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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
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SharePoint 2003 Reader Permissions include… Export to Spreadsheet!
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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
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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…