All commercial releases of SharePoint. Excludes free license versions of SharePoint.
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How do you switch to a different site template in SharePoint 2010?
If you used a site template (such as the Document Center template) and wish to use a different template (such as a Team Site), how can you accomplish this? More importantly, how do you do this ...
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Friendly URL and Content Deployment
SharePoint 2013 has introduced Friendly URLs and is implemented using Managed Meta Data Service. The Content Deployment will complain Metadata Navigation is not supported Deactivate Metadata ...
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What are the differences between creating Search center as a subsite vs a new site collection?
What are the differences between creating Search center as a subsite vs a new site collection?
What are the benefits of creating it as as new site collection v.s a subsite.
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User Profile Synchronization - cannot import users without DN entry
I need help in troubleshooting the problem with User Profile Synchronization.
Issue: Some users were treated with stsadm -o migrateuser command and they no longer being imported from Active ...
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Sharing data between multiple site collections
We currently have no central records for the addresses of our offices around the world in Sharepoint. Different teams maintain their own address lists, and a search for an address may return various ...
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SharePoint 2010 custom 401 error page on authenticated site
I'm trying to create a custom 401 error page for my site. The setup is a SharePoint 2010 enterprise site with subwebs. The entire solution requires authentication (no anonymous access). I've tried ...
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The best practice for moving content database between two farms
I have two farms both running SharePoint 2010 and SQL Server 2008 R2, basically something like a development environment and a production environment. I have a site running on web app - port 80 and it ...
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Sharepoint 2007 Site Actions IE9 doesnt work
We have a public facing website which is custom branded. Up until viewing the website in IE9 all standard Sharepoint functionality worked such as Site Actions.
All browsers work with it. Recently ...
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Reasons for not using Sharepoint in an organization?
From your experience, is there any context where you should not use Sharepoint in an organization?
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How to Send Mail to a SharePoint library using hMailServer?
How can i send mail from hmailSserver to a SharePoint library ?
I work on Windows Server 2008. When an email is sent from Outlook I can't find it in the library..
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“SharePoint is not a database!” article of 2009 - does it still apply for SP 2010 and 2013?
I'm talking about this blog post by Chris Woodill.
He mentions the following advantages of modeling data via SQL programming instead of SharePoint's lists:
Primary And foreign keys: one of the most ...
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In which situation use SPSecurity.RunWithElevatedPrivileges with superusertoken?
i have given permission only read only to Users Group.so there are not access to see listitem or any list.
i have create application page with SPGridview with bind listitem.
this page access by this ...
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Protect wsp file from Reverse Engineering
How to protect wsp file so no one can read my source code. When we change wsp file extension from wsp to zip, it gives all dll file and this dll can be extracted from .net reflector and get all source ...
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About SharePoint 2013 display language
Our sharepoint site has two languages, the default language is English, the other is Chinese.
What is the mechanism for how SharePoint chooses display language in SharePoint 2013?
I have found ...
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How to migrate SharePoint 2007 Data to Office 365?
I have SharePoint 2007 site on my server which have lists, libraries, custom web-parts, workflows etc. and i have another SharePoint Server on Office 365 which also have some lists,libraries and ...
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1answer
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Sharepoint Issues log
thanks in advance for taking a look at my inquiry, you help will be tremendously appreciated. This is what I am trying to do:
I need to use issues log on my team's sharepoint site.
I need a number ...
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What is the My Site search experience in geographically distributed model?
I'm developing an architecture model for my company's global SharePoint footprint and have a question on the people search experience for a geographically distributed model. My plan right now is to ...
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What is downside of reducing the workflow timer job in SharePoint2010 from 5mins to 1 mins
I am working on a project which trigger the workflow in code asynchronously, the default time for the workflow timer job to pick the workflow is 5 mins , I would like to reduce the timer job from ...
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Copy publishing pages from MOSS to SP2010
We are upgrading some publishing sites from Moss to SP2010. We have created new master pages, page layouts and updated code to work in SP2010.We just want to migrate data now(pages and items in ...
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Using Third Party editor in sharepoint 2010
Sharepoint 2010 content editor is better than sharepoint2007 but it's lacking lots of functionality.
Is it possible to "substitute" standard rich text editor with something like Telerik Rad editor?
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1answer
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Difference between KPI and Scorecard?
What is the difference between KPI and Scorecard with respect to SharePoint 2010?
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A bug, saboteur, or am I going crazy… SharePoint 2010 Farm That Keeps “breaking”
Good evening everyone. What I'm about to describe is actually occurring. This is not some weird problem that's the result of custom code or a third party SharePoint Solution. It's an out of the box ...
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SharePoint 2010 Documentor
Is there already existing a tool , I think "documentor" can be his name for Sharepoint 2010 that can output a form of documentation with a description of all db, web application , sites, sub sites , ...
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Access Denied in deploy SharePoint Hosted App
I'm trying to build a sharepoint app with type sharepoint hosted app, i'm following the instructions of msdn site:
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MSDN like application on SharePoint 2010
I have a project initiated for a client where they want a Knowledge Base Application for their line of business. The interface needed is almost a replica of MSDN Library which needs to implemented ...
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How to dynamically generate Business Connectivity Services
We are trying to deploy a Business Connectivity Services(BCS) Model solution where the properties in the model depend on the structure of the data exposed by a web service.
Ideally the BCS Model ...
