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Customizing the Request Access page in SharePoint 2010

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This article is Based on below URL : http://oszakiewski.net/eric/customizing-the-access-request-page-in-sharepoint-2010 Our organization, like many others, handles access requests for all applications through our IT Support desk. Additionally, documentation is required and must be approved by the user’s department manager before the access can be granted. After just recently migrating the entire company’s intranet over to SharePoint 2010, I wanted to allow users to request access, so I made sure the Manage Access Requests was selected by default for all resources. However, within a week of moving it over I’m getting requests for all sorts of things in my inbox every day, even from our kiosk service accounts in the employee break room or at terminals, which are both locked down intentionally. I don’t mind the access requests, but there needs to be a consistent way of handling requests that complies with our internal standards. I did some research into the Access Request email m...

HTML Formatter

Formats a HTML string/file with your desired indentation level. The formatting rules are not configurable but I think it provides the user with the best possible output. Note that the formatter will keep spaces and tabs between content tags such as divs and spans as it's considered to be valid content. *Files bigger than 1 meg will be formatted to a new window. Good tool for HTML format: http://www.freeformatter.com/html-formatter.html

How to transfer logins and the passwords between SQL Servers

http://sqlserver.in/blog/index.php/archive/category/administration/database-migration/

Step-by-Step Guide to Configuring Database Mirroring in SharePoint 2010

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I was looking up some material on database mirroring, and I could find a good step-by-step post on setting up such functionality. So here it is! Read these posts before you begin - you should really understand the concepts if you are to undertake this, especially in a production environment. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd207314.aspx http://blogs.technet.com/b/wbaer/archive/2010/05/03/database-mirroring-in-sharepoint-2010.aspx http://www.sharepointbandit.com/2010/08/configure-database-mirroring-on.html My SQL instances are based on the SQL Server 2008 R2 Standard SKU, but they we're upgraded from SQL Express 2008 R2, hence the sqlexpress names: Mcm-server-1\sqlexpress (Primary) & Mcm-server-2\sqlexpress (Mirror) SQL Service Account: mcm\svc_sql Database to sync: WSS_Content_ProductionDB For mirroring to work, the versions of SQL must be the same on both servers. 1. Configure permissions on the mirror server according to the details from the technet art...

Customize Error Page, Page Not Found and Access Denied in SharePoint 2010

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There are many ways to customize these pages for example you can customize by code by creating a feature at web application scope or you can do it by power shell so let’s see the simple way. First create three pages and place them in this path C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\TEMPLATE\LAYOUTS\ 1033 \ Custom_Error.html Custom_NotFound.html Custom_AccessDenied.html Note : if you have multilingual site you need to place these pages in their language folder for example for Arabic C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\TEMPLATE\LAYOUTS\ 1025 \ Second Open SharePoint 2010 Management Shell with Farm Administrator User Now For Custom page Not Found runs the following Power Shell: $webApp = Get-SPWebApplication http://test $webApp.FileNotFoundPage = “Custom_NotFound.html” $webApp.Update() For Custom Error Page, Access Denied page ,.. All pages listed in the below image Run the following Power Shell: $we...