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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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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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

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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

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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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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"

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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)

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System Requirements for Knowledge Network for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007

This release features the following enhancements:
Back-off functionality to improve your experience when you are performing activities on your machine
Various performance enhancements on both the client and server
Improved keyword generation and quality
An inner-circle web part that highlights people closest to you and are most likely to assist with your query

Déterminer si l'outil de ligne de commande Stsadm.exe a été exécuté avec un succès dans Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 et SharePoint Server 2007

L'outil de ligne de commande Stsadm.exe dans Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 et SharePoint Server 2007 recherche des erreurs de syntaxe. Cependant le Stsadm.exe outil de ligne de commande n'affiche pas a détaillé des messages sur l'opération réussite.

Lorsque l'opération Stsadm.exe échoue même, l'outil de ligne de commande Stsadm.exe ne peut afficher le message "Opération a correctement terminé".

Pour déterminer si l'outil de ligne de commande Stsadm.exe a été exécuté avec un succès, examinez les fichiers Unified Logging Service (ULS) qui se trouvent dans le dossier suivant :

Programmez le serveur de Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Extensions\12\LOGS

Remarque :
le fichier journal utilise le format ServerName-Date-Time .log.

Par exemple lorsque vous utilisez l'outil de ligne de commande Stsadm.exe pour activer ou pour installer les fonctionnalités qui contiennent un nom ContentType d'élément qui contient du espace de fin tel que YourContentTypeName, le message suivant s'affiche :
Opération se terminer avec un succès.

L'élément ContentType n'est pas créé parce que le nom ContentType d'élément comprend du espace de fin, dans ce cas correctement.

En outre le fichier journal ULS contient le message d'erreur suivant :
STSADM.EXE (0x176C) 0x0A48 6t4c Windows SharePoint Services General SPContentTypeElement.ElementActivated() inattendu. A ignoré l'activation à cause d'InvalidName : "YourContentTypeName"

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International Webcasts: CorasWorks - The Next Step in the Evolution of Collaboration

International Webcasts: CorasWorks - The Next Step in the Evolution of Collaboration

Project Management Solution on SharePoint 2007
Take control of your project data, let CorasWorks and SharePoint 2007 lead you to a place where accountability and visibility into your project teams can happen. See how CorasWorks is leveraging new capabilities in SharePoint by exposing them in a business context. Rein in orphaned sites into project views, consolidate group activities and project related meetings, and make effective decisions by reporting on holistic views of project statuses. Collaborate with all levels of project workers.

I would like to personally invite you to attend our upcoming CorasWorks Webcast, focused on how to easily build a Project Management Solution on SharePoint 2007.

Webcast: Building a Project Management Solution on SharePoint 2007
Date: 06 June 2007
Time: 12:30 - 14:00(GMT)
Location: At your desk
Cost: No Charge

Take control of your project data and let CorasWorks and SharePoint 2007 lead you to a place where accountability and visibility into your project teams can happen. See how CorasWorks is leveraging new capabilities in SharePoint by exposing them in a business context. Rein in orphaned sites into project views, consolidate group activities and project related meetings, and make effective decisions by reporting on holistic views of project statuses. Collaborate with all levels of project workers, for example:

Ground level resources - Interested in My Projects, My Tasks Documents assigned to me
Project Managers - Projects in danger, tasks I have assigned, send overdue notices to multiple recipients at the same time
Executives - Snap shots of data charting views, ability to drill into details

Click Here to Register for this Webcast!
http://www.corasworks.net/Events/International/Webcasts.asp


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Filter Central : Indexing XPS documents with MOSS 2007

Filter Central : Indexing XPS documents with MOSS 2007

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MOSS2007 – JavaScript Item Menus Part 2 (Real World Examples)

From : hello its liam [MVP] (trainbloggin) : MOSS2007 – JavaScript Item Menus Part 2 and 1 (Real World Examples)

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Microsoft Office SharePoint Server TechCenter

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server TechCenter

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server for Search TechCenter

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server for Search TechCenter

Performing a SharePoint Gradual Upgrade using STSADM

Performing a SharePoint Gradual Upgrade using STSADM

In the Chapter 24 of the Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server 2007 Administrator's Companion, I detailed how to use the STSADM command to upgrade a number of site collections using the Gradual upgrade approach. This was based on knowledge that was available during the beta. With RTM code, the process is as follows:

Note: Ensure that the root site collection is upgraded before any other site collection in the Web Application. If multiple site collections are upgraded at one time, the root site collection must be included in the first set of site collections selected to be upgraded.

