The default Search settings within MOSS 2007 may work fine for many companies, but there is one setting that we didn’t like on our SharePoint based Intranet. That is the display of search results from the Internet. We want our searches from within the SharePoint sites to focus on internal content, and felt that it is a distraction having what some consider advertising to be displayed with every Search result.
Removing this isn’t difficult, finding the place to do it might be. If you haven’t messed with Search very much then you won’t likely know where to go to control this behavior. Additionally, you probably won’t have any idea what it is called so your Google searches may not help you very much.
Want to remove or modify the Internet Results in your Search Results display?
Here are the steps:
- Navigate to your Central Administration (or directly to your SSP)
- Select the SSP for your site from the QuickLaunch in Central Administration
- Select Search Administration, found under the Search heading on the Home page of your SSP
- Select Federated Locations from the Queries and Results section of the Search Administration QuickLaunch
- On the “Manage Federated Locations” page you should see 2 or 3 items listed on the page, we are interested in any that have “Internet Search” in their name. Notice that the Trigger column displays “Always”
- Click on Internet Search Results
- Scroll down the Edit Federated Location page to the Trigger section
- Read the information about your options, you want to choose what is best for your site. For the sake of this post I am selecting Prefix and entering “web” in the Add Prefix field
- Click the OK button
- Repeat steps 7-9 for Internet Search Suggestions (which I assume you have like I did) Your Manage Federated Locations should look like this now:
- Jump out to another browser and try searching on your site. The Search Results window shouldn’t display
Tadaaa, you have done it!
In this case, if anyone searches on “bozo” (for example) they will get results without anything included from the Internet. However, if they search “web bozo” they will get both results and suggestions from the Internet. That is because I choose Prefix and used ‘web’ as my prefix. In both scenarios they will always get results from the SharePoint site.
MOSS 2007 and VSS 2005
Posted by sharepoinTony on October 27, 2009
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History: we have a boat-load of documents being stored in Visual SourceSafe 2005 by project managers, product documentation staff, and engineering staff. They started storing various documents there simply because it was available (due to our developers using the tool) and because they didn’t have anywhere else available. Most wanted both version and access control.
Fast forward a few years to today. We are in the process of implementing a SharePoint based intranet. Some of the files stored on PC’s, Laptops, file shares, and VSS will move to our Document Center or some other Document Library within SharePoint. There are some files currently in VSS that the groups want to leave right where they are. Management is in agreement with this situation.
One of the goals of our new intranet is to make it easy to find files. Search is a big deliverable. The obvious question is can we perform a search in SharePoint and find files in VSS? A follow-up question is, better yet, can we integrate to some level where users (with appropriate permissions) can see the documents stored in VSS from within a SharePoint site?
The answers are yes, I think, but that isn’t really the point of this post. I spent hours searching MSDN and TechNet for information to answer those questions. That is the point of this post. My biggest complaint with Microsoft is that they seem to make it very very difficult to find any information you are looking for.
Why can’t I search on “Search Visual SourceSafe with SharePoint” and find anything related to what I am looking for? I tried various searches, with various combinations of words, no luck really. One old article talking about integrating VSS 5.0 with SharePoint 2003 (the info in that article doesn’t apply to the current versions, things changed).
I tried focusing on Visual SourceSafe 2005 – no mention of integration or interaction with SharePoint found. Then I tried focusing on MOSS 2007, nothing. It was painful, and I only found tidbits of information that were actually related to the topic I am interested in.
TechNet FAIL, MSDN FAIL. Why can’t Microsoft improve the search capability within these sites, it has been terrible for years and years? It is still nearly impossible to find anything in TechNet and on MSDN when you search for something, especially if you don’t know the “proper” keywords.
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