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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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Sharepoint / SSRS subscriptions intermittently not emailing

I am running MOSS with SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services in integrated mode. There are a number of reports that are generated and then output emailed through SharePoint's subscriptions. Sporadically all subscriptions will fail to email with the…
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Central Admin always opens up in Firefox

I'm running Server 2008 64-bit on my laptop. I have installed SharePoint (MOSS SP2). Whenever I launch Central Admin, it always opens up in a Firefox browser instead of IE, even though IE is my default browser. Any ideas on how I can change this?
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Microsoft Office documents collaboration - Open Source alternative

I am looking for a good solution to collaborate on Microsoft Office documents, we currently just edit directly on a Samba share but it's one big mess because sometimes people leave the office with their laptops while docs are open so swap files…
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What is the IIS WAMREG admin component?

Question is in the title. Has something to do with Sharepoint, but a little bit of searching on my part didn't turn up a good answer.
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MOSS 2007 cannot configure Forms Authentication using ActiveDirectoryMembershipProvider

I'm having a really difficult time trying to get my Sharepoint site to use Forms Authentication. I've tried using an ActiveDirectoryMembershipProvder and the LDAP equivalent but both of them seem absolutely unable to find any users from…
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Active Directory max photo size

We are looking at putting photos in Active Directory. We have many domain controllers, some are in areas with not a lot of bandwidth. What are the recommend/max files sizes for photos or is this a bad idea to begin with. We are currently storing…
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How can I get alerted when auto-growth occurs on a SQL Server database?

Our SharePoint databases are set to the (nonsensical) 1MB default autogrow out-of-the-box, and I need to "convince" our application owner that this is wrong. Is there a means to monitor the autogrow activity of SQL Server? I would like to be able to…
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SharePoint Governance, is it purely for the academics?

Governance around the different workloads associated to SharePoint seems to be a pretty hot topic, however all of the guidance comes across as more academic/theory. Is Microsoft making too big a deal about it? Should there be just documentation?…
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Can A Virtual Machine Be Converted to a Virtual Server e.g VMWare?

The Simple Question Can I convert an existing VM to a Virtual Server (e.g. VMWare)? I'm using Oracle's one and only awesome product, VirtualBox, and I'm trying to setup a SharePoint Farm to migrate our existing, non-virtual SharePoint Farm to. The…
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Improved SharePoint/MOSS 2007 Wiki

We use SharePoint (MOSS 2007) for storing all of our internal documents, and it works great as a document management system. One of the problems we have though is using the Wiki feature of SharePoint. For the most part, it is lacking the general…
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Antivirus Configuration for dedicated SQL and dedicated IIS Servers

Our corporate standard is McAfee Enterprise, unfortunately this is non-negotiable. On two types of servers I'm responsible for, SQL & Web, we have noticed major performance issues with the corporate standard setup. Max scan time 45sec One policy…
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Sharepoint Backup

If you backup the databases of Sharepoint, do you have everything backed up? Or are the documents for the instance stored on the disk drive?
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How we can have the ability to build a new sharepoint server which have the same sharepoint patches installed

we have couple of sharepoint 2013/2016 farms, and they all shared these architecture :- one sharepoint application server which have sharepoint server installed. one database server which have the sharepoint databases installed. Now as part of our…
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Google Wave vs Sharepoint

What insight do you have as to the pros and cons of using Google Wave as a primary collaboration tool for our network team (as opposed to MS Sharepoint?) -- more details -- We have just begun using Sharepoint on a trial basis - so we're not really…
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Hide documents from site collection administrators

Does anyone know if a site admin can programmatically set permissions on documents in a SharePoint Library so that site collection administrators would have to take ownership before accessing the file? I’m one of the Site Collection administrators…
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