Administration is the task of keeping our servers running smoothly.
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SP 2010: Scopes not updated for Web Applications using Claims BAsed Authentication
I have configured a web application with Claims Based Authentication because it needs to use FBA. I've created a search scope in the central admin to query all documents in my web app: contentclass = ...
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1answer
932 views
Content Type issue with the Discussion Board in SharePoint 2010?
I have changed the default content type from 'Discussion' to 'Message' is on the Discussion Board on SharePoint 2010 and reverted to its normal (Now, Discussion is the default content type).
Now, If ...
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1answer
550 views
Where/How do I find my Farm ID for SharePoint 2007?
I am interested in finding the Farm Id of my Farm. Where is it located or how do I otherwise find it?
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1answer
648 views
How do I remove Project Server 2010 once installed into the SharePoint 2010 Farm?
I'm sure the information for such an administrative task is out there. I'm just having trouble finding it. Any one know where this particular piece of documentation is?
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2answers
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Subsite Migration from SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint 2010
We want to Migrate a subsite from SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint 2010 without doing a content DB Migration, we tried with "import/export" commands and failed.
Please let me know if we have any other ...
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2answers
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System crashes while accessing SharePoint 2007 Links
User is running on XP, IE6.0 with Office 2003.
Whenever tries to access any of the SharePoint 2007 Links, Either system goes down or application closes automatically.
Have you ever come across such ...
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1answer
226 views
Architecture of the Audience Compilation?
I went through the SharePoint Escalation team blogs and understood the basic architecture of the "User Profile Import" and still would like to know the architecture of the "Audience Compilation" and ...
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1answer
79 views
What is the dependency of a Shared Service Provider on Search?
Or asked another way, if I manually stop the Office SharePoint Server Search server called OSearch in the Services Control Panel, what in my SSP would break?
The Technet Deployment guide states the ...
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1answer
35 views
SharePoint 2010 MySites only allow users to edit their own site
In my current SharePoint 2010 development environment I have MySites running for all users for their profiles where they can update and add information about themselves as they need.
For some reason ...
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1answer
23 views
In App Settings for Admins of SharePoint 2013 App
I am working on a SharePoint 2013 app that I wish to deploy in the Market Place. Is it possible to have an admin section of the app to allow the Site Administrators to add custom content ...
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1answer
49 views
Error while opening sharepoint list in datasheetview and exporting to excel
I have a List which is having around 14000 items in it.while opening that list in datasheet view it is giving error .
Below is a summary of the issue:
After selecting datasheet view :
"Cannot ...
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1answer
22 views
Rootweb does not return site administrators
I have multiple sites where I have used site settings to add users to 'Site Collection Administrators' but when I get these site collections using code the 'SiteAdministrators' property returns null.
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Feature Administrator in SharePoint 2010, Exam 70 - 667
I came across this question which seems very confusing to me while preparing for 70 - 667 exam,
You configure a SharePoint Server 2010 Service Pack 1(SP1) Farm.
You need to ensure that a ...
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2answers
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sharepoint stopped working after AD password change
I have sharepoint 2010 installed on my local box for evaluation pourpouses.
I had it all working fine until a few days ago when I had to change my AD password.
Now, the central administration website ...
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1answer
431 views
Date picker show format differently when publish as a web-based form in SharePoint Library
I have a Infopath form that contain a date picker.
I set the date picker's date format to be 'DD/MM/YYYY'.
When I preview the Infopath form, the date format is correctly displayed.
However, when I ...
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1answer
199 views
How do I archive Infopath forms uploaded into Sharepoint 2007 when my Sharepoint site runs low on storage?
I have designed system where users submit Infopath forms to a Sharepoint 2007 site. The Infopath forms allow users to also attach pdfs in their submission.
My problem now is that the Sharepoint site ...
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1answer
227 views
how to get the value of a check box from another list
I've been trying to get the value of a check box in a sp list. so, I have List[a] and List[b]. List[b] contains a check box which I am trying to get the value of inorder to put in in List[a].
I'm ...
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77 views
What are the must have tools when working with SharePoint? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
List of SharePoint 2007 / WSS 3.0 development tools
When developing or administering SharePoint, what are the must have tools?
This question is intended to reference ...
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Database Statistics Timer Job got hangs on initialized state
Env:
MOSS 2007 SP2 64 bit architecture, 4 wfe and1 app server, wins server 2003, Sql 2005 .
I have a site collection in web app which is reached 50 GB. Due to this, the Site collection is not ...
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2k views
Remove server (that no longer exists) from 2010 farm? [closed]
I had a virtual server we'll call spTest. It had to be rebuilt, so someone renamed it spTst and created a new virtual server they named spTest. Then they deleted spTst.
SpTest seems to be working, I ...
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0answers
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SharePoint 2010: Application Server Administration Service Timer Job
One of our customers has a large SharePoint 2010 farm which was having problems with 100% CPU usage for a large part of every minute (15 seconds) when the Application Server Administration Service ...
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1answer
116 views
Can i create a security group with the proper permissions and have farm account run only as a service account?
On my SP 2007 environment I been trying to have my administrators not use the farm adm account for their administration and use their own credentials. So we started by creating a security group with ...
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0answers
343 views
How does Membership show in Mysite - SharePoint 2010 - Part-2?
User's membership is not getting populated in the Membership tab on Mysite in our SharePoint 2010 environment. It was working fine until we provisioned a new UPA (used the existing profile and social ...
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2answers
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SharePoint 2007 Web-application is getting crashed due to memory leak
We decided to duplicate an existing web-application (for Podcasting kit), which has site collection only at root level, so created a new web-application (in the same DB instance) and imported (stsadm ...
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1answer
166 views
List of Solution packages are in the solution store
How to find a list of Solution packages are in the solution store in sharePoint 2007 using Powershell?
