Configuring SharePoint Portal Server Search

With our MCMS site ready for indexing, we now turn to SPS. First, we will configure SharePoint to index our Tropical Green site. After creating the index, we’ll create a source group that will contain the content source. Source groups are used to group content sources together in a logical collection. In our case, we’ll have a single content source in our source group. The source group is what we’ll reference when we create our search logic in the Tropical Green site.

The next few steps assume you’ve created a portal in SPS. Refer to Appendix A, Setting up MCMS and SPS on the Same Virtual Server, for instructions on how to create a portal.

While Appendix A details how to configure a virtual server to host an MCMS site and SharePoint portal at the same time, we do not want to do that for this chapter. We need two virtual servers, one for the www.tropicalgreen.net MCMS site and the other for the SharePoint portal.tropicalgreen...