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Welcome to SharePoint 2007 Interview Quesitons and Answers section.
The SharePoint Interview Questions listed below have been collected
through various forums, websites, blogs and other resources. We have included
the references to the originators where we can but if you feel that you should
be credited for a given problem please contact us.
If you have a product or service that you would like to be included in the FAQ
section, please contact us at FAQs@megasolutions.net
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| 1.1 What
is Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services? How is it related to Microsoft Office
SharePoint Server 2007?
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| 1.2 What
is Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server?
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| 1.3 What
is Microsoft Windows Services?
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| 1.4 What
is the relationship between Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server and Microsoft
Windows Services?
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| 1.5 Who
is Office SharePoint Server 2007 designed for?
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| 1.6 What
are the main benefits of Office SharePoint Server 2007?
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| 1.7 What
is the difference between Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 for Internet
sites and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007?
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| 1.8What
suites of the 2007 Microsoft Office system work with Office SharePoint Server
2007?
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| 1.9 How
do I invite users to join a Windows SharePoint Services Site? Is the site
secure?
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| 1.10 Can
I post any kind of document?
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| 1.11 Can
I download information directly from a SharePoint site to a personal digital
assistant (PDA)?
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| 1.12 How
long does it take to set up the initial team Web site?
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| 1.13 Can
I create custom templates?
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| 1.14 How
can I make my site public? By default, all sites are created private.
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| 1.15 How
do the sub sites work?
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| 1.16 How
do I open an older version of a document?
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| 1.17 Why
do the workspace virtual directories show the error “stop sign” symbol in the
IIS snap-in?
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| 1.18 What
newsgroups are available?
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| 1.19 What
are the two base classes a WebPart you are going to use within SharePoint 2007
can inherit from?
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| 1.20 What
are the differences between the two base classes and what are the inherit
benefits of using one over another?
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| 2.1 How
do I make my site non-restricted?
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| 2.2 Can
I get domain name for my Web site?
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| 2.3 What
are picture libraries?
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| 2.4 What
are the advantages of a hosted SharePoint vs. one that is on an in-house
server?
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| 2.5 Can
I ask users outside of my organization to participate in my Windows SharePoint
Services site?
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| 2.6 Are
there any IT requirements or downloads required to set up my SharePoint site?
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2.7I am
located outside of the United States. Are there any restrictions or
requirements for accessing the Windows SharePoint Services?
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| 2.8 Are
there any browser recommendations?
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| 2.9 What
security levels are assigned to users?
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| 2.10 How
secure are Windows SharePoint Services sites hosted by Microsoft?
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| 2.11 What
is the difference between an Internet and an intranet site?
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| 2.12 What
is a workspace?
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| 2.13 What
are the various kinds of roles the users can have?
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| 2.14 Can
more than one person use the same login?
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| 2.15 How
customizable is the user-to-user access?
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| 2.16 Can
each user have access to their own calendar?
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| 2.17 How
many files can I upload?
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| 2.18 -What
types of files can I upload / post to the site?
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| 2.19 Can
SharePoint be linked to an external data source?
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| 2.20 Can
SharePoint be linked to a SQL database?
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| 3.1 What
is the GAC?
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| 3.2 What
is strong naming (signing) a WebPart assembly file mean?
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| 3.3 What
are safe controls, and what type of information, is placed in that element in a
SharePoint web.config file?
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| 3.4 What
is the CreateChildControls() method? How can you use it to do something simple
like displaying a Label control?
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| 3.5 What
does the RenderContents method do in an ASP.NET 2.0 WebPart?
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| 3.6 )
What is the WebPartManager sealed class? What is its purpose?
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| 3.7 What
is a SPSite and SPWeb object, and what is the difference between each of the
objects?
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| 3.8 )
How would you go about getting a reference to a site?
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| 3.9 What
does a SPWebApplication object represent?
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| 3.10
Would you use SPWebApplication to get information like the SMTP address of the
SharePoint site?
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| 3.11
How do you connect (reference) to a SharePoint list, and how do you insert a
new List Item?
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| 3.12
How do you return SharePoint List items using SharePoint web services?
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| 3.13
How can we find the number of rows in a result set using PHP?
