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Re: Understanding MOSS Search

2009-11-25T20:27:46Z

Thank you very much, I will try and look for the answers in the book.
Best regards,
Na'ama

Re: Document Library - How do I remove "Title" property?

2009-11-25T14:17:59Z

NEVER delete/remove the title property! It is used internally and
is a reserved word. (That is why there is not Delete option). If you
find it annoying, to have it on your forms and lists, you could not
display it. and you could create customized edit/new forms that
do not display it, or simply rename it and use it for some other

Re: Understanding MOSS Search

2009-11-25T11:28:37Z

Hi Na'ama,
well you can get all of your questions answered in this Micrsoft book
Downloadable book: Administering Enterprise Search for Office
SharePoint Server
[link]
Regards,
Vaibhav Desai

Understanding MOSS Search

2009-11-25T09:51:05Z

Hi,
We are trying to understand the results we are receiving when we are
using MOSS Search. We would like to know the following:
1. Does index work on all the document content or only on the
metadata? to my understanding it works on all the document data. If
so:
2. Does the search work with an "AND" between all the search phrases?

Re: Can't add link to Tope Link Bar on my site in sharepoint?

2009-11-24T16:46:20Z

Why dont you add it to your "my links"...that way it's in a drop down
and resides in your profile.

New Release: Virto Tag Cloud Web Part for Microsoft SharePoint 2007

2009-11-24T10:39:32Z

Virto Tag Cloud Web Part for SharePoint 2007 (MOSS2007/WSS v.3)
Virto Tag Cloud is a simple and useful tool for effective structuring
your data stored in SharePoint lists, and providing easy navigation.
Tag cloud is an intuitive, simple and, thus, extremely popular way to
structure information.
Tag cloud has two main functions: navigation and popularity ranking.

Re: Layered Solutions offers free AutoFill Web Part for Sharepoint and

2009-11-24T08:16:37Z

Thats great... how about posting a link to it then?

Document Library - How do I remove "Title" property?

2009-11-23T16:45:39Z

When creating a document library how do I remove the "Title" property?
Seems to insist that it always exist when I was configuring columns)

Document Library - How do I show properties from uploaded word documents?

2009-11-23T16:43:41Z

Established a SharePoint document Library and on the whole things are
good with the exception that the following library properties don't
prepopulate from the Word document's properties when uploading:-
1. "Document Number" (single line text) - In the uploaded doc it is a
custom property of type text.

Can't add link to Tope Link Bar on my site in sharepoint?

2009-11-23T15:24:39Z

I want to add a link to the overall home page from My Site in Sharepoint.
Went to MySite > Site Settings> Top Link bar and added the url and description but nothing is showing up.
Any thoughts?
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Layered Solutions offers free AutoFill Web Part for Sharepoint and

2009-11-20T19:59:01Z

We wanted to share some goodies for free with the SharePoint community as a
way of promoting our new products and brand, so we have made our first
product available with a Free Basic Edition. We only require registration
with a valid email address to download the product.
AutoFill for SharePoint

SPS 2003 smigrate do not have permissions

2009-11-20T17:11:48Z

Has anyone been able to figure this out yet? I have the same problem. It used to work until a couple months ago when we changed the internal Ip address of the server and now it no longer works. I've followed the kb articles about changing the settings in IE which didn't work. I made sure the changed IP addresses were set in IIS.

Active Directory Engineer – Memphis TN – Job 0404

2009-11-20T08:26:22Z

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2009-11-20T08:26:11Z

MOSS 2007 - User Regional Settings

2009-11-19T13:30:01Z

Hi,
We have MOSS2007 company wide portal using calendar task events, and users
are split across different time zones. Currently i am aware of the option to
override the default regional setting specified on the site settings using
"my settings" link on the user end. Is there anyway to update the user

Re: Convert SharePoint Messages to Plain Text

2009-11-18T15:26:58Z

Essentially, I need all email traffic derived from SharePoint to be in
plain text. This includes, alerts, invitations, task assignments,
tasks overdue, etc.... Just wondering if there is a configuration I
can go change, etc...
Looking for any/all ideas.

