Custom Robots.txt

Robots.txt file helps you allow or block the search engine Robots to Crawl/index the pages. Now you can control what content you want to crawl or ignore by search engine. 

 

Not only this now you can use the robots.txt file to block search engines from crawling different parts of your blog like pages, archives, tags.  You can also add sitemap URL to BlogSpot’s robots.txt file for indexing. 

 

You can access the robots.txt file of any blog by visiting this url (http://yourblog.blogspot.com/robot.txt)

Warning!! If you don’t have much knowledge about this, never try to changing or Modifiying this file because it can effect the search engine visibility.

Custom 404 Error Page

This Custom 404 Error Page is one of the most awaited feature by Google and time to say Bye bye to Blogger default Error Page not found page. 

A 404 Not Found Page usually appears when visitor lands on a page that does not exist on your blog or URL mistake.  

Now you can easily add Custom 404 Not Found pages to your Error Pages. Check this picture below how you can set a custom 404 page.

 

Not able to download audit reports

Auditing is an important feature in SharePoint. Auditing maintains a log of the actions performed on content in a site collection. Administrators can retrieve the entire history of actions — from a particular user or date range.

If you want to learn as how to configure audit settings then please refer the following article: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint-server-help/configure-audit-settings-for-a-site-collection-HA010099726.aspx

Coming back to the main point: One of our clients has raised a ticket with us by mentioning: They are not able to download ‘content viewing’ reports.

What exactly is happening as they are not able to download?

·         Open the SharePoint site on which you are working on

·         Site actions

·         Site settings

·         Site collection administration section

·         Audit log reports

·         Whenever we clicks on ‘content viewing report’ to download

·         It prompts for credentials

·         After entering the correct username and password, it keeps the login prompt as it is and finally ‘you are not authorized to view this page’

What is the reason behind this issue / proper explanation?

Audit settings can be configured at the site collection level only. The logs are maintained in the dbo.AuditData table of the respective content database.

You will find an excellent explanation here:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/subhajitc/archive/2009/05/20/tip-the-untold-story-of-audit-logs-in-sharepoint.aspx

Resolution:

stsadm -o trimauditlog

   -url <URL name>

   -date <YYYYMMDD>

   -databasename <database name>

   [-databaseserver] <database server name>

Important instructions:

·         If you are providing the site collection URL then there is no need to provide database name as well as database server name

·         Let’s assume that your client wants the audit data in between 21 September 2011 to 25 April 2012 then the date parameter will be 20110921, so the data before this will be deleted or u can call it as trimmed.

Note: This operation is available after the Infrastructure Update for Microsoft Office Servers is installed. This functionality is available only by using Stsadm.

If you have any queries/questions regarding the above mentioned information then please let me know. I would be more than happy to help you as well as resolves your issuesJ J

Delete a permission level

We can choose which permissions are associated with these permission levels (except for the Limited Access and Full Control permission levels) or add new permission levels to combine different sets of permissions. We can associate permissions with permission levels and also associate permission levels with users and SharePoint groups. Users and SharePoint groups are associated with securable objects such as sites, lists, list items, libraries, folders within lists and libraries, and documents.

-: How to Delete a permission level:-

§  On the Site Settings page

§  In the Users and Permissions section

§  Click advanced permissions.

§  If the Settings menu is not available, select Manage Permissions of Parent from the Actions menu.

§  On the Permissions page

§  On the Settings menu

§  Click Permission Levels.

§  On the Permission Levels page

§  Select the check boxes for the permission levels you want to delete, and then click Delete Selected Permission Levels.

§  Click OK to confirm.

If you have any queries/questions regarding the above mentioned information then please let me know. I would be more than happy to help you as well as resolves your issues J J

Copy a permission level

We can choose which permissions are associated with these permission levels (except for the Limited Access and Full Control permission levels) or add new permission levels to combine different sets of permissions. We can associate permissions with permission levels and also associate permission levels with users and SharePoint groups. Users and SharePoint groups are associated with securable objects such as sites, lists, list items, libraries, folders within lists and libraries, and documents.

-: How to Copy an existing permission level:-

§  On the Site Settings page,

§  Under Users and Permissions,

§  Click Site permissions.

§  In the Manage section of the ribbon,

§  Click Permission Levels.

§  In the list of permission levels,

§  Click the name of the permission level you want to copy.

§  At the bottom of the page,

§  Click Copy Permission Level.

§  On the Copy Permission Level page, in the Name field, type a name for the new permission level.

§  In the Description field, type a description for the new permission level.

§  In the list of permissions, select or clear the check boxes to add permissions to or remove permissions from the permission level.

§  Click Create.

If you have any queries/questions regarding the above mentioned information then please let me know. I would be more than happy to help you as well as resolves your issues J J

Create New Folder greyed out in SharePoint 2010

We are always very accustomed to SharePoint lists and libraries. We always want our documents as well as items or articles to be organized in proper manner so that we can navigate very easily. That path should have proper naming conventions as well as resides in proper folders. Folders are present in list as well as libraries so if you come across a situation in which the ‘create new folder’ option is greyed out then here are the complete steps by which you can get it back.

--Open the list on which you are working on it

--Settings

--List settings

--Advanced settings

-- Select Yes to “Make “New Folder” command available?”

--Make it Yes and that’s it-You are done

If you have any queries/questions regarding the above mentioned information then please let me know. I would be more than happy to help you as well as resolves your issues J Thank you J

How to create a list in SharePoint 2010

A List can be thought of as a collection of pieces of information — all of which (typically) have the same properties. For instance, you can have a list of links called "my links", where each item has a URL, a name, and a description.
Lists have many features such as workflows, item-level or list-level permission, version history tracking, multiple content-types, external data sources, and many more features. Some of these features depend on the version of SharePoint that is installed.


How to create a list in SharePoint 2010
1. Site actions
2. More Options (please refer the following screenshot)

3. This will open a following window from which we can select the appropriate list as per the project requirements:

4. Enter the name of the list 
5. Create
6. List will be successfully created. 

If you have any queries/questions regarding above mentioned information then please let me know. I would be more than happy to help you as well as resolves your issues, Thank you

How to create a document library in SharePoint 2010

A Library is a list where each item in the list refers to a file that is stored in SharePoint. Libraries have all the same behaviors as lists, but because libraries contain files, they have extra features. One of these is the ability to be opened and modified through a compatible WebDAV client (e.g. Windows Explorer).
Microsoft SharePoint comes with some pre-defined list and library definitions. These include: Announcement Lists, Blogs, Contacts, Discussion Boards, Document Libraries, External Content (BCS) lists, Pages, Surveys, and Tasks.Some of these pre-defined lists have additional integration. For example, lists based on the contact content-type can be synced directly with Microsoft Outlook.


How to create a document library in SharePoint 2010
1. Open the SharePoint site on which you wants to create a document library
2. Click on site actions (left hand side-top corner)--New Document Library

 OR
1. Site actions
2. More Options (please refer the following screenshot)

 3. This will open a following window from which we can select the appropriate library as per the project requirements:

4. Enter the name of the document library 

5. Create
6. Document library will be successfully created. 


If you have any queries/questions regarding the above mentioned information then please let  me know. I would be more than happy to help you as well as resolves your issues :-)