Sharepoint Interview Questions
 
Q: What is the difference between a site and a web?
Ans : The pages in a Web site generally cover one or more topics and are interconnected through hyperlinks. Most Web sites have a home page as their starting point. While a Web is simply a blank site with SharePoint functionality built in; meaning you have to create the site from the ground up.
Date submitted :3/21/2010 4:25:00 PM
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Q: What are the differences between web part page gallery, site gallery, virtual server gallery and online gallery?
Ans : Web Part Page Gallery is the default gallery that comes installed with SharePoint. Site Gallery is specific to one site. Virtual Server gallery is specific to that virtual server and online gallery are downloadable web parts from Microsoft.
Date submitted :3/21/2010 4:25:32 PM
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Q: What is the difference between a document library and a form library?
Ans : Document libraries consist of your core documents. An example would be a word document, excel, powerpoint, visio, pdf, etc… Form libraries consist of XML forms
Date submitted :3/21/2010 4:26:01 PM
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Q: How does SharePoint support MS Outlook integration?
Ans : Via Web Parts available at the Microsoft Web Component Directory. Oh yeah and Active X Controls
Date submitted :3/21/2010 4:26:23 PM
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Q: Explain how you would deploy SharePoint on an extranet
Ans : Usually servers that are accessible from external sources are housed in DMZ’s. Depending on the requirements and the workflow for publishing content you could go with Multiple Servers hosting the same information. One server would reside inside with the SQL Cluster while the external server resides in the DMZ simply calling data. Security would be handled by the same or different active directory domain clusters as well increasing security
Date submitted :3/21/2010 4:26:55 PM
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Q: Can you register alerts for users?
Ans : Not unless you are logged in as that user.
Date submitted :3/21/2010 4:27:42 PM
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Q: What is Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services? How is it related to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007?
Ans : Windows SharePoint Services is the solution that enables you to create Web sites for information sharing and document collaboration. Windows SharePoint Services -- a key piece of the information worker infrastructure delivered in Microsoft Windows Server 2003 -- provides additional functionality to the Microsoft Office system and other desktop applications, and it serves as a platform for application development. Office SharePoint Server 2007 builds on top of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 to provide additional capabilities including collaboration, portal, search, enterprise content management, business process and forms, and business intelligence.
Date submitted :3/21/2010 9:39:50 PM
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Q: What is Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server?
Ans : SharePoint Portal Server is a portal server that connects people, teams, and knowledge across business processes. SharePoint Portal Server integrates information from various systems into one secure solution through single sign-on and enterprise application integration capabilities. It provides flexible deployment and management tools, and facilitates end-to-end collaboration through data aggregation, organization, and searching. SharePoint Portal Server also enables users to quickly find relevant information through customization and personalization of portal content and layout as well as through audience targeting.
Date submitted :3/21/2010 9:40:19 PM
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Q: What is Microsoft Windows Services?
Ans : Microsoft Windows Services is the engine that allows administrators to create Web sites for information sharing and document collaboration. Windows SharePoint Services provides additional functionality to the Microsoft Office System and other desktop applications, as well as serving as a plat form for application development. SharePoint sites provide communities for team collaboration, enabling users to work together on documents, tasks, and projects. The environment for easy and flexible deployment, administration, and application development.
Date submitted :3/21/2010 9:40:45 PM
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Q: What is the relationship between Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server and Microsoft Windows Services?
Ans : Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies (including SharePoint Portal Server and Windows SharePoint Services) deliver highly scalable collaboration solutions with flexible deployment and management tools. Windows SharePoint Services provides sites for team collaboration, while Share Point Portal Server connects these sites, people, and business processes—facilitating knowledge sharing and smart organizations. SharePoint Portal Server also extends the capabilities of Windows SharePoint Services by providing organizational and management tools for SharePoint sites, and by enabling teams to publish information to the entire organization.
Date submitted :3/21/2010 9:41:05 PM
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Q: Who is Office SharePoint Server 2007 designed for?
Ans : Office SharePoint Server 2007 can be used by information workers, IT administrators, and application developers. is designed
Date submitted :3/21/2010 9:41:33 PM
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Q: What are the main benefits of Office SharePoint Server 2007?
Ans : Office SharePoint Server 2007 provides a single integrated platform to manage intranet, extranet, and Internet applications across the enterprise. Business users gain greater control over the storage, security, distribution, and management of their electronic content, with tools that are easy to use and tightly integrated into familiar, everyday applications. Organizations can accelerate shared business processes with customers and partners across organizational boundaries using InfoPath Forms Services–driven solutions. Information workers can find information and people efficiently and easily through the facilitated information-sharing functionality and simplified content publishing. In addition, access to back-end data is achieved easily through a browser, and views into this data can be personalized. Administrators have powerful tools at their fingertips that ease deployment, management, and system administration, so they can spend more time on strategic tasks. Developers have a rich platform to build a new class of applications, called Office Business Applications, that combine powerful developer functionality with the flexibility and ease of deployment of Office SharePoint Server 2007. Through the use of out-of-the-box application services, developers can build richer applications with less code.
Date submitted :3/21/2010 9:42:02 PM
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Q: What is the difference between Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 for Internet sites and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007?
