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A sharepoint solution cannot be removed when a job is scheduled or running
I've been trying to remove my solution from Sharepoint 2007 but getting an error on the Central Admin page and when I do
stsadm -o deletesolution -name MySolution.wsp -override
from command line ...
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SharePoint 2007 intermittent issue when saving file. Changes are lost but no error messages are shown
We're experiencing an intermittent problem with some users, sometimes Microsoft Office fails to save documents to SharePoint 2007.
Some users complain that sometimes it fails to save the file in ...
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Sharepoint dashboard site is giving access denied, but not settings pages
Environment: Windows Server 2008, Sharepoint (MOSS) 2007, Team Foundation Server 2010
Summary: I have a sharepoint environment that I had to move to a new domain controller without access to the old ...
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SharePoint Sites go into read-only when SQL Server Backup is running
I have SharePoint 2007. When the database backups run using SQLCMD, SharePoint sites go into read-only. Users can't add anything to the sites and the buttons are grayed out. On the backend the ...
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Make document title required and unique
Is it possible to configure SharePoint 2007 in a way that the document title is always required and also checked to be unique within the whole Document Library? We would like to get the edit screen ...
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Sharepoint issue with domain change
We recently went through a buyout of our company. As a result our Infrastructure folks recently migrated all of our users over to a new domain. Needless to say this has created a multitude of errors ...
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Which Sharepoint 2007 databases do I backup for migration to Sharepoint 2010?
This is a follow on question from, Use backup restore then attach in Sharepoint 2007 to 2010 migration.
There are 5 databases in the SQL Server Instance for Sharepoint Server 2007:
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Use backup restore then attach in Sharepoint 2007 to 2010 migration
The microsoft technet article for using the detach/attach method for migrating from Sharepoint 2007 to 2010 is here, http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263299.aspx.
However, I would like to ...
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IIS 6 prompts for creditials when on server, but not from client
I have a MOSS 2007 farm running on windows server 2003 R2 64 bit and IIS 6. When I try to connect to the farm locally on the server, no matter what site, CA or any of the SharePoint web apps I get ...
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Team Foundation Server IIS Settings
I messed up my TFS installation by trying to Extend an existing Web Site in SharePoint Central Admin. To make matters worse I then deleted the app instead of the extension. I recreated the site in ...
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Sharepoint 2007 Site Collection for a extended Web Application
I aready have a web application which has a site for authoring content (intranet) and then a public facing internet site which is a extended web application of the current web application in ...
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How to share video file (DVD) in company's network to employees without them being able to take it home?
I have small network with 50+ users with SBS 2003, MOSS 2007 and File server (all Microsoft software). We've got some video's that we want to share with users without them being able to save it and ...
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Backup Exec: How to restore Sharepoint content database to filesystem?
I have a problem with Backup Exec 2010 and a Sharepoint 2007 site.
I wanted to restore some deleted files from a documentlibrary with Backup Exec. However this was only partial successfully. For some ...
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Sharepoint Migrate / Upgrade from 2007 to Sharepoint 2010 on a New Domain
Admins,
I have a Sharepoint Server 2007 instance that I need to migrate to Sharepoint Server 2010.
To complicate matters, the new server will be on a new domain.
I'm basically looking for a step by ...
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How do you list all sites/pages on a SharePoint 2007 Web Application that a particular solution (WSP) is referenced?
Is there an stsadm () command (or some other method) that will show everywhere that a Solution is being used. I would like to get the results in a list using either the solution GUID or the fully ...
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SharePoint Upgade Question
My company will be upgrading our SharePoint 2007 site to SP2010 and I know how to do it. But there is one step in the migration step that I don't.
The pre-upgrade checker will give you a list of ...
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What Steps are Required to Restore SQL Server 2005 Master Database used with Sharepoint 2007?
The master database on our SQL Server 2005 instance appears to be corrupted. Since this database powers our MOSS 2007 installation, what steps must be taken to restore master and ensure that MOSS ...
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Sharepoint permissions
this is a repost from Stack Overflow, thought some of the server fault guys might have some input on this. Just a general question regarding permissions in Sharepoint. Is there an open-source, free ...
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Sharepoint forms-based to integrated authentication
We have an existing Office SharePoint 2007 server farm doing out of the box NTLM integrated authentication.
Our web developer would like a landing page for external users using forms based ...
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Testing Sharepoint in a prod.environment
We have two SharePoint servers 2007 in our production. One is “primary” the other one is just indexing.
We don’t have a test lab, but I do have a test server (on the local lan).
Would there be any ...
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How to set-up a WSS 3.0 Testing Server
We are running a WSS 3.0 Intranet Site with https for external access. The last guy who was responsible for the Sharepoint Server left the company without teaching us the ways of a Sharpoint Master.
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Is it possible to change the content database of an existing SharePoint '07 web app?
Disclaimer: I'm very much an accidental SharePoint admin so I greatly appreciate your patience.
My SharePoint farm's database server is EOL and about to die. I have managed to get the config database ...
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WSS 3.0 Forms Authentification for RoleManager
I'm trying to set up Forms Authentification with LDAP in SharePoint 2007 (WSS 3.0). I made it to the point where I can see users with prefix ad:<username> but I'm having trouble to get ...
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Sharepoint people-picker with external domain trust
I have a MOSS 2007 server in an environment with both a two way cross forest trust and a two way external trust. Users in the forest-trusted forest happily show up in peoplepicker, but I get nothing ...
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issue in configuration of SSRS. Need guidance here
I have windows server 2003 R2. I have installed the sql server 2008 r2 on my server machine. while installation accidentally I got selected instance for Sharepoint server. Now I want to install the ...
