Tuesday, December 25, 2007

Saturday, December 8, 2007

Links for 2007-12-08

Interesting Sharepoint links gathered from all over the Internet

SharePoint SUSHI - Home - SUSHI is a powerful, user-friendly way to accomplish common SharePoint administrative and development tasks. (tags: sharepoint tools)

Monday, December 3, 2007

Links for 2007-12-03

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Solutions Using the Microsoft Office System - Learn how to use the Microsoft Office system to solve your business scenarios. (tags: sharepoint MOSS2007)

Monday, November 26, 2007

Links for 2007-11-26

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SharePointPedia - SharePointPedia.com is a web site where people discover and share useful content about SharePoint and SharePoint related products and technologies. It’s a social computing application built on top of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007. (tags: sharepoint KM knowledge)

Sunday, November 25, 2007

Links for 2007-11-25

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CRM Watcher: Update WordMailMerge for Microsoft CRM 3.0 - The new version 2.64 of WordMailMerge for MS CRM 3.0 has some great new features in it. (tags: sharepoint crm)

Saturday, November 24, 2007

Links for 2007-11-24

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Solutions Using the Microsoft Office System - Learn how to use the Microsoft Office system to solve your business scenarios. (tags: sharepoint solutions architecture)

Windows SharePoint Services TechCenter - ISP hosting of Windows SharePoint Services sites This Visio diagram shows how an Internet service provider (ISP) hosts Internet and extranet sites based on Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 for their customers. (tags: sharepoint architecture visio)

SharePoint - Architecture - Office SystemArchitecture (tags: sharepoint visio)

Maxime Bombardier - SharePoint Architecture & Development : Visio Stencils for SharePoint 2007 sites and servers - Visio Stencils for SharePoint 2007 sites and servers (tags: visio sharepoint architecture)

Wednesday, November 21, 2007

Links for 2007-11-21

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Mauro Cardarelli : Knowledge Management and MOSS - One of the areas that MOSS really shines (from a business perspective) is Knowledge Management. (tags: sharepoint MOSS2007 KM)

Displaying Microsoft CRM Business Data in SharePoint Web Parts - Learn how to build portals and dashboards in SharePoint sites by using Web Parts that display Microsoft CRM data. This article accompanies a sample Visual Studio .NET solution that contains sample Web Parts for a Customer Service Portal. This article incl (tags: sharepoint crm microsoft)

Developing Custom Applications by Using Excel Web Services in SharePoint Server 2007 - Excel Services is a new server technology included in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. This shared service enables the ability to load, calculate, and display Microsoft Office Excel 2007 workbooks on Office SharePoint Server 2007. (tags: microsoft sharepoint)

Sunday, November 4, 2007

Links for 2007-11-04

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Bill Gates: SharePoint Conference 2006 - Remarks by Bill Gates, Chairman and Chief Software Architect, Microsoft Corporation "Connecting People, Process and Information" SharePoint Conference 2006 Bellevue, Washington May 15, 2006 (tags: sharepoint microsoft)

Links for 2007-11-03

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How to Create a MOSS 2007 VPC Image: Part 18 - SharePoint Reporter Blog - This time, we’ll look at how to install a set of “warm-up” scripts which will help improve the initial performance of the MOSS 2007 virtual machine after boot-ups. (tags: sharepoint warmup scripts virtual pc vpc)

Saturday, October 20, 2007

Sunday, October 14, 2007

Links for 2007-10-14

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APRESS.COM: Pro SharePoint Solution Development: Combining .NET, SharePoint and Office 2007 - Supplementary Material Download. Source code. (tags: sharepoint MOSS2007 office samples)

APRESS.COM: Pro SharePoint Solution Development: Combining .NET, SharePoint and Office 2007 - Supplementary Material Download (tags: sharepoint MOSS2007 office samples)

edhild's WebLog : Video: Demo of Extending SharePoint to Collab on Document Fragments - Video: Demo of Extending SharePoint to Collab on Document Fragments (tags: sharepoint video office)

SpringerLink - Book Chapter - In this chapter we will assume that the organization has a preconstructed template for presentations of a particular type and that building the presentation is a repeatable process of putting site content on slides. So for this chapter, we will completely (tags: sharepoint webparts powerpoint)

