Within each site collection, it is possible to group search scopes for display in the site collections search box.
It is possible to modify this programmatically as well.
Is it possible to define search scope “Display Groups” within a site definition?
I will be creating 8000 odd site collections from this template and it would be nice not to have to write a powershell script/console app to do it.
(releasing such things is a pain in our environment – whatever happend to the days when developers could just hack away at production servers?)
Not sure about a way to do it with XML, but if you can write code to do it a feature receiver may be a better option than a console app – since it’s packaged in a WSP file the deployment process will be the same as for the site definition itself.