Login to sharepoint home page with the Master admin account (moss_admin)
Typically you would want a site under the home page, therefore, go to home page>Site Action>Create>Sites and Workspaces
By Default, I have made all Domain Users "MainPage Visitors" They will be able to contribute to all sites (except locked down sites)
If you want to give users certain rights to certain pages
Go to that page
On left side, click on "People and Groups"
Again, on the left side click on "Site Permissions"
This will show you who has access to this site.
If you want to completely lock site down, remove MainPage Visitors (domain users) and Create a group with contribute or Design rights and add individuals to that group
Alerts run off Active Directory information inputed. When adding a new user to Active Directory be sure to add email address also!
There may be a time when alerts stops working - During this time you may need to restart or jump start the service. If you go into Services>Windows Sharepoint Services Time ( This is the service which sends notifications)
If AD User does not have an email associated with them and receive an error while setting up alerts " Users does not have email address associated" You will need to go to AD and edit their profile to reflect email address. Go to Sharepoint Central Admin>MOSSSharedServices1>User Profile and Setting>View User Profile (edit email address) or Do a full import from AD. AFter this process Sharepoint typically caches user info. In This case, you will need to remove the user from the site and re add the user back on. It is much easier just to add the user email address from the beginning.
Microsoft locks down certain file types (i.e - .bat,.exe,.dll) This is recommended!!!
If you would like to be brave and unblock it...
Login to sharepoint server
Go to sharepoint central Admin
Go to the Operations Tab
Click on Blocked File type
Remove file type
It is hard to delete something from Sharepoint.
When a user deletes an item, it will go into their site "Recycle Bin"
If a user deletes it from the "Recycle Bin" It still resides on the server "Recycle Bin" ONLY FOR 30 DAYS!!
To view the server Recycle Bin, go to http://spssite /_layouts/AdminRecycleBin.aspx
On the left side you will see End User Recycle Bin (This is what is current in site recycle bins)
You will also see Deleted From End User Recycle Bin (These are the items the users deleted from the recycle Bin) ONLY 30 DAYS!!
All templates are located, http://sharepoint.site.com/_catalogs/lt/Forms/AllItems.aspx
Users have the options of receiving email alerts as someone changes a certain documents, etc.
I ran into some problems in the past with users not receiving alerts. I manually restarted the server which sends mail.
Go to the server> Services>Restart Windows SharePoint Services Timer
Sharepoint
Each night sharepoint gets backed up. The Backups reside on the Server D:/MOSS_Backups. There will be a folder with the backup date. Once you navigate into this folder, view the .xml. This will tell you a list of backed up items. Two ways of restoring from this backup. First way is to use restore from backup from the Sharepoint Central Admin (located on the server). The second way is to view the XML File and located the area that refers to SOLN_MainPortal_WSS_Content. Within this section will refer to a .bak file. This file is actually a SQL Backup of SOLN_MainPortal_WSS_Content. You can copy this file to the SQL Server and restore this file.
Each night SQL Databases get backed up. These Backups are located on the SQL Server D:/DB Backup. Any corrupted databases can be restored if needed.
These are very useful commands. STSADM.exe is located on the server, C:/Program Files/Common Files/microsoft shared/Web Server Extensions/12/bin. while trying to run these commands, it is necessary to navigate to this directory via terminal.
Import-Export commands
stsadm -o export -url <URL to be exported> -filename <export to file name> -includeusersecurity ( This will export the whole site with user permissions and content)
stsadm -o import -url <URL to be imported to> -filename <import file name> -includeusersecurity (This will import the whole site with user permissions and content)
Add/Remove Content DB
stsadm -o deletecontentdb -url <URL which you want content DB deleted from> -databasename <database name> -databaseserver <database server name> (If there is a corrupted db, this will remove that content DB)
stsadm -o addcontentdb -url <URL which you want content DB to be added to> -databasename <database name> -databaseserver <database server name> ( After DB is restored, this will attach the site to the newly restored content DB)