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

YouTube - A Look "Inside" Microsoft Sharepoint 2007: ""

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Nintex Reporting 2008

Tow new consultant in this comagny Nintex Reporting 2008 - I'm Consulting with Nintex :
It's now official. I am now consulting with Nintex, my role is focused on technical evanglism and product management. I've been watching Nintex and talking with them for months. Lots of promise.

I'm really excited about the new Nintex Reporting 2008. You'll hear more about this tool here on my blog over the next few days and especially at TechEd.


You might have also heard Mike Fitzmaurice is now at Nintex. It's true, today was his first day and I was there as well. It was totally cool hanging with Fitz and the Nintex USA crew in Bellevue, WA headed up by Brett Campbell. Great team, solid company. Note you should update your blog roll for Fitz as he now has a blog at FitzBlog 2.0.

Don't worry if you were planning on seeing me this summer at various other sessions, training or community events... My new role should continue to integrate well into my existing plans. If you haven't follwed... I am very involved in a number of other things this summer. If you run into me, please ask for a demo of Nintex Reporting or if you check this out at TechEd Developer or IT Pro please let them know that I referred you, or that you heard about it from my blog.

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Presentations for Introductory SharePoint Dev

PPT and some Web Parts, DataLists, EventHandlers, Silverlight... This download contains PowerPoint Presentations and associated Demos for Introductory SharePoint Developer modules. Download details: Presentations for Introductory SharePoint Dev
Introductory SharePoint Presentations for .NET Developers
June 2008 Release 1 – http://MSSharePointDeveloper.com
Install Guide
To install the lab manuals and sample code click Next. The installer will automatically launch the self extracting ZIP file containing the demo code to unpack in onto your machine. You need to click the UNZIP button to do this. Alternatively you can just Close the ZIP file and the you can unpack the demo code later.

This release includes the following presentations
· PPT 01 Web Parts
· PPT 02 Data Lists
· PPT 03 Event Handlers
· PPT 05 Silverlight
We will update the download once the remaining Hands on Labs are available.
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This download enables you evaluate Office SharePoint Server 2007 VHD

Just in case a rember : The Microsoft VHD Test Drive Program provides customers with an enhanced server-based software evaluation experience that’s faster, better supported and more flexible. You can now access the entire catalog of pre-configured Microsoft and partner products and solutions in the VHD format and start evaluating and testing today from www.microsoft.com/vhd. This download enables you evaluate Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 is an integrated suite of server capabilities that can help improve organizational effectiveness by providing comprehensive content management and enterprise search, accelerating shared business processes, and facilitating information-sharing across boundaries for better business insight.

Office SharePoint Server 2007 supports all intranet, extranet, and Web applications across an enterprise within one integrated platform, instead of relying on separate fragmented systems. Additionally, this collaboration and content management server provides IT professionals and developers with the platform and tools they need for server administration, application extensibility, and interoperability.

This fully functional pre-configured VHD provides you a trial software will automatically expire after 30 days. This is a preconfigured virtual machine contained within the Virtual Hard Disk (VHD) format.

Virtual Server 2005 R2 is required to run this VHD. Please refer to the system requirements section for more details. Download details: Office SharePoint Server 2007 VHD
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Download details: Volume Licensing Program Guides

Download details: Volume Licensing Program Guides

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Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Demo: Boost teamwork with a wiki

Download details: Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Demo: Boost teamwork with a wiki

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Linking SharePoint to Outlook 2007

Linking SharePoint to Outlook 2007 As indicated by the title of this article, these features are only available with Outlook 2007 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007. Starting with Office 2007 Microsoft has provided direct integration between the Office client and server. This integration should help organizations to collaborate more effectively. In addition, these features should assist in the migration away from using Public Folders in Exchange for some of the areas covered below....
read more on : http://www.outlookexchange.com/articles/JasonSherry/sherry_c24p1.asp

Additional Information
My Tips & Issues (w/ resolutions) list: http://info.izzy.org/Technical/Lists/Issues%20%20Tips/ Integrating SharePoint Calendars with Outlook 2007 Integrating SharePoint Task into Outlook 2007 Microsoft PPT on Office 2007 Integration o Getting started guide to SharePoint and Office 2007 integration Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Document o This white paper describes how different versions of Office programs work together with the 2003 and 2007 versions of SharePoint technologies. Outlook and SharePoint Integration – Jose Barreto’s Blog

Conclusion
By linking SharePoint lists, which allow for easy updating by multiple users, users will be able to collaborate on projects and other items easier than before. The additional support provided by alerts and versioning also makes managing a project and the related items possible with Outlook alone. Welcome to Outlook Exchange

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SharePoint Training - SharePoint End User Trining Kit

View the end user training content. (SharePoint End User Trining Kit)

Click on the "End User Training" tab above to view how the training will look when installed on your server (you can change the theme if you don't like the lively yellow ;-)

You will need to log on as corp\demouser with a password of pass@word1

Installing the SharePoint and Designer Training Kits?

