Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server 2007 Best Practices

Achieve your IT objectives with proven, best-practice guidance on using SharePoint solutions.
Get field-tested best practices and proven techniques for designing, deploying, operating, and optimizing Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. Part of the new Best Practices series for IT professionals from Microsoft Press®, this guide is written by leading SharePoint MVPs and Microsoft SharePoint team members who’ve worked extensively with real-world deployments and customers. You’ll find out how to deploy the software, design your environment, manage content, analyze and view data, perform disaster recovery, monitor performance, and more. You'll learn how to create SharePoint sites that help your organization collaborate, take advantage of business insights, and improve productivity—with practical insights from the experts.
Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server 2007 Best Practices

Author : Ben Curry and Bill English with the Microsoft SharePoint Teams
Pages : 720 - Disk 1 Companion CD(s) - Level Published : 06/18/2008
ISBN 9780735625389 ISBN-10 0-7356-2538-7
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Symantec Backup Exec 12 is available for a free 60-day evaluation.

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Introducing The SharePoint Shepherd’s Guide for End Users

Look like the country... But, it's MOSS for USER ....
Introducing The SharePoint Shepherd’s Guide for End Users
It is with great pleasure that I introduce availability for The SharePoint Shepherd’s Guide for End Users. The book has been a passion of mine for some time and represents a radical departure from my previous publishing experiences. This is a book that is specifically designed to provide the most flexibility in my being able to support your needs. Read more on the BLOG of Robert

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Outils CLUB MOSS - FRANCE: Microsoft Assessment and Planning

Outils CLUB MOSS - FRANCE: Microsoft Assessment and Planning: "The Microsoft Assessment and Planning Solution Accelerator is an agentless tool that will find computers on a network and perform a detailed inventory of the computers using Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI), the Remote Registry Service, or the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP).

Using the inventory data, the tool will assess and report whether computers can run Windows Vista, Microsoft Office 2007, Microsoft Application Virtualization (SoftGrid), and Windows Server 2008.

This includes assessment of device driver availability and recommendations for hardware upgrades that may be required.

This release also includes new features for gathering performance metrics from computers you are considering for consolidation using Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2.

Using the performance metrics and a model virtual server host computer, you can generate reports that recommend placement of the physical servers in a virtual server environment.

This tool incorporates the assessment features provided by the Windows Vista Hardware Assessment Solution Accelerator, including localization of the Windows Vista assessment reports in French, German, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, and Brazilian Portuguese.

For home users and users with a few Windows XP computers to migrate, use the Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor to understand the readiness of your computer for Windows Vista.

Download details: Microsoft Assessment and Planning"

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Smart Search for SharePoint WEB PART

A sharepoint web part lists what's the most frequently searched keywords by other users. MOSS 2007 only. Please check the release for source code.Include Top 10 hot search and relevant search webparts. Smart Search for SharePoint - Home (on CODEPLEX)

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MySite Pages and Architecture

Mark created a Visio diagram that depicts the relationship between the pages, where profile information is used on them, and how the links between them interact. Mark Arend : MySite Pages and Architecture
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Microsoft Makes Strategic Changes in Technology and Business Practices to Expand Interoperability: New interoperability principles and actions will increase openness of key products.

Microsoft Makes Strategic Changes in Technology and Business Practices to Expand Interoperability: New interoperability principles and actions will increase openness of key products.

REDMOND, Wash. — Feb. 21, 2008 — Microsoft Corp. today announced a set of broad-reaching changes to its technology and business practices to increase the openness of its products and drive greater interoperability, opportunity and choice for developers, partners, customers and competitors.
Specifically, Microsoft is implementing four new interoperability principles and corresponding actions across its high-volume business products: (1) ensuring open connections; (2) promoting data portability; (3) enhancing support for industry standards; and (4) fostering more open engagement with customers and the industry, including open source communities.
“These steps represent an important step and significant change in how we share information about our products and technologies,” said Microsoft chief executive officer Steve Ballmer. “For the past 33 years, we have shared a lot of information with hundreds of thousands of partners around the world and helped build the industry, but today’s announcement represents a significant expansion toward even greater transparency. Our goal is to promote greater interoperability, opportunity and choice for customers and developers throughout the industry by making our products more open and by sharing even more information about our technologies.”
According to Ray Ozzie, Microsoft chief software architect, the company’s announcement reflects the significance that individuals and businesses place upon the ease of information-sharing. As heterogeneity is the norm within enterprise architectures, interoperability across applications and services has become a key requirement.
“Customers need all their vendors, including and especially Microsoft, to deliver software and services that are flexible enough such that any developer can use their open interfaces and data to effectively integrate applications or to compose entirely new solutions,” said Ozzie. “By increasing the openness of our products, we will provide developers additional opportunity to innovate and deliver value for customers.”