Ans : Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 for Internet sites and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 have identical feature functionality. While the feature functionality is similar, the usage rights are different. If you are creating an Internet, or Extranet, facing website, it is recommended that you use Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 for Internet sites which does not require the purchase client access licenses. Websites hosted using an “Internet sites” edition can only be used for Internet facing websites and all content, information, and applications must be accessible to non-employees. Websites hosted using an “Internet sites” edition cannot be accessed by employees creating, sharing, or collaborating on content which is solely for internal use only, such as an Intranet Portal scenario. See the previous section on licensing for more information on the usage scenarios.
Date submitted :3/21/2010 9:42:30 PM
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Q: What suites of the 2007 Microsoft Office system work with Office SharePoint Server 2007?
Ans : Office Outlook 2007 provides bidirectional offline synchronization with SharePoint document libraries, discussion groups, contacts, calendars, and tasks. Microsoft Office Groove 2007, included as part of Microsoft Office Enterprise 2007, will enable bidirectional offline synchronization with SharePoint document libraries. Features such as the document panel and the ability to publish to Excel Services will only be enabled when using Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2007or Office Enterprise 2007. Excel Services will only work with documents saved in the new Office Excel 2007 file format (XLSX).
Date submitted :3/21/2010 9:42:49 PM
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Q: Can I post any kind of document?
Ans : You can post documents in many formats, including .pdf, .htm and .doc. In addition, if you are using Microsoft Office XP, you can save documents directly to your Windows SharePoint Services site
Date submitted :3/21/2010 9:43:35 PM
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Q: Can I download information directly from a SharePoint site to a personal digital assistant (PDA)?
Ans : No you cannot. However, you can exchange contact information lists with Microsoft Outlook.
Date submitted :3/21/2010 9:44:00 PM
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Q: How long does it take to set up the initial team Web site?
Ans : It only takes a few minutes to create a complete Web site. Preformatted forms let you and your team members contribute to the site by filling out lists. Standard forms include announcements, events, contacts, tasks, surveys, discussions and links.
Date submitted :3/21/2010 9:44:24 PM
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Q: How can I make my site public? By default, all sites are created private.
Ans : If you want your site to be a public Web site, enable anonymous access for the entire site. Then you can give out your URL to anybody in your business card, e-mail or any other marketing material. The URL for your Web site will be: http:// yoursitename.wss.bcentral.com Hence, please take special care to name your site. These Web sites are ideal for information and knowledge intensive sites and/or sites where you need to have shared Web workspace. Remember: Under each parent Web site, you can create up to 10 sub-sites each with unique permissions, settings and security rights.
Date submitted :3/21/2010 9:45:08 PM
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Q: How do the sub sites work?
Ans : You can create a sub site for various categories. For example: Departments - finance, marketing, IT Products - electrical, mechanical, hydraulics Projects - Trey Research, Department of Transportation, FDA Team - Retention team, BPR team Clients - new clients, old clients Suppliers - Supplier 1, Supplier 2, Supplier 3 Customers - Customer A, Customer B, Customer C Real estate - property A, property B The URLs for each will be, for example: http://yoursitename.wss.bcentral.com/finance http://yoursitename.wss.bcentral.com/marketing You can keep track of permissions for each team separately so that access is restricted while maintaining global access to the parent site.
Date submitted :3/21/2010 9:45:45 PM
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Q: How do I make my site non-restricted?
Ans : If you want your site to have anonymous access enabled (i.e., you want to treat it like any site on the Internet that does not ask you to provide a user name and password to see the content of the site), follow these simple steps: Login as an administrator Click on site settings Click on Go to Site Administration Click on Manage anonymous access Choose one of the three conditions on what Anonymous users can access: Entire Web site Lists and libraries Nothing Default condition is nothing; your site has restricted access. The default conditions allow you to create a secure site for your Web site
Date submitted :3/21/2010 9:46:13 PM
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Q: What are the various Sharepoint 2003 and Exchange integration points?
Ans : This is a button on contacts or events lists that lets Outlook 2003 add a pst file named Sharepoint Folders and it links to the data on the site. It’s read-only, but you could make the home page for that PST be the Sharepoint site for easier viewing. The link to outlook feature seems more to be where some can public a calendar, but not want too much collaboration. For example, a holiday schedule, company meeting schedule, etc, can be made available for people to be able to view from Outlook without having to go to a web browser. Another nice thing about OL2K3 is that you can compare these calendars with others side by side.
Date submitted :3/21/2010 9:46:49 PM
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Q: What does partial trust mean the Web Part developer?
Ans : If an assembly is installed into the BIN directory, the code must be ensured that provides error handling in the event that required permissions are not available. Otherwise, unhandled security exceptions may cause the Web Part to fail and may affect page rendering on the page where the Web Part appears.
Date submitted :3/21/2010 9:53:55 PM
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Q: Does SharePoint work with NFS?
Ans : Yes and no. It can crawl documents on an NFS volume, but the sharepoint database or logs cannot be stored there.
Date submitted :3/21/2010 9:54:22 PM
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Q: What are the actual advantages of SharePoint Portal Services (SPS) over SharePoint Team Services (STS)?
Ans : SharePoint Portal Services (SPS) has MUCH better document management. It has check-in, check-out, versioning, approval, publishing, subscriptions, categories, etc. STS does not have these features, or they are very scaled back. SharePoint team Services (SPS) has a better search engine, and can crawl multiple content sources. STS cannot. STS is easier to manage and much better for a team environment where there is not much Document Management going on. SPS is better for an organization, or where Document Management is crucial.