There are a couple of common problems that people have experienced when installing the portal version of the training kits so I thought I would cover off a few of the expectations and known problems with SharePoint environments.

The training kits are based on the SharePoint Learning Kit which is an application in its own right that exposes management, configuration and user interaction through SharePoint pages. Although you don't have to install the SLK as it is included with the training kit, if you want to understand more about how the e-learning platform works you should look at http://www.codeplex.com/slk

Download locations for the training kits are:
SharePoint End User http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=673dc932-626a-4e59-9dca-16d685600a51&displaylang=en
SharePoint Designer http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=6a429664-a911-4ad3-9856-f1b0ae7a136e&displaylang=en

read more on : Home - SharePoint Training on WSSDemo (thanks Ian).
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See also :
Office SharePoint Server 2007 Training : The Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Training, built on the Microsoft SharePoint Learning Kit, is designed for server administrators to install on an Office SharePoint Server site to help end-users learn about Office SharePoint Server.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=673dc932-626a-4e59-9dca-16d685600a51&displaylang=en

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 offers a rich set of features that allow you to build and maintain powerful intranets and Internets for your company. You can manage workflow, maintain version control, connect to business intelligence applications, track key performance indicators for your business, add blogs and wikis to improve knowledge transfer and enhance collaboration, and more.

The Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Training Portal Edition, built on the Microsoft SharePoint Learning Kit, is designed for server administrators who want to help their end-users learn how to use the features of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.

The Training topics lead the learner step-by-step through beginning to advanced features, including Collaboration, Business Processes and Forms, Portals and Personalization, Search, Business Intelligence and Enterprise Content Management.

The Training includes videos, interactive tutorials, and articles. In addition, the material is SCORM compliant. You can easily add or remove training topics to fit your business needs. The Training also includes a reporting function that allows an administrator/trainer to track learners’ completed training topics. You can customize the Training to fit the look and feel of your own Office SharePoint Server site.

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Office SharePoint Server 2007 Training (Standalone Edition) : The Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Training Standalone Edition is designed to help you learn how to use the features of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=7BB3A2A3-6A9F-49F4-84E8-FF3FB71046DF&displaylang=en

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5 Rules to Live By When Interviewing for a SharePoint Job

In France, we have the same PB, a lot of compagny goes on MOSS, and after need training and knowledge : "There are a ton of blogs out there that tell you "questions to ask when interviewing a SharePoint person" which will help give you a baseline for what you should know technically. However, technical interview questions are somewhat easy to answer if you have done enough of them. I am not talking about the technical part of the interview, i'm more talking about how you are selling yourself as a SharePoint person to a client, which is important for you, but mostly important for the client in which you are interviewing." say Rob Foster

Rule 1: Know your specialty
The SharePoint platform is huge. I mean HUGE. You can specialize in most anything and just because you are a specialist in one area, you can't be grandfathered in as being a specialist in another area. For example, I specialize in SharePoint as it pertains to Social Networking and My Sites.
Does this make me an expert in Web Content Management (WCM) or the Business Data Catalog (BDC)? OF COURSE NOT!

Being honest, I haven't done much with the BDC, don't claim to be an expert, don't want to be (I'll leave that to Nick Swan). :-)
Know your specialty, be an expert in that specialty and then expand out. This can win you a lot of points and can give you a way to provide your client or potential employeer real value.

Rule 2: Try to understand what the client is trying to do with SharePoint
Ask questions during the interview, but don't give advice unless asked. Giving advice without fully understanding the environment that you are in can easily cause you to tank the interview. Even if you have answered everything perfectly, you can easily leave an impression that you are careless and don't think through situations if you "shoot from the hip".

Rule 3: Do not BS your answers
You would think that this is obvious, but folks I'm here to say that this happens more than not. If this is applicable to you, one of two things are going to happen.

