ChrisCarr

Dont loose faith in the inbuilt sharepoint backup features they are powerful and have saved my bacon more than once. You should be doing a full farm backup on regular basis if you are running custom solutions etc. Without knowing your farm layout its hard for me to give you a full answer but weekly I have a schedule to run the command. Powershell.exe &'D:\Scripts\BackupFarm.ps1' and inside the ps1 file is the line: Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell -erroraction SilentlyContinue Backup-SPFarm -Directory "BACKUP DIRECTORY" -BackupMethod full This does require some setting up because if you have more than one server in your farm your admin accounts requires permision to read the database and save to a shared folder if you go down that route. Be aware that a full farm backup locks sharepoint into read mode while it does its magic so dont do it during peak usage. If you want to backup indevidual sites or site collections there are a whole suite of commands available to you. Try playing with powershell its very powerfull and at the same time very scary! What ever you do dont pay a company to backup sharepoint for you its not that difficult to implement. Pay them to store it somewhere safe! Any questions let me know I would be happy to help! Chris

Im not 100% sure on this but can you not add a new sql backend server to mirror the current sharepoint content databases the remove the old one from the farm? I did have a experience once where a 3rd party company decided to drop the default sql instance wiping out our new SP2010 installation. I was forced down the route of a full farm restore that asked for the default sql database etc. so I know its possible from that approach. Let me know how it goes as we are planning on implementing some redundency into our farm at the moment. Chris

Oh workflows...my best friend... What is the error you get? It could be title related as you will be updating a specific stock level and you will need to reference a unique field in the list or it will error. Chris

It doesnt look like permissions you would get a permission related error. Can you replicate the error and check your log file forthe correlation id and see what it says. You may find a more descriptive error code than generic "somethings wrong". You could also disable friendly error codes in your web config to show the nitty gritty errors when they appear. A Point For Sharing On SharePoint Server (2007, 2010): Turning off friendly errors in MOSS Be careful when editing web.config always make sure you have a backup! Good luck! Chris

I suppose it all depends on your domain configuration. If sharepoint is hosted on the same domain it should work via NTLM or Kerberous (if its been setup) by default. In our setup it auths with active directory instantly when they visit the sharepoint page. What problem are you having? Are you being prompted for a login box when any user visits a sharepoint page internally?

Hi James, First post on here so be nice I had a similar scenario with our sharepoint development. I needed to lock students out of the "StaffNet" web application. The easiest way I discovered is to goto Central Admin, Web Applications then select your web application and select "User Policy" from the ribbon. This is the only place in sharepoint that you can block users from sharepoint... I would then use the AD group container for all your other users other than staff (if you have one) and select Deny All. You could in theory deny all for everyone then grant specific users access using this. Also be aware any permissions set using "User Policy" are set in stone. No permissions set in site collections will override them. I am not sure if foundation allows the above but I would have thought so.. Cheers, Chris