This tutorial will guide you into configuring a custom level permission and updating the permission of the crawl user. Be aware that this has to be done for every site collection that needs to be crawled.

Step 1: Create the custom permission level

 

  1. Go to the desired site collection and log on with a site collection administrator (or any user authorized to edit site permissions).
  2. Click on 'Site Actions' and 'Site Permissions' (your user should see this options if it has enough privileges).
  3. Click on 'Permission Levels' (It could take some time for it to enable, so wait until it does).
  4. Click on 'Add a Permission Level'.
  5. Fill the "Name" and "Description" fields and select the following privileges

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  6. Click on 'Create'.

Step 2: Set custom permission for the crawl account

Select Permission

  1. Go back to the 'Site Permissions' page.
  2. Select the crawl account.
  3. Click on 'Edit User Permissions'.
  4. Select the custom permission created on the previous step.
  5. Click 'Ok'.

Once the crawl account has the new permission level, it should be ready to perform crawls using the SharePoint Web Services Extension

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