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Jumbooks.com - Complete Reference Library

Jumbooks.com - Complete Reference Library two news books on MOSS free, for the beginer :


Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Administrator's Companion
byBill EnglishandMicrosoft SharePoint Community Experts
Microsoft Press 2007 (1200 pages)
ISBN:9780735622821
Providing a definitive, one-stop reference, this mission-critical text offers the practical information you need to plan, design, deploy, and manage strategic solutions using Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services.

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Microsoft SharePoint 2007 For Dummies
byVanessa L. Williams
John Wiley & Sons 2007 (456 pages)
ISBN:9780470099414
Offering simple instructions and focused coverage of SharePoint 2007, this plain-English guide will help you install SharePoint, create sites and grant access, manage data and business processes, use sites to improve employee relations and much more.

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Many modules from 1 to 8... on MOSS 2007

Many modules from 1 to 8... on MOSS 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/winme/0712/31729/Module4/Local/index.html

Juste change the number Module1 to 8
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SharePoint Resources - Capacity planning

SharePoint Resources - Capacity planning
A great Webcast on this subject.

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Advanced lectures and white papers on MOSS

Watch lectures delivered by experts in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, and download and read supporting white papers. Advanced lectures and white papers by MICROSOFT
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Download details: SharePoint Templates: Preformatted document libraries for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and SharePoint Server 2007

When you install this download, you can add preformatted document libraries to your Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services or Microsoft Office SharePoint Server site (from MICROSOFT).

This download contains templates for the following document libraries:
Invoices
Specifications
Press releases
Customer site visit reports

Meeting notes Each library is configured with a Microsoft Office Word 2007 template that generates a new document in the library when the user clicks New on the library page. Each Word template includes a mechanism for binding data in the library with data in the body of each document.

For example, in the Invoice library, the “amount due” property in the library is populated with the “amount due” data in each of the invoices.

You can set up views of the library to see reports of the data that is stored in the documents — in this example, the total amount due for all payable invoices. Each document library is an .stp file, which you install on a computer that is running Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services or Microsoft Office SharePoint Server.

Each document library includes instructions for installing its .stp file and for customizing the library and its accompanying Word template. The instructions are in Word 2007 documents.

Download details: SharePoint Templates: Preformatted document libraries for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and SharePoint Server 2007

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SharePoint Search Admin - Release: SharePoint Search Admin ver .07

SharePoint Search Admin - Release: SharePoint Search Admin ver .07: "SharePoint Search Admin ver .07 DescriptionVer .07 02.08.08 :
+Add Multiple Lotus Notes databases to Custom Content Source by one click.
+Can specify content source edit page."
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WINDOWS 2008: Microsoft Pricing, Packaging and Licensing for Windows Server 2008,

WINDOWS 2008: Microsoft Pricing, Packaging and Licensing for Windows Server 2008,

Pricing for all Windows Server 2008 products will be increasing by approximately 1 percent for all distribution channels. Estimated MSRP* are listed by each version below:

Windows Server 2008 Standard: $999 (with five Client Access Licenses, or CALs)
Windows Server 2008 Enterprise: $3,999 (with 25 CALs)
Windows Server 2008 Datacenter: $2,999 (per processor)
Windows Server 2008 for Itanium-based Systems: $2,999 (per processor)
Windows Web Server 2008: $469
Windows Server 2008 Standard without Hyper-V: $971 (with five CALs)
Windows Server 2008 Enterprise without Hyper-V: $3,971 (with 25 CALs)
Windows Server 2008 Datacenter without Hyper-V: $2,971 (per processor)

by MICROSOFT
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Office 2007 System Business Application: Customer Service Management

