Sharepoint With Search Function

[xJayboyx]

Will the search function work with Sharepoint Services and SQL 2000 or do you need Portal server for the search function.

Thanks,
Jason

 

[Thomas2000]

Hello,

Windows SharePoint Services uses a simple search based on the Full-text search in SQL. With Windows SharePoint services you can only make searches within one site, you can't do searches in for example an entire site collection.
I.e your results will only be from the site you execute the query from.

SharePoint Portal Server has a more advanced search and indexing. SharePoint uses an index service which allows you to crawl and index almost any content and make it searchble from the portal interface. So to be able to search and get results from different sites etc. you need the Portal Server.

I know that SharePoint Expert has developed a "power search" for WSS. You can find it at

http://www.sharepointexperts.com/software_powersearch_wss.htm

I have not yet checked what it can do, but might me worth looking into.

Regards,
Thomas

 

[ChaserNL]

With some custom development you can make a site collection search (with WSS), and with some alteration of the Stored Procedures you can make a boolean search functionality.

You could search for this on the wssfaq.com or in this forum i have explained a bit about his earlier.