Indexing support for Windows Storage Server 2003 in SharePoint Portal Server 2003 (890612)

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Creating indexes for content that is stored on a computer that is running Windows Storage Server 2003 is supported in SharePoint Portal Server 2003. Therefore, you can use SharePoint Portal Server 2003 to crawl, to index, and to search for data that is stored on a computer that is running Windows Storage Server 2003.

Consider the following point when you use SharePoint Portal Server 2003 to index Windows Storage Server 2003 content:

• To crawl content that is stored on a Microsoft Distributed File System (DFS) share, you have to add the individual shares that are published to the DFS path as content sources.
  
  For example, Share1 and Share2 are published to a DFS root that is named DFSShare.

To crawl the content that is in the \\ServerName\DFSShare path, you have to add the following two content sources in SharePoint Portal Server 2003:

• \\ServerName\DFSShare\Share1
• \\ServerName\DFSShare\Share2

For more information about Windows Storage Server 2003, visit the following Microsoft Web site: For more information about how to manage search settings for the portal site, see the "Managing Search Settings for the Portal" topic in the "Administration" section of the "Administration" chapter of the Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003 Administrator's Guide. The Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003 Administrator's Guide (Administrator's Help.chm) is located in the Docs folder in the root directory of the SharePoint Portal Server 2003 CD.