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“Unknown Error” and OOTB SharePoint 2007 builtin Workflows
If you are playing with Approval workflows, and you find that your workflows are erroring out even when you think it should have completed successfully, make sure you aren’t in a situation where you’re updating the approval status without having the approval functionality of your document or workflow library enabled. It’s all built-in, but it…
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A good guide to Configuring Incoming E-mail Settings for Office SharePoint Server
(though I didn’t get it entirely right, apparently) Link (Technet).
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SharePoint 2003 Reader Permissions include… Export to Spreadsheet!
I had to find this out for a customer this morning. It’s true: Being able to read something means they’re okay with exporting to a spreadsheet. We may need to “Lock this down” but all I can think of is to use javascript to hide the control, which is not really locked down per se.
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Web Part Installs on SharePoint 2003 in environments where you don’t control the Database
In a continuing series of mishaps involved with a very abstracted permissions environment where one group controls all admin rights on the server, except for the group that controls all admin rights on the Database, I discovered today that if you need to install a Web Part in SharePoint 2003, you need to do it…
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I have been negligent – bullet updates, but I’ll get around to the major stuff later
Since I fully expect next month to be a slow month, I should be able to catch up a little. Anyhow: I am installing the Release bits of Microsoft Office 2007. I don’t know if I’ve already plugged CCleaner but I’m doing so again. I needed it because Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh didn’t…
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Full Text Search and Account Permissions
This is a more extended writeup of running Windows SharePoint Services 2003 and SQL Full Text Search on a Database box where Local Administrators (BUILTIN\Administrators) don’t have System Admin access in SQL Server 2000. (I mentioned this briefly in the Changing SharePoint Service Accounts article.) Essentially, you’ll run up against this security policy requirement in…
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Changing SharePoint Service Accounts, Permissions and Troubles Found and Conquered Therein
(Note: Links to KB Articles open in new windows) So I have a client who is security conscious enough to ask that we make SharePoint work even when the servers’ Local Administrators (members of BUILTIN\Administrators) are not members of the System Administrators Server Role in SQL Server. This is the default configuration for SQL Server…