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    - very strange, download box hi all, I installed sharepoint on windows 2003 it works fine but after while, when I open my main web site http://localhost I got the download box promting to download a file, and I can't access my portal, I dont' know which more information you may want, I can send you the file that I download after visiting the web site. Note: Admin web site works well. Tag: New Book: Essential SharePoint, Preview Tag: 26851
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    - Treeview for document libraries Anyone know of a good treeview web part for navigating folders in document libraries, or should i try to write my own? Tag: New Book: Essential SharePoint, Preview Tag: 26850
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    - WSS FAQ changes and additions - Mar 14th - 20th 2005 Note: All of the addresses of the KB / MS / Non-MS Articles below were valid at the time I added them to the WSS FAQ site and to this file. I can't guarantee that they still are. (This is also posted to my blog at (feed) http://mikeswss.blogg.de/rss.xml (site) http://mikeswss.blogg.de) where you'll also find earlier versions) (Items are added to the WSS FAQ throughout the week so you will find new items more quickly by checking there daily.) From 14th March - 20th March 2005 I. KB Articles A. New http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=894630 You receive a "The specified file or folder name is too long" error message when you create a new folder or a new document in a document library in SharePoint Portal Server or in Windows SharePoint Services (ver 2.0) 15th March 2005 (new here, ver 1.0 not added) http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=894681 Description of the Windows SharePoint Services post-Service Pack 1 hotfix package: February 25, 2005 9th March 2005 http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=894629 You receive an error message when you try to upload a file to a document library in SharePoint Portal Server 2003 or in Windows SharePoint Services 8th March 2005 http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=894631 Using Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services with a content database that is configured as read-only in Microsoft SQL Server 7th March 2005 http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=894376 Description of the Windows SharePoint Services post-Service Pack 1 hotfix package: February 21, 2005 3rd March 2005 http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=893696 You receive a "Can not add the user because a user with that name already exists" error message when you try to add a user to a SharePoint Portal Server 2003 portal site or to a Windows SharePoint Services Web site 2nd March 2005 http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=894258 Description of the Windows SharePoint Services post-Service Pack 1 hotfix package: February 17, 2005 1st March 2005 http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;891060 You receive a "The upgrade patch cannot be installed by the Windows Installer service" message when you try to install a Windows SharePoint Services update on a computer that is running the original release version of Windows SharePoint Services 14th December 2005 http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;889644 "Error setting password for user account '<UserName>' " error message when users try to change their password in Windows SharePoint Services 10th December 2005 Modified http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=829358 Critical update for SQL Server 2000 Desktop Engine (Windows) on Windows Server 2003 is available for download on the Windows Update site (ver 3.3) 4th March 2005 http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;841216 "0x80040E14" or "HTTP 500" error message when you connect to your Windows SharePoint Services Web site after you install a Windows SharePoint Services service pack or a security update 2nd March 2005 http://support.microsoft.com/?id=887981 MS05-006: Vulnerability in Windows SharePoint Services and SharePoint Team Services could allow cross-site scripting and spoofing attacks (ver 2.0) 2nd March 2005 Withdrawn None II. MS Articles NOTE: Most of the links to WSS Web Casts below were correct but were not working at the time of posting. I'll continue to monitor the situation and will amend the WSS FAQ items if and when necessary. New https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/Register.aspx?culture=en-US&EventID=1032269755&CountryCode=US MSDN Webcast: Customizing and Branding SharePoint Portal Server and Windows SharePoint Services (Level 300) 18th March 2005 https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/Register.aspx?culture=en-US&EventID=1032269620&CountryCode=US