Scenario 1: There is somewhat of a lack of understanding of the SharePoint platform in the management levels (e.g. the people that you will likely talk to at some point in your interview) that you can likely use some snazzy buzzwords and make it through. However, when the rubber meets the road and you actually have to deliver a solution, you can quickly get in over your head and will either not deliver or deliver something that doesn't scale, doesn't work, or is just screwed up.

Scnerio 2: During the interview, someone that is interviewing you understands the platform and knows you're blowing smoke. End result: you won't get the gig and could hurt your chances for future gigs in that segment of the market. Let's face it, being a SharePoint person is a small community of people (compared to larger technologies like ASP.NET, C#, etc.) and they do talk (we're collaboration people, remember!).

Bottom line, just be honest. If you don't know, just say so...Being in an interview (of any type) is not like an evening at the improv.

Rule 4: You can't save the world with SharePoint, don't sell it that way
Yes, the SharePoint platform can do a lot and offers a lot to the enterprise. Don't try to go in and cure cancer with SharePoint. SharePoint implementations require a lot of planning and design to ensure success.

That's right folks...

Despite the myths, SharePoint IS a platform that is constantly evolving and companies must plan for this. This rule is more for companies than for people that are interviewing. Bottom line is that if someone tries to come in and solve all of your business problems with SharePoint in something crazy like 2 weeks, you might want to think very hard before making the decision to hire.

Rule 5: Constantly hone your craft
As with any product or platform, you are going to experience some ups and downs with SharePoint. Use this experience and learn from your successes and mistakes.

It will help you in the future.

Also, highlight these experiences in your interview.

How did you solve a problem when your SharePoint application took a nose dive?
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Hopefully that it will give you something to think about as well as help you out when you go for that next SharePoint job.


5 Rules to Live By When Interviewing for a SharePoint Job by Rob Foster's House of Southern-Fried SharePoint

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The TOOLS of David Mann - SharePoint and the Office System » Blog Archive » Philly Code Camp: Using Tools to make SharePoint Development Easier

David Mann say: here are the tools demonstrated at Code Camp session
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STSDev - www.codeplex.com/stsdev
SharePoint Inspector: http://www.codeplex.com/spi
U2U CAML Builder: http://www.u2u.info/SharePoint/U2U%20Community%20Tools/U2U%20Caml%20Query%20Builder%202007%20v3.0.2.0.zip
SharePoint Tips Utility Pack: http://www.codeplex.com/spstipsUtilityPack
App Pool Manager: http://www.harbar.net/articles/APM.aspx
Reflector: http://www.aisto.com/roeder/dotnet/
“Attach to Process” script: http://www.andrewconnell.com/blog/archive/2006/05/10/3110.aspx
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One other thing I forgot to mention in all of the projector-problem mayhem: if you are interested in learning more about SharePoint and Office development, including FREE SharePoint developer training, please consider joining the Office Geeks User Group.
More information is available here: http://www.officegeeks.org/philly
or by email: geeks_at_kcdholdings-dot-com.
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SharePoint Resources - Register for the SharePoint Introduction...

In this 10-part series, you will receive practical technical information from Robert Bogue and Andrew Connell, Microsoft SharePoint Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs), covering 10 fundamental developer topics on SharePoint Products and Technologies via Live Meeting Webcast.

About the series:
· Every Tuesday and Wednesday from May 20 to June 18
· Starts at 9:00 AM Pacific Standard Time (12:00 PM Eastern Standard Time)
· 60 minutes long

Click on the Register Today! links to learn more about the specifics covered in each webcast

Date :
Webcast Title and Topics
21-May-08
Introduction to SharePoint for .NET Developers: Data Lists Register Today!
20-May-08
Introduction to SharePoint for .NET Developers: Web Parts Register Today!
27-May-08
Introduction to SharePoint for .NET Developers: Silverlight and SharePoint Register Today!
28-May-08
Introduction to SharePoint for .NET Developers: Using Event Handlers Register Today!
3-Jun-08
Introduction to SharePoint for .NET Developers: Page Branding Register Today!
4-Jun-08
Introduction to SharePoint for .NET Developers: Workflows Register Today!
10-Jun-08
Introduction to SharePoint for .NET Developers: Web Services Register Today!
11-Jun-08
Introduction to SharePoint for .NET Developers: Page Navigation Register Today!
17-Jun-08
Introduction to SharePoint for .NET Developers: User Management Register Today!
18-Jun-08
Introduction to SharePoint for .NET Developers: Custom Content Types Register Today!
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NEW : Microsoft TechNet Forums

