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SharePoint Central Administration (the CA) is a web application that typically exists on a single server in the farm.

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SharePoint Central Admin not opening

I have installed sharepoint site on my local machine with standalone installation. After that i have changed my machine name then my sharepoint site was not opening. Then i revert the changes to ...
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Staff directory webpart broken after a manual synchronization

On the main page of my SharePoint 2010 I have a Staff Directory web part that uses the User Profile service to sync with Active Directory. I noticed that it was not synchronizing correctly as some ...
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Unable to login to site even though I am administrator of the site collection

I created one site collection and gave the site collection administrator as my name. But when I navigate to that site and try to login that site it is giving me an error that Access Denied. For all ...
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How to show AD Contacts in the SP2010 people picker

is it possible to have the SharePoint 2010 people picker show AD Contacts. We have sub contractors & some full time staff listed as contacts in AD, in order to have their contact information ...
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Not able to access Sharepoint Central Administration

I installed Sharepoint Server 2010 on Windows Server 2008 R2 machine (inside VMWare). The installation was successful and by default the site was opened The site URL is something like: ...
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What do I have to do prior to site creation of a “Report center” template?

I have a SSRS service installed, I have Sharepoint 2010 Enterprise Edition. As I read on the internet, I should activate the Report Server Central Administration Feature in site settings > Manage ...
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SharePoint 2010 FBA Access Denied for Forms Users

I setup SharePoint 2010 FBA using ASP Net Membership database following the article: Step by Step Guide to Configure SharePoint 2010 Forms Based Authentication with SQL. I configured all web.config ...
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unable open sharepoint central admin

Following are the two unexpected errors i found in the log file Please help me out its urgent....... Unexpected System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object. ...
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Move SharePoint 2010 Farm to New Server

My company uses SharePoint 2010 portal and it is used by more than 3500+ users worldwide. We are planning to move the Farm to another physical location due to end of lease at current location. The ...
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Send to connection - Error

Senario: we have a user requirement where users want to share files with third party using sharepoint. We have a extranet sp site set up. Users will be doing send to connections from internal SP ...
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User Profile Service Application CA pages slowness

How are your loading times of the User Profile Service Application pages in the Central Administration ? Mine are often beyond one or two minutes, for example when adding a new user property. I am not ...
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Cannot read site collection details with some accounts

In my SharePoint environment, I have a few seperate web applications with some different admin users. Now a new user I created is added as local admin (needed for Powershell remoting) and farm admin. ...
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Restore SharePoint 2010 Site - Different schema version

I have a backup of a SharePoint site (14.0.6114.xxxx December 2011 CU??) and I tried to restore it to a different farm with version 14.0.6106.xxxx April 2011 CU???. As expected I got the schema ...
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SP central admin Cannot connect to the configuration database after reinstalling sql server 2008 r2

I have just re-installed SQL Server 2008 R2 in my Windows Server, but after installing the SQL Server, I am unable to open my central admin. On opening the central admin its showing me the message - ...
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Database of the central admin no longer exists

how can I reaccess or restore only the central admin BD (MOSS 2007) if the database and the server no longer exists? (Bd on a old server) All others webapps still work (bd on a new server) but when I ...
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Error installing SharePoint 2010

I try to install SharePoint 2010 on Windows 8. There is a problem on step 7 of Configuration Wizard: 11/04/2012 19:12:28 8 ERR Failed to provision the SharePoint Central Administration Web ...
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Access Denied on Custom Page deployed to Central Administration

I deployed a custom application page to central admin. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff798467.aspx If I am a farm administrator and the central admin site collection administrator I can ...
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Error Running SharePoint 2010 Product Configuration Wizard

I'm encountering an error when running the SharePoint 2010 Product Configuration Wizard that setups up central admin. I'm installing SharePoint on a Windows 7 Dev Environment (OS: Enterprise SP1). The ...
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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 ...
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Content Subscriber Timer Job is not publishing content types to all site collections in a web application with multiple content databases

Scenario: We have a web application that has multiple site collections and multiple content databases? (30 Site collections, 3 content databases) For example purpose lets name the content databases ...
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SharePoint 2007: Items in Search Administration cannot open

