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I am trying to create a shared search scope but I cannot find the right place to do this. The only place I can edit scopes is on the link marked with red in this screendump:

When clicking this link I navigate to to local scopes in next screenshot, where 2 predefined scopes already are shared:

Then I try to click Site actions -> Site settings and then this screen is showed:

If I click Search scopes in the above screen this picture appear:

- But even these scopes are not shared when created!? And then there are the red error message. I dont get it!?

The admin dashboard does indeed not offer a link to the shared scopes page. But it does not mean shared scopes are gone in MSS 2008. Just use the following URL to view and manage shared scopes:

http://server/ssp/admin/_layouts/viewscopes.aspx?mode=ssp

Cheers
Lars Fastrup

Thanks that worked great! :-)

Hi Lars,
      I have the same problem with search scope.
Initially i went to my Search Center Site i created > Site Actions > Site Settings > Under Site Coll Admin > Search Scopes.
Then i clicked on a new scope and i created a new one added a new title and selected a display a display group.
The added a rule. But when i go to my Search Center Site i don't see any DropDown list to select to choose a scope before i do a search.

After having a look our advice on this post you proposed the link http://server/ssp/admin/_layouts/viewscopes.aspx?mode=ssp but then i try it on my own server like so:

http://myserver:7070/ssp/admin/_layouts/viewscopes.aspx i get error

Exception of type 'Microsoft.SharePoint.Portal.WebControls.UnknownModeException' was thrown.

Any advice from you will be very well appreciated.

Thanks

Hi Ninjacoder

Did you forget the mode=ssp part of the URL? I can see the error appears when you leave this out. So the following URL should work for you:

http://myserver:7070/ssp/admin/_layouts/viewscopes.aspx?mode=ssp

Cheers
Lars