Setting Up a Virtual Lab with Hyper-V

Setting Up a Virtual Lab with Hyper-V - Bob Fox's SharePoint Blog

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Windows Server 2008 R2 RC Evaluation VHD Images (for Hyper-V)

The Microsoft VHD format is the common virtualization file format for Hyper-V that provides a uniform product support system, and provides more seamless manageability, security, reliability and cost-efficiency for customers.

This VHD release is available in English only and is for evaluation and testing purposes. The VHD images are current set to expire to on March 1st 2010 (at which time the OS will become inoperable.As this installation requires Hyper-V, you will need to have a base install of Windows Server 2008 (64bit edition) or Windows Server 2008 R2 RC, running Hyper-V.

For more information on obtaining and installing the latest version of Hyper-V, please visit the Hyper-V Homepage.Both virtual machines available here are running Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Edition Evaluation. One is the default full installation, and the other has been configured as a default Core installation. For more information on the difference between full and core installation please see the Windows Server 2008 Editions Overview pages.

For download options please see the IMAGE SELECTION section in the instructions below.As both virtual machines do not have anti-virus installed, they should not be connected to any network until it has anti-virus installed.n Download details: Windows Server 2008 R2 RC Evaluation VHD Images (for Hyper-V)

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WSS & MOSS SP2 is Available - 5 No Brainer Reasons to Install - SharePoint Joel's SharePoint Land

What I can say, just thanks Joel ! WSS & MOSS SP2 is Available - 5 No Brainer Reasons to Install - SharePoint Joel's SharePoint Land

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SharePoint Admin - Sharing The Point (SharePoint)

SharePoint Admin - Sharing The Point (SharePoint)

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Convert your Windows Server 2008 to a Workstation!

"This manual will help you to install Microsoft Windows Server 2008 and to configure your pc so you can use it as a workstation. Thanks to DAz999, you can also download the full manual as a 6MB pdf file from here! You can use the Windows Server 2008 Workstation Converter made by sawo if you want to automate the whole process. If you need any help, don’t hesitate to post your question on the forums. You can view screenshots of my final Windows Server 2008 workstation here.
If you are still not convinced why to use Windows Server 2008 as your workstation OS, read this article, and you will be installing Windows Server 2008 right after reading it!" ....
Convert your Windows Server 2008 to a Workstation!
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The Master Blog : Introducing the SharePoint MCM Program and the First Microsoft Certified SharePoint Masters!

"As the Program Manager for the SharePoint Master and MCA programs, I am pleased to introduce the programs and the first two groups of Certified SharePoint Masters! (Microsoft Certified Masters for SharePoint 2007)
To recap, the Alpha delivery (Rotation 1, or “R1”) was held in November of last year and the Beta delivery (R2) finished up in early April. Throughout this process I’ve had the great pleasure of working with the SharePoint MCM Instructor team to design, build, deliver, improve, update, redeliver, (repeat) the SharePoint MCM program.
The Instructor team is made up of 15 – 20 of the top subject matter experts in the world. Each Instructor is a SharePoint expert, either as members of the SharePoint Product Group or as deployment professionals in the field, and they’re exceptionally deep in the areas they instruct. Additionally, in a few target areas we pair Instructors with domain expertise in dependent technologies (SQL, AD, etc.) with SharePoint SMEs in the same area – such as paring our SQL Instructors (Paul Randal and Kimberly Tripp) with our resident SharePoint SQL SME (Bill Baer.)" The Master Blog : Introducing the SharePoint MCM Program and the First Microsoft Certified SharePoint Masters!:

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New in SP2 PreUpgradeCheck - Bob Fox's SharePoint Blog

"The lads in Redmond while busy hammering away at the next version of SharePoint ( SharePoint Server 2010) tossed in a nice little tool in SP2 to help us to ensure our environments are ready for the upgrade. The PreUpgradeCheck utility is a simple to use tool that is run from the command line :

stsadm –o preupgradecheck

I ran this on my test lab and was happy to see the following result:" read more on New in SP2 PreUpgradeCheck - Bob Fox's SharePoint Blog

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Windows 7 Release Candidate Now Available

Windows 7 Release Candidate Now Available: "Windows 7 Release Candidate is available for download today. It looks like you will only be able to download from TechNet or MSDN until May 5. I read somewhere that you would need to do a clean install from a Beta version of Windows 7. I will probably spend the weekend backing up my Dell, wiping it clean and installing Windows 7."

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Information Rights Management Application Patterns White Paper

Download details: Information Rights Management Application Patterns White Paper: "This white paper provides architecture and design guidance for building an Information Rights Management (IRM)-aware application using Microsoft Active Directory Rights Management Services (AD RMS). It presents a number of application patterns as well as best practices that you can use for developing IRM-aware applications. It covers basic consumer and publish scenarios as well as complex federated scenarios that make use of Active Directory Federations Services (AD FS). The IRM Application Patterns Reference Implementation (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=149875) available on MSDN implements the patterns discussed within this article."

