Defense of SharePoint Designer - Workflow

For nearly all End Users, it’s an easy choice to make: Implement the solution using SharePoint Designer or don’t implement it at all. Custom .NET solutions are far beyond the technical skills of most End Users. Given this choice, the next obvious question is: “Can I implement this workflow process using SharePoint Designer? “ And then, finally, we need to ask a less obvious question: “Should I implement this process using SharePoint Designer?” EndUserSharePoint.com: In Defense of SharePoint Designer - Workflow : End User SharePoint ....
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Download details: SharePoint Products and Technologies Protocol Documentation

The Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies protocol documentation provides detailed technical specifications for Microsoft proprietary protocols (including extensions to industry-standard or other published protocols) that are implemented and used in SharePoint Products and Technologies to interoperate or communicate with Microsoft products.

The documentation includes a set of companion overview and reference documents that supplement the technical specifications with conceptual background, overviews of inter-protocol relationships and interactions, and technical reference information.

A lot of documents... The self-extracting Zip file (SharePointProtocols.zip) in this list of files contains all of the client protocol documents. Please download and read the readme file. This package does not collect any personal information.


Download details: SharePoint Products and Technologies Protocol Documentation

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WikiMigrator - CODEPLEX

WikiMigrator is a source code sample primarily utilized by SharePoint administrators to understand bulk Wiki Page migrations through remote web services. See http://blogs.msdn.com/dwinter/archive/2008/06/28/migrating-wiki-pages-remotely-part-01.aspx for source notes and technical details. WikiMigrator - Home from CODEPLEX

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Microsoft SharePoint Designer Team Blog : Show Your Data in a Tag Cloud with XPath Expressions

Show Your Data in a Tag Cloud with XPath Expressions: Jon Campbell here again with another great way to visualize your data in using DataViews. Tag clouds are a popular way to visually show how various terms are related to each other by assigning weights to each term, then using those weights to make the term larger or smaller in relation to other terms. I provided a screenshot from the Explore page on flickr. A quick glance can tell you right away there are many more photos tagged with the term “wedding” than there are with the term “blue”, but there are about as many photos tagged “snow” as there are photos tagged “spain”. After reading this post you will be able to create a tag cloud using your own data. from MOSS Designer Team Blog


Microsoft SharePoint Designer Team Blog : Show Your Data in a Tag Cloud with XPath Expressions

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Best Practices Conference | Mindsharp

Best Practices Conference | Mindsharp

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JOPX on SharePoint 2007 (MOSS and WSS V3 ), Office and SOA: Ten things you should know about SharePoint master pages

10 points to read !JOPX on SharePoint 2007 (MOSS and WSS V3 ), Office and SOA: Ten things you should know about SharePoint master pages

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SharePoint Magazine

We’re not quite there yet—but we’re getting there!—and we really want you to know when we’re ready. Here’s how to stay updated:

SharePoint Magazine Launching 16 July 2008.
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Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Best Practices Book

Finally! It looks like our new best practices book should ship around the first of July. Bill English and myself wrote a big chunk of the book, but we had tons of help from rock stars like Kathy Hughes (MVP), Paul Schaeflein, Daniel Webster (SharePoint Guru), Mark Ferraz (IA and Security), Paul Stork, Jim Curry, and Mark Schneider (PMP).

We want to publicly thank all of the folks who gave technical feedback and wrote fabulous real world sidebards: Todd Klindt (MVP), Steve Smith (MVP), Andrew Woodward (MVP), Todd Bleeker (MVP), Keith Richie (MVP), Bob Fox (MVP), Robert Bogue (MVP), Matthew McDermott (MVP), Joel Oleson (well, give it time), Doron Bar-caspi (MSFT), Mike Watson (thanks, Mike!! - you rock), James Petrosky (wow, what doesn't he know?), Scott Edwards, Daniel Galant, Jack Dougher, Woodrow Windischman, Steve Mong, Eric Larson, Kuda Nhiwatiwa, Oleg Glubochansky, Satish Mathew (MSFT), Sean Livingston, and Frank Zakrajsek (MSFT).

Ross Brookshire, Don Scott, and John Moh are great MCS guys and tech reviewed much of the book - thanks a ton (and your free copy is on the way!)

