Anna
Thu Aug 28 10:45:35 CDT 2008
Hello,
Yes that would be a solution for you.
Look here for how to configure it on your wss 3.0 environment:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc297193.aspx
Anna
"Zaur Bahramov" <zbakhramov@msn.com> wrote in message
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> Could WIndows Search Server 2008 Express be a valid solution to address my
> issue?
>
http://www.microsoft.com/enterprisesearch/serverproducts/searchserverexpress/features.aspx
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> Thank you!
>
>
> --
> Zaur Bahramov, MCP
> "Zaur Bahramov" <zbakhramov@msn.com> ha scritto nel messaggio
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>> Yes, this is an external dastabase and is not part of WSS content
>> database. I have hundreds of products and thousands of spareparts that
>> are visualized in WSS site by DataGridView. What I need is to enable a
>> user searching for a specific part number or description.
>> What is the common approach for that?
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Zaur Bahramov, MCP
>> "Anna" <Anja_Amelia@hotmail.com> ha scritto nel messaggio
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>>>
>>> Hi,
>>> I assume this is some kind of external SQL data that you want to be
>>> added to search scope, or is it inside a site collection?
>>>
>>> If you have WSS only, the option with external database isn't possible:
>>> " Search covers a single site collection. Only SharePoint content in the
>>> site collection can be crawled. You cannot crawl databases, mail
>>> servers, application servers, or Web sites and file shares outside of
>>> the site collection. In a deployment with more than one site collection,
>>> each site collection provides search only for content on that site
>>> collection, and there is no aggregation of search results across site
>>> collections"
>>> have a look here for more details on this:
>>>
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc288477.aspx
>>>
>>> Here some basic steps how to configure search in WSS:
>>>
http://geekswithblogs.net/karskip/archive/2007/11/30/117263.aspx
>>>
>>> Anna
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> "Zaur Bahramov" <zbakhramov@msn.com> wrote in message
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>>>> Hi!
>>>>
>>>> I have a wss site that displays some data from a SQL Server database.
>>>> This database contains products, spare parts, descriptions, etc.
>>>> This databased is not indexed by the WSS search service. How do I set
>>>> it up so that a database on SQL Server is indexed by WSS Search
>>>> Service?
>>>>
>>>> Thank you!
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Zaur Bahramov, MCP
>>>>
>>>
>>>
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