MSDN Webcast: SharePoint Server 2007 Web Content Management for Developers and Designers (Level 200)

The Web content management technology in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 represents the first major Microsoft release of Web site content management tools since 2002. Join this webcast to see how these new content management tools make it easier for developers and designers to perform tasks such as creating field controls, creating and customizing master pages, and creating page layouts. Learn how you can customize the HTML Editor and Page Edit Toolbar, and standardize authoring rules, such as specifying styles within field controls. We also provide guidelines for determining which tools are appropriate for developing your Web content management sites, in particular Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 and Office SharePoint Designer 2007.
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SharePoint Server 2007 Sample: Web Part That Calls Excel Web Services

Brief Description : This download contains a sample solution that demonstrates how to create a Web Part that calls Excel Web Services to perform custom calculations. It includes a deployment package sample that can be deployed to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.
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From Lawrence Liu's Report from the Inside

4 new screencast-based demos for MOSS; more hints about SharePointPedia
Coincidentally, here are 4 recently posted screencasts of MOSS features, which were developed by the SharePoint User Assistance group, and there may very well be more forthcoming:
· Configure a SharePoint Server 2007 site to receive e-mail
· Deploy an administrator-approved form template
· Add a library to a Records Center site
· Enable Excel Services and data connections for a SharePoint team site
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OK, at the risk of looking stupid… has anyone managed to actually locate the MOSS 2007 download on MSDN?

Download MOSS 2007 : If you mean the MSDN Subscription, it’s not there yet. It, along with Professional Plus Suite will be there by NOV-30.

http://office.microsoft.com/fr-fr/downloads/default.aspx

Before, have a nice tests...
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Coming Soon: New Application Templates for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0

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Microsoft Tech·Ed: IT Forum has now concluded

Thank you to everyone and MICROSOFT who made this year's event such a huge success with over 4,700 IT pro's benefiting from a week packed with previews of the latest tools, demos and hands-on training.

Keep up to date with the latest event news in 2007! Will be in Barcelona again... For me that was a great even, a lot of contacts, and answers as an ATE. I realy like this TechEd, a meeting point interactif, in fact a SharePoint ;+)
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Capacity and Performance Planning for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS)

Luca Bandinelli

This session covers techniques to determine your capacity and performance needs, and how to plan your MOSS 2007 architecture to meet those needs. This session also cover learnings from TAP and talk to test data.

Luca Bandinelli is member of the Office 2007 Rapid Deployment Team in MCS and he is in Microsoft Consulting Services since 2000. Luca is specialized on the Microsoft Information Worker platform and in collaborative applications on the .NET platform.
As a Senior Consultant , he's usually to work with customers and partners helping them to design and build solutions. Luca also works closely with internal Microsoft Product and Marketing groups.

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Architecting SharePoint Solutions

Bill English, Luca Bandinelli, Richard Riley
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This session discuss how to architect scalable and manageable SharePoint solutions An author and educator specializing in SharePoint Products and Technologies.

Bill English (MCSE, MCSA, MVP) is an industry leader on this exciting product set from Microsoft. Since 2000. Bill has authored 10 books on Exchange and SharePoint products and is currently working on two books, both with Microsoft Press on SharePoint Products and Technologies.

Luca Bandinelli is member of the Office 2007 Rapid Deployment Team in MCS and he is in Microsoft Consulting Services since 2000. Luca is specialized on the Microsoft Information Worker platform and in collaborative applications on the .NET platform. . As a Senior Consultant , he's usually to work with customers and partners helping them to design and build solutions. Luca also works closely with internal Microsoft Product and Marketing groups.

Richard is a Technical Product Manager for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server. He is responsible for driving Technical Readiness both within and outside of Microsoft and specializes in the Enterprise Content Management and Search features of the product. He has 6+ years experience at Microsoft working as consultant in Microsoft Consultancy Services and as a Technical Specialist in sales. Richard has 9+ years industry experience and is a frequent speaker at Microsoft Technical Events.

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Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) and Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server (SPS): Upgrade and Migration

Bill English make a great presentation of this session covers the upgrade process from WSS version 2 to version 3 and SPS 2003 to Office SharePoint Server 2007.

We learn the different upgrade options, as well as how to prepare your SharePoint deployment today for upgrade. An author and educator specializing in SharePoint Products and Technologie.
3 Methods are show, and a lots of good lessons. I do some screen shoot (photos). Avalable in a few days. I do a presentation for the Club SPS MOSS FRANCE www.clubsps.org

Bill English (MCSE, MCSA, MVP) is an industry leader on this exciting product set from Microsoft. Since 2000, Bill has authored 10 books on Exchange and SharePoint products and is currently working on two books, both with Microsoft Press on SharePoint Products and Technologies. Bill is the co-owner of Mindsharp (www.mindsharp.com), a company that offers top-notch educational opportunities on the SharePoint platform. He has presented at Comdex, The Microsoft Exchange Conference, TechMentor, TechEd, Advisor Live and Networld Interop. You can find his blog at www.mindsharpblogs.com. Bill lives in Minnesota with his wife and two children where he enjoys boating, photography and golf.

