for questions completely specific to Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
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Installing WSS or MOSS on Windows XP?
I am new to SharePoint and I need to install it on standalone system.
Can I do it on Windows XP?
Can I install WSS or MOSS for free?
Please provide me with links so I can go about installation.
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WSS 3.0 Uninstall SP 2
Is there any guidance on how to safely rip out service pack 2 for SharePoint Services 3.0? It appears to be causing some problems with designer-based WFs that are self-referencing.
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How to change the Master Page URL?
How to change the sub-site master page URL while creating it (sub-site) ? By default, it uses "default.master" is on its "master page gallery" list, want to change the master page url in such a way ...
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Can Sharepoint know what applications you have installed?
When I am accessing a WSS3.0 site from a certain PC I use the actions view on a list and can see options like export to excel, open in access, create a visio diagram.
If I do the same thing from ...
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Uploading files to SharePoint containing the ampersand character
I'm trying to upload files and folders to a library using SharePoint Designer 2007 (on a WSS 3.0 SharePoint site).
It's giving me an error when I try to upload empty folders or folders that have an ...
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Where can I download WSS3 with Service Pack 1 (x64)?
Does anyone know if it's possible to download 64 bit WSS3 with Service Pack 1. All the downloads I have found are for SP2 but I need SP1.
My production environment runs SP1 and this can't be upgraded ...
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Split database of a specific SharePoint List
I need to split the database used for a specific SharePoint list.
The reason is that the list has become too large with 1500+ items & now its affecting the performance.
Is it possible to split ...
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WSP package stuck in retracting state
We are tring to run an update script. As part of this script we use stsadm command retractsolution and then deletesolution to remove the wsp packages.
Our problem is that on the last run several of ...
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Custom List Form Webparts Not Saving if jQuery manipulates the field
I have a dropdown box on a custom webpart and I am initially filling it out with server side c# code in the createchildcontrols section. I wanted to cascade the dropdown to fill out another dropdown. ...
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How to write CAML Query with more than 3 AND Condition
I have search and see the way how to write CAML Query with 3 AND conditions. However, I am not sure how to write CAML Query with more than 3 AND conditions may be with 4 or 5 AND conditions.
Can any ...
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Quick Launch link pointing nowhere
I have a really odd problem. there's a link to a custom list on the Quick Launch which points to nowhere. the content which it is pointing to isn't listed on the "All Items" page, either. How could I ...
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Is there any way to show video in a web part on WSS 3.0?
Is there any ready to use webpart that can be imported to a WSS 3.0 site, in order to view video embedded on website, with no extra coding or server changes?
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Which is the best OS for WSS 3.0
Hi
Which Server OS I should go for ? 2003 or 2008? for WSS 3.0
I will be migrating to MOSS 2007 in December
thx
-saumil
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Calling a web service under the WSS virtual directory gets 401 unauthorized
I have a simple web service that is in a virtual directory under a WSS 3.0 web app virtual directory. If I log on to the box and use IE to execute the web service it works. If I write a web part it ...
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Installing WSS multi-server web farm in DMZ with no AD
We want to setup a WSS (not MOSS) web farm in a DMZ without Active Directory. We're envisioning two WFEs and a separate SQL server for the databases. We've already got the first WFE and SQL Server ...
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recover a deleted site
A user with total control permission accidentally deleted the site he was working on. This site doesn't appear on the user's thrash bin or deleted from it. How can it be recovered without resorting to ...
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The web application at [url] could not be found
Any ideas on the error below?
This happens when I try to search for content on my WSS 3.0 site.
ERROR
" The web application at [url] could not be found. Verify that you have typed the url ...
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Performance when SP site collection contains many large files
We have a client that uploads many large files to the site 10MB++
What I am wondering is are there any maintenance jobs that we could run on SP or SQL server to improve the performance?
Or any way ...
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Custom Timer Job Throwing Exceptions
I have written a custom timer job, created a feature, and written a feature receiver to install and uninstall the Timer Job in the web app on Activate/Deactivate. The custom job roughly follows the ...
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Easiest way to use skype within Sharepoint? [closed]
Which is the easiest way to use Skype within Sharepoint (WSS 3.0)
I mean How to integrate it? I mean when I see a sharepoint username...i want it show skype status also. Is it possible?
Any ideas?
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Employee Leave Balances
How can I use the Absence Request and Vacation Schedule Management template to keep track of everyone's balances.
Say an employee had 15 days of leave available on May 1. For each day of vacation ...
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How to retrieve documents from list?
I created a simple Custom List in WSS3. I also created a Document Library with an additional column field which is a lookup to the Custom List that I created before. Now when I am on the Custom List ...
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sharepoint 2007 webpart question
I created a user control in visual studio I want to deploy to sharepoint 2007. This is my first one and I created the project using the repository pattern and POCO. Does sharepoint support this type ...
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Visio services in WSS 3.0
Do we have Visio services in WSS 3.0 ?
I mean, do WSS 3.0 provide any kind of support for VISIO ?
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how to open another browser instance or tab from within a page viewer web part
I made a simple graphical object in Microsoft Excel 2007; I saved it as as web page and uploaded it to a document library. Thereafter, I used a page viewer web part to show my page. However, whenever ...
