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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

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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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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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Sharepoint 2007: Active Directory and Sharepoint Groups

I have a Sharepoint 2007 installation and several Active Directory Domains. Now, since I can't have a user from Domain A be in a Security Group in Domain B, I need to create groups within Sharepoint to include the neccessary users. I could possibly…
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Site Collections in Sharepoint 2007 - how many, and why?

I wonder what the common guidelines for large-scale Sharepoint 2007 Architecture is? Mostly, I'd like to plan how many Site Collections are needed, and why I should split my Intranet into multiple Site Collections instead of just having one to rule…
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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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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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Change & release management in a SharePoint Environment

How do you handle change & release management in SharePoint? Do you have a registry of installed solutions,form templates, etc? Do you documentyour installations with a tool or by hand? Where do you keep a backup of installed software? Do you keep…
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Sharepoint - tracking downloaded files

Is there an easy way in WSS to track when files are downloaded from a site?
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How do you change languages for SharePoint Central Administration on a standalone environment?

We need to test i8n for custom pages we have in SharePoint Central administration. It is easy and straightforward to change the language for a site, but central administration seems to be a bit more involved. Potential answers involve: Detach the…
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Time to recrawl and repopulate a SharePoint search database?

And yet one more SharePoint question from MCM yesterday. What kind of HA do you provision for your SharePoint search databases? I heard from one admin of a very, very large SharePoint farm that they don't have a redundant copy of the search database…
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How can I make sharepoint use a small URL (e.g. http://internal.com instead of http://internal.com/sites/osfc/Pages/Default.aspx)

I'm new to sharepoint 2007, currently the home page is htp://internal.com/sites/osfc/Pages/Default.aspx but I would like to use htp://internal.com or have htp://internal.com redirect to the long URL. How can I do this? I thought of using a 301…
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Best book to learn Sharepoint Administration (MOSS)?

What is the best available book for learning Sharepoint administration? Would prefer a cover-to-cover read rather than a reference book, but would take a good reference over a bad guide any day.
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SharePoint 2007 Problem After Feb 2010 CU

We just applied the SharePoint 2007 Feb CU and there were no errors in the update process. The problem is whenever we attempt to work with columns in a list (add or update) we get the following error: Culture ID 1164 (0x048C) is not a supported…
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Trusted SharePoint Authority Sites

I'm looking for sites about SharePoint (MOSS 2007) that are trusted, where the writers have actually deployed large sites. Essentially, the Joel Spolsky of SharePoint.
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Server becomes very slow and how to find the memory leak

I meet a very serious problem with the server. Our servers is very fast before. But this week, it becomes slower and slower. Everyday afterroon, the w3wp process would halt and we can not connect to the sharepoint again. When nobody use the…
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