Combined Knowledge Downloads (tags: sharepoint exchange)

Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Team Blog : Important change to MOSS 2007 for Internet Sites (MOSSFIS) licensing (tags: microsoft sharepoint)

Community Kit for Sharepoint - MySiteCreate 1.0 Production (tags: sharepoint)

Sunday, August 26, 2007

Links for 2007-08-26

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Creating a Custom User Site Provisioning Solution with SharePoint Server 2007 (Part 1 of 2) - Examine new capabilities built into the Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Enterprise Edition, which enable business process automation and simplify the business process. This article is part 1 of 2. (18 printed pages) (tags: sharepoint SharePoint2007 MOSS2007)

Team-Based Development in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 - Learn to properly conduct team-environment development of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 sites and assemblies (Web Parts, site templates, custom list templates), as well as develop Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer artifacts (master pages, wor (tags: sharepoint MOSS2007 moss)

SharePoint Products and Technologies Customization Policy - Excellent document explaining Sharepoint customization policies http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=92311&clcid=0x409 (tags: SharePoint2007 MOSS2007 sharepoint)

Saturday, August 25, 2007

Links for 2007-08-25

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Download details: Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: Software Development Kit (SDK) - The Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 SDK contains conceptual overviews, programming tasks, and references to guide you in developing solutions based on Windows SharePoint Services as a platform. (tags: sharepoint WSSv3 sdk microsoft)

Download details: SharePoint Server 2007 SDK: Software Development Kit - The Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 SDK is designed for solution providers, independent software vendors, value-added resellers, and other developers to learn about the new Office SharePoint Server 2007 enterprise application and platform. (tags: sharepoint sdk MOSS2007)

Wednesday, August 22, 2007

Links for 2007-08-22

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Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Team Blog : Announcing the Availability of the SharePoint Manageability Toolkit Beta - This solution accelerator includes a new set of Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 (Ops Manager), Management Packs for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, and for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. For those who are not familiar with O (tags: sharepoint)

Download details: Windows SharePoint Services Toolkit: Document Library Event Handler - The sample in the Document Library Event Handler Toolkit (EventHandlerToolkit.exe) download introduces developers to the Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services list events feature for document libraries. The download consists of two projects, SampleEventSi (tags: sharepoint)

SharePoint+CRM Six: SharePoint 2003 & 2007: SharePoint 2003 to 2007 CSS Style sheets - In WSSv3, all SharePoint styles are defined in CORE.CSS in the folder on the SharePoint host Server: C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\TEMPLATE\LAYOUTS\1033\STYLES\CORE.CSS (tags: sharepoint crm css)

Tuesday, August 21, 2007

Links for 2007-08-21

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Managing Content Databases (Windows SharePoint Services 2003) - Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services uses a database to store and manage site content. Just as each virtual server can host multiple top-level Web sites, each virtual server can rely on multiple content databases to store site content. If you are running (tags: sharepoint)

Introduction - SharePoint, Document Library and SQL Server - Developer Fusion - Visual Basic, C# Programming, ASP.NET, .NET Framework and Java Tutorials - Document Libraries are collections of files that you can share with team members on a web based on Windows SharePoint services. Want to know more about Document Libraries?? Read more about Document Libraries on this site: http://office.microsoft.com/e (tags: SharePoint2007 sharepoint)

Monday, August 20, 2007

Links for 2007-08-20

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InfoWorker Solutions: MSCRM 3: Filtered view of SharePoint document library - The simplest way to add a document archive to MSCRM is to use a single, shared SharePoint document library for all MSCRM accounts and then use filtered views from MSCRM to make it look like each account have their own document library. This technique of c (tags: sharepoint crm)

Sunday, August 19, 2007

Links for 2007-08-19

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Creating and deploying VSTO Documents inside SharePoint Document Libraries - Todd Baginski's SharePoint 2003 and MOSS 2007 Blog - Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO) Documents can be deployed to or utilized as templates for a SharePoint Document Library. The process to develop VSTO Documents, deploy them to the SharePoint server, and set the proper security policies on the client (tags: sharepoint vsto)

