Search center

Enable SharePoint Search features

1. Click Site Actions, and then click Site Settings.

2. In the Site Collection Administration section, click Site collection features.

3. In the SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure row, click Activate.

4. Wait for the page to refresh, and then confirm that the feature’s status is

Create a Search Center

1. Click Site Actions, and then click New Site.

The Create page opens.

2. In the Filter By panel, click Search.

3. Click Enterprise Search Center.

4. In the Title box, type Search Center.

5. In the URL name box, type Search.

6. Click Create.

A Search site is created.

Creating and Configuring a Content Source

Create a content source

1. Open SharePoint 2010 Central Administration.

The User Account Control dialog appears.

2. Click Yes.

3. In the Quick Launch, click Application Management.

4. In the Service Applications section, click Manage service applications.

5. Click Search Service Application.

The Search Administration page opens.

6. In the Quick Launch, in the Crawling section, click Content Sources.

7. Click New Content Source.

8. In the Name box, type Shared Folder

9. In the Content Source Type section, click File Shares.

10. In the Start Addresses box, type \\server\sharename

11. Scroll to the Start Full Crawl section, select the Start full crawl of this

content source option, and then click OK.

A new content source is created and a full crawl is started.

12. Click Refresh above the list of content sources. Repeat this step to refresh the

page until the Status column of the Shared Folder – Data row displays Idle.

Create a crawl schedule

1. Switch to SharePoint 2010 Central Administration.

2. Point at Shared Folder – Data, click the drop-down arrow, and then click Edit.

3. In the Crawl Schedules section, under Full Crawl, click the Create schedule.

The Manage Schedules page opens.

4. In the Settings section, select the Repeat within the day option.

5. In the Every box, type 60, click OK, and then click OK again.

Create a crawl rule

1. In the Quick Launch, in the Crawling section, click Crawl Rules.

2. Click New Crawl Rule.

3. In the Path box, type \\server\share

Crawl a content source

1. In the Quick Launch, in the Crawling section, click Content Sources.

2. Point at Shared Folder – Data, click the drop-down arrow, and then click Start

Full Crawl.

3. Click Refresh above the list of content sources. Repeat this step to refresh the

page until the Status column of the Shared Folder – Data row displays Idle.

Configuring File Types

 

Add a file type for PDFs

1. Switch to SharePoint 2010 Central Administration.

2. In the Quick Launch, in the Crawling section, click File Types.

The Manage File Types page opens.

3. Click New File Type.

4. In the File extension box, type pdf, and then click OK.

Crawl a content source

1. In the Quick Launch, in the Crawling section, click Content Sources.

2. Point at Shared Folder – Data, click the drop-down arrow, and then click Start

Full Crawl.

3. Click Refresh above the list of content sources. Repeat this step to refresh the

page until the Status column of the Shared Folder – Data row displays Idle.

Explore query crawl logs

1. Switch to SharePoint 2010 Central Administration.

2. In the Quick Launch, in the Crawling section, click Crawl Log.

3. Click Shared Folder – Data.

4. Examine the crawl history of the Shared Folder – Data content source.

5. Above the list, click URL.

6. Examine the crawl history for each URL that has been indexed.

 

Configure the default content access account

1. In the Quick Launch, click Search Administration.

2. In the Default content access account row, click

domain\(admin Account on Crawler-server).

3. In the Account box, type Domain\ admin Account on Crawler-server).

 

Crawl a content source

1. In the Quick Launch, in the Crawling section, click Content Sources.

2. Point at Shared Folder – Data, click the drop-down arrow, and then click Start

Full Crawl.

3. Click Refresh above the list of content sources. Repeat this step to refresh the

page until the Status column of the Shared Folder – Data row displays Idle.