Date submitted :3/21/2010 9:54:53 PM
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Q: How Does SharePoint work?
Ans : The browser sends a DAV packet to IIS asking to perform a document check in. PKMDASL.DLL, an ISAPI DLL, parses the packet and sees that it has the proprietary INVOKE command. Because of the existence of this command, the packet is passed off to msdmserv.exe, who in turn processes the packet and uses EXOLEDB to access the WSS, perform the operation and send the results back to the user in the form of XML.
Date submitted :3/21/2010 9:55:20 PM
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Q: How do I open an older version of a document?
Ans : Normally, all previous versions are located in the shadow, so if you right click a published document from within the web folders, go to properties and then the third tab, versions you can view older versions. If you want to do this in code: strURL = "url of the last published version" Set oVersion = New PKMCDO.KnowledgeVersion Set prmRs = oVersion.VersionHistory(strURL) Set oVersion = Nothing prmRS will contain a recordset, which contains the url to the old versions in the shadow.
Date submitted :3/21/2010 9:55:41 PM
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Q: Why do the workspace virtual directories show the error “stop sign” symbol in the IIS snap-in?
Ans : If World Wide Web Publishing Service (W3SVC) starts before Microsoft Exchange Information Store (MSExchangeIS), “stop sign” symbols appear under the Default Web Site folder of the Internet Information Services console in Microsoft Management Console (MMC). There is a dependency between the local paths of the SharePoint Portal Server virtual directories and the MSExchangeIS. You must start MSExchangeIS first, followed by W3SVC. Complete the following steps to prevent the stop signs from appearing each time you restart: Change the Startup type for W3SVC to Manual. Restart the server. The MSExchangeIS service starts automatically. Start W3SVC.
Date submitted :3/21/2010 9:56:05 PM
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Q: What is SharePoint from a Technical Perspective?
Ans : Technically SharePoint illustrates neatly what Microsoft .net strategy is all about integrating Windows with the Web. Microsoft has previously made accessing stuff on a PC easier then on a network and now on the web with NET. SharePoint is an application written to let a user access a web accessible directory tree called the Web Storage System. SharePoint was written with a set of technologies that allow the programmer to pass data, functions, parameters over HTTP, the web medium. These are XML, XSL and SOAP, to name a few I understand the basics of.To the user it looks easy, like Hotmail, but every time they click a button or a link, a lot has to happen behind the scenes to do what they want to do quickly and powerfully. Not as easy as you might think, but SharePoint does it for you. Accessing this Web storage system and the server itself is also done using technologies like ADO, CDO, PKMCDO, LDAP, DDSC, ADSC. More on these later. SharePoint is a great example of how the Internet Platform can be extended and integrated into an existing well adopted technology, Windows.
Date submitted :3/21/2010 10:04:35 PM
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Q: What is SharePoint from an Administration Perspective?
Ans : Administering SharePoint mainly consists of setting it up, which is much easier than you expect, adding the content, which can be just dragging and dropping in whole directory structures and files, and then organizing the files better by giving them categories or other metadata. This is done either through the Web interface or through the SharePoint Client: a program what means you can access SharePoint as a Web folder and then right-click files to select options like "edit profile". Or add files by dragging them in individually or in bulk. Setting the security is also important, using NT accounts, either NT4 or Active Directory (or both in mixed mode) you can give users access to files/folders the same way as you do in standard Windows. Users can be grouped and the groups given access privileges to help manage this better. Also SharePoint has 3 Roles that a User or Group can be given on a particular item. Readers can see the item (i.e. document/file or folder) but not change it, Authors can see and edit items and coordinators can set security privileges for the part of the system they have control over. Thus, you could set 12 different coordinators for 12 different folder trees, and they could manage who can do what within that area only. .
Date submitted :3/21/2010 10:24:39 PM
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Q: What is SharePoint from a Users Perspective?
Ans : From a Users perspective SharePoint is a way of making documents and folders on the Windows platform accessible over the web. The user visits the SharePoint Portal web page, and from there they can add documents, change documents & delete documents. Through this Portal, these documents are now available for discussion, collaboration, versioning and being managed through a workflow. Hence the name "Share-Point". Details about the document can be saved too, such as: who wrote it, when, for whom, its size, and version, category or target audience. These can then be used to find the document through SharePoint's Search facility. Even documents not "in" SharePoint can be included in the search engine's index so they become part of the portal. All in all, it's a great way to get stuff up on the web for users with average technical skills, and for administrators to manage the content.
Date submitted :3/21/2010 10:29:53 PM
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Q: How do I make my site non-restricted?
Ans : If you want your site to have anonymous access enabled (i.e., you want to treat it like any site on the Internet that does not ask you to provide a user name and password to see the content of the site), follow these simple steps: Login as an administrator Click on site settings Click on Go to Site Administration Click on Manage anonymous access Choose one of the three conditions on what Anonymous users can access: Entire Web site Lists and libraries Nothing Default condition is nothing; your site has restricted access. The default conditions allow you to create a secure site for your Web site.
Date submitted :3/21/2010 10:59:16 PM
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Q: What are the integration differences between SPS 2003 and the various Office versions?
