Add content sources (Search Server 2008)

Applies To: Microsoft Search Server 2008

 

Topic Last Modified: 2009-04-10

Note

Unless otherwise noted, the information in this article applies to both Microsoft Search Server 2008 and Microsoft Search Server 2008 Express.

A content source is a set of rules that tells the crawler where it can find content, how to access the content, and how to behave when it is crawling the content. The settings that you specify apply to all addresses in the content source. A content source includes a set of addresses that connect the indexing engine to the content that you want to crawl. Search Server 2008 has one Shared Services Provider (SSP) that can support up to 500 content sources.

This section contains the following articles:

• About content sources (Search Server 2008)

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See Also

Concepts

Preparing to crawl content (Search Server 2008)
IFilters and protocol handlers (Search Server 2008)