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title: "What is a content source in relation to SharePoint search? What’s the minimum amount of content sources?"  
description: "What is a content source in relation to SharePoint search? What’s the minimum amount of content sources?"  
author: "Chris Anderson"  
published: 2011-09-07  
updated: 2020-09-24  
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category: "sharepoint"  
tags: ["sharepoint"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# What is a content source in relation to SharePoint search? What’s the minimum amount of content sources?

A content source is a set of options that you can use to specify what type of content is crawled, what URLs to crawl, and how deep and when to crawl. You must create at least one content source before a crawl can occur.

## Answers

### Answer by Chris Anderson

A content source is a set of options that you can use to specify what type of content is crawled, what URLs to crawl, and how deep and when to crawl. You must create at least one content source before a crawl can occur.


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