MSDN Webcast: Creating and Customizing Windows SharePoint Services: List, Library, and View Definitions (Level 300) 17th March 2005 https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/Register.aspx?culture=en-US&EventID=1032269889&CountryCode=US Microsoft Office System Webcast: Tips and Tricks for Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services (Level 200) 17th March 2005 https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/Register.aspx?culture=en-US&EventID=1032269883&CountryCode=US MSDN Webcast: Coding and Using Web Part Connections for SharePoint Sites (Level 300) 16th March 2005 http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=2429924 MSDN Webcast: Best Practices for Developing and Deploying Web Parts for SharePoint Sites (Level 300) [the address is for the download - it works] 14th March 2005 http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=4a581c05-4a3f-4daf-b96d-804b83f34868&DisplayLang=en Technical Guidance for Connecting Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003 to mySAP ERP 3rd March 2005 (version 1.0 but replaces the older version that had the same name except for "SAP/R3" instead of "mySAP ERP") http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=4C5BF9DD-3EFB-451D-B213-98ED039190BF&displaylang=en SharePoint Portal Server 2003 Document: Deploying on an Extranet by Using ISA Server 2000 and ISA Server 2004 (SPS 2003 only) 1st January 2005 http://www.microsoft.com/sharepoint/evaluationoverview.asp Implementing Rich Collaboration Infrastructure Using Windows SharePoint Services and SharePoint Portal Server 2003 20th October 2003 (new here) Modified None Withdrawn (see above "Technical Guide ...") III. Non-MS Articles New http://msd2d.com/Content/Tip_print.aspx?id=da2291d8-d800-482b-9198-eaac1d02e8d8 Usage Analysis Processing in Windows SharePoint Services Sites (MSD2D - needs registration) 16th March 2005 http://www.theserverside.net/articles/showarticle.tss?id=WebParts1 WebParts - From Sharepoint to ASP.NET 2.0 (Dino Esposito) 8th March 2005 http://blogs.msdn.com/lamonth/articles/372064.aspx Installing SharePoint 2003 and Exchange 2003 on a Domain Controller (Lamont Harrington) 13th February 2005 http://sharepointblogs.com/mkruger/archive/2005/03/14/1446.aspx Understanding the Configuration Database vs. the Content Database in a Windows SharePoint Services or SPS Environment (CorasWorks - date unknown - marked as 15th March 2005) Amended None IV. WSS FAQ additions http://www.asaris-matrix.com/mvp-walsh/Lists/WSS%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=421 II.11.1 My multiple document uploads are failing because they are too large. What's the solution? (added to European mirror only where it was missing) http://www.asaris-matrix.com/mvp-walsh/Lists/WSS%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=422 II.11.2 My uploads of (single) very large documents are failing. What is the problem? (added to European mirror only where it was missing) http://www.asaris-matrix.com/mvp-walsh/Lists/WSS%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=423 II.11.3 My packaging of a large WSS site in FP 2003 is failing. What's my problem? (added to European mirror only where it was missing) http://www.asaris-matrix.com/mvp-walsh/Lists/WSS%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=420 II.12 How do I enable Session State? (added to European mirror only where it was missing) http://www.asaris-matrix.com/mvp-walsh/Lists/WSS%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=414 III.12.7 How do I see which web parts are being used in a page? http://www.asaris-matrix.com/mvp-walsh/Lists/WSS%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=416 III.97 Why do I not see the "Publish to Source Location" option in the drop-down list of a document workspace? http://www.asaris-matrix.com/mvp-walsh/Lists/WSS%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=417 III.103 When I use Save As to save .pps files from a WSS document library, they are stored as .ppt files. How can I avoid this? http://www.asaris-matrix.com/mvp-walsh/Lists/WSS%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=415 VII.05.37 WSS Products - InfoView (use InfoPath forms without InfoPath) http://www.asaris-matrix.com/mvp-walsh/Lists/WSS%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=418 VII.05.38 WSS Products - BitDefender for MS SharePoint 2003 (antivirus) http://www.asaris-matrix.com/mvp-walsh/Lists/WSS%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=419 VII.05.39 WSS Products - Neverfail for SharePoint (monitoring of SPS 2003 / SQL Server etc.) http://www.asaris-matrix.com/mvp-walsh/Lists/WSS%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=420 VII.08.16 Free WSS Web Parts - Sharepoint - cseg Rollup webpart (Carlos Segura) V. WSS FAQ amendments http://www.asaris-matrix.com/mvp-walsh/Lists/WSS%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=355 I.23.2 What is fixed in the fix packs to WSS Service Pack 1? http://www.asaris-matrix.com/mvp-walsh/Lists/WSS%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=205 II.17.2 How do I install WSS to use an existing copy of SQL Server instead of WMSDE? (Single server) http://www.asaris-matrix.com/mvp-walsh/Lists/WSS%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=71 III.06.3 Site Migration from WSS to WSS http://www.asaris-matrix.com/mvp-walsh/Lists/WSS%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=366 III.12.8 Why can't I add the Office web parts to a WSS site which has a static address? http://www.asaris-matrix.com/mvp-walsh/Lists/WSS%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=86 III.13 How can I make a field read-only? http://www.asaris-matrix.com/mvp-walsh/Lists/WSS%20FAQ/EditForm.aspx?ID=99 III.25.1 Why am I being prompted for Authentication many times when I open an Office document in WSS? (was item 97) http://www.asaris-matrix.com/mvp-walsh/Lists/WSS%20FAQ/EditForm.aspx?ID=128 III.50 What workflow approval possibilities are available ? http://www.asaris-matrix.com/mvp-walsh/Lists/WSS%20FAQ/EditForm.aspx?ID=181 III.53 How do I programmatically upload a document? http://www.asaris-matrix.com/mvp-walsh/Lists/WSS%20FAQ/EditForm.aspx?ID=135 IV.05 How can I create new (whole-site) Themes? Mike Walsh, Helsinki, Finland WSS FAQ at http://wss.collutions.com Please reply to the newsgroup Tag: New Book: Essential SharePoint, Preview Tag: 26849
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    - Same header as portal? Hello people, I made a nice looking portal and now I read here and there that the header of a sharepoint services site can be the same as my portal's header. It's all still a bit blurry to me when it comes to which files to adapt etc. Could anybody give me a better explanation to my how to do that? I already have the portal and a few sites but I can make the sites all over if neccesary. Any help would be appreciated. Vinz. Tag: New Book: Essential SharePoint, Preview Tag: 26845
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    - Error when sending email alerts Hi, I have installed SBS2003 at a client site. There is a problem when sending email from WSS web site. When I add a new user and check the 'notify user by email' option and press next I get this error: "The user or users have been added successfully, but there was an error in sending the e-mail message. The server may not be set up correctly to send e-mail..." Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Neal... Tag: New Book: Essential SharePoint, Preview Tag: 26842
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    - Document question I can't seem to find a definitive answer to this anywhere... If I have a Word document on my hard drive that is 100K, is it still 100K when uploaded into WSS or is there extra overhead? As well, if I turn on version control, does a new copy of the file get saved each time? Thanks in advance, Chris Tag: New Book: Essential SharePoint, Preview Tag: 26841
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    - What are the top Windows SharePoint Services-related questions you've been asked? [Possible reposting] I write a lot of white papers on SharePoint and I'm interested in learning more about the top 2, top 5 or top 10 WSS questions you've been asked .or the top WSS topics you have wanted to learn more about. Please feel free to reply to the group or to me personally @ mwherman@parallelspace.net Cheers, Michael. ---------- Michael Herman Parallelspace Corporation Enterprise Business Collaboration Solutions for Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Live Communications Server, Active Directory and Groove Workspace Portal and Content Migration Specialists: http://www.parallelspace.net/sharepoint SharePoint Migration Knowledge Center: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sharepointmigration Parallelspace KMS (K2.net, Meridio and SharePoint) Knowledge Center: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sharepointkms Parallelspace PresPart Knowledge Center for Portal Co-existence and Migration: http://www.parallelspace.net/portals Parallelspace Knowledge Center for Microsoft "WinFS": http://www.parallelspace.net/winfs Weblog: http://dotnetjunkies.com/WebLog/mwherman2000/ Tag: New Book: Essential SharePoint, Preview Tag: 26840
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    - Automatic delete announcement I am looking for at webpart where users can choose a given date where an announcement will automatic be deleted. Not remove from the list but deleted. Does anybody know such a webpart? -Salva Tag: New Book: Essential SharePoint, Preview Tag: 26835
