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    - WSS in Vista? I just recently noticed that Vista Ultimate RC1 includes what appears to be a full version of IIS7. I dug around to see if it also had WSS v3 but found nothing. I tried installing from the stand-alone installation and it fails saying that 2003 SP1 is required. Does anyone kow if WSS will be supported on any version of Vista? This would certainly streamline some of our development. -- Harold Tag: Discussion Boards Tag: 52326
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    - Meeting Workspace Question Hello all, I'm trying to set up a meeting workspace with a catch. The same meeting meets on two different days, at two separate times. Is there anyway to bundle this into 1 meeting workspace instead of having to create two to account for the different times? i.e. Group meets on Monday from 8am-11am and Wednesday from 3pm-5pm. I know its possible to set up a reccurance of Mon/Wed from 8am-11am, but I haven't found a way to make Sharepoint recognize that the Wednesday meeting starts at a different time. Thanks! Brian Kelly Tag: Discussion Boards Tag: 52322
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    - Problems getting theme customizations to work Our organization has just started using SharePoint 2003, and I've be given a site to customize for our department. Using FrontPage 2003, I'm able to change themes for the site, and I'm also able to make a copy of the theme and customize it. But the customizations aren't showing up on the site, just in FrontPage. At first I thought the problem was that even though FrontPage tells me that I'm logged into the part of the SharePoint site where I have access, somehow I was just making changes on my PC, not the server. But when I make changes to default.aspx, they are showing up on the site. Similarly, in _themes, I can see the theme I customized. If I make changes to any of the .CSS files, including copy1011-109.css, the changes don't show up when I look at the site. But if I delete the .css files, then the site reverts back to the default design that our SharePoint admin set up, which suggests that I am making changes on the server. Any idea what's going on and how I can fix it? It could be something simple and stupid -- although I've read a bunch of documentation, I'm still a newbie when it comes to SharePoint. Thanks, Anders Schneiderman SEIU Tag: Discussion Boards Tag: 52320
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    - How to reinstall Calendar and Task web parts after delete Several web parts were deleted instead of closed and are no longer available on our site--how do I re-isntall/re-register? Any help appreciated... T Tag: Discussion Boards Tag: 52316
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    - move/change url for subsite I have a site like this: <<main url>>/sites/subsite, how can I change this to be the default site, that is url = <<main url>> preferably without backup restore of the whole site... regards ladyhawke Tag: Discussion Boards Tag: 52313
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    - accessing WSS sites with a Mac I have a user that has administrative access on a site, but is trying to access it with a Mac (I have NO experience with these) and is being challenged for credentials. I've verified the network ID he is logging in with and he has access to other network resources, so I don't think it's a connectivity issue. Has anyone ever encountered problems with this before? Thanks! Tag: Discussion Boards Tag: 52305
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    - Copying a Web Part Page I am creating managment views of data using Web Part Pages. These views are very similar, with the only differences being the filter parameters for each web part. Is there a way to copy an existing Web Part Page to create a new one, where all I have to do is update the web part settings for the new page? Tag: Discussion Boards Tag: 52301
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    - Problem - Using DataView wp on aspx page creates a new view I am using Frontpage2003. I created webpart aspx and added 2 DataView webparts: one from the List1 on the same wss site and one from List2 on diffrerent wss site. I discovered that it automatically adds new View to the List1. CLicking on the view link opens my custom page. If I delete the view, it automatically deletes DataView for List1 on my aspx page. The only way I could break this 'hidden relationship" between my aspx and view is to rename the aspx page. -- Thank you, Andrew Tag: Discussion Boards Tag: 52299
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    - office documents locking up when accessing sharepoint site via vpn When user's try to open a office file (word/excel) from my company's sharepoint site (WSS 2.0) with remote access to the company's domain (via vpn), the office document locks up while loading. The same documents open just fine when a user is accessing the site locally. Has anyone ever experienced such a problem? If so, are there any solutions out there. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Tag: Discussion Boards Tag: 52296
