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Creating a Search Center

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Creating a Search Center

If you want to improve the search experience in your SharePoint sites, you do have a couple of different options and one of them first is making sure that you have a dedicated site for searching. You may already have one, so certainly ask your administrator if you don't know whether you've got a Search Center or not. But if you know that you don't know, you could create one. Just to show you where that options is, I am going to create a new site. Go to my New Site window. I am looking of course at the Silverlight version and I am going to filter the available sites down by the type of search. Now if all of you have a SharePoint Foundation, well you are not really going to see anything here, because you are going to be limited to the search that only allows you to search within a particular site collection. If you have SharePoint Server, you'll have the ability to create what's called a Basic Search Center. This is a site dedicated to search that has the capability of searching across…

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