We are moving TechNet into a more open and community/social based world. I hear a lot of debate as to whether IT Professionals will see value in features such as social bookmarking, tagging, and other community types of features that seem to be popular for example with developers. As someone that spent 10 years as an IT professional prior to Microsoft, I have my opinion... Dan Truax on Microsoft TechNet Forums
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Arpan Shah's Blog : SharePoint End User Security

Security covers a number of topics when it comes to software. Everything from locking down a system to end user security. There is absolutely no doubt that security is extremely important and should be taken seriously. And it's no surprise that security is one of the most frequently asked questions when I present to executives and IT professionals. So here's my attempt at providing the SharePoint End User Security 101 covering different aspects of what enterprises need to think about. By no means is this article comprehensive, but touches upon aspects of SharePoint end user security that I get asked about frequently. read more on : Arpan Shah's Blog : SharePoint End User Security Thanks Arpan for this article in 7 points
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Club Starter Kit - CODEPLEX

Club Starter Kit - Home ClubStarterKit Version 3 BETA 1 Released
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SharePoint For Developers many Webcast...

SharePoint for Developers What's the deal with Windows SharePoint Server (WSS 3.0) and Microsoft Office SharePoint Services?
"Lynn Langit and I are doing a webcast series on Windows SharePoint 3.0 as a platform for developers and looking at the tools and technologies available for customizing portals and sites."
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Here is our schedule so far: New Stuff!
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3/6/2008 - Part 13 - Customizing SharePoint: Ever wondered how you can use SharePoint but have your own custom look and feel? In this webcast we will look at the site customization techniques of creating custom MasterPages, Themes and Layouts to give your web site your own look and feel.
3/13/2008 - Part 14 - SharePoint and Authentication: In this session we cover the basics and how to use the Authentication and Membership Providers. We look at creating a custom provider and CardSpace can be used to login to your SharePoint site. This session will look at the advanced tools available in IIS 7.0 for configuring and deploying SharePoint.
3/20/2008 - Part 15 - SharePoint and AJAX: Explore the world of modern web development techniques by looking at how Microsoft’s AJAX library and SharePoint can be used together to deliver compelling user experience. In this webcast we show the various approaches to integrating AJAX in WSS 3.0 and then cover what’s improved in sp1.
3/27/2008 - Part 16 - SharePoint and SilverLight: Rich User Experience is getting easier to create with the release of Silverlight. In this session we show how Silverlight takes advantage of XAML and provides an easy way to build compelling user interfaces. We will demonstrate using the 1.0 version of Silverlight as well as what’s new in 2.0 that allows the developer and designer to collaborate to build exciting new applications.
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Links to the original 12 webcasts:
Part 1 – SharePoint for Developers 4/13/2007 1 pm PST: Join the first webcast of this four-part series to find out what you need to know about Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 as a developer. We cover the basics of SharePoint Server 2007, and we show how you can use this new product to simplify collaboration, development, and management of your software projects. Learn what it takes to set up SharePoint Server 2007, customize the master pages, and how you can use other tools to develop custom applications. Attend this session to discover compelling reasons for choosing the new 2007 Microsoft Office system and SharePoint Server 2007 for your solution development needs.
Part 2 – SharePoint Designer 2007 4/16/2006 1 pm PST: There are many tools to choose from for developing Web sites; in this second installment of our series, we look at Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007, a new product for creating standards-based Web sites. See how you can build powerful applications on the Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies platform to enhance your productivity and deliver rich-looking sites. Join this session to learn how you can use SharePoint Designer 2007 to take advantage of Microsoft ASP.NET version 2.0, Web Parts, and integration with SharePoint Products and Technologies.
Part 3 – Migrating to SharePoint 4/23/2006 1 pm PST: Do you have a portal site that you would like to host in Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services? In this third installment of our series on Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies for developers, see what is involved in the process of moving a portal site to Windows SharePoint Services. Topics we cover include: using Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 to customize the master page, creating new content types, and working with workflow.
Part 4 – SharePoint and Access 2007 4/30/2007 1 pm PST: So far in this webcast series, we covered how Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies serve as powerful collaboration tools. In this final session, we take a look at how Microsoft Office Access 2007 integrates with Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services. Join this session to learn how Access 2007, the popular data management application, and Windows SharePoint Services enable you to centralize and simplify data management, and share data across your organization.
Part 5 – SharePoint and Workflow 5/11/2007 1 pm PST: In this webcast, we discuss the ability to use, update, and create custom workflows that you can employ in your Windows SharePoint Services site. We show the built-in workflow capabilities in Windows SharePoint Services, and we also demonstrate what customizations are available. In addition, we describe how to use Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 to open, view, and modify included workflows. We conclude the presentation with a detailed demonstration of the capabilities of the Workflow Designer in SharePoint Designer 2007.
Part 6 – SharePoint and Content Types 5/18/2007 1 pm PST: Join this webcast as we review the concept of content types as they relate to Windows SharePoint Services sites. We explain the default (included) content types first. We then discuss why you may want to update the built-in content types or create your own. We also demonstrate how to create custom content types and provide several business examples of why and where you might wish to do this. We conclude this session by showing some of the newly created content types in action on a Windows SharePoint Services site.
Part 7 – SharePoint and Forms Services 5/25/2007 1 pm PST: In this webcast, we explore Microsoft Office InfoPath 2007 as a form tool and describe how you can host forms centrally via the InfoPath Forms Services feature of Windows SharePoint Services version 3.0. We provide an overview of InfoPath 2007, demonstrating both how to customize an included template form and how to create a custom form that connects to Microsoft SQL Server. Next, we illustrate how to configure the Windows SharePoint Services administrative Web site, which is required to set up appropriate permissions (and other settings) to use InfoPath Forms Services.
Part 8 – SharePoint and the Business Data Catalog 6/1/2007 10 am PST: Join this webcast as we explain the concepts surrounding the Business Data Catalog (BDC), a new business integration feature in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. We demonstrate the use of an application definition file (ADF) to create the connection between your Windows SharePoint Services site and a custom data source, and we show you how to use an ADF creation tool. Learn to use BDC-derived data with included Web parts, such as the filtering Web part. We conclude this webcast with a discussion of the various ways we have worked with the BDC in production.
Part 9 – Web Parts and Work Flows 6/8/2007 10 am PST: In this webcast, we discuss and demonstrate the creation of Web parts and workflows for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. We use Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Extensions for Windows SharePoint Services and the Microsoft .NET Framework version 3.0 workflow extensions to customize and create both Web parts and workflows. Join us to learn about the concept of features as they relate to SharePoint Server 2007 Web Parts.
Part 10 – Sites and Templates 6/15/2007 10 am PST: In this webcast, we dive into how the Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Extensions for Windows SharePoint Services can enable you to take Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 even further. We start with an overview of project types and show how you can add event handlers, site definitions, and more into your tool belt. We look at creating site templates and master pages for SharePoint Server 2007, and we provide an example of how to customize and replace templates
Part 11 – SharePoint and Business Intelligence 6/22/2007 10 am PST: In this webcast, we discuss business intelligence (BI) (advanced reporting) integration with your Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Web site. We demonstrate configuration of Excel Services in SharePoint Server 2007, key performance indicators (KPIs), and more. We use the Report Center template and show you how you can easily integrate line-of-business (LOB) data into your site
Part 12 – Developing SharePoint Workflows 7/6/2007 10 am PST: Windows SharePoint Services provides excellent facilities for working with business processes. In this "webcast by request," we review the workflow development processes associated with Windows SharePoint Services. We look at the included workflows, modifying workflows in Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007, and creating and modifying workflows in the Microsoft Visual Studio development system.