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| 3.14
When retrieving List items using SharePoint Web Services, how do you specify
explicit credentials to be passed to access the list items?
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| 3.15
What is CAML, and why would you use it?
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| 3.16
What is impersonation, and when would you use impersonation?
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| 3.17
What is the IDesignTimeHtmlProvider interface, and when can you use it in
WebParts?
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| 3.18
What are WebPart properties, and what are some of the attributes you see when
declaring WebPart properties in code?
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| 3.19
Why are properties important in WebPart development, and how have you exploited
them in past development projects? What must each custom property have?
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| 3.20
What are ClassResources? How do you reference and deploy resources with an
ASP.NET 2.0 WebPart?
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| 4.1
What is a SharePoint Solution File? How does it differ from WebPart .cab files
in legacy development? What does it contain?
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| 4.2
What is a .ddf file and what does it have to do with SharePoint Solution
creation?
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| 4.3
What file does a SharePoint solution package use to orchestrate (describe) its
packaged contents?
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| 4.4
What deployment mechanism can you use to instigate Code Access Security
attributes for your WebParts?
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| 4.5
What is the difference between PHP4 and PHP5?
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| 4.6
What types of SharePoint assets can be deployed with a SharePoint feature?
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| 4.7
What are event receivers?
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| 4.8
When would you use an event receiver?
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| 4.9
What base class do event receivers inherit from?
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| 4.10
If I wanted to not allow people to delete documents from a document library,
how would I go about it?
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| 4.11
What is the difference between an asynchronous and synchronous event receivers?
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| 4.12
How could you append a string to the title of a site when it is provisioned?
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| 4.13
Can an event receiver be deployed through a SharePoint feature?
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| 4.14
What is a content type?
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| 4.15
Can a content type have receivers associated with it?
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| 4.16
What two files are typically (this is kept generally) included when developing
a content type, and what is the purpose of each?
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| 4.17
How can we destroy the cookie?
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| 4.18
What is an ancestral type and what does it have to do with content types?
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| 4.19
Can a list definition be derived from a custom content type?
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| 4.20
What is a Field Control?
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| 5.1
Will Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 run on a 64-bit version of
Microsoft Windows?
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| 5.2 How
Office SharePoint Server 2007 can help you?
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| 5.3 What
are the features that the portal components of Office SharePoint Server 2007
include?
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| 5.4 What
are the advanced features of MOSS 2007?
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| 5.5 What
are the features of the new Content management in Office SharePoint 2007?
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| 5.6 Does
a SharePoint Web site include search functionality?
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| 5.7
Write the features of the search component of Office SharePoint Server 2007?
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| 5.8 What
are the benefits of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007?
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| 5.9 Will
SharePoint Portal Server and Team Services ever merge?
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| 5.10
What does partial trust mean the Web Part developer?
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| 5.11
How can I raise the trust level for assemblies installed in the BIN directory?
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| 5.12
Does SharePoint work with NFS?
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5.13
How is SharePoint Portal Server different from the Site Server?
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| 5.14
What would you like to see in the next version of SharePoint?
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| 5.15
Why Sharepoint is not a viable solution for enterprise wide deployments?
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| 5.16
What are the actual advantages of SharePoint Portal Services (SPS) over
SharePoint Team Services (STS)?
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| 5.17
What is SharePoint from a Technical Perspective?
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| 5.18
What is SharePoint from an Administration Perspective?
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| 5.19
What is SharePoint from a Users Perspective?
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| 5.20
What are the various Sharepoint 2003 and Exchange integration points?
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| 6.1
What is a SharePoint site definition? What is ghosted (uncustomized) and
unghosted (customized)?
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| 6.2
How does one deploy new SharePoint site definitions so that they are made aware
to the SharePoint system?
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| 6.3
What does partial trust mean the Web Part developer?
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| 6.4
What if my assemblies are installed in the GAC?
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| 6.5
What if my assembly is not strongly named? How does my code group change?
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| 6.6
What is a Shared Service Provider? In what circumstances might you create more
than one?
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| 6.7
What are Features and Solutions and what is the difference between the two?
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| 6.8
What is the difference between a Site Definition and a Site Template?
