I have been doing some research on how i could get Search Server Express 2008 and WSS v3 up and running as i needed the cross site search feature Search Server Express provides. Installing it wasn't really an issue and its it went ok apart from some issues i had when trying to extract the files and when i ran the SearchExpress.exe i kept getting "Installation Package Failed etc " .error But i would leave that for another time on how i fixed it. But after installing Search Express and creating a search...
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