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When you are working in multi-sites environment you may sometimes confused with the timestamp given by the server. The timestamp (Created Date, Modified Date) is combination of several factors :

a. Server TimeZone   , is physical server timezone configuration.
b. Web Application TimeZone , is application level timezone configuration.
c. Site   , is subsite, web timezone configuration.

How would you make sure that you are working on correct timezone in SharePoint? This post will explain how to configure personal regional settings.

1. Click on Logon User menu, and select My Settings

2. On the User Information page, click on “My Regional Settings”

3. On Regional Settings page, uncheck “Always follow web settings” and configure your personal Time zone setting and click OK.

4.Sample of same page with different time zone configuration

   Original view.
   Website timezone : GMT+7
   Webserver timezone : GMT+8
   Client timezone        : GMT+8

   After configuring regional setting view.
   Website timezone : GMT+8
   Webserver timezone : GMT+8
   Client timezone        : GMT+8

So, don’t be fooled by website timezone configuration.

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When you work with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS 2007), you’ll find that one of its component is User Profiles synchronization. The User Profiles synchronization is maintained by Shared Service Provider (SSP). It synchronized MOSS user profile with Active Directory profiles.

There are around 46 predefined profile with 21 are mapped to AD property.

Some of you might have an idea that you can add the new profile or change how it mapped to AD property. But how would you do it? Its not complex task, but I would like to make it graphical how-to.

1. Open SSP Administration page and click on User profiles and properties.

2. On “User profiles and properties” page, click on “Add profile property”

3. On “Add user profile property” page, define the new profile. I put yellow mark on the important things,

- Name              : Fieldname for new profile property

- Display Name   : Display name for new profile property

- Type               : Field type

- Source Data Connection : Profile property mapping definition

4. Finally, after you define the mapping in “Source Data Connection” you can click OK. Do full import to update current profiles with the new profile property.

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Alternate Access Mapping (AAM) is alternate URL address defined to access the same SharePoint site. For example, if you have SharePoint site to serve internal and external users – then you will consider AAM. Using AAM – we can also define different authentication method to the incoming request. For example, internal user will use Windows Integrated Authentication – while external user will use Form Based Authentication.

How-to configure alternate access mapping?

1. Open “Central Administration”  web and click on “Operations” tab.
 

2. In “Operations” page click on “Alternate access mappings” link.

3.  You will see list of existing URLs with existing AAM (if any). Click on “Show All” combo box to “Change Alternate Access Mapping Collection”

4.  Select the Web Application to which you want to modify the AAM.

5.  Click on “Add Internal URLs” to add new AAM ( or “Edit Public URLs’ to edit existing one).

6.  Type in the URL protocol, host and port – as alternative address for your users. For example, http://extranet.someserver.com.

Select the zone for the URL, (Intranet, Internet, Custom, Extranet, Default).

Then, click “Save”

7.  Now you can see new alternate URLs to access SharePoint site.

Happy configuring.