Well, you have three options:

1. Restoring from backup with msdmback.

2. Undelete Tool: This Web Part displays a list of all the documents deleted from a particular folder. http://www.microsoft.com/sharepoint/techinfo/reskit/undelete.asp

3. If it's a default Web Part that comes with a Workspace, create a new workspace and copy it from there!

4. You could restore to a different machine and then copy what you want from there to the main machine.

If you've deleted the Workspace Virtual Directory in IIS, you could create a new workspace and change the path to your other one by right clicking the folder selecting "properties".

Yes, Microsoft have a tool that does just that:

http://www.microsoft.com/sharepoint/techinfo/reskit/Category_Sort.asp

In the SPS Resource Kit you will find a Category Smart Tag Web Part
http://www.microsoft.com/sharepoint/techinfo/reskit/smart_tag.asp

When creating a new workspace I follow this procedure.

1. Log on as member of domain admin group, also account that installed SPS.

2. So to IIS, change "Default Web Site" IP to "All Unassigned"

3. Restart IIS.

4. Open SPS Admin tool, right-click server name, select new > workspace.

5. Fill in the details carefully (you can't rename a workspace) and select advanced if I want this to be an Index Workspace.

6. Start it off. I find if the server is over-extended the workspce is created, but the indexer crashes, so I have to cancel the process from task manager (now you know if you've too much on the machine :))

7. Check the M: drive to see if the Workspace is there.

8. Run the spextranet tool entering the FQDN I want. (selecting the workspaces I want)

9. run proxycfg (proxycfg -d -p fake-proxy-name:80 "*;<local>")

10. Restart the server

11. Check in IE if my site is there,

12. Map a web folder to it.

13. Voila!

Read the Extranet White paper for more details on configuring subscriptions and discussions.

When you add a web link to a category the link will be indexed by SPS. Make
sure you have the default content access account for Sharepoint setup so that the index can work. When SPS is able to index the link correctly it will appear in your category as it should.

katherinem@musgrave.ie

Either go to "Settings" on the subdashboard in question, and click the "delete dashboard" button.

You could also just delete the corresponding directory from the Portal folder.

I assigned the permissions in the SPS Client / Web folder. /<workspace>/Portal/<subdashboardname>
The only people who see the Sub-dashboard (beside "Home") could then be the members of an AD group created and given the reader role for that folder
. Also remove the other groups (Everyone etc.) Keep a coordinator in there though!

If the dashboard is still visible to non-authorised users. It may be because you have assigned other users to the local "Administrators" group. And because of this, all those people in the Administrators group still got to see the new dashboard, even though they are not assigned coordinator roles.

Joe Dannaoui.

This issue comes from the fact that, only the INSTALLER of SPS has access to
that folder, which doesn't always mean the coordinators of the folder.

What you should do is:
1. Access the Workspace via Web Folders
2. Right-Clock on the DASHBOARDS folder and select PROPERTIES
3. Switch to the Security tab
4. Modify as you wish (notice only the installer had rights there)

Ehud Tam

Sure, create a .bat file and put in it the following:

@echo off

setlocal

cd Program Files\SharePoint Portal Server\Bin

cscript msdmback.vbs /b "c:\SpBack"

endlocal



substitute /r for /b if this is to restore. And change "c:\SpBack" to the path to your backup file.

Put this file in the root directory (eg c:\) so it can find the \Bin directory and the msdmback file.

There's more info on accessing remote macines with this tool (msdmback) in the SharePoint Help Files.

As an extra tip,