Administration is the task of keeping our servers running smoothly.
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Duration is not getting updated in the PKS Web-Application
We have a PKS enabled web-application in our environment, everything looks fine however the Duration (Single line in text) field is in PKS Podcasts List is not getting updated correctly while ...
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1answer
647 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?
2
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2answers
1k views
Unable to complete this operation. Please contact your administrator
We are using one API SharepointImporter Tool to upload documents to a SharePoint Site. When we are uploading one archive file we are getting the following problem.
Error:
Unable to complete this ...
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2answers
220 views
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 ...
4
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1answer
1k views
Removing orphaned sites
I have done an in-place upgrade of a SharePoint 2007 farm to SharePoint 2010. I am now trying to run:
stsadm -o enumallwebs
This command fails with the following error message after enumerating a ...
0
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1answer
125 views
How to Trace JAR file execution is hosted on IIS6.0 Server [closed]
We are using few JAR files in our web-application hosted on IIS6.0 Server and those files are used in somepages, we want to trace the execution of those files (both in client and server side) however ...
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1answer
165 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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2answers
1k views
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 ...
0
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1answer
188 views
SSP Personal Features for Everyone
How may I grant Everyone Use Personal Features access to our SSP, we are not using AD to authenticate users, so NT Authority\Authenticated Users will not work in this situation. I want to enable My ...
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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 ...
0
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1answer
2k views
Mysite Migration from SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint 2010 without a Content DB migration
We have 3000 and add users in our SharePoint 2007 farm and they do have their Mysites, Now we want to migrate only 200 users mysites (including the contents) to SharePoint 2010 farm.
Want to perform ...
0
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2answers
274 views
Central Administration pointing to wrong port
When I log into WSS 3.0 Central Administration it is pointing to an old tcp port which was used for testing. How do I configure this to open to my main site?
0
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3answers
432 views
What is the best way to manage the permission Hierarchy?
Our current practices are composed of only using Active Directory groups for large swaths of access, such as the top site collection permissions. Any other permissions are to be handled within ...
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4answers
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 ...
0
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1answer
167 views
HTTP 403 error when enabling query logging in SharePoint 2007
When attempting to enable search query logging from the Shared Services Provider of my SharePoint 2007 farm, IIS returns the HTTP 403 error page. My account has full-control rights at the farm and ...
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2answers
580 views
Executing a new instance of a timer job before the previously running instance has finished executing
I have a timer job that invokes a WCF service that invokes a single threaded API internally.
TO ensure that my system does not fail, i want to ensure that only a single instance runs at a time.
I am ...
2
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1answer
268 views
How SharePoint 2007 forms the Mysite URL ?
How SharePoint 2007 forms the Mysite URL (i.e /personal/firstname_lastname or /personal/domainName_firstname) ? and what is the use of the registry key "PersonalSiteURL" ?
2
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2answers
149 views
How to make a user profile as an Active user profile?
User account exists & active in AD however the user profile is showing under "Profile Missed from Import" in SSP, how to make this user profile as an Active Profile ?
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3answers
338 views
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 ...
3
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1answer
120 views
User has changed his name in the active directory and wants see his mysite with the new URL
Question :
User has changed his name in the active directory and wants see his mysite with the new URL.
Can we follow the steps given below:
○ Take the backup of the existing site collection ...
0
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1answer
731 views
Setup an item level auditing for a sharepoint document library
I would like to setup an item level auditing (Opening or viewing or downloading) for a sharepoint 2007 document library without enabling audit for the entire site-collection.
This link may help us ...
0
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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.
...
0
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1answer
341 views
Enable audit setting for a production site collection
Shall we recommand to have an audit settings enabled for a production site collection? if so, what are all the things that we have to consider before that?
what would be the maximum size of an ...
0
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2answers
1k views
Why SharePoint is not considering 'dbo.AuditData' table while calculating the site-collection size?
We have a heavy used site collection with a 30GB quota limit on the content DB - WSS_WebApp_Content1, I have verified the 'dbo.AuditData' table and found that it has 1.4c records and is 35 GB in size.
...
2
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2answers
245 views
Database migration problem
We have recently migrated our MOSS databases from MS SQL Express 2005 to MS SQL 2008 both intances running on the same Windows 2003 server.
After "successful" migration we switched the 2005 server ...
0
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1answer
356 views
My Calendar Webpart is not displaying the local time
My Calendar webpart (OOB) is showing US time irrespective of the customer location, is that expected? if so, how it could be resolved ?
