for questions completely specific to Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
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how to hide 'view properties'? (want to allow a user to submit a file but not be able to tell who submitted files)
I'm creating a basic SP site where users can upload documents to a library and view other docs in that library, but not have any way of telling who uploaded what document.
I've got the permissions ...
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2answers
2k views
Creating a calendar event with recurrence and all day event enabled programmatically?
I'm trying to creat a calender event that will be an all day event and will repeat every year from a list that has everyone's birthday. The recurrence works great and so does the All day event.
The ...
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1answer
507 views
Stop users with contributor rights from deleting documents
We have a wss 3.0 site that has a document library based on a custom list definition.
We would like to block users that have contributor rights from deleting documents, what is the best way of doing ...
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1answer
58 views
Flagging feature in Sharepoint
Is the 'Flagging' (like we have in MS Outlook) feature available for WSS 3.0
pls help!
Thanks
regards
saumil
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2answers
703 views
Deploying CKEditor into SharePoint
Is it possible to integrate CKEditor with SharePoint (WSS 3.0)? Could it be possible with Visual Studio and deploying as a Web Part??
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2answers
270 views
Central Administration pointing to wrong port
When I log into WSS 3.0 Central Administration it is pointing to an old tcp port which was used for testing. How do I configure this to open to my main site?
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2answers
412 views
Custom User Control and FIPS Encryption Issues
I have created several custom user controls that I added to the Redering templates of some forms in a custom solution for WSS 3. Most of these templates have codebehind and they all are correctly ...
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3answers
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Portal Site on WSS
I have tow questions..
Could I create a complete portal for Internet with WSS 3.0 or MOSS is nessesary for that?
I wanted to know if it is possible to install WSS 3.0 on Windows Server 2008 R2 or ...
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1answer
292 views
Feature Activation through stapling
I am developing a sharepoint feature which takes a backup of the site at sitecollection level and at site level whenevar a user tries to delete the site. The feature is working fine without issues for ...
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2answers
386 views
How to make fields in User profile page read only?
I use WSS 3.0
I want fields like Name, email etc Read-Only.
Is this possible?
thx
saumil
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1answer
477 views
Add New Field to Every Content Type or Base Content Type
In our quest to handle some requirements to levelize the type of data users are adding to Sharepoint, we have come up with the idea that we need to add a choice field to all existing content types to ...
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3answers
715 views
Custom Header / Footer options in Sharepoint (WSS 3 IE Browser Only)
I have been searching for several weeks now how best to approach something we have been asked to come up with and it seems that it should be simple but I have yet to find a suitable answer. I want to ...
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1answer
1k views
config wizard fails at step 2 after creating database
I have been having a lot of trouble installing WSS 3.0 on windows server 2008, usign SQL 2008.
I have found often the solution where it asks to create the db usign the psconfig command line but ...
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1answer
75 views
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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2answers
88 views
How to “Security Mark” webpages/printouts based on list/library content
I am currently in an environment where we are getting ready to fully deploy SharePoint (WSS 3) to several departments and divisions that have some documents that contain sensitive data. They also may ...
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4answers
6k views
Install/Uninstall WSS 3.0
What is best and easiest way to uninstall WSS 3.0 from your server.
I simply tried Remove option from WSS setup wizard but it does not uninstall all content.
like
1> Site created (they were still ...
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1answer
598 views
Dynamic WebPart connections
I'm prototyping the best way to dynamically connect web parts at runtime. Essentailly, the application will allow for several disparate application groups to create web parts that will be consumed ...
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2answers
712 views
Define Workflow Lookup
I'm updating a list that requires Lookup Details on 2 fields, but I can't for the life of me see how to do that.
Is it possible?
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2answers
473 views
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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1answer
524 views
How to connect a customized Dispform to a different list?
I have two lists (List A and List B) that were created from the same list template.
The Dispform for List A was customized (some fields were cut out and others were rearranged). The customized ...
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2answers
409 views
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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3answers
2k views
Problem uploading files to WSS 3.0 from Office 2010
hopefully someone can help me out with this one. We're using WSS 3.0 with forms based authentication and I'm not able to get it to integrate with Office client app. I'm using Office 2010 and I'm able ...
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1answer
289 views
Custom Form Template Issues WSS
This is mainly a verification question as I have been fighting with an issue for a couple of days now. I have two lists derived from 2 custom content types. Both content types used the task base ...
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3answers
152 views
What are the best search terms looking for SharePoint content on the web?
i've done some work in the SharePoint Server 2007 space and i'm pretty satisfied with the content on the two big search providers. Switching to SharePoint 2010 i'm curious to see what are the best ...
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1answer
482 views
Preventing Sharepoint from converting email addresses to mailto links
I have a WSS 3.0 Sharepoint site that is automatically displaying email addresses as mailto link. Ideally I want to prevent this from happening, this is a customised site and we will be forcing users ...
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2answers
2k views
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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2answers
159 views
Internal messaging in SharePoint
Are there any built-in templates/features in WSS3.0/MOSS 2007 that provide internal messaging functionality?
