Internet Information Server (IIS) – is a web server application to host web applications.
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Anyone manage to deploy a WSP without it forcing an IISReset?
I'm working in SharePoint 2010 and have been unable to deploy (or retract) my WSP without causing an IISReset. Here's my situation:
The solution contains:
Fields
One content type
A page layout ...
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Application Pool is auto stopped when browse web application in IIS7
When I browse to Central Administration I get repeated authentication requests and am unable to view the page. I get the following error:
Service Unavailable
HTTP Error 503. The service is ...
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401 - unauthorized on root site collection
Just installed my SP2013 Foundation Preview and i receive a 401 Error if im trying to access the server with a domain account. I added it to the Server Roles as Owner, Member and Site Collection ...
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How to convert the SharePoint requests to Lowercase in the IIS processing pipe line
Wants to convert the SharePoint requests to Lowercase in the IIS processing pipe line, it should not invoke additional request to change/convert the requested URL into lowercase but the same request ...
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Windows Auth + Anononymous + Custom Application in SP Web App in IIS = SPContext.Current.Web.CurrentUser - null for authenticated users
The Issue
There is a forum application (YetAnotherForum) that is integrated with SharePoint and allows posting (and other things) for authenticated users in SharePoint.
It has a customized ...
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New Sharepoint Install non-functional over WAN, but works on LAN
I recently installed Sharepoint with SQL Server Express for a low-cost solution to our small companies lack of a collaboration tool. It is configured and working properly across all aspects of our ...
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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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Pro's and Con's to moving inetpub on WFE
So i've read alot of articles on how to reconfigure the IIS logs to an alternate drive for SharePoint.
One question that comes up in my head is are you able to move the inetpub folder to another ...
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Does installing sharepoint on local computer limit other .net development
we have sharepoint on a dev computer, but I was wandering if I install it on my local machine will sharepoint overtake iis? will there be any limitations when doing other web applications development?
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SharePoint 2010 - Custom Error Pages 404
I want to configure a custom 404 page for my SharePoint 2010 environment.
My first task was to create a custom 404 page (htm). and save it under c:\inetpub\custerr\en-US\404Custom.htm
After this I ...
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Assembly binding failure for all old Microsoft.SharePoint (version 12.0.0.0) dlls
My SharePoint 2010 dev box seems to have gone crazy today. I started to get an error when using U2U's CAML builder and trying to connect to a site using the Object Model.
The error message is as ...
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mime types and sharePoint sites. f4v files windows can not open this file?
I have about 20 f4v files. As a test I copied them to a folder, pointed a new iis site to them, add a video mime type and I am able to play them from web browser url.
I'm trying to do the same from ...
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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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SharePoint WSP Deployment Best Practices
I'm building a few WSPs (a custom web part and a branding wsp both scoped to site collection level) using WSP builder on VS2010. Our SharePoint 2007 Farm contains two Web applications.
I'd like to ...
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Running SharePoint on .NET 4
I installed .NET 4 on the server I would be installing SP 2010, and everything worked out just fine.
Later, I learned that just putting 4 on a machine doesn't change the IIS setting from .NET 2 to ...
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Difference between Application Pool and WebSites in IIS
While learning SharePoint, I noticed that, an IIS manager consist of Application Pool tab and Websites tab. Both includes the names of web application created.
I could not understand the difference ...
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SharePoint 2010 application crashes - Attempted to read or write protected memory?
Often, we are facing the below issue with SharePoint 2010.
System.AccessViolationException: Attempted to read or write protected memory. This is often an indication that other memory is corrupt.
at ...
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Embedded JScript in masterpages works in Windows 2003 / fails in 2008
My colleague just reported that he developed a master page with embedded JScript using Windows Server 2003. The same master page fails to execute the JScript when used on a Windows Server 2008 ...
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Is availability of port 80 a must for a SharePoint?
I have got this Dev env where only read access is provided. While browsing through default ports, i found that port 80 is assigned for Commerce Server and not SharePoint. So my query is if any other ...
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relationship between Site Collections in a web application
I have around 4 SiteCollections in a web application in Sharepoint 2007, I wonder if one site collection is for customer A, and second is for Customer B, will they be assessed using same IIS website ...
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SMTP folder location
I have a sucessful implementation of incoming email in my environment. I encountered an issue today however, after a change I made to the location of the SMTP "Badmail, Drop, Pickup and Queue" folders ...
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Virtual directory under sharepoint site
We have read-only content which is basically on network share. I'd like to be able to display it in my sharepoint site and be able to access it without sharepoint as well, so I created virtual ...
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How do I use X-Forwarded-For header with SharePoint?
The WFEs for our OnPrem SharePoint farm sit behind an F5 load balancer. As a result, client requestor IPs are not captured in the IIS logs as everything appears to come from the F5.
One way to get ...
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How to restart IIS on all servers of farm from SharePoint Application Page
SharePoint provides an option in Create New WebApplication page that says Restart IIS Automatically. This restarts IIS on all servers of the farm.
What can I do to trigger this programmatically from ...
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SharePoint - 500 INTERNAL SERVER ERROR
If I want to browse to my site address i get this message: 500 INTERNAL SERVER ERROR
this is what i see in event viewer:
The World Wide Web Publishing Service (WWW Service) did not register the URL ...
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Is it possible to implement SSL/HTTPS on a SharePoint site thats not running on port 80?