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    - Permissions for \\companyweb from the server I have an issue. We setup a document library on sbs 2003 sharepoint website on my clients companyweb. From every computer on the domain we can go to start-->run and type \\companyweb\newlibrary and it pulls up the files but if I try it from the sbs 2003 server I get a pop up asking for the username and password. No matter what I type in it won't let me view the files. I can log in as an admin to one of the workstations and hit the files so it is something to do with the server and not the user. I can access the library though the web interface on the server just not using \\companyweb I have been searching for days and I can't find anything. This was working about 2 weeks ago and just stopped working. I am guessing it was from an update. Thanks! Tag: Discussion Boards Tag: 52294
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    - Map network drive to sharepoint problem I have read a few things that would suggest that it's possible to map a network drive to a WSS v2 site, or document library. However, I haven't had any success at this. The SharePoint URL is https://gmsnet.gms.ca/it/Shared%20Documents (don't bother trying to access it, it's only available on our local network). When I attempt to map the network drive on my Windows 2003 Server to \\gmsnet.gms.ca\it\Shared%20Documents\, I receive the following error: "The drive could not be mapped because no network was found." I am doing something wrong? At first I thought the problem was the fact our site uses an SSL certificate and therefore runs on port 443, but I removed that restriction and retried but got the same error. Another suggestion I found on the web was to ensure that the WebClient service was running on the server. I checked it and it wasn't running. In fact, it was disabled - apparently that's a Windows Server 2003 default. So I changed that server to Manual and started it. Still no luck. Any other suggestions? Thanks, Dave Slinn Tag: Discussion Boards Tag: 52292
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    - Sharing ACT or Quickbooks data via SharePoint Services Hi all. I do a lot of user training for SharePoint Services, primarily in a hosted environment. Lately I've been asked by several people about the ability for users to share data files such as ACT or Quickbooks via a SharePoint Services site. My gut feeling is that this cannot be done, but I have seen nothing written about this to support my feeling, except those I've found about not being able to upload an Access mdb file into a document library and edit it. Can anyone clear up this question for me? Maybe even point me to some articles about SharePoint Services ability or limitations for users wanting to share database type files with other users? I'd like to have something I can send to those that ask me this question. Thanks in advance! Andrea Kalli Tag: Discussion Boards Tag: 52291
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    - Date Time Formats in WSS Hi All, I would like to change the date time format in WSS to "10 Dec 2006" instead of "10/12/2006" (uk settings), but sadly there appears to be no option to do this at either the central admin, root level or column level. has anyone come across a workaround before? My only thought is an ISAPI filter that processes the response and uses regular expressions to reformat datetimes. Doesn't sound too pleasant..... I have also tried changing the "short date time" settings in the region/language options. Please note that I am NOT asking how to change regional settings. cheers, Paul Tag: Discussion Boards Tag: 52286
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    - need help about k2.net 2003 we can't fing any documentation about this product can any one help us with this so we can work with it Tag: Discussion Boards Tag: 52282
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    - Video streaming in WSS Hi All, I have a video tutorial library in one WSS site. some of the tutorials are ~90Mb and VPN users are having trouble in viewing\downloading the files. Is there a way to stream video or any other solution? I've tried compressing the files but the quality is really worse (using Windows Movie Maker) so because it's a tutorial I need the video to be clear. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance... Tag: Discussion Boards Tag: 52276
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    - Making a Link Library in Links list launch a local application I know that ASP code runs on a server, but can I make a Links Library Link launch a local .exe file on the local machine that the web page is displayed. So, I want to launch an application on the user's desktop that is located on the users c:\program files\LMS\application.exe Thanks in advance. Gordon Tag: Discussion Boards Tag: 52268