Read this book great informations inside

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Shane Perran’s SharePoint Customization Blog » Blog Archive » TechED 2007

Shane Perran’s SharePoint Customization Blog » Blog Archive » TechED 2007
TechED 2007 is just around the corner, I know you will all be taking in the great SharePoint Breakouts, Chalk Talks and BOF’s, but save a little room for the IE Booth. There are some very interesting topics in the web standards space, and even more interesting speakers, including none other than Holly Holzschlag.

http://www.microsoft.com/events/teched2007/default.mspx

Great meeting, we expect the same in Spain for the Europe

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Joel Oleson's SharePoint Land

Joel Oleson's SharePoint Land: "How to Create a Blog and Get Search Results
From my last post I got a few questions about how or where to create a blog. Lately I've been thinking about how I can encourage more and more to blog since I've been seeing the benefits from those who blog and suffering as a result of those who fail to share. We speak of all the duplication we all do as a result of not being able to get search results. There's simply a ton of content behind the firewall that with special consideration and a bit of effort could benefit everyone. Be sure to find out what your corporate policy if there is one on blogging, but if you're reading this, you've likely read a few blogs and hence have benefited from bloggers. So comes the clarion call... Join the SharePoint Blogging Revolution!"
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Icons that represent 2007 Office files are incorrect, and the "Edit in Microsoft Office " option does not appear in a document library in SharePoint Portal Server 2003 or in Windows SharePoint Services 2.0

Icons that represent 2007 Office files are incorrect, and the "Edit in Microsoft Office " option does not appear in a document library in SharePoint Portal Server 2003 or in Windows SharePoint Services 2.0

Download details: Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Document: Transform Your Business with SharePoint Products and Technologies

Download details: Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Document: Transform Your Business with SharePoint Products and Technologies: "Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 is a business productivity server that brings information management and access, collaboration, and people-driven processes into the familiar environment where people do their work every day. People benefit from the familiarity and consistency of a single environment for all their information and collaboration tasks that is easy to learn, use, and personalize. IT has a single platform and well-integrated set of technologies to manage and lower user support requirements.

Your business can rapidly customize and extend the deployment of SharePoint Products and Technologies—Office SharePoint Server 2007, Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services, and Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007—by using powerful out-of-the-box integration to extend current investments. Or your business can choose from a wide ecosystem of Microsoft partners to develop innovative enterprise applications quickly and at lower cost. With SharePoint Products and Technologies, your organizations can more easily leverage their knowledge capital of enterprise data, human expertise, process knowledge, and content to operate with greater agility in a dynamic and complex world."

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SharePoint Server 2007 Template

Role-Based My Site for Sales Account Managers
Role-Based My Site for Controllers-Financial Analysts
GroupBoard Workspace 2007

Office SharePoint Server 2007 Guide: Setting up the Role-Based My Site Template for Controllers-Financial Analysts
This setup document provides step-by-step instructions to initialize the Controller-Financial Analyst template in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.

Office SharePoint Server 2007 Guide: Setting up the Role-Based My Site Template for Sales Account Managers
This setup document provides step-by-step instructions to initialize the Sales Account Manager template for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.


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Change passwords used for administration accounts (Office SharePoint Server)

Use this task to change the password information for several features, services, and Web applications in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. Domain policies often require that domain account passwords be updated periodically.

This change provides additional security in case one of the passwords might have been compromised.

You can configure the various features, services, and Web applications of Office SharePoint Server 2007 to run as a domain account.

Because domain policy might require passwords to expire regularly, you might have to change the passwords for these accounts for these features, services, and Web applications to continue to function properly. Updated: April 19, 2007.

Administering security credentials (Office SharePoint Server)
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Office SharePoint Server 2007 Guide for MY SITE for Account Managers and Financial Analysts

Setting up the Role-Based My Site Template for Sales Account Managers 15 pages.

Setting up the Role-Based My Site Template for Controllers-Financial Analysts 18 pages.
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Guidelines using SharePoint 2007

Maybe it is time to write down some guidelines that you should keep in mind while working with SharePoint 2007, or you could just ignore them as well. I found these guidelines in Blogs, articles on the internet but I wanted to group them together. ...

http://www.u2u.info/Blogs/Kevin/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=7

These guidelines are not hard limits, meaning if you have 2005 lists on a site, your site will still work. The only thing that could happen by adding more items is that your performance could decrease.

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ARB Security Solutions is a full service security organization

Microsoft Office Server System (SharePoint 2007), like any other web based application, is subject to attackers for both internal as well as external threats. Using security policies and security software, it is possible to mitigate these risks.
The security of SharePoint Portal Server is often one of the most overlooked implementation and maintenance concerns with any deployment, even though 75% of cyber attacks are done at the weblevel. We recognized this gap and seek to provide our customers with all of the rich team services and collaboration tools in SharePoint while ensuring the integrity of data.
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CSS Reference Chart for SharePoint 2007 - PDF Version

Heather Solomon, the "MVP queen of SharePoint style", has put together a fabulous CSS reference for SharePoint 2007.

