Search across web applications

Question

I am in the process of migrating our current sharepoint site to a new server.  The old site had one web application with one site collection and a bunch of sub sites.  We are now splitting them into 4 web applications and several site collections.

For some of the new site collections I started them as team sites and turned on the publishing feature.  Ive noticed that for search they are not able to search any sites other than thier own and they are not able to search for people.  I noticed that collaboration portals have this ability.

Is there a way to get this search functionality into a team site without having to destroy all the migration ive done and start over?

Answer 1

I figured out my problem.

Found this blog entry on it.

http://blog.gavin-adams.com/2007/07/23/how-to-enable-advanced-search-in-a-new-site-collection/

Just had to create a search center site and then change the site collection search scope.