Preparing the MCMS Site for Indexing

Before we can configure SharePoint to index our MCMS site, there are a few steps we need to take to make the indexing more efficient and useful. First and foremost, check if your site has the MCMS option Map Channel Names to Host Header Names set. If so, you’ll need to disable it because one of the two options we have, utilizing the MCMS Connector, does not support host header names. For the rest of this chapter, we will assume our site exists in the top-level channel TropicalGreen.

If your site uses the Map Channel Names to Host Header Names option, you may need to rename the top level channel to reflect the channel we’ll use in this example (namely TropicalGreen).

In addition, our example assumes you’ve set up MCMS and SharePoint according to Appendix A, Setting up MCMS & SPS on the Same Virtual Server. If your MCMS Web Entry Point and SharePoint portal are not in the same virtual server, this requirement may...