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le SP2 d'Office System est disponible

Bonjour

le SP2 d'Office System est disponible et donc pour WSS et MOSS

EtienneL

Microsoft BizTalk Server

Enhance business agility with initiatives such as Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) and Business Process Management (BPM). Microsoft BizTalk Server 2009

BizTalk Server Delivers a Unified Platform for SOA and InteroperabilityBizTalk Server 2009 provides the infrastructure to connect existing applications (regardless of the platform) and to compose, expose, and consume new services. This allows you to get more out of the investments that you have already made and minimize the cost of integrating the new pieces of technology that you have acquired. Because BizTalk Server includes tools to connect both proprietary and standards based systems and pre-integrates with the .NET Framework, BizTalk Server is a central part of any SOA strategy.

Additionally, a broad array of technology and application adapters is available for BizTalk Server.

With out-of-the-box support for everything from transport protocols to high level integration with line of business applications such as PeopleSoft, SAP, Siebel and Oracle you choose how you want to connect applications, platforms and people.

Line of business application adaptersWS-* based standards and UDDI.NET Framework (WCF, Windows SharePoint Services, SQL Server, Microsoft Dynamics) Mainframe and midrange systemsXML and Web Services protocols (for example, SOAP) Business to business integration (EDI, AS2) Devices (RFID)
For a complete list of adapters and supported versions please visit BizTalk Server Adapters see also :
Microsoft BizTalk Server

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FAST - Company - News & Events - Events

FASTforward Summit - Engage Your User:

Users today expect to see and apply search on both external websites and at work within their organisation. However, next-generation capabilities are taking search far beyond the keyword search box these users are accustomed to, to help businesses respond to extreme challenges – including the User Revolution’s rising tide of user empowerment - in ground-breaking and effective ways. The FASTForward Summit will enable you to advance your knowledge and gain insight into leading-edge innovations in search that address the increasing demands of an empowered, user-focused audience. The event will stretch your thinking around new ways to apply search to solve your business challenges, and Engage Your Users with rich, dynamic search-driven experiences that will not only change the way people interact with information but also drive business results.
The FASTforward Summit will include: FAST - Company - News & Events - Events

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5 Minute Screencast: Hack the SharePoint Wiki Interface | End User SharePoint

5 Minute Screencast: Hack the SharePoint Wiki Interface

During the live online workshops, I’ve been showing people how to use an HTML template to place a wrapper around wiki content to constrain the horizontal width and provide a master menu. Peter Allen from Bits of SharePoint ran with the idea and created a No Deployment Solution for hacking the wiki interface that any site manager or site collection manager with access to the Masterpage can implement.
Check out the screencast and then head over to Bits of SharePoint for the deep dive. Great work Peter, thanks. 5 Minute Screencast: Hack the SharePoint Wiki Interface End User SharePoint
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Getting Started with SharePoint

Free Paper - "Getting Started with SharePoint - The Basics" :

If your organization is considering-or has already committed to-implementing Microsoft SharePoint as its communication, collaboration and document management platform, then it's time for you as an IT administrator to start doing your homework.

There is no shortage of information available on the subject. In fact there is so much available information that it's easy to get overwhelmed, especially if you are just starting out.
The purpose of this white paper is to provide you with a starting point by describing some of the basic, most fundamental SharePoint concepts. White Paper - Getting Started with SharePoint

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HinshLabs - Home

RDdotNET / HinshelwoodRDdotNet is an entity for Research and Development of .NET frameworks, sites and applications that do something interesting. Sometimes these componenets will be fully fleged real-world solutions and others that will be pure R&D of the capabilities of the .NET Framework. HinshLabs - Home

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Office SharePoint Server 2007

By John Holliday, MVP Office SharePoint Server 2007

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Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog : Microsoft SharePoint “14” is now Microsoft SharePoint 2010

 

Microsoft SharePoint “14” is now Microsoft SharePoint 2010

You have probably seen the news announcement today where we announced the public beta for the new Microsoft Exchange Server 2010. As part of that announcement, we also talked about some of the names for the “14” wave of products including Microsoft Office 2010 and Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010. I wanted to answer some questions that I think will inevitably pop to the top of your mind:

What happened to the Office piece of the name? We love MOSS. . . .

Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog : Microsoft SharePoint “14” is now Microsoft SharePoint 2010

Next Wave of Microsoft Office Products Will Redefine How People Work: Q&A: Chris Capossela, senior vice president of Microsoft’s Information Worker Product Management Group, discusses what people and businesses can expect from the upcoming release of Micro

 

Capossela: We’re announcing that Microsoft will begin releasing new versions of Office-related products this year. Exchange 2010 will be the first product in this lineup, entering beta for customers to download today. Exchange 2010 will become available in the second half of 2009. Office 2010 — including Office Web applications, SharePoint Server 2010, Visio 2010 and Project 2010 — will enter a technical preview in the third quarter of 2009 and will release to manufacturing in the first half of 2010.

