SharePoint Thing a Day – 068 – SharePoint Search. Configuring Content Sources.

Configuring Content Sources

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#spthingaday 068 – SharePoint Search. Configuring Content Sources. #SharePoint, #SharePointSearch.. When you create a Content Source, you can specify the kind of thing you want SharePoint to crawl. Each Content Source has a type, and can be one of: SharePoint Content User Profile Content File Shares Exchange Public Folders Web Content Lotus Notes Custom – which requires 3rd party or custom developed code. You can have multiple paths per Content Source. You can also specify a Full Crawl and Incremental Crawl schedule. For SharePoint-based Content Sources only, you can enable Continuous Crawl. This one checkbox allows SharePoint to launch overlapping Incremental Crawls – by default 15 minutes apart. You can bring this down to 5 minutes apart using PowerShell. The smaller the interval, the fresher the content in your index. #microsoft #microsoftoffice #microsoftsharepoint #microsofttraining #officetraining #freetraining #trainingvideos #contentmanagement #enterprisecontentmanagement

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When you create a Content Source, you can specify the kind of thing you want SharePoint to crawl.

Each Content Source has a type, and can be one of:

SharePoint Content

User Profile Content

File Shares

Exchange Public Folders

Web Content

Lotus Notes

Custom – which requires 3rd party or custom developed code.

You can have multiple paths per Content Source.

You can also specify a Full Crawl and Incremental Crawl schedule.

For SharePoint-based Content Sources only, you can enable Continuous Crawl.

This one checkbox allows SharePoint to launch overlapping Incremental Crawls – by default 15 minutes apart.

You can bring this down to 5 minutes apart using PowerShell.

The smaller the interval, the fresher the content in your index.