If you're having problems with MOSS 2007 Search indexing the user profiles which you have imported from AD or some other source, check the identity of the Windows SharePoint Services Timer service. I bet it's set to Network Service . That's not going to work. Instead, set it to Local System (like the...

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I recently faced this at work, and figured that sharing the problem and the options might be valuable. Here's the situation My parents went away on a week's vacation and They left the keys to the brand new Porsche... Ok, that's enough of that. Sorry for the interruption. The real situation is that I...

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If you weren't aware of it, a lot of thought went into SharePoint in terms of making it a viable platform for web hosting. You can use Active Directory OR Forms Based Authentication. You can actually read the entire 126 page document titled Creating Shared Hosting Solutions on Windows SharePoint Services...

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