Next Wave of Microsoft Office Products Will Redefine How People Work: Q&A: Chris Capossela, senior vice president of Microsoft’s Information Worker Product Management Group, discusses what people and businesses can expect from the upcoming release of Microsoft Exchange Server, Office, SharePoint Server, Visio and Project.

Mots clés Technorati : moss,sharepoint 2010

Microsoft Exchange Server 2010

The latest release of Exchange can help you achieve better business outcomes while controlling the costs of deployment, administration, and compliance. Exchange delivers the widest range of deployment options, integrated information leakage protection, and advanced compliance capabilities, that combine to form the best messaging and collaboration solution available.

Highlights

• Microsoft Unveils Exchange 2010 with Public Beta

  The public beta of Microsoft Exchange Server 2010, part of Microsoft's unified communications family, is now available. Exchange 2010 is the first server in a new generation of Microsoft server technology designed and developed to work on-premises and as an online service, and introduces a new integrated e-mail archive and features to reduce costs and improve the user experience.

• Learn how you can reduce costs and drive business productivity with Exchange

  Exchange enables you to significantly lower your overhead while simultaneously boosting your performance. Learn how you can save money by consolidating messaging servers and voice mail, reducing storage costs, preventing exposure, and more.

• Watch new Exchange 2010 features and functionality in action

  Check out the new Exchange 2010 features and functionality in action by viewing these short videos.  See the ways that Exchange 2010 can help you lower costs and enhance business outcomes.

Microsoft Exchange Server 2010

Microsoft Exchange Server 2010

The latest release of Exchange can help you achieve better business outcomes while controlling the costs of deployment, administration, and compliance. Exchange delivers the widest range of deployment options, integrated information leakage protection, and advanced compliance capabilities, that combine to form the best messaging and collaboration solution available.

Highlights

• Microsoft Unveils Exchange 2010 with Public Beta

  The public beta of Microsoft Exchange Server 2010, part of Microsoft's unified communications family, is now available. Exchange 2010 is the first server in a new generation of Microsoft server technology designed and developed to work on-premises and as an online service, and introduces a new integrated e-mail archive and features to reduce costs and improve the user experience.

• Learn how you can reduce costs and drive business productivity with Exchange

  Exchange enables you to significantly lower your overhead while simultaneously boosting your performance. Learn how you can save money by consolidating messaging servers and voice mail, reducing storage costs, preventing exposure, and more.

• Watch new Exchange 2010 features and functionality in action

  Check out the new Exchange 2010 features and functionality in action by viewing these short videos.  See the ways that Exchange 2010 can help you lower costs and enhance business outcomes.

Microsoft Exchange Server 2010

Download details: SharePoint Capacity Planning Tool

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.

http://technet.microsoft.com/fr-fr/library/bb961988(en-us).aspx

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/wss/2/all/adminguide/en-us/stsb07.mspx?mfr=true

Microsoft System Center Capacity Planner 2007 is a pre-deployment capacity planning and post-deployment change analysis solution for Microsoft server products, including Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, and Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007.

http://www.microsoft.com/systemcenter/en/us/capacity-planner.aspx

Capacity Planning for Windows SharePoint Services

Published: July 30, 2004

This topic describes performance and scalability guidelines for Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services. The goal is to provide administrators with the information they need to purchase hardware, choose a server configuration, and manage the capacity of their Windows SharePoint Services deployments.

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/wss/2/all/adminguide/en-us/stsb07.mspx?mfr=true

System Center Capacity Planner 2007 Help Videos

Help videos are brief walkthroughs of features in System Center Capacity Planner 2007. Product team members demonstrate basic tasks using Capacity Planner.

Note: Windows Media Player is required to view the videos.

You can learn more about Capacity Planner 2007 at the product Web site.

Watch the Capacity Planner 2007 Help Videos
Help videos are brief walkthroughs of features in System Center Capacity Planner 2007. Product team members demonstrate basic tasks using Capacity Planner.

System Center Capacity Planner 2007 Download Catalog
A central location for all Capacity Planner 2007 downloads, including the product and all capacity planning models. The capacity planning model for System Center Operations Manager 2007 Service Pack 1 is now available.

Capacity Planner 2007 Self-help Resources
Find community and support resources to help you size and plan a new deployment in the most efficient manner using Capacity Planner.

Download details: SharePoint Capacity Planning Tool

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Download details: SQL Server Reporting Services Add-in for SharePoint Technologies

 

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services Add-in for SharePoint Technologies (Reporting Services Add-in) enables you to take advantage of SQL Server 2008 report processing and management capabilities within Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) 3.0 or Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. The download provides the following functionality:

• A Report Viewer Web Part that provides report viewing capability, export to other rendering formats, page navigation, search, print, and zoom.
• Web application pages so that you can create subscriptions and schedules, and manage reports, models, and data sources.
• Support for using standard Windows SharePoint Services features including document management, collaboration, security, and deployment with report server content types.

