6/29/2007

SharePoint Land : SharePoint Screen Casts and Demos

Bob Fox one of the SharePoint MVPs recently included some screencasts on his blog. Watch for other screencasts coming down road. He's listened to me, I bet he would listen to you if you had suggestions for him.

How To Screencast: Creating Web Applications
How To Screencast: SP Administrators Desktop Shortcuts
How To Screencast: MOSS Backup and Restore
How To Screencast: Personalization Links and Audiences
How To Screencast: Customizing Tabbed Navigation
How To Screencast: Working with Managed Paths

You may already know that screencasts are out there.

Came across Asif's (MCT) site http://sharepoint-screencasts.com/ (what a novel domain name!) nicely categorized as using a SharePoint site to post them. The list below is a snapshot of his list as of this posting... Watch it for a best management of MOSS. EROL

6/19/2007

Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Team Blog : Completing the "Fantastic 40" – 20 remaining application templates now available, plus more!

Completing the "Fantastic 40" – 20 remaining application templates now available, plus more!
As I had alluded to about 3 weeks ago, the 20 remaining Application Templates of the “Fantastic 40” are now available for download! These server admin templates for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 provide more enhanced functionality than the first 20 templates, including some with built-in workflows, heavily customized lists and libraries, and advanced data views. ... EROL

6/18/2007

Sharepoint Connections -- Home Page

November 5 - 8, 2007 Mandalay Bay Resort and CasinoLas Vegas, NV SharePoint Connections at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino Join thousands of Microsoft developers DBAs, and Admins and stay on top of the latest in SharePoint, ASP.NET, Visual Studio, SQL Server, .NET Framework 3.0, and more!

Train with Microsoft architects and top notch industry speakers and also network with your colleagues to build a valuable resource of peers Co-located with SharePoint Connections this fall will be: Microsoft® ASP.NET Connections, Visual Studio Connections, Mobile Connections, SQL Server Connections, Windows Connections and Exchange Connections, each with their own set of tracks and speakers. As an attendee of SharePoint Connections you may attend the sessions at any of the concurrent events.

6/16/2007

Websites built on MOSS 2007

The list of public websites (from Angus Logan's Portals Blog) which are built on MOSS 2007 from the left hand side of my blog to this post.

Alphamosaik (Partner - France, Multilingual)
HedKandi
ShareView.co.uk
CORGI (UK)
speakTECH
Paul Mitchell
Tyler Butler
Microsoft-Oracle
ThreeWill
EmpowerID Demo
Oasys (French)
InfoCision
Ruijin Hospital Group
UCB (Une societe de BNP PARIBAS)
Satama
Reveu-d-Etudes (French)
Formextern (French)
Cegos (Professional Services) (French)
Sharesquared
FIFTEEN
Guildford Grammar School website by Vivid Group, the first MOSS 2007 site to go live in Australia!
Australian Innovation (2007 Innovation Festival) by Eclipse Group
JTC Corporation (Singapore Government)
APAC SharePoint Conference 2007 by Microsoft Australia and Unique World
AATorque (New Zealand bro)
Wise Woman by CodeAndContent
Komatsu (by UniqueWorld)
Ditributed Logic Platform (Partner)
MyTalk (Southern Cross by HotHouse)
Hawaiin Air
Performance Food Group (by Dominion Digital)
Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust (AA Compliant)
Direct Energy
RBS Lynk (FSI)
McGrathNicol (by Dimension Data)
cScape
Games for Windows
WesternAustralia.com
Tourism Western Australia
Microsoft Flight Simulator Insider
Architecture Forum (Australia)
South East Water Limited (by SDM)
LivePoint (Partner)
EchoTechnology (by LivePoint)
Migros
Glu Mobile Games
Virtual TechEd 2007

Pierre Erol GIRAUDY
Pdt Club MOSS
http://clubmoss2007.org/

Excel 2007 can now do two-way sync to a SharePoint List


In Excel 2003 you were able to sync amendments both from a Excel 2003 spreadsheet to a SharePoint List and from a SharePoint List to an Excel 2003 spreadsheet. But in Excel 2007 this is no longer the case...

Well it was until Microsoft released an Excel 2007 Add-in.

This is a must install if you are upgrading to Office 2007 from Office 2003, otherwise your users will cry.
The Excel 2007 Add-in, can be downloaded from: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=25836e52-1892-4e17-ac08-5df13cfc5295&DisplayLang=en

There is also an accompaning MSDN article "Publishing and Synchronizing Excel 2007 Tables to SharePoint Lists": http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb462636(office.11).aspx

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P. EROL GIRAUDY

6/14/2007

White paper: Information architecture in Office SharePoint Server

the goal of this paper is to communicate the logical approach that might occur during development and deployment. Many features in this paper are not applicable or available when using Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0.