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45 views
How to track the Http Protocol on the Server
We do have many client specific tools (i.e. Httpwatch, Wfetch...) to track the Http Protocol however I want to track http protocol (headers) on the server end.
I mean to say that, How server ...
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1answer
141 views
Work email for a sharepoint 2010 user group [closed]
I would like to have a work email for my sharepoint 2010 user group, do not see any direct options. how to set that?
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2answers
318 views
Will 3rd party tools like Feature Admin void Microsoft technical support?
Based on my research, it seems like the Microsoft tools would be supported, and the others MAY or may not be supported depending on what exactly they do and how they are written. Does anyone know? Is ...
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Emptying site collection recycle bin doesn't make content DB smaller?
I deleted everything from a site collection recycle bin and remote into the SQL server the content database is located and the sucker didn't get smaller. I had about a good 2 or 3 gigs of files in the ...
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1answer
102 views
Is it safe to remove SharePoint\system SPUser from a custom sharepoint user group?
is it safe to remove SPUser "SharePoint\system" from a custom SharePoint user group?
<User ID="1073741823" Sid="S-1-0-0" Name="System Account" LoginName="SHAREPOINT\system" Email="" Notes="" ...
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3answers
571 views
Is there a PowerShell CmdLet or SharePoint CmdLet that allows reading a Content List?
My eventual goal is to be able to check on new items added to a Content List but I was trying to figure out if there was a CmdLet that could let me access the Content List in a SharePoint Site. I ...
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1answer
64 views
SharePoint Web Application / IIS Issue
I created a SharePoint web application on my vm193 virtual machine. I chose the 7777 port number and named the application Sharepoint AppDev Training. Under the URL, I used http://appdev. I created a ...
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3answers
452 views
Windows Powershell stsadm
I am quite new to windows powershell. I have tried to run the following command "stsadm -o setadminport. I get the error that the Term stsadm is not a recognized cmdlet, function etc. My reading ...
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1answer
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sharepoint 2010 site collections disappeared
We have a staging server on client's environment. It worked well for several month. But the last time I connected there I noticed that 3 of 4 site collections disappeared there from 1 Web App. I ...
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2answers
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Installing webpart
I'm a beginner on Sharepoint and I want to ask if I can install webpart at our subsite. I only have access to our subsite's MOSS.
Thanks
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1answer
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How to get the SharePoint Web Applications Portal Super User Account and Portal Super Reader Account?
I was trying to resolve "cache is not configured" issue on SP2010 production box and came across the solution being discussed in one of the SharePoint chick blog
The problem is before I try out the ...
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2answers
398 views
What's the sense in forcing to digitally sign the Infopath 2010 forms?
Whenever I create an Infopath Filler Form in Infopath Designer 2010 and attach C# code there, for example, to show a messagebox on a button click, I am getting:
InfoPath cannot open the selected ...
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1answer
229 views
Configuring the sp application to DNS
i have a old application (wignet) which points to http://rootsite/subsite1 .There are around 10 subsites (subsite2,subsite3,subsite4) .Now i have created a new sp application ...
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2answers
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Sharepoint output list of users
I would like to output the users of a group, for 40 groups, or for every group within the SharePoint Portal. I would like to do this programatically through powershell or a command line tool for the ...
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1answer
185 views
accordian view for webparts
is there an out of the box feature / other that will allow me to create a view to give an "accordion" effect to hide and show webparts?
example:
section1
webpart 1
webpart 2
webpart 3
...
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3answers
474 views
Check permission for a user belonging in diff group in 2007
In SP2010 we have an option to check user permission incase user has many permission levels. How do we achieve the same in SP2007? I did install Microsoft SharePoint Administration Toolkit for it as ...
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2answers
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SP2010 - TMG publishing rule error: _vti_inf.html*
I'm getting an error related to URL http://server:80/_vti_inf.html* when i test the firewall rule for SharePoint 2010 connection on TMG server . All other path connections to SP site are fine.
...
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1answer
551 views
New web app creation fails to create IIS site on secondary node
Sharepoint 2010 RTM
In central admin - I attempt to create a new App (IIS website)
the pop up screen accepts my input and goes to work, but eventually it times out and displays a message that ...
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1answer
181 views
How to determine what pages are using a particular web part? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I find in which (sub)sites a WebPart/Feature is used?
After an upgrade to SharePoint 2010, we've had a few web parts with issues. We're a pretty wide ranging ...
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3answers
77 views
Is it possible to migrate a SharePoint implementation from an older to newer machine?
We have a test server that is old and is not enough to put into production. Also, something happened to the Shared Services in our Administrative Services and does not allow certain things that ...
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3answers
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Audience Domain Theory clarification?
We are facing an issue with Audience and the senario follows.
We have two Domains namely Domain_One and Domain_Two in the same forest.
Both are Trusting each other.
Both the domain has its own set ...
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2answers
468 views
Trimming audit events
We'd enabled all types of audit events for our production web-application and ended up with an issue with DB as auditData table grown to 50GB. Now, we want to reduce the size of the AuditData table.
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6answers
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SPWebConfigModification is throwing an error
I am trying to update the web.config file through Powershell using the SharePoint class "SPWebConfigModification" however facing the issue mentioned below, please help me to fix this.
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1answer
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Auto-Update Statics On/Off
MS recommends disabling auto-create statistics on SP DBs (ref).
What about auto-update statistics?
Looking at our TFS installation, for the SP DBs, these two options are disabled for you when TFS is ...
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1answer
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Why is my Admin user magically transformed to SHAREPOINT\system?
I have an administator, which also is Farm Administrator in my Sharepoint environment. It is synced via UPSA and have all the properties I need do display content the right way. However - when I check ...
