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SharePoint admin URL Quick List

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I thought this was a great reference from Heather Solomon’s site.

The following is a list of SharePoint URLs to get to commonly used administrative functions on a SharePoint site. The majority of the URLs require administrator permissions on the site and a few require administrator permissions on the SharePoint server. This is a quick list for speedy reference as compared to tracking down links through the admin screens.

All links in this list reference the English language directory (1033). For other languages replace 1033 with the appropriate LCID. Continue reading →

Trouble Downloading large SharePoint files over Mapped Drives

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I recently ran into a problem where I have a SharePoint customer trying and downloading large files from mapped drive going to their shared documents.  I could download the file directly from their site using a browser but I couldn’t download the same file from the mapped drive location. The file in question was 1.2GB in size.

When trying to move/copy the file it would site for while on ‘calculating’ but in the end it would return:
‘Cannot Copy FileName: Cannot read from the source file or disk’ Continue reading →

What is SharePoint?

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We from this we can start with the Wikipedia explanation of what SharePoint is:

Microsoft SharePoint, also known as Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies, is a collection of products and software elements that includes, among a growing selection of components, web browser based collaboration functions, process management modules, search modules and a document-management platform.[1] SharePoint can be used to host web sites that access shared workspaces, information stores and documents, as well as host defined applications such as wikis and blogs. All users can manipulate proprietary controls called “web parts” or interact with pieces of content such as lists and document libraries.

Wikipedia: Microsoft SharePoint

In this brief explanation you might scratch your head and say ‘well that really doesn’t tell me much’. Continue reading →

How to correctly configure the Web Listener in Forefront TMG for SharePoint 2010

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Something that has brought about confusion is how to configure the Web Listener in Forefront 2010 for SharePoint.

As opposed to normal websites that use some internal authentication method SharePoint requires a unique approach to how TMG listens and routes the web service.

Among these is how you configure your web listener for the SharePoint sites. This is what a typical listener property page looks like. Continue reading →

How to Hide a SharePoint Document Library

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I had a recent question on not only how to remove permissions to a particular SharePoint Library, but hide it as well without deleting any content. This same steps can also hide any other list within SharePoint.

In essence SharePoint wants to not only want to share everything, but show you everything as well. This is just an inherent trait within SharePoint that makes it so great. If you need to not only remove permissions and hide the Document Library you will need to take the following steps.

As we can see below we have an existing document library called ‘HideMe’ Continue reading →

Using a DotNetNuke auth database for a SharePoint FBA database

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While there are a fair number of sites outline how to set up a Forms based authentication (FBA) front end using an new empty SQL database. An excellent one by my co-worker Corey Burke at Rackspace is SharePoint Voodoo: Easy-Bake Forms Based Authentication. There are none that outline the process of using a new FBA with an existing DotNetNuke authentication database.

1. Create your FBA site with a new blank FBA database back-end. For this purposes I will call the FBA database ‘FBA-DB’ and the DotNetNuke database as ‘DNN-DB’.

In this instance we were lucky because both database bases use a standard authentication database from Microsoft when the aspnet_regsql command is used. When we create a blank FBA database it will have the standard database structure like the one pictured below. Continue reading →

SharePoint Site Prompts for Multiple Authentications while Opening a Document

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Recently I had a customer who when they tried to open a Word document in their Shared Documents they received multiple prompts from Internet Explorer and Word. This seems to typically happen when the SharePoint site/server is remotely hosted.

What happens is that IE will force this behavior because it does not believe that the SharePoint site is to be trusted. We can work around this designed behavior.

First we have to check to make sure Client Integration is turned on. Go to the following site within SharePoint Central Admin. Continue reading →

SharePoint Site Prompts for Multiple Authentications while Opening a Document

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Recently I had a customer who when they tried to open a Word document in their Shared Documents they received multiple prompts from Internet Explorer and Word. This seems to typically happen when the SharePoint site/server is remotely hosted.

What happens is that IE will force this behavior because it does not believe that the SharePoint site is to be trusted. We can work around this designed behavior.

First we have to check to make sure Client Integration is turned on. Go to the following site within SharePoint Central Admin. Continue reading →

Setup SharePoint Forms Based Authentication (FBA) with Active Directory

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This Article will explain how to set up Forms Based Authentication using an Active Directory backend.

Your default site is required to be a Windows Authentication provider. This is due to the fact that you the search and backup process will break if the default is anything other than a standard Windows provider.  This will require you to extend the existing site. Here is an example.

portal.domain.com —> extended to —> fba.domain.com

Windows login: portal.domain.com
FBA login: fba.domain.com

In our example we will be using the following typical variables which you will have to change to suit your particular needs in the appropriate web.config files.

Membership Provider name=”ENIGMA”
Role manager name=”ENIGMAROLE”
server=”domain.com”
userContainer=”DC=Domain,DC=com”

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How to add a STP template for a new SharePoint site collection

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To  add STP template for a new SharePoint site collection you will need to take the following steps in command line using the stsadm.exe command. These type of tempales are called ‘Server Admin Tempalates’.

The command is as follows. Note that the description is optional.

stsadm -o addtemplate -filename <template filename> -title <template title> [-description <template description>]

You will be prompted to do an iisreset to complete the template installation. Once iisreset is complete login to a web site create a new site and under “Custom” tab for “Template Selection” you should see your new template as an option. You can find greate Microsoft tempales from here Application Templates for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0.

Once this is completed the template will be avaliable from the SharePoint Central Admin or the self-service creation if avaliable. If you need to add a STP template to an existing SharePoint site try this entry I wrote up at How to add a STP template to an existing SharePoint site.

Source: Addtemplate: Stsadm operation (office SharePoint Server)

–Javi

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