Re: Convert SharePoint Messages to Plain Text

2009-11-18T07:30:53Z

Hi Willie,
What do you mean by setting up sharepoint emails? can you shed some
more light to it.
Do you mean to setup alerts to be setup in plain text, or email
enabled document library to be setup in plain text?
Regards,
Vaibhav Desai

Re: Sharepoint restore problems site slow

2009-11-18T07:26:12Z

I have a couple of questions here.
1. After restoring the databases, were you able to open up sharepoint
central admin without any dealy.
2. Does this issue happen on all the web applications, or just one of
them.
3. If it is happening to all the webapplicaitons, does it affect the
top level site only or the issue is faced even on subsites.

Re: Alternate Access Mapping

2009-11-18T06:29:44Z

Try adding [link] to local intranet zone in the web browser
and see if it works. Also add the entry to the host file on the local
machine to see if it makes any difference. If you have created a
record in the DNS this should redirect the hits to the correct server
and the site should open up. Make sure you have also added intranet as

SPPS - change language

2009-11-17T14:17:15Z

Hi
We have SharePoint Portal Server 2007 english version. Duo to our
localizatino, we need to change it to native Slovenian language. Is this
possible and what are the steps to do this?
Regards,
Miha

Re: Long dropdowns in a lookup field

2009-11-17T11:19:43Z

don't worry... I found a codeplex lookup with a picker... thanks for
the prompt response all.

Re: share point problem : IP has change

2009-11-16T19:58:49Z

Did you by chance make the change to the DNS record?

Convert SharePoint Messages to Plain Text

2009-11-16T19:51:32Z

I have an issue I wanted to seek advice on.
Due to our email configurations (Federal Government), I am required to
set up all of the SharePoint emails to be in plain text format.
Anyone have suggestions?
Any advice will be greatly appreciated.

Alternate Access Mapping

2009-11-16T18:16:00Z

OK, I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong here. I'm trying to create
a friendly url ([link]) for my sharepoint site (http://
sp.playground.com).
SharePoint server is Windows 2008 SP2 w/IIS 7
I've added an Internal URL under Alternate Access Mappings for "http://
intranet" on the Intranet Zone.

Error in PortalCrawl Web Service

2009-11-16T08:41:39Z

I had same issue with people search and crawling solution has posted here.
[link]
Error in PortalCrawl Web Service
20-Apr-07
This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
------=_NextPart_000_0006_01C7 8359.6CAA3310
Content-Type: text/plain;

Importing a site duplicates list items

2009-11-13T15:59:02Z

When importing to a blank site, the import command:
STSADM -o import -url <url> -filename <file.cab> -includeusersecurity
works like a charm. The new site is identical to the old site and is
functional.
In doing data recovery scenarios, I deleted a folder from one of the
document libraries, then imported the site again, over the top of the new

Long dropdowns in a lookup field

2009-11-13T13:33:57Z

Here's the problem: If you have a lookup pointing to a really long
list, it gets irritating for the users (or doesn't even return all the
values). Has anyone found a different solution for lookups besides the
OOB dropdown menus?
Thanks for the help.

[MOSS 2007] Customize the appearance of the Office Open/Save dialog

2009-11-12T13:05:28Z

Hi, is it possible to change the way document libraries and subsites
are displayed in the open or save dialog in Office ?
Basically, I would like to get back to the SPS 2003 way they looked
(treeview with the sites and the doc libraries)
Thanks

catastropic backup

2009-11-12T10:25:46Z

Hi ,
i am trying to perform a catastropic backup of a sharepoint site and
the command goes like this
stsadm.exe -o backup -directory \\TEST\TestBackup\ -backupmethod full,
on running the same i get the below error..
"insufficient memory to continue the execution of the program"
can anybody help me out to solve this..

RE: Reset SharePoint peoplepicker-searchadcustomfilter property

2009-11-12T07:05:01Z

here it is: [link]
See the bottom of that page.

Sharepoint restore problems site slow

2009-11-12T03:56:39Z

Hello everyone,
Currently I have a setup of a small farm, a simple 2007 Sharepoint
Portal server along attached to a server running SQL Server 2008 both
on Windows Server 2008 x64 machines. Recently, as of last week I had
them both go down and I was trying to restore the entire database and
both servers from backup. After much much trying I finally got them

Full Developer Licenses for Microsoft SharePoint Web Parts for Free — a New Partner Program by Virtosoftware

2009-11-11T16:03:49Z

Full Developer Licenses for Microsoft SharePoint Web Parts for Free —
a New Partner Program by Virtosoftware
Wednesday, November 11, 2009. Virtosoftware announces the launch of a
new partner program that allows SharePoint developers to get fully
functional web parts by Virtosoftware for free.
Virtosoftware, an international software company that designs and

share point problem : IP has change

2009-11-11T07:46:14Z

I have a sharepoint 2007 server. It moves to datacenter and now IP of server has change, now I am not able to browse any url.Could you please help me?
Many thanks in advance.
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RE: Reset SharePoint peoplepicker-searchadcustomfilter property

2009-11-11T03:20:21Z

Have you been able to figure this out? I am trying to do the same thing.

