Exercise 1: Configure the Search Service Application

In this exercise you will add a Silverlight project to an existing solution and create a framework to deploy the Silverlight application to a SharePoint farm.

Task 1 – Adding Search Service To The Intranet Web Application’s Services

1. Navigate to Central Administration located at https://demo2010a:2010/default.aspx.
2. Click the Manage Web Applications link.
3. Click Intranet in the list of Web Applications. The Intranet entry should be highlighted.

4. Click on Service Connections located in the Ribbon.

   Figure 1

   Service Connection Button

5. Choose [custom] as the group of connections.

   Figure 2

   Configure Service Application Associations dialog box

6. Check all services available except for the FAST Query service. This should be left unchecked for this lab.
7. Click OK.

Task 2 – Starting Index Crawl Of The SharePoint Content.

1. Navigate to the Search Administration page located at https://demo2010a:2010/searchadministration.aspx?appid=edbe9ac4-3596-497b-a210-9d1d223b8052
2. Click Content Sources located in the left hand navigation pane.

3. Hover over the Local SharePoint sites link and select Start Full Crawl. The crawl may take a few minutes. The crawl will need to complete before you build and deploy the application in this lab.

   Figure 3

   Local SharePoint sites link.