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Using AD Global SecurityGroups as Sharepoint groups post email to Discussion Boards

we are creating AD Global Security groups and then using them in the Sharepoint Members, visitors and owners. When a user in the Members group emails to the Sharepoint Discussion group their email is not posted. I can see it get to the drop folder and be picked up by the timer job but it still...

asked by Ags2288

  5 pts.

Capacity planning in SharePoint?

How important is capacity planning in SharePoint? Have others run into unexpected problems as it catches on, and any suggestions about how to head these off if they're causing trouble. Software/Hardware used: SharePoint

Answer Question   |  Oct 5 2009  7:46 PM GMT
SharePoint, SharePoint 2007
asked by ITKE

  10180 pts.

Sharepoint site List and permission

I am trying to hide a number of columns appearing in a list posted on my sharepoint site. The objective would be for a few individuals to be allowed to see the entire content of this list while others would only be able to view a number of columns. An indication of how to proceed would be...

asked by Jabousqu

  5 pts.

What are best practices when it comes to the business side of consolidating portals?

Imagine an organization with multiple hundred of thousands of users - or more - and it has a fairly good grasp on security using a best-in-class firewall and AD-driven (and more) strategy and physical separation of critical LANs from Extranet-linked LANs. Now it's time to consolidate the multiple...

Answer Question   |  Sep 18 2009  2:11 PM GMT
Portal, portal consolidation, IT consolidation
asked by Jetboy

  10 pts.

Portal Consolidation Best Practices

Need to discover business best practices to use for consolidating a very large number of portals.  Especially interested in how do we make the business case for deciding which portals go away, which get merged with others, and which get pumped up to accomodate new functionality from consolidated...

Answer Question   |  Sep 15 2009  4:38 PM GMT
SharePoint
asked by Jetboy

  10 pts.

retrieve page content from website into sharepoint site

I need to fetech and display content of a external website page in my sharepoint site as when there is a change in the external website page?

Answer Question   |  Sep 13 2009  7:00 AM GMT
SharePoint
asked by Sharepointquestions

  10 pts.

Is share point an alternative / more than SQL Server?

I m poor in using MOSS Microsoft Office Share Point. I have web application in ASP using IIS and SQL Server 2005. Now if I have no licence for SQL Server 2005 can I use MOSS as an alternative for SQL Server 2005? Is it possible to create / attach data base in MOSS / MOSS related SQL...

View Answer   |  Sep 2 2009  1:56 AM GMT
SQL Server 2005, IIS, MOSS
asked by SQLServer2008

  10 pts.

How can I publish my sharepoint site to be able to access it from the internet

I'm having trouble finding a solution to my problem. I can access our sharepoint site while I'm inside of our network, but can't from the internet. Here's our setup and what I've tried: Public IP address is hosted offsite. I created a DNS entry for sharepoint.mycompany.com to the WAN IP address...

View Answer   |  Aug 6 2009  9:18 PM GMT
DNS server, IIS, SharePoint
asked by Kingriggins

  20 pts.

Our Tech Writer is losing his edits on documents that he checks into Sharepoint 2007

Our Tech Writer is losing his edits on documents that he checks into Sharepoint 2007. He checks out a document, makes his edits, then checks the document back in. The next time he reviews the document, his last set of changes are not there. In looking at the version history, it did update the...

Answer Question   |  Aug 3 2009  1:25 PM GMT
SharePoint 2007, SharePoint
asked by ITKE

  10180 pts.

SharePoint Service 3 - custom view from many lists

Hi I am running W2k3 using SharePoint Services 3.0. I have a few lists which link to each other via lookup columns. I would like a view to display data which links across all lists. Can you provide a way to accomplish this? Here is my sample which does not work the way I would like: List...

asked by Zoiks

  5 pts.

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...

asked by Mmonn

  5 pts.

Automating or scripting the creation of multiple sharepoint list views?

I have several sharepoint lists with several fields in common. How do I create a list view for each that filters on the same field equal to a specific value?

View Answer   |  Jul 1 2009  7:50 PM GMT
SharePoint, Microsoft SharePoint, SharePoint Lists
asked by Afritsch

  5 pts.

What is the best way to trace printed documents with SharePoint?

My company would like to be able to trace, from the identifier/label/barcode of a printed document, the following info: - Who printed it - Who downloaded it - When it was downloaded from Sharepoint - When it was printed - The name of the file - The version of the file Is this even possible? How?...

Answer Question   |  Jul 1 2009  7:20 PM GMT
SharePoint
asked by Dokterdok

  5 pts.

How do I get the value of a lookup field stored in nvarchar field

I have a list with a lookup field which is being stored in an nvarchar column. I'm trying to access the value in a Sql Server query, but what comes back is this: ↓ ъ䅃㒳ꅉ I've tried converting this column to every data type there is, and no success. Please help!! Thanks...

View Answer   |  Jun 30 2009  3:56 PM GMT
SQL Server, SharePoint, SQL Server Query
asked by 3300Metairie

  35 pts.

How to configure local drive to sharepoint

I need to configure local drive to sharepoint.If anyone is having idea about this configuration please help me out.Thanks in advance.

View Answer   |  Jun 29 2009  11:42 AM GMT
SharePoint configuration, SharePoint, SharePoint 2007
asked by Ramesh86

  5 pts.

ISSUE ID Column in WSS 3.0

On an Issue List, you used to be able to see the Issue ID # when viewing the list item via edit or view. In v3.0 it doesn't display the ID# at all. Any idea

Answer Question   |  Jun 25 2009  5:37 PM GMT
SharePoint, WSS 3.0, WSS Issue List
asked by IMTier2

  5 pts.

reading sharepoint site using perl

how can I use perl to read in the contents of a sharepoint site?

View Answer   |  Jun 23 2009  0:14 AM GMT
Perl, SharePoint
asked by Rodneyrods

  5 pts.

Need help with my SharePoint 2007 database design

I am new to SharePoint and I need help on the best way to architect our database. Our Division has multiple groups and each group has multiple projects. Each group is a site, so we have multiple group sites. And each project is a sub site under the group site and there a Task for every project....

asked by Lizmannos

  5 pts.

Protect 4 of 6 columns in SharePont List View

We have a datasheet view list in Sharepoint with 6 fields. We want to protect 4 of them from changes while enabling the other 2 for checkbox and comments. I saw a post where in the customer creation of the list fields that you could enter something like =[FirstName] and that "protects" the field. I...

Answer Question   |  Jun 2 2009  11:58 AM GMT
SharePoint, SharePoint List View
asked by Worsty

  5 pts.

How can I build cacading Dropdown Lists with Parent-Child Relationship in SharePoint

Hi, We run 2007 Server, and we have several lists, and there is a parent child relationship. When user selects first column (parent) second column (child) values should be filtered based on parent column selection (basically getting Country and state functionality; when user selects country in...

asked by Javacrazy

  25 pts.

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