You may restrict the view permissions of the page(s) and/or module(s) to specified users and/or roles (for "all" there is the "Registered Users" role). As a bot cannot login it can't index the content.

But then, your visitors have to register and log in to your portal.

Happy DNNing!
Michael

Thanks Michael!

I will have to verify but I'm pretty sure as all the pages and modules are locked down to "Registered Users" since this is an Intranet site.

My approach would be to block the crawlers in the robots.txt and allow for SearchBoost. Some examples on how to work with the parameters on: https://searchfacts.com/r...-allow-disallow-all/

Thanks Tycho, I will check into this as well.

But let me ask you this. As this is a topic of discussion here in the office but who can guarantee that the search bots obey that robot.txt file. Just because I disallow them does it really prevent them from searching???

I do have the robots.txt file and I am Disallowing ALL bots, but I am still seeing results on search sites.

Well, there is no prosecution if they ignore the robots.txt. So, in theory they can search and/or display in the results. But I have not encountered any issues with this for the last say 10-15 years. If your goal is to keep a low profile with your 8.0.3 install, the robots.txt is not helping. There are other types of crawlers that help hackers identify legacy / vulnerable installs and yours is one of them. If the intranet is not connected to the internet directly (so, only via VPN or something like that), that is probably what have been keeping you safe so far. Waiting until the end of this year is really too long imho.

Yeah I agree that waiting until the end of the year is a bit much, but in reality we have been working on migrating to Azure Active Directory and as far as I know the systems guys are still working on the kinks and stuff. Once they get that worked out then the company is thinking of going with Evoq if it can synch with Azure AD.

That is old news. Evoq used to be the professional edition but about 5 years ago, the community took over the lead of the product roadmap. The platform edition is technically in better shape and there are many agencies that can provide enterprise support. If it comes to enterprise features for editors, you can suffice with a few extensions that will take care of structured content, workflows etc.

Good news: DNN Platform beats jusst about any other CMS when it comes to editor experience. Believe me I know::I have been working with over 20 CMSs and we're still up there.

That sounds great! Our biggest hurdle would be to find a way to synch our users with Azure AD. Is there a vendor or extensions that could handle this?