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Error exporting the site field named “Parent Level”
I am trying to save a site as a template. During this process it throws an error "Error exporting the site field named "Parent Level".
Am I doing anything wrong?
Kind Regards,
Sepaka
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Using SharePoint UserAccountDirectoryPath with SSRS
I've got a SharePoint 2010 Enterprise multi-tenant setup integrated with a new SSRS 2008 R2 instance in SharePoint-Integrated mode and have FINALLY managed to get everything working. However, there ...
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Update-SPSolution does not Deploy Solution
I am trying to deploy or update a WSP solution to SharePoint in a script using Update-SPSolution. The problem I have is that if this is the initial install I need to use Add-SPSolution and then ...
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Infopath's built in Username() function returning “i:0#.w|Domain\UserName” instead of just UserName?
How can I modify the UserName() return string to display only the username as opposed to
"i:0#.w|Domain\UserName"?
When I had the same form in my development environment it returned ...
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SPList.Add() vs SPList.AddItem() SharePoint 2010
Using some test code i found out that SPList.AddItem() executes slight faster then SPList.Add() - does anyone know why is it so ?
DateTime start = DateTime.Now;
SPList ...
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Remove E-mail headers from Announcements List SharePoint 2010
The following picture is an e-mail sent by SharePoint announcement, I didn't set this up, but I am trying to remove the "E-mail Headers" section from being sent in the e-mail.
Looking online it ...
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What is new in SharePoint 2013 ?
The SharePoint 2013 is now released. What is New in SharePoint 2013 ?
What are they added in SharePoint 2013 then SharePoint 2010 ?
What are the new features ?
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how do you say blank to sharepoint?
I want to create a view whereby it does not include any items which does not have the 'next review date' as blank, i.e. only includes items which have this field populated. How do I say blank to a ...
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Remove a single user from all site collections in a web application using powershell
Is there a way I can choose to remove a single user from all site collections within a single web application using powershell. There are number of user profiles whose domain account has been blocked ...
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Anonymous Access users can't submit InfoPath 2010 form to Form Library
We have a public-facing SharePoint 2010 Enterprise server hosting a Publishing Portal site running InfoPath Forms Services. We have an InfoPath Form on the server which submits to a Form Library. This ...
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Sharepoint 2013 - Can I use Visual Studio 2012 express edition for web-parts and app parts?
I am new to SharePoint 2013. I want to develop the app and web parts using visual studio 2012 express edition. Can I use vs 2012 express edition to create app and web parts for SharePoint 2013? Can ...
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Automatic translation from Arabic to English in SharePoint 2013
Is it possible to create content let's say a website page in Arabic and then have SharePoint translate it into English automatically?
What I want is to have two versions of the website, one Arabic and ...
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Installing Sharepoint Development Environment on Windows 8 Professional Edition?
Has anyone ever tried installing SharePoint 2010/2013 on Windows 8 Pro Edition?
I am requesting for any suggestions. Should I create a VM using Hyper-V and install there or can I install it on ...
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List for all team sites for a specific user
I am looking for the possibility to display all the team sites a user is member of in the my site for the user.Also the possibility for the admin to get the same information about different user.
Is ...
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Sharepoint Incoming email setup?
Is there a way to change the default FQDN "exmaple@sharepoint.Domain.local" to something like example@sharepoint.com?
I have installed the SMTP feature on the sharepoint server and when In IIS 6.0 it ...
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Limiting the choices available when user clicks “Create”
When a user clicks "Create" from the "View all site content" page, a silverlight dialog box pops up presenting them with choices. We would like to limit the choices available to them in this dialog ...
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Is VS 2010 needed to build a SharePoint 2010 project in Powershell?
Can you build a SharePoint Project without Visual Studio 2010/2012 being installed on the machine you are trying build it on using PowerShell?
I have a PowerShell script the is working great. It ...
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Is it possible to Fire event when Content type added in Shared Documents in sharepoint 2010?
How to fire event when any content type added in shared document library ? How to handle this event ?
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Global Navigation Menu hidden to the back side of web part
Im having a global navigation menu and sub menu under that. The problem is this drop down sub menu is hidden when a dash board web part comes in page. That is the bottom part of the sub menu goes to ...
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Create a custom error page to redirect to instead of generic AccessDenied.aspx?
When a user has not been given permissions to a particular site they receive the ugly "Error: Access Denied" page.
Is it possible to capture this on one particular team site (via custom webpart) and ...
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Sharepoint Site Missing after failed patch
I attempted to apply update KB2553018 to Windows Sharepoint Services 3.0 (via Windows Update) running on 2008 Server (32bit).
The updated failed with Event ID 20 in the System event log: ...
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Disabled ribbon buttons in the library view
We had a user who installed IE 10. This messed up the users access to SharePoint 2010 sites. Then we removed IE 10, but in IE 9 the user still has a couple of Ribbon buttons that she used to use in ...
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Unable to open .PDF in new window with Document Library Groupings
I have a Document Library that is grouped by a column "Meeting Name." I should note that this code works on the other Document Libraries, just does not when the grouping is applied. Any suggestions ...
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How to prevent Excel documents (.xlsx) opening in Excel Services on a mobile device
I have a customer that wants to use the BB(Blackberry) mobile device to open all excel documents (both .xls and .xlsx) using the client application on the device and not excel services. Is this ...