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Automate Web App Deployment with the SharePoint API

Read an excellent article on MOSS / MSDN - Learn how to automate custom SharePoint application deployments, use the SharePoint API, and avoid the hassle of custom site definitions. by Ethan Wilansky - Paul Olszewski - Rick Sneddon is a Senior Infrastructure Specialist for EDS in its Integration Engineering practice and an MCSE.

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In this article, we will show you how to automate custom SharePoint application deployments by taking advantage of the SharePoint API. Following this approach allows you to avoid having to create and maintain a custom site definition. You benefit from a more modular set of components to deploy and manage in your source control system, which is an essential part of a continuous integration effort. Finally, you are following a model that Microsoft will continue to improve in the coming years.
We will explain how you can leverage the SharePoint object model to automate deployment from Web application creation to Feature activation. The Visual Studio® code project included with this article provides a number of code samples that demonstrate how to automate some essential tasks in a custom deployment.
Along the way, we will explore tools and techniques provided by Microsoft and members of the SharePoint developer community that we have found to be especially valuable in your quest toward a fully automated deployment. Read all in MOSS 2007: Automate Web App Deployment with the SharePoint API - Code download available... by E. Wilansky, P. Olszewski, and R. Sneddon
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See also in the mag of May 2008
Office Apps: Integrate VSTO with SharePoint Content Types
See how to build a document-level Visual Studio Tools for Office customization and integrate it with a content type in SharePoint. Steve Fox
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MSN Vidéo of Mike Gannotti

