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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Server becomes very slow and how to find the memory leak

I meet a very serious problem with the server. Our servers is very fast before. But this week, it becomes slower and slower. Everyday afterroon, the w3wp process would halt and we can not connect to the sharepoint again. When nobody use the…
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Change & release management in a SharePoint Environment

How do you handle change & release management in SharePoint? Do you have a registry of installed solutions,form templates, etc? Do you documentyour installations with a tool or by hand? Where do you keep a backup of installed software? Do you keep…
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IISRESET Error

I received the following error while running IISRESET on our MOSS 2007 Index Server: Restart attempt failed. The data is invalid. (2147942413, 8007000d) It appears that the IIS Admin Service is failing to stop properly and thus cannot be…
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Sharepoint - one way sync to a second SP server for standby/backup

Using MOSS 2007 on SQL server 2005 is there any way to do a "one-way" synch of data from a production server to a standby server? This would be a one-way process only, and can happen daily rather than in real-time. The standby server won't be used…
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SharePoint 2013 Active Directory Group not working

Just setup a new 2013 SharePoint...Put a handful of users in an AD group that was then put in the SP site members group. Works perfect for most people, but some are getting access denied messages to the site even though they are in the AD group. If…
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Kerberos issues after new server of same name joined to domain

Environment: Windows Server 2012, 2 Domain Controllers, 1 domain. A server called Sharepoint1 was joined to the domain (running Sharepoint 2013 using NTLM). The fresh install for Sharepoint1 (OS and Sharepoint) is performed and set up for Kerberos…
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What is a good SharePoint 2007 anti-virus solution?

What real-world experiences have you had with SharePoint anti-virus products? Are there any that should be avoided? So far I have had Microsoft Forefront recommended but that's it. Thanks for your help!
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Sharepoint - tracking downloaded files

Is there an easy way in WSS to track when files are downloaded from a site?
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Migrating an Access Database into SharePoint 2007

To my surprise and delight I read that an adminsitrator can import (nearly directly) an Access 2007 database into a sharepoint site. Automagically, the database in transformed into lists and views with some table lookup thrown in for good measure.…
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How do you change languages for SharePoint Central Administration on a standalone environment?

We need to test i8n for custom pages we have in SharePoint Central administration. It is easy and straightforward to change the language for a site, but central administration seems to be a bit more involved. Potential answers involve: Detach the…
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Time to recrawl and repopulate a SharePoint search database?

And yet one more SharePoint question from MCM yesterday. What kind of HA do you provision for your SharePoint search databases? I heard from one admin of a very, very large SharePoint farm that they don't have a redundant copy of the search database…
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Changing farm account in Sharepoint 2010

After changing the the farm account to a domain user account I get the following error when trying to access the Central Administration page: "Cannot connect to configuration database" After I realized the headache may not be worth it, I decided to…
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Sharepoint 2007: Two entire site collections went read-only overnight, the other 5 are fine

Myself and a coworker are both Site Admins for every site collection we've got. Well, until Friday night. Most admin privileges were disabled for two entire site collections. There is no custom code running anywhere in MOSS, and there are no…
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How to stop .Net's Dr Watson running in Server 2008?

Summary: My "dual-core" VM has one core being totally wasted by a constantly running Dr Watson process (provided by the .Net Runtime), and I can't figure out how to stop if from running. When it runs in conjunction with the timed…
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How can I make sharepoint use a small URL (e.g. http://internal.com instead of http://internal.com/sites/osfc/Pages/Default.aspx)

I'm new to sharepoint 2007, currently the home page is htp://internal.com/sites/osfc/Pages/Default.aspx but I would like to use htp://internal.com or have htp://internal.com redirect to the long URL. How can I do this? I thought of using a 301…
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