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Can't submit timesheets on Project 2007 and Server 2008R2 new install
I'm trying to test move a SharePoint 2007 and Project 2007 to Server 2008R2 and using SQL 2008 as the backend. I'm setting it up just like I have done numerous times for Server '03 and there are no ...
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What are the dangers/consequences of reducing the SharePoint_Config_log database?
I have used DBCC ShrinkFile on a SharePoint_Config_log database and I'm wondering what the consequences of this action may be?
The log file was growing upwards to >11 GB for an 8GB database and space ...
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I can't view the default SSP's “Shared Services Admin Site” and I cannot make any changes to a newly created SSP through the “Site Actions” tab
I'm trying changed the "Search Settings" of a SharedServicesProvider so that I can change what kind of things can be searched in a SharePoint site, but I'm hitting a roadblock here.
For the default ...
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Moving article between sites in MOSS 2007
We are avid useres of the wiki functionality in our sharepoint 2007 server.
Now we want to restructure the information hierarchy. This means its required to move articles between sites (meaning ...
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Windows Phone 7 and Sharepoint
Do I need to install/configuge the (entire and expensive) Windows Sharepoint Server (is the 2007 version sufficient?) or am I fine with Sharepoint Services 3.0 in order to work with the sharepoint ...
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How to use Apache to convert relative URLs to absolute URLs?
This is a parallel question to another I'd posted here.
We have an issue with SharePoint 2007 and relative URLs through an Apache Reverse Proxy.
The issue comes in using a regex to find all the ...
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Sharepoint with Apache reverse proxy using a subdirectory
Our team is new to Apache. We have a SharePoint 2007 app that sits on
our internal server, at an address we'll call
http://internal.site.com.
We are required to use Apache as a reverse proxy from the
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SharePoint WSS3.0 how much free space should I be running with
My Sharepoint WSS 3.0 box is running into various issues and I notice it has less that 3GB free HDD space.
what is the recommended amount for a sharepoint server to keep free and available?
This is ...
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Managing SharePoint permissions via Active Directory?
My company has thousands of employees organized thoroughly via Active Directory. I have confidence in the accuracy of the Department and Title information displayed in the user profiles.
I'm helping ...
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Sharepoint 2007 Not updating Username, resulting in not sending email notifications
We are running Sharepoint 2007 here and I recently changed a number of details for one user's account in Active Directory (she changed her last name). I left her account name the same (lets say ...
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SharePoint Document Library Search - Title property indexed only up to 64 characters
I am trying to get the Title property indexed as a crawled property, and then merged into the Title managed property - though I can't seem to find it as a choice in the crawled properties. I searched ...
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Update Sharepoint 2007 MySites layout and web parts for already deployed MySites
We are looking to change our users' MySite home pages to make them more useful. I can find information on how to update the MySite template used to deploy new MySites, but I need to make the changes ...
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How can I change the logo (not the site image) at the top of my SharePoint site?
I have recently been assigned as a SharePoint Administrator and while I have managed to figure many things out on my own, I seem to be stumped with how to change the logo/text located near the top of ...
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Is there a way to allow administrators to change or reset user passwords?
We have a custom MembershipProvider implementation using form-based authentication (FBA) under Sharepoint 2007.
I've searched high and low on Google, but only found:
Active directory and FBA ...
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List all documents (webparts) and sites using a certain solution in sharepoint 2007
I would like to uninstall a Sharepoint application template (GroupBoard Workspace to be exact) but I want to make sure nothing currently relies on it. I don't see any functions within stsadm that ...
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Create a Sharepoint 2007 Page Layout that can be used to create new pages
I am trying to replace some of the, frankly dreadful, out of box page layouts in Sharepoint 2007.
I have followed the documentation provided by Microsoft but this does not result in my page layout ...
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How can I delete all alerts for a user in Sharepoint 2007 without visiting every site?
A user leaves the organisation. Their account is removed from active directory. Their user object does not get removed from Sharepoint, and their alerts remain in place. This generates ...
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Recover Sharepoint 2007
here is the scoop:
have backups of all config and content databases
do NOT have master and msdb backups
Need to restore baseline functionality ASAP. What is the best way to approach this?
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Sharepoint 2007 Document Library - lost ability to rename documents
I administer a Sharepoint 2007 site. All the following occur for any user, including the farm admin user, so I am assuming this has nothing to do with permissions.
On one document library only, the ...
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Exchange Server 2007 - Windows Integrated Authentication
I'm trying to get Exchange Server 2007 to work with Windows Integrated Authenticated unsuccessfully. At the moment it's working with Basic Authentication.
I followed the instructions in here but ...
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If I add a new user to my sharepoint site as contributor, do I need to recrawl?
I have a sharepoint 2007 site. If I add a new user to either my custom contributor or Reader groups of site, I need to re-crawl the content in order for them to see the search results.
Is it normal ...
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Create distribution list in sharepoint as Site administrator
How can i add a distribution list in SharePoint as Site Administrator.
I don't want to import that from Outlook.
Please tell me the steps?
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Unable to open documents from SharePoint 2007
I have a number of individuals (all from the same external group) who are unable to open documents from our extranet site, which is running SharePoint 2007. The exact error is:
No connectivity with ...
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Display Document Library Folder contents on a different Sharepoint 2007 Site
What I want to do seems incredibly simple, but I am getting nowhere quickly searching and reading about this.
I need to list some policy documents on a Sharepoint page on our corporate intranet. ...
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Allowing Sharepoint to relay email through Exchange
I have written a Sharepoint 2007 web part that sends a field from a form to a specified email address.
I have got the form working as I require, but at present it can only send to internal email ...
