7/31/2007

Download details: SharePoint Server 2007 Document: Microsoft and EMC - Managing Content Across an Enterprise

The Enterprise Content Management platforms from Microsoft and Documentum EMC can be deployed in different ways to address a range of content management requirements within a digitally driven enterprise. Working together, Microsoft and Documentum EMC make it easy for their customers to develop a content ecosystem that enhances business value. This paper describes the options available to customers who want to take advantage of both Microsoft and Documentum EMC solutions. Download details: SharePoint Server 2007 Document: Microsoft and EMC - Managing Content Across an Enterprise

Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Team Blog : Thank you for a banner year for SharePoint!

Thank you for a banner year for SharePoint!
Wow! What a fantastic year for SharePoint products and technologies! For those of you who haven’t seen the news yet, we just announced that SharePoint Server passed the US$800 million mark for revenue for Microsoft’s previous fiscal year (FY07) that ended on June 30th. In fact, SharePoint Server is the fastest growing server products in Microsoft’s history. Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU for your continued support, advocacy, and adoption of SharePoint.
With these great results, it's time for a little nostalgia and some looking ahead. I have personally been working on and off the SharePoint business since 1998 – anyone remember Tahoe? When we decided to start development on SharePoint Portal Server 2001, it was a big step forward for Microsoft. We were making a big bet that collaboration, portals, content management and enterprise search would become mainstream and gain the same kind of broad acceptance that personal productivity tools such as Microsoft Office had experienced. We were growing the Exchange Server business, Outlook had just released and was growing in popularity, and Windows NT 4.0 and SQL Server were growing in enterprise usage. SharePoint was the new kid on the block, and we thought we had a winner because we had listened closely to what customers and partners were telling us and tried to put SharePoint to work solving the business problems they described.
Fast forward 6 years to 2007 and 85 million user licenses later, SharePoint has exceeded our wildest expectations in terms of growth, and I hear from customers almost daily about how they’re taking advantage of the improvements in the latest versions of WSS, MOSS, and SharePoint Designer. Overall, we have over 200 MOSS 2007 case studies, but I'd like to highlight some of my favorite customer stories. Customers ranging from Del Monte to MTV to Mary Kay are running SharePoint to solve all different business problems -- click on the hyperlinks for the respective case studies. One area that has grown very fast for MOSS 2007 is moving from inside the firewall to being the platform and application of choice for customers’ extranets and Internet facing sites. My favorite ones are are Glu Mobile, Hawaiian Airlines, and Paul Mitchell. When I show these sites to other folks inside and outside of Microsoft, the first reaction is always “No way! This isn’t really a SharePoint site! It looks nothing like a team site or portal!” Exactly! And I’d expect to see many more public web sites deployed on MOSS 2007 in the next year.
While we have added hundreds of new features and even entirely new capability areas such as Records Management, e-forms, and line of business integration, we are still working towards the same SharePoint vision, which is making the optimization of business productivity based a common technology infrastructure a practical reality for all users within a corporate intranet, on an extranet, or on the Internet. In future versions, we will continue to work on achieving that vision by innovating across all the product capabilities.
Thanks for indulging me for a quick look back at SharePoint over the past several years. In closing, if you are an existing customer or partner, thank you very much for your continued support and usage of SharePoint. If you are a new customer or partner, thank you for getting started with SharePoint. We will work hard to make all of you enjoy every minute of your use of SharePoint and the business value you get from your SharePoint investments. Let’s keep the conversation going and continue to make SharePoint the product that you want to address your business productivity needs.
Here’s to a great FY08 and continued success to all of our customers and partners! I look forward to seeing many of you at the SharePoint Conference in Seattle on March 2-6, 2008!
Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Team Blog : Thank you for a banner year for SharePoint!

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7/30/2007

Business Data Catalog Read and Write? You got it! - Blog

OK so you've read all of this, and now you want to try it! Head over to the BDC Meta Man site then and download version 2.0.0.1 beta. The very final thing I want to let you know is that this functionality is currently available in the free Developer version of BDC Meta Man. It is likely however that in the next version it will be available for Professional users only! Business Data Catalog Read and Write? You got it! - Blog

7/28/2007

Download details: Microsoft Forefront Security for SharePoint with Service Pack 1

Microsoft Forefront Security for SharePoint integrates multiple scan engines from industry-leading vendors and content controls to help businesses protect their Microsoft SharePoint collaboration environments by eliminating documents containing malicious code, confidential information, and inappropriate content. Microsoft Forefront Security for SharePoint with Service Pack 1 manages and integrates industry-leading antivirus engines to provide comprehensive protection against the latest threats to help ensure documents are safe before they are saved to or retrieved from the SharePoint document library. In addition, documents can be scanned for company sensitive information, profanity or other administrator-defined content policies. Through deep integration with Office SharePoint 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, Forefront Security for SharePoint helps protect your collaboration environment while maintaining uptime and optimizing performance. Forefront Security for SharePoint also enables administrators to easily manage product configuration, operation, automated antivirus signature updates and reporting at the server and enterprise level.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.
Download details: Microsoft Forefront Security for SharePoint with Service Pack 1

