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Log onto front end server and go to Central Administration Then click into Application Management in left hand pane. Under the heading “SharePoint Web Application Management” Choose “Web Application Outgoing Email Settings” Ensure you change Web Application to the correct web application you use. Here you will see your incoming and outgoing mail settings.

For those of you who don’t know what I am talking about a bit of overview. In MOSS 2007 there is this new concept of Shared Services Providers(SSP). The idea being that there are certain services that really make sense to centrally manage and share. A good example being profiles. With a SSP we canContinue reading “What is a Shared Service Provider?”

Question: We have recently merged two departments here in Giddidy Business and as a result need to merge two SharePoint sites. Is it possible to move a library from one location to another retaining all metadata, ownership and version history? Answer: This can be achieved using Site Actions/ Site Settings/ Site Administration/ Content and Structure.Continue reading “Moving Libraries in SharePoint 2007”

Here is a handy link to find out what version of SharePoint you have…… there is the general rule: if the first two digits of the version number 11 == WSS 2.0/SPS 2003 12 == WSS 3.0/MOSS 2007 14 == SharePoint Foundation 2010/MSS 2010 15 == SharePoint Foundation 2013/SharePoint Server 2013

Applies To: Office SharePoint Server 2007   Quotas and locks are two ways of controlling access to site collections. Using locks, you can manually prevent user access. Using quotas, you can prevent users from adding content to a site collection, or you can send e-mail warnings to the site collection administrator when specified disk spaceContinue reading “Manage site quotas and locks (Office SharePoint Server)”

In short….. A “Major” is a PUBLISHED document. A “Minor” is an UN-PUBLISHED document in DRAFT mode. In order for regular users to view your page that is in DRAFT mode, also known as “Minor” version, you first have to PUBLISH it, this creates a “Major” version. The user must belong to the “Approvers” groupContinue reading “What is the difference between a Major and a Minor version in SharePoint ?”

This is for sites and subsites (not site collections). Let’s say the site collection home page is http://home.company.com/default.aspx and you want to protect the site you created for the Engineering department at http://home.company.com/engineering/default.aspx. Maybe you’ve spent a month building the site – you’ve customized pages, created special library views, used audience targeting and even thrownContinue reading “Protect Your SharePoint site from deletion.”

You can go to site settings in the site, and click to save the site as a template. There’s a box called “include content”. Just leave that box unchecked, and you’ll have a backup of the site without content. This new file will be stored in your site gallery at the top level of yourContinue reading “How to export SharePoint site structure into another site on MOSS 2007 SP2”

Stsadm Technical Reference for SharePoint

I was just off a call with Microsoft regarding a request from a project i am working on. The client wanted to increase the execution timeout (time it takes to return a http page before a timeout appears). They wanted to increase it as their reports were taking more than 2 minutes to run (2Continue reading “What effect will increasing Execution Timeout for SharePoint have on your environment ?”