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    - Question when opening forms Hello all Since I changed the way I access to my intranet (used to be http://servername...now is http://intranet.com) its asking me to type my username and password (I am already logon to the intranet when I first open it) everytine I want to fill a form. This didnt happend before. Is this normal? Thanks Tag: Discussion Boards Tag: 52267
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    - Problems opening files larger than 40MB Is there some kind of setting that is not allowing me to open files residing in WSS v2. I cannot open and/or copy files that are larger than 40MB. When I try to do that it gives me a "cannot find data source error". Is WSS v2 limited to just storing Microsoft Office files? We are using it to store numerous file types, not just Microsoft Office files. The server is showing very poor performance when using SharePoint compared to just storing raw data. I expected a minor decline in performance but not this major. Any ideas? This is what we have running: Win 2003 Server Dual Xeon 2.4 Processor 303GB Total HD space RAID 3GB of RAM WSS v2 Tag: Discussion Boards Tag: 52266
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    - exporting sharepoint results I am trying to export survey results to an excel spreadsheet and the rating scale data does not export. Can anyone tell me how to do this Tag: Discussion Boards Tag: 52265
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    - Default top-level team site According to my information, when you install SharePoint, a default top-level team site is automatically created. Well, I can't find it anywhere. My server is called testserver. What am I doing wrong? Is there a setting somewhere I'm supposed to set? If it's not there, how can I create it? Tag: Discussion Boards Tag: 52263
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    - Can't add items to lists Whenever I try to add a new item (announcement, event, link) it goes to the add screen but won't allow me to enter any data. What am I doing wrong? Is it a userid problem? Security? Tag: Discussion Boards Tag: 52262
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    - How long does it take for changes in OWS.CSS to take effect? I've added a new class to the OWS.CSS file and edited a specific DIV tag in a site to use this new class but the changes aren't updating on the site... is this being cached somehow? How long do I have to wait for changes to take effect? ~john Tag: Discussion Boards Tag: 52256
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    - domains Hi All, I have 2 domains, A and B, with trust relationship between them. If I install WSS 2.0 at A domain, can I give access to users from B domain? Thank you! Eduardo Tag: Discussion Boards Tag: 52252
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    - Restore Content Database problem Hi, I have spent basically the whole day reading about restoring the content database in WSS but I still can't seem to get it working. I really hope someone can help me out.. The only backup I have is the content database (SQL 2000 backup) but not the configuration database. The steps I've done so far are on a new server are: 1. Restored the database into sql 2. Installed WSS with remotesql=yes and server farm option 3. Run through the first central admin setup pages choosing an application pool with identity of the local admin account. This also created a new configuration database. 4. Created a new web site in IIS 5. Extended this site in WSS 6. Removed the newly created content database via 'Manage content databases ' in central administration 7. Added my restored content database as the new content database - once I did this I can see that Current Number of Sites = 1 8. Added the local admin account as a security and process admin and database creator role of my restored content database. When I browse to the site I get 'Cannot complete this action' Firstly is there something I have missed? Do I need the original configuration database? I've also run exec sp_changedbowner 'server\Administrator' but it says The proposed new database owner is already a user in the database so it must of been using the same user as I am using now, I couldn't check this because the old server crashed and the only backup I have is the content db. Does anyone have any idea what I might of done wrong? Thanks, Rick Tag: Discussion Boards Tag: 52249
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    - Missing alerts? I have added som alerts on a site (a list) but they never show up at the users mailbox. 2 indivial users tried without luck. How to trouble shoot this issue??? E-mail adresses are ok and in working order... regards, Ladyhawke Tag: Discussion Boards Tag: 52245
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    - How to default view expanded groups & collapsed subgroups in a sharepoint list? Hi, Finally got a hang of grouping with views. How do I create a default view with collapsed subgroups and expanded groups? - Admin + Sam + Kyle + Noel - Region + US-East + Europe + Asia + Japan - Office + Chicago + New York + Dallas + San Jose The view menu only allows "collapse all" or "expand all" but does'nt allow selective collapse on subcategories. Thanks! Adam Tag: Discussion Boards Tag: 52242