Four vidéo on MOSS, Wikis, Blog.... MSN Vidéo

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Backup Office SharePoint Server 2007 - Video Demo

Several tools are available to back up Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. This demo focuses on the built-in tools, which are the stsadm command-line tool and the Perform a Backup page in Central Administration. Demo: Backup Office SharePoint Server 2007 (from TechNet Library mars 2008).
See also : Shows how to create and set the required permissions on a backup location that you can use for backing up Office SharePoint Server 2007 using the built-in tools. http://technet.microsoft.com/fr-fr/library/cc263097(en-us).aspx

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TechNet Magazine Issues from 2008

A mag. on MOSS in Februrary.

TechNet Magazine Issues from 2008
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SharePoint Joel with the Community kit SPS Enhanced Blogging Edition 2.0

SharePoint Joel he do a new blog, why ! Because SharePoint !

This blog is built on WSS 3.0 with SP1 on x64 + the Post SP1 QFE rollup with the Community kit Enhanced Blogging Edition 2.0 (with trackbacks, pingbacks, caching, anonymous comment moderation and optional Akismet key!!!) on Windows Server 2008 with 2GB quota.

It's all built in a clean virtual image and hosted by SharePointhosting.com.

Thanks guys you've been extremely responsive, awesome turnaround this morning!

Two thumbs up :)

Thanks Bob Fox... great referral. So far, I'm impressed.

What is this blog and what's under the covers?

SharePoint (normal it's Joel's BLOG)

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CryptoCollaboration For SharePoint 2007 on CODEPLEX

Project Description Crypto Collaboration for SharePoint 2007
(works for both Microsoft Office Server 2007 as well as Windows SharePoint Services 3.0)

Presents a native end-to-end encryption solution targeted at SharePoint lists and their related metadata.

One of the largest tribulations that exists within current collaboration systems is the reliance on making objects security aware based solely on provided principle attributes, characteristically noticed in SharePoint through its indigenous options for security trimming the interface. While this is certainly a method that promotes some level of privacy, security, and data integrity, it does not account for data storage while information is considered in a transitional state.

Furthermore, this is amplified by the fact that numerous industry regulations require that when organizational data is stored in a system as SharePoint, that it is not directly callable in plain text, however promotes a secondary layer of privacyCryptoCollaboration is broken up into two primary segments, the Crypto Collaboration Encryption Engine (CEE) and its related SharePoint interface components.

The CEE is called directly from the ECB (Edit Content Block) menu provided by the native SharePoint ListFormWebPart (your orthodox SharePoint list interface), pooling all the fields that are considered encryption worthy and encrypting or decrypting them based on user interaction. Since there are current limitations to the fields out of an arbitrary list item that can be harvested (field types such as URL’s demand that certain formats be used and therefore cannot be subject to encryption operations).

Once the encryption / decryption operations are triggered, the CEE will encrypt / decrypt the stored fields with an algorithm that the user selects out of the interface (currently supported encryption algorithms are RC2, Rijndael (AES), Triple DES, or BlowFish).

All code that the CEE leverages is CLS-Compliant and 100% managed.

There are three files that are included in this release.

CryptoCollaboration Installation v 0.0.0.1.doc - This document contains the instructions for installing the CryptoCollaboration SharePoint Solution file.
CryptoCollaboration Operations Instructions v 0.0.0.1.doc - This document contains the operations guide for using the CryptoCollaboration product itself.
CryptoCollaboration.zip - Contains the SharePoint solution file and the deployment files that are required to use CryptoCollaboration in your environment.