7/26/2007

SmartPart for SharePoint - Home

Great Web part : SmartPart for SharePoint The SharePoint web part which can host any ASP.NET web user control. Create your web parts without writing code!Resources by JanTielens, version 7 Introducing the SmartPart with ASP.NET AJAX Support - Small screencast of ASP.NET AJAX in action (a wonderfull démo - vidéo) - AJAX-style Web Part Connections - Small screencast of connectable web parts in action - Using the Control Toolkit in SharePoint

7/25/2007

Microsoft Webcast: Creating a Global Human Resources System Foundation with SharePoint Server 2007 (Level 100)

In this webcast, we describe how migration of the Microsoft Human Resources Web content platform to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 enables: Faster future development. Reduction of 50% custom code, resulting in business and IT agility. Lower sustenance costs. Essential capabilities for future state architecture. Alignment with the Microsoft IT global vision for simplification. In the past, each application or content site developed its own functionality and process, leading to more than 20 highly customized applications and/or sites today. Continuing down this path breeds redundant work and convoluted technical architecture. Join this webcast to learn how migrating the HR Web content platform to SharePoint Server 2007 is expected to provide a return on investment (ROI) of more than $10 million over three years and a reduction of 15 custom global HR Web sites.
Language(s): English. Product(s): SharePoint Portal Server.
Audience(s): Business Decision Maker. Duration: 60 Minutes
Start Date: Wednesday, August 15, 2007 11:00 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada)

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Preparation Guide for Exam 70-631: TS: Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, Configuring

Preparation Guide for Exam 70-631: TS: Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, Configuring

Preparation Guide for Exam 70-630: TS: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, Configuring

Preparation Guide for Exam 70-630: TS: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, Configuring

KWizCom - Knowledge Worker Components, Web Part Solutions, WSS, MOSS, SharePoint - KWizCom.com

http://www.kwizcom.com/KWizCom_Newsletter_July_2007.pdf a nice letter on this products.
Products : SharePoint Offline Solution - ShareGo SharePoint Calendar Web Part - Calendar Plus SharePoint Survey Web Part - Survey Plus SharePoint Search String Highlighter CRM Connector to SharePoint WSS Cross Site Search SharePoint List Filter - Multiple Drop-Down Picture Library Plus Org. Chart Web Part Quick Launch Web Part SharePoint Go Offline for Office 2003 SharePoint List Menu Editor Office Reporting Services Add-In. KWizCom - Knowledge Worker Components, Web Part Solutions, WSS, MOSS, SharePoint - KWizCom.com

7/24/2007

Home - BDC Meta Man Blog

As an extension to the great tool that we provide, we have decided to add more functionality firstly in the format of a KPI BDC Web Part. Current using MOSS KPI's you can create a KPI on Excel Workbook data, List Data, SQL Server Analysis Data or Manually inputted KPI data. We thought that MOSS Power Users might actually want to base the KPI's on data retrieved by BDC. Home - BDC Meta Man Blog

Sharepoint Tips and Tricks : SharePoint Site Moves, Database Moves and Balancing Growth

Sharepoint Tips and Tricks : SharePoint Site Moves, Database Moves and Balancing Growth a great article by Cory Burns on (Site Moves are an important part of maintaining your SharePoint environment. )

7/20/2007

Deploy a SharePoint list template to SharePoint MySites - Ton Stegeman [MVP] weblog

Deploy a SharePoint list template to SharePoint MySites - Ton Stegeman [MVP] weblog 6 step by
The last step I took was to create a solution deployment package. This makes it much easier to install all bits to the server. There are multiple items about creating and installing such a package, so I won’t show this here. I hope this post helps you if you have a similar scenario. I also use this same mechanism to deploy site templates (STP). Otherwise I hope it helps you realize SharePoint features are very valuable and powerful. Published Jul 10 2007, 08:11 PM by tonstegeman

7/17/2007

Download details: Case Study - Mary Kay, major cosmetics producer, deploys Microsoft Search Technology to increase efficiency

Mary Kay Inc, one of the largest direct selling skin care and color cosmetics companies in the world, was without a viable enterprise search application. After moving its US portal to Microsoft® SharePoint® Portal Server 2003, the company decided to upgrade to Microsoft Office SharePointer Server 2007 to leverage the content indexing and search platform functionality. The company now has robust, easy-to-use search functionality that will scale along with its global IT improvement and integration efforts.