Ans : SPS webpage can detect you have installed the Office 2003 and run local dll to implement some SPS function, e.g. multi-file upload only works when you have office 2003 installed. Integration with Office XP is gone. You will get guys telling you that you can integrate with SPSv2 if you install a backwards compatible document library - but that’s really just putting a bit of SPS 2001 on the server. Believe me, check-in, check-out, which are themselves very basic, are not available from inside Office XP, or even from the context menu in Windows Explorer. The ONLY option you have is to use the web interface to check-in or check-out
Date submitted :8/8/2009 1:03:38 AM
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Q: Can SharePoint compare two document versions?
Ans : “In Word 2003, you can compare documents side by side. Open two documents. Then, from the Window menu of one of them, select the Compare Side By Side command. If you have only two documents open, the command will automatically choose to compare them. If you have three or more documents open, you’ll have to select which document to compare with the current file. A floating toolbar with two buttons will open. If the button on the left is selected, Word will scroll both documents at the same time. Press the button on the right side of the toolbar to return to where the cursor was located when you started comparing.”
Date submitted :8/8/2009 1:03:38 AM
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Q: What is SharePoint from a Users Perspective?
Ans : From a Users perspective SharePoint is a way of making documents and folders on the Windows platform accessible over the web. The user visits the SharePoint Portal web page, and from there they can add documents, change documents & delete documents. Through this Portal, these documents are now available for discussion, collaboration, versioning and being managed through a workflow. Hence the name “Share-Point”. Details about the document can be saved too, such as: who wrote it, when, for whom, its size, and version, category or target audience. These can then be used to find the document through SharePoint’s Search facility. Even documents not “in” SharePoint can be included in the search engine’s index so they become part of the portal. All in all, it’s a great way to get stuff up on the web for users with average technical skills, and for administrators to manage the content.
Date submitted :8/8/2009 1:03:38 AM
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Q: What is SharePoint from a Technical Perspective?
Ans : Technically SharePoint illustrates neatly what Microsoft’s .net strategy is all about: integrating Windows with the Web. Microsoft has previously made accessing stuff on a PC easier, (Windows) then on a network (NT) and now on the web (.NET). SharePoint is an application written to let a user access a web accessible directory tree called the Web Storage System. SharePoint was written with a set of technologies that allow the programmer to pass data, functions, parameters over HTTP, the web’s medium. These are XML, XSL and SOAP, to name a few I understand the basics of! To the user it looks easy, like Hotmail, but every time they click a button or a link, a lot has to happen behind the scenes to do what they want to do quickly and powerfully. Not as easy as you might think, but SharePoint does it for you. Accessing this Web storage system and the server itself is also done using technologies like ADO, CDO, PKMCDO, LDAP, DDSC, ADSC. More on these later. SharePoint is a great example of how the Internet Platform can be extended and integrated into an existing well adopted technology, Windows.
Date submitted :8/8/2009 1:03:38 AM
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Q: How Does SharePoint work?How do I open an older version of a document?
Ans : The browser sends a DAV packet to IIS asking to perform a document check in. PKMDASL.DLL, an ISAPI DLL, parses the packet and sees that it has the proprietary INVOKE command. Because of the existence of this command, the packet is passed off to msdmserv.exe, who in turn processes the packet and uses EXOLEDB to access the WSS, perform the operation and send the results back to the user in the form of XML. Normally, all previous versions are located in the shadow, so if you right click a published document from within the web folders, go to properties and then the third tab, versions you can view older versions. If you want to do this in code: <pre> strURL = “url of the last published version” Set oVersion = New PKMCDO.KnowledgeVersion Set prmRs = oVersion.VersionHistory(strURL) Set oVersion = Nothing </pre> prmRS will contain a recordset, which contains the url to the old versions in the shadow.
Date submitted :8/8/2009 1:03:38 AM
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Q: Why Sharepoint is not a viable solution for enterprise wide deployments?
Ans : Document management does not scale beyond a single server, but scales great within a single server. For example, a quad Xeon machine with 4GB of RAM works great for a document management server that has about 900,000 - 1,000,000 document, but if you need to store 50,000,000 document and want to have them all in one single workspace then it does not scale at all. If you need a scenario like this, you need to plan your deployment right and it should scale for you, it just does not right out of the box. If you are using your server as a portal and search server most for the most part it scales great. You can have many different servers crawl content sources and have separate servers searching and serving the content. If you have < 750,000 documents per server and fewer than 4 content sources and fewer than 50,000 users, SPS should scale just fine for your needs with the proper planning.
Date submitted :8/8/2009 1:03:38 AM
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Q: How is SharePoint Portal Server different from the Site Server?
Ans : Site Server has search capabilities but these are more advanced using SharePoint. SPS uses digital dashboard technology which provides a nice interface for creating web parts and showing them on dashboards (pages). SS doesn’t have anything as advanced as that. The biggest difference would be SPS document management features which also integrate with web folders and MS Office.
Date submitted :8/8/2009 1:03:38 AM
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Q: Does SharePoint work with NFS?
Ans : Yes and no. It can crawl documents on an NFS volume, but the sharepoint database or logs cannot be stored there.
Date submitted :8/8/2009 1:03:38 AM
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Q: Can SharePoint be linked to an external data source?
Ans : SharePoint data can be opened with Access and Excel as an external data source. Thus, SharePoint can be referenced as an external data source. SharePoint itself cannot reference an external data source.