This covers both Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) and Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) and displays the name of the style along with an example and where the style is defined in what file. Brilliant.

I've put together a PDF version of the reference guide if you're into that. You can download the 12 page reference guide from here.

Heather's original online version can be found here.
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Floating ToolPane for SharePoint 2007

Ever been frustrated that the tool pane in SharePoint takes up your screen real estate, or that you have to scroll to see the buttons when editing a WebPart? ... If so, this is for you...
Following on from my previous post (which got a bit too long to mention this) the SharePoint controls include another useful addition...a floating toolpane for SharePoint. With two lines added to you site master page you can have all your tool panes appear in a floating window which is sizeable and can be minimized!
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Downloadable books for Office SharePoint Server 2007

Downloadable books for Office SharePoint Server 2007 Updated: March 15, 2007

Some of the content in the Office SharePoint Server technical library is available in downloadable and printable form as Microsoft Office Word documents (.doc files).

The content in these 4 books is a copy of selected content in the Office SharePoint Server technical library (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=84739) as of the date listed for each book.

The 4 books for WSSv3 are here :
http://technet2.microsoft.com/windowsserver/WSS/en/library/decec839-73d9-4e23-b167-11e05dfc2feb1033.mspx?mfr=true

For the most current content, see the technical library on the Web.

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Microsoft Office Groove and SharePoint Integration

This document discusses the you can integrate Groove and SharePoint to enhance and facilitate collaboration in your enterprise.
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Using the BDC feature of MOSS 2007 to interact with information stored in external data sources, for example SQL Server and Oracle data bases - Part 2

Many enterprises manage a lot of information stored in data bases that are distinct that the ones used by SharePoint (SQL Server), for example internal applications like CRM’s, ERP’s or any other application developed by themselves, we could say “in house”. Now, we know that all the documents we upload to SharePoint Sites are stored in SQL Server. So, we have SharePoint data from one hand, and external information stored in other data sources on the other hand.
Is there any chance to provide final users the possibility to have only one web site to work with SharePoint data and also to interact with information stored in external data sources, through the same SharePoint Site?

Guess What!!, we have now the power of the Business Data Catalog, that allow us to interact with information stored in distinct sources and not necessarily need to be in SharePoint data bases. What’s the beauty of this, we can provide to our users the possibility to have one site (site collection) working with SharePoint data, from document libraries, lists and everything you know from SharePoint, but also with other kind of data…external data.

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Estimate performance and capacity requirements for search environments

Usage profile : The following tables show the usage profile for the Office SharePoint Server 2007 search test environment.

Type of document - Number of documents -
Content on SharePoint sites 10 million items, including the following:
• 420 site collections
• 4,000 sites
• 24,200 lists
• 47,780 document libraries

Content on file shares 15 million items
HTTP content 15 million items
People profiles 2.5 million
Stitch (in-memory test tool that generates documents in memory) 7.5 million
Properties (metadata) 1 million
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Read also : Recommendations
This section provides general performance and capacity recommendations. Use these recommendations to determine the capacity and performance characteristics of the starting topology that you created in Plan for availability (Office SharePoint Server) , and to determine whether you need to scale out or scale up the starting topology.
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Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Tools: Visual Studio 2005 Extensions

Brief Description : (Visual Studio 2005 extensions for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, Version 1.0)Tools for developing custom SharePoint applications: Visual Studio project templates for Web Parts, site definitions, and list definitions; and a stand-alone utility program, the SharePoint Solution Generator.
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SharePoint Server 2007 Language Pack

Brief Description : Language packs enable creation of SharePoint sites and site collections in multiple languages without requiring separate installations of SharePoint Server 2007. Multiple language packs can be installed on the same server. Application of a Language Pack will not change the language of the installed Office server product SKU, or the language of the administrative features.
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SharePoint Server 2007 Presentations: Enterprise Search Deep Dives

Brief Description : This download provides six detailed presentations on enterprise search in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. This download presents packaged presentations and videos of the following conference sessions:

Enterprise Search Strategy and Opportunities (SharePointServer2007SearchDeepDiveA.exe) This session starts with an overview of Microsoft's enterprise search strategy, reviews the various products that it affects, and outlines what is new in SharePoint Search for the 2007 Microsoft Office system. Lastly, it discusses opportunities for partners building on the platform.