P. Erol GIRAUDY

6/07/2007

Forefront Security for SharePoint Virtual Lab


Forefront Security for SharePoint is an on-premise solution that provides comprehensive protection for SharePoint document libraries. Customers who purchase Forefront Security for SharePoint to protect Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 or Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services version 3.0, will also be licensed to use Antigen for SharePoint to protect Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server 2003 and Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 environments. Try the Lab and read the PDF

Event ID: 1032329673

Language(s): English.
Product(s): Security,SharePoint Portal Server,Windows Server.
Audience(s): IT Professional.
Duration: 90 Minutes
Start Date: Wednesday, February 07, 2007 12:00 AM

P. Erol GIRAUDY

6/06/2007

APAC SharePoint Conference 2007

"Download session presentations and resources
Thank you to everyone who attended the APAC SharePoint Conference. The webcasts, blogs, wikis, session presentations and resources found here have been taken from the recent APAC SharePoint Conference 2007. Feel free to browse and review the content and download for your future reference.Download session presentations and resources
Thank you to everyone who attended the APAC SharePoint Conference. The webcasts, blogs, wikis, session presentations and resources found here have been taken from the recent APAC SharePoint Conference 2007. Feel free to browse and review the content and download for your future reference."

P. Erol GIRAUDY
http://clubmoss2007.org

6/05/2007

Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Team Blog : SharePoint Conference 2008 to be held on March 2-6, 2008 in Seattle!


It's official! The SharePoint Conference 2008 will be held on March 2-6, 2008 in Seattle at the Washington State Trade and Convention Center.
What You Can Expect:
Keynote sessions by senior Microsoft executives
60+ sessions across several diverse tracks
Hands-on and instructor led labs
Go to http://www.mssharepointconference.com/ and submit your e-mail address, so you can be notified with important updates like when the conference website goes live on MOSS 2007.
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P. Erol GIRAUDY
Pdt Club MOSS

Download details: MOSS 2007 Management Pack

"This Management Pack quickly brings any failures or configuration problems to your attention, which increases the availability and performance of Office SharePoint Server 2007. This Management Pack also provides the knowledge and expertise you need to leverage Operations Manager 2007 and get an immediate return on your investment.

Requires OpsMgr 2007 MOM 2005 Backward Compatibility MP Update) 6.0.5000.1 (or higher) Feature Bullet Summary"...
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P. Erol GIRAUDY
Pdt Club MOSS
http://clubmoss2007.org/

Download details: WSS 3.0 Management Pack

The Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Management Pack monitors events placed in the application event log.

This Management Pack highlights events that might indicate possible service outages or configuration problems, so you can quickly take corrective or preventive actions. This Management Pack also provides the knowledge and expertise you need to leverage System Center Operations Manger 2007 and get an immediate return on your investment. Requires OpsMgr 2007 MOM 2005 Backward Compatibility MP Update) 6.0.5000.1 (or higher) Feature Bullet Summary:

• Monitors whether the application pool account has insufficient permission to add or read users from the Active Directory
• Monitors for issues arising from improper configuration of the authentication provider
• Monitors backup failures and recycle bin quotas
• Monitors for connectivity problems with computers running SQL server
• Monitors for issues arising from the deployment and topology of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
• Monitors events related to the health of the tracing infrastructure
• Monitors connectivity with the SMTP server
• Monitors whether the application pool account has problems writing to disk or a registry key
• Monitors connectivity with Windows Rights Management Services servers
• Monitors performance counters
• Monitors events that are critical to the sound operation of the search service • Monitors Windows service availability
• Monitors events associated with the Timer service
• Monitors events associated with failures to load event handlers and safe control assembly paths Management Pack Release History: Initial Release for OpsMgr 2007 6/1/2007 Version 6.0.5000.0
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P. Erol GIRAUDY
Pdt Club MOSS
http://clubmoss2007.org

6/04/2007

Hiding Authoring Controls from Anonymous Users

This post is the first of a three-part series on building a blog in SharePoint from the ground up. In this series, we consider topics related to access control and anonymous access in particular, user interface customization and blogging from Word 2007.

We will also provide how-to guidelines for less-than-intuitive tasks. The access control and user interface customization topics are applicable to any SharePoint site.

http://www.sharepointplatform.com/teamblog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=31
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P. Erol GIRAUDY
Pdt Club MOSS
http://clubmoss2007.org

SharePoint 2007 Installation Step by Step

SPStuff : SharePoint 2007 Installation Step by Step

Nice work for an instal.
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P. Erol GIRAUDY
Pdt Club MOSS
http://clubmoss2007.org

6/03/2007

SharePoint Blogs Part I: Blog Access Control, Built-In Groups & Anonymous Users - SharePoint Platform Team Blog

This post is the first of a three-part series on building a blog in SharePoint from the ground up. In this series, we consider topics related to access control and anonymous access in particular, user interface customization and blogging from Word 2007.

We will also provide how-to guidelines for less-than-intuitive tasks.

The access control and user interface customization topics are applicable to any SharePoint site.
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P. Erol GIRAUDY
Pdt Club MOSS
http://clubmoss2007.org

Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Team Blog : HiSoftware AccRepair for SharePoint Designer and AccMonitor bring accessibility compliance to SharePoint based websites

Since the widely referenced Improvements in Accessibility blog entry was posted here over a year, we have received numerous inquiries about how to further improve accessibility of SharePoint based websites up to the point of being fully compliant with standards such as the U.S. government’s Section 508 and the W3C’s Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 1.0.