CryptoCollaboration For SharePoint 2007 - Home Release Date mars 23 2008
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Auto Complete text field and What's new web part

Today i've stumbled upon two new goodies at Jan Tielen's blog:

1- the first one is the auto complete text field :

"The idea is pretty simple: you've got a SharePoint list (or document library) that contains some interesting lookup data, now you can make use of the Autocomplete Text Field to display a textbox to the user that will show a dropdown list of items that start with the text the user already entered. When the user types more (or less) text, the dropdown list will adapt to that and update the contents. All of this is made available as a new column type (aka custom field type) in SharePoint 2007. The beauty of this field is that it doesn't need to do a page postback to refresh the data, the ASP.NET AJAX extensions are used to fetch the data in the background"

get it from here

2- what's new web part for MOSS:Improved version of what's new web part jan developed for SPS.
get it from hereThank you Jan for your Great Efforts

Mohamed Zaki's Blog [Sharepoint MVP]
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WROX Pro MOSS WCM 2007 Book: It's Finally Finished! (available June 2008)

It's been a long process, but this week the light at the end of the tunnel was very bright. Yup, the book I've been working on for the better part of the last 9 months is finally finished. The book, Professional Professional SharePoint 2007 Web Content Management Development: Building Publishing Sites with Office SharePoint Server 2007, is for developers who are working on building Publishing sites using MOSS 2007. I did not spend a great deal of time rehashing a lot of WSS 3.0 concepts, there's not much in the way of Excel Services, Forms Services (aside from the forms in the workflow chapter), SSP's or BDC... it's 100% pure Publishing sites.

Right now the manuscript is 100% complete... WROX has everything and there is nothing left to write. The book is now in process of getting prepp'ed for printing by the production folks at WROX... looks like it will be available sometime in the next 2 months... definitely in time for TechEd in Orlando. It is presently available Amazon for preorder.

Here's what the complete TOC looks like:

Embarking on Web Content Management Projects
Windows SharePoint Server 3.0 Development Primer
Overview of Web Content Management in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
SharePoint Features and the Solution Framework
Minimal Publishing Site Definition
Site Columns, Content Types and Lists
Master Pages and Page Layouts
Navigation
Accessibility
Field Types and Field Controls
Web Parts
Leveraging Workflow
Search
Authoring Experience Extensibility
Authentication and Authorization
Implementing Sites with Multiple Languages and Devices
Content Deployment
Offline Authoring with Document Converters
Performance Tips, Tricks and Traps
Incorporating ASP.NET 2.0 Applications

No way could I have completed this work on my own... books like this always have a lot of people involved. First, I have to extend a huge thanks to Spencer Harbar for being instrumental in developing the structure, tone and contributing a few chapters to the book as well as Bob German, Matt McDermott and John Holliday who all contributed chapters (6 in total). I also owe a big thanks to a few people at Microsoft for supporting and answering some detailed questions I had in the process: Arpan Shah (who also wrote the forward), Jim Masson, George Perantatos and Tyler Butler.

In addition, this book was tech reviewed by some fantastic individuals. The folks at Ascentium stepped up and reviewed a ton of content under the leadership of Jason Conway: Stefan Gordon, Cale Hoops, Jared Lasater, George Olson, Michael Panciroli, Clint Simon, Roxana Tzau & Thomas Wyrick. It was also tech reviewed by some of my fellow SharePoint MVPs such as Patrick Tisseghem and a special hats off to Dan Attis & Brendon Schwartz who really jumped in at the last minute to help meet a deadline.
I can't wait to see the finished product as I'm really happy with how this thing came together. I hope you enjoy it too when it's available!

WROX Pro MOSS WCM 2007 Book: It's Finally Finished! (available June 2008)

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SPViewPermissionSetting (Powered by Laurent Cotton Aka Suchii - Bewise) - Home

SPViewPermissionSetting (Powered by Laurent Cotton Aka Suchii - Bewise) - Home

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MOSS Feature Generator on CODEPLEX

The MOSS Feature Generator generates features out of existing functionalities on a MOSS 2007 site. This includes Site Columns, Content Types and ListTemplates (including schema.xml and forms). The tool will be expanded in two ways: a build tree will be created to make it possible to create dependant features in an organized way, and the number of supported features will be expanded. Read also : http://www.sharepointblogs.com/alfred/default.aspx

Site Columns (Feature.xml, Elements.xml)

Content Types (Feature.xml, Elements.xml)

List Templates (Feature.xml, Elements.xml, Schema.xml, AllItems.aspx, DispForm.aspx, NewForm.aspx, EditForm.aspx)

MOSS Feature Generator - Home (from CODEPLEX)

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SharePoint Internal Buzz Kit

Internal Buzz Kit : Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 dramatically changes the way people work – for the better. The Internal Buzz Kit is designed to help you generate demand for your newly deployed SharePoint Server 2007 sites, increasing your Return on Investment.
You may need to revise some of the pieces in the Kit, depending upon your particular deployment environment and company policies. You may download all the materials in one file, or download them separately. SharePoint Internal Buzz Kit
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Microsoft Office SharePoint Conference 2008 Virtual Pressroom

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 is one of the fastest growing products in Microsoft Corp. history.
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This week, March 3–6, over 3,000 IT professionals and decision-makers have gathered in Seattle for the sold-out Microsoft Office SharePoint Conference 2008 to experience demos, informational sessions and keynote addresses by Bill Gates and Kurt DelBene.