SharePoint Search Extensibility (SharePointServer2007SearchDeepDiveB.exe) This session addresses the core extensibility scenarios in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS) search, such as customizing the user interface, custom search using client applications, and crawling new repositories, including line-of-business data. It also covers the administration object model.

Protocol Handlers and IFilters (SharePointServer2007SearchDeepDiveC.exe) Learn about the overall architecture of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS) search. Protocol Handlers and iFilter interfaces are described in detail with code examples.

Customizing and Extending Search in Office SharePoint Server 2007 (SharePointServer2007SearchDeepDiveD.exe) Learn how to customize Microsoft Office

SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS) search user interface and build search based applications in this session. Branding, Web parts and extending search using the object model and Web services are discussed.

Business Data Search (SharePointServer2007SearchDeepDiveE.exe) The Business Data Catalog (BDC) enables search to reach into line-of-business repositories and provide integrated search results. Learn about the Business Data Catalog including the design motivations, scenarios, and the apis.

SharePoint Search Deployment Scenarios (SharePointServer2007SearchDeepDiveF.exe) This session reviews both Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and Office SharePoint Server 2007 search topologies, and various deployment scenarios such as a collaboration environment, enterprise portals, and internet facing portals.
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Templates (40) for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 plus the Application Template Core solution

This download package includes all forty of the Application Templates for Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 plus the Application Template Core solution, which is required to deploy server administration templates.
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Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services Add-in for Microsoft SharePoint Technologies

The Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services Add-in for Microsoft SharePoint Technologies is a Web download that provides features for running a report server within a larger deployment of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 or Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. (see : http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2007/02/19/microsoft-sql-server-2005-sp2-reporting-services-integration-with-wss-3-0-and-moss-2007.aspx and

5.0 Features in This Release (in english - french and...) :

1. This section summarizes the available features when you run a report server in SharePoint integrated mode.
2. Use the revised Reporting Services Configuration tool to create a report server database in SharePoint integrated mode.
3. Use the new report server configuration pages in Central Administration to grant the service accounts access to the SharePoint configuration and content databases.
4. Use SharePoint security to control access to report server content and operations.
5. Add reports and models that you created in SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services design tools to a SharePoint library. You can publish reports from Report Designer, or use the Upload action on a SharePoint library to upload any report server item. If you publish the files, be sure to specify fully qualified URLs.

An example URL for a file uploaded to Shared Documents on the top-level site of a SharePoint Web application might be :

http://example-server-name/Shared Documents/CompanySales.rdl.

The URL must include a file name extension.

If the library is on a site, you must also include any sites and subsites before the library.
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For more information,
see "Deploying Reports, Models, and Shared Data Sources to a SharePoint Site" in SQL Server Books Online.
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Create new shared data source (.rsds) files from a SharePoint site to use with the reports and models that you add to the library. A new file name extension named .rsds is introduced in this release; it is used for shared data source files that you create and store in a library.
Use the new Report Viewer Web Part to view reports.

Use Report Builder from a SharePoint site. You can open or modify an existing Report Builder report definition file from a library. You can load a model in Report Builder to create new reports from report model (.smdl) files that have been uploaded or published to a SharePoint library.

Use new Web pages and configuration options to set permissions and properties on reports (.rdl), models (.smdl), resources, and shared data sources (.rsds) that you add or create on a SharePoint site. You can also use Web application pages to define schedules and subscriptions.
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Note:
Earlier versions of Reporting Services include two Web Parts that provide minimal integration between a report server and a SharePoint site.
Those Web Parts are not part of the Reporting Services Add-in and have different requirements and functionality.
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For more information
about how those Web Parts compare with the Web Part that is included in the Reporting Services Add-in, see "Comparing Levels of Integration Across Versions of Reporting Services and SharePoint Technologies" in SQL Server Books Online.
http://www.microsoft.com/sql/default.mspx
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SP2 SQL : Download Service Pack 2 for Microsoft SQL Server 2005.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=d07219b2-1e23-49c8-8f0c-63fa18f26d3a
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MOSS 2007 and Related Technologies pricing

Check out the licence pricing model for MOSS 2007 (finally). These are the US prices, but it gives a good impression.

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointserver/FX102176831033.aspx

Servers Estimated Price
Office SharePoint Server 2007 $4424
Office SharePoint Server 2007 for Search Standard $8213
Office SharePoint Server 2007 for Search Enterprise $57,670
Office Forms Server 2007 $4424

Client Access Licenses Estimated Price
Office SharePoint Server 2007 Standard CAL $94
Office SharePoint Server 2007 Enterprise CAL1 $75
Office Forms Server 2007 CAL $54
Office SharePoint Designer 2007 $187

Internet Facing Sites Estimated Price
Office SharePoint Server 2007 for Internet sites $40,943
Office Forms Server 2007 for Internet sites $22,118
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To be licensed for the Enterprise Edition functionality of Office SharePoint Server 2007, both the Standard and Enterprise client access licenses are required.