Not email integration -- I'm thinking of the kind of internal messaging between members ...
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3answers
2k views
How to categorise/tag WSS wiki pages?
I am using the WSS wiki, and as it's getting bigger I could really do with organising the pages better.
Is there a good way to categorise wiki pages into groups/categories, or even to tag them?
I am ...
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1answer
853 views
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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1answer
462 views
How does Sharepoint Foundation 2010 maps to WSS 3.0?
How does Sharepoint Foundation 2010 map to WSS 3.0? Is it a replacement for WSS 3.0?
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3answers
466 views
How to hide members of groups from other members within same group
I have not been able to find a way to make this possible yet, but we don't want any members to be able to see who else is in their permission groups.
I've seen the setting for limiting membership ...
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2answers
1k views
Can I export a SharePoint 2007 list to an Excel file subdivided into separate worksheets?
We have a SharePoint 2007 deployment which will have a substantially large document library. My client wants the ability to export this library to an Excel spreadsheet, but specifically wants the ...
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4answers
469 views
Managing different groups of users within same site collection
We need to use WSS for different groups of clients and wondered if there is a way to seperate different groups of users, to prevent them from ever seeing each others details. An example of when this ...
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2answers
979 views
Advanced Personalization in SharePoint (User Preferences, Web Part drag and drop)
I need some pointers / thoughts on how to achieve this advanced personalization in SharePoint with User Preference, profiles, favorites...etc. I see a product is already on the market so it's ...
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2answers
1k views
Best way to backup a WSS / SharePoint wiki?
We're using WSS to track a project I'm working on, and I'm storing a lot of research within the wiki that I'd like to keep backups of.
I'm wondering what would be the best way to go about this? Is ...
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1answer
278 views
Audience Compilation and My Site Performance
Is audience compliation anyhow related to My Site Performance?
My guess. No.
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7answers
490 views
How to Configure a SharePoint Site in IIS
I have created new site in SharePoint using WSS, but when i try to browse the site from IIS i get no page found...
but i have one site that is in central administrator that is running fine...
i have ...
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2answers
496 views
How to verify the Site Collection quota size?
One of the site-collection administrators wants to verify the Site Collection quota size (he does not have access to Central Administration.)
Is there a way to achieve this?
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1answer
434 views
Managing Quotas and Content Databases with multiple Site Collections
Five content DBs are associated with a webapplication and each content DB can store upto 50GB.
We have configured a couple of site quotas as follows:
basic_quota (1GB)
collab_quota (2GB)
...
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1answer
457 views
Authentication & Authorization in SharePoint 2007
User Steven has the Active Directory account however his profile is not yet populated into SSP User profiles.
NT Authenticated users have the access permission on "Shared Documents - Document ...
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2answers
3k views
How Can Can I Disable Verbose Logging?
I tried to disable verbose logging through Central Administration (SharePoint 2007) however it is not getting updated, still it is using Verbose, what would be the reason and how to fix this?
Do I ...
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1answer
137 views
Introduce a new WFE in the existing SharePoint 2007 Farm?
We would like to introduce a new WFE in the existing SharePoint 2007 Farm, due to the business requirement, which already has 8WFEs and separate servers for Index, Query & admin. what would be the ...
2
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1answer
181 views
Site collection Disaster Recovery?
One of the Site collection Administrators has deleted the Site Collection mistakenly, so we want to restore it back. What would the best approach ?
Some of the SQL stuff:
SQL Full backup -> Every ...
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1answer
3k views
Move an existing Site Collection to a new Content Database
We have 5 Content DBs for a Web Application which has 50+ Site Collections. I want to move an existing Site Collection from one content DB to another.
Is that possible, if so how ?
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4answers
1k views
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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8answers
5k views
Modification of '_layouts/upload.aspx'
Interesting dilemma here maybe some can weigh in on. I have a requirement to disable the "overwrite existing files" checkbox when uploading a single or multiple documents to a document library. The ...
4
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2answers
252 views
How can I compare WFEs to ensure a WSP was deployed succesfully?
I'm a sharepoint 2007 administrator.
We are running with two WFE and deployed a wsp package recently, we suspect that the deployment was not completely successful.
we would like to compare the WSPs ...
3
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1answer
559 views
SSL and Forms Based Authentication in WSS 3.0
I have a FBA application and we would like to use SSL with it.
By default, does setting SSL in IIS use SSL for the entire site, or just the login?
We think we'd like to use SSL for the entire visit ...
2
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3answers
471 views
Speed up deleting / retracting solution
We have a largish SharePoint solution with 15 wsp packages, each package contains several webparts etc. We use stsadm to uninstall and install the packages.
We deploy fairly often to the test ...
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1answer
270 views
WSS 3.0 Configuration Wizard exception
After installing WSS 3.0 I'm getting the following error in the configuration wizard:
An Exception of type
System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException was
thrown. Additional exception
information ...
