Floating ToolPane for SharePoint 2007

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Microsoft Office Groove and SharePoint Integration

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

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

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

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Estimate performance and capacity requirements for search environments

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The URL must include a file name extension.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Posted by Scot Hillier under ApressNo Comments

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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PDF Icon Update

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

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

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

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

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Download package includes all 20 site admininstration for WSSv3

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

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

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

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

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

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