This Reporting Services Add-in works together with SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services, which is required for the report server instance. SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services provides the following functionality for a report server that runs in SharePoint integrated mode:

• Synchronization from the SharePoint content database to the report server database.
• A custom security extension that uses SharePoint permissions to control access to report server operations.
• A delivery extension that you can use in subscriptions to deliver reports to SharePoint libraries.
• A revised Reporting Services Configuration tool that you can use to configure a report server for SharePoint integrated operations.
• A SOAP endpoint for managing report server content in SharePoint integrated mode.
• Support for new data-driven subscriptions and URL parameters.
• In-place upgrade of the Reporting Services Add-in.

Report Builder 2.0 ClickOnce update for the RS SharePoint add-in
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Report Builder 2.0 provides an intuitive report authoring environment for business and power users. It supports the full capabilities of SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services. This download provides a ClickOnce update for the RS SharePoint add-in.
Warning:
The Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services Add-in for SharePoint Technologies requires a SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services (SSRS) instance. This add-in is not supported with earlier versions of SSRS.

Download details: SQL Server Reporting Services Add-in for SharePoint Technologies

 

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Calling the SharePoint Web Services with jQuery - Jan Tielens' Bloggings

If you read this blog you probably know that besides the web user interface, SharePoint also exposes some interfaces which you can use from code: the SharePoint object model and the SharePoint web services. The object model of SharePoint can only be used by code/applications that are running on a SharePoint server in your Server Farm, so you can’t use the object model on client machines. The SharePoint web services can be used of course across a network boundary, that’s what they are built for! In this post I’m going to show you how you can access the out-of-the-box SharePoint web services by making use of the jQuery Javascript library. First let’s see what you can do with this technique: download this zip file that contains an ASPX page (a basic Site Page without any code behind), and the jQuery Javascript library (in case you don’t have it already). Upload the two individual files (not the zip file) in the root of a Document Library in any of your SharePoint sites. You can do this by making use of the web user interface; you don’t have to touch anything on the server itself. When done, just click on the link of the uploaded ASPX and you’ll see following page

 

Calling the SharePoint Web Services with jQuery - Jan Tielens' Bloggings

Download details: Infrastructure Planning and Design

 

Infrastructure Planning and Design guides share a common structure, including:

• Definition of the technical decision flow through the planning process.
• Listing of decisions to be made and the commonly available options and considerations.
• Relating the decisions and options to the business in terms of cost, complexity, and other characteristics.
• Framing decisions in terms of additional questions to the business to ensure a comprehensive alignment with the appropriate business landscape.

These guides complement product documentation by focusing on infrastructure design options.
Each guide leads the reader through critical infrastructure design decisions, in the appropriate order, evaluating the available options for each decision against its impact on critical characteristics of the infrastructure. The IPD Series highlights when service and infrastructure goals should be validated with the organization and provides additional questions that should be asked of service stakeholders and decision makers.
IPD consists of the following downloadable packages:

• New! Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization
• New! Microsoft SQL Server 2008
• Exchange Online—Evaluating Software-plus-Services
• Internet Information Services 7.0
• IPD Series Introduction
• Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.5
• Selecting the Right NAP Architecture
• Selecting the Right Virtualization Technology
• System Center Configuration Manager 2007 SP1 with R2
• System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 with SP1
• System Center Operations Manager 2007
• System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008
• Windows Deployment Services
• Windows Optimized Desktop Scenarios
• Windows Server 2008 Active Directory Domain Services
• Windows Server 2008 File Services
• Windows Server 2008 Print Services
• Windows Server 2008 Terminal Services
• Windows Server Virtualization (for Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V and Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1)

The guides are available as individual downloads or as a single all-in-one package.
Note Windows Optimized Desktop Scenarios is available as an individual download only.
Send questions or feedback to us directly at SATfdbk@microsoft.com

Download details: Infrastructure Planning and Design

MOSS and SQL Server 2008 – Better Together

Evil Genius in Training : MOSS and SQL Server 2008 – Better Together

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Groove & SharePoint : A new whitepaper | It's all about Microsoft Office Groove

Groove & SharePoint : A new whitepaper It's all about Microsoft Office Groove

Displaying MS-Word files in a SharePoint Web Part using TextGlow and Silverlight

 

When Microsoft released their Office 2007 suite of applications they introduced the new Office Open XML standard as well. This XML standard would be the default format for all their applications and the structure of the files would be made an official ECMA standard.

As this standard is based on XML, the content of - for example - an MS-Word file should be relatively easy to parse and then do something useful with it. Something useful is in the eye of the beholder and James Newton King thought it was a good idea to set a couple of months aside and use it as a showcase for Silverlight 2.0, resulting in TextGlow, a Silverlight control that, you guessed it, can display MS-Word files.

This article shows you how to embed TextGlow into SharePoint and use it to display content stored in a Document Library. It is assumed that you are familiar with the Content Editor Web Part, if not then check out Todd Bleeker’s excellent resource on this topic.

