Search Results for anonmyous users in SharePoint 2010- Part I

 - Thare are few eyebrows raised when you have been asked to  configure search for Anonmyous users in  SharePoint 2010.

 

Yes you guessed it. Most of the time when you configure sharepoint doesn't show any results but for authenicated users it works like a charm.

 

In this blog, I talk about the various steps to be taken for Anonmyous user search in SharePoint 2010.

 

 

 

1. Enable Anonymous Access on the entire site
2. Check “Always index all parts of this web site" under 'Search and Offline Availability' for the site pages.
3. Create a new basic search center and enable anonymous access too.
4. Go to site actions->site settings-> search settings to use the custom search center .
5. Do a full crawl

 

Happy SharePointing :-)