Note:
Our servers are in US however customers are in throughout ...
2
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2answers
576 views
(De)Commission SharePoint Database Servers
In our SharePoint Farm, We are running with 2 Database Servers and on which we have 20+ Databases.Now, due to some issues we would like to decommission the existing database servers and commission 2 ...
0
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5answers
2k views
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 ...
0
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6answers
1k views
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.
...
0
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1answer
445 views
Personal site URL in User Profile - SSP?
User has deleted his Mysite
E.g., Site Action -> Site settings -> Delete this Site.
however his mysite site-collection URL is still present in the User profile in SSP.
Is that expected ?
Update:
...
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4answers
885 views
Setting up Quota for Subsites
I expect to have 1000+ subsites in a site-collection and would like to setup a quota for the subsites, is that possible in SharePoint 2007 & how ?
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2answers
94 views
Can a backup of a site be made without Admin tools?
A site owner wants to backup their content themselves to feel more confident about their data in the SharePoint site as well as control the frequency of those backups.
Is there a tool that will allow ...
0
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1answer
470 views
Regional Settings in My Site
What is the difference between the below two steps to change the "Regional Settings" in My Site?
Site Actions -> Site Settings -> Regional settings -> Locale
My Settings -> My Regional Settings -> ...
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2answers
10k views
Immediate-alerts Email Notification not sending emails
The alerts are working, but for some reason the " Send e-mail when ownership is assigned" on a task list is not working.
A task is assigned to a user however Immediate-alerts are not sending the ...
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2answers
93 views
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 ...
0
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1answer
70 views
Search in SSP giving error
While accesing Search scoped in SSP of web application, I am getting the following error:
"The search service is currently offline. Visit the Services on Server page in SharePoint Central ...
0
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1answer
54 views
Performance Metrics and CA Configuration & Content DB?
When can we expect a maximum number of SQL connections for the Central Administration Configuration & Content DB? and what are all the important tables in these databases that an administrator ...
0
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1answer
247 views
Performance tuning and Manage Farm-Level Search Settings
Below options are available under "Manage Farm-Level Search Settings" in Central Administration
Connection time (in seconds): 60
Request acknowledgement time (in seconds): 60
I would like to know ...
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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 ...
2
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1answer
585 views
What do these SharePoint Services do?
I stopped the SharePoint services below which were running on the SharePoint 2007 Server (Single server mode) however all the web-applications are still accessible and I am able to perform ...
3
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1answer
452 views
Installing document sets site collection feature not available
I have setup SharePoint 2010 on my local developer machine (Windows 7) so that I can use Visual Studio to make solutions. However, when I go into the "Site collection features", I do not see Document ...
2
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2answers
508 views
How to verify the Site Collection quota size?
One of the site-collection administrators wants to verify the Site Collection quota size (he does not have access to Central Administration.)
Is there a way to achieve this?
2
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1answer
182 views
Site collection Disaster Recovery?
One of the Site collection Administrators has deleted the Site Collection mistakenly, so we want to restore it back. What would the best approach ?
Some of the SQL stuff:
SQL Full backup -> Every ...
3
votes
2answers
498 views
ULS Log event email notification
Is it possible to configure Sharepoint such that it emails me whenever an event with exception severity occurs? If yes then how do I configure it?
1
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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 ...
1
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4answers
375 views
SharePoint 2007 Antivirus Protection
What antivirus products have you used in SharePoint 2007 (WSS v3 and MOSS 2007) implementations?
I've had quite a bit of experience with Forefront Security for SharePoint and its my default ...
2
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4answers
1k views
How can I get the total number of sites in a site collection?
Is there any way to know the total number of sites in a site collection?
Any tool to how the tree of sites with total number of sites or something similar?
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2answers
442 views
Disallow access to SharePoint sites by default for Domain Administrators
Because BUILTIN\Administrators appears in the list of Farm administrators and the local Administrator group contains the Domain Administrators group, any domain admins get access to my SharePoint ...
2
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3answers
1k views
Poor performance on SharePoint site (IE6, Proxy, Windows Auth)
This is a very strange issue I am having.
My client is experiencing poor performance (20 sec per page load or so) when accessing their SharePoint 2007 site that is hosted somewhere externally by a ...
3
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3answers
339 views
Migrated My Profile link still pointing to the old MOSS server
Migrated a MOSS content DB to a brand new farm. The My Sites also were on the same content DB. Then the SSP also was migrated over. However, the My Profile link is not binding to the restored My Sites ...
