wss-3.0

Permissions Required for Sharepoint Backups

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We are in the process of rolling out an extranet for some of our partners using WSS 3.0 as the platform. We already use it internally for a variety of things, and we are using the following powershell script to backup the server: param( $url=”http://localhost”, $backupFolder=”c:\” ) [System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName(“Microsoft.SharePoint”) $site= new-Object Microsoft.SharePoint.SPSite($url) $names=$site.WebApplication.Sites.Names foreach ($name in … Read more

Using WSS 3.0 Site Collections to Host Customers

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We would like to host multiple customers in a single WSS 3.0 web application (so we can use https instead of custom SSL ports). Because they are different customers, we don’t want them to ‘see’ each other when doing directory lookups. We have not been able to configure WSS 3.0 to map different OUs to … Read more

Windows SharePoint Services Search won’t stop

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Background: I had been asked to create a second Sharepoint application server to reprovision the one that is currently in the SharePoint Farm. I installed the os, SharePoint, and SP1. I then began the process of moving all the services on to the new server. (The central farm consists of 2 WFE and 1 App … Read more

Why are my SharePoint downloads not completing for outside users?

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I am using WSS 3.0 with Microsoft Server 2003. I am running into the following problem. On a pretty frequent basis, outside users are having trouble downloading documents. Some downloads are completing while the download is still incomplete. So for instance, a PDF is a 17MB file. If I download it from within the office, … Read more

How do I migrate an existing FBA database to work with Claims Based Authentication?

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I have an existing FBA database of ~2000 users for one of my clients in WSS 3.0. I have successfully upgraded their WSS site collection (in a test environment) to SharePoint 2010. I have also configured the 2010 installation to use FBA (through Claims Based Authentication) and verified that the users can be seen from … Read more

Sharepoint Intermittent 403 Error

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I have a virtual server running Windows Server 2008 r2 onto which I have installed Windows Sharepoint Services 3. My SQL server is also a VM running MSSQL 2008 on Windows Server 2008 r2. I am using windows authentication NTLM. I restored the site collection from an old Farm using Stsadm and all works fine… … Read more

Setting up a watchguard policy to allow sharepoint site access from the internet

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I have a sharepoint site that I have full access to over the local network, but from the internet I just get webpage can not be displayed. I’ve checked the settings in IIS and Sharepoint and everything looks fine. This leads me to believe that our firewall is blocking traffic. I was wondering if anyone … Read more