Enable Search feature in MOSS 2007

Search feature in MOSS 2007 is a great feature and also a big one, it has many aspects between defining your own key words, adding new file types to be searched, searching contents from outside the SharePoint site and many others, but here I will focus on how to enable the search functionality in your site to be able to search your site’s content as follows:

1. Go to your “Site Actions” menu on your site -> Site Settings -> Modify All Site Settings
2. Go to “Search Visibility”
3. Select “Allow this web to appear in search results” to Yes
4. Select “Always index all ASPX pages on this site”
5. Then in your SharePoint Central Administration, go to Operations tab
6. Go to “Services on Server”
7. Run your “Office SharePoint Server Search” service with the correct credentials.
8. Also in the SharePoint Central Administration, go to your Shared Services Provider link
9. Go to “Search Settings”
10. Select “Content sources and crawl schedules”
11. Hover over the link “Local SharePoint Server Sites” and select “Start Full Crawl” in order to start indexing all your site contents.
12. Go to your SharePoint site and start searching.

Regards,

Hamzeh Ayesh