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2007 Office System Tool: Microsoft Best Practices Analyzer for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and the 2007 Microsoft Office System

Brief Description : The Microsoft Best Practices Analyzer for Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and the 2007 Microsoft Office System creates detailed reports to help administrators achieve greater performance, scalability, and uptime. This tools for 2007 Office System : Microsoft Best Practices Analyzer for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and the 2007 Microsoft Office System. After the analysis is complete, open sharepointbpa.report.htm in a web browser. See also my web site on the tools for MOSS and WSSv3 : http://outilsmoss.blogspot.com/
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Changing the theme when a new SharePoint 2007 site is created.

Posted by Scot Hillier under ApressNo Comments

A common need is to change the theme (and the alternate style sheet) of a site when it is created. In order to do this in SharePoint 2007, you must create a feature that makes the changes and then either “staple” the feature to a site or reference the feature within the site definition.

I have created a feature that you can use to make these changes.

It can be found at http://codegallery.gotdotnet.com/features.

ThemeChanger v1.0 (ThemeChanger.zip, 3k, 3 downloads)

PlaceHolder Master v1.0 (PlaceholderMaster.zip, 9k, 26 downloads)

Presence Contact List v1.0 (PresenceContactList.ZIP, 13k, 40 downloads)

http://blogs.msdn.com/modonovan/archive/2005/05/11/416376.aspx.

Content Type Hierarchy Viewer v1.0 (ContentTypeHierarchy.zip, 3k, 56 downloads)

Log Viewer v1.0 (Log Viewer.zip, 4k, 78 downloads)

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PDF Icon Update

Aimless Ramblings from a Blithering Lunatic . . . : PDF Icon Update: "Ever since I blogged about my batch file to simplify the task of getting a PDF icon to display in SharePoint 2.0 document libraries back in October of 2004, it has been the single-most popular post on my blog (with almost 60,000 hits to date). Well, ever since Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 was released, I knew that I needed to update my batch file, it just wasn't quite at the top of the to-do list. But now the wait is over - I have posted an updated package here. "
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25 Tips to Lockdown Your SharePoint Environment

I was preparing for a TechReady (internal Technical Readiness conference) Presentation and for my advanced deployment presentation I really needed to beef it up. Here's a list I put together for a few lockdown slides. This is not meant to be fully comprehensive, but get you started down the right track. All of these may not apply.
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Using Wikis as Project Documentation Tools

A nice idea, I was talking to Charles Arnold after the last STC-Suncoast chapter meeting about using wikis as project documentation tools. Neil Perlin just presented on Web 2.0, and referenced James Surowiecki’s The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies and Nations. Surowiecki’s main idea is that collective wisdom almost always outstrips individual wisdom....
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I was playing around with the SharePoint 2007 wiki features and also those of Socialtext. Here are the barriers I’m up against:

• Wiki wysiwig’s are primitive (technical documentation can have some complicated styles, with several levels of lists).
• Once all the info is in the wiki, how do I generate a manual or online help? I don’t want to maintain two separate files.

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Download package includes all 20 site admininstration for WSSv3

on this web site Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Application Templates: All Site Admin Templates Brief Description This download package includes all twenty site admininstration Application Templates for Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0.
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And more template to download... and more on this web site :
http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2007/01/30/20-of-the-fantastic-fabulous-40-application-templates-and-shared-hosting-solutions-whitepaper-for-wss-3-0-now-available.aspx
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http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=b5206277-550c-44da-a2d5-d7e32e3b6b8f&displaylang=en&tm
The Employee Training Scheduling and Materials application template for Microsoft Office SharePoint Services 3.0 helps instructors and employees manage courses and related materials.
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A Quick Guide : This quick reference guide provides helpful tips and tricks for using Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services while highlighting new features in Version 3.0.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=80fd0d64-4bd0-476b-bfd9-39da34c22efb&displaylang=en&tm

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CSS Reference Chart for SharePoint 2007 (Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services v3)

The following CSS reference guide highlights the major styles used in MOSS and WSS v3 sites. The guide is organized by area of the page and include the style name, function, CSS file name and approximate line number and a sample screenshot of the style location on the screen. Use these guides to identify styles that can be overridden for your custom branding and installation or to quickly reference style name and CSS information for customization.
See the Table of Content a great work