 

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SharePoint Work Acceleration Toolkit 2007 aka (SWAT)

Download

SWAT User Guide

Works with: Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and Office SharePoint Server 2007

FREE!
Whether you are developing SharePoint code, creating a prototype or just trying to test out various aspects of the SharePoint framework, you quickly discover that designing and developing SharePoint, with all its moving parts, is time consuming and sometimes downright frustrating.
Well ... when the going gets tough it's time to call in SWAT!
SharePoint Work Acceleration Toolkit (SWAT) is a windows based utility aimed at simplifying and accelerating the creation and testing of SharePoint Solutions. With a whole host of time saving capabilities and planned integration with Universal SharePoint Manager 2007, you'll never want to take on SharePoint without it again.
SWAT Features and Capabilities:
Here is a short list of just some of the things SWAT can do. For a complete overview checkout the SWAT User Guide.

• Site Diagramming
  • Show a Site Structure as a Diagram
  • Save a Site Structure Diagram as a Image
  • Save a Site Structure Diagram as a SVG file (for importing into Visio)
  • Print a Site Diagram
  • Drag and Drop the design of a Site Structure
• Generate Test Data and Sites
  • Generate Random Sites for Testing
  • Auto Populate Lists/Libraries with Test Data (including Documents)
• Work with SharePoint Logs
  • View SharePoint Log Files in a preview window
  • Group and Filter Log file entries
• Work with Sites
  • Show a Site Structure in a Tree View (including security inheritence)
  • Create a Site Collection
  • Export and Import Site Structures
  • Backup and Restore Site Collections
  • View and Interact with site objects (Lists, Users, Roles, Features, Events, etc..)
  • Delete Sites and entire Site Structures
• Work with SharePoint Features
  • View Feature Status in Farm and on a Site
  • Install and Uninstall Features
  • Activate and Deactivate Features
• Work with SharePoint Solution Packages
  • Install and Deploy Solution Packages
  • View Solution Deployment Locations (Servers and Web Apps)
  • Deploy, Retract and Delete Solutions
• Work with SharePoint Jobs
  • View Job Status
  • Add and Schedule Jobs
  • Enable and Disable Jobs
  • Force Execution of Jobs
• Work with Event Receviers
  • Install Event Receivers for Sites and Lists
  • View and Manage Event Receivers
  • Delete Event Receivers
• Work with Web Parts
  • Add (Deploy) Web Parts to multiple sites/pages
  • Replicate Web Parts
  • Delete Web Parts from multiple sites/pages

...and much much more!   These are just some of the features available in the SharePoint Work Acceleration Toolkit.

http://www.idevfactory.com/products/swat/default.aspx

SharePoint is getting even more powerful!! Welcome PerformancePoint Services!

Steve Caravajal's Ramblings : SharePoint is getting even more powerful!! Welcome PerformancePoint Services!: "SharePoint is getting even more powerful!! Welcome PerformancePoint Services!
Some very exciting news was announced yesterday. SharePoint’s mission has always been to provide collaboration to the masses. Collaboration in the broadest sense has meant business intelligence capability with Excel integration, Excel Services, KPIs, Report Center, etc.
Well, as of yesterday, collaboration to the masses now also includes BI for the masses with the inclusion of PerformancePoint Services. Yep, that’s right! The next version of SharePoint (aka SharePoint14) will include PerformancePoint Services. You say you can’t wait till SharePoint14, well you might not have to, read on…
This is an update to our Business Intelligence roadmap. This will greatly facilitate delivering BI to everyone in the organization.
Specifically, this includes consolidating the scorecard, dashboard, and analytic functionality from PerformancePoint Server into SharePoint Server Enterprise as PerformancePoint Services.
PerformancePoint Services will be a license entitlement for SharePoint Server 2007 ECAL customers with Software Assurance. This means that customers who want to deploy PerformancePoint can do so today at no additional cost. Yep, you read that right.
PerformancePoint Server 2007 will no longer be available as a standalone item after April 1, 2009.
For more info," .../...
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How We Did It: LearningPoint for SharePoint

Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog : How We Did It: LearningPoint for SharePoint

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Achieve Control over SharePoint Administration and Development – There’s a Method to the Madness

 

I was with Joel this week !

SharePoint is a flexible and efficient collaboration platform, but without a proper governance plan in place, it can quickly spin out of control. Administrators need to have consistent rules and guidelines for appropriate oversight while still offering the flexibility to customize solutions based on user needs. 
Join SharePoint expert Joel Oleson and other guests in this three-part webcast series as they focus on SharePoint governance, offer prescriptive guidance and showcase tools to help you proactively manage and develop your SharePoint service.

Achieve Control over SharePoint Administration and Development – There’s a Method to the Madness

Prexens : Your SharePoint partner - project

About Charting for SharePoint

Charting for SharePoint is a set of powerful features allowing you to enhance your WSS or MOSS portal with advanced and exciting charts. Plug it to your SharePoint list or your Web services and make your SharePoint portal finally meaningful to your management team!

Important note to 1.0 RC1 users

1.0 RC1 expires on 1 Apr. 2009, please upgrade to 1.0 RC2 now! No need to clean-up anything when moving to 1.0 RC2, simply use the setup wizard to upgrade all relevant packages.