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Error: System.Net.WebException: The request failed with HTTP status 401: Unauthorized
I am very new to SharePoint and Development in ASP.net. And I am stuck on probably something very small. I created a VPC with WSS 3.0, SharePoint 2007, Windows Server 2008. (I followed TechNet's ...
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Copying Content from a WSS 3.0 Site to SharePoint 2010 Enterprise
We are in the process of migrating from one Team Foundation Server instance which was using WSS 3.0 to a new instance running SharePoint 2010 Enterprise. We have quite a bit of content in the various ...
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Show deleted users in User Information List programmatically
I am working with retrieving user info programmatically in WSS 3.0. I understand that users are stored in each Site Collection's User Information List. Deleted users are not visible in the User ...
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How to migrate custom list forms
We have several lists in our WSS 3.0 environment where NewForm.aspx, EditForm.aspx and DisplayForm.aspx are customized via SharePoint Designer 2007. Now we plan to upgrade to SharePoint Foundation ...
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Blew up my WSS 3.0 server - need help
I tried to Extend Web Application on our WSS 3.0 server and I'm getting 'Service Unavailable' for both new URL and the old/previously working one. (I have done the same process on SharePoint 2010 ...
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AD groups with upper-case letters are all lower-case if added in wss
we are running an wss 3.0 connected to AD.
New Users were directly given permissions to subsites/lists by adding them to the permission list in sharepoint. The users are already in AD security groups ...
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Crawling wss3 site from SP2010 standard using STS3 url
I'm bringing up a SP 2010 standard instance and want to configure it to crawl the old WSS3 site collection until the migration is done. I understand that the proper method is to use the STS3 urls ...
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Auto populating columns within a list?
First time user & poster here. A friend recommended me to this site for a question I have in relation to populating columns within a list. Hopefully I can explain it properly and someone could ...
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Migrate from WSS 3.0 to SharePoint 2010 Enterprise
I need to upgrade my existing WSS 3.0 environment to SharePoint 2010.
I need to know that whether jumping directly to SP 2010 is possible ?
If yes, Can ypu please list the process of migration?
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How to append due date to a list in Sharepoint?
How to append due date to a list in Sharepoint?
I have a list in WSS 3.0 where many people work on a particular task. So Due Date goes on changing frequently. But I need to keep a record of Due ...
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Theme gif not cached
We have a site running on wss 3.0, in a cluster with a hardware load balancer. The site is NOT https. All clients are running IE6.
About 60% of the traffic is for a single gif ...
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can i control who can view a column in a list, but still be able to edit the item?
I'd like people to be able to add items to a list, but for there to be 1 column in that list only visible/editable by the admin. Is this possible?
thanks!
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Hide/Show a DIV
I spend all the morning in searching how to hide/show a DIV by clicking on a link.
I'm using SharePoint 3.0 and I have a list of items, and inside the body field (Multiple lines of text - Enhanced ...
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What should be server bandwidth speed of for WSS 3.0?
Can someone please suggest on recommended internet speed of a VPS for Sharepoint (WSS3.0) usage with 1000 users database and 100 users online at any given point of time?
Is 24 MBPS uplink enough?
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Should WSS 3.0 be on Shared or Independant server?
Are there any conflicts if my WSS 3.0 environment is on shared server which has other sites like Joomla etc? Or I should go for Independent server?
Which is the best option?
Appreciate all the help!
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Cancel Site Delete
I need to take a backup of sitecollection whenever user tried to delete it. I am using SiteDeleting(SPWebEventProperties properties) event for this. One constraint is, i need to cancel the delete if ...
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Can't move or access WSS Central Admin
We have several WSS Servers:
WSS1
WSS2
WSS3
WSS4
SharePoint thinks that Central Administration is on WSS3 and that it can be access via SSL on port 22641. The problem is that central ...
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Pressing back button after viewing a PDF file, gives page expired error
When we open a PDF in the browser from a document library, and then press the back button we get page expired.
One possible solution we have found is to open the PDF in adobe reader, as per this ...
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WSS 3.0 Write to New Column in User Information List
I am working on a site that is using FBA in WSS 3.0. This is an external facing site, so in the FBA User Management page (UsersDisp.aspx) I would like to add a column that displays the user's company ...
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Recovering Test farm after failed SP3 updating
Last week I tried to update our test wss 3.0 farm from SP2 to SP3 in order to use the Permissions reporting tool that came along with the Sharepoint Administration Kit. However, the update failed and ...
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What URLs should be avoided for automated scanning of Sharepoint sites?
I work in application security and SharePoint is a new area for me to be operating in. I apologize in advance if my command of the local lingo is lacking.
I recently set up an automated scan of a ...
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Check who downloaded the document - WSS
I am using WSS website and I have to check the username of the person who downloads the document. Programmatically or with some built in feature.
Let me know.
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Using Web services - could not load type
I have written a bridge between my application and the Sharepoint webservices, to return the data to my project in a useful format. However When any line tries to create a new instance of this ...
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Displaying a PKI-protected RSS feed within Sharepoint
I'm trying to create a "heartbeat" page in WSS 3.0 that displays multiple RSS feeds from a number of different non-sharepoint sites within our corporate intranet. Thanks to the help I received here: ...
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event receiver issue
I have made event receiver which updates a field in a list, that event receiver is running in the subsite but not the the root site. The event receiver is scope = web.
Can there be some issue with ...