7/15/2007

Download details: Streamlining Records Management Using SharePoint Server 2007 Workflow

The Microsoft Legal and Corporate Affairs (LCA) Records Management team is responsible for tracking the location and contents of some two million boxes of documents stored by Microsoft employees. The LCA Records Management team created an efficient tracking solution that provides employees with easy access to records information and offsets the need to handle all box inventory queries manually. Building on the power of Microsoft Office SharePoint 2007 and Office InfoPath 2007, the solution uses forms and workflows to automate the collection of inventory data. The solution increases accuracy, enforces business rules, and simplifies access to collected inventory information, helping the LCA team to scale easily and manage the growth and demand for document retention companywide.

7/13/2007

Download details: Streamlining Records Management Using SharePoint Server 2007 Workflow

Download details: Streamlining Records Management Using SharePoint Server 2007 Workflow
The Microsoft Legal and Corporate Affairs (LCA) Records Management team is responsible for tracking the location and contents of some two million boxes of documents stored by Microsoft employees. The LCA Records Management team created an efficient tracking solution that provides employees with easy access to records information and offsets the need to handle all box inventory queries manually. Building on the power of Microsoft Office SharePoint 2007 and Office InfoPath 2007, the solution uses forms and workflows to automate the collection of inventory data. The solution increases accuracy, enforces business rules, and simplifies access to collected inventory information, helping the LCA team to scale easily and manage the growth and demand for document retention companywide.

7/11/2007

MOSS Publication Scheduling - Collaboration Portal Template


MOSS Publication Scheduling - Collaboration Portal Template A great info by Kathy Hughes MVP. To enable the "Page Settings and Schedule" menu option on a site provisioned using the Collaboration Portal site template, simply enable scheduling of items in the site's Pages document library. To do this using the browser:- ...

read more on http://mindsharpblogs.com/kathy/archive/2007/07/09/1954.aspx

Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Team Blog

By understanding which manageability controls are configurable for each component of the Windows SharePoint Services hierarchy, you can design a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 implementation that appropriately leverages these controls for the type of content that will be hosted.
The white paper Supporting Information Architecture with Windows SharePoint Services Manageability Controls provides detailed guidance for determining how specific types of content can be managed effectively with Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. (2 first articles...)

Shared Documents - Microsoft Office SharePoint Conference 2008

Thank you for expressing your interest in the Microsoft Office SharePoint Conference 2008 .
We will notify you when further information is available!
Thank you!The Microsoft Office SharePoint Conference Team

Mark Arend : Web part comparison: SPS 2003 & WSS v2 --> MOSS 2007 & WSS v3

Mark Arend : Web part comparison: SPS 2003 & WSS v2 --> MOSS 2007 & WSS v3: "Web parts shown in Gray were available in previous version, but not in current version.
Web parts shown in Green are available in previous version and current version
All other web parts are new to the current version."

7/10/2007

SharePoint FieldNotes (Steve Curran)

Information Management Policy is new to SharePoint but not to the world of Document Management. Office SharePoint Server 2007 has added many new Document Management capabilities your applications can take advantage of. ...
... Note: Please beware that after you have associated a policy with a content type and then make changes to the policy, the changes will not be reflected within the contentType until you un-associate and re-associate the policy with the content type. In addition, the label value will only be updated after policy changes if the item is updated. ...

7/08/2007

Microsoft SharePoint Designer Team Blog : Porting SharePoint Designer Workflows to Visual Studio

Microsoft SharePoint Designer Team Blog : Porting SharePoint Designer Workflows to Visual Studio: "When you have these files, rename the .rules file (if you have one) from *.xoml.rules to *.rules. Then add the .xoml and .rules files to your VS project. If you double click on the .xoml file in the Solution Explorer, the WF workflow designer should open, and you should see all your SPD actions in place. "

Microsoft SharePoint Designer Team Blog : How to Integrate Virtual Earth Maps with a SharePoint List

Microsoft SharePoint Designer Team Blog : How to Integrate Virtual Earth Maps with a SharePoint List
Read :... All Done! Back on the browser, when you go to the display form of any supplier, there’ll be a great map view that will show you the location of the supplier. You’ll be able to interact with the map, just like you would on http://local.live.com/. Thanks, Greg

7/07/2007

Popfly and Sharepoint integration already?


