Getting Search Server Express to play with WSS 3.0

Install Search Server Express 2008 and integrate it with WSS (fairly straight foward)

Go to your main site collection where you want search e.g. http://servername :41167/sites/Portal/
Go Site Actions Site Settings and select Sites and Workplaces(this is where you create subsites)
Click Create,

Set title to SearchCenter(or whatever)

Add the name of your subsite to the url name e.g SearchCenter

Select Enterprise Search Center as the site template to use

Click create



To enable search center web partsa (so you can place search boxes on your site collections web pages rather than just having to go the the search center subsite) do this...



Go to your main site collection e.g. http://servername:41167/sites/Portal/

Go Site Actions Site Settings Site Collection Administration Site Collection Features
Click on Activate button for Office Sharepoint Server Search Web parts (this is in fact Search Server Express 2008 web parts)

Check this works, add a web part to page on your site and you should see the list of search web parts

Modify the master page search box web part to point at target search URL of http://servername:41167/sites/Portal/SearchCenter/results.aspx (under micellenous in the web part properties). This will push key words entered to the SSE 2008 results page.

You can also drop a search box web part into your non-master page areas and set it up to go to SSE 2008 results page.

Setting up Scopes to search

Having set up your content sources on the main WSS admin page for SSE go to your specifc site e.g. http://servername:41167/sites/Portal and go to Site Actions | Site Settings

Click Seach Scopes

Click New Scope

Fill in the form checking the display groups you want it in (e.g. basic and advanced search)

choose the default search page

Cick ok

Add rules ...

Select content source from drop down box and select your source e.g. investment documents or shared

***SELECT 'REQUIRE' TO ENSURE THAT ONLY RESULTS FROM THIS CONTENT SOURCE ARE INCLUDED BY THIS RULE ****

CLICK OK

Once the scheduled complilation takes place should be able to see your scopes in the dropdown box!

Getting scopes to show on Main Search Server Express 2008 query page and Advanced Search Page

This is a bit daft, but go to the SSExpress query page on your specific web site, edit page

modify web part for the search box, first item relates to Scopes, select show scopes and they appear!!! OK it and exit

Go to Advanced SSE page , modify web part and select show scopes box. You can then edit the text for the descriptions.