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| 1 Creating
Website Using Share point 2007 Step by Step
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Creating a Custom SharePoint 2007 Portal Site Definition using the
PortalProvisioningProvider Class
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How to implement Forms-based authentication for Office SharePoint Server 2007
by using SQL Server
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How to configure the Excel Services Unattended Service account in Microsoft
Office SharePoint Server 2007
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| 5 Error
message when you try to open a help window from a SharePoint Server 2007 site
or from a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 site: "Cannot display help
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Mobile browsers and devices that are supported in Windows SharePoint Services
3.0 and in SharePoint Server 2007
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How to move a WMSDE content database that resides on a Windows SharePoint
Services 2.0 server to a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 server
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Sharepoint 2007 Content Query Tool Part Custom Fields
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Error message when you try to create an .aspx Web page in a Web application in
SharePoint Server 2007: "Access denied"
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| 10 MOSS
2007 Customization: Content Types, Columns and Page Layouts Explained
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Managing the SDLC in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and WSS
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| 12 How
to Activate the Drop Down Menu in MOSS Sites
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| 13 Using
Background Images in your Site Design
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| 14 Align your Search
Inputs
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| 15 Check-in,
Publish and Approve in One Step
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| 16 How to specify a Theme
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| 17 How
to tell if your WSS site is on a WSS only install of SharePoint
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| 18 Creating the
Custom Item Style
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| 19 Welcome Menu Arrow
Display
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| 20 Meeting
Workspace Master Page Woes
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| 21 Writing
the WebParts - The OPMLEditor WebPart
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| 22 Creating a Custom
Policy File
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| 23 How to install
WSS and MOSS SP1
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How to customize application pages in the Layouts folder in SharePoint Server
2007
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You receive error messages after you install security update
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| 26 How to
prevent SharePoint Designer 2007 users from changing a Windows SharePoint
Server 2007 site
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Publish button is not displayed when you create a site based on the Publishing
Portal site template in SharePoint Server 2007
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How to manually collocate ProClarity Analytics Server 6.3 and SharePoint Server
2007 on port 80
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cannot create a list that is based on a list template that has the E-Mail
Notification option enabled in Sharpoint 2007
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Error message when you try to restore a SharePoint Portal Server 2003 site
collection that contains subsites:
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Guidelines for managing the Group Approval workflow process in SharePoint
Server 2007
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| 32 Adobe Reader
files cannot be found after you add the .pdf file type to the list of crawled
file types in SharePoint Server 2007
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| 33 A
maximum number of 25 sessions can be active at the same time on Excel Services
when you enable anonymous access to a SharePoint Server 2007 Web site
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Receive an error message when you use Excel Web Access to refresh the data
connections for an Excel 2007 workbook
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| 35 An
error message when you deactivate or remove a form from a form server
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Cannot create a new document or check out an existing document in a Windows
SharePoint Services 3.0 document library when you have multiple versions of
Office installed
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The "Operation in Progress" message remains visible after the page is loaded
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Search results include draft documents in SharePoint Server 2007
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Error message when you try to migrate content from Content Management Server
2002 to SharePoint Server 2007: "Unable to connect to the database server"
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The data in a workbook is not displayed when you use Excel Web Access to open a
workbook that queries a Jet database
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| 41 Complex
remote links are not crawled when the links are in the same SharePoint Server
2007 portal
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After you delete a SharePoint Portal Server Web site, the Web site still
appears in the Gatherer log file
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do not receive e-mail notifications after you configure an alert to notify you
when Web site content is changed in SharePoint Portal
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After you change the quota values in a template in Windows SharePoint Services,
the quota values in the existing sites do not change
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Windows SharePoint Services does not synchronize a new name change to Active
Directory
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| 46 You
cannot crawl case-sensitive Web content in SharePoint Server 2007
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| 1 receive
a "The server couldn't log you on" error message when you use an Office 2003
program to connect to a Windows SharePoint Services server
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Users can create a listing in a portal site area, but they cannot delete or
modify the listing in SharePoint Portal Server 2003
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| 3 Survey