Go and see the video of Mike Gannotti's where he tells you how to use Sharepoint as a datasource for PopFly: (3 datas sources in connection - no code) If you wanna know what PopFly is read this little snippet from Channel9: "You probably haven't heard of it, but you're also probably going to start hearing a lot about it in the near future. Popfly is being announced today - as I'm posting this, actually. To keep it short and simple so you can get right to watching the video, Popfly makes it easy for non-devs to create web sites, mashups, and more. Drag, drag, click - you've got a Flikr + Virtual Earth mashup. You can even point and click your way to a Vista Gadget. " (source Robin Meure).

http://wm.microsoft.com/ms/gsd/mikegannotti/Popfly_SharePoint_Integration.wmv
by Michael Gannotti, TSP SharePointMicrosoft Greater Southeast District
P. Erol GIRAUDY

Customizing and Branding Web Content Management-Enabled SharePoint Sites (Part 1 of 3): Understanding Web Content Management and the Default Features

Customizing and Branding Web Content Management-Enabled SharePoint Sites (Part 1 of 3): Understanding Web Content Management and the Default Features: "Customizing and Branding Web Content Management-Enabled SharePoint Sites (Part 1 of 3): Understanding Web Content Management and the Default Features
Summary: This article discusses topics that you should understand before you use Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 to create sites that support Web content management (WCM) and gives a general overview of the various artifacts that are available in the product. (11 printed pages) by Patrick Tisseghem, U2U"

P. Erol GIRAUDY
http://clubmoss2007.org/

tonstegeman's blog

tonstegeman's blog: "This post describes an issue we were having using the SharePoint PageFieldFilter webpart in combination with a Lookup field. First the issue is explained, then a solution is provided."
You can find a WSP file containing a working version of the webpart. If you don’t know what to do with a wsp file, start looking at Chris Johnson’s blog, or use the SharePoint Solution Installer. Attached to this post, you will also find the full code for the webpart. Both are in the same ZIP file. Do whatever you like to do with them, but please let me know if you use them and what you think of it. Might give me some ideas to improve it. Enjoy!

7/06/2007

Microsoft TechEd IT Forum 2007


Microsoft TechEd IT Forum: " Sign In 'no comments, just do it !) 12-16 November 2007 Barcelona, Spain".
I Hope to be ATE this year, like in 2006. Barcelona is realy a great city.
P. Erol GIRAUDY

7/05/2007

SharePoint Farm Least Privilege and hotfix packages

SharePoint Farm Least Privilege and hotfix packages: "As previously discussed, it is possible to configure your SharePoint Farm to abide by the principle of least privilege. However there are some additional steps required if you have deployed any of the SharePoint Server 2007 hotfix packages dated later than April 12th 2007.
For the most part, the SharePoint Configuration Wizard (SCW) and Central Administration take care of assigning the necessary rights and group memberships. There are two exceptions with the RTM bits:
IWAMRegService Activation (aka DCOM 10016 issue)
%windir%/tasks" read more on : http://harbar.net/archive/2007/06/29/SharePoint-Farm-Least-Privilege-and-hotfix-packages.aspx

7/03/2007

Chapter 3: Customizing and Extending the Microsoft Office SharePoint 2007 Search (Part 1 AND 2)

Chapter 3: Customizing and Extending the Microsoft Office SharePoint 2007 Search (Part 1 and 2): "Chapter 3: Customizing and Extending the Microsoft Office SharePoint 2007 Search (Part 1 and 2)

This article is an excerpt from Inside Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 by Patrick Tisseghem, from Microsoft Press (ISBN 9780735623682, copyright Microsoft Press 2007, all rights reserved). No part of this chapter may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means—electronic, electrostatic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise—without the prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews. This excerpt is part 1 of 2.
In this chapter, I’ll start with a discussion of the architecture that makes it all happen behind the scenes and will continue with topics that will give you an understanding of how, as a developer, you can start customizing and extending the different features involved. I also refer to the Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Administrator’s Companion (Microsoft Press) authored by Bill English, for more detail of the topics related to the administration and configuration of the index and search engines."

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb608305.aspx

This article is an excerpt from Inside Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 by Patrick Tisseghem, from Microsoft Press (ISBN 9780735623682, copyright Microsoft Press 2007, all rights reserved). No part of this chapter may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means—electronic, electrostatic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise—without the prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews. This excerpt is part 2 of 2.

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7/01/2007

Web Site on WSS by a MVP: Mike Walsh

MVP: Mike Walsh

KB Articles
Articles - 2007 Products
MS Articles
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WSS FAQ
WSS v3 FAQ
2006 - Office 2007 Documents

Support WebCast: Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 integration with Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) version 3 Contact Lists and Document Libraries

Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 integration with Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) version 3 Contact Lists and Document Libraries

This Support WebCast will demonstrate how to connect Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) version 3 Contact Lists and Document Libraries to Outlook 2007.
It will also show a two-way synchronization between Contact Lists and Outlook 2007. The session will also talk about updating Document Library changes to the server. P. Erol GIRAUDY http://clubmoss2007.org/