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Recent update: 2008-3-21

Welcome!

8071 byte By LawrenceLiu-MSFT at 2008-3-7
Welcome to this new forum, which is part of the SharePoint forums group that contains a comprehensive set of forums designed to cover all aspects of SharePoint Products and Technologies. I’ve held off on having these forums created for over a year because we already had a handful of newsgroups ...

Where can I download the wss12.xsd file?

372 byte By BrianFoley at 2008-3-6
I am trying to edit a .webpart file and would like to add the schema to the properties for the file in VS 2005. However, in my 12 hive directory there is only a wss.xsd file and no wss12.xsd or anything resembling that.Several forum posts make references to the wss12.xsd file but I can't find ...

problem connecting to DB

755 byte By DSmiddy at 2008-3-5
Can someone help with this error its logging every ever seconds and its doin my nut.Its on a windows SBS 2003 SP1Thanks.Event Type: ErrorEvent Source: Windows SharePoint Services 2.0Event Category: NoneEvent ID: 1000Date: 30/01/2007Time: 12:10:41User: N/AComputer: ...

Unrecognized tag prefix or device filter 'SharePoint'.

244 byte By Andr_Silva at 2008-3-3
I have this erro: Error 3 Unrecognized tag prefix or device filter 'SharePoint'. C:\Projectos AS\Projectos 2005\DocumentPage\DocumentPage.aspx 13 53 C:\...\DocumentPage\ <strong>Can anybody help me?</strong> Thank's!

Document Center VS Site Contents

231 byte By Andr_Silva at 2008-3-1
<P>What's the diference and the advantages to create list's in the Document Center insted on the Site Contents?</P> <P><STRONG>Can anybody tell me?</STRONG></P> <P><STRONG></STRONG> </P> <P><STRONG>Thank's!!!!</STRONG></P>

Javascript error in Internet Explorer

684 byte By rimey at 2008-2-28
Hi,I've been searching for this topic, but can't find any articles on it. Some user in my company using Windows 2000 SP4 with Internet Explorer 6 SP1. Previously when we were using WSS 2, we dont have any problem. But when we upgrade to WSS 3, problem start to raise. Some user cannot click ...

how to restore portal sites and contents from beta version? (MOSS 2007)

251 byte By sweetpea_0911 at 2008-2-27
<div id="post_message_1122">i only had a database backup files, not the sharepoint backup (.SPB )files..my question is, does it possible to restore all the sites and contents from beta to licensed version. How?Please all..really need your help..</div>

When does WSS 3 Beta 2 (Not TR) expire?

111 byte By abp07 at 2008-2-26
Can someone please tell me when WSS 3 Beta 2 (not tech refresh) will expire? Thank you, Alex

MySite (old)

320 byte By Nlepor at 2008-2-25
I just updated to MOSS 2007 from SPS 2003. When I click on MySite everything works fine, but when I'm working in it, I get the title MySite (old) up top that when clicked on goes back to the 2003 mysite. Any way I can remove that? Do I just delete the Mysite site? not the personal ...

When I edit a document it opens as Read Only

360 byte By raq at 2008-2-24
Hi:Does anybody knows why if one user is administrator of a site and edits a Word or Excel document, it opens as Read Only? He is opening the document with the 'Edit with Microsoft Office...' but he cannot save the document, and it is necessary to delete and upload it again, and he has to do ...

WSS Events list missing VSTF Portal

1006 byte By BJHop at 2008-2-23
Hello, I posted this in the VSTF forum but was refered here when we hit a dead end. Here is a link to that forum (https://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=1194351&SiteID=1&mode=1) Basically, I want to extent my Team Portals to have a calendar. I was told to use the Events ...

User registeration

143 byte By Lexer at 2008-2-22
Is there a way of making a username and password registration? Example: Something like hotmail, where users register to get access to the site.

dEPLOYMENT OF SharePoint to another server

289 byte By iANUARGG at 2008-2-22
Hi, You install Sharepoint portal in your machine and after making customisation, you want to install same customization to another machine means deployment of this sharepoint to another server. Please let me about all the steps of doing it. Thanks... Anurag

I want add MyList and Document Libraries to Quicklaunch in sharepoint2003? Is th

14 byte By Ashok at 2008-2-22
Advance thanks

IE crashs when opening office doc from sharepoint 2003

1111 byte By slyi at 2008-2-21
Hi All, There is numerous reports (see links below) of IE crashing on vista when opening word or ppt from sharepoint 2003. This is also happening to me. Does anyone know how to fix this? Thanks slyi ...

WSS Events list missing VSTF Portal

1006 byte By BJHop at 2008-2-20
Hello, I posted this in the VSTF forum but was refered here when we hit a dead end. Here is a link to that forum (https://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=1194351&SiteID=1&mode=1) Basically, I want to extent my Team Portals to have a calendar. I was told to use the Events ...

Webpart error in new Site Collection...

1774 byte By Nikita at 2008-2-19
I created a new Web Application for my new Project and then created a Site Collection into it. But when I navigated to this new site url, it displayed configureation error : Configuration Error Description: An error occurred during the processing of a configuration file required to service this requ...

