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    - Installing SharePoint w/non-standard SQL port I'm installing SharePoint and configuring it to use a remote SQL Server that does not use the default SQL TCP/IP port. The installation wizard presents a page titled "Specify Configuration Database Settings". How does one specify a non-standard SQL port when installing SharePoint? Thanks in advance G Tag: Configuration replication? Tag: 66854
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    - Is it possible to add color to the title Hello all, Is it possible to add color to the title of events when creating a new item in lists or calendar view? If so how? companyweb sbs 2003 Thanks for the answer, Tag: Configuration replication? Tag: 66852
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    - How to move survey? I want to move several surveys from area A to area B, so that I can assign special permission in area B. When I tried to "change location" in the suvey setting, it seems like making a virtual link to the original survey, instead of copying. Is there a way to do a real copy? I also tried to save as template, but from area B, I can't see area A's template. Help... Thanks. Tag: Configuration replication? Tag: 66849
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    - Tree Navigaion on Home Page of Portal On the home page of the portal there is a tree navigation part. There is a section called sites with one site in it but I cannot seem to get any other sites to show up under the site link on the tree webpart. I have try everything I know. Tag: Configuration replication? Tag: 66847
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    - Search scopes,indexes and content sources Hiya all, I am trying to customize the Search functionality in our sharepoint enviroment. Our Portal Site contains different area's. Each area represents a country. Under each country we have sites. By default there are three Search options, All Sources, people and This Topic. I want to create a search per Country. I defined three search options; 1) New Content Index 2) New Content Source 3) New Search Scope If I try to update my Content Index I get an error. "The address was excluded because of restrictions in the site path rules" When I add the inclusion in the Content Index http://spsportal/area-name autopmaticly the root of the sps portal is added. If i keep this enabled I get ALL inforation instead of information only from that specific country. Can someone help me.. thanks Ronald Tag: Configuration replication? Tag: 66845
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    - Log off button Is their a way to create a log off button? I need to make sure my users can log off the extranet because they're using public computers. Regards Tag: Configuration replication? Tag: 66834
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    - Error restoring to new server I'm trying to migrate SPS 2003 to new hardware using spsbackup.exe. The new server has a clean SPS install with SQL Server Standard Edition. When restoring spsbackup gives the following error messasge: "ERROR: Exception of type Microsoft.SharePoint.Portal.Install.DuplicateDirectoryException was thrown" The databases seem to have been restored and there are no errors in the Windows Event Viewer. Can anyone shed any light on this message? Some other information: The old server had SQL Server Desktop Engine. Would this cause a problem? The new server has a new domain name but I guess the restore process is supposed to take care of that (?). Tag: Configuration replication? Tag: 66831
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    - Migrating from WSS to SPS Hi there, I was wondering if anyone has any experience of migrating from WSS SP1 (got lots of sites already configured) to SPS2003 SP1. Can I just install SPS on top of WSS? - Will it keep my sites intact? Obviously I'm going to do this on a test platform, I was wondering if there is anyone who could give me some advice/tips before I start my testing? Thanks in advance. Dave Tag: Configuration replication? Tag: 66829
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    - Manage users from AD Hi I am using SPS and WSS, I have team websites that I wish to import user groups from AD rather than granting the access to these sites by adding individual user name. These sites contain sub sites that wont inherit the same permission as the parent sites. My intention is, after granting all the users to access the sites, I would like to create Cross Site groups that I could choose to grant for different subsites. Do you think my approach is correct? I am a newbie and everyday I found something new to learn on both SPS and WSS. Could you suggest how to 1. Import users from AD to 'Manage uers' area in WSS 2. Create Cross Site groups to grant a group per sub site Thank you very much for any of you advice. Looking forward to your reply Peddie Tag: Configuration replication? Tag: 66826