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    - Can't Delete HELP!!! Somehow my WSS site has lost the ability to delete lists/librarys/etc and documents from lists. I've tried through the browser and through SharePointDesigner. the browser error is "HTTP Error 403 - Forbidden: Access is denied. Internet Information Services (IIS)". This is happening for administrator, and the two domain users with admin rights! Tag: Discussion Boards Tag: 52238
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    - Crawled Properties -- SharePoint 2007 .. Enterprise Search Hello All, I have to do search on a website using Sharepoint 2007, and the website is built on ASP.Net and not using SharePoint. So, I setup ContentSource for the website in the Sharepont Central Administration 3.0. I also setup some crawled rules and managed properties. When I crawl the content using Full Crawl functionality, the content is crawled as expected. Searching is also working. All we need to index is the Content in .aspx pages and nothing more than that. Our requirement is that we only index the content of the web pages, where we have a tag (which is in the <body> .. it can be a comment or <span> with an id that we care). We do not want to index any other elements or tags like <html><title>, etc. Is there a way to do this using Crawled Properties and Managed Properties? Tag: Discussion Boards Tag: 52233
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    - Site editor for WSS v2 sites?? I don't have FrontPage 2003, what are my editor options for editing a WSS v2 site?? For example, could I use Visual Studio 2005 (VSTO version)?? Can I use Office Forms Designer 2007 beta version?? What about other HTML/ASP.NET editors?? Such as Dreamweaver MX?? I recently saw something about an editing issue called ghosting, is this good or bad, where/how can I learn about this?? I just want to mostly do basic customization like add a logo in the upper left corner, colors, etc. Thank you, Tom P.S. What editor(s) could one use for WSS v3?? Tag: Discussion Boards Tag: 52232
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    - Sharepoint event sink Access is Denied I'm getting the following error when our event sink executes on our server (see below): We understand that the account configured to run the WSS App Pool must have some sort of permission to do this.. but what permission is it exactly? Access is denied. at Microsoft.SharePoint.h.a(UnauthorizedAccessException A_0) at Microsoft.SharePoint.Library.a.a(String A_0, String A_1, ListDocsFlags A_2, Object& A_3, Object& A_4, UInt32& A_5, UInt32& A_6) at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPWeb.a(String A_0, Object[,]& A_1, Object[,]& A_2, UInt32& A_3, UInt32& A_4) at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPFolder.b() at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPFolder.get_Files() at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPFile.c() at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPFile.d() at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPFile.get_Item() at ... Tag: Discussion Boards Tag: 52231
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    - Office cannot retrieve WSS-information Hi, On a Windows Server 2003 standard I have installed WSS on the default web-server. The server - as well as clients - are fully patched. The site works as it should when accessing from within IE (added site to local intranet). But when I open a document/spreadsheet in word/excel it keeps on prompting (after the actual document already opened) for credentials. And no matter how many times I keep on pounding my password - it just keeps prompting. This goes when the server is accessed from within it's own domain - as well as when I access it over the internet. When I cancel the requests it doesn't connect my "task pane" in Office - and I can't use the facilities within. It says somwthing like (translated): You do not have access to the work space. My user is both member of adminstrators and domain admin - both within this domain, and on the computer where I try to gain access from outside. If I disable the Basic Authentication in IIS I get a "You are not authorized to view this page" when I try to access the page from computers on other domains. Could anyone please advice? Best regards, /KasperCO Tag: Discussion Boards Tag: 52219
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    - Uploading large programs into doclibs - disadvantages? I'm dealing with our corporate intranet running SPS/WSS'03. A user would like to upload a program executable into a document library - right now it's telling him that the file is too big. I know how to change max file upload settings as well as allowing .exe files into the doclibs...but is this a good use? Should users upload massive installable programs into doclibs? I'm looking for a pros/cons thing here; we currently use a shared drive for things like that. I'm thinking Sharepoint will be slower and bloat the filesize (not to mention chew up massive amounts of diskspace on the Sharepoint server). Any thoughts? Much appreciated in advance! Tag: Discussion Boards Tag: 52218
