Administration is the task of keeping our servers running smoothly.
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2answers
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Site collection locked & stucked in read only mode
I do have a SharePoint (2013) site collection that is stuck in read only mode due to a backup that was either interrupted or didn't terminated properly.
I'm unable to unlock from :
Site Quotas and ...
5
votes
5answers
2k views
User Accounts Disappearing From SP Groups
We've been running into a bizarre scenario and I'm at a complete loss.
I'm a site collection admin for my division's portal. We're on a shared internal company-wide MOSS server, and I have no access ...
0
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1answer
599 views
SPSecurityTokenService.Issue() failed: System.ArgumentException: Cannot get Membership Provider with name xxxxx
Really need help with this issue. I've been struggling for about 4 hours today with this issue and no luck.. Tried everything and every article out there but obviously missed something.
Here's the ...
1
vote
1answer
40 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 ...
0
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0answers
22 views
code of approval workflow in c#
I have a task to make approval workflow between three lists . When i add item to first list ,workflow should check second list and and assign tasks to specific people that on active directory(and they ...
1
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2answers
1k views
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 ...
1
vote
1answer
405 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 ...
1
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1answer
19 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.
...
2
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2answers
2k views
Moving a Discussion from a Discussion Board to another?
I have a SharePoint 2010 Discussion Board and it has many Discussions. Would like to move a discussion from the discussion board to another in the same location (under same site collection).
I ...
2
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0answers
123 views
What are the current options for a Sharepoint Online trial from Windows XP?
A year ago I had 30-day trial for Office 365 (Sharepoint Online 2010). Everything worked fine from my Windows XP SP3 (x86. 32-bit) for development from Infopath Developer and Sharepoint Designer ...
0
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0answers
14 views
Site Admin account updated within UserProfile database
On occasion we have found that when we have issues with the database during backup time that on the restore the Site Administration account gets created anew and the previous one is deleted. Within ...
2
votes
2answers
573 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 ...
2
votes
4answers
6k views
Error - Get-SPWeb in Powershell
I am running this simple command from powershell under a user context, who has db_owner and SharePoint_shell rights to the SharePoint_config database. I get the following error:
PS ...
0
votes
1answer
103 views
Site collection administrators / owners question
I'm stuggling over a somewhat architectural question which concerns site collection admins and owners. To begin with, I found the thread answerd by Per Jakobsen (here Site collection owners and site ...
5
votes
1answer
88 views
What should a Site Administrator/Owner understand before being being designated as such?
I was building a collection of requirements a Site Collection Administrator/Site Owner in SharePoint should have before being "turned loose" on their Site Collection. So Far I've come up with:
Have ...
0
votes
1answer
93 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="" ...
1
vote
1answer
84 views
Best Paid SharePoint Admin Tools [closed]
I would like to know best SharePoint Paid Admin Tools out there. Please NO vendors. As of now I really dont have any hard requirements. Just normal day to day Admin activities. SharePoint hasn't grown ...
8
votes
3answers
2k views
Clone SharePoint 2010 Production environment for Test Environment
We have cloned the SharePoint 2010 Production environment(Company Portal, around 3500 users) using VMWare clone feature. The purpose is to Create a Test environment for Restructuring the content, ...
0
votes
0answers
37 views
Moving some SharePoint administration outside of Central Administration?
Are there any out of the box or third-party tools for sharing some Central Admin-type administration tasks with site owners?
I have a client who has a SharePoint 2013 Enterprise Edition site where ...
1
vote
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 ...
1
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2answers
195 views
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 ...
2
votes
1answer
68 views
What is the (estimated) administration cost for a SharePoint-Farm?
a customer recently asked me about the "administrative costs" of a SharePoint-Farm.
Does anyone know about statistics/research/case studies on how many administrator-Hours it takes to maintain a ...
2
votes
1answer
4k views
Permissions error setting up SharePoint 2010 PowerShell account privileges
SharePoint Foundation 2010 SP1 on Windows Server 2008 R2 Std SP1 (Domain Controller) in a simple farm with a single SQL Server 2008 SP1/Windows Server 2008 Std SP2 backend
I realise installing SP on ...
2
votes
0answers
161 views
Opening document from Search results - This action couldn't be performed because Office doesn't recognize the command it was given
Hi I am trying to open an Office document by clicking on the search results document title, however an error box pops up saying:
This action couldn't be performed because Office doesn't recognize the ...
