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Sameer Mohammed

Have SharePoint 2010 open office documents in browser on an live farm
Have SharePoint 2010 open office documents in browser on an live farm 150 150 Sameer Mohammed

This blog walks through the process of configuring a SharePoint server so that office documents open up in the browser by default for reading and editing. Also for those who are new to Office web apps, Installing Office Web app is the only way to achieve this. Blog assumes that SharePoint is already installed and…

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Access is denied. Verify that either the Default Content Access Account has access to this repository, or add a crawl rule to crawl this repository. If the repository being crawled is a SharePoint repository, verify that the account you are using has “Full Read” permissions on the SharePoint Web Application being crawled.
Access is denied. Verify that either the Default Content Access Account has access to this repository, or add a crawl rule to crawl this repository. If the repository being crawled is a SharePoint repository, verify that the account you are using has “Full Read” permissions on the SharePoint Web Application being crawled. 150 150 Sameer Mohammed

Disabling the loopback check worked for me, below are the steps that I took: 1. Click Start, click Run, type regedit, and then click OK. 2. In Registry Editor, locate and then click the following registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa 3. Right-click Lsa, point to New and then click DWORD Value. 4. Type DisableLoopbackCheck, and then press…

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SharePoint 2010 Master pages
SharePoint 2010 Master pages 150 150 Sameer Mohammed

(FYI… I am constantly updating this blog) Here are some of the new master pages with a description: 1. V4.Master: this is the default master page for V4 2. Default.master: this is the default master page that comes with WSS 3 3. Minimal.master: used for search 4. Simple.master: for login and errors The relative location…

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MOSS to SharePoint 2010 Migration
MOSS to SharePoint 2010 Migration 150 150 Sameer Mohammed

This article breaks up the upgrade process into Database upgrade and Visual Upgrade. 1. Database upgrade: a. Create a new database with a copy of the old 2007 database ( just to make sure we don’t mess with the 2007 website) b. Create a new SP 2010 site c. Detach the database by going into…

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SharePoint 2010 Outgoing email configuration
SharePoint 2010 Outgoing email configuration 150 150 Sameer Mohammed

coming back to blogging again, entering something simple … go to Central admin\ System Settings\ Configure outgoing e-mail settings enter the Outgoing SMTP server, From email, Reply-to-email.

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Installing pdf Ifilter for SharePoint 2010
Installing pdf Ifilter for SharePoint 2010 150 150 Sameer Mohammed

Got it done last night and verified that the crawling worked, the process is pretty much the same as SharePoint 2007 and here is info : 1. there seem to be several pdf ifilters and below are the most popular ones a.Adobe IFilter for 64 bit: http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=4025 ( comes free of charge) b.FOX IFilter: http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/ifilter/…

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Sharepoint 2010 New Features
Sharepoint 2010 New Features 150 150 Sameer Mohammed

so here’s my first posting on SharePoint 2010, it has some new features that I came across out of my research and thought would post it, I will be updating this as I come across them. 1. BI features a. Performance point server included services b. Chart web parts c. Excel Services – includes SQL…

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