A configuration is an arrangement of functional units according to their nature, number, and chief characteristics. Often, configuration pertains to the choice of hardware, software, firmware, and documentation. The configuration affects system function and performance.
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Moving the Sharepoint 2010 configuration Database to a new DB server..?
We were using the database server "OldDBServer" and have copied all the databases on the new database server "NewDBServer". Now, all the reference (like CA admin content DB, content DBs & Service ...
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Why can't I create a new issue tracking list alert with a daily or weekly digest?
A site owner in my site collection created a new Issue Tracking list from the default list template, then added a handful of custom columns from the default list of available column types.
When they ...
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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, ...
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Configuring Mobile Account Using Google SMS
The procedure to configure a mobile account for SP uses SMSOffice.com.
Is it possible to configure mobile account to use Google SMS service? If you have done this please provide some insight.
If ...
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Design considerations for uploading documents into MOSS 2007
I am working on a design document for one of my projects in MOSS 2007. There is a requirement to create a custom interface to upload document along with metadata to a document library. I am not sure ...
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Amending Alternative Access Mapping
An internal SharePoint Administrator of my customer has configured Alternate Access Mapping for an intranet portal. However, when creating a new web application, he entered the URL including SSL in ...
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Script Error message when uploading images
We are facing script error while trying to upload images to one of the News archive web part in the share point site
The error says " An error has occurred in the script on this page"
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Problem in Internet Explorer when Email link is opened in outlook
When I press the Email link in the sharepoint site, Outlook is getting opened normally but the original site URL is getting changed to mailto:xxxxxx@xxxx.com and the message "Internet Explorer cannot ...
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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 ...
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Reconfiguring SharePoint 2010 Portal
We have cloned the SharePoint 2010 Portal (WFE, App Server, Database) to create an Test environment. How do I reconfigure the WFE and App server(Central admin, service application, content databases ...
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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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Error in opening sharepoint site using SPSite
I created document using office XML but now i m going to store that document in sharepoint library then it giving me an error like
["The Web application at {siteUrl} could not be found. Verify that ...
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SharePoint 2010 configuration wizard error
The error reads as
ok now it clearly states that there is already an iis website of that name but i'm not able toaccess it.
what it means is that when i'm trying to find the website on inetmgr.exe ...
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Error : “can't access this page”
I am the only user so far who can see share point page at this time.
Have also checked user permissions, anonymous access, and also through group access and all looks right.
Can you suggest the ...
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How to configure a two-tier farm
We have 4 servers available for the SharePoint Server 2010 installation.
I were thinking that 2 servers will be SQL servers with SQL Server failover clustering and the other 2 to have both Web ...
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Allow a specific file type to be rendered in iFrame
We've been looking at enabling the Permissive File Handling in Central Admin of our SharePoint 2010 on an intranet site collection. However, we're wondering if we can allow specific file types to be ...
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attach content db = 404
On our test/dev environment, I had a web application which I deleted and re-created. Using the Central Admin I re-attached the content database to the re-created web application. Problem is, visiting ...
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Empty tables in WSS 3.0 configuration database
I've been looking through the configuration database of our WSS 3.0 installation and I've noticed that the Databases, Servers, Sites, and VirtualServers tables are completely empty. And yet the site ...
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Configuration File for Features
I am creating some features in SharePoint 2010. I need to have some settings for all the features that I intend to keep in a xml file that should get deployed to 14 hive. On feature activation, ...
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How to configure incoming email in SharePoint Foundations without local SMTP
How I can to configure incoming email in SharePoint Foundations without local SMTP?
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What exactly is the content in “Back up content and configuration settings”?
In Central Administration for SharePoint 2010 when one runs a full farm back up there is an option that allows the user to back up content and configuration settings or just the configuration ...
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Add an additional configuration to the OOB EntWiki site definition?
I want to add an additional configuration to the out of the box Enterprise Wiki site definition. Should I adjust the OOB site definition itself, or is there some way to staple it to the definition ...
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Access denied by “Granular Backup”
When I try to copy a custom list from one of subsites of my weapplication's site collection to another by:
Central Administration --> Backup and Restore --> Export a site or list --> Filling ...
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Publishing site: Why are my pages blank but having webparts and controls in editing mode?
Started to look into Publishing site pages.
I have a few pages of a publisihing site filled with web parts and controls in editor that I fail to see. They are saved, checked in and published (few ...
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Problem managing User Profile Service
I had a brand new Sharepoint Farm... I tried to installa User Profile Service and everying goes well.
When i tried to access to the Manage Area, I get an "unexpected exception".
If i look inside the ...
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Cannot connect to the configuration database
I don't really know what to do. I was trying to get some bcs working, and because they were not, I've decided to restart the server.
After it restarted I was unable to go on any site / page or on the ...
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Cannot connect to the configuration database Error
I am having a bit of a strange issue. I am able to connect to the Central Admin page just fine but when I try to connect to any page on the site I get the following error.
