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Published inJan 2011
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Peter Serzo
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Peter Serzo is an English major from Kent State who started his technical career with EDS out of college. 20 years later, all as a consultant, he is a national speaker regarding to SharePoint having worked at organizations of all sizes. His next challenge is to bring SharePoint to children and teach them. He has been working with SharePoint since 2003 in companies such as Microsoft, Ford, ADP, and many others throughout the United States. He is a Senior SharePoint Architect for High Monkey Consulting. The name refers to an old Jamaican proverb that means the higher up you go, the more responsible you must be; High Monkey takes pride in its accountability and excellence of work in regards to its clients' needs.
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Adding a host distribution rule


One of the configuration items that an administrator has more control over is the ability to dedicate a host address to a specific crawl database. A crawl database contains data related to the location of content sources and crawl schedules. It may be a benefit to the user base that certain content is indexed more frequently in order to be fresher.

This is done through host distribution rules. A database can be dedicated to a server (or host).

In this recipe, we will create a host distribution rule.

Getting ready

You must have farm-level administrative permissions to the Central Administration site.

There must be at least two crawl databases. Create the second crawl database as shown in the previous recipe, except checking of the box under Dedicate Database.

How to do it...

  1. 1. Open Central Administration and click Application Management.

  2. 2. The third section is Service Applications. Under this section, click Manage service applications.

  3. 3. Find the Search Service...

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Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Administration Cookbook
Published in: Jan 2011Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781849681087

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Peter Serzo

Peter Serzo is an English major from Kent State who started his technical career with EDS out of college. 20 years later, all as a consultant, he is a national speaker regarding to SharePoint having worked at organizations of all sizes. His next challenge is to bring SharePoint to children and teach them. He has been working with SharePoint since 2003 in companies such as Microsoft, Ford, ADP, and many others throughout the United States. He is a Senior SharePoint Architect for High Monkey Consulting. The name refers to an old Jamaican proverb that means the higher up you go, the more responsible you must be; High Monkey takes pride in its accountability and excellence of work in regards to its clients' needs.
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