Microsoft also announced news regarding the expansion of Microsoft Online Services, general availability of Microsoft Search Server 2008 Express, and the availability of Silverlight Blueprint for SharePoint.

On March 3rd, the first day of the sold out SharePoint Conference in Seattle, Bill Gates will announce, during his keynote session at 9AM PST (18:00 for the French), Microsoft's Exchange Online and SharePoint Online services being available on a per user subscription basis to organizations of all sizes.
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Microsoft Office SharePoint Conference 2008March 3-6, 2008Washington State Trade and Convention Center, Seattle
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Microsoft Office SharePoint Conference 2008 Virtual Pressroom
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Silverlight for SharePoint Blueprint

Software-plus-Services Blueprints are a series of source code and guidance packages designed to provide an architectural bridge between vision and implementation by making it easier to build Software-plus-Services applications. Silverlight for SharePoint Blueprint
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As a starting point for building real solutions by architects and developers, each Software-plus-Services Blueprint includes code and/or utilities, guidance, structured step-by-step workflow and tools delivered within Visual Studio.
Each Software-plus-Services Blueprint is focused on media/community, eCommerce, Office Business Applications (OBA), mobility or other future Software-plus-Services application areas.

They range in complexity from rapid development packages to complete end-to-end scenarios.

http://www.ssblueprints.net/sharepoint/

http://channel9.msdn.com/wiki/default.aspx/Channel9.SoftwarePlusServicesBlueprints

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Software-plus-Services Blueprints are a series of open source frameworks and workflow-based guidance packages designed to provide an architectural bridge and reduce the friction you experience building real-world Software-plus-Services applications. As a starting point for both architects and developers who are building real solutions,, each Software-plus-Services Blueprint includes source code and/or utilities, guidance, structured step-by-step workflow-based guidance and tools delivered within Visual Studio 2008.
Each Software-plus-Services Blueprint is focused on specific application areas such as: media/community, eCommerce, Office Business Applications (OBA), mobility and more.
They range in complexity from rapid development packages to complete end-to-end scenarios.Software-plus-Services Blueprints are released under the terms of the Microsoft Public License and you are free to use the code, in its original form, or modified it to serve your needs, within the terms of this license, in your products and websites.
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You can download the Software-plus-Services Blueprints Manager as well as standalone versions of the Software-plus-Services Blueprints by clicking on the Releases tab and select "Software-plus-Services Blueprints Manager - VS2008" on CODEPLEX : http://www.codeplex.com/ssblueprints

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SharePoint Community Portal - SPC2008

SharePoint Community Portal Home - SPC2008

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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.

Symantec Backup Exec 12 is available for a free 60-day evaluation.

Symantec Backup Exec™ 12 for Windows Servers is the gold standard in Windows data protection, providing proven, efficient, certified disk-to-disk-to-tape backup and recovery for Windows-based environments. Delivering optimized data protection for Microsoft® Windows® Server 2008 plus true continuous data protection for file servers, workstations and Microsoft Exchange and SQL servers, reducing the backup windows and ensuring companies meet strict recovery point objectives.
You are downloading a fully-functioning version of Backup Exec 12 that includes all advanced Agents and Options.

Eliminate your backup windows with Continuous Data Protection
Recover individual emails, documents and user properties In Seconds (Exchange, SharePoint, Active Directory)
New integration benefits with Enterprise Vault, Symantec Endpoint Protection and Symantec Online Storage.
Delivers scalable data protection of non-Windows servers through optimized remote agents.
Symantec Marketing Campaigns

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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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P. Erol GIRAUDY
Président des CLUBS MOSS et MUG
http://clubmoss2007.org
http://web02038.global-asp.net/frsharepoint/default.aspx

http://www.microsoft.com/france/mstechdays/

Download details: SharePoint Capacity Planning Tool

Download details: SharePoint Capacity Planning Tool

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P. Erol GIRAUDY
Président des CLUBS MOSS et MUG
http://clubmoss2007.org
http://web02038.global-asp.net/frsharepoint/default.aspx

http://www.microsoft.com/france/mstechdays/

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P. Erol GIRAUDY
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