7/17/2007

Download details: Case Study - Mary Kay, major cosmetics producer, deploys Microsoft Search Technology to increase efficiency

Mary Kay Inc, one of the largest direct selling skin care and color cosmetics companies in the world, was without a viable enterprise search application. After moving its US portal to Microsoft® SharePoint® Portal Server 2003, the company decided to upgrade to Microsoft Office SharePointer Server 2007 to leverage the content indexing and search platform functionality. The company now has robust, easy-to-use search functionality that will scale along with its global IT improvement and integration efforts.

7/15/2007

Download details: Streamlining Records Management Using SharePoint Server 2007 Workflow

The Microsoft Legal and Corporate Affairs (LCA) Records Management team is responsible for tracking the location and contents of some two million boxes of documents stored by Microsoft employees. The LCA Records Management team created an efficient tracking solution that provides employees with easy access to records information and offsets the need to handle all box inventory queries manually. Building on the power of Microsoft Office SharePoint 2007 and Office InfoPath 2007, the solution uses forms and workflows to automate the collection of inventory data. The solution increases accuracy, enforces business rules, and simplifies access to collected inventory information, helping the LCA team to scale easily and manage the growth and demand for document retention companywide.

7/13/2007

Download details: Streamlining Records Management Using SharePoint Server 2007 Workflow

Download details: Streamlining Records Management Using SharePoint Server 2007 Workflow
The Microsoft Legal and Corporate Affairs (LCA) Records Management team is responsible for tracking the location and contents of some two million boxes of documents stored by Microsoft employees. The LCA Records Management team created an efficient tracking solution that provides employees with easy access to records information and offsets the need to handle all box inventory queries manually. Building on the power of Microsoft Office SharePoint 2007 and Office InfoPath 2007, the solution uses forms and workflows to automate the collection of inventory data. The solution increases accuracy, enforces business rules, and simplifies access to collected inventory information, helping the LCA team to scale easily and manage the growth and demand for document retention companywide.

7/11/2007

MOSS Publication Scheduling - Collaboration Portal Template


MOSS Publication Scheduling - Collaboration Portal Template A great info by Kathy Hughes MVP. To enable the "Page Settings and Schedule" menu option on a site provisioned using the Collaboration Portal site template, simply enable scheduling of items in the site's Pages document library. To do this using the browser:- ...

read more on http://mindsharpblogs.com/kathy/archive/2007/07/09/1954.aspx

Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Team Blog

By understanding which manageability controls are configurable for each component of the Windows SharePoint Services hierarchy, you can design a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 implementation that appropriately leverages these controls for the type of content that will be hosted.
The white paper Supporting Information Architecture with Windows SharePoint Services Manageability Controls provides detailed guidance for determining how specific types of content can be managed effectively with Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. (2 first articles...)

Shared Documents - Microsoft Office SharePoint Conference 2008

Thank you for expressing your interest in the Microsoft Office SharePoint Conference 2008 .
We will notify you when further information is available!
Thank you!The Microsoft Office SharePoint Conference Team

Mark Arend : Web part comparison: SPS 2003 & WSS v2 --> MOSS 2007 & WSS v3

Mark Arend : Web part comparison: SPS 2003 & WSS v2 --> MOSS 2007 & WSS v3: "Web parts shown in Gray were available in previous version, but not in current version.
Web parts shown in Green are available in previous version and current version
All other web parts are new to the current version."

7/10/2007

SharePoint FieldNotes (Steve Curran)

Information Management Policy is new to SharePoint but not to the world of Document Management. Office SharePoint Server 2007 has added many new Document Management capabilities your applications can take advantage of. ...
... Note: Please beware that after you have associated a policy with a content type and then make changes to the policy, the changes will not be reflected within the contentType until you un-associate and re-associate the policy with the content type. In addition, the label value will only be updated after policy changes if the item is updated. ...

7/08/2007

Microsoft SharePoint Designer Team Blog : Porting SharePoint Designer Workflows to Visual Studio

Microsoft SharePoint Designer Team Blog : Porting SharePoint Designer Workflows to Visual Studio: "When you have these files, rename the .rules file (if you have one) from *.xoml.rules to *.rules. Then add the .xoml and .rules files to your VS project. If you double click on the .xoml file in the Solution Explorer, the WF workflow designer should open, and you should see all your SPD actions in place. "

Microsoft SharePoint Designer Team Blog : How to Integrate Virtual Earth Maps with a SharePoint List

Microsoft SharePoint Designer Team Blog : How to Integrate Virtual Earth Maps with a SharePoint List
Read :... All Done! Back on the browser, when you go to the display form of any supplier, there’ll be a great map view that will show you the location of the supplier. You’ll be able to interact with the map, just like you would on http://local.live.com/. Thanks, Greg

7/07/2007

Popfly and Sharepoint integration already?