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    - Local Security Authority cannot be contacted I have seen posts with similar problems, but not specifically the same error I am having. My sharpoint website fires up with no problems, and anonymous users can view the public pages, however when domain users try to log in (using the Active Directory user ID and password), they get "500 - Internal Server Error." Which I found is because of an error of, "The Local Security Authority cannot be contacted." After some more detailed testing, I discovered that any "domain user" that logs in gets that error. However, if one of the administrators logs in, they have no problems. The portal server works great for them. Not sure if there is some correlation there or not, but thought I would mention that. I am running Windows Portal Server 2003 on a Windows 2003 Server. I noticed this problem starting today, and I assume it was due to my updates from last night. Has anyone seen similar problems and maybe can give me some insite? Much thanks. Tag: Configuration replication? Tag: 66814
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    - Creating new virtual server for Site Collections If I create a new virtual server for a WSS site collection and then connect it to the portal. Will the site collection be able to be viewed from the portal url like http://portalname/sites/new virtual server site collection Tag: Configuration replication? Tag: 66811
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    - Error to delete picture library Hi,when i try to delete the picture library in sharepoint, i get this error message "The file is currently checked out or locked for editing by another user". Can anyone tell me why this happened? and how to check in to the file? Thanks alot Tag: Configuration replication? Tag: 66807
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    - How to connect web part/list with Active Directory? Hi, What is the step to connect the web part or a list with active directory to dynamically retrieve information on everyone in the company? And make this web part available to any page in the site, probably through different views on different page. Thanks alot. Tag: Configuration replication? Tag: 66805
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    - How to fine tune web part editability? Hi, What is the steps to set up a web part (for example, announcement or list) that does not display adding new items option to regular reader but display option to contributor user? Can I edit such a default web part created in SP portal in FP2003? Or I have to create a web part from scratch? assume different user groups have set up with different permission. Thanks alot. Tag: Configuration replication? Tag: 66804
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    - Different files, different permissions? Is it possible? Hi there, I am just starting with SharePoint Server, so my question may sound a bit silly for most of you. I will need to share one big, master file (excel spreadsheet or maybe an access file) with references to the separate vision files: Example (columns) territory0/problem1/file1 territory0/problem2/file1 territory0/problem3/file2 territory1/problem1/file3 territory1/problem2/file4 [...] Then, I would like to assign a modify permission to the person responsible for territory0 to modify a visio files (file1 and2) and read (file3 and 4) (etc.) Additionally, I would like to have a possibility to track users' activity. I mean, it would be great if I can list all changes done by the user after specific date. I'll be in a heaven if I would be able to approve changes after each modification. Is it possible to do that with SharePointServer? Thanks a lot, MB Tag: Configuration replication? Tag: 66794
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    - Profile browser web part? My manager would like to browse profiles rather than being only able to search (Why, I don't know) I could code it against the profiles, but I don't feel like it. Anyone know of a pre-existing web part to do this? Jay Tag: Configuration replication? Tag: 66793
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    - How to create a seach scope that only includes portal home area document library? I tried to create a new search scope, check "Limit the search scope to items in the following topics or areas" box and select only Home area. Then in Content Source Groups, check Exclude all content sources. Did full update on portal-content. But when I search with this new search scope, it returns nothing. Can anyone help? Tag: Configuration replication? Tag: 66792
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    - Single document backup and restore for SharePoint Portal 2003 Hi, I'm currently on a project where I need to come up with a solution to have a SharePoint Portal Server 2003 portal backed up so that easy restore of a single documents is possible. There are custom backup solutions on the market. AvePoint DocAve and CommVault Galaxy are some of the solutions. For Veritas a backup client has been developed to integrate to Veritas. The backup system used in this case is Tivoli Storage Manager. Options would be to buy one of the mentioned SPS backup applications or to develop a tool to extract all updated documents nightly to a file system folder and let Tivoli back this folder up, but this might not be the best solution. Does anyone have any experience with one of the backup solutions for SPS2003 or a good solution to this problem? Kind regards Dan Tag: Configuration replication? Tag: 66791
