Crawling is the process in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 by which the system parses the content and its metadata to build a content index. The content index (a.k.a. index) is then used to serve search queries. In MOSS 2007 you can either perform a full or an incremental crawl. In most environments, an administrator will schedule the crawls so they take place automatically. However, in certain situations you may need to perform a manual crawl. For example, if you apply a crawl rule to the content you would want to run a manual crawl. Keep in mind that a full crawl is more taxing on the CPU and memory than an incremental crawl. Another thing to understand is that once you start a crawl, you may not want to stop it. In other words, it may be advisable to let the system finish the crawl or if you must, simply pause it.<\/p>\n
WARNING<\/strong>: Consider the pros and cons of stopping versus pausing a crawl. When you stop a crawl of a content source, MOSS 2007 automatically performs a full crawl the next time you crawl that content source. This is true even in situations where you perform an incremental crawl and then stop it<\/em>. For this reason, depending on your situation, it may be advisable to consider pausing the crawl rather than stopping it.<\/em><\/p>\n To start a full or incremental crawl manually, start SharePoint 3.0 Central Administration console.<\/p>\n 1.\u00a0 In the Quick Launch area, under Shared Services Administration, click on a shared service.<\/p>\n 2. On the Shared Services Administration page click Search administration<\/strong> in the Search section.<\/p>\n 3. On the Search Administration page, in the Quick Launch area, Click Content sources<\/strong> in the Crawling section.<\/p>\n You may not see Search administration listed in that section if you do not have the Infrastructure Update for Microsoft Office Servers installed. In that case click Search settings<\/strong> in the Search section in step 2 and then perform step 3.<\/p>\n 4. On the Configure Search Settings page, click Content sources and crawl schedules<\/strong>, which is the first link on that page in the Crawl Settings<\/strong> section.<\/p>\n 5. On the Manage Content Sources page, move your mouse cursor over the content source that you want to crawl.<\/p>\n 6. Click on the drop-down arrow next to the content source and then either click Start Full Crawl<\/strong> or click Start Incremental Crawl<\/strong>.<\/p>\n 7. The status column will show you the status, e.g. Crawling Full, if you start a full crawl. The status doesn’t refresh automatically so you may have to refresh the screen a few times until the status changes to idle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Crawling is the process in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 by which the system parses the content and its metadata to build a content index. The content index (a.k.a. index) is then used to serve search queries. In MOSS 2007 you can either perform a full or an incremental crawl. In most environments, an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sharepoint","category-tips-tricks"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t