Saturday, August 18, 2007

Links for 2007-08-18

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Russell Christopher's Semi-Useful BI Musings : Publishing Reporting Services reports to MOSS - Now that lots of folks are happily playing around with SSRS/MOSS integration, it’s important to understand exactly how you publish the things to MOSS via Business Intelligence Studio. You still use the same dialogs you’re used to, but plug different v (tags: sharepoint reporting ssrs)

Joel Oleson's SharePoint Land : Step by Step Instructions for Publishing from Access 2007 to a SharePoint Site - This was in a hands on lab to show some of the cool integration and new features in the new 2007 Microsoft Office system. On one hand, imagine how cool it would be to get all those MDB files that have been having a hard time finding a home finally findin (tags: sharepoint access)

Roadmap for publishing an Excel workbook as "one version of the truth" - SharePoint Server - Microsoft Office Online - Creating an Excel workbook that contains "one version of the truth" requires a collaborative effort between a SharePoint site administrator, a workbook author, and various end users. The following article is a roadmap that describes the basic process of p (tags: sharepoint)

Antivirus Solutions for MOSS - Jeff Holliday's SharePoint Blog - As of right now, there do not seem to be too many Antivirus solutions on the market for MOSS. Symantec and McAfee seem to be dragging their feet on releasing versions that support SharePoint 2007. Their existing products, Symantec Antivirus for SharePoi (tags: sharepoint antivirus)

Chapter 3: Planning Redundancy and Scaling the SharePoint Environment - Network World - This chapter focuses on techniques and information necessary to scale a SharePoint implementation to organizations of varying sizes. Specific components that can be scaled are described and contrasted. High-redundancy options such as clustering and Networ (tags: sharepoint database management)

Sharepoint Tips and Tricks : SharePoint Site Moves, Database Moves and Balancing Growth - SharePoint adoption is at an all time high right now with the release of MOSS 2007 and WSS 3.0, this is wonderful for your investment but can be a nightmare for a poorly planned deployment that was not ready for massive growth. Certain operational tasks (tags: sharepoint split database sqlserver balancing)

Ablog » Database Mirroring in SharePoint 2007 for Disaster Recovery (tags: sharepoint MOSS2007)

SharePoint Governance and Manageability - View Release - This tool automates splitting large Windows Sharepoint Services Databases into several smaller Databases. Based on an input, the process locks, backups, deletes and restores a SiteCollection. Supports WSS2, no mention of WSS3 (tags: sharepoint)

Wednesday, August 15, 2007

Links for 2007-08-15

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Uploading Files to SharePoint Document Library and updating any Meta data columns - The Code Project - SharePoint Server - This article describes uploading files in a sequence to a SharePoint Document Library and then using CAML, updating each file's custom meta data. This folder also also describes how to use DWS web service to create folders/subfolders in a Doc Lib and how (tags: sharepoint bulk)

Joel Oleson's SharePoint Land : How large for a single SharePoint content database? - I think my a post or second hand PPTs in the past may have confused some people about a capacity planning recommendation I've made. I have in the past said to plan for 50GB databases. This is not a scalability limit. (tags: sharepoint)

Sunday, August 12, 2007

Links for 2007-08-12

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Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Team Blog : Getting Started with Personalization in MOSS 2007 - Getting Started with Personalization in MOSS 2007 (tags: sharepoint MOSS2007 personalisation)

Introduction to My Site - SharePoint Server - Microsoft Office Online - My Site is a personal site that gives you a central location to manage and store your documents, content, links, and contacts. My Site serves as a point of contact for other users in your organization to find information about you and your skills and inte (tags: sharepoint my site)

Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Team Blog : Implementing WSS Governance (Governance 3 of 5) - In this series on Governance, I hope to get people to check out and read the various whitepapers that have been written to help people understand the critical importance of keeping a well managed deployment and how it leads to success. (tags: sharepoint governance)

SharePad Reference Application for SharePoint Products and Technologies - Home - SharePad is a reference application demonstrating Microsoft Office-style SharePoint integration techniques. This application illustrates the use of the Front Page RPC calls exposed by SharePoint among other SharePoint integration APIs. (tags: sharepoint rpc codeplex)

