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Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services enables users to search all Web site content on a server or server farm. Windows SharePoint Services offers a broader search capability than that offered in SharePoint Team Services 1.0 from Microsoft. In SharePoint Team Services, searching was implemented by using Internet Information Services (IIS) catalogs. This limited search to documents on the file system; users were not able to search through lists, such as tasks and contacts, or through discussion board items. Because all site information, including documents is now stored in a database, search in Windows SharePoint Services allows searching of all site content.
Search features are only available for Windows SharePoint Services with SQL Server 2000. If you are running Microsoft SQL Server Desktop Engine (Windows) 2000 (WMSDE), no search features are available.
Search is available per server or server farm. This means that search is either turned on or off for all top-level Web sites and subsites in your server or server farm. If search is not enabled, the search links do not appear in the Web sites that reside on that virtual server.
Search can query most lists and all document libraries on your site. Search cannot query lists of lists such as the Quick Launch bar or surveys. Users can search the entire site or a single list within the site. For example, you can search for a particular contact in the Contacts list.
If you are using SQL Server 2000, you can enable full-text searching for your Web sites. SQL Server 2000 full-text searching is a good solution for searching Windows SharePoint Services Web sites in small or medium organizations; however, SQL Server 2000 full-text searching does not scale well to large server farms. Search catalogs can use up to 40 percent of the hard disk space that data uses. There is a hard limit of 256 search catalogs per server. In addition, you encounter performance issues when you reach 1 million rows in the search catalog table. If you are running a large server farm, it is not recommended that you offer search features for all of the Web sites in your server farm. Consider adding search for premium customers if you are an Internet service provider (ISP) or Application service provider (ASP), or for only a limited number of sites if you are hosting Web sites based on Windows SharePoint Services inside a large organization.
SQL Server 2000 full-text searching supports only one language for each database. If you are supporting Windows SharePoint Services Web sites in several languages and you want to enable full-text searching in those languages, consider hosting each language on a separate virtual server with a separate database per language.
SQL Server 2000 uses language resources on full-text search catalogs. The following list includes the languages for which language resources are available:
The neutral language resources package is provided for use with languages not on this list.
When you enable full-text searching in Windows SharePoint Services, an empty catalog is created by default and named ix_databasename. SQL Server 2000 then indexes the existing site content and adds content to this catalog as it is added to your new Web site. Aside from enabling and disabling full-text search, any search management or monitoring must be done from within SQL Server 2000 with the SQL Server administration tools.