results in SharePoint Portal Server 2003 and in Windows SharePoint Services are
not exported to an Excel workbook if the answer to a question uses a rating
scale
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Crawls take a longer time to be completed when you use a third-party
single-threaded IFilter in SharePoint Portal Server 2003
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You receive a "Can not add the user” error message when you try to add a user
to a SharePoint Portal Server 2003 portal site or to a Windows SharePoint
Services Web site that is hosted on a SharePoint Portal Server 2003 portal site
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Error message when you try to compile audiences in SharePoint Portal Server
2003: "The audience cannot be compiled, because the account used to compile
audiences does not have the proper rights"
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Office 2003 and 2007 Office documents open read-only in Internet Explorer
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| 8 Two
versions of the same document appear when you put a document in a SharePoint
Server 2003 document library
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You do not have permission to upload this document" error message when you
upload a document to a document library in SharePoint Portal Server 2003
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How to change the user account and the password in SharePoint Portal Server
2003
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How to change the location of the Web Storage System in an automated
installation of SharePoint Portal Server 2003
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How to install SharePoint Portal Server 2003 and Project Server 2003 on the
same server
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How to use PKMCDO to programmatically upload a document to a folder in Visual
C#
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How to move SharePoint Portal Server 2003 from MSDE to SQL Server
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How to use the SharePoint Administrator to upgrade to FrontPage 2002 server
extensions on Windows Server 2003
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| 16 Link
bar with custom links does not appear in SharePoint Portal Server 2003 or in
SharePoint Services
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No search results are returned when you search a Windows SharePoint Services
Web site from a portal site in SharePoint Portal Server 2003
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| 18 How to set
up an iFilter for OneNote 2003 with SharePoint Portal Server 2003
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| 19 How
to view and manage site collection users in SharePoint Portal Server 2003
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Content is missing from search results after you restore SharePoint Portal
Server 2003 data to another server
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Icons are not displayed for Adobe PDF documents that are listed in the search
results when you search your portal site in SharePoint Portal Server 2003
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| 22 How
to set up an iFilter for OneNote 2003 with SharePoint Portal Server 2003
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Outlook cannot add the requested Windows SharePoint Services folder" error
message when you click Link to Outlook to add a Windows SharePoint Services
Events list to Outlook 2003
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How to re-create a deleted Site Directory in SharePoint Portal Server 2003
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"The server couldn't log you on" error message when you use an Office 2003
program to connect to a Windows SharePoint Services server
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| 26 Receive
a "Cannot generate SSPI context" error message and the configuration database
is not created when you run SharePoint Portal Server 2003 Setup
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How to rename a computer that is running SharePoint Portal Server 2003
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How to import user profile information of enabled user accounts from Active
Directory to SharePoint Portal Server 2003
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| 29 Overview
of custom templates in SharePoint Portal Server 2003 and in Windows SharePoint
Services
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Information about installing the Lotus Notes Protocol Handler for SharePoint
Portal Server 2003
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How to configure Usage Analysis Processing on a Web server by using SharePoint
Portal Server 2003
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Receive a "You are not authorized to perform the current operation" error
message when you use Smigrate.exe to back up a Windows SharePoint Services Web
site
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Receive an SQL access error message when you change the configuration database
administrator account in SharePoint Portal Server 2003
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You are not prompted to confirm the delete operation when you delete an
alternate portal site setting in SharePoint Portal Server 2003
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Portal Appears to Be Missing Content After You Upgrade to SharePoint Portal
Server SP2
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Differences Between the SMTP Server Name and the E-mail Address in a Server's
Properties
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Message: The Command REGSVR32 /S CDOWFEVT.DLL Failed
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How to Redirect Traffic from Your Default Web Site to a Workspace
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| 39 Receive
a "Script Execution Error: Error executing INVOKE query" Error Message When You
Review the Document Library on an Extranet Web Site
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Added Field Names Are Not Displayed in List View Page
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Deleted Column Does Not Appear After You Restore Database from Backup
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Cannot Filter a Custom List by Using the Hyperlink Field
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Documents View in Document Library Displays All Files Regardless of Subfolders
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How to Set the Cutoff Property for New Item Display Tag
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Users Do Not Have Access to a Subweb in Web Based on SharePoint Team Services
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| 46 How
to Move Files Between Document Libraries