FitzBlog - Mike Fitzmaurice is the developer evangelism contact within Microsoft for Windows® SharePoint® Services (WSS) and Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Portal Server 2003 (SPS). He covers what MS is doing in Redmond, with explanations and the occasional apol (tags: sharepoint microsoft weblog)

WSSv3 FAQ - Alerts: Alerts aren't working. What might... - Alerts: Alerts aren't working. What might be wrong? (tags: sharepoint WSSv3)

http://www.officezealot.com/downloads/moss/ContentTypesBeta2Conceptual.pdf - Using Content Types in Windows SharePoint Services (version 3) and SharePoint Server 2007In Microsoft® Windows® SharePoint® Services (version 3) and Microsoft® Office® SharePoint® Server 2007, content types enable you to define and organize your ite (tags: sharepoint content types)

http://www.officezealot.com/downloads/moss/ContentTypesandColumnsBeta2Conceptual.pdf - Using Columns and Content Types to Organize and Manage Your Content in Windows SharePoint Services (version 3)In Microsoft® Windows® SharePoint® Services (version 3), site content types and site columns act as reusable templates that help you organize (tags: sharepoint content types)

Home - Home - This is an experiment. Yes, we are "eating our own dogfood" by using our product (Office SharePoint Server 2007) to power our new community portal, which shall be your starting point for the worldwide SharePoint community. (tags: sharepoint microsoft)

Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Team Blog : Anonymous Comment Feature for SharePoint Blog - now available on CodePlex - Quite a few SharePoint customers have asked about how to implement blogs internally within their companies as an open, direct, and efficient communication channel for executives to get feedback from employees. One often requested feature that SharePoint d (tags: sharepoint weblog webparts)

Friday, August 10, 2007

Links for 2007-08-10

Interesting Sharepoint links gathered from all over the Internet

Roberdan : Very good post and document regarding SharePoint Governance - at this link: http://blogs.msdn.com/joelo/archive/2006/08/23/715... you can find a very good article and document regarding SharePoint Governane. (tags: sharepoint)

Wednesday, August 8, 2007

Links for 2007-08-08

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MS CRM and SharePoint 2007 Integration: « Rehman Gul [MVP - SharePoint] - SharePoint 2007 provides integration with quite a few Microsoft products including Dynamics, SQL Server Reporting Services, PerformancePoint, etc. Today, we will specifically talk about SharePoint’s integration with MS CRM. Here is the press release fro (tags: sharepoint crm)

Tuesday, August 7, 2007

Links for 2007-08-07

Interesting Sharepoint links gathered from all over the Internet

Planning and architecture for Office SharePoint Server 2007 (tags: sharepoint architecture)

Planning and architecture for Office SharePoint Server 2007 (tags: sharepoint architecture)

Sync Your Database to SharePoint Using SSIS - Custom SharePoint lists are like tables in a traditional database; in some ways they're even better. But as organizations adopt this new data store, they introduce additional complexities in integrating new list-based solutions with existing database app (tags: sharepoint ssis sqlserver)

SPLinks « Steve Pietrek’s SharePoint Stuff - Archive for the 'SPLinks' Category (tags: sharepoint)

MOSS document management - The content in this book is a copy of selected content in the Office SharePoint Server technical library (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=84739) as of the publication date. For the most current content, see the technical library on the Web. (tags: sharepoint dms)

MOSS 2007 Document Management Services - Document Centralization - Before you continue reading, you may as well know now; if you are simply interested copying your file share directory structure to a couple of Document Libraries in SharePoint, then this article is not for you. However, if you are interested in cleaning (tags: sharepoint dms)

Sharepoint upgrade to MOSS 2007 - A document by Microsoft (tags: sharepoint MOSS2007)

Jose Barreto's Blog : Unique Document URLs in MOSS 2007 - Requirements: Users need a URL for documents stored in SharePoint that continues to work even after the document is renamed or moved to another Document Library, Site or Site Collection. The document URL would need to look like http://sharepointurl/share (tags: sharepoint)

Joel Oleson's SharePoint Land : ROI from File Shares to SharePoint - ROI from File Shares to SharePoint (tags: sharepoint)