Project roadmap

Prexens : Your SharePoint partner - project

List of upcoming SharePoint conferences

Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog : List of upcoming SharePoint conferences

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Pierre Erol GIRAUDY
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Vice-Président Club UGO2007
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Business Intelligence (BI) with Sharepoint, Excel, and Excel Services

Business Intelligence (BI) with Sharepoint, Excel, and Excel Services on TECHNET

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Pierre Erol GIRAUDY - MVP MOSS
Président du Club MOSS FRANCE
http://clubmoss2007.org

SharePoint Summit 2009 :: Overview

InterDoc :: SharePoint Summit 2009 :: Overview

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Microsoft SharePoint - Free User Clustering Web Part by AvePoint

 

DocAve v5 for MOSS 2007 and WSS 3.0! - Download Now!

See it in action

View a short video demonstration of the User Clustering Web Part

As SharePoint deployments grow, the number of users increases exponentially, and SharePoint along with its permissions and securities, becomes more and more difficult to monitor. As user adoption of SharePoint increases, understanding of the implicit user relationships, along with permissions and securities configurations, becomes quite complex. The DocAve SharePoint User Clustering Web Part provides an easy-to-use centralized interface to receive vital information about your SharePoint users and groups.
User and group clusters are graphically displayed in the SharePoint web part, and users or groups with the most relevant permissions are listed with options to add users as colleagues.
Free and simple to install, both Administrators and end-users can obtain greater insight and intelligence on user and group permissions in SharePoint, ensuring more effective collaboration, and proper permissions management.

Key Advantages of the ‘Users With Similar Permissions’ Web Part:

Total Awareness of Vital SharePoint Permissions

Flexible options and plan configurations for defining clustering rules lets administrators identify and analyze end-users based on permissions rights via a graphical topology display that groups user-sets by both discrete authority and permissions parity. With DocAve’s User-Clustering Web Part, end-users have a better understanding of users that have similar permissions.
Intelligently Group SharePoint Users According to Permissions
This powerful new web part provides key insight on user permissions with a real-time, graphical display of permission clusters. Easily visualize and monitor your SharePoint users and their permissions. Locate other users with permissions that most closely match your own.
Accelerate Adoption of SharePoint as a Social Networking Platform
Discover and rank similar or relevant users, and add them as colleagues, increasing the speed and quality of collaborative activity.
Assess the Impacts of Permissions Modifications
Easily assess the impact of making permissions configuration changes. Similar users or groups may require similar permissions and security updates. The DocAve User-Clustering Web Part provides customers with the visibility to ensure that groups or sets of users have the proper rights to the content they require for optimal productivity.
Download Now: Free User Clustering Web Part for SharePoint 2007
The SharePoint Discovery Tool and User Clustering Web Part are available free without limitations and will not expire. All other DocAve modules are enabled for a 30 day trial.

Microsoft SharePoint - Free User Clustering Web Part by AvePoint

Five Ways SharePoint Can Save You Money

Download details: Five Ways SharePoint Can Save You Money

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Download details: Extending SharePoint with Groove

 

This paper explains how SharePoint teams can use Groove and its SharePoint Files tool to efficiently collaborate with offline field workers and selected consultants.

Download details: Extending SharePoint with Groove

Groove collaboration is as easy as socializing. But it is not limited by time or location. Groove users can interact with colleagues and other contacts in a wide range of work environments, even with offline contributors, via a single familiar interface. As part of the Microsoft Office 2007 suite, Groove 2007 partners well with SharePoint, extending collaboration beyond members of a SharePoint team to include field personnel and partners who need to work offline or do not have access to a SharePoint site.

Groove workspaces are similar to SharePoint sites, providing virtual meeting areas where team members can jointly assemble information, share files, write reports, discuss plans, design forms, manage meetings, and perform other tasks. Groove enhances the workspace experience by allowing members to efficiently collaborate with external contributors or work offline. Groove synchronizes online and offline work with documents stored in SharePoint libraries via an onboard SharePoint Files tool.

A Groove workspace with a SharePoint Files Tool provides the following benefits to organizations that store file content in SharePoint document libraries:

· Offline access to file content. The Groove SharePoint Files tool provides mobile workers and those who have limited Internet access with an environment in which they can view and update files in a team’s SharePoint library while offline or in a low-bandwidth environment.

· Access to file content for selected contributors outside of the enterprise. The Groove SharePoint Files tool enables internal and external members of a workspace to conveniently and efficiently collaborate on files stored in a SharePoint library.

Groove is easy to set up and does not require IT assistance. Built-in security safeguards provide a protected environment for collaboration among internal and external Groove users. If centralized Groove management is required beyond what is supported by Windows and SharePoint systems, Groove Server can be installed to oversee client activity.

10 SharePoint Theme WSP - Daniel's Blog

 

10 SharePoint Theme WSP

For those who wish to download the SharePoint Themes as a single WSP, I have created a single WSP with 10 features in it.

