Distribustion lists which resolves in Outlook and works fine, will not directly add/use in SharePoint.
SharePoint Does not recoginize a DL until it should be added under Security Group in Active Directory.
For Example I have DL called ALL.EMP.This will works correctly and send email from the Outlook.
If You want to use this in SharePoint,You need to add this DL under Security group in AD.
Advantages:
One Shot you can add bulk users to Any Doc lib or Site.
Friday, October 28, 2011
SharePoint Site Collection Lock and Unlocking
Reasons for SharePoint Site Lock (Read only Mode)
1>Site Collection Backup cancelled or interrupted
2>Broken web part locks out SharePoint site
When upgrading a custom web part in SharePoint, it is REALLY important to uninstall the previous version of the web part and its referencing web pages or risk locking out all users including the Administrator from your website.
Impacts on the SharePoint site:
1> Site Collection will be turn into Read only mode.
Nothing can be saved.
2>All Farm administrators and site collection Administrator will get access denied on several pages like Create.aspx and AreaNavigation.aspx
3>You cannot able to add any user and not even you wont see the option to add user.
4>If you try to open through SharePoint designer it will open in Contributor mode(Content Author) and you cannot able to See code view and cannot copy or Modify any thing
Solution:
Go to Central Administration > Application Management > Site Collection Quotas and Locks
Select the Site Collection and chose the correct option to unlock the site as below.
Lock status for this site:
Not locked -- Select this option to unlock
Adding content prevented
Read-only (blocks additions, updates, and deletions)
No access
After Selecting the Option Not Lock, the issue will be resolved and you can able to view all the options :)
1>Site Collection Backup cancelled or interrupted
2>Broken web part locks out SharePoint site
When upgrading a custom web part in SharePoint, it is REALLY important to uninstall the previous version of the web part and its referencing web pages or risk locking out all users including the Administrator from your website.
Impacts on the SharePoint site:
1> Site Collection will be turn into Read only mode.
Nothing can be saved.
2>All Farm administrators and site collection Administrator will get access denied on several pages like Create.aspx and AreaNavigation.aspx
3>You cannot able to add any user and not even you wont see the option to add user.
4>If you try to open through SharePoint designer it will open in Contributor mode(Content Author) and you cannot able to See code view and cannot copy or Modify any thing
Solution:
Go to Central Administration > Application Management > Site Collection Quotas and Locks
Select the Site Collection and chose the correct option to unlock the site as below.
Lock status for this site:
Not locked -- Select this option to unlock
Adding content prevented
Read-only (blocks additions, updates, and deletions)
No access
After Selecting the Option Not Lock, the issue will be resolved and you can able to view all the options :)
Monday, October 17, 2011
SharePoint Site - "Create Page" not working
Issue Description:
The "Create Page" option on the site has stopped working for all access permissions. It gives the following error "Error: Access Denied".
Resolution:
Give read access to NT AUTHORITY\authenticated users for the Master pages and page layouts under Siteactions --> Site settings --> galleries
Site Usage Reports in SharePoint portals
Overview of usage reports
The following usage reports are available:
- Site usage report Site administrators, including administrators of the Shared Services Administration site, can view usage reporting for their site by clicking Site usage reports in the Site Administration section of the Site Settings page.
- Site collection usage report Site collection administrators for most site collections can view usage reporting by clicking Site collection usage reports in the Site Collection Administration section of the Site Settings page.
- Site collection usage summary Site collection administrators for the Shared Services Administration site and individuals with personal sites can view the Site Collection Usage Summary page by clicking Usage summary in the Site Collection Administration section of the Site Settings page.
Search usage reports are also available and can be used to improve the relevance of search results to improve discoverability and collaboration of your personalized content and sites.
View usage reports
The following information is available in usage reports for both sites and site collections:
- Usage summary view:
- Requests and queries in the last day and the last 30 days
- A site collection summary including the following information:
- Average number of requests per day over the last 30 days
- Number of distinct users over the past 30 days
- Number of distinct users yesterday
- Number of requests yesterday
- Number of queries yesterday
- Number of queries over the past 30 days
- Average number of requests per day over the last 30 days
- A chart of the average number of requests per day over the last 30 days
- A chart of requests per day over the last 30 days
- A list of the top page requests over the last 30 days
- A list of top users over the last 30 days
- A chart of top referring hosts over the last 30 days
- A chart of top referring pages over the last 30 days
- A list of top destination pages over the last 30 days
- Requests and queries in the last day and the last 30 days
- Requests view:
- A chart of the average number of requests per day over the last 30 days
- A chart of requests per day over the last 30 days
- A list of the top page requests over the last 30 days
- A chart of the average number of requests per day over the last 30 days
- Users view:
- A chart of unique users over the past 30 days
- A chart of the average number of unique users per day by month
- User activity over the last 30 days.
- A chart of unique users over the past 30 days
- Referrers view:
- A chart of top referring hosts over the last 30 days
- A chart of top referring pages over the last 30 days
- A chart of top referring hosts over the last 30 days
- Destination pages view:
- A list of top destination pages over the last 30 days
- Average requests per day over the past 30 days for the top destination pages
- A list of top destination pages over the last 30 days
- Home page view:
- Number of home page requests for the past 30 days
- Average home page requests per day by month
- Unique users for the home page over the past 30 days
- Average number of unique users per day by month
- Top referring pages to home page by average requests per day over the last 30 days
- Top destination pages from home page by average requests per day over the last 30 days
- Number of home page requests for the past 30 days
Site collection administrators, but not site administrators, can monitor usage data for search queries and search results for all sites in the site collection. Search usage reporting must be enabled. The following additional information is available in site collection usage reports:
- Additional information in the usage summary view:
- Top queries for the last 30 days
- Search results top destination pages
- Top queries for the last 30 days
- Search queries view:
- Number of queries per day over the previous 30 days
- Number of queries per month over the previous 12 months
- Top queries for the last 30 days
- Queries per search scope over the previous 30 days
- Number of queries per day over the previous 30 days
- Search results view:
- The top destination pages of search results
- Queries with zero results
- Most clicked best bets
- Queries with zero best bets
- The top destination pages of search results
View site collection usage summary page
The following information is available in the site collection usage summary that is available for the Shared Services Administration site and individual personal sites.