Re: Major installation mess

2009-11-10T16:36:11Z

Strange, it definitely didn't work for me. Do you perhaps have some
instructions on how exactly you slipstreamed the update?

Sharepoint 2007 + Infopath 2007 + Webservices

2009-11-10T14:20:16Z

Hi evebody!
I am developing a form with InfoPath 2007, accessing the web services of
their own SharePoint Server 2007 to store values in a custom list.
We use Visual Studio to program the button that will submit the information
in this form to the SharePoint list using the own web services of
SharePoint.

RE: test post 2

2009-11-10T06:31:29Z

Hello Super,
Thanks for posting, your technet subscription account was successfully
recongized.
The managed support service of the SharePoint newsgroup is now available
instead on SharePoint forums:
[link].
If you have questions in the future, please post the question directly to

RE: Test post 1

2009-11-10T06:30:57Z

test post 2

2009-11-07T03:38:00Z

test post 2

Test post 1

2009-11-07T03:39:01Z

Test Post 1

Unable to check in a checked out file.

2009-11-06T17:43:08Z

Having a weird issue with one of my users, he checked out a PPT file
from our sharepoint portal and now when he tries to check it in he
gets the following message:
"The documen was checked out to your local drafts folder but the local
copy could not be found or is on a different computer. Upload the

Re: how I can lock user2 from editing the other 8 columns?

2009-11-05T11:22:28Z

If you intend to do it through SPD, then I have no idea since I have
not done that before. But I guess the following ranting may be useful
to you.
If you know what specific two columns can be edited by user 2, then
audience targeting is way to go! or if you want to make it more
reliable and pay, third party tools like Column View permission, or

column/filed level security

2009-11-04T21:19:09Z

You can check out Infowise Smart List Pro. it has cool features like : Field Permission Manipulation,Fields Value Validation a7 you can also set permissions to views & much more :
[link]
Column Level security is not part of MOSS architecture but you can have a look

can not add user

2009-11-04T16:40:31Z

I created a site and add 100 users to it who do not have access to
SharePoint except to this site. Only one user could not be added. Every time
I add the user from AD I get an error
" Can not add the user because a user with that name already exists"
even though they are not in any of the groups. any idea?

RE: SharePoint is a real Document Management System

2009-11-04T12:04:01Z

DS, how far have you got with Sharepoint now as a document management system?
I am now at the same point as you were in 2006
"DS" wrote:

Re: SP 2007 sp2 - windows vista/7 slow explorer view click throughs

2009-11-03T11:18:48Z

On Oct 8, 6:31 pm, Franky555 <Franky...@discussions.microso ft.com>
wrote:
Having the exact same problem on Windows 7. On my XP machine
everything is perfect and I have the same apps installed as on my
Windows 7. It must be some updates

View list for sub-site 2003

2009-11-01T04:12:03Z

Is there an elegant way to view a list from a sub-site as part of the parent
site in SP2003? For instance, a task list monitored within a sub-site
viewed as part of a summary page within the parent site? Thanks

Re: Search ID column

2009-10-29T12:28:31Z

within browser

RE: Bug when inviting a SharePoint calendar to a recurring meeting

2009-10-29T01:54:21Z

Hi Eric,
The managed support service of the newsgroup SharePoint.PortalServer is now
available instead on SharePoint Products and Technologies forums:
[link].
Would you please repost the question in the forum with the Windows Live ID

Bug when inviting a SharePoint calendar to a recurring meeting

2009-10-28T19:05:01Z

Below is the copy and paste of a SharePoint calendar item that was created
via the calendar being email-enabled and the user inviting it to a meeting.
As you can see the start and end time are past the end effective date of the
reoccurence of the calendar item.
The problem is that the end date of the reoccurence is not getting populated