Date submitted :8/8/2009 1:03:38 AM
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Q: Can SharePoint be linked to a SQL database?
Ans : This is possible via a custom application, but it not natively supported by SharePoint or SQL Server.
Date submitted :8/8/2009 1:03:38 AM
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Q: Can I customize my Windows SharePoint Services site?
Ans : YES! Windows SharePoint Services makes updating sites and their content from the browser easier then ever. SharePoint includes tools that let you create custom lists, calendars, page views, etc. You can apply a theme; add List, Survey and Document Library Web Parts to a page; create personal views; change logos; connect Web Parts and more. To fully customize your site, you can use Microsoft FrontPage 2003. Specifically, you can use FrontPage themes and shared borders, and also use FrontPage to create photo galleries and top ten lists, utilize standard usage reports, and integrate automatic Web content.
Date submitted :8/8/2009 1:03:38 AM
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Q: What are the various kinds of roles the users can have?
Ans : A user can be assigned one of the following roles * Reader - Has read-only access to the Web site. * Contributor - Can add content to existing document libraries and lists. * Web Designer - Can create lists and document libraries and customize pages in the Web site. * Administrator - Has full control of the Web site.
Date submitted :8/8/2009 1:03:38 AM
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Q: What security levels are assigned to users?
Ans : Security levels are assigned by the administrator who is adding the user. There are four levels by default and additional levels can be composed as necessary. * Reader - Has read-only access to the Web site. * Contributor - Can add content to existing document libraries and lists. * Web Designer - Can create lists and document libraries and customize pages in the Web site. * Administrator - Has full control of the Web site.
Date submitted :8/8/2009 1:03:38 AM
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Q: How can I make my site public? By default, all sites are created private.
Ans : If you want your site to be a public Web site, enable anonymous access for the entire site. Then you can give out your URL to anybody in your business card, e-mail or any other marketing material. The URL for your Web site will be: http:// yoursitename.wss.bcentral.com Hence, please take special care to name your site. These Web sites are ideal for information and knowledge intensive sites and/or sites where you need to have shared Web workspace. Remember: Under each parent Web site, you can create up to 10 sub-sites each with unique permissions, settings and security rights.
Date submitted :8/8/2009 1:03:38 AM
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Q: How do the sub sites work?
Ans : You can create a sub site for various categories. For example: * Departments - finance, marketing, IT * Products - electrical, mechanical, hydraulics * Projects - Trey Research, Department of Transportation, FDA * Team - Retention team, BPR team * Clients - new clients, old clients * Suppliers - Supplier 1, Supplier 2, Supplier 3 * Customers - Customer A, Customer B, Customer C * Real estate - property A, property B The URLs for each will be, for example: * http://yoursitename.wss.bcentral.com/finance * http://yoursitename.wss.bcentral.com/marketing You can keep track of permissions for each team separately so that access is restricted while maintaining global access to the parent site.
Date submitted :8/8/2009 1:03:38 AM
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Q: How do I make my site non-restricted?
Ans : If you want your site to have anonymous access enabled (i.e., you want to treat it like any site on the Internet that does not ask you to provide a user name and password to see the content of the site), follow these simple steps: # Login as an administrator # Click on site settings # Click on Go to Site Administration # Click on Manage anonymous access # Choose one of the three conditions on what Anonymous users can access: ** Entire Web site ** Lists and libraries ** Nothing Default condition is nothing; your site has restricted access. The default conditions allow you to create a secure site for your Web site.
Date submitted :8/8/2009 1:03:38 AM
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Q: Can I get domain name for my Web site?
Ans : Unfortunately, no. At this point, we don't offer domain names for SharePoint sites. But very soon we will be making this available for all our SharePoint site customers. Please keep checking this page for further update on this. Meanwhile, we suggest you go ahead and set up your site and create content for it.
Date submitted :8/8/2009 1:03:38 AM
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Q: what is the difference between SharePoint Portal Server and Windows SharePoint Services?
Ans : SharePoint Portal Server is the global portal offering features like global navigation and searching. Windows SharePoint Services is more content management based with document libraries and lists. You apply information to certain areas within your portal from Windows SharePoint Services or directly to portal areas.
Date submitted :8/8/2009 1:03:38 AM
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Q: what is a document library?
Ans : A document library is where you upload your core documents. They consist of a row and column view with links to the documents. When the document is updated so is the link on your site. You can also track metadata on your documents. Metadata would consist of document properties.
Date submitted :8/8/2009 1:03:38 AM
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Q: what is a meeting workspace?
Ans : A meeting workspace is a place to store information, attendees, and tasks related to a specific meeting.
Date submitted :8/8/2009 1:03:38 AM
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Q: what is a document workspace?
Ans : Document workspaces consist of information surrounding a single or multiple documents.
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Q: what is a web part?
Ans : Web parts consist of xml queries to full SharePoint lists or document libraries. You can also develop your own web parts and web part pages.
Date submitted :8/8/2009 1:03:38 AM
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Q: what is the difference between a document library and a form library?
Ans : Document libraries consist of your core documents. An example would be a word document, excel, powerpoint, visio, pdf, etc… Form libraries consist of XML forms.
Date submitted :8/8/2009 1:03:38 AM
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Q: what is a web part zone?