Taking on board Randy & Sezai suggestions (Of which I agree whole heartily) that these themes should of been released as a WSP file, i found myself building it from all 10.

Unfortunately due to these not being my original works, you will have to use this package AT YOUR OWN RISK.

I am also unable to officially support this package, however if you do have a question, I am more than happy to take it on board and answer it if able/when time permits.

On a final note, please be sure to first test this package on your testing environment before you deploy these to your production environment.

You are able to download the zip file by clicking here.

Enjoy!

10 SharePoint Theme WSP - Daniel's Blog

SharePoint Conference 2009 - O14

 

Microsoft is delighted to announce the SharePoint Conference 2009 - the premier worldwide conference dedicated to SharePoint and related technologies.
There’s an exciting mix in the plans for this year. This year’s conference will be looking towards the future with a broad array of deep content centered on the next version of SharePoint, codenamed SharePoint “14” and at the same time be firmly planted in the present, sharing real world experience and guidance to help you maximize your investment in SharePoint Server 2007.
SharePoint Conference 2009 will be the conference to learn about SharePoint “14”. Be the first to learn about the improvements we’ve made to the platform and how many of those investments can be quickly implemented to add value to your organization and businesses.
If you’re an IT Professional, an IT Decision Maker, an Architect or a Developer you’ll find a deep set of technical content to give you a kick start for SharePoint “14” and further your skills and knowledge with SharePoint Server 2007.
In addition to the session content you'll have ample opportunities to network with technical and industry experts including many of the Microsoft staff that helped build SharePoint, Microsoft Most Valued Professionals and many of our top Certified Partners.
Don’t miss out on the biggest SharePoint event of the year! REGISTER NOW to attend from the 19th to the 22nd of October 2009 at the Mandalay Bay Hotel & Convention Center, Las Vegas, Nevada.
This event promises to be the biggest and the best SharePoint Conference yet!

http://www.mssharepointconference.com/Pages/default.aspx

Pierre Erol GIRAUDY

http://www.clubmoss2007.org

Download details: Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Protocol Documentation

 

The Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies protocol documentation provides detailed technical specifications for Microsoft proprietary protocols (including extensions to industry-standard or other published protocols) that are implemented and used in SharePoint Products and Technologies to interoperate or communicate with Microsoft products.
The documentation includes a set of companion overview and reference documents that supplement the technical specifications with conceptual background, overviews of inter-protocol relationships and interactions, and technical reference information.

Download details: Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Protocol Documentation

Do Less. Get More. Develop on SharePoint.

 

Do Less. Get More. Develop on SharePoint.

Ten Themes for SharePoint

Download details: Ten Themes for SharePoint

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Download details: VSeWSS 1.3 Mar 2009 CTP

 

This is the SharePoint developer tools for Visual Studio 2008. These tools are suitable for use with Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 or Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. It includes project and item templates for common SharePoint artifacts, it includes build, packaging and deployment for SharePoint solutions and it includes the SharePoint Solution Generator which creates a new Visual Studio 2008 project from a SharePoint site.
The tools provide item templates for List Definition, List Definition from Content Type, Content Type, Field Control, Web Part, Module, Root File, Template, Event Receiver, and List Instance. It provides project templates for Team Site Definition, Blank Site Definition, List Definition, Web Part and Empty. It works with Visual Basic .NET and C# languages and a comprehensive user guide is included. It does not include the SharePoint Workflow templates as they are built in with Visual Studio 2008.

Download details: VSeWSS 1.3 Mar 2009 CTP

Pierre Erol GIRAUDY

http://www.clubmoss2007.org

Mots clés Technorati : moss,sharepoint,erol,club moss france,wss

Using the Administration Pack for IIS 7.0 : Managing and Maintaining IIS 7.0 : The Official Microsoft IIS Site

Using the Administration Pack for IIS 7.0 : Managing and Maintaining IIS 7.0 : The Official Microsoft IIS Site

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SharePoint Management PowerShell scripts – Home CODEPLEX

 

SharePoint Management

Project Description
This project site stores all the PowerShell scripts developed for SharePoint farms (WSS or MOSS) management.
Each script is available independently and can be modified as desired
We decided to create this project, because we develop in our Jobs many PowerShell scripts to manage all our SharePoint farms (WSS V3 and MOSS). Having this done, we've heard that many people could be interested to see, use and adapt that kind of scripts for their own needs.
All scripts you can find here are used in real production situation and some of them are scheduled in different windows tasks.

• SharePoint Farm management
• SharePoint Users Management (WSS or MOSS)
• MOSS Search Management
• Team Site Management (WSS or MOSS)
• WSS & MOSS Developer Scripts

SharePoint Management PowerShell scripts : http://sharepointpsscripts.codeplex.com/

Pierre Erol GIRAUDY

http://www.clubmoss2007.org

Mots clés Technorati : PowerShchell,MOSS,SharePoint,CLUB MOSS,EROL,Script,Codeplex

Download details: Governance Collaboration Plan

 

This SharePoint governance plan is a sample based on Fabrikam’s collaboration service. It is a guideline outlining the administration, maintenance, and support of Fabrikam’s planned SharePoint deployment. It identifies lines of ownership for the business and technical teams and identifies who responsibilities for areas of the system. The plan also establishes rules for appropriate use of the SharePoint environments.