Source code control using MOSS 2007

285 byte By lokia at 2008-2-19
Hi All, We are using Miscrosoft share point server 2007. We like to know if there is a possibility to use this for the source code(from Visual Studio) versioning. If it can be done, can you please point me to some documents which talks about this. Thanks in Advance. Lokeya

wss3.0 how to create first website with or without using templates

1345 byte By CanUHelpMe at 2008-2-18
Hi All,I am new to sharepoint website development.Today i install windows sharepoint services3.0 on my system.I am facing some problem:1. After that, i got a SharePoint Central Administration v3 website installed in IIS.Now i need to create a new website.For this, i go to the Application ...

Deleting and Recreating a custom Outlook View or "Attempted to read or write protected memo

9321 byte By CMerc at 2008-2-17
I'm getting the error message "Failed to create [NAME] View in the Contacts folder: Attempted to read or write protected memory. This is often an indication that other memory is corrupt."I'm obviously writing an Outlook Add-In. I've attached the relevant code below. To summarize, the problem ...

licensing questions

330 byte By TreyTro at 2008-2-16
Is there a CAL needed for people to browse Sharepoint content?Is there a CAL needed for people to add content to Sharepoint?Is there a different CAL depending on whether someone adds "Enterprise Content" such as KPI's vs. standard content such as ...

my sharepoint log folder D:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12

76 byte By rtaiss at 2008-2-15
<P>Is that normal, what should I do to prevent that pls?</P> <P>Thanks</P>

Javascript error in Internet Explorer

684 byte By rimey at 2008-2-15
Hi,I've been searching for this topic, but can't find any articles on it. Some user in my company using Windows 2000 SP4 with Internet Explorer 6 SP1. Previously when we were using WSS 2, we dont have any problem. But when we upgrade to WSS 3, problem start to raise. Some user cannot click ...

Subdomain and local ip address

553 byte By ratjetoes at 2008-2-15
Hi,I've created a webapplication and link a subdomain to it. Also, I fill in the subdomain in the field Load balance url. Now all links are accesible throught the subdomain.There is just one problem: when i want to add something to the site accessed by the subdomain, all links work except the ...

Stsadm.exe searchadcustomquery

466 byte By TheFitzman at 2008-2-15
Can someone help me with the syntax of the following command?Stsadm.exe -o setproperty –url http://server –pn "peoplepicker-searchadcustomquery" -pv After the -pv I need to put the custom query but there is no documentation as to how it should be typed.I am running this command to ...

Attempted to read or write protected memory?

892 byte By ColinBowern at 2008-2-15
I'm seeing the following error pop up several times a second in the application event log:Type: ErrorDate: 1/29/2007Time: 8:34:24 AMEvent: 6398Source: Windows SharePoint Services 3Category: TimerUser: N/AComputer: SERVERDescription:The Execute method of job definition ...

MOSS and Documentum

164 byte By ShylaN at 2008-2-14
Hi, I would appreciate if somebody can post some material, links comparing MOSS with Documentum and other competing products. Regards Shyla

KPI Detail Web Part

964 byte By TreyTro at 2008-2-14
I installed the trial version of Office SharePoint Server 2007 and enabled Enterprise features.I then followed the instructions here to create a KPI list: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointserver/HA100800271033.aspxNow I want to display the KPI's using the KPI Detail Web Part, but I ...

best practices for moving a WSS site from test to production

1010 byte By ViscoliGiuseppe at 2008-2-13
Does anyone have a reference that describes the procedure for and best practices for moving a WSS site from test to production? Does anyone have a reference for tools that move only the new content to production environment (incremental upgrade)? Regards, ...

Blogpost description

515 byte By webbes at 2008-2-13
Hi there,I can't seem to find the Description sitecolumn.I would like to add it to blogpost because it is very annoying if you send the complete post in your rss-feed's description and I would like to use the Content Query Webpart to aggregate my blogs on one page and include both Title and ...

Special characters and paged grouped views

700 byte By MalinAndersson at 2008-2-12
Hi allI'v run into a strange behaviour of WSS 2.0. Here is the scenario:- I have a view of a custom list that is grouped. - The field that is used for grouping is a lookup field to a choice field in another custom list- The custom list contains 100's of items, so it is pagedWhat happens is ...

WSS 2.0 and security group sync

856 byte By MalinAndersson at 2008-2-11
Hi allI have a simple question, but I cannot seem to find an answer to it anywhere.I'm working with WSS 2.0 and have no opportunity to test this scenario as our WSS-AD connection is faulty on forehand. What I want to know is the following: If I add a security group as user on a WSS site in WSS ...

Sharepoint 2003 issue?

1046 byte By dapi at 2008-2-10
Hi, We have deployed TFS with sharepoint server 2003 (web interface) and using the single server setup for document and source code version control. We have discovered an issue that is causing some trouble in team which allows any user to checkin a document that is checked out by another user. ...