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    - Required permissions cannot be acquired. For some reason, in SharePoint portal server, I get this error on some web parts: Required permissions cannot be acquired. I have no idea why. I'm an administrator of the machine... Also, it's no all web parts. Just some of them. Anyone know why this would happen? Tag: Configuration replication? Tag: 66789
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    - What permission needed to edit portal site in Front Page 2003? Hi, everyone, I open site created in sharepoint portal server in Front Page 2003 by providing the portal site home page Url. The whole site opens and I can see the folders for each area (default and created). However, when I try to click the â??default.aspxâ?? in the top level and the â??default.aspxâ?? in each sub folder, I get message that I donâ??t have permission. So what permission do I need and how I get this? The SP portal server 2003 and FP2003 are installed on the same machine. SQL server is on another machine. I am the local Admin to the portal machine. My domain account is in the Admin group of the portal site. And I am the owner of the portal site. So why donâ??t I have the permission? Thanks alot for your help. Tag: Configuration replication? Tag: 66788
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    - Template loaded two times from Sharepoint Sorry for the cross-post, but I don't know exactly where my problem lies... Here's the setup: - I have a document [A] in SharePoint Portal Server. This document is based on a template [B] which is saved locally, on my computer. - I have a template [C] in the user's Word STARTUP folder. (Add-in that get loaded when Word is started by the current user) - I also have a template [D] in Office's STARTUP folder. (Add-in always loaded by Word, for every user) The problem seems to come from the fact that the document's template [B] refers to template [D]. If I click on the document [A] in SharePoint Portal Server (http://), the template [D] in Office's startup folder is loaded 2 times - i.e. it's AutoExec procedure run two times. In the AutoExec procedure I added code to display all the addins currently in memory (from the AddIns Collection). The first time AutoExec runs, only Office's template [D] is present (probably because of it's reference from [B]); the second time both addins [C & D] are present. If I double-click on the same Word document saved locally on my computer, everything is loaded correctly - i.e. AutoExec is executed only one time. Since the Office's template [D] has toolbar customization (saved in the template, not coded in VBA), I end up with two 'New' buttons both of which have their content double-up as well... Is there a way to prevent this? Am I making sense? Anybody know what I'm talking about? Thanks J Whales Tag: Configuration replication? Tag: 66787
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    - Moving from Small Server to Medium Server farm - SharePoint 2003 HI, We are planning to move from SPS 2003 SP1 small server farm to SPS 2003 SP1 medium server farm configuration, has anybody faced any problems and how did you get around it. We have a bunch of data on our portal currently, backups are throwing up 6 GB files. I know a problem already which is indexing fails and microsoft has posted the solution but i dont know if it works http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;833716 thanks. Tag: Configuration replication? Tag: 66775
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    - SharePoint 2003 - Is there a tool to create data Is there a tool to help create large amounts of data for the various server farm configurations to assist in scalability and performance testing? For example Exchange has loadsim. Does SharePoint 2003 have any tools to assist in this? Thanks in advance Tag: Configuration replication? Tag: 66770
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    - Sharepoint Announcements webpart - not expiring We are having trouble with our announcements web part not expiring the items from the view on SPS? Anyone have any experienc with this? Thanks! Tag: Configuration replication? Tag: 66769
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    - SharePoint 2003 - There is not enough disk space on server "servername" FYI - Exception in BackupSQL: Source=SQLBkMgd, Message=There is not enough disk space on server "servername" to complete the database ""databasename operation. Increase the space available and try again.<BR> If you get this error message, chances are that it is all bull. We have a small server farm configuration, SharePoint was invoking the backup however after generating 2 files on sharePoint, SQL failed to generate the remaining 3 backup files with the above error message. Data was being written to SAN and SAN had plenty of space so where was the problem???? When we went to the SQL box, it threw a delayed write error too. Our network guy changed the link & duplex setting on the network card to 100MB/s and full duplex on both SQL and SharePoint server and voila BACKUP Works again. It was on auto detect before. hope this helps. Rahul Tag: Configuration replication? Tag: 66766
