Questions tagged [sharepoint]

Microsoft SharePoint is a software platform and a family of software products developed by Microsoft for collaboration and web publishing combined. These capabilities include developing web sites, portals, intranets, content management systems, search engines, wikis, blogs, and other tools for business intelligence. This family of products include: Microsoft SharePoint Server, Microsoft SharePoint Foundation, Microsoft Search Server, Microsoft SharePoint D

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Create SharePoint server template using VMWare ESX?

We have to do a lot of SharePoint testing. It would be nice to be able to click a button and deploy a new virtual machine configured as a single server farm. Does anybody have a way to do this with VMWare ESX? You can't just copy the virtual hard…
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Retrieving content from the _catalogs directory of a SharePoint site

I'm trying to retrieve content from the _catalogs directory of a SharePoint site using a script. I've no idea where to start. My first thought was to use wget, but I soon discovered that the the _catalogs folder isn't available over http. As far as…
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sharepoint 3.0 site restore/import trouble

We have some old sharepoint data (from a WSS 3.0 SP1 or SP2 install), that I need to restore. Problem is: This is a time management site, and one of the fields automatically pics up the user name of the user that enters data, and this is used to…
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O365 - Separate topologies

Let's say we have three domains: domaina.com, domainb.com and domainc.com. They have no trust between them. Initial situation Domain A: Active Directory with 2008 R2 & Exchange 2013 Domain B: Active Directory with 2008 & Exchange 2007 SP2 Domain C:…
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Can SharePoint local drafts folder be eliminated as an option at check out?

When checking out documents using Office 2007 from a SharePoint library, the user is offered to copy the document to their local drafts folder. Is there a way to disable this option? I want all documents to stay on the SharePoint server and avoid…
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enable-spfeature publishingsite causes all sharepoint pages to say "access denied"

We're trying to enable the SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure on a SharePoint 2013 site, but as soon as we run enable-spfeature publishingsite -url http://companyweb all http://companyweb pages return Access Denied, even for administrators.…
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Windows Hosts DNS query for _ldap._tcp.domaincontroller, is this normal?

To make this easier to wrap my head around, here's what I'm using in my examples: deecee = my domain controller dctoo = another domain controller internal.foo.bar = the full DNSDomainName of my windows domain. foo = the short (netbios) name…
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Third-party SSD solutions in ProLiant Gen9 servers

has anyone experience with using consumer SSDs like the Samsung 850 Pro in an HP ProLiant Gen9 server with a Smart Array P440ar controller? Judging by various reports about older versions (Gen6 to Gen8) third-party SSDs seem to work in principal,…
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How do SharePoint search statistics get generated?

We have a heavily customised SharePoint publishing (WCM) site that uses no web parts in order to meet with XHTML and (AA) accessibilty guidelines. The trouble is that the search functionality is not generating any usage statistics (Usage reports…
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User Profile Import Failing

I have a SharePoint 2007 farm (SP2, June Cumulative Update) where the User Profile Import job is now failing. The last log entry on the User Profile and Properties page shows the error message "The parameter is incorrect". This persists whether…
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Search Keywords in MOSS

I'm setting up a new Search Center for our Intranet using MOSS and want to make heavy use of of Keywords and Best Bets. However two questions about this have me perplexed and I would appreciate any help/guidance? 1) If you assign a contact to a…
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Random problem with incorrect URL in emails from SharePoint list

I have a MOSS 2007 standard farm comprised of a WFE, an indexing server, and a SQL 2005 database server. The web app is being served on port 80 (http) to an ISA server where it is SSL'd. I have AAMs to change the URLs from http to https. My problem…
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Embedding SharePoint Pages

Is there a way to embed a SharePoint page using the Page Viewer Web Part (or some other method I haven’t thought of) without the Chrome? I want to embed JUST the content within the Page Layout section in the diagram below)? It looks incredibly…
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Navigation/table of contents problem in MOSS 2007

I have a web part in MOSS showing a table of contents for a site. I just have a big problem because one of the subsites of this site is missing from the table of contents. How do I get it back? It's in the right posistion if I inspect the treeview…
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Dealing with 404s from ms sharepoint extension (/_vti_bin/owssrv.dll and /MSOffice/cltreq.asp )

The MS sharepoint extention requests the following files: /_vti_bin/owssrv.dll and /MSOffice/cltreq.asp These requests can generate a lot of 404s which make log files harder to read. I have been redirecting these to / so they don't show up on the…
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