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    - Calendar Performance Problems Hello, I have a user who has created a SharePoint events list with about a dozen custom fields. While there are ~280 items in the list, a little over 100 of the items are recurring (with a variety of different recurrance patterns). Our current challenge is this - when we try to use the list in calendar view, we are seeing a significant increase in page load time (5-7 seconds for the calendar compared to 1-2 seconds or less for a standard list view). After looking at the HTML source for a month, week, and day view, it seems that its loading every expanded item into the page... the downloaded HTML is over 1MB! The other challenge we have run into is than whenever we try to create a new calendar view, only the events from the month or so show up. Has anyone experienced these problems? Are they any possible workarounds available? Tag: New Book: Essential SharePoint, Preview Tag: 26829
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    - Error Code 18452 I've installed WSS2 on Windows 2003 web edition and attempting to Set Configuration Database Server to a SQL 2000 database on a Windows 2003 standard edition - and get the error message 'Login failed for user '(null)'. Reason: Not Associated with a trusted SQL Server connection. (Error Code: 18452). I did a MS support search and found KBA 840219, followed the recommendations and continue to get the same error. What can I do now? Thanks. Dan Tag: New Book: Essential SharePoint, Preview Tag: 26828
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    - stsadm restore taking forever? I'm doing a backup and restore of my sharepoint sites. Some of these sites are very large--let's say 1GB each. For some of my smaller sites, the stsadm.exe -backup command churned out .dat files at the rate of up to 3MB a second. Not too shabby. However, the stsadm.exe -restore command runs FAR slower. A 3MB site takes about 5 *minutes* to restore. At this rate, it's going to take well over a week to restore several larger (1GB+) sites. In a nutshell, Is there any way to speed up the restore? Any settings to use, any IIS tweaks to perform, etc? We had no idea it was going to take this long... Thanks, Ryan Tag: New Book: Essential SharePoint, Preview Tag: 26824
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    - Viewing faxes Hi, I have this problem on a couple of Windows 2003 SBS: when I go to SharePoint and view the incoming faxes, clicking on a fax displays a small picture box (like a missing image) on top left corner instead of displaying the fax. If, however, I select the "Explorer view" and open the fax from there, it works fine and displays the fax. On some other servers, it does ot display the "missing image" icon, but displays (and prints) a blank page, unless viewed or opened in "exlorer" view. Your assistance is greatlt appreciated. Tag: New Book: Essential SharePoint, Preview Tag: 26819
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    - difference between Doc library and doc workspace What is the difference between Doc libraries and doc workspaces? When should I use them ? Tag: New Book: Essential SharePoint, Preview Tag: 26817
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    - discussions permissions to contributors how is it possible to give contributors such a right to delete their own messages in discussions ? Tag: New Book: Essential SharePoint, Preview Tag: 26816
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    - Getting up to speed on creating/using WSS Hey all, We have started to move past the "basics" with WSS, (we use ProjSrvr 2k3 in house), and am wondering how to get up to speed with modifying and or adding information to WSSites. I understand it uses CSS, but not much more familiar with it than that. I am familiar enough with ASP, and VB.Net so I can kinda squirrel into aspx. Is there like a devel tool? Maybe Frontpage is the way to go? I'm just looking to add more than the out of the box functionality, yet stay within the security model. P.s. Any WSS develpoers out there, we might be able to arrange a temp contract. R Tag: New Book: Essential SharePoint, Preview Tag: 26814
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    - files physically on the disc Hi! Can anyone explain me where exacly I can find physical files (documents) that are uploaded to SharePoint team site? Tried windows search on sharepoint server but didn't find anything. Or are the files stored in database??? Thanks, Armands Tag: New Book: Essential SharePoint, Preview Tag: 26806