Exception information:
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Where to put a dev-only value?
I'm using Ninject in a SharePoint feature. I've got it working via an HttpModule.
I need to tell Ninject whether I want to use my real or "fake" implementations.
I'm thinking about using a ...
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Sharepoint Server 2010 development environment setup error
*Tears hair out*
I've been following this - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee554869.aspx walkthrough to set up Sharepoint Server 2010 on my local machine (Windows 7 64-bit). Sharepoint ...
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Access to host-named site collection in one Web Application
I've created host-named site collection in a Web application by using the following PowerShell:
$dbName = "Content_Testing"
$aPool = "WebAppPool"
$waName = "Web Application Testing"
$web = ...
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SharePoint on Amazon Web Services
I'm installing SP2010 Enterprise on AWS EC2. I have downloaded SharePoint and installed it. My problem is getting through the Configuration Wizard.
I'm creating a new server farm.
I'm having ...
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Customizing a feature: Site Options? Config List? Something else?
I'm developing a feature that renders a link on the user's screen, and I need that link's destination URL to be configurable by site collection administrators (SCAs) who are not developers.
Where ...
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Risks of using Permissive vs. Strict for Browser File Handling
We have some web sites in our SharePoint 2010 site collection that need to display SWF files (to play FLV videos). For SharePoint to render the videos, we go to the web application in Central Admin > ...
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How do I disable\stop or enable\start Sharepoint 2010 on my Windows 7 development machine
I used the SharePoint 2010 Easy Setup Script to setup my Windows 7 machine for Sharepoint Development. However, I don't want the Sharepoint services hogging up CPU in the background when I'm doing ...
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System.Security.Principal.IdentityNotMappedException Some or all identity references could not be translated
When running the configuration wizard I got this problem
SharePoint Products Configuration Wizard
An error has occurred while validating the configuration settings. An exception of type ...
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Failed to detect if this server is joined to a server farm
Hi As I said in one of my previous question,
I have got a virtual Machine Image (VMWARE) for MS server 2003 with MOSS 2007 setup. Where they changed both IP and host name.
Following problems I face ...
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Sharepoint 2010 - database reconfiguration after failure
We had major database crash and our master database got broken. Probably it will be rebuild so then we will have to configure logins and user mappings for sharepoint databases. Is there some kind of ...
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Hovering over presence indicator doesnt bring pop up
I have some strange behavior. When im on user profile and i hover over the "prescense indicator" i do not get a pop up, as strange as it my seen ...
How could it be? Do i need to activate maybe ...
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FeatureInstalled event receiver acessubg spweb
I am trying to add a propertie to a WebAplication on FeatureInstalled event receiver.
public override void FeatureInstalled(SPFeatureReceiverProperties properties)
{
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A way of setting custom configuration properties that can be changed via power shell
I have a few custom settings for my feature that I am creating. I want a way to populate these values on install with some default values. However if needed an admin should be able to change the ...
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Accessing connection string in custom job
I have configured connection string in my IIS since I'm reusing it through my sharepoint solutions and custom services running next to sharepoint sites.
I'm using following snippet throughout my ...
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Get default db instance
I'm writing web service which will be part of my sharepoint solution. This service will save and read some data from custom db which will reside on the same mssql instance as sharepoint. I'd like my ...
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Central Administration cannot connect to configuration database
I made a script for batch uploading files, which I successfully used to upload more than 900 files (few gigs of data). Today I prepared another set of files and everything was working fine, but ...
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SharePoint 2010 change authentication type to Kerberos from NTLM
I have installed SharePoint 2010 Standard edition on a machine along with a VM inside of SQLServer 2008 R2 as (Tier 2) ...By default its on NTLM and classic mode authentication.
When I tried ...
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Custom settings file
Is is possible to use a custom settings file in SharePoint? Where do I place the .config file, containing the settings - I can only get it to read the default values defined in .settings file.
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How to configure cloned MOSS 2007 environment?
We are undertaking a process of cloning our QA environments to a new environment. Machines and urls will be changed. How we can configure these changes in central admin level in new environment?
For ...
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ASP.NET Runtime error page in pages doc lib
In Pages document library (Publishing Portal), if we try to restore version history without document checkout, the following error is thrown "You must first check out this document before making ...
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How should I set up my database instances for multiple SP2010 installs?
I'm setting up three SharePoint instances. We have a single database instance (DB\SP2010) that will hold all the databases for these three SP instances. Will this be overly confusing? Is there some ...
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Error enabling the managing metadata service in central administration
I am getting an error, well, not exactly error but getting message like:
The Managed Metadata Service or Connection is currently not available.The ApplicationPool or Managed Metadata Web Service may ...
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Modify URL Of the my profile tabs (overview, … , … )when mysite is created
I would like to modify the URL of my profile tabs (Overview, content, Tags and Notes...) when the mysite is created.
Initially, If Person A Clicks on MySite it is going to create Person A MYSite and ...
