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utilities and knowledge to get the most out of Microsoft SharePoint Portal Technologies. We have a new and growing line of products that will become available over the next several months to help fill in some of the gaps in an otherwise stellar product offering from Microsoft - Windows SharePoint Services and Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003.

Security Update for Windows SharePoint Services (KB887981)

Quick Description : A security vulnerability exists in Microsoft® Windows® SharePoint® Services that could allow cross-site scripting and spoofing attacks. This update resolves that vulnerability.

Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services Inside Out

Chapter 18: Advanced Design TechniquesContentsUsing Built-In Web PartsAdding ASP.NET Server ControlsInstalling and Using Office 2003 Web Parts and ComponentsCustomizing Site DefinitionsWorking with Site Definition FilesIn Summary. This chapter describes a number of techniques that are useful when designing SharePoint sites, but that require administrative privileges to install, enable, or deploy.

Omnisys docMaster

is a complementary product to Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) infrastructure. The product addresses document & knowledge management needs of both personal/small work teams and large organizational units (branches, departments, and companies).docMaster's interface is intuitive and familiar, based on MS SharePoint Web Parts’ look & feel, therefore making the product’s learning curve minimal.

Download details: Windows SharePoint Services Applications Template: Performance Review

Download details: Windows SharePoint Services Applications Template: Performance Review: "Quick Description : This application for Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services is to be used by human resource managers to manage the performance review process across an organization."

Download details: SharePoint Portal Server 2003 Discovery Kit

Download details: SharePoint Portal Server 2003 Discovery Kit: "Quick Description
The SharePoint Portal Server 2003 Discovery Kit provides the how-to-deploy SharePoint Portal Server 2003."

Download details: Developer's Introduction to Web Parts: Sample Code

Download details: Developer's Introduction to Web Parts: Sample Code: "Quick Description
Visual Studio .NET solution containing two custom Web Parts. This sample accompanies the article by the same title on the Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Developer Center."

The WSS "60 Hive"

The WSS "60 Hive": "I like to say that the 60 Hive is the starting place for everything SharePoint. At the very least, it is the basic building block upon which everything else in SharePoint is built. I use the following image to explain how the 60 Hive is structured:"

Aliantiz WebObs 2005 - Home

Aliantiz WebObs 2005 - Home: "WebObs 2005 R2 : The solution to measure Microsoft SharePoint and ASP.NET web site audiences."

Announcements - Next versions of Microsoft CRM and Axapta...

Announcements - Next versions of Microsoft CRM and Axapta...: "As reported in eWeek.com, Microsoft is building out functionality across its MBS product suite�which includes Great Plains, Axapta, Navision, Solomon and Microsoft CRM�that will enable users to leverage WSS' prebuilt business process applications as a starting point for integrating components and, in a lightweight fashion, enable users to build composite applications."

Mark DiGiovanni : Optimizing Development with Microsoft Virtual PC 2004

Mark DiGiovanni : say :My development experience has significantly changed since using VirtualPC 2004. I do also use VPC for Training and BETA... EROL

MapPoint Location Server

MapPoint Location Server: "MapPoint Location Server allows customers and partners to connect real-time location information from mobile operators with mapping and routing information from the MapPoint Web Service. By using the MapPoint Location Server in business solutions, companies will optimize business processes through more efficient tracking and dispatching of mobile assets." By using the MapPoint Web Service, companies can improve business results through better discoverability of store locations and business assets. MapPoint Web Service is a programmable XML-based Web service that customers can use to integrate mapping capabilities and location-based services into business or consumer applications. MapPoint Web Service supports industry-standard SOAP and XML interfaces, which developers can use to build location-based services into their applications easily. Solutions that integrate MapPoint Web Service can be developed with Microsoft Visual Studio® .NET, which provides a powerful, optimized environment for developers.

Greg's Cool [Insert Clever Name] of the Day: SharePoint Template Release Day #2

Greg's Cool [Insert Clever Name] of the Day: SharePoint Template Release Day #2: "SharePoint Template Release Day #2 It looks like it is SharePoint Application Template release day #2..."

Live Communications Server Product Information: The Microsoft Office enterprise real-time communications server

Live Communications Server Product Information: The Microsoft Office enterprise real-time communications server: "Learn how Live Communications Server 2005 can help you improve business efficiencies and increase productivity by sharing ideas and information immediately. This real-time collaboration (RTC) platform offers enterprise-grade solutions by integrating with the Microsoft Office System and Microsoft Windows Server System products and services."

