Crawl Rules

Crawl Rules best practices report by SPDocKit determines whether the SharePoint 2010 Search Service application has been properly configured.

Issue description

This check determines whether the SharePoint 2010 Search Service application has been properly configured.

Explanation

The recommended limit is 100 crawl rules per application. Although this limit can be exceeded, the display of rules in Central Administration could be seriously degraded.

Solution

Make sure you do not go over the limit; if you do, reduce the number of rules to remain compliant.

Additional information

Additional information can be found in the following article:

• SharePoint Server 2010 capacity management: Software boundaries and limits