Table of Contents
Global Links (Sign In/Welcome, My Links, etc.)
Search
Top Horizontal Navigation Bar
Site Actions Menu
Left Vertical Navigation Bar
Quick Launch Picker (Date Picker)
Title Area
Content Area
General
Breadcrumbs
Web Parts
Menu Toolbar
Toolbar
Calendar
Search Center
Site Directory
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Plan for administrative and service accounts (Office SharePoint Server)

Use this article to plan for the account requirements and recommendations for accounts that are required to install, configure, and use Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.You must provide credentials for these accounts when you run Setup and during configuration. This article does not discuss accounts for which you do not need to configure or provide credentials.The accounts are grouped according to scope. If an account has a limited scope, you might need to plan multiple accounts for this category. For example, if you are implementing multiple Shared Services Providers (SSPs), you must designate multiple SSP accounts.After you complete installation and configuration of accounts, ensure that you do not use the local system account to perform administration tasks or to browse sites. For example, do not use the same account that is used to run setup to perform administration tasks.And also see all the part on Server farm-level accounts...
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Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Team Blog : Taxonomy/Tagging Starter Kit for SharePoint Server

Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Team Blog : Taxonomy/Tagging Starter Kit for SharePoint Server: "Taxonomy/Tagging Starter Kit for SharePoint Server
[Cross-posted from the ECM Team Blog]
Hi, I’m Adri Verlaan, a developer on the ECM team. I would like to introduce you to a starter kit that I’ve developed for SharePoint Server 2007 that helps with the implementation of a taxonomy/tagging system. The kit contains a lightweight working prototype, which you can extend to create a solution that will meet your needs. "

Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Team Blog : Announcing Role-Based Templates for SharePoint My Sites

Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Team Blog : Announcing Role-Based Templates for SharePoint My Sites
Announcing Role-Based Templates for SharePoint My Sites
Building on the successful concept of Application Templates for Windows SharePoint Services, we are announcing a set of Role-Based Templates for SharePoint My Sites. The first two templates, planned to be available in the end of this month (January), will showcase dashboard examples for Sales Account Managers and Controllers / Financial Analysts.
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Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies

Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies
A great web site
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3 x SharePoint audio interviews with Tom Rizzo, Jerome Thiebaud & Manish Sharma

And... More for MOSS
Free to download eBooks - Planning, Architecture & deployment (MOSS and Search) - 916 pages!
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SharePoint Server 2007 Administrator's Companion Now Available

I'm pleased to announce that my book with Microsoft Press, the SharePoint Server 2007 Administrator's Companion is now available for purchase. 1200+ pages, 13 authors from 3 continents wrote this tomb over an 8 month period against Beta 2 and B2TR. You can purchase the book at the following locations: Amazon - BestBookBuys - You can also visit the book's web site at admincompanion.mindsharp.com. Bill English Mindsharp.
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Author Bill English with the Microsoft SharePoint Community Experts
Pages 1200 - Disk 1 Companion CD(s) - Level Int/Adv - Published 01/10/2007
ISBN 9780735622821 - ISBN-10 0-7356-2282-5
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MOSS 2007 - Planning and Architecture

A great document! - 957 pages.

This book is designed to lead a team through the steps of planning a new solution based on Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. The audiences for this guide are business application specialists, line-of-business specialists, IT generalists, program managers, and infrastructure specialists who are planning a solution based on Office SharePoint Server 2007.
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Microsoft Corporation Published: December 2006
Editor and Author: Office IT and Servers User Assistance
The TechNet Planning and Architecture information is now available to download, posted by Mark.
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New Downloads of Office SharePoint Server on MSDN (13 New!)

13 new languages, 16 total languages are now available for MSDN subscribers! For Office SharePoint Server If you are looking for the x86 or x64 versions they are both included in the ISO download package. For more on how to extract the files from the ISO see the FAQ info below.

This list is what I got from a simple search on MSDN 1/11/07.
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SharePoint Server 2007 Code Sample: Item-Level Auditing

Brief Description : This code sample shows you how to create an item-level auditing view programmatically in three different ways: using a custom SharePoint list, through the Excel client, and by manipulating the open XML file format to display auditing history using Excel Services on an application page.

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 provides auditing by default but it does not give the ability for a non-administrator to view the auditing history of a specific document or item in a list.

This code sample shows a developer how to extend this auditing functionality to create an item-level auditing view in three different ways:

1. using a custom SharePoint list,
2. through the Excel client,
3. by manipulating the open XML file format to display auditing history using Excel Services on an application page.

It is accompanied by a thorough white paper describing the code as well as a setup document.
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Windows Presentation Foundation Hands-On-Labs - RTM

Brief Description : Set of tutorials that introduce key features of Windows Presentation Foundation (.NET 3.0 RTM).
Each of the following labs is an independent project. Therefore, it is not necessary to follow any particular order. Rather, complete the labs based on your interest in a particular feature area, or your level of familiarity with Windows Presentation Foundation.