Download details: Governance Collaboration Plan

Pierre Erol GIRAUDY

http://www.clubmoss2007.org

Mots clés Technorati : gouvernance,moss,sharePoint,EROL,governance,club moss

Announcing: SharePoint Web Parts for FAST ESP

Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog : Announcing: SharePoint Web Parts for FAST ESP

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Microsoft switching SharePoint to claims-based authentication - Network World

Microsoft switching SharePoint to claims-based authentication - Network World

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JQuery and SharePoint vNext

JQuery and SharePoint vNext - SharePoint BUZZ - Your SharePoint Community Portal

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JQuery and SharePoint vNext - SharePoint BUZZ - Your SharePoint Community Portal

JQuery and SharePoint vNext - SharePoint BUZZ - Your SharePoint Community Portal

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Vice-Président Club UGO2007
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Upcoming SharePoint 14 Features

Upcoming SharePoint 14 Features - SharePoint BUZZ Rickey Whitworths Blog

Test Driven Development - the final conclusions

Test Driven Development - the final conclusions

Office Sustained Engineering : Announcing Service Pack 2 (SP2) for the 2007 Microsoft Office System

Office Sustained Engineering : Announcing Service Pack 2 (SP2) for the 2007 Microsoft Office System

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Welcome to the AKS Portal

The Accessibility Kit for SharePoint® (AKS) solution will help get you started on the road to Web accessibility with an accessible platform and framework from which to launch your portal or intranet site.Microsoft in collaboration with HiSoftware developed and support the Accessibility Kit for SharePoint® (AKS) along with a partner and customer community. Welcome to the AKS Portal

Sarbanes Oxley and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007

Sarbanes Oxley and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007

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Pierre Erol GIRAUDY - MVP MOSS
Président du Club MOSS 2007 et MUG.
Vice-Président Club UGO2007
http://clubmoss2007.org

Download details: Moving databases to a different server or one with the same name

Move all databases to a different database server (Move_DB_Diff.doc): This article contains information and steps for moving all the databases associated with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 from one database server to a new database server that has a different name.
Move all databases to a database server that has the same name (Move_DB_SameName.doc): This article contains information and steps for moving all the databases associated with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 from one database server to an identically named database server.

Download details: Moving databases to a different server or one with the same name

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Download details: SharePoint Online SLA

Download details: SharePoint Online SLA

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Download details: Windows Server 2008 R2 Beta Evaluation VHD Images (for Hyper-V)

Download details: Windows Server 2008 R2 Beta Evaluation VHD Images (for Hyper-V)

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Setting Up a Virtual Lab with Hyper-V - Bob Fox's SharePoint Blog

Setting Up a Virtual Lab with Hyper-V - Bob Fox's SharePoint Blog

Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog : SharePoint + PowerShell

SharePoint + PowerShell [Cross Posted from Zach Rosenfield's Blog] Today I’m posting about a rather dense technology issue—so please bear with me! Those of you who read my blog know that I am a huge fan of PowerShell and on occasion talk about various ways to use PowerShell for managing SharePoint deployments. Additionally I’ve seen projects and people around the web discuss it. However, it wasn’t until learning about some of the most in-depth inner-workings of PowerShell did an important realization come about.

In short: There was a potential for PowerShell users to constantly leak memory without knowing it!
While this is not a common situation and it would be hard to do so in such large volume to really cause real harm—it is possible, and thus, everyone should know about it....

Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog : SharePoint + PowerShell

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PS> $S = New-Object Microsoft.SharePoint.SPSite(“http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/”)
PS> $S.Title
My SharePoint Site
PS> $S.Dispose()
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Vice-Président Club UGO2007
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SharePoint 2009 / SharePoint 14 and Business Intelligence: PerformancePoint Services for SharePoint

So here we have some news about Business Intelligence with SharePoint 2009 or SharePoint 14. PerformancePoint Server 2007 which was released in September 2007 will be consolidated into the next version of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server Enterprise. Exactly the scorecard, dashboard and analytical capabilities will be consolidated.

SharePoint 2009 / SharePoint 14 and Business Intelligence: PerformancePoint Services for SharePoint

Analyzing SharePoint Products and Technologies Usage

Introduction

Installing and configuring Log Parser
Preparing the analysis machine
Preparing the server logs
Log Parser queries
Enumerating records
Counting users
Load balancing
User type distribution
Request (RPS) distribution over time
Distinct users over time
User agent distribution
Browser usage
Office client Web Service usage
Slow pages
Importing logs into SQL Server
References

Download details: Analyzing SharePoint Products and Technologies Usage

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Complete Online SharePoint Directory

Complete Online SharePoint Directory

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Vice-Président Club UGO2007
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