This book was a ton of work, but we really think it is a great resource for the community. It isn't prescriptive best practices as much as design and architecture best practices. A prescriptive best practices guide for SharePoint Server 2007 would be 3000 pages, and outdated in 90 days. In the book, we tried to get people to 'think' about the way they were installing, more than giving guidance on a specific technology.We aren't saying there is only one way to do it, we are showing the reader the methodology to get the right answer. There is often more than one 'best practice', and only through proper planning, designing, and testing, will you know for sure. We DO give you a starting place, and whether you agree or disagree isn't the point - it is to start you in the right direction and challenge you to find the best practices for your specific implementation. 800 pages of SharePoint Server goodness...

Our book should be available for purchase in mid-June. You can pre-order your copy today at Amazon, Barnes & Noble and other retail outlets. We'll also have a best practices web site (which is not up yet) at http://www.sharepointbestpractices.com/.

Ben Curry, CISSP, SharePoint Server MVP Mindsharp
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Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Best Practices Book

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White paper: Data protection and recovery for Office SharePoint Server

White paper: Data protection and recovery for Office SharePoint Server This downloadable white paper explains how administrators can protect and recover data in SharePoint Products and Technologies. This paper describes data recovery from the item level to the farm level. Download this white paper as a Microsoft Office Word document (.doc) file. Data protection and recovery for Office SharePoint Server (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=102839&clcid=0x409) White paper: Data protection and recovery for Office SharePoint Server (source Microsoft TechNet).
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SharePoint CMS - We make simple, editable and beautiful web sites

About SharePoint Simple CMS: How to enable small organizations of all kinds, schools and individuals to have the chance of editing easily their web sites?
How to make it simple but at the same time with rich functionality and integration with desktop applications like Microsoft Office?
We've been trying hard during the past few years to answer both previous questions. SharePoint Simple CMS is the correct answer. It can be integrated with any CSS web site design and it comes already integrated with a big number of templates. With SharePoint Simple CMS you can:

Edit the content of your pages from a Web Browser.
Add new sections or pages to the navigation bar.
Configure your RSS link.
If the template you have includes a Flash file, you can edit the texts on it without need of any Html editor.
Receive e-mail notifications when a visitor used the contact form on your site. All the contacts are stored within the web site for history.
Request a hosting service with us.
Use your Web site with any available custom domain or web address. We can event set your e-mail accounts to match with your web address using Google Mail or Live Hotmail.
Request access to your backup files for your own archive.
Create sub-webs, Intranets and collaboration sites compatible with Microsoft Office applications.
Manage permissions for different users or editors of your web site.
We are sure that you will find many more interesting things. In any case feel free to drop us a line to let us know if you have some doubts about SharePoint Simple CMS.

SharePoint CMS - We make simple, editable and beautiful web sites

Web Sites in English language
B4Contact Web site
Drucker in Practice
Definitive Drucker
LHST
Elizabeth Edersheim's Web site
Web Sites in Slovenian Language
InvestPomurje.eu
Manager's club Ljubljana
Web tool: Advisor for security
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Developing Custom Applications with SharePoint Server 2007

Learn how to build a business solution leveraging a broad range of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Enterprise capabilities. This white paper focuses on the real-world example of an application to help consulting companies track client engagements and business performance. But the insightful lessons learned and best practices will apply wherever your next SharePoint development project takes you.Topics include Office SharePoint Designer 2007, workflows, Excel Services 2007 and the Enterprise Search API. Whether you are a SharePoint development guru or a Microsoft .NET developer evaluating the platform, this white paper has something for you. Download details: Developing Custom Applications with SharePoint Server 2007

See also : http://www.microsoft.com/click/SharePointDeveloper/

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Downloads free trial version of WEB PART SharePoint

To install the free trial version of the product see the trial license file (.lic file) below. To install the components, please read the specific instructions of each package. Also review the SPSProfessional Install SPSProfessional Solutions

SPSProfessional Navigation WebParts (1.0)

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Microsoft Operations Framework 4.0 (MOF v4) is important to SharePoint - SharePoint Joel's SharePoint Land

By Joe : Look for the following packages
MOF Job Aids - Deliver.zip, MOF Job Aids - Manage.zip, MOF Job Aids - Operate.zip, MOF Job Aids - Plan.zip.
I think we need to each send feedback to mof@microsoft.com to let them know we'd like SharePoint specific templates. Be sure to let this alias know if you like those job aids or if they don't work. Why is it all about desktop and Vista? Why not some Exchange or SharePoint?

