Sharepoint server backdoors
Would it be possible for the consultant who set up our Sharepoint server this year to have left some sort of a back door? We changed the admin password and removed some other strange accounts. Can he still get in?

Answer Question   |  June 13, 2011  5:59 PM
SharePoint, SharePoint administration, SharePoint agents, Sharepoint installation, SharePoint security

SharePoint – New Announcement Alert Posted on a Different Page
On our current company internal Web site, we have an announcement list on almost every section of the site. What I want to be able to do is have a “New Announcement Alert” on the home page (the only example I can think of is Facebook status updates). When a new announcement is posted on [...]

Answer Question   |  September 1, 2010  2:07 PM
SharePoint, SharePoint administration, SharePoint configuration, Sharepoint installation, SharePoint Services

Reconnecting to databases in SharePoint after server wipe
My Windows Server 2003 box died which had WSS 3.0 on it. The server has been wiped and I still have the SQL Server intact. Everything is reinstalling now; can I just reinstall SharePoint and “reconnect” to the databases that already are there or do I need to start all over?

Answer Question   |  December 4, 2009  7:33 PM
Database administration, Servers, SharePoint, Sharepoint installation, SQL Server, Windows Server 2003, WSS 3.0

Sharepoint Configuration Error Very Strange
I get the following error after I installed Sharepoint 2007 on a front end server pointing to sql server 2008 (both machines are servr 2008) Failed to create the configuration database. An exception of type System.Xml.XmlException was thrown. Additional exception information: ‘en’ is an unexpected token. Expecting white space. Line 1, position 13856. System.Xml.XmlException: ‘en’ [...]

Answer Question   |  July 28, 2009  1:34 AM
SharePoint, SharePoint 2007, Sharepoint installation