Author Archives: Paul Gilbride

From a SharePoint point of view, both are created by a SharePoint Admin, through Central Admin or PowerShell. An IIS site is equal to a SharePoint web application. Each web application must run within a single application pool. However, an application pool can host several web applications. An application pool represents a w3wp.exe process runningContinue reading “Whats the difference between Application Pools and Web Sites in IIS ?”

1.Browse to the Central Admin site 2.Select the Operations tab 3.Under the Security Configuration section, click the link for Blocked file types 4.Select the Web Application that you would like to modify from the drop down list 5.Each blocked file extension displayed in the list is blocked by SharePoint. To enable the blocked file extension,Continue reading “How to find out what extensions are blocked in SharePoint”

Customize an existing permission level If the custom permission level that you want is nearly identical to an existing default permission level and you do not need to use the default permission level, you can customize the default permission level. To customize an existing permission level Verify that you have one of the following administrativeContinue reading “Configure custom permissions (SharePoint Server 2010)”

  A Document Workspace site helps you to coordinate the development of one or more related documents with other people. The site provides tools to share and update files and to keep people informed about the status of those files.   Overview By using a Document Workspace site, you and your colleagues can coordinate theContinue reading “Create and manage a Document Workspace site in SharePoint”

This Article will explain how we can add multiple users for Access request notification using Site administration option. The little article and trick will help using normal email l sending configuration and how we can use on “Access request notification”, first we need to go to “Site Action> Site Settings>Permission” there we have the optionContinue reading “Manage Site Access Request for Multiple accounts”

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First Method: Using Central Administration 1) Open your Central Administration web page and Click “Operations” 2) Click Diagnostic Logging link 3) For enabling verbose mode for all categories: Select and set “Select a Category” combobox value to “All” Select and set “Least critical event to report to the event…

  Many different types of applications require some variation of a scheduled process to run. These processes are used for complex calculations, notifications, and data validation checks, among many other tasks. Windows SharePoint Services is no exception. To return relevant and timely results to users’ search queries, the content within a server farm must beContinue reading “What are Timer Jobs in SharePoint ?”

Sometimes you get a requirement to customize the default ‘Access denied page’ in MOSS 2007. For beginners, don’t confuse this page with IIS 401 ‘Access denied’ page. They are completely different. Request for customizing access denied page generally means, having the same look and feel of the rest of the site. In my experience thisContinue reading “Customizing Access Denied Page in MOSS 2007”

SharePoint generates multiple log types. Logs in SharePoint require three basic steps like all other logs: Logging, Processing and Reporting. The logging can take place to file locations on front-end servers or to the associated content databases for each Site Collections (including SSP). Processing happens via Timer Jobs on the front end servers and the SSPContinue reading “Quick A to Z of SharePoint Logs”