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    - Can we run SQL Server 2005 as the database for SPS 2003 I was wondering if I can have Sharepoint Portal Server 2003 and have SQL SERVER 2005 as its Databse? or do I still need to use SQL2000? Parrothead Tag: Configuration replication? Tag: 66765
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    - Accessing My Calendar from SPS How do I pass my login credentials from SPS to Outlook Web Mail so that i can use the My Calendar web part without having to log into the mail system? Tag: Configuration replication? Tag: 66763
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    - Sharepoint Backup and Restore Hi There, I have a serious issue with my shareopint. i have installed shareopint succefully, and its working fine when i came to take backup and do restore. the things i need its not appearing on the screen. when i go to the Sharepoint Portal Server 2003 Backup and ReStore. I cannot see the Team Database (How to Create this or will be available on this screen) and under Portal Site there is no http://...... servername. How can i enable the above things to start taking backups and restore. Under Select the Components to backup and...... Available Components All server farm component (Here should be Team database but i cannot see anything except All Server farm component) Portal Sites (Here should Site name but icannot see anything here). Please let me know if any one knows about it. I will be highly appriciate for your early response Many thanks in advance, Syed Abdulbasith. Tag: Configuration replication? Tag: 66760
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    - REfusc connection with non IE browsers I was posed this question: If Internet browsers other than Internet Explorer are not supported and if this use of other browsers results and intermittent failure to save documents, then I strongly suggest that the portal web site refuse to accept logins from other browsers. Is this a possibility? Jim Tag: Configuration replication? Tag: 66758
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    - users seeing shared workspace upon entering the portal there doesn't appear to be any simple way that a user who has been added to workspaces for sharing files is directed to that workspace through the portal. is it possible if when a user signed on to the portal that there was automatically a listing of workspace sites they were assured to which they were a user with access? I know this is possible if the user logs into a MySite page where that have right to access workspace. Jim Tag: Configuration replication? Tag: 66757
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    - SPS 2003 SP1 and WSS SP2 Hi, Windows Sharepoint Services SP2 came out today. Can this be installed on servers running Sharepoint Portal Server 2003 SP1 or do we have to wait for an SP2 for SPS 2003? Thanks, David Tag: Configuration replication? Tag: 66753
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    - Adding AD Groups to portal not working right I came into an install that I did not do. I try to add a group to the portal from active directory that is called gls-iscms-spsreader and I add that AD group to the readers group in sharepoint. But when I look at the AD group in the portal the name is not gls-iscms-spsreader it is just iscms\spsreader. And if I try to change the rights for the domain group in the portal it says user does not exist. Anybody know what might be causing this. Tag: Configuration replication? Tag: 66752
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    - Items Not Showing On Quick Launch Bar I'm just getting started on SPS Pilot Program. I added a new Issues List and checked "Show on Quick Launch bar" but it is not showing up. Any ideas where the problem may be? Tag: Configuration replication? Tag: 66750
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    - Quick question on Search Hello, A very quick question: when you belong to an specific audience, does the search engine return content meant for other audiences? Thank you. Tag: Configuration replication? Tag: 66746
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    - Need to Filter List by User Name I need to filter a list by the user name of the user currently logged in. I cannot use the [Me] keyword, because the list item originates from a custom list of all of the user names on the site as apposed to using the "Lookup (information already on this site)". I could not use this, because it only contains users who have visited this area of the site. Tag: Configuration replication? Tag: 66743
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    - Linking from Document Libraries Good Morning All, I am trying to figure out if there is an easy way, or a web part, to allow me to create links within a Document Library? Thanks, Neal Tag: Configuration replication? Tag: 66742
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    - Accessing SPS Portal from another domain I have successfully created a Sharepoint Portal within the organization, with some extended virtual directories. This server is under the control of Domain - A. I have a problem in access the web site from another domain - B. I need to share the web site with Reader, Contributor privileges. How can I do this from SPS 2003? It's running on Windows 2003 Server. TIA. ANBU Tag: Configuration replication? Tag: 66740