Ans : Web part zones are what your web parts reside in and help categorize your web parts when designing a page.
Date submitted :8/8/2009 1:03:38 AM
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Q: how is security managed in SharePoint?
Ans : Security can be handled at the machine, domain, or sharepoint level.
Date submitted :8/8/2009 1:03:38 AM
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Q: how are web parts developed?
Ans : Web parts are developed in Visual Studio .Net. VS.Net offers many web part and page templates and can also be downloaded from the Microsoft site
Date submitted :8/8/2009 1:03:38 AM
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Q: what is a site definition?
Ans : site definition a methods for providing prepackaged site and list content.
Date submitted :8/8/2009 1:03:38 AM
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Q: what is a template?
Ans : A template is a pre-defined set of functions or settings that can be used over time. There are many templates within SharePoint, Site Templates, Document Templates, Document Library and List Templates.
Date submitted :8/8/2009 1:03:38 AM
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Q: how do you install web parts?
Ans : Web Parts should be distributed as a .CAB (cabinet) file using the MSI Installer.
Date submitted :8/8/2009 1:03:38 AM
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Q: what is a DWP?
Ans : the file extension of a web part.
Date submitted :8/8/2009 1:03:38 AM
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Q: what are the differences between web part page gallery, site gallery, virtual server gallery and online gallery?
Ans : Web Part Page Gallery is the default gallery that comes installed with SharePoint. Site Gallery is specific to one site. Virtual Server gallery is specific to that virtual server and online gallery are downloadable web parts from Microsoft.
Date submitted :8/8/2009 1:03:38 AM
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Q: what is the difference between a site and a web?
Ans : The pages in a Web site generally cover one or more topics and are interconnected through hyperlinks. Most Web sites have a home page as their starting point. While a Web is simply a blank site with SharePoint functionality built in; meaning you have to create the site from the ground up.
Date submitted :8/8/2009 1:03:38 AM
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Q: What is Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services? How is it related to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007?
Ans : Windows SharePoint Services is the solution that enables you to create Web sites for information sharing and document collaboration. Windows SharePoint Services is a key piece of the information worker infrastructure delivered in Microsoft Windows Server 2003 ,provides additional functionality to the Microsoft Office system and other desktop applications, and it serves as a platform for application development.Office SharePoint Server 2007 builds on top of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 to provide additional capabilities including collaboration, portal, search, enterprise content management, business process and forms, and business intelligence.
Date submitted :8/8/2009 1:03:38 AM
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Q: What is Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server?
Ans : SharePoint Portal Server is a portal server that connects people, teams, and knowledge across business processes. SharePoint Portal Server integrates information from various systems into one secure solution through single sign-on and enterprise application integration capabilities. It provides flexible deployment and management tools, and facilitates end-to-end collaboration through data aggregation, organization, and searching. SharePoint Portal Server also enables users to quickly find relevant information through customization and personalization of portal content and layout as well as through audience targeting.
Date submitted :8/8/2009 1:03:38 AM
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Q: What is Microsoft Windows Services?
Ans : Microsoft Windows Services is the engine that allows administrators to create Web sites for information sharing and document collaboration. Windows SharePoint Services provides additional functionality to the Microsoft Office System and other desktop applications, as well as serving as a plat form for application development. SharePoint sites provide communities for team collaboration, enabling users to work together on documents, tasks, and projects. The environment for easy and flexible deployment, administration, and application development.
Date submitted :8/8/2009 1:03:38 AM
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Q: What is the relationship between Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server and Microsoft Windows Services?
Ans : Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies (including SharePoint Portal Server and Windows SharePoint Services) deliver highly scalable collaboration solutions with flexible deployment and management tools. Windows SharePoint Services provides sites for team collaboration, while Share Point Portal Server connects these sites, people, and business processes—facilitating knowledge sharing and smart organizations. SharePoint Portal Server also extends the capabilities of Windows SharePoint Services by providing organizational and management tools for SharePoint sites, and by enabling teams to publish information to the entire organization.
Date submitted :8/8/2009 1:03:38 AM
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Q: What are the main benefits of Office SharePoint Server 2007?
Ans : Office SharePoint Server 2007 provides a single integrated platform to manage intranet, extranet, and Internet applications across the enterprise. * Business users gain greater control over the storage, security, distribution, and management of their electronic content, with tools that are easy to use and tightly integrated into familiar, everyday applications. * Organizations can accelerate shared business processes with customers and partners across organizational boundaries using InfoPath Forms Services–driven solutions. * Information workers can find information and people efficiently and easily through the facilitated information-sharing functionality and simplified content publishing. In addition, access to back-end data is achieved easily through a browser, and views into this data can be personalized. * Administrators have powerful tools at their fingertips that ease deployment, management, and system administration, so they can spend more time on strategic tasks. * Developers have a rich platform to build a new class of applications, called Office Business Applications, that combine powerful developer functionality with the flexibility and ease of deployment of Office SharePoint Server 2007. Through the use of out-of-the-box application services, developers can build richer applications with less code.
Date submitted :8/8/2009 1:03:38 AM
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Q: What is the difference between Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 for Internet sites and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007?
