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Another key component of MOSS 2007relevant to enabling Kerberos in the farm is Enterprise Search. MOSS 2007builds upon thetwocore search components of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 - the Index engine and the Query engine.

    Administration of Enterprise Search in MOSS 2007 is twofold:

  • Central Administration: Allows the farm administrator to specify farm level search settings
  • Shared Services Provider Administration: Allows the SSP Administrator to administer search settings for their SSP
Search Administration

Central Administration

Shared Services Provider Administration

Runs under Network Service Account

Runs under SSP Account

SearchAdmin web service is used to administer farm level search settings like assigning index and query roles to servers in the farm, setting up physical index location, crawl proxy settings

SearchAdmin web service is used to administer search settings for this SSP (SSPMain as in the above example). It is used to specify content sources for crawls and setting up their schedules, creating and updating managed properties, managing scopes among other things

For more details regarding the MOSS 2007 Search architecture, refer to https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms570748.aspx

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  • Anonymous
    November 13, 2008
    PingBack from http://mstechnews.info/2008/11/enterprise-search/

  • Anonymous
    November 13, 2008
    One of the main charters of our group, Marketing Platform and Services, is to be a partner to Microsoft

  • Anonymous
    November 14, 2008
    This blog post will detail the steps needed to configure a SharePoint farm to successfully delegate credentials

  • Anonymous
    December 04, 2008
    If you had followed our blog post Configuring Kerberos Delegation (without infrastructure update) , you