Danish Hussain

Sending alerts to users are much easier and administrator can assign active directory user for dispatching emails. Please note that share point uses email address from user’s profile for dispatching emails. Therefore alert cannot be configured for user if email address is not associated in active directory account. Coming back to original points sending alerts to groups can be of two types. 1. Sending alert to AD Group 2. Sending alert to Share point Group For sending email to AD Group you need to make sure two things. 1. Group needs to be “email enabled security group”. As distribution lists are not supported in share point 2. You need to explicitly add group in permission setting in list/Document Library etc There is one limitation is that you cannot edit group and can only delete/recreate alert from Site Action->Site Setting ->User Alert (Site Administration) option For Sending email to Share point Group There is no out of box support for sending email alerts to share point gr...

It seems quite obvious that one will have the requirements for displaying list of content collections like Document Libraries in current site or Surveys presents on current site. I find that though it is very general requirement but there is no straight forward out of box solution in MOSS for displaying this simple information. I first investigate Content Query Webpart but found that content query webpart is designed to fetch data related to contents within content collections rather then content collection itself. In simple word you can fetch documents from multiple document library using content query webpart but it is not possible to get list of document libraries avialable. I found one simple solution for it but obviously not acceptable as it doesnt display list on standard page or at an specific location on page. Solution is to add a menu item and set it URL to / /_layouts/viewlsts.aspx?BaseType=1 and it will display all document libraries with in site. Now this has several limita...