This code sample presents an example of an Office Business Application (OBA) built on the 2007 Microsoft Office system. It addresses some of the demanding collaboration and business insight requirements of a CSR application. The solution allows end users to live in familiar Office applications and use their natural workflows while being connected to LOB systems.
System Requirements. Supported Operating Systems: Windows Server 2003; Windows Vista; Windows XP Service Pack 2. This download works with the following Office applications:
2007 Microsoft Office system
Microsoft Office InfoPath 2007
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
Microsoft Outlook 2007

Download details: Office 2007 System Business Application: Customer Service Management

Read also : 2007 Office System Business Application: Sales Proposal Document Management

from MICROSOFT.
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Creating Effective Enterprise Portals by Using SharePoint Server 2007

Learn how Microsoft IT built an effective, usable, and maintainable portal based on Office SharePoint Server 2007 rather than relying on a fully custom-developed solution.
Download details: Creating Effective Enterprise Portals by Using SharePoint Server 2007
Technical White Paper
Published: January 2008
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SharePoint Global Deployment Guidance

Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Team Blog : SharePoint Global Deployment Guidance

"This guidance includes recommendations for three different deployment configurations. I highly recommend reading through this guidance if you are planning or have deployed your WSS or MOSS farms globally.

Articles include:
Supported global solutions for Office SharePoint Server
Extending Office SharePoint Server global solutions with Office Outlook 2007 and Office Groove software
Design global information architecture and governance
Plan for global enterprise search
Plan for bandwidth requirements
Optimizing Office SharePoint Server for WAN environments
Optimizing custom Web parts for the WAN

View these "Plan to Deploy Office SharePoint Server Globally" articles.


Enjoy, Joel OlesonSharePoint Team"

Read also this one : New Deployment Essentials Guide This guide was designed to provide the "cliff notes" to deployment (in PDF format).
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SharePoint Capacity Planning Tool

Download details: SharePoint Capacity Planning Tool

Planning a Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (WSS) installation or a Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS) installation for a large enterprise can be a very complex undertaking. Determining the most cost-effective topology, hardware, and bandwidth requirements is not a trivial task and involves selecting from a variety of configuration options. In choosing the option that best fits your organization’s needs, you need to answer the following questions:

1. What is the minimum hardware you need to deploy?


2. Where and how should you deploy the hardware?


3. How can you optimize your deployment to meet your organization’s requirements for availability and performance?


4. How will growing capacity needs affect the topology?
   

The SharePoint Capacity Planning Tool is a set of free models of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (WSS) and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS). The two models use the analysis and simulation features of System Center Capacity Planner 2007 (SCCP) to help you explore suitable IT infrastructure options for your SharePoint deployment, based on the SharePoint usage requirements for your organization that you provide to the tool. It can give you a head start on planning your SharePoint topology by producing a first approximation of the topology your organization needs. Architects, systems integrators, and deployment engineers will find it to be a valuable starting point for further refinements of the topology.

Feature Bullet Summary

Simple installation and setup
Built-in knowledge of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
Built-in knowledge of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
Recommended topology in a Graphical User Interface
Export topology to Visio and server configuration to Excel
Create custom hardware

The SharePoint Capacity Planning Tool depends on System Center Capacity Planner, which is available as a free download from Microsoft (see Related Resources).

Read also :
http://www.microsoft.com/systemcenter/sccp/default.mspx

A nice Business Scenarios : http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb961988.aspx

The SharePoint Capacity Planning Tool is a software extension of the System Center Capacity Planner 2007. Installing the SharePoint Capacity Planning Tool adds application models for WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007.

To access the System Center Capacity Planner 2007 download, click here.

To access the SharePoint Capacity Planning Tool download package, including a reference document that discloses detailed information about the construction of the models, click here.
Feedback

I see a nice demo at the TECHED 2007 at Barcelona.

Please direct questions and comments about this guide to satfdbk@microsoft.com.

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Download details: SharePoint Capacity Planning Tool

Download details: SharePoint Capacity Planning Tool

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Président des CLUBS MOSS et MUG
http://clubmoss2007.org
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64-bit only is coming....

64-bit only is coming....: "64-bit only is coming...." by Paul Papanek Stork

P. Erol GIRAUDY
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