 

Explore host distribution rules

1. Switch to SharePoint 2010 Central Administration.

2. In the Quick Launch, in the Crawling section, click Host Distribution Rules.

SharePoint notifies you that host distribution rules cannot be applied to a farm

with only one crawl database.Creating and Managing Search Scopes

Go to central admin

General Application

Farm search administration

Choose the application service

go to scopes

New scopes

Then new

Type shares in the tittles

Then add rules

Choose content sources

Choose server-shares

Site Collection Search Scope Management

• Go to site settings
  
• Search scopes
  
• Go to site settings
  
• Search settings
  
• Enable custom scopes and add the url of the search site
  
• In the specify the Drop down mode for search boxes choose
  
• Show, and defaults to s url Parameter
  
• In the site results enter the following
  
• /_layouts/OSSSearchResults.aspx
  
• Click the Display Groups link to open the page
  
• Click the display group that you want to modify. You are then presented with the Edit Scope Display Group page,
  
• Now you can add unused scopes by selecting their check box in the Display
  
• column, change the order in which the scopes are listed, and choose the default scope.
  
• Click OK.
  

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Remote BLOB Storage

RBS and SharePoint 2010

Enable FILESTREAM

1. Start SQL Server Configuration Manager.

2. Click SQL Server Services.

3. Right-click SQL Server (MSSQLServer), and then click Properties.

4. Click the FILESTREAM tab.

5. Select the Enable FILESTREAM for Transact-SQL access check box.

6. Select the Enable FILESTREAM for file I/O streaming access check box.

7. Select the Allow remote clients to have streaming access to FILESTREAM

data check box.

8. Click OK.

Configure FILESTREAM Access Level

1. Start SQL Server Management Studio.

2. In Object Explorer, right-click the SQL Server, and then click Properties.

3. In the Select a page section, click Advanced.

4. Click Filestream Access Level, click the drop-down arrow, click Full access

enabled, and then click OK.

A message appears indicating that you must restart SQL Server.

5. In Object Explorer, right-click the computer running SQL Server, and then

click Restart.

A confirmation dialog appears.

6. Click Yes.

Provision a BLOB Store

The next step is to provision the BLOB store that, in this case, is a folder on a local

Storage volume, for example, F:\Blobstore.

IMPORTANT: Do not create the folder by using Windows Explorer. Use the

Following procedure, and SQL Server will create the folder automatically.

1. Start SQL Server Management Studio.

2. Select the content database for which you want to provision a BLOB store, and

then click the New Query button on the toolbar.

The Query Editor opens a new query in the details pane.

3. To set the database master key, type the following query into the Query Editor:

Repeat the following Statements for two DBs

 

use [ContentDBName]

if not exists (select * from sys.symmetric_keys where name =

N’##MS_DatabaseMasterKey##’)create master key encryption by

password = N’EncryptionKeyPassword‘

Where:

• ContentDBName Wss_content_intranet and wss_content_siteservices

• EncryptionKeyPassword content-siteservices

4. Click the Execute button in the toolbar.

5. Click the New Query button on the toolbar.

The Query Editor opens a new query in the details pane.

6. To enable a new filegroup for your RBS provider, type the following query into

the Query Editor:

use [ContentDBName]

if not exists (select groupname from sysfilegroups where

groupname=N’RBSFilestreamProvider’)alter database [ContentDBName]

add filegroup RBSFilestreamProvider contains filestream

Where:

• ContentDBName Wss_content_intranet and wss_content_siteservices

BLOB Store will be provisioned.

7. Click the Execute button in the toolbar.

8. Click the New Query button on the toolbar.

The Query Editor opens a new query in the details pane.

9. To add a file system mapping for your RBS provider, type the following query

into the Query Editor:

use [ContentDBName]

alter database [ContentDBName] add file (name = RBSFilestreamFile,

filename = ‘BlobStorePath‘) to filegroup RBSFilestreamProvider

Where:

• ContentDBName Wss_content_intranet and wss_content_siteservices BLOB Store will be provisioned.

• BlobStorePath is the path to the BLOB store folder you want to create, for

example, F:\Blobstore. For best performance, simplified troubleshooting,

and as a general best practice, you should create the BLOB store on a

volume that does not contain the operating system, paging files, database

data, log files, or the Tempdb file.

10. Click the Execute button on the toolbar.

Repeat the procedure for each content database for which RBS should be

provisioned.