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Announcing the RTW of WSS and Office SharePoint Server 2007 Standard and Enterprise Evaluation!

It is my pleasure to announce the RTW of WSS 3.0 and Office SharePoint Server 2007. Please read the all information on the details page.

Note: Installing Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 over any beta or trial edition of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 is not supported.

Links to download the RTW versions:

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 x86 English Evaluation

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 French evaluation...

SharePoint Designer will be on MSDN Subscriber Downloads by the 30th. We’re still working on making an eval version available on MSCOM Downloads – long story. Same for MOSS x64 eval.

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Here are the Product Keys you will need when installing SharePoint Server 2007 :

SharePoint Server Standard Trial: XJMKW-8T7PR-76XT6-RTC8G-VVWCQ

SharePoint Server Enterprise Trial: F2JB-W4PD-JCHK-XTJY-CKRP-T2J9D

Here's are the links:

"Upgrading from Office SharePoint Server 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh to Release Version": http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=78039

Step by Step Instructions (with Screenshots) Office SharePoint Services B2TR to Release by Shane Young (SharePoint MVP)

"Upgrading from Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Beta 2 Technical Refresh to Release Version": http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=78040

"Upgrading from Office Forms Server 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh to Release Version": http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=78041

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From the Tech-ED 2006 : Disaster Recovery for SharePoint Technologies

Bill English Learn best practices of data protection for your organization.

This session covers the pros and cons of Windows SharePoint Services (WSSv3) Backup/Restore, SQL 2005 - only backup/restore, SQL log-shipping, and the new Volume SnapShot (VSS) writer. Bill start on the fonction of the BIN.

Also, we learn how to take advantage of our new version 3 content recovery features, including the recycle bin, versioning, events, and fine-grained content migration. An author and educator specializing in SharePoint Products and Technologies, MOSS 2007.

Bill English (MCSE, MCSA, MVP) is an industry leader on this exciting product set from Microsoft.

Since 2000, Bill has authored 10 books on Exchange and SharePoint products and is currently working on two books, both with Microsoft Press on SharePoint Products and Technologies.

Bill is the co-owner of Mindsharp ( www.mindsharp.com ), a company that offers top-notch educational opportunities on the SharePoint platform.

He has presented at Comdex, The Microsoft Exchange Conference, TechMentor, TechEd, Advisor Live and Networld Interop. You can find his blog at www.mindsharpblogs.com. Bill lives in Minnesota with his wife and two children where he enjoys boating, photography and golf.

Other point and Photos be comments at the meeting of the club the 15th of December at PARIS.
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From the Tech-Ed 2006

Luca Bandinelli (from Italia) manage a nice meeting on this subject, this interactive session discussing how to deal with multilingual scenarios using MOSS. Very interssante presentation of the "MUI" and the limite. And also how to use the Web Parts, Listes, and Controles.

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Language Pack
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=36ee1bf0-652c-4e38-b247-f29b3eefa048&DisplayLang=en

You drill into the capabilities provided by 2007 SharePoint Products and Technologies to design, build and support various multi-lingual solutions and give you guidance on features provided out of the box involved in these scenarios.

Luca Bandinelli is member of the Office 2007 Rapid Deployment Team in MCS and he is in Microsoft Consulting Services since 2000. Luca is specialized on the Microsoft Information Worker platform and in collaborative applications on the .NET platform. He just finish a White Paper on this subject, I think it will be on-line soon.

Two things important, first wait for all the package, and tests in first.
Other point and Photos be comments at the meeting of the club the 15th of December.

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From the Tech-ED IT Forum 2006 MOSS and SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services Integration Explained

The 2007 Microsoft Office System: SharePoint and SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services Integration Explained (an excellent presentation).

Carolyn Chau ,

If you are looking to integrate rich enterprise reporting and business intelligence dashboards into your Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS2007) environment that the solution!

I learn how to extend the new MOSS2007 platform with SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services to provide portal sites optimized for all reporting needs.

Topics include configuring Reporting Services for a SharePoint environment, security best practices, programmability and integrating with Excel Services and Report Center via the ReportViewer Web Part.

Carolyn Chau is a Program Manager in the Reporting Services team at Microsoft. Her focus is on bringing rich ad hoc, end user reporting capabilities to Reporting Services.

With 10 years of project management, database design and implementation, and business intelligence application design, implementation, and training experience, Carolyn has lead the development of many business intelligence solutions, especially focusing on corporate performance management, internet usage and e-commerce behavior.

Before joining Microsoft, Carolyn was Senior Consultant at InfoDynamics, LLC, a consulting firm specializing in data warehousing design, implementation and education.

I have done a lot of screen shoot (I do manage an article on this subject later and a presentation for the French MOSS Club in Paris the 15th of december 2006).

By the eay, I see and talk with Bill English.
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From the Tech-ED 2006 : Office SharePoint 2007 Management

By Joel Oleson (after we go to see a presentation of SQL Reporting servies0.

This demonstration walk through the 3 tiered structure of management in SharePoint showing off the power and delegation providing levers for the IT Pro to control and govern the environment.