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    - Sharepoint Authentication issue Hi there We are running WSS 2.0 on our server here, and is accessible internally and externally no problem. We have a client however who whenever he accesses the internet, he has to enter his Domain login details (that are different from the domain login details that we have supplied him to access the Sharepoint site). After entering these, he gets an error message saying that invalid credentials basically. So it looks like its trying to use the credentials he supplies to get onto the internet, and it doesnt prompt him for credentials to log into our site, even if he tries a refresh!! Any ideas on how to get around? Thanks in advance David Crone Tag: Configuration replication? Tag: 66739
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    - How to list tasks from many Sites on My Site? In a SharePoint Portal, Tasks seems to be connected to Sites. How can I create a list of tasks assigned to me throughout my company's Portal, and have it in My SIte? All help appreciated! Kaisa M. Lindahl Tag: Configuration replication? Tag: 66736
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    - How to manage the permission? For example, I have set three permission rights for documents and users, right A, B and C. A is the highest(e.g. administrator) and C is lowest(e.g. reader). I would like to set the performance of searching so that the documents with permission right A could not be searched by users with right B and C. For users with right B, they could search documents with right B and C. Obviously users with right C could search for documents with right C. I would like to ask whether I could set in SharePoint Portal and how I could perform like that. Thanks. Tag: Configuration replication? Tag: 66730
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    - SharePoint and MS-Access 2003 Greetings from Belgium, I am new with SharePoint and I already met a problem that I cannot solve without your expertise. In one of my site I made a link to a database and it works perfectly but, as soon as the application is launched, it offers to download the application onto the user's PC. I do not want the application to be downloaded. It MUST stay and be used from the server ONLY! What can I do to inhibit the downloading? Thanks for your help, Jean-Philippe Tag: Configuration replication? Tag: 66729
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    - About shared data source Please help in this issue. I set up SQL server OLAP cube, SPS and using Office Pivot Chart in sites. When I connect to external data source, it will point to a data source in my computer. If I roll out to user, all of them need to have the file in their machine or in a shared directory. I try to put it on FTP server but has problem. Is it possible to connect to external data source using other method... Thanks. Tag: Configuration replication? Tag: 66726
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    - Upgrade forSPS to SP1 asks for WSS SP1 prior to installing I have a SPS portal. I downloaded SP1 for SPS. When I run the installer, I get a warning dialog box that says: "You must have Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services Service Pack 1 (SP1) installed before you can install SharePoint Portal Server 2003 SP1. Please download and install Windows SharePoint Services SP1 from www.microsoft.com before you install SharePoint Portal Server 2003 SP1." So I went online to download WSS SP1 and guess what? They relaeased SP2. So the question of the day here is can I load WSS SP2 and then SPS SP1? or will SPS SP1 now choke because WSS SP2 is on the box? Alternatively, is there somewhere to download WSS SP1? Thanks in advance, joe Tag: Configuration replication? Tag: 66725
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    - "File not found" and "The area does not exist" issues after copying portal site to new server I copied a portal site to a new server, following the instructions at http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.sharepoint.portalserver/browse_thread/thread/a2bb6d89608ffe15/ed85d80650408ee9?lnk=st&q=%22SharePoint+portal+server%22+%22portal+site%22+%22new+server%22&rnum=8#ed85d80650408ee9 , which describe how to back up the *_SITE, *_PROF and *_SERV databases of a portal site and restore them in a portal site on a new server. It seemed like all went well. All the documents in the portal site are there, and can be accessed. But when I try to access the Manage Content page of any of the areas, I get a "File not found" error on the page, with "The area does not exist" appearing in the nav bar at the top of the page instead of the links. (The areas do indeed seem to exist, since clicking on the Manage Content link in any of them is what causes the error message to appear.) It seems the issue is caused by the presence of a Links list in one of the areas. How can I copy the Links list from the old server to the new server and get the new copy of the portal site working, assuming this is the cause of the error? Thanks, --Ben Tag: Configuration replication? Tag: 66715