Install RBS on a Front-End Server

User the Sharepoint powershell

msiexec /qn /lvx* <InstallLogFile> /i RBS.msi

TRUSTSERVERCERTIFICATE=true FILEGROUP=PRIMARY

DBNAME=”<ContentDbName>” DBINSTANCE=”<DBInstanceName>”

FILESTREAMFILEGROUP=RBSFilestreamProvider

FILESTREAMSTORENAME=FilestreamProvider_1

 

Where:

• InstallLogFile is the name and optional path of a log file that will be

generated by the installation, for example, rbs_install_log.txt.

ContentDBName Wss_content_intranet and wss_content_siteservices BLOB Store will be provisioned

• DBInstanceName is the server and instance name of SQL Server.

Confirm RBS Installation

You can confirm the installation of RBS by examining the content database for

tables that begin with mssqlrbs. You can use the following query to determine

whether the tables exist:

USE [ContentDBName]

SELECT * from dbo.sysobjects

WHERE name like ‘mssqlrbs%’

Enable RBS Using Windows Power Shell

You must enable RBS on one Web server in the SharePoint farm. It does not matter

Which Web server you choose for this activity, as long as RBS was installed on it by

Using the previous procedure.

In SharePoint 2010 Management Shell, type the following commands:

$cdb = Get-SPContentDatabase “<ContentDBName>”

$rbss = $cdb.RemoteBlobStorageSettings

$rbss.Installed()

$rbss.Enable()

$rbss.SetActiveProviderName($rbss.GetProviderNames()[0])

$rbss

Configure BLOB Size Threshold Using Windows PowerShell

You can configure the BLOB size threshold above which BLOBs are stored in the

RBS provider. If a BLOB is below the threshold, it is stored in the SQL Server

database.

In SharePoint 2010 Management Shell, type the following commands:

$cdb = Get-SPContentDatabase “<ContentDBName>”

$rbss = $cdb.RemoteBlobStorageSettings

$rbss.MinimumBlobStorageSize = 1048576

$cdb.update()

Security Planning For Sites and contents

Create Global security group on SharePoint for all users with view permissions

For every site create 2 group one with read only other with edit

And group for Engineering for view all contents under Engineering

This group is an AD group and it is already created

Name will be EX: Electrical-Read and electrical-edit

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1. Assign Site Collection Administrators
   

Site collection administrators are owners of the site collection.

1. In the top-level site of a site collection, click Site Actions, and then click Site

Settings.

2. Click Site Collection Administrators.

3. In the Site Collection Administrators box (username)

4. Click OK.

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Configure diagnostic logging

Configure diagnostic logging by using Central Administration

1. In Central Administration, on the Home page, click Monitoring.
   
2. On the Monitoring page, in the Reporting section, click Configure diagnostic logging.
   
3. On the Diagnostic Logging page, in the Event Throttling section, you can configure event throttling as follows:
   

   To configure event throttling for all categories:
   

   1. Select the All Sharepoint categories  check box.
      
   2. Select Warning from the Least critical event to report to the event log list.
      
   3. Select Medium level from the Least critical event to report to the trace log list.
      
4. In the Event Log Flood Protection section, select the Enable Event Log Flood Protection check box.
   
5. In the Trace Log section, in the Path box, Keep the path
   
6. In the Number of days to store log files box, type 30
   
7. To restrict how much disk space the logs can use, select the Restrict Trace Log disk space usage check box, 10 GB
   
8. After you have made the changes that you want on the Diagnostic Logging page, click OK.
   

   
    

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Turn on self-service site creation

• 
  

  Create a site collection (SharePoint Server 2010)

   self service site
  with the Service account.
  

• On the SharePoint Central Administration Web site, click Application Management.
  
• On the Application Management page, click Manage Web Applications.
  
• Click the Web application for which you want to turn on self-service site creation. The ribbon becomes active.
  
• On the ribbon, click Self-Service Site Creation.
  
• On the Self-Service Site Collection Management page, configure the following settings:
  
  • self-service site creation is On (enabled)
    

Click OK to complete the operation

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