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    - fulltextsearch only on top level site Hello. I have enabled fulltextsearch on my WSS Plattform and it works fine on my top level site. But if I ant to search in a subsite the result page (searchresults.aspx) displays an error: translatet from german: "The display status is invalid because it is possible damaged! What could I do - is there a detailed error log from wss where I can find details? regards robert Tag: New Book: Essential SharePoint, Preview Tag: 26805
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    - Expense Report Template Most of the expense report templates i see are using infopath. I really don't want to use an application (yet) that requires users to install (and learn) a new application. Can someone instruct me (or send a link) on how to create an excel expense report template in sharepoint? I know i can just upload one and the user can "save as" but shouldn't i be able to specify a template as a default document type in an area? I found this but i am not sure if its still relavant since it was from 2001: http://www.microsoft.com/sharepoint/server/techinfo/reskit/document_templates.asp This is what we are looking to do however... On a side note - are form libraries ONLY for info path stuff? Tag: New Book: Essential SharePoint, Preview Tag: 26799
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    - SSL / Host headers I had a support case reguarding this issue for a few weeks and the short story is there is no way around this as SharePoint (it's a WSS issue, not SPS, but because SPS leverages WSS, it's an issue with SPS as well) doesn't support IP-bound virtual servers AND even if you put an ISA Server in front of the SharePoint box, it won't help as WSS doesn't support SSL Termination… only SSL bridging. You can run additional sites off additional ports, but that's not a clean or viable option for everyone (but it ~will~ work). I understand WSS SP2 will fix this as it was one of the most requested "features" to be addressed in 2004 by MS SharePoint customers. -AC www.andrewconnell.com nntp://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.sharepoint.windowsservices/<u6f0LGc$EHA.1408@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl> Does anyone know of a way to work around "IP-bound virtual servers are not supported in SharePoint Portal Server 2003 or in Windows SharePoint Services"? The post at http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;830342 suggests that host headers are a "workaround" but host headers don't function under HTTPS, so we cannot use "all unassigned." Any help appreciated. There is a suggestion that registering Web Parts into the GAC is one method of circumventing the problem, but I am having issues with the Public Key being different on the dev box where I build the WP and the production environment (where the IP-bound site lives). Has anyone utilized this fix? [microsoft.public.sharepoint.windowsservices] Tag: New Book: Essential SharePoint, Preview Tag: 26796
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    - Internet Explorer crashes when you try to open / edit shared docum We are running Windows XP / Office XP. When the user clicks on a document to open it crashes Internet Explorer. Dr Watson errors are logged in the event log and relate to mso.dll. I have repaired office and installed 867282. Any ideas? Tag: New Book: Essential SharePoint, Preview Tag: 26786
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    - User Self Registration for WSS Does anyone know of any way to have users self register to gain access to a Windows Sharepoint Services web site? Tag: New Book: Essential SharePoint, Preview Tag: 26781
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    - DIsable web folders access How do I disable the user's access of my site using web folders? I want my users to use the service via web and not using the Network Places area Tag: New Book: Essential SharePoint, Preview Tag: 26779
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    - Linked Documents Can anyone tell me if its possible to link documents in sharepoint (like copy cells in excel then paste special into word)? Thanks! Tag: New Book: Essential SharePoint, Preview Tag: 26778
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    - Document Management Hi, I'm interested in using WSS or SPS for document management, where the documents are the usual PDF's, MSWord documents, Lotus Notes databases, e-mails, web pages etc. held by different departments across the Company. This is formal storage of documents and a 'google' type document search is not appropriate. We need the following: - simple check-in facility for new documents. - the ability to assign documents to a category tree, with multiple categories for each document (e.g. more than one author or subject). - version control. - a powerful boolean search capability. Without actually getting my hands on the software, it's difficult to see whether or not this functionality is available and whether WSS or SPS are appropriate. I really envisaged a relational database behind the scenes to handle the one-to-many relationships in the category tree. Is this feasible? Any pointers, links etc would be appreciated. Martin Tag: New Book: Essential SharePoint, Preview Tag: 26777