The application I working on is developed on top of SharePoint 2007 environment, the issue I faced is in CA's Search Administration, all the items like Content Source, Scope and etc cannot click, when ...
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SharePoint CA Not Going to Default.aspx

All, I've been dealing with this issue for several days now. When I hit our Central Admin site http://abc.gov:47855 I'm getting HTTP 403 Forbidden (see image below) however, I am able to hit CA by ...
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SharePoint Integration with Team Foundation Server

I am attemping to get SharePoint Portal integrations on Team Foundation Server 2010 x86 running with a standard single server installation on a WinServer w SP2. I can provide any and all information ...
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Central administration is displayed wrong

Just after installation of sharepoint 2010 I opened central administration it looked weird, like no styles and js had been loaded. A screenshot of CA and js-errors in console is presented here: ...
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Accidentally Delete the server farm from SharePoint Central Admin - SBS 2011

I cannot access anymore the Central Admin page and I encounter error using configuration wizard. how can i create new farm or restore my backup farms? What should i do?
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Users Getting IIS Home Screen Instead of Home page

I have one user which is getting the IIS home landing page instead of our SharePoint home page. When I log onto her from a different machine everything seems to be working fine. If she types in ...
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Create a new Central Administration Content Database

Currently the Content Database for my Central Administration site has exploded to over 50GB, and expands to over 100GB everynight (leaving 50GB of free space). After much investigating I have ...
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The Machine Translation Service is not running when it should be running error message

I get this error in Central Administration. The Machine Translation Service is not running when it should be running It tells me to do the following: "From the Central Admin UI, navigate to manage ...
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Accidentally Application Server removed from the SharePoint 2010 Farm

I have one serious issue if any one can guide. My SharePoint 2010 server is working with 3-tire concept like WFE1, WFE2, APPSP1, APPSP2 & NLB with CLUDB. Accidentally I found some issue & ...
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SharePoint 2010 central admin configuration wizard remotely

I'm trying to open the Configuration Wizard page in SharePoint 2010 Central Administration from a remote computer in the net, but all I get is a blank page. Are there problems opening the central ...
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How to reduce Web analytics reporting DB size

SharePoint 2010 web analytics reporting DB for our public facing site has grown over 30 GB over the last year. We are using Google Analytics for analytics purposes and would like to retain only last ...
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AdditionalPageHead Control not appearing in admin.master

I have an AdditionalPageHead Control in my solution in MOSS, <Control Id="AdditionalPageHead" Sequence="1" ControlSrc="~/_controltemplates/BinaryJam.MyWebApp/jQueryControl.ascx" /> it ...
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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 ...
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Error while opening “configure app urls” in central admin sp2013

App Management Service & Microsoft Sharepoint Foundation Subscription Service are running but it still shows error as follows. Error message : Settings or services required to complete this ...
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Database move that didn't go as planned

I got asked to urgently look at a SharePoint server which had its databases moved to another instance, this is a SP 2010 server 2 WFE and 1 App Server farm. These got moved to a SQL 2012 cluster and ...
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Changing smtp server in Central Administration

I tried to change the smtp server in Central Administration, but the change wasn't accepted. When I ran a console app to view the SPWebApplication outbound mail service instance, it still pointed to ...
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Custom Central Admin page - access denied

I created a custom application page which is deployed to the web applications section in central admin, following this guide: How to: Deploy an Application Page to Central Administration I am a farm ...
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Central admin 503 and can't open site?

I've got a feeling I'm in for a world of pain here but all of a sudden (I can't think of what might have caused it) my central admin is giving me a 503 error and when I attempt to access my site I'm ...
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Search Content Sources unable to open

I working on content migration to a new setup server farm by using Database detached/attached approach, after the migration the application is up and running fine, but when I open Search ...
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How to recreate inadvertently deleted “MySite” with “My profile” in Sharepoint Server 2010?

I inadvertently deleted "My Site" _http://sptest/my/ with entry for My Profile _http://sptest/my/Person.aspx?accountname=i%3A0%23%2Ew%7CMyDomain%5CMyUserName This results that ...