1
vote
1answer
69 views
My permissions have changed - again!
Three colleagues and myself have Full Control of our top level site. I don't often log into our site, however, a week ago I did and noticed I no longer had rights, however, my colleagues' rights were ...
0
votes
1answer
64 views
Run Publishing.Administration - method as a Farm Admin
I need to call a method from publishing.administration-Namespace as a farm admin. To be specific: ContentDeploymentJob.GetAllJobs();
When I try to run that code I get the exception that the code can ...
1
vote
2answers
219 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 ...
3
votes
2answers
377 views
Alerts not being sent
My smtp server does not show sharepoint mail attempts in any of it's folders under mailroot. The account that the alert is supposed to go to has an external gmail address in it's AD entry on purpose. ...
0
votes
1answer
157 views
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 ...
1
vote
1answer
909 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 ...
0
votes
1answer
39 views
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 ...
0
votes
1answer
84 views
How to check the versions of Sharepoint Server, services and patches of my Office 365 portal?
I am reading a lot that Office 365 has been patched, upgraded and now migrated to Server 2012 (and Office 2013).
How can I determine the versions of Sharepoint Server, services, etc. on which my ...
3
votes
1answer
151 views
System Account Vs. Site Collection Administrators
I have SharePoint 2010 Server. I have put myself as a Site Collection Administrator.
Somehow someone was able to check out a document with the System Account. I, thinking that I had just as much ...
0
votes
2answers
1k views
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 ...
0
votes
1answer
258 views
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 ...
2
votes
2answers
3k views
Move database to new SQL Server
My client has asked me to move all the Database used by the SharePoint Farm to a new SQL Server Machine. I came across this article ...
0
votes
3answers
447 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
votes
0answers
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How to find the exact time of restore completion of a site backup
This is a very basic question. When we restore a site backup in SharePoint , does SharePoint logs the date time of the completion activity after it has successfully completed. In the powershell it ...
0
votes
1answer
203 views
Unable to configure Send to connection
I have 2 site collections and I am trying to configure send to connection from site 1 to site 2. Site 1 is in UK SharePoint farm and site 2 is in US SharePoint farm. I've tried creating a send to ...
1
vote
2answers
923 views
Enabling incoming email for SharePoint document library without Active Directory or Exchange?
This is a high level question. Can I enable incoming email for SharePoint without any involvement from Active Directory or Exchange?
From what I have read, integration with Active Directory or ...
1
vote
3answers
1k views
NullReferenceException when creating new site collection
Running a SharePoint 2010 farm. Whenever I attempt to create a new site collection I get the following error "Object reference not set to instance of an object" which is generated from a generic ...
0
votes
0answers
86 views
Get-SPSite Lists Our Root Site Collection Twice
On SharePoint 2010 Enterprise in a 2 Server Farm (Central Admin Server + Web Front End + SQL) SharePoint returns our Root site collections twice for each host header.
Example:
Get-SPSite -Limit all
...
0
votes
1answer
173 views
enter you credentials to connect to the following webservice infopath
Im trying to open an infopath form from Sharepoint and I am getting the following error: "enter you credentials to connect to the following webservice infopath"
please advice
0
votes
2answers
131 views
InfoPath Form Not enabled on all site collections
hi i have two site collections
site a
site b
site a was created after the initial configuration of info path service
info path designer works great with site b but when i use it with site a. it ...
0
votes
1answer
519 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 ...
0
votes
0answers
79 views
List icons greyed out
I have a site collection for which I am a Full Owner and also have an account which is the site collection admin. I can create lists, but cannot get to the list settings. I have the same problem with ...
1
vote
1answer
190 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 ...
3
votes
3answers
1k views
Sharepoint Installation Accounts Issue
OK guys, i need your help! My point is:
I formatted my dev machine a few days ago, as so i needed to reinstall everything. Logged in as mammoth\marcos.natan, my user account, i installed SQL Server ...
0
votes
1answer
36 views
503 after SP-Solution upgrade
i am well aware that when using SP-Solution Upgrade the sharepoint server throws a error 503. this isnt the problem
what i need to find out without testing is does the 503 affect the entire farm or ...
1
vote
2answers
83 views
Why don't I gain disk space back when emptying the site collection recycle bin?
I'm trying to recoop some diskspace on a test SharePoint environment of mine. I've removed as much content as I can in the portal and also emptied the site collection recycle bin but the free space on ...