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| 47 Error
Message: There Is No Catalog
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Error 18452 While Extending a SharePoint Team Web Site
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| 49 Error
Message: The Document Could Not Be Opened
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How to Invite an Existing Distribution List to Your SharePoint Team Web Site
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| 51 How
to Make the Calendar View the Default View for an Event List
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| 52 How to
Make the Calendar View the Default View for an Event List
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Cannot Import Contacts If a Column Is Deleted from the Contacts List
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you Cannot View a Page to Which You Should Have Access
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How to configure Usage Analysis processing on a Windows 2000 Server that is
running the FrontPage 2002 Server Extensions or SharePoint Team Services
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Errors When You Browse to SharePoint Team Services Site Administration Page
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ADO Error Appears in the Application Log After You Upgrade to SharePoint Team
Services
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Use SharePoint Administrator to Upgrade IIS 4.0 or IIS 5.0 with FrontPage 2002
Server Extensions
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| 59 How to
stop the !New tag from appearing when you add items to your SharePoint Team
Services and SharePoint Services Web site
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you receive a "Service Unavailable" error message when you browse a Windows
SharePoint Services 2.0 Web site
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List of the database and virtual server settings that you must specify when you
restore a portal by using SharePoint Portal Server Central Administration
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SQL error when you try to access SharePoint Team Web site
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How to start Usage Analysis processing on an IIS Web server
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| 64 cannot
deserialize the Web Part error message when you view the SharePoint Services
home page
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How to enable an ASP.Net application to run on a SharePoint virtual server
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Cannot Upload File to SharePoint Team Services Document Library
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| 67How
to Change the Color of the Vertical Right Border in a SharePoint Team Web Site
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| 68How
to change the color of the horizontal top border on all pages in a SharePoint
Services Web site in FrontPage 2003
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| 69Presence
icon does not appear when you browse an Internet-hosted SharePoint Portal
Server Web site
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| 70Cannot
Check in a File After You Check It out by Using Built-in Source Control
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| 71How
to Change the Color of the Horizontal Top Banner
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| 72Error
Message After You Change Password: ADO Error 80040E4D: Login Failed for User
'sa'
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| 73How
to Turn on Global Logging for SharePoint Team Services
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| 74receive
a "The location you selected for your new Document Workspace is a restricted or
non-trusted site" message when you try to create a document workspace
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| 75Databases
are not removed from SQL Server when you remove Windows SharePoint Services
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| 76How to
add members of a distribution list to your Windows SharePoint Services Web site
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| 77MSDE
Setup Unexpectedly Starts and You Receive an "Unable to Run Script File" Error
Message When You Add or Remove a Windows Component on a Server That Is Running
Windows SharePoint Services and WMSDE
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| 78How
to turn off Windows SharePoint Services features in Outlook 2003
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| 79Cannot
edit the lookup field of a linked Windows SharePoint Services list when you
link the list in an Access 2003 database
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| 80You
cannot save changes to an XSLT Data View Web Part in FrontPage 2003
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| 81Must
enable Basic authentication for browsers running on Macintosh OS
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| 82Hyperlinks
Are Updated Even Though You Choose Not to Update Them
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| 83How
to use Windows SharePoint Services calendars in Outlook
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| 84You
receive a "The page cannot be found" error message when you connect to Project
Server 2003 by using Project Web Access
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| 85Error
messages when you access a Microsoft Project Web Access page that contains
grids
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| 86Error
Message with Search Component in SharePoint Team Services: No Records Were
Found Matching Your Query
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| 87A
Blank, White Web Page Is Displayed in Internet Explorer When You Try to View
Documents in the Document Library in Explorer View
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| 88How
to submit an InfoPath form to a Windows SharePoint Services document library
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| 89How
to use a URL parameter to filter a Data View Web part in FrontPage 2003
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| 90Notebook
opens as read-only from a Windows SharePoint Services document library in
OneNote 2003
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| 91How
to change the application pool identity for Windows SharePoint Services
administration and content virtual servers
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| 92Receive
an "Access denied" or a "Cannot complete this action" error message when you
try to connect to a Windows SharePoint Services Web site
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| 93Extension
of a virtual server with Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 does not complete
successfully when you use Active Directory account creation mode
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