After 2 days of troubleshooting, reinstalling, reconfiguring, browsing forums, reading tech net and MSDN articles, and watching boring Microsoft "training" videos that teach you nothing, I think it's time to tuck my tail between by legs and ask for some
help... :)
OS: Server 2003 (i originally started with Server 2008 Beta 3 but after it wouldn't even load up central administration or sometimes not get through setup and error on some attempts, i wiped the system and installed server 2003.. Yes, i installed the full
version of SQL server x64 and sharepoint server 2007 x64)
I only had the 32 bit edition of server 2003 so that was installed along with the 32 bit sharepoint server 2007, using the included SQL server 2005 express. Everything installs fine but after many many failed attempts at troubleshooting, i still cant figure
out why I only get "Create", "Edit Page", and "Site Settings" when i create a new site collection. On the top level sites of these pages, i still only get these three options.
I tried creating new web applications and even new Shared Service Providers, with new web apps in it, and i still see the same results. Every walkthough or troubleshooting guide always references the more complete list of "edit page", "create page", "create
site", "Show Page Editing toolbar", "View all site content", "View reports"(with drop down menu), "site settings"(with drop down menu), and "manage content and structure".
The only time I've ever seen this menu is when going through the wizard after installing sharepoint and it displays the demo/sample site "Home". Any Microsoft troubleshooting guide or walkthrough that talks about creating a site says you should be able to
create a site through sharepoint central administration and tells you to create a new web application and then create a site collection. Most of them go on to explain other parts of sharepoint and at some point ask you to go to the site actions menu and click
on one of the options thats on the expanded version of this menu. Also, if it helps, Any and all users entered on any configuration pages always had admin level access.
What's really makes me PO'ed is that none of Microsoft's content ever addresses this, they all just assume you have the full expanded menu, which is not the case..
Help....!??!?!?!!?!?!?!? Thanks
BTW, Microsoft, Can you ship me a "Share the pain" button? It would really help to releave some stress if i could shock the Dev team :)
I only had the 32 bit edition of server 2003 so that was installed along with the 32 bit sharepoint server 2007, using the included SQL server 2005 express. Everything installs fine but after many many failed attempts at troubleshooting, i still cant figure
out why I only get "Create", "Edit Page", and "Site Settings" when i create a new site collection. On the top level sites of these pages, i still only get these three options.
That's what you get with Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 - which is different than Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server 2007. Are you sure it's not WSS 3 that you've installed?
You would probably get better answers in a SharePoint forum on this ...
Thanks for the reply. That may explain where a problem may lie as i orginally had sharepoint services 3.0 installed and then installed Sharepoint server 2007 over the top of it. I thought about this as a problem yesterday, thinking that maybe it's still
using WSS when creating new content so i uninstalled both of them and reinstalled only Sharepoint server 2007 but i got the same results as posted above. Could this be similar to most software from symantec where "uninstall" is nowhere close to a true uninstall
and it's still using the original files from WSS?
I've since blew away the partition that i had windows server 2008 installed on and reinstalled server 08. I'll try again, installing sharepoint server 2007 and not the smaller sharepoint services version 3.0 but I'm still not sure that this is really 100%
the cause of the problem as to my knowledge, sharepoint server 2007 includes sharepoint services 3.0 in it's install and still uses the configuration menu called "sharepoint services 3.0 central administration". Is there some other config menu/app i'm missing
that clearly labels itself as sharepoint server 2007?
And as for the location of this post, MS does not host any sharepoint forum that i could find, this was the closest forum i could find for it.
Tehfox
2 Posts
Sharepoint Site Actions Menu Problem
May 23, 2007 01:59 AM|LINK
Anyone have any ideas on this....
After 2 days of troubleshooting, reinstalling, reconfiguring, browsing forums, reading tech net and MSDN articles, and watching boring Microsoft "training" videos that teach you nothing, I think it's time to tuck my tail between by legs and ask for some help... :)
OS: Server 2003 (i originally started with Server 2008 Beta 3 but after it wouldn't even load up central administration or sometimes not get through setup and error on some attempts, i wiped the system and installed server 2003.. Yes, i installed the full version of SQL server x64 and sharepoint server 2007 x64)
I only had the 32 bit edition of server 2003 so that was installed along with the 32 bit sharepoint server 2007, using the included SQL server 2005 express. Everything installs fine but after many many failed attempts at troubleshooting, i still cant figure out why I only get "Create", "Edit Page", and "Site Settings" when i create a new site collection. On the top level sites of these pages, i still only get these three options.
I tried creating new web applications and even new Shared Service Providers, with new web apps in it, and i still see the same results. Every walkthough or troubleshooting guide always references the more complete list of "edit page", "create page", "create site", "Show Page Editing toolbar", "View all site content", "View reports"(with drop down menu), "site settings"(with drop down menu), and "manage content and structure".
The only time I've ever seen this menu is when going through the wizard after installing sharepoint and it displays the demo/sample site "Home". Any Microsoft troubleshooting guide or walkthrough that talks about creating a site says you should be able to create a site through sharepoint central administration and tells you to create a new web application and then create a site collection. Most of them go on to explain other parts of sharepoint and at some point ask you to go to the site actions menu and click on one of the options thats on the expanded version of this menu. Also, if it helps, Any and all users entered on any configuration pages always had admin level access.
What's really makes me PO'ed is that none of Microsoft's content ever addresses this, they all just assume you have the full expanded menu, which is not the case..
Help....!??!?!?!!?!?!?!? Thanks
BTW, Microsoft, Can you ship me a "Share the pain" button? It would really help to releave some stress if i could shock the Dev team :)
IIS 1and1 application site actions sharepoint
tomkmvp
7657 Posts
MVP
Moderator
Re: Sharepoint Site Actions Menu Problem
May 23, 2007 12:12 PM|LINK
You would probably get better answers in a SharePoint forum on this ...
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Tehfox
2 Posts
Re: Sharepoint Site Actions Menu Problem
May 23, 2007 09:42 PM|LINK
Thanks for the reply. That may explain where a problem may lie as i orginally had sharepoint services 3.0 installed and then installed Sharepoint server 2007 over the top of it. I thought about this as a problem yesterday, thinking that maybe it's still using WSS when creating new content so i uninstalled both of them and reinstalled only Sharepoint server 2007 but i got the same results as posted above. Could this be similar to most software from symantec where "uninstall" is nowhere close to a true uninstall and it's still using the original files from WSS?
I've since blew away the partition that i had windows server 2008 installed on and reinstalled server 08. I'll try again, installing sharepoint server 2007 and not the smaller sharepoint services version 3.0 but I'm still not sure that this is really 100% the cause of the problem as to my knowledge, sharepoint server 2007 includes sharepoint services 3.0 in it's install and still uses the configuration menu called "sharepoint services 3.0 central administration". Is there some other config menu/app i'm missing that clearly labels itself as sharepoint server 2007?
And as for the location of this post, MS does not host any sharepoint forum that i could find, this was the closest forum i could find for it.
tomkmvp
7657 Posts
MVP
Moderator
Re: Sharepoint Site Actions Menu Problem
May 24, 2007 12:22 PM|LINK
http://www.microsoft.com/office/community/en-us/default.mspx?dg=microsoft.public.sharepoint.general
I found this from this page, on the left side column, under Additional Resources there's Discussion Groups:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointserver/FX100492001033.aspx
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/