Solutions Monkey : Accessing SharePoint Document Library through UNC Path. - If you have an Enterprise Portal site with the URL http://AX40VPC/Sites/EnterprisePortal and you need to access the document libraries in this site through windows explorer through the UNC path \\ax40vpc\sites\enterpriseportal from a windows 2003 server , (tags: sharepoint)

Sunday, August 5, 2007

Links for 2007-08-05

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SharePoint Solutions Blog: Take Custom Action Upon SharePoint FBA User Login - Many of our customers have use cases where by they would like to take a specific custom action when an FBA (forms based authentication) user logs in to their SharePoint Extranet. Some examples may be to update a back-end CRM system, or redirect the user t (tags: sharepoint authentication forms)

Saturday, August 4, 2007

Links for 2007-08-04

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Download details: Software Update for Web Folders (KB907306) - This download enables you to update the Web Folders component in Microsoft Windows operating systems, and provides additional functionality. The article describes the Software Update for Web Folders that is dated March 15, 2007. This update fixes vari (tags: windows web sharepoint)

Monday, July 30, 2007

Links for 2007-07-30

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IT Manager Role-Based My Site Template datasheets - SharePoint Server - Microsoft Office Online - The IT Manager template focuses on the IT Manager in a maintenance division handling location support. IT Managers oversee the support services provided by the team of IT engineers for Service Level Agreement (SLA) adherence and coordinate with the team f (tags: sharepoint templates MOSS2007)

Using InfoPath and SharePoint to Create Personalized Views - Westin's Technical Log - Systems know who you are, but SharePoint and/or InfoPath solutions rarely take advantage of that awareness. Here is an easy way to create a more personalized experience for your users using built-in functionality of InfoPath and SharePoint. (tags: sharepoint infopath)

Sunday, July 29, 2007

Links for 2007-07-29

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Tales From The Field : Fun with RSS - We wanted to use the MOSS out of the box RSS web parts to use feeds from external sources, like CNN, BBC etc., as well as internal sources, a local Community Server. We ran into a few problems: (tags: sharepoint MOSS2007 rss proxy)

TechNet Virtual Labs: SharePoint Products and Technologies - Get first-hand deployment experience through the Virtual Lab series. The Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, and Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003 will teach you about installation, organizing content, ma (tags: sharepoint training labs)

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 on HP ProLiant Servers - Performance Summary - Microsoft® Office SharePoint Server 2007 running on HP ProLiant Servers; HP BladeSystem Servers and HP Storage provides capabilities to meet business-critical needs like managing content and business processes; simplifying how people find and share infor (tags: performance sharepoint MOSS2007)

Mark Arend : RSS Viewer web part and authenticated feeds - In B2, configuring the RSS Viewer web part to display an RSS feed from a MOSS site nearly always worked without difficulty. In B2TR, you may encounter a stubborn error “The RSS webpart does not support authenticated feeds” when trying to display an R (tags: sharepoint rss kerberos)

Saturday, July 21, 2007

Links for 2007-07-21

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pshell.info / Uploading Documents To SharePoint - Uploading documents to SharePoint is a common requirement in any SharePoint project. There are many tools at your disposal to accomplish that task but you can also leverage PowerShell in combination with the .NET FrameWork and the SharePoint object model. (tags: sharepoint powershell)

Demo: Configure a SharePoint Server 2007 site to receive e-mail - SharePoint Server - Microsoft Office Online - By configuring your Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 site to receive e-mail messages, you can enable team members to use e-mail to send information, messages, and files directly to different areas of the site. For example, users can send announceme (tags: sharepoint email)

Wrox::Wrox Article : Developing Sharepoint Server 2007 Publishing Sites the Smart and Structured Way - The latest release of the SharePoint platform, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007, introduces new capabilities to the SharePoint platform: hosting content-centric Web sites on SharePoint and providing a robust publishing infrastructure. This p (tags: sharepoint)

Creating SharePoint document library folders from CSV file - Ian Morrish - WSSDemo Blog - I had to create hundreds of folders in an Enterprise Document Library template based site based on a CSV extract from a CRM system. I did not have server access to had to think of a remote solution. Creating local folders and then using the drag and dro (tags: crm sharepoint)