Exchange Server Best Practices Analyzer Tool

Download details: Exchange Server Best Practices Analyzer Tool: "Quick Description
The Microsoft Exchange Server Best Practices Analyzer Tool is designed for administrators who want to determine the overall health of their Exchange servers and topology. The tool scans Exchange servers and identifies items that do not conform to Microsoft best practices."

ONTOLICA

ONTOLICA' - Products: for SharePoint is a collection of web parts that will enhance your standard Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server 2003 installation. SharePoint Explorer
A free tool for exploring the object model of a SharePoint Portal 2003 installation. It allows you to view and modify all the properties, including the hidden ones, of virtual servers, sites, lists, document libraries, files, areas, indices, content sources and more. This tool is a must for SharePoint developers.

winapp technology smart tools for SharePoint

winapp technology smart tools for SharePoint: "echo for SharePoint provides rich features that allow you to easily replicate and deploy changes to web parts, SharePoint sites, settings, areas, lists, libraries, permissions, views, fields, alerts, metadata and more."

OfficeZealot Podcast

OfficeZealot Podcast On this OfficeZealot.com pod cast we interview SharePoint guru and MVP Jan Tielens. Jan consults, trains and develops on the SharePoint platform. Jan has also led a number of community efforts to extend SharePoint. This includes SmartParts and Workflow Lite for SharePoint. You can download the Pod Cast directly: OZ Pod Cast in MP3 Format. Go and lisen EROL

Graphical Wonder: Step-by-Step Tutorial on SharePoint Site Creation (Part 6)

Graphical Wonder: Step-by-Step Tutorial on SharePoint Site Creation (Part 6): "Download all files, HTML, CSS and Images used in the site creation here. As you can see this is the site we're going to be creating in SharePoint. "

Download details: Live Meeting 2005: Microsoft Office Live Meeting Intranet Portal SP2

Download details: Live Meeting 2005: Microsoft Office Live Meeting Intranet Portal SP2: "Quick Description of the Microsoft Office Live Meeting Intranet Portal SP2 makes it easier to deploy and manage Live Meeting."

A rounded corner header for WebPart : the power of CSS

A rounded corner header for WebPart : the power of CSS: "As you certainly know, the WebPart header is something very 'rectangular'", than it's possible to do a round one, the answer is a CSS, like say STRAMIT's (R. COMTE). Try it, that is a great dream EROL

BrightWork - Evaluation - Value Added Sharepoint

BrightWork - Evaluation - Value Added Sharepoint: "The following are 20 of the SharePoint work and project management extensions included with BrightWork." BrightWork takes full advantage of the awesome collaborative powers of WSS. All the normal WSS functionality works with BrightWork – nothing is lost. BrightWork extends WSS with solutions and tools that make it very easy to manage work and projects.

PortalWorX - ICONICS, Inc.

PortalWorX - ICONICS, Inc.: "PortalWorX' is based on Microsoft's newest SharePoint Server .NET technology. It allows users to easily create and manage custom manufacturing and business portals and visualization dashboards that provide single sign-on collaboration for optimization of key performance indicators (KPI). PortalWorX provides everything you need to create a portal for your real-time, historical plant and business information. PortalWorX requires virtually no administration, is easy to configure, and delivers data to those who need it, when they need it."

Download details: Business Intelligence Portal Sample Application for Microsoft Office 2003

Download details: Business Intelligence Portal Sample Application for Microsoft Office 2003: "Quick Description
Business intelligence portal sample application for Microsoft Office 2003 is an integrated, web-based OLAP solution that enables employees in an organization to create and share OLAP/Relational/XML based views, using SharePoint Portal Server, SQL Server Reporting Services, and Office Web components." See an exemple of this on this SPS And a screen shoot. EROL

IPattern.com (Maxim V. Karpov)

IPattern.com (Maxim V. Karpov): "That's it! you can configured Self-Serviced Password Management WebPart with 0 lines of code. Of course this solution is not as elaborate as a custom written code but with the amount of time it takes to enable this functionality I think it is well worth the minimal effort." Try it EROL

Download details: Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer v2.0 (for IT Professionals)

Download details: Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer v2.0 (for IT Professionals): "Quick Description
The Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer provides a streamlined method of identifying common security misconfigurations." EROL

Syntergy - Our Products - Overview

Syntergy - Our Products - Overview: "Syntergy provides products and services to support Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003."