- Total amount of storage used by the site collection
- Percent of storage space used by Web Discussions
- Maximum storage space allowed
- Number of users for all sites in the hierarchy
- Total hits and recent bandwidth usage across all sites
OrgChart Webpart
AA OrgChart Webpart
It is commonly accepted that information can be better understood and digested visually rather than in verbal or written form. AASoftech’s organization charting products provide an intuitive and concise method to communicate organizational structure to executives, employees and senior managers.
AAOrgChartWebPart comprises of a very simple and intuitive user interface that allows easily search, locate, navigate and get essential contact information of employees and managers and find out reporting structure and hierarchy of an organization.
Three Level OrgChart
AAOrgChartWebPart consists of three connected web parts (Employee Locator, Employee Navigator and Organization Chart) that together provide main contact information and reporting structure of an organization.
AAOrgChartWebPart can be used in Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 as well as Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, SharePoint Portal Server 2003 and SharePoint Server 2007.
AAOrgChartWebPart is an HR solution used to create corporate organizational charts based on XML input data. It allows you to automatically examine your current employees’ information in an outlined format in an organization chart.
AAOrgChartWebPart can directly connect to SharePoint User Profile on SharePoint 2010 or MOSS (SharePoint Server 2007).
AAOrgChartWebPart also supports XML standard data format that can extracted from different databases (SQL, Oracle, DB2, and Access) or other files such as Excel. This allows organizations with different sizes be able to utilize their existing HR products (PeopleSoft, SAPs…) and provide input file for these web parts in XML format.
Download Url:
http://www.aasoftech.com/Products/OrgChartwebpart/Download.asp?product=WOP
It is commonly accepted that information can be better understood and digested visually rather than in verbal or written form. AASoftech’s organization charting products provide an intuitive and concise method to communicate organizational structure to executives, employees and senior managers.
AAOrgChartWebPart comprises of a very simple and intuitive user interface that allows easily search, locate, navigate and get essential contact information of employees and managers and find out reporting structure and hierarchy of an organization.
Three Level OrgChart
AAOrgChartWebPart consists of three connected web parts (Employee Locator, Employee Navigator and Organization Chart) that together provide main contact information and reporting structure of an organization.
AAOrgChartWebPart can be used in Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 as well as Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, SharePoint Portal Server 2003 and SharePoint Server 2007.
AAOrgChartWebPart is an HR solution used to create corporate organizational charts based on XML input data. It allows you to automatically examine your current employees’ information in an outlined format in an organization chart.
AAOrgChartWebPart can directly connect to SharePoint User Profile on SharePoint 2010 or MOSS (SharePoint Server 2007).
AAOrgChartWebPart also supports XML standard data format that can extracted from different databases (SQL, Oracle, DB2, and Access) or other files such as Excel. This allows organizations with different sizes be able to utilize their existing HR products (PeopleSoft, SAPs…) and provide input file for these web parts in XML format.
Download Url:
http://www.aasoftech.com/Products/OrgChartwebpart/Download.asp?product=WOP
This document resides in a document library that is not trusted.
Issue:
User created an OOB Approval workflow to get the approval for the doc.
when user clicking on the "EDIT THIS TASK" button from outlook window the user will get the below error message on the screen
"This document resides in a document library that is not trusted.
To participate in workflows on this document, add the document library to your list of trusted sites."
Resolution:
To resolve this issue, add the domain “*.contoso.net” to the Local Intranet Zone in IE browser settings.
Weird that SharePoint Site prompt username/password to access pages:
This problem can be bypassed by modifying some settings in IE. Specifically you need to add the SPS site to the list of sites in the Local Intranet Zone as follows.
1. Open IE
2. Click on Tools -> Internet Options
3. Select Security tab
4. Select Local Intranet Zone
5. Select Sites
6. Click Advanced
7. Add the base URL for your new SPS site to the list
8. Click OK
9. Click OK again.
Once this is done you need to configure IE to automatically log in using current username and password for sites in the Intranet Zone.
This will resolve the issue and user can able to approve the workflow from outlook.
User created an OOB Approval workflow to get the approval for the doc.
when user clicking on the "EDIT THIS TASK" button from outlook window the user will get the below error message on the screen
"This document resides in a document library that is not trusted.
To participate in workflows on this document, add the document library to your list of trusted sites."
Resolution:
To resolve this issue, add the domain “*.contoso.net” to the Local Intranet Zone in IE browser settings.
Weird that SharePoint Site prompt username/password to access pages:
This problem can be bypassed by modifying some settings in IE. Specifically you need to add the SPS site to the list of sites in the Local Intranet Zone as follows.
1. Open IE
2. Click on Tools -> Internet Options
3. Select Security tab
4. Select Local Intranet Zone
5. Select Sites
6. Click Advanced
7. Add the base URL for your new SPS site to the list
8. Click OK
9. Click OK again.
Once this is done you need to configure IE to automatically log in using current username and password for sites in the Intranet Zone.
This will resolve the issue and user can able to approve the workflow from outlook.
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