Friday, July 20, 2007

Links for 2007-07-20

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Adventures in SPWonderland - SharePoint/Powershell Quickie: Upload a directory of files in 4 lines - Heres 4 lines of code to upload a whole directory of files, in this case pictures, to a SharePoint document or image library. (tags: sharepoint powershell)

Friday, July 13, 2007

Links for 2007-07-13

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Gustaf's MS CRM & SharePoint Blog: Simple CRM and SharePoint integration example - The integration I created was to automatically create a workspace when a new account was created. The following steps describe how this was made possible: (tags: crm SharePoint2007 sharepoint)

Gustaf's MS CRM & SharePoint Blog: Backup of SharePoint - Backing up SharePoint is not just backing up the databases and hoping for the best. Best Practice is actually using the tool stsadm and create backupfiles that can be then be backed up to tape (or similar). So, how to create a script that takes backup? (tags: sharepoint backup)

Monday, July 9, 2007

Links for 2007-07-09

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SharePoint Content and Resources - Here is the rundown of Technical Articles, Visual How-to Screencasts, and their accompanying downloads published over the last couple of weeks on MSDN. (tags: sharepoint)

Thursday, July 5, 2007

Links for 2007-07-05

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Developing Office SharePoint 2007 application - The Code Project - SharePoint Server - Microsoft Windows SharePoint services (aka WSS) and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, are two magnificent technologies in the current web programming world. Microsoft defined the former one as Built on Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Windows Sha (tags: sharepoint MOSS2007)

Friday, June 29, 2007

Links for 2007-06-29

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SharePoint 2007: Getting to Know SharePoint - This chapter introduces both the WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007 products, giving a high-level overview of the features and functions in each product. It lists the differences in functionality between the product lines and in various licensing options, and discusse (tags: sharepoint MOSS2007)

Wednesday, June 27, 2007

Bulk uploading in Sharepoint

For a project I needed a solution for uploading a great number of Word documents. The source documents were all organized in a folder per customer and contained a number of custom properties that needed to be promoted to columns in the destination Document Library.

This seemed an easy job but further along the way it turned out being not so easy. The destination is WSS 3.0 and asking around it seemed that nobody had an best practice for this.

One of the restrictions was that buying an extra tool was not an option.

After some research on the web I found several approaches to this problem.

(I intend to update this article regular with new aditions or tips.)

The methods I found (not necessarily used by me)

1. Using the WSS user Interface

I.e. Upload Document; Upload Multiple Document and select the files to upload.

Note that Upload Multiple Document is only visible when the Client has Office 2003 (any version) installed.


2. Using Explorer View
Open the Document Library and select the Explorer View.
Copy/Paste (or drag and drop if it works) the files from Windows Explorer to it.

3. Using "My Network Places"
Define the document library in "My Network Places" and Copy/Paste (or drag and drop if it works) the files from Windows Explorer to it.

4. Using a Local Drive

Use Net use to define a local drive for the document library.

This probably requires Office 2003 installed on the client and has the following format

Net use X: file://servername/xxx/doclib1

where the URL of the document library is http://servername/xxx/doclib1

(It is wise to only use names in the path that contain no blanks or strange (or foreign) characters as otherwise the net use statement often seems to have problems.)

Following the specification of local drive X:, files can be copied to the document library it represents by Copy/Paste (or drag and drop if it works) from Windows Explorer.

Note: note that provided you are running Windows XP or Windows 2003 mapped drives will work - if they don't make sure the "WebClient" service is enabled and started (Start Menu; Run; services.msc).

Warning: don't be tempted to go to this local drive and edit your document there. When you save it, you then lose the document (it's deleted).

Note: This seems to have been only a problem with Word documents and also seems to have been solved by Office 2003 SP2

File opens as read-only when you open a Word 2003 file from a Web folder by using the Windows WebDAV mini-redirector http://support.microsoft.com/?id=884050

CAUSE

This problem occurs because there is a conflict issue with the Windows Server 2003 version of the mini-redirector and how the file is opened by Word 2003. This problem may cause double locking of the file, first by the mini-redirector and second by Microsoft Office through the Microsoft Internet Publishing Provider (MSDAIPP). The problem may cause various IO operations to fail and may cause Word 2003 to try to delete what it believes is a temporary file but what may be the real file instead.


