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8 www.microsoft.com/sharepoint
 SharePoint Foundation 2010 can only crawl SharePoint sites in the same farm.
 All the other products in the above table can crawl the following types of content
repository:
 SharePoint sites (in the same farm, or in external farms)
 Windows file shares
 Microsoft Exchange public folders
 Web sites that are not SharePoint sites
 People Profiles
 External line-of-business applications
 Structured content in databases
 Content returned by Web services
 Third-party products and solutions including Lotus Notes and Documentum
Indexing Scale
Although there are no hard-coded limits for the number of items that can be indexed by
any of the products listed, there are some practical guidelines based on feasibility and
performance:
 Search Server 2010 Express and SharePoint Foundation 2010 can index and
search up to 300,000 items if they are used with SQL Server
®
Express; otherwise
they can index and search up to 10 million items if they are used with a full
edition of SQL Server 2008.
 A scaled-out Search Server 2010 farm can index and search up to 100 million
items.
 A scaled-out SharePoint Server 2010 farm can index and search up to 100 million
items.
 A FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint installation can support extreme scale,
and can index and search over a billion items.