Ans : Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 for Internet sites and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 have identical feature functionality. While the feature functionality is similar, the usage rights are different. If you are creating an Internet, or Extranet, facing website, it is recommended that you use Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 for Internet sites which does not require the purchase client access licenses. Websites hosted using an “Internet sites” edition can only be used for Internet facing websites and all content, information, and applications must be accessible to non-employees. Websites hosted using an “Internet sites” edition cannot be accessed by employees creating, sharing, or collaborating on content which is solely for internal use only, such as an Intranet Portal scenario. See the previous section on licensing for more information on the usage scenarios.
Date submitted :8/8/2009 1:03:38 AM
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Q: What suites of the 2007 Microsoft Office system work with Office SharePoint Server 2007?
Ans : Office Outlook 2007 provides bidirectional offline synchronization with SharePoint document libraries, discussion groups, contacts, calendars, and tasks. Microsoft Office Groove 2007, included as part of Microsoft Office Enterprise 2007, will enable bidirectional offline synchronization with SharePoint document libraries. Features such as the document panel and the ability to publish to Excel Services will only be enabled when using Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2007or Office Enterprise 2007. Excel Services will only work with documents saved in the new Office Excel 2007 file format (XLSX).
Date submitted :8/8/2009 1:03:38 AM
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Q: what is SharePoint?
Ans : Portal Collaboration Software.
Date submitted :8/8/2009 1:03:38 AM
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Q: what is the difference between SharePoint Portal Server and Windows SharePoint Services?
Ans : SharePoint Portal Server is the global portal offering features like global navigation and searching. Windows SharePoint Services is more content management based with document libraries and lists. You apply information to certain areas within your portal from Windows SharePoint Services or directly to portal areas.
Date submitted :8/8/2009 1:03:38 AM
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Q: what is a document library?
Ans : A document library is where you upload your core documents. They consist of a row and column view with links to the documents. When the document is updated so is the link on your site. You can also track metadata on your documents. Metadata would consist of document properties.
Date submitted :8/8/2009 1:03:38 AM
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Q: what is a meeting workspace?
Ans : A meeting workspace is a place to store information, attendees, and tasks related to a specific meeting.
Date submitted :8/8/2009 1:03:38 AM
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Q: what is a document workspace?
Ans : Document workspaces consist of information surrounding a single or multiple documents.
Date submitted :8/8/2009 1:03:38 AM
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Q: what is a web part?
Ans : Web parts consist of xml queries to full SharePoint lists or document libraries. You can also develop your own web parts and web part pages.
Date submitted :8/8/2009 1:03:38 AM
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Q: what is the difference between a document library and a form library?
Ans : Document libraries consist of your core documents. An example would be a word document, excel, powerpoint, visio, pdf, etc… Form libraries consist of XML forms.
Date submitted :8/8/2009 1:03:38 AM
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Q: what is a web part zone?
Ans : Web part zones are what your web parts reside in and help categorize your web parts when designing a page
Date submitted :8/8/2009 1:03:38 AM
Submitted by : shabir@myfaithsolution.com
Q: how is security managed in SharePoint?
Ans : Security can be handled at the machine, domain, or SharePoint level.
Date submitted :8/8/2009 1:03:38 AM
Submitted by : shabir@myfaithsolution.com
Q: how are web parts developed?
Ans : Web parts are developed in Visual Studio .Net. VS.Net offers many web part and page templates and can also be downloaded from the Microsoft site.
Date submitted :8/8/2009 1:03:38 AM
Submitted by : shabir@myfaithsolution.com
Q: what is a site definition?
Ans : It’s a methods for providing prepackaged site and list content.
Date submitted :8/8/2009 1:03:38 AM
Submitted by : shabir@myfaithsolution.com
Q: what is a template?
Ans : A template is a pre-defined set of functions or settings that can be used over time. There are many templates within SharePoint, Site Templates, Document Templates, Document Library and List Templates.
Date submitted :8/8/2009 1:03:38 AM
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Q: how do you install web parts? .
Ans : Web Parts should be distributed as a .CAB (cabinet) file using the MSI Installer
Date submitted :8/8/2009 1:03:38 AM
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Q: what is CAML?
Ans : stands for Collaborative Application Markup Language and is an XML-based language that is used in Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services to define sites and lists, including, for example, fields, views, or forms, but CAML is also used to define tables in the Windows SharePoint Services database during site provisioning.
Date submitted :8/8/2009 1:03:38 AM
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Q: what is a DWP?
Ans : the file extension of a web part.
Date submitted :8/8/2009 1:03:38 AM
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Q: Global Assembly Cache folder on the server hosting SharePoint. You place your assemblies there for web parts and services.
Ans : what is the GAC?
Date submitted :8/8/2009 1:03:38 AM
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Q: what are the differences between web part page gallery, site gallery, virtual server gallery and online gallery?
Ans : Web Part Page Gallery is the default gallery that comes installed with SharePoint. Site Gallery is specific to one site. Virtual Server gallery is specific to that virtual server and online gallery are downloadable web parts from Microsoft.
Date submitted :8/8/2009 1:03:38 AM
Submitted by : shabir@myfaithsolution.com
Q: what is the difference between a site and a web?
Ans : The pages in a Web site generally cover one or more topics and are interconnected through hyperlinks. Most Web sites have a home page as their starting point. While a Web is simply a blank site with SharePoint functionality built in; meaning you have to create the site from the ground up.
Date submitted :8/8/2009 1:03:38 AM
Submitted by : shabir@myfaithsolution.com
Q: What is Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services? How is it related to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007?
