SharePoint 2010 - Create Crawl Schedule

In this article we explore how to create a Crawl Schedule for the Search.

The following are the steps involved:

1. Open Central Administration web site as shown below:

2. Click on the Manage service applications link as highlighted above:

3. Click on the Search Service Application as highlighted above:

4. Click on the Content Sources link as highlighted above:

5. Click on the Local SharePoint sites cell and in the page on the right side you will see the Crawl Schedules.

You will see two items: Full Crawl and Incremental Crawl

Full Crawl

To start with we have to use a Full Crawl. This will be time-consuming and provides the starting point for the Incremental Crawls. A Full Crawl replaces all existing crawl contents regardless of whether they have changed or not.

Incremental Crawl

These are faster crawls as they crawl only modified crawls. A Full Crawl has to be performed previously to do the Incremental Crawl.

6. Use the Create Schedule link to create a new Crawl Schedule:

7. Enter the details in the dialog that appears and click the OK button:

8. Click the OK button on the page:

You will see that the site is reflected with the new Crawl Schedule:

References

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/full-and-incremental-crawls-in-microsoft-office-sharepoint-server-2007-search.aspx

Summary

In this article we have seen how to create a Crawl Schedule.