1. Building WPF Applications
2. Creating Rich 2D and 3D Content in WPF
3. Using Data Binding in WPF
4. Building WPF XAML Browser Applications
5. ReadingExperienceLab

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JOPX on SharePoint 2007 (MOSS and WSS V3 ), Office and SOA

JOPX on SharePoint 2007 (MOSS and WSS V3 ), Office and SOA
First of the Fabulous 40 - GroupBoard Workspace 2007
Soon you can expect a series of new application templates for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 - commonly referred to as the Fabulous 40. It seems that you can already one of them, so download GroupBoard Workspace 2007.
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Happy new year 2007

A lot of MOSS and WSSv3 ;+)
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How to Create a MOSS 2007 VPC Image: Part 5

Welcome to part 5 in a series of posts which describe how to create a Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS 2007) Virtual PC image for demos and development work. Last time, we looked at how to install and configure the .NET framework inside our VPC image. This time, we’ll look at how to install SQL Server 2005 inside the virtual machine.
You just have to read the 4th other part...
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JOPX on SharePoint 2007 (MOSS and WSS V3 ), Office and SOA: InfoPath 2007 resources

JOPX on SharePoint 2007 (MOSS and WSS V3 ), Office and SOA: InfoPath 2007 resources: "InfoPath 2007 resources" and Forms
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A great site on the security and MOSS

Microsoft Office Server System (SharePoint 2007), like any other web based application, is subject to attackers for both internal as well as external threats.
Using security policies and security software, it is possible to mitigate these risks.
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JOPX on SharePoint 2007 (MOSS and WSS V3 ), Office and SOA

JOPX on SharePoint 2007 (MOSS and WSS V3 ), Office and SOA
Automatic My Site creation with SharePoint 2007
Last week I got the question if it would be possible to automatically create the My Site for a specific user in SharePoint Server 2007. Normally the My Site gets created when the user accesses it for the first time. I got a some advice from a fellow MVP - Pierre but when I looked at it a little more closely I noticed that some of the classes used in SharePoint Portal Server 2003 are now obsolete.
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Global & Multi Farm Deployments by Joel Oleson

There have been a bunch of questions lately around Global Deployments.

Here are some essential resources and some links :
Multi Lingual Whitepaper for MOSS - Just released! Thanks Luca
Global Deployment Whitepaper for WSS 2.0 & SPS 2003 - Still very relevant, but I'll mention differences below
Import/Export Search Configurations from one farm to another - Angus Logan Blog Post
Network Considerations to Deployment Planning - previous posts (Highly recommended)
Troubleshooting Performance Issues - previous post
What are SSPs? - previous blog post
Global Deployment - short post on how MS IT deals with SSPs
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SharePoint tutorials from LearnVu

SharePointHosting.com provides on-demand access to SharePoint tutorials from LearnVu to all our SharePoint hosting customers. This is a significant value-add service to our SharePoint hosting offerings.
Sample LearnVu Tutorial Tips: (1) use with highspeed internet access (2) after a tutorial loads you may need to press the "stop" button on the video control to que the video (3) verify that your browser has the Flash plugin.
And after you can play all this demos :
Adding Documents to a SharePoint Site
Create a new SharePoint Site Collection Administrator
Add Links to a SharePoint List
Add SharePoint Site to your Trusted Sites in Internet Explorer
Add Users to a SharePoint Security Group
Approve another user's SharePoint Blog Post
Change SharePoint Navigation to a Site Tree View
Change the SharePoint Site Image
Change the SharePoint Site Title and Description
Change a SharePoint User's e-mail address
Change a SharePoint User's password
Create a SharePoint Calendar Appointment
Create a Document-specific SharePoint Alert
Create a New SharePoint User
Create a SharePoint Annoucements List
Create a SharePoint Blog Posting
Create a SharePoint Calendar
Create a SharePoint Contacts List
Create a SharePoint Discussion Board
Create a SharePoint Document Library
Create a SharePoint Document Work Space
Create a SharePoint Gantt Project Management Chart
Create a SharePoint InfoPath form Library
Create a SharePoint Links List
Create a SharePoint Meeting Site
Create a SharePoint Picture Library
Create a new SharePoint Security Group
Create a new SharePoint Sub-site
Create a new Task in a SharePoint Tasks list and assign it to a user
Create a SharePoint Wiki Document
Create a SharePoint Wiki Library
Customize a SharePoint Meeting Site
Delete a SharePoint Meeting Site when you are finished with it
Edit SharePoint Blog Categories
E-mail a SharePoint Document Library
E-mail Enable a SharePoint Discussion Forum
Enable Multiple SharePoint Blog Categorizations
Edit the SharePoint Quick Launch Menu to Customize with your own navigation options
Enable SharePoint Document Versioning
Change SharePoint Top Link bar navigation options
Manage Access Requests to your Site
Move Documents between SharePoint Document Libraries
Remove Persmission Inheritance from SharePoint Sub-sites
Remove the SharePoint Quick Launch Menu
Remove Top Link Bar Inhertitance from a SharePoint Site
Restore Deleted Items As the Site Collection Administrator
Restore SharePoint Site Permission Inheritance (sub-sites)
Work with the SharePoint Recycle Bin
Create a SharePoint Sales CRM Application
Work with your SharePoint Themes
Add Tabbed SharePoint Navigation Options to your Site
Add SharePoint Web Parts
Sign in as a different SharePoint User
Work with a SharePoint Gantt Project Chart
Create a Custom Site Column
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Microsoft WSSv3.0 Management Pack for Microsoft Operations Manager 2005