Ans : Windows SharePoint Services is the solution that enables you to create Web sites for information sharing and document collaboration. Windows SharePoint Services — a key piece of the information worker infrastructure delivered in Microsoft Windows Server 2003 — provides additional functionality to the Microsoft Office system and other desktop applications, and it serves as a platform for application development. Office SharePoint Server 2007 builds on top of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 to provide additional capabilities including collaboration, portal, search, enterprise content management, business process and forms, and business intelligence.
Date submitted :8/8/2009 1:03:38 AM
Submitted by : shabir@myfaithsolution.com
Q: What is Microsoft Windows Services?
Ans : Microsoft Windows Services is the engine that allows administrators to create Web sites for information sharing and document collaboration. Windows SharePoint Services provides additional functionality to the Microsoft Office System and other desktop applications, as well as serving as a plat form for application development. SharePoint sites provide communities for team collaboration, enabling users to work together on documents, tasks, and projects. The environment for easy and flexible deployment, administration, and application development.
Date submitted :8/8/2009 1:03:38 AM
Submitted by : shabir@myfaithsolution.com
Q: What is the relationship between Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server and Microsoft Windows Services?
Ans : Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies (including SharePoint Portal Server and Windows SharePoint Services) deliver highly scalable collaboration solutions with flexible deployment and management tools. Windows SharePoint Services provides sites for team collaboration, while Share Point Portal Server connects these sites, people, and business processes—facilitating knowledge sharing and smart organizations. SharePoint Portal Server also extends the capabilities of Windows SharePoint Services by providing organizational and management tools for SharePoint sites, and by enabling teams to publish information to the entire organization.
Date submitted :8/8/2009 1:03:38 AM
Submitted by : shabir@myfaithsolution.com
Q: What suites of the 2007 Microsoft Office system work with Office SharePoint Server 2007?
Ans : Office Outlook 2007 provides bidirectional offline synchronization with SharePoint document libraries, discussion groups, contacts, calendars, and tasks. Microsoft Office Groove 2007, included as part of Microsoft Office Enterprise 2007, will enable bidirectional offline synchronization with SharePoint document libraries. Features such as the document panel and the ability to publish to Excel Services will only be enabled when using Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2007or Office Enterprise 2007. Excel Services will only work with documents saved in the new Office Excel 2007 file format (XLSX).
Date submitted :8/8/2009 1:03:38 AM
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Q: How do I invite users to join a Windows SharePoint Services Site? Is the site secure?
Ans : SharePoint-based Web sites can be password-protected to restrict access to registered users, who are invited to join via e-mail. In addition, the site administrator can restrict certain members' roles by assigning different permission levels to view post and edit.
Date submitted :8/8/2009 1:03:38 AM
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Q: Can I post any kind of document?
Ans : You can post documents in many formats, including .pdf, .htm and .doc. In addition, if you are using Microsoft Office XP, you can save documents directly to your Windows SharePoint Services site.
Date submitted :8/8/2009 1:03:38 AM
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Q: How do I invite users to join a Windows SharePoint Services Site? Is the site secure?
Ans : SharePoint-based Web sites can be password-protected to restrict access to registered users, who are invited to join via e-mail. In addition, the site administrator can restrict certain members' roles by assigning different permission levels to view post and edit.
Date submitted :8/8/2009 1:03:38 AM
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Q: Can I create custom templates?
Ans : Yes you can. You can have templates for business plans, doctor's office, lawyer's office etc.
Date submitted :8/8/2009 1:03:38 AM
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Q: What is a Web Part?
Ans : A Web Part, in the context of an SPS site is a component that can be customized and easily placed onto an SPS site akin to a plug'n play mechanism. Further, the end user, apart from the developer, can modify the individual properties of the Web Part. But for a developer, a Web Part is nothing but a server side ASP.Net control. The Web Part class can be found within the Microsoft.SharePoint.WebPartPages namespace which is the base class that Web Parts inherit from. The WebPartPages class inherits from the same parent class as normal ASP.Net Server controls (the System.Web.UI.WebControls class) and you therefore inherit all the properties, methods and anything else exposed by WebPart base class.
Date submitted :3/21/2010 2:16:27 PM
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Q: What is the difference between SharePoint Portal Server and Windows SharePoint Services?
Ans : SharePoint Portal Server is the global portal offering features like global navigation and searching. Windows SharePoint Services is more content management based with document libraries and lists. You apply information to certain areas within your portal from Windows SharePoint Services or directly to portal areas.
Date submitted :3/21/2010 4:22:57 PM
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Q: What is a web part zone?
Ans : Web part zones are what your web parts reside in and help categorize your web parts when designing a page
Date submitted :3/21/2010 4:22:58 PM
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Q: How is security managed in SharePoint?
Ans : Security can be handled at the machine, domain, or sharepoint level.
Date submitted :3/21/2010 4:23:00 PM
Submitted by : shabir@myfaithsolution.com
Q: What is a site definition?
Ans : It’s a methods for providing prepackaged site and list content.
Date submitted :3/21/2010 4:23:01 PM
Submitted by : shabir@myfaithsolution.com
Q: How do you install web parts?
Ans : Web Parts should be distributed as a .CAB (cabinet) file using the MSI Installer.
Date submitted :3/21/2010 4:23:04 PM
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