5. Using Web Services

The following code was described as a generic way to upload a file into any web folder (doesn't have to be WSS) using ADODB. It can presumably be amended for a batch of files.

Set objRecord = New ADODB.RecordSet
objStream = New ADODB.StreamobjRecord.Open strFile, "URL=" + strUrl,ADODB.ConnectModeEnum.adModeReadWrite,ADODB.RecordCreateOptionsEnum.adCreateOverwrite,ADODB.RecordOpenOptionsEnum.adDelayFetchStream, Sharepoint2003USerName,Sharepoint2003PasswordobjStream.Type = ADODB.StreamTypeEnum.adTypeBinaryobjStream.Open objRecord, ADODB.ConnectModeEnum.adModeWrite,ADODB.StreamOpenOptionsEnum.adOpenStreamFromRecordobjStream.LoadFromFile (FileName)objStream.FlushobjStream.CloseobjRecord.Close
6. Using WebDav

If you want to use a tool for this, a couple of suggestions are

a) DavCopy at http://www.bluedoglimited.com/Downloads/pages/DavCopy.aspx

b) SPMigration at http://www.codeplex.com/SPMigration/SourceControl/ListDownloadableCommits.aspx

This project was originally found on Gotdotnet. Now on Codeplex. There is not an official release yet, but it seems very promissing.

(The ADODB code was originally posted by Joachim Hoffmann, thanks to him!)

(The addition of WebDav to the list was suggested by Maurice Prather, thanks to him too!)

Note that if you are looking for a way to automate bulk transfers, Derek Fakehany used to suggest Karen's Replicator
(http://www.snapfiles.com/get/replicator.html)

but these days he's recommending the new SyncToy from Microsoft (http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/digitalphotography/prophoto/synctoy.mspx).

He says it's a "very clean tool, free, and pretty easy to configure. Plus lots more settings for copying to/from Sharepoint." I can agree on that and used it my myself.

Alternative for Synctoy is Syncback.

Comparison between Synctoy and Syncback you can find here

Comparion of a lot of other synchronization tools can be found here

7. Using Powershell

http://pshell.info/sharepoint/166/uploading-documents-to-sharepoint/

8. Using pfmigration

For migrating Exchange Public Folders to SharePoint.


pfmigration is a tool that that migrates Exchange public folder data to SharePoint. It is a .Net application, a self contained exe, and only needs to run on a workstation with Outlook. You just point to an Exchange server and a SharePoint server and click a migrate button.
http://www.codeplex.com/pfmigration

9. Commercial solutions
http://www.syntergy.com/sharepoint%5Cproducts%5Ccommon/bulk_load/

Partly based on info from: http://wss.collutions.com/pages/VI%20-%20Tutorials.aspx

Links for 2007-06-27

Interesting Sharepoint links gathered from all over the Internet

SharePoint+CRM Six: Microsoft CRM 3.0 - Integrating the CRM UI into SharePoint (Page Links) - Directly integrate the CRM interface into another web application or web page, such as SharePoint. As a result, a list of CRM links for various datagrids used for showing sets of records from CRM. These URL's can be embeded into a SharePoint 2007 page usi (tags: crm sharepoint)

Wednesday, June 20, 2007

Links for 2007-06-20

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Sterling International Consulting Group - SICG Free Web Parts - In the hundreds of installs we've done for SharePoint, we've come across a few very useful (and free) web parts and of course, have provided our own to clients and many, many Microsoft Gold Partners. Many of these are already freely available on the w (tags: sharepoint webparts)

Saturday, June 16, 2007

Links for 2007-06-16

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Bouwen van een SMS dienst in WSS 3.0 at POINTS2SHARE - SMS and Sharepoint (tags: sharepoint sms)

SharePoint: Powerful Command Line Administration for SharePoint -- TechNet Magazine, January 2007 (tags: SharePoint2007 sharepoint)

Sharepoint Tips And Tricks: The SharePoint 2007 Beta Exams tips - As you may well know, SharePoint 2007 has 2 developer certification exams (1 for WSS and one for MOSS features) in a beta stage, and Microsoft wants people to take them and then collect feedback so they can finalize the exams for release. (tags: sharepoint certificate exams)

