it is used.
If it's not, it may be because this hasn't been configured, (Check Services running on servers again)
Then check your site collection setup, and ensure you have a search site configured.
Ensure the site collection search details are configured to use the search site.
Finally check the user doing the searching actually has access to the content being indexed.
Doing all of that should give you some idea of where the problem is.
In addition to Bravax's answer its worth checking that you are not getting stung by the local loopback check.
I had similar problem and ended up using search server express which is free (see my answer from this link: sharepoint 2010 foundation search not working)
I have installed search server express 2010 on top of SPF which works great. it has additional features and work well with sharepoint foundation. her is a link for upgrade and configuration: http://www.mssharepointtips.com/tip.asp?id=1086
You need to crawl the the contents source and add the website to it, then run full crawl to index data.