On the home page of the Central Administration website, in the Application Management section, click Manage service applications. On the Manage Service Applications page, the Search service application that you want to configure. On the Search Administration page, configure the settings as described in the following sections: Specify the default content access account Specify the contact address Create content sources When you create a Search service application, the account that you specify for the Search service is automatically configured as the default content access account. The crawler uses this account to crawl content that does not have an associated crawl rule that specifies a different account. For the default content access account, we recommend that you specify a domain user account that has read access to as much of the content that you want to crawl as possible. You can change the default content access account at any time. If you have to crawl certain content by using a different account, you can create a crawl rule and specify a different account for crawling. For information about how to create a crawl rule, see . Use the following procedure to specify the default content access account. To specify the default content access account On the Search Administration page, in the System Status section, the link in the Default content access account row. In the Default Content Access Account dialog box, in the Account box, type the account that you created for content access in the form domain\user name. Type the password for this account in the Password and Confirm Password boxes. Click OK. The Search service writes the contact address to the logs of crawled servers. The default contact email address, someone@example.com, is a placeholder. We recommend that you change this to an account that an external administrator can contact when a crawl might be contributing to a problem such as a decrease in performance on a server that the search system is crawling. Use the following procedure to specify the contact email address.
On the home page of the Central Administration website, in the Application Management section, click Manage service applications. On the Manage Service Applications page, the Search service application that you want to configure. On the Search Administration page, configure the settings as described in the following sections: Specify the default content access account Specify the contact address Create content sources When you create a Search service application, the account that you specify for the Search service is automatically configured as the default content access account. The crawler uses this account to crawl content that does not have an associated crawl rule that specifies a different account. For the default content access account, we recommend that you specify a domain user account that has read access to as much of the content that you want to crawl as possible. You can change the default content access account at any time. If you have to crawl certain content by using a different account, you can create a crawl rule and specify a different account for crawling. For information about how to create a crawl rule, see . Use the following procedure to specify the default content access account. To specify the default content access account On the Search Administration page, in the System Status section, the link in the Default content access account row. In the Default Content Access Account dialog box, in the Account box, type the account that you created for content access in the form domain\user name. Type the password for this account in the Password and Confirm Password boxes. Click OK. The Search service writes the contact address to the logs of crawled servers. The default contact email address, someone@example.com, is a placeholder. We recommend that you change this to an account that an external administrator can contact when a crawl might be contributing to a problem such as a decrease in performance on a server that the search system is crawling. Use the following procedure to specify the contact email address.
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