By deafult Sharepoint search results will include ‘noise’ pages in the search results, such as views, all forms etc etc. If you dont want these to appear in your search results, which most people wont you can exlude them by creating exlude rules in the SSP.

1) Navigate to the SSP.
2) Click search settings under Search.
3) Click Crawl Rules.

Some common noise pages you may wish to include:

*://*webfldr.aspx – This will exclude all explorer view pages if you choice it as a exclude rule.

*://*mod-view.aspx* – This will exclude the Moderation view page if you choice it as a exclude rule.

*://*my-sub.aspx* – This will exclude the page with your items if you choice it as a exlude rule.

*://*allitems.aspx* – This will exclude the allitems page from the search results if you choice it as a exclude rule.

*://*allforms.aspx* – This will exclude the all forms page from the search results if you choice it as a exclude rule.

*://*/lists/* – This will exclude the list from the search results if you choice it as a exclude rule.

*://*DispForm.aspx* – This will exclude the list display form from the search results if you choice it as a exclude rule.

Now run a full crawl & youre done.

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When clicking ‘Search Settings’ within your shared services provider you get the following error:

“Authentication failed because the remote party has closed the transport stream”

This appears to be caused by the SSL certificate, you can fix it by creating a new SSL cert using the IIS 6 resource kit & using SelfSSL

IIS6 resource kit

Command to run: Selfssl /s:(IIS ID of the Office Server Web Services site) /v:(length of validity for the certificate in days – I opted for 5000)

This then replaced the existing certificate with the newly created SelfSSL certificate and Search Settings now worked.

There is also a MOSS KB Article here: Authentication failed because the remote party has closed the transport stream

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