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Microsoft SharePoint is a software platform and a family of software products developed by Microsoft for collaboration and web publishing combined. These capabilities include developing web sites, portals, intranets, content management systems, search engines, wikis, blogs, and other tools for business intelligence. This family of products include: Microsoft SharePoint Server, Microsoft SharePoint Foundation, Microsoft Search Server, Microsoft SharePoint D

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Credential window while creating a Document Library Item

Problem Statement - When I create an item in a Document Library named "My Documents", a new instance of Microsoft Word appears along with the credential window. Which is quit annoying issue from end ...
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How to best diagnose Failure in loading assembly errors

I'm seeing many occurrences of "Error: Failure in loading assembly: MyAssembly, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=Token#" in my sharepoint farm's web front end eventlog. I've read this ...
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WebDav folders not accessabile on servers

We've got a SharePoint farm set up and can access it via WebDav in Explorer like so: \ourlocalSharepoint. None of the servers are able to access the files in this manner, only client machines. But ...
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F5 Networks iRule/Tcl - Escaping UNICODE 6-character escape sequences so they are processed as and reinserted as the 6-character sequence?

We are trying to get an F5 BIG-IP LTM iRule working properly with SharePoint 2007 in an SSL termination role. This architecture offloads all of the SSL processing to the F5 and the F5 forwards ...
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How do I get a list of AD groups used for SharePoint site permissions?

Is there a query or powershell command to retrieve a list of AD groups used for permissions in SharePoint sites? We need to find out what groups are being used (actually which ones are not being ...
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What Timer Jobs are safe to turn off for a SharePoint Development environment? [closed]

Our SharePoint development images are having performance problems. One of the developers has asked what timer jobs could be disabled. What prompted this was CPU time used by OWSTimer.EXE service.
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How can you search a sharepoint library using Windows 7 Search Federation?

I'd like to create a custom search provider for a sharepoint document library on Windows 7
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Redirect HTTP to HTTPS using IIS is not working for SharePoint Site

I have a Web Application. Its AAM is as follows- Zone Public URL for Zone Default http://sharepoint:46543 Internet http://abc.something.com Custom https://abc.something.com ...
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Common document library between two SharePoint sites

Here's what I'm trying to accomplish: Our organization maintains a sharepoint site for our clients, and sometimes we have situations where different clients (with distinct sharepoint sites on the ...
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NGINX as Load Balancer to IIS web servers

I am trying to set up a simple software load balancer based on NGINX for two IIS web servers. Here is the NGINX configuration file I have created for the load balancing: http { include /etc/...
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SharePoint 2010- Cant add Users to groups

Okay on my SharePoint server, when i want to grant a user permission to lets say the Owner's group, i go and search for the user in A.D find Him, and when i add him i get this error: Server error in '/...
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UNC access to TFS SharePoint doesn't work

We are using TFS2010 with the SharePoint document portal. We are trying to access the files in SharePoint using UNC paths (e.g. \\tfs2010\sites\DefaultCollection\MyProject) and it just plain doesn't ...
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Using SharePoint to access and modify data in database

I have a situation where I currently have a huge spreadsheet that is used for tracking 40+ deliverables for projects. The spreadsheet solution is past cumbersome. I have been thinking about how I can ...
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SharePoint (WSS 3.0) not updating permissions based on Active Directory Security Groups

My organization has a small SharePoint server (WSS 3.0). Many of the permissions are assigned by putting an Active Directory Security Group as a user inside of a SharePoint group. Until now, this has ...
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Sharepoint alert email were blocked by Sophos 10.0 - are they gone forever?

We are running WSS 3.0 SP2 on Windows Server 2003 R2 x64. We had recently upgraded our Sophos Endpoint Protection from version 9.7 to 10.0. Immediately, our alerts stopped working (although it wasn't ...
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TFS 2010 Backup Plan Fails with Error About AdminPTHelper.exe

My company has a TFS 2010 Server running SharePoint 2010 locally. Originally we were just doing a database backup of all the TFS databases (MSSQL 2008 also run locally) but I came across some ...
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Sharepoint Reports do not work in Firefox

Using SSRS in integrated mode, Reports can be viewed in IE but not in Firefox, Chrome, Safari, etc. They get "An unexpected error occurred while connecting to the report server. Verify that the ...
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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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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 seeking authentication when opening Word / Excel files from website

The company I work for is using SharePoint as a CMS for it's public facing website. I recently enabled FBA (Forms Based Authentication) for the site in order to provide some user specific ...
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Moving a SharePoint server from a domain member to a workgroup

I have been tasked to remove an external SharePoint server that resides in our DMZ from the domain. Can I do this? I know the implications of our domain users no longer being able to access the ...
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Security implications of adding a computer account to folder security

The backup job on my SharePoint 2007 (server A) fails since the job running under local NETWORK SERVICE account tries to access a remote share(Server B) to store backup files. Adding Server A' ...
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List all user profile properties with PowerShell - PowerShell query

The following script spits out all UserProfile properties for users on Sharepoint 2007: [void][System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("Microsoft.Office.Server") [void][System.Reflection....
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How to get SharePoint List from SQL server

My scenario is i have already created one webservices for my infopath form. I have published this form to the sharepoint library. When i insert data into browser enable form it will store in SQL ...
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SQL Server Agent refuses to start

I'm having a problem with SQL Server 2005 where the SQL Server Agent suddenly refuses to start. If I attempt to start it through Services, I get the error "SQL Server Agent (MSSQLSERVER) service on ...
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In SharePoint, why can I "multiple document upload" a 47,297 byte file, but not a 47,298 byte file?