Nouvelle release : Document Library Browser 1.2 pour SharePoint

Nouvelle release : Document Library Browser 1.2 pour SharePoint

Using Data From SharePoint 2003 Lists

Using Data From SharePoint 2003 Lists: "SharePoint 2003 has several web services that you can use to access information stored in a SharePoint site, all of which are located in the _vti_bin directory of a server running SharePoint 2003. Here�s a quick list of the services available (taken from Using Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services with the Microsoft Office System)"

FabriKam The Microsoft Office System Solutions Learning Platform

FabriKam The Microsoft Office System Solutions Learning Platform: "Microsoft is making available the FabriKam virtual machine image containing all FabriKam solutions and components as part of a fully-functional Microsoft Virtual PC 2004 environment. Developers can load this virtual PC, which runs Microsoft Windows Server 2003, SQL Server 2000, BizTalk Server 2004, Office 2003 Professional Edition, Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server, Visual Studio .NET 2003, and all of the custom solutions and components, and have an instant test environment for learning about these solutions and components. Microsoft is also providing extensive developer documentation about the solutions, the components, and the infrastructure so that developers can truly understand how to make these solutions their own."

Step/Step - An example of updating a Windows Sharepoint Server List from c#

Step/Step - An example of updating a Windows Sharepoint Server List from c#: "Open Visual Studio.NET 2003"

Download details: Using Excel 2003 to Manage Project Sites with Windows SharePoint Services 2003

Download details: Using Excel 2003 to Manage Project Sites with Windows SharePoint Services 2003: "Quick Description
Learn how to leverage Microsoft Office Excel 2003 and Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Tools for the Microsoft Office System (Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office) to create and manage Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services Web sites."

Shaun Dicker: Reporting on SharePoint usage

Shaun Dicker: Reporting on SharePoint usage: "Reporting on SharePoint usage
Need reports on your SharePoint Portal Server usage? And what about all those team sites? How about the most popular keywords used to search for stuff? Well, Microsoft released a reporting pack for SPS2003 earlier this year and I can kick myself for discovering this only now."

A nice Spanish SPS

Temas en el Portal
WSS ofrece la posibilidad de utilizar temas para cambiar rápidamente la presentación de sitios (otros tipos de letras, imágenes, colores, vea el articulo ´Creando Temas´). Pero el Portal de SharePoint (SPS) no ofrece esta funcionalidad. Con poco esfuerzo, los temas de WSS se pueden usar también en SPS. http://www.gavd.net/servers/default.aspx Go and read a lot of nice info EROL

Document Library Browser 1.2

Document Library Browser 1.2: "With this third webpart, you can quickly create a quick access in a horyzontal way (choose a lot of column) or a big treeview in vertical (just one column)
It's very useful also for create a some Document list map (try with 3 column) mixed with the waht's new Webpart on a new WebPart Page
Any other tips or example of usin the multiple WP are welcome too . Happy Document Treeview experience !" EROL

FrontPage Add-in Center Search Results

FrontPage Add-in Center Search Results: "Download the Microsoft FrontPage Add-in Center's add-ins and extend FrontPage by adding useful features, increasing user efficiency, and more. Ratings for add-ins submitted to the Add-in Center are determined by users and are not reflective of Microsoft's opinion of a particular add-in, company, or author. "

IdeSeg.com

IdeSeg.com: "imagine test your webparts without compile, imagine an VBA for sharepoint, that was what I imagined yesterday and this is here... I have desire to say Yeahhhhh" Thanks Carlos Segura Sanz.

Microsoft Office Visio 2003 Connector for the Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer (MBSA) 2.0

Microsoft Office Visio 2003 Connector for the Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer (MBSA) 2.0 Do you know the security status of your network? Get a visual. The Visio Connector for Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer (MBSA) lets you view the results of an MBSA scan in a clear, comprehensive Microsoft Office Visio 2003 network diagram. You must have both Visio 2003 and MBSA, a free security tool from Microsoft, for this connector to function. The Visio Connector for MBSA has been updated to support both MBSA 2.0 and MBSA 1.2.1.

How to easily and quickly install the WSS Applications templates

How to easily and quickly install the WSS Applications templates: "Run create_sites.bat and go get a coffee or two :-)
When you're back, you should be all set!
Enjoy..." Fun no ? EROL

Mark Bower : Just how important is SharePoint to Microsoft?

