SharePoint FAQs
How can I use Microsoft Front-Page to back up or restore a Windows SharePoint
Services site?
FrontPage lets you create archives of SharePoint sites for backup and restore
purposes. To do so, perform the following steps:
- Use Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE) to open the SharePoint site.
- From the File menu, select Edit with Microsoft Office FrontPage.
- In FrontPage, select Tools, Server, Backup.
- Check the Include subsites in archive option and click OK.
- Select a folder and filename for the Web-site archive file (.fwp) and click
Save.
- After the backup is done, click OK in the Backup completed dialog box.
To restore a site, perform the following steps:
- Create a new site (to which the archive will be restored). When the wizard
asks you to select a template, close IE so that no template is applied.
- In FrontPage, open the site that you just created (Click File, Open Site,
and enter the URL of the site you just created).
- In FrontPage, select Server, Restore Web Site, from the Tools menu.
- Select the name of the archive file and click Open.
- Click OK to restore the Web site.
John Savill
How can I make links in Microsoft SharePoint technologies
open in a new browser window?
By default, SharePoint links open in the existing browser window. You can find
several solutions for this behavior on the Web (some listed at the end of this
FAQ), but I found the following solution to be the easiest:
- Use Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE) to open the SharePoint page containing
the links.
- From the File menu, select Edit with Microsoft Office FrontPage.
- In Microsoft FrontPage, rightclick the section with the links, and from
the displayed context menu select Convert to XSLT Data View.
- Right-click one of the links and select Hyperlink Properties.
- From the displayed dialog box, click the Target Frame button.
- Select New Windows and click OK for all dialog boxes.
- Save the page changes.
Now, when someone clicks a link, the page will open in a new window. You can
find other solutions for this behavior at http://mindsharpblogs.com/todd/archive/2005/08/16/654.aspx
and http://andrewconnell.com/blog/articles/SharepointLinksListOpenIn
NewWindow.aspx.
John Savill
What's Sunbelt Messaging Ninja?
Sunbelt Software's Sunbelt Messaging Ninja offers spam, virus, and attachment
filtering for Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server and later. Ninja's policy-based
approach lets you create different rules for users and groups and enforce policies
according to destination, source, and direction (e.g., incoming, outgoing).
You can set antispam policies to allow or block senders according to attributes
in any message field. Ninja can even flag messages according to the character
set used (e.g., quarantining messages that use the Russian Cyrillic alphabet).
Ninja uses Authentium and BitDefender antivirus engines and Cloudmark's signature-based
spam filter as well as Sunbelt's own heuristic engine. Ninja also supports Realtime
Blackhole Lists and Sender Policy Framework. The product runs on your Exchange
servers and has the unique ability to scan internal email. The trade-off, however,
is that Ninja uses processor resources and can increase the server load by up
to 20 percent.
Installation is a 20-minute process that requires restarting the Exchange service.
After installation, I quickly created policies and administered them without
resorting to the documentation. You control Ninja through Microsoft Management
Console (MMC). Managing multiple servers requires opening multiple MMC instances,
which might be a hassle for multiple-site organizations. A replication feature
maintains consistency among clusters or multiple servers.
Comparable solutions offer similar functionality at a lower price. Because
they typically run on the gateway, however, such products can't filter internal
email or provide Ninja's granular configuration options. Ninja's flexibility
makes it a useful application for organizations that don't require management
from a remote installation.
Joel B. Barker
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