Although we don’t have any updates beyond the aforementioned blog entry to announce right now, a few of our partners have been successful in helping customers implement accessibility compliant websites such as Wise Woman, and Plymouth Hospitals.

The SharePoint product group recognizes the importance of accessibility, especially for Internet facing public websites that have been built with SharePoint technology. To provide a channel for dialogue between our customers and partners with us as well as amongst themselves, I’m pleased to announce the creation of the Microsoft hosted SharePoint – Accessibility online forum.

With HiSoftware’s announcement last week of AccRepair for SharePoint Designer and in conjunction with AccMonitor, many customers will be able to design and implement accessibility compliant SharePoint based websites without costly consulting services or development resources. The following guest blog entry is written by Robert B. Yonaitis, Chief Technology Officer at HiSoftware.
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P. Erol GIRAUDY
Pdt Club MOSS
http://clubmoss2007.org

Office SharePoint Server at Microsoft: 12TB and counting

MScott St. Jean is a program manager in Microsoft IT.

He makes sure that the largest SharePoint installation in the world keeps working. Mark Swenson is also a program manager in Microsoft IT.

His job is making sure that our intranet search is working, including things like making sure people can't find documents that they shouldn't have rights to. I sat down with them to talk about what it takes to migrate, and index, and upgrade 12 terabytes of data to the latest version.

If that wasn’t challenging enough, they started working with the products before they were the latest version, when they were still under development.

Their experience shook out a lot of bugs that were addressed before the real world had to deal with them. In addition to deployment and migration, we chatted about the backup and restore procedures for this multiple terabyte installation, and what happens when you tell everyone in the org to go ahead and create their own SharePoint sites. (in an outtake that I, um, took out, I asked the guys for their picks for the SuperBowl, and got one of the team names wrong. minus 100 cool points for me).
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P. Erol GIRAUDY
Pdt Club MOSS
http://clubmoss2007.org

6/02/2007

Attending TechEd 2007 US

At Tech·Ed 2007, IT professionals and developers from around the world are coming together to find out how Microsoft and its partners are tackling the toughest challenges in computing, and to get the tools and training to make an immediate impact for their businesses. Learn more about what’s in store for Tech·Ed 2007.

Watch the news and check out techedbloggers here:

http://www.virtualteched.com/Pages/default.aspx

P. Erol GIRAUDY
Pdt Club MOSS
http://clubmoss2007.org

6/01/2007

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Receives U.S. Department of Defense 5015.2 Certification

William Baer : Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Receives U.S. Department of Defense 5015.2 Certification

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 has received U.S. Department of Defense 5015.2 certification. The 5015.2 standard on which the Department of Defense certification is based serves as the benchmark for government and corporate organizations that manage records and documents and is endorsed by the National Archives and Records Administration.

http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2007/may07/05-29SharePointDoDPR.mspx

P. Erol GIRAUDY
Pdt Club MOSS
http://clubmoss2007.org

Live Listings

Automatically Find and Remove Dead or Duplicate Links Across Your Entire SharePoint Portal
This powerful feature is hindered by SharePoint Portal 2003's failure to remove old or expired area listings in a timely fashion.

This will result in a "404 Page Not Found" error for your users. echo LiveListings for SharePoint is a smart server based rich tool for Microsoft’s SharePoint Portal 2003 server that regularly scans your portal to automaticaly clean up dead or duplicate area listings (or links) in your portal.

That replaces hours of tedious manual work with a simple automated process.
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P. Erol GIRAUDY
Pdt Club MOSS
http://clubmoss2007.org/

Deploying and Optimizing a SharePoint Web Part That Calls Excel Web Services

Deploying and Optimizing a SharePoint Web Part That Calls Excel Web Services: "Deploying and Optimizing a SharePoint Web Part That Calls Excel Web Services
Summary: Learn how to deploy a Web Part by using deployment CABs, and how to improve the appearance and configurability of a Web Part. (10 printed pages)
Dan Battagin, Microsoft Corporation"

EROL

Writing a Filter Provider Web Part for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0

Writing a Filter Provider Web Part for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: "Writing a Filter Provider Web Part for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0"

Read It :

Introduced in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, filter Web Parts use the Web Part connection support to provide filter criteria from one Web Part (the "provider" Web Part) to another Web Part (the "consumer" Web Part). This makes it possible for developers to build more sophisticated applications incorporating the 2007 Microsoft Office system by enabling users to provide search and filter criteria.

To learn how to package and deploy the Geographic Region filter provider Web Part created in this Visual How To, and how to improve the appearance and configurability of a Web Part, see Deploying and Optimizing a SharePoint Web Part That Calls Excel Web Services.

Explore It :

Filter Web Parts Overview

Windows SharePoint Services Web Part Infrastructure

Walkthrough: Writing a Simple Filter Consumer Web Part Sample

ITransformableFilterValues Interface (Microsoft.SharePoint.WebPartPages)

EROL