Mark Bower : Just how important is SharePoint to Microsoft?: "In this morning's keynote session Steven Sinofsky told how BillG has personally taken the role of Lead PM on the Windows SharePoint Services v3 User Experience team. If you are in any doubt about how strategically important this product is to Microsoft, that should give you some clue. And if you don't like what you see when you get to PDC, you'll know who to blame ;)"

SharePoint Style Designer

SharePoint Style Designer SharePoint uses Cascading Style Sheets to control the "look and feel" of the Portal and Team Sites. Sure you can spend a few hours modifying the CSS files by hand (or more quickly with FrontPage 2003), but wouldn't it be nice if there was a GUI that allowed you to see the changes you were making? This is where SPSkin can be used to quickly and easily generate the style sheets for your Portal and Team Sites. This product is currently in Beta. See and try the Beta on-line. EROL

Mart Muller's Sharepoint Weblog - Organice: the user friendly SharePoint experience

Mart Muller's Sharepoint Weblog - Organice: the user friendly SharePoint experience: "I attended a demo today from Cadac group showing Organice, a user friendly windows application for working with WSS sites. I think this is a good example of how to create a rich user experience using only standard SharePoint functionality."

Download details: Windows SharePoint Services Applications Template: Absence Request and Vacation Schedule Management

Download details: Windows SharePoint Services Applications Template: Absence Request and Vacation Schedule Management

Quick Description :
The Employee Absence Request and Vacation Schedule Management application for Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services provides a central place for managers and employees scheduling. You have tow differente view of the WSS befort and after, that a nice idee.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=8c580176-09b4-4001-9c2b-2ad5b7ec2a12&displaylang=en

And more Template


Just go on Microsoft Downloads:

Windows SharePoint Services Applications Template: Room And Equipment
Windows SharePoint Services Applications Template: Expense Report Portal
Windows SharePoint Services Applications Template: Event Planning
Windows SharePoint Services Applications Template: RFP Management
Windows SharePoint Services Applications Template: HR InfoPath Forms
Windows SharePoint Services Applications Template: Professional Services Contractual Setup
Windows SharePoint Services Applications Template: Loan Initiation Management
Windows SharePoint Services Applications Template: Change Management
Windows SharePoint Services Applications Template: Meeting Management
Windows SharePoint Services Applications Template: Classroom Management
Windows SharePoint Services Applications Template: Legal Document Review
Windows SharePoint Services Applications Template: Employee Scheduling
Windows SharePoint Services Applications Template: Marketing Communications Campaign Site
Windows SharePoint Services Applications Template: Employee Training
Windows SharePoint Services Applications Template: IT Developer
Windows SharePoint Services Applications Template: HelpDesk Dashboard
Windows SharePoint Services Applications Template: Board of Directors
Windows SharePoint Services Applications Template: Project Team Management

ManagementWindows SharePoint Services Applications Template: Competitive Intelligence

Have a good Time to tests... all EROL (see detail at IT - MICROSOFT).

SharePoint On-Demand WebCasts on SharePoint Hosting, Capacitiy Planning, Performance etc.

SharePoint On-Demand WebCasts on SharePoint Hosting, Capacitiy Planning, Performance etc.: "2 good On-Demand Webcasts at Microsoft Webcasts that detail how Microsoft hosts its SharePoint insfrastructure, how the manage capacity planning, performance, and detail out best practices for your SharePoint Portal Server infrastructure.
TechNet Webcast: How Microsoft IT Does SharePoint Portal Server Hosting (Level 300)
TechNet WebCast: SharePoint Performance and Capacity Planning Best practices and Lessons Learnt (Level 300). Here is another one worth looking at for your SharePoint Portal Server infrastructure for
Rich Taylor on TechNet WebCast: SharePoint Portal Server 2003: Best Practicies for an Implementation (Level 300)".

Eeeek!!! a Ghost!!!

Eeeek!!! a Ghost!!! Our friend Todd asserts that unghosting should be avoid at nearly all costs. He uses a Ghost Hunter tool from BlueDogLimited that allows you track down your unghosted pages and, in certain cases, reghost them.

Updated my list of links: 3rd Party Webparts & Tools

Updated my list of links: 3rd Party Webparts & Tools: "For those who aggregate my feed and do not often visit the blog iteself... I've updated my links and their groupings on the blog (can only seen the updates by visiting). The notable groupings are the FREE 3rd Party Webparts, SharePoint Tools, and SharePoint Resource Information.
http://www.sharepointblogs.com/mkruger".