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Microsoft SharePoint is a software platform and a family of software products developed by Microsoft for collaboration and web publishing combined. These capabilities include developing web sites, portals, intranets, content management systems, search engines, wikis, blogs, and other tools for business intelligence. This family of products include: Microsoft SharePoint Server, Microsoft SharePoint Foundation, Microsoft Search Server, Microsoft SharePoint D

For SharePoint-specific questions, please see the SharePoint Stack Exchange site.

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Is it safe to have SQL Server auto-shrink turned on?

There are many SQL Server options that can be enabled for databases, and one of the most misunderstood ones is auto-shrink. Is it safe? If not, why not?
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How can I tell what version of SharePoint a site is using, from the outside?

how can I tell what version of SharePoint a site is using, without being able to see the admin panel? Is there anything, perhaps in the source of the pages, that would give me a clue?
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Resources for the accidental DBA

Within the Microsoft platform, most of the enterprise level programs (SharePoint, any of the System Center apps, any of the Dyamics apps, etc) all run on top of SQL Server. For administrators of these programs, SQL Server is often a black box that…
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Combining SharePoint and Database Mirroring

This isn't a how-should-I-do-this question, just to set the stage. It's a what has your experience been? Please read through the whole question before quickly replying. I spent the day yesterday teaching the current round of SharePoint MCM…
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How to find which template is used for a site or a page in SharePoint

How/where can I find the template used for a SharePoint site or page. I have a page I want to resemble, but I don't know where to find the template for that page and site?
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Sharepoint 2007 Backup Solutions?

SharePoint 2007 comes in with a built-in backup facility, but I've heard bad things about it. Namely, you can backup but not restore the configuration database, and generally that restoring is always a test of faith. I wonder if there are some "Best…
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Stopping Microsoft Office 2010 from integrating with Subversion server as if it's Sharepoint

We have an Apache Subversion server that we store (amongst other things) all of our documentation on. We have a lot of Word, Excel, PDF etc. documents in svn, and all of our users use TortoiseSVN as their client interface. A lot of those users will…
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How to setup an Intranet site and a FREE alternative to Sharepoint

I've been tasked with the job of building a web server and Intranet site using perhaps Joomla for creating an alternative to Microsoft Sharepoint and would like some advice of what steps to take and how to get started. A bit of background is that we…
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Adding VM's to Domain

I am trying to configure SP farm, in Azure, following steps mention in this article - https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt723354(v=office.16).aspx But after creating Sql VM('sqlVM' ), I am not able to add this to the AD domain. Below…
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Sharepoint replacement

We're looking for a sharepoint replacement. We're looking for an open source application that runs on apache2. It should basically be a document store with comments. Integration with AD to administer permissions. We've been looking for a few days,…
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I can't map a network drive to sharepoint

On a Windows 8 client. I can browse to my sharepoint site in 365 without issues: https://myPublicserver.sharepoint.com But when I try to map a drive to that address I get this error: "The folder you entered does not appear to be valid" I made sure…
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WSSTRACING.EXE High CPU

I've got a SharePoint 2013 Enterprise Server running on Windows Server 2008 R2 Its CPU load goes high and stays up, the process causing the high cpu usage is wsstracing.exe. checking the logs using ULS viewer I see this error multiple times though…
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What's your best practice Recovery Model for SharePoint databases

Paul Randal asked some really nice questions about best practices for SharePoint SQL databases. Today, while helping a customer to maintain SharePoint installation he asked me a question about best SQL recovery model for SharePoint database. It is…
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How to solve Access Denied errors with stsadm -o retractsolution

We have a 2 server farm running MOSS 2007 SP1. I am a member of the Administrators group on both servers. I am also a member of the Farm Administrators group. I needed to upgrade a few solutions, so naturally I started with the stsadm…
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What is best tool to measure network latency?

How do you measure network latency in Windows ? I know ping as one of the tool. Can Windows Performance monitor do it ? Any ideas which counters should I add to measure it. This is for SharePoint specific where we have a requirement that web server…
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