Wednesday, June 6, 2007

Links for 2007-06-06

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Download details: Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0 List Web Part - The List Web Part for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0 provides a subset of the Microsoft CRM record list functionality. It allows users to view Microsoft CRM records as a list from a SharePoint dashboard, open records in Microsoft CRM 3.0 from the list, and co (tags: crm sharepoint webparts)

Saturday, June 2, 2007

Links for 2007-06-02

Interesting Sharepoint links gathered from all over the Internet

CustomCRM: Large Sharepoint document library integrated in MS CRM - In our MS CRM 3.0.project we have the need for integreating a Sharepoint document library in MS CRM 3.0 for storing the account correspondence. We have about 100.000 accounts and an average of 5 Word documents per client. Question is whether Sharepoint wi (tags: sharepoint)

Plan for software boundaries (Office SharePoint Server) - This article provides information to help you understand the tested performance and capacity limits of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, provides information about the test environment and test results, and offers guidelines for acceptable performa (tags: sharepoint test document capacity performance)

Activating Auditing Programmatically for a Single Document Library in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 - Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 includes a powerful new infrastructure for auditing user access to pages, and document and list items. You can enable auditing for an entire site collection, but it can be more efficient to enable auditing with mo (tags: sharepoint audit wss MOSS2007)

Estimate performance and capacity requirements for portal collaboration environments - This article contains information about test tools available for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. (tags: sharepoint test tools moss performance)

Friday, May 25, 2007

Links for 2007-05-25

Interesting Sharepoint links gathered from all over the Internet

Community Kit for SharePoint - The Community Kit for SharePoint is a set of best practices, templates, Web Parts, tools, and source code that enables practically anyone to create a community website based on SharePoint technology for practically any group of people with a common intere (tags: sharepoint community)

CodePlex - Open Source Project Hosting - Project directory (tags: sharepoint)

Wednesday, May 2, 2007

Links for 2007-05-02

Interesting Sharepoint links gathered from all over the Internet

Synchronize two SharePoint document workspaces - The Code Project - SharePoint Server - Windows SharePoint server offers a bunch (there are 16 and 5 additional services) of web services for communicating with SharePoint. (tags: sharepoint MOSS2007)

Extending SharePoint Server 2007 by using Features - The Code Project - SharePoint Server - Microsoft provides ways to extend the out of the box functionality of SharePoint Portal Server 2007 e.g. Features, SharePoint Designer 2007, Windows Workflow Foundation etc. Features offer flexibility in terms of developing extended functionality â€" such (tags: sharepoint MOSS2007)

Accessing Sharepoint UserProfile Services in Infopath 2007 - The Code Project - SharePoint Server - This article explains how to access sharepoint Userprofile Services in Infopath form. Also, explains about the configuration settings. Using (tags: sharepoint infopath microsoft)

Monday, April 30, 2007

Links for 2007-04-29

Display a SharePoint document library in a Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0 form - You can add a Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 document library view to a Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0 Web form. This procedure shows how to add a Windows SharePoint Services document library view to the Cases Web form in Microsoft CRM. (tags: sharepoint crm customizing)

Deploying Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0 - This page provides sources of information to help you deploy Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0 and integrate it with Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies. (tags: sharepoint crm deployment)

Saturday, April 21, 2007

Links for 2007-04-21

Interesting Sharepoint links gathered from all over the Internet

All About SharePoint : Creating your own document library template with your own set of fields - Creating your own document library template with your own set of fields (tags: sharepoint template)

Wrox::Wrox Article : Using the Approval Workflow Template in Microsoft Office SharePoint 2007 - Most businesses have processes related to specific activities and, typically, the steps of these processes are documented in procedures in a predictable manner. Workflow involves the various tasks that employees must complete on a business activity, and t (tags: sharepoint MOSS2007 workflow)

Beheerorganisatie Sahrepoint (tags: sharepoint)

Wrox::Wrox Article : Creating Content Type Metadata for SharePoint 2007 Document Management Solutions - The term "Document Management" has become a catch-all phrase for anything having to do with documents in an enterprise setting. It is an overly broad term that covers many different aspects of managing documents; from access control to version control to (tags: sharepoint)

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