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    - Blog Template and WebPart Hello all, I have set up wss 3.0 beta an created a new site using the Blog template. It appears that the users that I have setup as contributors do not see their postings until and administrator has approved them. I did not turn on any workflow stuff nor did I see that it was on when I looked. Any have thoughts on that? I want users to be able to post their messages without approval. Also, has anyone seen a calendar webpart that is or could maybe be tied to the blog template so you can click on a date and show postings from that date, like most blogs work? Thanks, Greg Tag: Discussion Boards Tag: 52217
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    - Using resource files in v3? In examples included in the prelimenary documentation the following token is used on several places e.g. Title="$Resources:core,taskList;" I can't find any reference to this token in the documentation. Does anyone know how this works and how to create custom resourece. Tag: Discussion Boards Tag: 52215
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    - Wiki Pages - Linking to pages in other sites Hi, In a WSS v3 wiki, is it possible to link a wiki page to a wiki page in another WSS site? I believe that would make sharepoint wikis much more useful. John PS Also, is it possible for wiki page authors to easily link wiki pages to (non-wiki) lists, in the same site and in other sites? Tag: Discussion Boards Tag: 52214
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    - Seeing a New Item page from a custom list showing in a page viewer web part Is it possible to use MS FrontPage to strip everything away from the 'add new item' for a custom list and to show this in a page viewer web part on a team site. This would let someone add an item on the homepage without going to the screen where they have to add the item as an extra step. I would then add a simple thankyou message appear in the page viewer part after they added their message. Any thoughts Alex Paznikov alexpaznikov@bigpond.com Tag: Discussion Boards Tag: 52210
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    - Using Sharepoint as a Document Template Repository Hi, I've been trying to set WSS v2 up as a Word Document Template Repository without much success. I'm hoping that someone might be able to assist. I'll explain what I want to do. I wish to have a Document Library that is used to store Microsoft Word Document Templates (.dot) files. Only certain domain users will be allowed to edit the templates (Template Managers) and hence all other Sharepoint users should only have View access to the Document Library. I will then be mapping the document library to a network drive on the users computers (e.g. \\wss_server\doclibrary) so that I can add the files into the set of available templates displayed in Word when the new document windows is displayed. I have managed to set all of this up on my test Sharepoint site, but when I attempt to the open one of the Word Templates from a user account with only view access permissions, Word says that it can not access the template. Does anyone have an idea how I might work around this or a better way to setup a document template repository. Thanks, Philip Tag: Discussion Boards Tag: 52209
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    - who's logged in wss? Hi, Where can admin see wss users who are currently logged in? Can admin discoonect a wss user if user has logged in from work machine and can't later connect from home? Thanks. Tag: Discussion Boards Tag: 52206
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    - Setting Permissions on List column? Hi, I'd like to know if there is a way to set individual permissions on a column within a list? I've got a table that I only want users to be able to change one column of. What's the best way to do this? Thanks in advance. Tag: Discussion Boards Tag: 52204
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    - Web Applications are not running Hi to all, After installing Windows Sharepoint server in windows 2003 server standard edition server. My exiting web applications(ASP dotnet) Applications are not running. When I try to browse this web application, the page can not be found error displayed. How to fix this problem? with advance thankx, Sankar Tag: Discussion Boards Tag: 52202
