Issue: Browsing HTML file on Sharepoint 2010 prompt to download

Issue: When you try open a aspx/html/pdf or other such files from your SharePoint Foundation 2010 site; you are prompted for downloading the file rather than opening the file in Browser.

Resolution:

This is an enhanced feature in SharePoint Foundation 2010 and IE8.  Microsoft intentionally locked browser handling to strict to avoid malicious code execution using HTML and Java script object model. In the previous versions of SharePoint; you could open the files directly.  By default; the browser file handling option is set to strict in Central Administration

To change this setting; you need to follow the steps given below.  Please note that the steps needs to be performed in the Central Administration; which is available in your SharePoint Server.

1.    Goto Web Application and Select the WebApplication under which the Site Collection and files are located.

2.   Click on General Settings from the top “Ribbon”.

3.   Select General Setting

4.   Locate the section “Browser File Handling”

5.   Change it to Permissive.

Sharepoint Enabling Usage Analysis and Importing data

Usage analysis in Sharepoint 2007 can be enabled by navigating to Central Admin -> Operations -> under Logging and Reporting -> Usage Analysis processing.

Check the Logging Setting's,  Enabling Logging box.
Set the time when want the log needs to be processed under Processing Settings.
Note :  The log generation job is daily job and only runs once in a day.

Once set you would need to wait for a day to get the generated log file.  The log file is generated under
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\12\LOGS\.  The web application GUID can be extracted by connecting to Sharepoint_Config Database and running the following query.


select o.id,, o.* from objects o
inner join Classes c on c.Id = o.ClassId and c.FullName like '%SPWebApplication%'
where o.name like

If your sharepoint infrastructure on configured in a farm then each server on the farm generates its own log.  you would need to search for the web application guid folder and the folder for each day to view the log.