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    - How do I do this? Im sure there is a way to do this, whether it is using Infopoint, SQL or something. I would like to have a dynamic in/out board on the home page of our sharepoint server. I will link a screen shot as I am poor at explaining this. http://test.memlane.com/richard/front.gif Any help or suggestions is greatly appreciated! Sincerely, Richard Tag: New Book: Essential SharePoint, Preview Tag: 26771
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    - Novice -- I need help ! Hi ! I am a developer using Visual Studio .NET 2003. I need to build an extranet, with basic functionality of a file archive and download facitlites of files etc. The company policy is to use Sharepoint to build this. Can I do this using Sharepoint Windows Services? Or do I need Sharepoint Portal Server ? Do I still develop through Visual Studio .NET 2003? Any help will be appreciated Regards Damian Tag: New Book: Essential SharePoint, Preview Tag: 26770
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    - Configuration Database Server Login Failure After running thru the WWS - Set Configuration Databse Server....I type in Database server - nns1 SQL Server database name - BethelDB (not created yet) Use Windows authentication Users already have domain accounts Login failed for user 'NT AUTHORITY\NETWORK SERVICE'. (Error code: 18456). Tag: New Book: Essential SharePoint, Preview Tag: 26766
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    - Permissions Is there any way or application that integrates will allow you to set permissions to remove the create subsite, but allow to link to a site that has been created? Tag: New Book: Essential SharePoint, Preview Tag: 26762
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    - Document Libraries Is there any way or application that integrates with Windows Services to allow for setting of permissions at the folder or document level in the document libraries? Tag: New Book: Essential SharePoint, Preview Tag: 26761
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    - PDF & WSS I want to 1) be able to save pdfs from within Adobe to my WSS site, and 2) to be able to open them in WSS by using a similar menu when opening an office document. It seems that WSS is Office aware and offers me the choice to open the document in Word, Excel, etc, but not for pdfs. For those I have to just click on the link to open the pdf, then can't save it back to the site. Tag: New Book: Essential SharePoint, Preview Tag: 26760
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    - Customize Status Values Can the default list provided in the Status field be customized beyond "draft", "pending approval" and "approved"? THanks in advance. Tag: New Book: Essential SharePoint, Preview Tag: 26758
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    - Link to Outlook doesn't exist .... One of my users doesn't have this link for Events. She has administrative rights for this server. What is responsible for this ??? Please help. Tag: New Book: Essential SharePoint, Preview Tag: 26757
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    - Calculated Values not working I have been looking for information about how to create a concatenated field by using the 'Calculated Value' option for a text field. My goal is to have a field that automatically concatenates [Company] & " - " & [First Name] & " " & [Last Name]. All attempts thus far have resulted in the following error page: The formula contains reference(s) to field(s). (Isn't this the whole point of a concatenation?) Tag: New Book: Essential SharePoint, Preview Tag: 26750
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    - Issues with Project Server 2003 and Share Point on Server 2003 Hello, I have a bit of a problem. I botched an origional install of Project Server 2003 and Share Point on a Server 2003 machine. After realizing I had made several mistakes I tried to clean up my mess by uninstalling everything so I could get a clean start. During the process I must have done something out of order since now I can't uninstall or install Project Server. Each time I do so it automaticly goes into uninstall mode and then gives me the following message; "Installation ended prematurely because of an error." Does anyone know how I can work around this problem short of completely redoing the OS? Thanks, Doug Tag: New Book: Essential SharePoint, Preview Tag: 26749