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    - Where to modify the screen width of list items Sharepoint Services Hope I can explain this correctly - here goes; We have a 'List' created as a 'General News'. We have a web-part which displays this list on the Sharepoint homepage. When any of our Users create a new 'General News' item, we have found that should the User type in one long sentence, the text box does not wrap the text. On saving their content away, viewing the Homepage shows their content, except the homepage is spread across several screens! Using FrontPage 2003 (FP), I have tried to find a setting to restrict the display, thus keeping the Homepage in a state where it can be viewed without having to scroll around. When I edit the Webpart (using FP) I can set the Width to various measuremnt types (points, pixels, inches etc). If I set the width here, to say 400 pixels, it reduces the width of the Webpart but does not prevent my scrolling issue. Hope this makes sense - can anyone give me any pointers? Thanks in advance Regards Phil Tag: Discussion Boards Tag: 52201
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    - Where do I get WSS V3? Is it just part of MOSS Beta 2? Thanks, -c Tag: Discussion Boards Tag: 52190
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    - WSS 3.0 - Custom/external authentication Hi i tried implementing Mailk Sahil 's guide to use custom external authentication with windows sharepoint services 3.0 it didnt work for me. i followed this guide: http://www.developer.com/net/asp/article.php/3622481 when i come to the part where i need to add the user as the administrator of the website, it puts a red underline and it says user not found. basicly, its unable to locate the database where all the users reside. im totally a newbie, and dont know much about memberships or ASP.NET ...im trying my best though. if anyone could help, will be greatly appreciated. Thanks Faisal Tag: Discussion Boards Tag: 52189
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    - how big can a survey go? I have been entering surveys that normally are 80 questions long with a choice of 4 possibilities for each. I got lazy with the last one and pasted the questions and answers into into the choices section for responses. At question 65 (not important) I received an error message that I had exceeded the maximum number of columns for a list. What is the max number of columns for a list? Thanks Alex Paznikov alexpaznikov@bigpond.com Tag: Discussion Boards Tag: 52188
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    - security/host header issue When I am on the SharePoint server I am getting a 401 when I browse to the host header. From the server I can hit SharePoint by going to localhost or machine name. The strange part is from any other machine on the network I can use the host header name to browse to SharePoint with no issues. Has anyone seen this before? - Andrew Tag: Discussion Boards Tag: 52183
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    - Importing directory hierarchy I have a complete directory hierarchy of documentation on the box that is hosting Sharepoint. Is it possible to import the directorties with it's contents into Sharepoint? -TH Tag: Discussion Boards Tag: 52179
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    - Grouping Documents in Sharepoint??? Hello, I am struggling to create a document library with a grouping functionality. By grouping I mean having a expand/collapse +/- icon on the far left of a web part. I want to create a document library, which appears in flat view as follows . . [-] Articles Art1 . . . Art2 . . . Art3 . . . [-] Tools Tool1 . . . Tool2 . . . Tool3 . . . [-] SubTool ST1 . . . ST2 . . . Any Ideas? Should the items such as {Articles}, {Tools} & {SunTool} be added as new directories in the document folder? Thanks, Adam! Tag: Discussion Boards Tag: 52176
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    - I found a tickets site I found a tickets site http://allticket.yourfreewebspace.com/ we can find and buy all tickets,fun! Tag: Discussion Boards Tag: 52175
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    - I found a tickets site I found a tickets site http://allticket.yourfreewebspace.com/ we can find and buy all tickets,fun! Tag: Discussion Boards Tag: 52174
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    - Multiple form input parameters All, I have a list that I am try to do a filter on 2 different input parameters. Basically its a form web part with 2 input boxes (t1 and t2). I am trying to create a between date filter for our main list which has about 2000 entries in it and I would like to be able to filter between certain dates. I have created a couple of lists with dates so I can get more than one web part connection to our main list but I don't think that wss can tell which [input parameter] should be used with the appropriate 'greater than or equal to' or 'less than or equal to' comparisons. Is their a way to specify this somewhere that I haven't seen yet? Any suggestions. Thanks for the help Tag: Discussion Boards Tag: 52173

While designing a discussion board, I have created a new column with
lookup to a list in order to classify the subject of discussion.
However when someone replies to a posting, the lookup column is not
populated with the original selection, but asks the replier to reselect
from the lookup......Is there a way to avoid this?

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