SSP Shared Scopes in Microsoft Search Server 2008

The Microsoft Search Server 2008 Search administration pages offered a central and easy administration to the search services in SharePoint.  The only thing it missed was the SSP Level Shared Scopes.  It appeared though that only the link was missing as the ASPX pages were still located on the disk.

To navigate to the SSP Shared Scopes from the Search Administration Pages navigate to /_layouts/ViewScopesssp.aspx?Mode=ssp from the SSP host.  eg. http://MyMSS2008Server-SSPWebApplication/ssp/admin/_layouts/ViewScopesSSP.aspx?Mode=ssp.

You can add this as a link to the Search Administration page (links section) to allow quick access to the SSP.

As a matter of note, the Infrastructure Update for MOSS 2007 fixes this and adds the Scopes to the left hand action menu of the updated Search Administration pages.