The first tier shows off the power that a Site Administrator has in auditing and controlling content.

The second tier shows off administration of profiles and audience management with the ability to delegate this to a business or department.

The third tier shows off the central administration interface the powerful SharePoint site with tasks, topologies, events, and reports.

As senior technical product manager for Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server, Joel Oleson is responsible for IT professional evangelism.

Joel focuses on promoting the value of SharePoint by speaking at Global Microsoft conferences like Tech Ed, IT Forum, SharePoint Advisor and SharePoint Connections. He is a major advocate for enterprise deployments of SharePoint, speaking on topics such as management, performance, scale, disaster recovery, and high availability.

Joel also makes frequent presentations on extranet and security issues. His best practices and whitepapers are common references in many businesses worldwide. Before coming a technical product manager, Joel spent 5 years in Microsoft IT desgning and managing Microsoft's corporate SharePoint Tech deployment.

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Managing SharePoint: Past, Present and Future Best Practices and Lessons Learned

Presented by: Andre Heymann and Joel Oleson

A great moment on MOSS 2007 and the Migration, a lot of lessons on our experiences.

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  Would you like to know the best-practices for operating SharePoint 2003 and avoid the common pit-falls?
• Want to know what Microsoft learnt from SharePoint 2003 to shape SharePoint 2007?
• Would you like to know how to migrate to SharePoint 2007 to benefit from the learning?
  
  

Read this article it's an introduction.

This Pre-Conference where we take you on a journey from SharePoint 2003 to SharePoint 2007 and along the way share with you the best practices and lessons learned from Microsoft IT and our early adopter SharePoint 2007 customers.

SESSIONS:
Session 1: Lessons learned from SharePoint 2003
In this session we take a look at SharePoint 2003, the common pit-falls, how to address them in the real-world and how this helped Microsoft shape SharePoint 2007. The migration was possible, but if the custom. was done with FrontPage 2003 on SPS 2003 we loose a lot of parts of the design.

Session 2: Upgrade and Migration to SharePoint 2007
Learn how to upgrade and migrate to SharePoint 2007 in the most effective way possible – from those who have already done it! In this session we share with you best practices and lessons learned from Microsoft IT and our early adopter SharePoint 2007 customers.

Session 3: Global Deployment and Performance (recommendations and best practices)
Capacity planning, performance, and scaling out to serve Microsoft's global enterprise of over 450 field offices has taught Microsoft's engineers a few things. Learn how to scale to Terabytes of content in multi cluster SQL servers, optimize your content databases, and understand system sizing.

Session 4: SharePoint Governance and Policy (recommendations and best practices)
Learn how to govern and manage your infrastructure through the 3 tiered management structures of site settings, shared services and central administration. Walk away armed with knowledge of administration with auditing policies, delegated administration, and understanding of how Microsoft IT uses these methods to manage their global deployment of more than 100,000 site collections.


Speaker Biographies


Joel Oleson
TechnologistMicrosoft Corporation
Joel joined Microsoft’s IT Collaboration Team in Dec 2000 to work on a new set of web collaboration products later named "SharePoint."
He is currently employed as a technologist, a senior engineering resource for Microsofts Intranet. In the past couple of years he’s focused on architecture and design for Microsoft’s Intranet in a strong partnership with both of the SharePoint product groups.
Some of his recent projects concerned revamping the Microsoft Corporate Portal, MSWeb, and regional portal architecture. The solution involved Office Portal Server search and indexing shared services, Windows SharePoint Service and Project Server storing multiple terrabytes of content on large SQL clusters and web farms across key regional deployments supporting Microsoft users world wide.

Previous experiences include systems integration work for a large telecom working on Intranets, extranets, internet sites and N-tiered web applications. Before that he worked on the development team of Slate.com a Microsoft based MSN property engineering and testing the daily rollout of one of the largest pure play online political magazines. His experience out of college began by working for an enterprise solution reseller programming high-end web based enterprise applications.

Photos and Diagrams are comming later (security from TE).

I do a conf. on this subject the 15th of December at the meeting of the Club SPS MOSS FRANCE.

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MS Office Compatibility Pack for Office 2007 Files (Open, Edit, Save Office 2007 files in Office 2000,XP, 2003...)

Greg's Cool of the Day :
MS Office Compatibility Pack for Office 2007 Files (Open, Edit, Save Office 2007 files in Office 2000,XP, 2003...)
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2007 Office System Document: Understanding Workflow in Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services and the 2007 Microsoft Office System

Brief Description : In this white paper, learn the basics of the Windows Workflow Foundation, how this technology has been integrated into both Windows SharePoint Services and the 2007 Office System, and how to benefit from workflows applied to business processes.
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SharePoint Solutions Blog: Walkthrough - Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Tools: Visual Studio 2005 Extensions

SharePoint Solutions Blog: Walkthrough - Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Tools: Visual Studio 2005 Extensions
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Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Beta 2 (All Language Packages and Deployment Documents)

Note: Language codes are defined as follows
DE : German - EN : English - ES : Spanish - FR : French - JP : Japanese
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