10/29/2005

Windows SharePoint Services: IntelliSense XML File

This download includes an update of the XML file used to produce IntelliSense® information for the Microsoft® Windows® SharePoint® Services managed object model within the Microsoft Visual Studio® .NET IDE. You must put this XML file in the same directory as Microsoft.SharePoint.dll for IntelliSense to function. This update includes new information about types and members that have been added for advanced extranet support and for migrating user records between domain accounts in Windows SharePoint Services Service Pack 2 (*).
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10/24/2005

SharePoint Design Tip: Condense those My Site Styles


So instead, utilize some CSS code to take this step out. Replace all of the code in OWSPERS.css with three Import tags:
@import url(ows.css);@import url(sps.css);@import url(menu.css);

This will import in all of the code from those three files, freeing you of multiple location updates and of one very, very long css file. From here you can add on any custom styles or changes for personal sites and manage it much easier.

The order of the @import tags is important, you want to keep SPS pulling after OWS. OWS is for portals and WSS sites, while SPS is only for portals and has some overriding attributes.
Great tip! :) no?
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10/20/2005

Deployment and Customization Best Practices for Windows SharePoint Services

This document provides answers to some of the most frequently asked questions (FAQs) that IT professionals have about Windows SharePoint Services. The questions and answers will be of specific interest to system architects, implementers and operations staff who have deployed, are deploying or are evaluating the deployment of Windows SharePoint Services in a medium or large size organization.

Built on the Windows Server 2003 platform, Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services makes it easy for IT professionals to implement a dependable, scaleable infrastructure that enables teams to create Web sites for information sharing and document collaboration, using straightforward administrative tools and services. In addition to providing Information Workers more effective information sharing, collaboration and discoverability capabilities, Windows SharePoint Services, when deployed within business units and across organizations, benefits IT departments and administrators in the following ways....

Windows SharePoint Services enables organizations to deploy and customize a rich environment for effective information sharing and collaboration that is integrated with Microsoft Office, enables teams to stay connected and productive, and increases the efficiency of team processes.
IT professionals can improve the planning and deployment of Windows SharePoint Services in their organizations by following the lessons learned and best practices documented in this white paper.

These are based on the experiences of Microsoft customers who have deployed Windows SharePoint Services (see step by step and Microsoft® Windows® SharePoint® Services Inside Out).
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Move Site Settings to Modify Shared Page


Froñ Patrick Tisseghem's Blog [MVP SharePoint]
End of last year I had a posting copying a good tip from Jim Duncan about moving the different administrative links in a WSS top level bar to the Modify Shared Page menu.

Today, I got the question again from one of our developers. The goal was to have a very very simple way of adding it to a SharePoint installation and have all the sites having that behaviour. So, after some investigation, I came up with the following. Do know that it is kind of a very quick thingie I have done here but maybe some people want to finish it and make it more generic and flexible :-).

Follow these steps:
Open the ONET.XML in the C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\60\TEMPLATE\1033\STS\XML folder. Remove the NavBar links... and read the article ;+)
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Active Directory WebManager Professional Edition

Password Manager :
It is with great pleasure that we announce the release of our new Password Manager suite of products. The Password Manager suite allows end-users to reset forgotten passwords and unlock their locked-out accounts while seamlessly integrating into your existing environment. Users may change their passwords and enroll in a Password Recovery Service from Microsoft SharePoint, a standard web interface, Outlook Web Access, or the Windows logon screen (coming soon). Password Manager provides a flexible solution that eliminates number one source of help desk call -- password resets.

Active Directory WebManager Professional Edition is a powerful web-based user and group management tool designed for use by dedicated network administrators. Click for Video
Active Directory WebManager Enterprise Edition See product details Active Directory WebManager Professional EditionSee product details Active Directory WhitePages See product detailsSharePoint Explorer Server Edition See product details

and http://www.thedotnetfactory.com/SPExplorer.aspx
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10/18/2005

SharePoint Portal Server 2003 Service Pack 2

Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Portal Server 2003 Service Pack 2 (SP2) contains significant security enhancements, in addition to stability and performance improvements. Some of the fixes included with SP2 have been previously released as separate updates. This service pack combines them into one update. And read this : http://support.microsoft.com/kb/887623

When you install the service pack, no user dialog box appears after the service pack is successfully installed.
•After you install the service pack, restart the server for the upgrade to complete successfully.
•The database schema is modified when you install the service pack. Therefore, any backups that were taken when the server was running the original release version of the following two programs cannot be restored to a server that has SharePoint Portal Server 2003 SP2 installed:
•Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003
•Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003 Service Pack 1 (SP1)
•SharePoint Portal Server 2003 supports IBM Lotus Notes R6 only if you install SharePoint Portal Server 2003 SP2.
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HowTo: Create a Date Time Web Part





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10/07/2005

web part based RSS generator

The Syndication Generator for Windows® SharePoint® Services is a web part based RSS generator. Help is available via the Web Part menu. To view the help file included with the setup package, click here. Setup executable: v2.0.0.11 Assembly: v2.0.0.0
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chjohn: New improved SharePoint Recycle Bin released!!! (must have)

Unfortunately, this does not allow users to restore their own documents ... however it does make the process of recovering a document much simpler. This should significantly improve IT’s ability to meet SLAs or reduce them. Great for IT and great for users.”....

There have been some third party solutions that have helped with this issue :
Nintex SmartLibrary is a cost-effective solution that extends Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server 2003 and Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services to provide advanced document management features.
- a doc Smart Library from Nintex

- an article of Maxim V. Karpov and Eric Schoonover on
Add a Recycle Bin to Windows SharePoint Services for Easy Document Recovery
Because files deleted from WSS are not recoverable without lots of pain and administrator intervention, recycle bin functionality on the WSS document libraries is a welcome customization. This safety net is important to both portal users and administrators since trying to reload a portal backup for only a few documents is tedious and often results in the loss of more data than it saves.

Mindsharp's FREE Deleted Items Document Library Custom List Template

The purpose of this template is to enable information office workers to self-restore documents that are incidentally deleted from a protected document library using the document library interface in the browser where the deletion occurred.

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10/04/2005

MS Project IFilter

This IFilter lets you index and search Microsoft Project documents. It extends Microsoft Indexing Service to extract content including Tasks and Resources descriptions and project-level metadata from MPP files.
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Windows SharePoint Services Language Template Pack Service Pack 2 (SP2)

Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services helps your team share and manage information and documents in a Web site. Language packs allow the creation of Web sites in different languages; multiple language packs can be installed on the same server. With this language template pack you can create Web sites in languages other than the default language selected at installation. Note You do not need to download a language pack for the language you selected at installation.
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