Go and see the video of Mike Gannotti's where he tells you how to use Sharepoint as a datasource for PopFly: (3 datas sources in connection - no code) If you wanna know what PopFly is read this little snippet from Channel9: "You probably haven't heard of it, but you're also probably going to start hearing a lot about it in the near future. Popfly is being announced today - as I'm posting this, actually. To keep it short and simple so you can get right to watching the video, Popfly makes it easy for non-devs to create web sites, mashups, and more. Drag, drag, click - you've got a Flikr + Virtual Earth mashup. You can even point and click your way to a Vista Gadget. " (source Robin Meure).

http://wm.microsoft.com/ms/gsd/mikegannotti/Popfly_SharePoint_Integration.wmv
by Michael Gannotti, TSP SharePointMicrosoft Greater Southeast District
P. Erol GIRAUDY

Customizing and Branding Web Content Management-Enabled SharePoint Sites (Part 1 of 3): Understanding Web Content Management and the Default Features

Customizing and Branding Web Content Management-Enabled SharePoint Sites (Part 1 of 3): Understanding Web Content Management and the Default Features: "Customizing and Branding Web Content Management-Enabled SharePoint Sites (Part 1 of 3): Understanding Web Content Management and the Default Features
Summary: This article discusses topics that you should understand before you use Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 to create sites that support Web content management (WCM) and gives a general overview of the various artifacts that are available in the product. (11 printed pages) by Patrick Tisseghem, U2U"

P. Erol GIRAUDY
http://clubmoss2007.org/

tonstegeman's blog

tonstegeman's blog: "This post describes an issue we were having using the SharePoint PageFieldFilter webpart in combination with a Lookup field. First the issue is explained, then a solution is provided."
You can find a WSP file containing a working version of the webpart. If you don’t know what to do with a wsp file, start looking at Chris Johnson’s blog, or use the SharePoint Solution Installer. Attached to this post, you will also find the full code for the webpart. Both are in the same ZIP file. Do whatever you like to do with them, but please let me know if you use them and what you think of it. Might give me some ideas to improve it. Enjoy!

7/06/2007

Microsoft TechEd IT Forum 2007


Microsoft TechEd IT Forum: " Sign In 'no comments, just do it !) 12-16 November 2007 Barcelona, Spain".
I Hope to be ATE this year, like in 2006. Barcelona is realy a great city.
P. Erol GIRAUDY

7/05/2007

SharePoint Farm Least Privilege and hotfix packages

SharePoint Farm Least Privilege and hotfix packages: "As previously discussed, it is possible to configure your SharePoint Farm to abide by the principle of least privilege. However there are some additional steps required if you have deployed any of the SharePoint Server 2007 hotfix packages dated later than April 12th 2007.
For the most part, the SharePoint Configuration Wizard (SCW) and Central Administration take care of assigning the necessary rights and group memberships. There are two exceptions with the RTM bits:
IWAMRegService Activation (aka DCOM 10016 issue)
%windir%/tasks" read more on : http://harbar.net/archive/2007/06/29/SharePoint-Farm-Least-Privilege-and-hotfix-packages.aspx

7/03/2007

Chapter 3: Customizing and Extending the Microsoft Office SharePoint 2007 Search (Part 1 AND 2)

Chapter 3: Customizing and Extending the Microsoft Office SharePoint 2007 Search (Part 1 and 2): "Chapter 3: Customizing and Extending the Microsoft Office SharePoint 2007 Search (Part 1 and 2)

This article is an excerpt from Inside Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 by Patrick Tisseghem, from Microsoft Press (ISBN 9780735623682, copyright Microsoft Press 2007, all rights reserved). No part of this chapter may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means—electronic, electrostatic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise—without the prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews. This excerpt is part 1 of 2.
In this chapter, I’ll start with a discussion of the architecture that makes it all happen behind the scenes and will continue with topics that will give you an understanding of how, as a developer, you can start customizing and extending the different features involved. I also refer to the Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Administrator’s Companion (Microsoft Press) authored by Bill English, for more detail of the topics related to the administration and configuration of the index and search engines."

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb608305.aspx

This article is an excerpt from Inside Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 by Patrick Tisseghem, from Microsoft Press (ISBN 9780735623682, copyright Microsoft Press 2007, all rights reserved). No part of this chapter may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means—electronic, electrostatic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise—without the prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews. This excerpt is part 2 of 2.

EROL

7/01/2007

Web Site on WSS by a MVP: Mike Walsh

MVP: Mike Walsh

KB Articles
Articles - 2007 Products
MS Articles
Non-MS Articles
WSS FAQ
WSS v3 FAQ
2006 - Office 2007 Documents

Support WebCast: Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 integration with Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) version 3 Contact Lists and Document Libraries

Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 integration with Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) version 3 Contact Lists and Document Libraries

This Support WebCast will demonstrate how to connect Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) version 3 Contact Lists and Document Libraries to Outlook 2007.
It will also show a two-way synchronization between Contact Lists and Outlook 2007. The session will also talk about updating Document Library changes to the server. P. Erol GIRAUDY http://clubmoss2007.org/