SharePoint Secrets

 I added robots.txt on our preview server to prevent Google’s bot or Bing’s bot from indexing our business’s preview sites. Original robots.txt: User-agent: * Disallow: / Effectively it should stop all legitimate bots from indexing preview sites. However this also stopped SharePoint 2010’s search crawler from crawling the sites. Any full crawl gave me 0 results. Updated robots.txt: User-agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.01; Windows NT; MS Search 6.0 Robot) Allow: / User-agent: * Disallow: /

Why does the Managed Metadata Service have to be running? You might be wondering why it is necessary to have the Managed Metadata service application provisioned in order to use the social computing features? The reason is that the “tags” that users create when tagging pages, documents, list items, etc., get stored in the  Keywords  portion of the  Term Store  (which is the name of the central metadata repository that is maintained by the Managed Metadata service). The Keywords portion of the Term Store is only half of the Managed Metadata repository. The other half is frequently referred to as the Taxonomy portion of the Term Store. The Taxonomy portion of the Term Store is hierarchical, while the Keywords portion is random. The master list of user tags gets stored randomly as they are created in the Keywords portion of the Term Store: If the Managed Metadata service is not provisioned and running, users can’t use the social tagging features, because SharePoint 2010 has now

Step 1: Navigate Site Actions --> Site Settings --> Under Galleries --> Click Site content Types and then click Create button. Step 2: In the Select parent content type from list, select Document set content types and then click ok. Step 3: On the site content type Advanced settings page, select Upload a new document template, and then click browse to browse to and select the document template you want to assign to the site content type. A document template choose can be any file such as a Excel, Word document, PowerPoint slide presentation, etc., And then click OK. Step 4: In the Document Library settings dialog under General settings, click advanced settings. In the content types section, click Yes for Allow management of content types and then click OK. Step 5: Back in the Document Library setting dialog under content types, click Add from existing site content types. In the Available Site Content Types list, select your conten