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    - Moving front end to new server I have a wss site on an old server that is using a remote sql database. I need to move the front end to a new server, but I will keep the data on the existing sql server. What do I need to tell the stsv2 install? Tag: New Book: Essential SharePoint, Preview Tag: 26748
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    - How to reinstall WSS onto SBS 2003 Hi Somehow our WSS has become corrupted with a CS0007: Unexpected common language runtime initialization error -- 'Class not registered error. No matter i do i cannot resolve the problem. I deceided to uninstall WSS from the server (we have a full backup of the sites and databases) reboot, and reinstalll WSS from the download site. But i still get the CS0007: Unexpected common language runtime initialization error -- 'Class not registered error. I now want to reinstall WSS from the SBS 2003 install wizard but i dont have a clue on how to do this (to recreate companyweb etc..) Tasks that i have done: c:\windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v1.1.4322\aspnet_regiis.exe -i regsvr32 c:\windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v1.1.4322\aspnet_isapi.dll synciwam.vbs Installed lastest .Net SP Please help, my customers are constantly on my back Many Thanks in advance James Tag: New Book: Essential SharePoint, Preview Tag: 26747
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    - Saving List Data in another database HI, I wish to store the data entered in a List into a seperate SQL table. Is this possible ? Any advices will be of great help. thanks in advance regards PV Tag: New Book: Essential SharePoint, Preview Tag: 26746
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    - Permissions Issue I have WSS running on Server 2003. The problem is that no matter what group I assign a user to: Administrator Web Designer Contributor Reader The user ends up with Full (Administrator) Rights. What am I doing wrong? Thanks in advance. Tag: New Book: Essential SharePoint, Preview Tag: 26745
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    - users permissions issue I use a task list. When I "modify settings and columns"- "change permissions for this list"- "modify item-level security" and on "item-level permissions" I select Read access:only their own, edit access:only their own, for a user who is in contributor site groups still can read and edit all other posts. Can you guide me ? Thank you Tag: New Book: Essential SharePoint, Preview Tag: 26742
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    - Moving wss from a full drive Hi, I want to move wss instalation from a full drive to another bigger drive. Which are the best practices ? Thank you. Tag: New Book: Essential SharePoint, Preview Tag: 26739
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    - How can I allow om\nly specific user to see in WSS ? As I see on document by default user in AD cannot access WSS unless already assign user right in WSS (via Site group) and right ogf Guest Site Group is none. But in my WSS no have Guest Site Group. And User who login WSS by no user right assigned will get administrator right. Homw can I mange this. Thank you B Aung Tag: New Book: Essential SharePoint, Preview Tag: 26738
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    - Disabling menu in sharepoint list Hi, Can any one tell me how to disable options like view,edit etc in a share point list? ie if the user logged in as a reader,and try to edit items he'l get an error message "Access denied. You do not have permission to perform this action or access this resource. You can request below that the owner give you access to the resource." Instead of this error,i dont want the user to see the menu options... Pls help.... Thanks Anu Tag: New Book: Essential SharePoint, Preview Tag: 26728
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    - connectionString encryption decryption issue Hello, I have a ASP.NET web application problem involving the data encryption and decryption assembly(DLL) used on the connection string value that is set in the webconfig file. The problem occurs in the application when you instantiate a new instance of the class as shown below: ---Dim dp As DPAPIComp.DataProtectorComp = New DPAPIComp.DataProtectorComp--- where DPAPIComp is the name of the namespace referenced to in the library and DataProtectorComp is the class. This class contains the Encrypt and Decrypt function used to encrypt and decrypt the connection string pass to it. Below is the code responsing to the call above. (in the form of an assembly) using System; using System.EnterpriseServices; using