If you are confused about MSF, MOF, and ITIL in continuous improvement there is a decent diagram from MOF solution accelerator article that shows the relationships and talks about how they come together.

When I was looking at the MOF v4 content I came across another tool that I worked on when I was at MS. The Asset inventory tool is about discovering what SharePoint Servers are out there. Looks like it is still in beta since February, which is when I think I saw it last. I mention this tool in this context 'cause I do think it's a very early step in MOF. You need to know what you have before you can start to optimize it or a late step if you're considering retiring the service or servers.

Here's a bit of info from the TechNet resource on this solution accelerator:
The main purpose of the SharePoint Asset Inventory Tool is to give the IT administrator answers to a number of important questions through the generation of reports. These reports include information on:
The servers running some version of SharePoint.

The installed SharePoint features.
The total number of SharePoint sites on each server.
The total number of documents on each server.
The total number of documents grouped by extension on each server.
The time since the SharePoint assets in each server were last modified.
The customized SharePoint sites and items on each server.

The number of SharePoint lists on each server, grouped by the number of items on each list.
Finally, if you're in my TechEd Governance session next week, you'll see a slide on this with some more emphasis about how important operations frameworks are to deployment success.

Microsoft Operations Framework 4.0 (MOF v4) is important to SharePoint - SharePoint Joel's SharePoint Land




See also : http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc506049.aspx
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Professional SharePoint 2007 Web Content Management Development: Building Publishing Sites with Office SharePoint Server 2007: Andrew Connell: Books

The first book to focus on SharePoint Server 2007 as a robust platform for Web content
Written by two SharePoint MVPs, this book walks developers through creating a Web content management platform on Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007

Begins with an overview of the various features of MOSS, Web Content Management (WCM) fundamentals, and the services available on the Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) platform
Examines each aspect of a typical development project using the sample site throughout, which demonstrates key points, design elements, and development approaches

Addresses SharePoint site columns, content types, master pages, and page layouts; creating a minimal SharePoint site definition; and creating WSS solution packages with Visual Studio

Also covers field types and field controls, customizing the SharePoint authoring environment, and authentication and authorization From the Back CoverProfessional SharePoint 2007 Web Content Management Development

By allowing multiple users to create and update web pages without the use of HTML or specialized editing software, SharePoint Server 2007 Web Content Managament (WCM) is a fascinating system that organizes web content and design edits from each one of the site's contributors and then compiles all those changes into a finished product. Author and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server MVP Andrew Connell presents the first book to focus on the features and fundamentals of WCM as well as the various services that are offered by the Windows SharePoint Services platform.

Tackle each core aspect of a typical Publishing site development project using the techniques outlined in this book. You'll walk through key points, design elements, and development approaches that will demonstrate how WCM brings the power of content management to a large audience, and you'll quickly grasp why SharePoint Server is a robust platform for hosting content-centric Web sites.
What you will learn from this book

Optimal methods for embarking on web content management projects
Leveraging the provided Publishing Web Parts and creating custom Web Parts
How to create custom field types and field controls
How to customize the SharePoint authoring environment
Techniques for implementing sites with multiple languages and devices
Ways of creating a minimal SharePoint site definition
Implementing an offline authoring experience
Various performance tips, tricks, and traps

book is for Web development professionals, particularly ASP.NET 2.0 developers who are building content management sites with the SharePoint platform.
Wrox Professional guides are planned and written by working programmers to meet the real-world needs of programmers, developers, and IT professionals. Focused and relevant, they address the issues technology professionals face every day. They provide examples, practical solutions, and expert education in new technologies, all designed to help programmers do a better job.

Amazon.com: Professional SharePoint 2007 Web Content Management Development: Building Publishing Sites with Office SharePoint Server 2007: Andrew Connell: Books

Paperback: 456 pages
Publisher: Wrox; Pap/Onl edition (June 16, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0470224754
ISBN-13: 978-0470224755
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YouTube - A Look "Inside" Microsoft Sharepoint 2007

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