It's strange. I can upload a document named 47k.txt that is 47,297 bytes using the "Multiple Document Upload" feature. If I do any of the following to the file, the upload fails: Add a single ...
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How to Integrate Sharepoint with Reporting Services in Native Mode?

I'm trying to do something like this but with native mode (less integration). All of the directions I can find tell you how to set up Sharepoint integrated mode but I need to find out what the steps ...
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What are the advantages of Windows Server 2008 R2 over Windows Server 2008

We have a test system built with Windows Server 2008 64-bit Standard edition. We're about to create a production environment. Aside from the guidance that it is a good idea to keep test and live as ...
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sharepoint administrative server not started causing sharepoint deployment instability

When i deploy anything to a variety of sharepoint servers i get problems with some packages failing, from what i can see the only error given is as below. The timer job for this operation has been ...
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Links not using FQDN on Sharepoint Mysite from an external access

I've configured external access to some sharepoint applications, including MySites, using AAM and ISA configuration. Every seems working well, but when using the external access (ie via https), some ...
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What should I look for before deleting a SharePoint site

As we are writing our governance plan, I am not find many examples of SOPs for deleting a site. We are a small operation and will want to review each delete manually, so what are the gotchas to ...
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Sharepoint: Hide port number in a sharepoint site url?

I've just gotten started with sharepoint( moss 2007 ) and created my first sharepoint site. My team is using the site and when I set it up the url was something like ( http:\myserv:40567\mysite\site\...
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How do I set up Sharepoint Alerts to be sent to distribution lists that include nondomain users?

1) I would like to send Sharepoint Alerts to an email distribution list. 2) I would like that email distribution list to include domain and non-domain users. 3) I would like that email distribution ...
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SharePoint user/group role concept issue

I am working with SharePoint Service 3.0/SharePoint Server 2007. SharePoint has some built-in roles like contributor, visitor, designer, administrator. I am wondering if I use Forms Authentication, ...
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restore content database in sharepoint server 2007

I have a site collection set up at web app running at port 80. I have made the backup of the site collection content db using stsadm.exe tool. Now, I want to restore that backup as a new content db of ...
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Can't log into a SharePoint site unless running the browser on the SharePoint server

I am running SharePoint Server 2007 with SP1 on our test server. It's a single-server installation. It has a single SharePoint application running on port 80. It's using Windows authentication. It'...
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User Profile Import Failing

I have a SharePoint 2007 farm (SP2, June Cumulative Update) where the User Profile Import job is now failing. The last log entry on the User Profile and Properties page shows the error message "The ...
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Cannot set up audiences containing members of a AD Group on SharePoint 2007

I am having a problem where in SharePoint 2007 after verifying the profile import was successful and the AD group is there, I go to audiences and try to create a rule where the user must be a member ...
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MOSS Search Crawler Impact Rules

I am kind of confused on the crawler impact rules settings. In the SharePoint docs it is mensioned that impact rules are farm-wide and apply to all content sources. What is the point of entring the ...
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SharePoint Records Center Submitted E-mail Records not picked up

We have set up a new SharePoint 2007 site with a Records Repository. We're using Exchange 2007 Managed Folders to route e-mails to this repository based on the 'label' attached to the e-mail as set in ...
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Problem running “Central Administration” website after windows update at Windows 2003 Server Standard Edition

I was have WSS 2.0 and then I upgraded to WSS 3.0 and the old instalation database was SQL 2000, now I have another SQL Server instance called:server_name\MICROSOFT##SSEE . After upgrade every thing ...
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Adding shared fields to a Sharepoint Calendar to sync with an Outlook Calendar

I have set up MOSS 2007 Enterprise with a Calendar that I added to custom columns to. We have synced this calendar in Outlook, and it works great creating and editing events from either Sharepoint or ...
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WebClient service always at "stopping" state

The WebClient service always at "stopping" state. Of course the service itself does not work (I cannot access sharepoint folders using their UNC paths, for example). Tried rebooting - the service ...
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Distribution lists in Sharepoint

I'm looking to move all of our Exchange Public Folder contents to a WSS 3.0 server including several contact lists. The problem I've run into is that the distribution lists that have been created in ...
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IIS site not visible on alias creation step while installing Webcon

Webcon cannot see any IIS site provided by SharePoint on creating alias step, but I was able to select proper SharePoint web-application and it installed all Webcon solutions successful. It should ...
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Working ADFS webapplication proxy. No SSO from webbroser to MSOFBA

We're implementing an WebApplication Proxy (WAP) on Windows server 2012R2 for our organisation to replace the authenticatin/SSO features of TMG. Currently we have a working WAP with SSO for: - ...
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O365 - Separate topologies

Let's say we have three domains: domaina.com, domainb.com and domainc.com. They have no trust between them. Initial situation Domain A: Active Directory with 2008 R2 & Exchange 2013 Domain B: ...
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enable-spfeature publishingsite causes all sharepoint pages to say "access denied"

We're trying to enable the SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure on a SharePoint 2013 site, but as soon as we run enable-spfeature publishingsite -url http://companyweb all http://companyweb ...
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how do i combine multiple powershell scripts in a guided install (for example with wix) but without the trail (ARP etc.)

I am working on a project where we need to repeat certain steps with powershell to deploy stuff. i would like to create a process/install guidance (steps supported with UI) with WIX but after the msi ...
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NGINX Reverse Proxy Sharepoint 2010 authentication fails

When presented with the Windows forms based authentication after entering the users credentials I am prompted again for a username and password. This just keeps prompting you, I see no errors in the ...
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