System.Security.Principal; using System.Runtime.InteropServices; using DataProtection; namespace DPAPIComp { public class DataProtectorComp: ServicedComponent { public byte[] Encrypt(byte[] plainText) { DataProtector dp = new DataProtector( DataProtector.Store.USE_USER_STORE ); byte[] cipherText = null; try { cipherText = dp.Encrypt(plainText, null); } catch(Exception ex) { throw new Exception("Exception encrypting. " + ex.Message); } return cipherText; } public byte[] Decrypt(byte[] cipherText) { DataProtector dp = new DataProtector( DataProtector.Store.USE_USER_STORE ); byte[] plainText = null; try { plainText = dp.Decrypt(cipherText,null); } catch(Exception ex) { throw new Exception("Exception decrypting. " + ex.Message); } return plainText; } public DataProtectorComp() { } } } -------------------------------------------- The error message as it passes this line in the debugger is "Access is denied". Source: "mscorlib" StackTrace: " at System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal.ThrowExceptionForHR(Int32 errorCode, IntPtr errorInfo) at System.EnterpriseServices.Thunk.Proxy.CoCreateObject(Type serverType, Boolean bQuerySCInfo, Boolean& bIsAnotherProcess, String& uri) at System.EnterpriseServices.ServicedComponentProxyAttribute.CreateInstance(Type serverType) at System.Runtime.Remoting.Activation.ActivationServices.IsCurrentContextOK(Type serverType, Object[] props, Boolean bNewObj) at BoardroomBookings.DBConnection.GetConnectionString(String Name, String& CnnStr) in C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\BoardroomBookings\DBConnection.vb:line 14" String -------------------------------------------- I have tried placing the DLL in the GAC and giving it a strong name and that still give the same error message. The DPAPI solution was built successfully. Would this indicate that there is some sort of permission being applied to the encryption/decryption call because I cannot connect to the server. How do I get it to instantiate this probably and be able to connect to the database. Cheers, Please note the same version works on the server but does not work on my local workstation. Does this tell you something? Tag: New Book: Essential SharePoint, Preview Tag: 26714
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A preview edition of my new book on SharePoint is available at:

http://usingsharepoint.com/Samples/Essential%20SharePoint%20Preview.pdf

The focus of the preview is to orient new users and get them started using
SharePoint effectively with Office. The full version of the book (to be
published soon by O'Reilly) includes much more info about create site
definitions, web parts, and other more technical topics.

I created the preview as a freely distributable "pull-out" to meet a need I
had with my clients -- getting them up and running, but without making them
read a 400 page book.

I hope this preview is useful to you, and helps others in the SharePoint
community.

Thanks,

Jeff Webb, author
Essential Sharepoint, O'Reilly 2005
Developer's Notebook: Programming Excel 2003, O'Reilly 2004
Developy Web Applications with VB .NET and C# .NET, MS Press 2002
Visual Basic Developer's Workshop, MS Press 1998
Using Visual Basic for Applications Excel Edition, Que 1996

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Re: New Book: Essential SharePoint, Preview by Mike

Mike
Sun Mar 20 12:49:00 CST 2005

Thanks Jeff, I look forward to reading it.

(or should I say Beige - 008 I presume?)

I'll add it to the WSS FAQ listings (section VII) when I have the full info
on it and a publish date.

Mike Walsh, Helsinki, Finland
WSS FAQ at http://wss.collutions.com
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>A preview edition of my new book on SharePoint is available at:
>
> http://usingsharepoint.com/Samples/Essential%20SharePoint%20Preview.pdf
>
> The focus of the preview is to orient new users and get them started using
> SharePoint effectively with Office. The full version of the book (to be
> published soon by O'Reilly) includes much more info about create site
> definitions, web parts, and other more technical topics.
>
> I created the preview as a freely distributable "pull-out" to meet a need
> I had with my clients -- getting them up and running, but without making
> them read a 400 page book.
>
> I hope this preview is useful to you, and helps others in the SharePoint
> community.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jeff Webb, author
> Essential Sharepoint, O'Reilly 2005
> Developer's Notebook: Programming Excel 2003, O'Reilly 2004
> Developy Web Applications with VB .NET and C# .NET, MS Press 2002
> Visual Basic Developer's Workshop, MS Press 1998
> Using Visual Basic for Applications Excel Edition, Que 1996
>
>

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