Brief Description : The Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Management Pack monitors the health and state of Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
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Dark Blue Duck

The Scanning EnablerTM Product enhances SharePoint adding support for Desktop Scanning.Scan documents in one go directly into SharePoint as easily as you would add files from your My Documents folder.
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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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P. Erol GIRAUDY MVP MOSS
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www.shareclubs.org

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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P. Erol GIRAUDY
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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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P. Erol GIRAUDY MVP MOSS
www.clubsps.org
www.shareclubs.org

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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P. Erol GIRAUDY MVP MOSS
www.clubsps.org
www.shareclubs.org

SharePoint Solutions Blog: Extending Stsadm.exe with Custom Commands using the ISPStsadmCommand Interface

Extending Stsadm.exe with Custom Commands using the ISPStsadmCommand Interface

Enterprise Search in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 is a Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 shared service

This topic provides information about the internal architecture of Enterprise Search, as well as Enterprise Search (ES) as a shared service, ES provides extensive and extensible content gathering, indexing, and querying. This service supports full-text searching using a Structured Query Language (SQL-based) query syntax, and provides a new keyword syntax to support keyword searches. Enterprise Search uses the same underlying Search service as Search in Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services (read also all this infos on this subjectby Joel's blog) .
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P. Erol GIRAUDY MVP MOSS
www.clubsps.org
www.shareclubs.org

TechNet Quarter 3 FY07 Downloadable Documents

Brief Description: See how to mazimize your business potential with Microsoft solutions. TechNet sessions are learning resources designed to meet the needs of IT professionals.
More than 120 documents...

Exemples :
DSK-109:IT Governance - Keeping Control of your SharePoint Sites
DSK-109 Demo 1: Demo 1: Managing Site Collections
DSK-109 Demo 2: Demo 2: Managing Shared Services
DSK-109 Demo 3: Demo 3: Using Central Administration

I test this one: IT Governance - Keeping Control of your SharePoint Sites
In this session we will talk about how to manage Shared Service Providers, including the ability to use profiles, personalized sites, and audiences to deliver customized content to SharePoint users. A good demonstration (Vidéo and PPT).
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P. Erol GIRAUDY MVP MOSS
www.clubsps.org
www.shareclubs.org

Custom Feature: Link to WSS Central Admin from SharePoint Site Actions Menu

On SharePoint Solutions Blog: A nice solution to go to the Admin. Central. The download includes an install.bat file to install and deploy the Feature automatically for you. With this package, you can activate the Feature by clicking Site Actions->Site Settings->Site Features from any WSS v3 or MOSS 2007 site.
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P. Erol GIRAUDY
www.clubsps.org
www.shareclubs.org

Just go ans see MOSS Web Site

Thanks Liu for the URL....
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P. Erol GIRAUDY
www.clubsps.org
www.shareclubs.org

Plan and prepare for migration to the 2007 Office system

The is a major release that offers many improvements and new features in response to customer needs.

Changes such as the new file format and new Setup architecture require careful planning and preparation before upgrading. Your migration planning will include evaluating the files in your environment, identifying potential conversion issues, and reviewing migration considerations for each program within .

The Office Migration Planning Manager (OMPM) allows you to examine the files in your environment and decide whether to archive them, convert them in bulk with the Office File Converter available in OMPM, or convert them manually.

You will also determine the approach to upgrade and migation within your organization.

Plan and prepare for migration to the 2007 Office system
Review migration issues for the 2007 Office system
Determining the best migration strategy
Collaborating with previous versions of Office and other programs
FAQ: File format

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P. Erol GIRAUDY
www.clubsps.org
www.shareclubs.org