Whilst looking at implementing a site search feature for one of my client sites I thought I'd look at Microsoft's free Search Server 2010 Express to see if I can use it to crawl my MVC3 razor website that I'm working on.
First of all I'd try to install Search Server 2010 but quite quickly found that if you don't have a domain account then you'll receive the following error:
"the account must be a valid domain account"
Thanks that's really useful! I came across this excellent article which with a bit of PowerShell allows you to work around the problem by:
1. After install cancel the SharePoint configuration wizard
2. Drop down to the SharePoint Management Shell
3. Run New-SPConfigurationDatabase
2. Now you're good to go with the wizard by running PSConfigUI
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