I'm finding this concept a rather confusing perhaps or may be this is a very basic question.
I have a sharepoint web application running on port 90 and have got a SSL certificate.
Lets say : ...
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Change SQL Server Port for existing SharePoint 2010 environment - Howto
I have a SharePoint 2010 environment configured with SQL Server 2008R2. Currently SQL Server is running on 1433. I am willing to change the existing SQL server port from 1433 to some non standard ...
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Is there a way to tell if an IIS site is connected to SharePoint?
I'd like to run a script report back what IIS Sites are SharePoint and which ones are normal sites.
Using the following command in powershell, I get a long list of properties of the application pool, ...
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Custom 404 page unique to a site collection
Is it possible to create a custom 404 page which is unique to a site collection?
Usually, the 404 page is common for all site collections in a web application. Is there any way around this?
One a ...
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How can I debug sharepoint app attaching to IIS?
I built a HTTP Module, insert the DLL into the GAC, changed the webConfig
Now , if on visual studio , I Attach to process W3WP , Open the web page where the module must work, I notice that ...
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Resources on the authentication cycle of SP2010
I'm trying to find in-depth resources on the authentication cycle.
Things like:
which HTTP requests are done in the process of authentication (mostly with claims based auth)
which events can we ...
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What is the proper way to change your site collection's URL to a friendly name?
I have an internal portal in a SharePoint 2007 application containing one site collection with six subsites. The Subsites are functional areas within the portal which users may navigate to. Pages ...
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Update-SPSolution stops IIS Application Pool from another Web Application
I'm trying to figure out a wierd problem, maybe yous guys can help.
I'm deploying a web part using powershell (Update-SPSolution) in a build definition.
The deploy works, but every time one ...
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External List Error : The query against the database caused an error
I got an SQL Server 2008 R2 and a SharePoint Server. I have put up a BCS between the two servers. Reading data through a External List. This worked fine yesterday. But to day I got this error:
The ...
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Correct NTFS permissions for SharePoint 2007
When deploying new web apps from Central Admin, I am finding that the permissions given to the IIS folders (under \Inetpub\wwwroot\wss\Virtual Directories\web-site-name) only allow accounts with Local ...
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SSL certificate for MOSS public site?
I have a sharepoint web application accessible online (public IP) thru windows auth on port 81 and extended to port 80 and is accessible anonymously. now i need to secure the portal using SSL. https ...
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Deploying Sharepoint 2010 solutions to sharepoint 2013 giving me error
does anyone have any suggestions where to look for guides when deploying sp 2010 solutions to 2013,
I've tried everything and keep gettin the error :
Error occurred in deployment step 'Recycle IIS ...
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Why WCF service does not work in sharepoint web part?
I have created a web service using WCF which gets the data from SQL into sharepoint. I have hosted it in IIS. It works fine when I call the service in the browser. I can see the wsdl. I used an ...
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Rename SharePoint 2010 Web Server
Can someone help me by providing the correct set of steps to rename a SharePoint 2010 Web server machine name? It's a two-server farm. Are there know issues associated with this? I've researched this ...
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Custom Web Part's Active Directory connection only working from server
I have a custom web part that utilizes a dropdown combobox with items populated from AD. While it used to work, now I am unable to see anything populated in the dropdown unless I view the web part ...
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Steps to deny anonymous access to _vti_pvt directory iis7
The service.cnf file found in the _vti_pvt directory has the default permission settings which may lead to an unauthorized access to the file
What are the steps to deny anonymous access to _vti_pvt ...
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Sluggish Sharepoint Application
I have Sharepoint 2010 application that runs smoothly during certain times of day however, whenever it feels like:
the CPU usage hits 100%;
the ASP Request Execution Time indicator flashes a warning;
...
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How to register a new http module n the web config
I built a http module. I copied into the GAC .
Then, I put into the WebConfig file lke this :
<httpModules>
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<add name="MyAssembly" type="MyAssembly.Global"/>
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Video streaming sharepoint foundation
I have IIS Media Services 4.1 on my Windows 2008 R2 machine and I want to make video streaming on my Sharepoint foundation site. Let me know how can I do that using IIS Media Services?
or is there ...
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What are _formsweb.config files? SP2010 Claims [Access Denied]
I'm hoping someone will have experience with this. I'm stumped!
I have two SharePoint 2010 (Enterprise) farms: development and production.
Each farm has 3 servers:
SPSQL-Dev, SPSQL-Prod ...
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IIS Log files are not getting generated for the “SharePoint Web Services” webapplication in SharePoint - 2010?
IIS Log files are not getting generated for the "SharePoint Web Services" webapplication in SharePoint - 2010, even though Logging is enabled at the IIS level.
Is that an expected behavior? or this ...
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Does SharePoint 2007 need IIS 6 compatibility?
Just a quick one... If I'm installing SharePoint 2007 to run on top of IIS 7, do I need to enable the IIS 6 compatibility features in IIS 7?
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IIS Error - Invalid Path
I am new to IIS and trying to set up a site on it. I am trying to set up Microsft.Hosting.SharePoint2010.Services. I keep getting the following error.
Here are my Basic Settings. The physical path ...
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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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Best way to force traffic to Web Front End?
I have a SP 2010 farm with a 3-tier structure consisting of 1 DB server, 1 App Server and 1 Web Front End. When I create a Web New Web Application called "Search_WebApp", I notice that it creates the ...