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    - Permission / Security Hi My company plans to move the public folder(currently hosted on novel file structure) to sharepoint portal server. I am confused with the concepts between Audience and Permission and understand hat Audience has nothing to do with permission so I am a bit panic as I am not sure how to tackle my problems here. How to get Sharepoint Portal to inherit the permission rights from the old folder structure? I imported the user profiles from AD. I intended to have my portal with following structure Portal site - Topics - News - Sites - Team websites (WSS) - Public Access (All users with limited rigths) - Team Acess only (restricted area for team) The scenario I try to avoid is to manually enter the individual username on individual teamsite. I was thinking about using Could any you please advice on how I can go around of acheiving this? Many thanks in advance. Peddie Tag: Configuration replication? Tag: 66710
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    - Can't Upload? I am using SPS03 and when I attempt to upload a document (which overwrites the previous one) the older one still shows up. What am I doing wrong? It will show the modified date correctly, but still open the older uploaded file. Please advise. Thank you in advance. Tag: Configuration replication? Tag: 66708
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    - Survey - asks for password I created a suvey on sharepoint 2003, and when other users (regular users) tried to fill it out and then "Save" it prompted them for userID/password. I looked at the help file. It said I have to: 1. Go to my Survey 2. Under "Action" on navigation bar, I click "Modify survey and questions" 3. Now, I should see "Customize [my survey name]" 4. under "General Settings" -> "Change permissions for this list_or_document_library" The problem is, I don't see "Change permissions for this list_or_document_library"... all I can see are the following: -Change general settings -Save survey as template -Delete this survey -Select a portal area for this survey Help.................. Tag: Configuration replication? Tag: 66706
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    - User name change issue we had a user request a name change, divorce. we changed this our in AD. resulted in a different username. this broke the users ability to access certain areas of the portal. so we removed the old entry and entered the new entry. all looked fine when creating the newly changed account. however when looking at the user in site and groups the user has the old username instead of the new username. Any ideas? Jim Tag: Configuration replication? Tag: 66703
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    - Pushing Down Events to sub-sites I am developing a WSS site at a USAF installation and have a question that I can't figure. I have my main site with events and I'd like to 'push down' some of those events to appear on the events lists for the Working Group sub-sites that are 'under' the main site. Any ideas? Thanks for your help Tag: Configuration replication? Tag: 66701
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    - Sharepoint as newsgroup server? Hi. Our company just installed Sharepoint Server 2003. I wanted to know if this software can be used to support an in-house usenet-type capability. The idea would be to create newsgroups available within the company to anyone who has access to the portal. If this can be done, please refer me to the feature that supports it, then I'll take it from there. Thanks! Ken Tag: Configuration replication? Tag: 66700

I am designing a single SharePoint 2003 farm for an 20K employee
enterprise with locations in the USA, Australia, and UK. WAN links are
VPN over the internet, and not totally predictable for performance, so
minimizing WAN traffic is a goal. I propose to replciate the config
database using transactional replication between SQL servers in the 3
locations. Each SharePoint WEB server would reference the local SQL
server for config. Has anyone tried this? Does the concept work? Can
the same be done for the index?

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Re: Configuration replication? by Shane

Shane
Sun Oct 02 23:46:50 CDT 2005

My only advice would be. That is not a supported config by Microsoft.
There are some 3rd party vendors http://www.iora.com/home/home.asp that
offer this ability. I don't have any experience with the product just
sharing the link.

HTH

--
Shane Young
SharePoint911 - "SharePoint Help...Now!"
http://www.SharePoint911.com

"Dave" <dave.charles@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1128007763.005850.73460@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
>I am designing a single SharePoint 2003 farm for an 20K employee
> enterprise with locations in the USA, Australia, and UK. WAN links are
> VPN over the internet, and not totally predictable for performance, so
> minimizing WAN traffic is a goal. I propose to replciate the config
> database using transactional replication between SQL servers in the 3
> locations. Each SharePoint WEB server would reference the local SQL
> server for config. Has anyone tried this? Does the concept work? Can
> the same be done for the index?
>

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