IE crashs when opening office doc from sharepoint 2003

1152 byte By slyi at 2008-2-10
Hi All, There is numerous reports (see links below) of IE crashing on vista when opening word or ppt from sharepoint 2003. This is also happening to me. Does anyone know how to fix this? Thanks slyi ...

When I edit a document it opens as Read Only

360 byte By raq at 2008-2-8
Hi:Does anybody knows why if one user is administrator of a site and edits a Word or Excel document, it opens as Read Only? He is opening the document with the 'Edit with Microsoft Office...' but he cannot save the document, and it is necessary to delete and upload it again, and he has to do ...

Why take long time to open WSS site?

178 byte By angi.w at 2008-2-8
Hi, When first time to open WSS site, it always takes long time to open, Why? Any way could improve this issue and how? Thanks for any advice! Angi

problem connecting to DB

755 byte By DSmiddy at 2008-2-7
Can someone help with this error its logging every ever seconds and its doin my nut.Its on a windows SBS 2003 SP1Thanks.Event Type: ErrorEvent Source: Windows SharePoint Services 2.0Event Category: NoneEvent ID: 1000Date: 30/01/2007Time: 12:10:41User: N/AComputer: ...

How do I change the URL setting

384 byte By follmerd at 2008-2-7
I'm a newbie here and trying to figure out how to change the URL setting. I did the basic install taking all the recommended install settings. When I go to the SPS site I can not get to it unless setup the short url name in my hosts file. How do I set SPS to use my full url rather than the ...

Sharepoint & IIS

326 byte By VikasGoyal at 2008-2-7
Hi,I have a basic query. How sharepoint and IIS are related to each other. is IIS part of shrepoint 2007?what iis can do which sharepoint cant do ? http://DotNetWithMe.blogspot.comvikas ...

permissions question

229 byte By JoostSchermers at 2008-2-7
Hi does anybody know if it's possible to only have Edit rights on your own documents? We want all our customers to create pages. But we don't want customers to change pages from other customers. thank you

Date calculation

232 byte By Vita27 at 2008-2-6
I have a list in sharepoint in which i have 2 field with dates, I want to calculte the days between the 2 dates and exclude the weekends, any one know the formula pleeeeease <img src="/library/msdn/images/emoticons/smile_sniff.gif">

Could not load file or assembly Microsoft.SharePoint.intl

2772 byte By ColinBowern at 2008-2-6
From time to time I am seeing an error pop up that causes SharePoint to crash. It seems to happen when the app pool cycles or the server starts up. I can correct it by cycling the app pool. The problem I have is that the message doesn't seem to be true when I use Process Monitor to scan for ...

Licensing for 3 tier design

276 byte By EWANAME at 2008-2-5
I know I need to ask my licensing rep, but I was hoping someone knows the answer to this real quick from experience. Do I have to buy a MOSS 2007 server license for both a WFE and an application server role? I assume yes at almost $4,000 a pop but I'm hoping I'm wrong......

MOSS 2007 render mht documents

579 byte By beewil at 2008-2-5
I've created a document library with a custom content type of Document. When I create a new document it opens Word and I'm able to create a new document of type mht. This is nice because it will render the document as a web page instead of opening Word to view the document. My question is, ...

how to open Sharepoint Website?

484 byte By madhu at 2008-2-5
Sharepoint not installed on my system. try{ String str; using (SPSite oSPSite = new SPSite(" http://ukches3138sp001/Testing3148")) { using (SPWeb oSPWeb = oSPSite.OpenWeb()) { str = oSPWeb.Title; str = oSPWeb.Url; oSPWeb.Dispose(); oSPSite.Dispose(); } } } catch (Exception ex) { MessageBox...

Cannot upload a .exe file to a sharepoint site.

340 byte By SunitPinto at 2008-2-4
Hi,I am unable to upload an exe file to a site created using MOSS 2007. Inspite of removing .exe from the list of blocked files in Central Administrator, I still cannot upload a exe file. How do i upload a .exe file?Any information on this will be appritiated..Thanks in advance,Regards,Sunit ...

Assign Permissions to People in a list

185 byte By Lexer at 2008-2-4
I have a list of employees information in a HR Sharepoint site. Is there a way making the sharepoint automatically assign permissions to people in the list? Help would be appreciated.

Adding "Person Column" to a list

772 byte By SharePointing at 2008-2-4
I may be barking up the wrong tree but thought I would throw it out there.Using MOSS and the BDC, we have the capability to add Business Data as columns in a list. How would I go about creating a "People" type in my BDC that pulls the data from the user profiles in MOSS?What I would ...

MOSS 2007 ADAM

141 byte By JEANBAPTISTELOTY at 2008-2-4
<span> Hello, I would like to know if MOSS2007 will be configured with ADAM (Active Directory Application Mode ) JB </span>

Sharepoint Blog

458 byte By Volksman at 2008-2-3
I want to setup a secure Blog. This means that each user would have an online journal. only that reader and certain administrators could read this journal. 1.Is this somthing that should be done in sharepoint or should I just build a webapp to do this?2.If this is for sharepoint where can I go ...

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