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Sharepoint Free-Ebooks

Geek — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 18:27:58 +0000

My thirst towards understanding sharepoint better and better is a never ending story, I came across a cool microsoft link which offers free e-books available for download in word format. Following is the list of available books .

Getting started

Getting started with Office SharePoint Server 2007 Download

Planning

Planning and architecture for Office SharePoint Server 2007, part 1 Download

Planning and architecture for Office SharePoint Server 2007, part 2 Download

Governance guide for Office SharePoint Server 2007 Download

Deliver accessible solutions (white paper) Download

Best practices for developing accessible Web sites (white paper) Download

Deployment

Deployment for Office SharePoint Server 2007 Download

Upgrading to Office SharePoint Server 2007 Download

Deploying Office SharePoint Server 2007 Service Pack 1 Download as .doc Download as .pdf

Installation guide for Office SharePoint Server 2007 Download

Design and build sites for Office SharePoint Server 2007 Download

Operations

Administering enterprise search for Office SharePoint Server 2007 Download

Security

Security for Office SharePoint Server 2007 Download

Solutions

Web publishing and planning guide for Office SharePoint Server 2007 Download

Records management guide for Office SharePoint Server 2007 Download

Document management guide for Office SharePoint Server 2007 Download

Microsoft SharePoint taking business by storm

admin — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 13:03:05 +0000

Microsoft’s SharePoint Server is on a billion-dollar quest to potentially become the next must-have technology, offering companies tools for building everything from collaborative applications to Internet sites and potentially handing Microsoft its next cash cow.

“I have not seen anything like this since the early days of [Lotus] Notes,” says Mike Gotta, an analyst with the Burton Group. In those days, corporate users were enamored with a shiny new technology that seemed to have infinite uses. “The talk [around SharePoint] is getting strategic now, and people are talking about it as a middleware decision,” Gotta says.

MOSS (Microsoft Office SharePoint Server) 2007 is the fastest growing product in the company’s history and seems to have as many uses as a Swiss Army knife. Its six focus areas are collaboration, portal, search, ECM (enterprise content management), business process management, and business intelligence.

Just last month, Microsoft added a hosted alternative to fuel adoption. There is a “perfect storm,” observers say, around SharePoint in terms of the popularity of Web-based computing, demand for less-expensive ECM and portal tools, collaboration technology, and integration around Microsoft’s Office suite.

The attention is a wake up call for competitors, especially IBM/Lotus, as SharePoint could pull customers to other Microsoft software because it is closely integrated with Microsoft’s unified communications stack, its e-mail server, Office, and Office applications, including back-end file sharing repositories for Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.

SharePoint was first introduced in 2001 to less than lukewarm reviews as SharePoint Portal Server. In 2003, a stripped-down version was offered for free as part of Windows Server 2003 R2, which made it easy for users to test-drive the software, and soon, end-user created team worksites began popping up all over corporate networks.

In 2008, SharePoint has evolved into the prototypical Microsoft tool — good enough for SMBs, adaptable to large enterprises, and, most important, plenty of financial opportunities for third-party independent software vendors and systems integrators.

Partners involved in everything from directory management to archiving to single sign-on are reporting that SharePoint is improving their own revenue.

In March, Bill Gates said SharePoint had passed 100 million licenses sold, had attracted 17,000 user companies, and had eclipsed $1 billion in sales for his company.

Many critics dispute the licensing number but not the message that SharePoint is on fire.

SharePoint, however, isn’t without issues that users should consider, including the fact that it does not scale well given the way it stores data in SQL Server, a concern Microsoft is working to answer in the next version likely to ship in 2009.

Or that its social-networking tools are considered rudimentary, that SharePoint’s portal capabilities still don’t measure up to enterprise-class platforms, and that the server takes customizations to make it truly sing.

“I think there is going to be some buyer’s remorse,” Gotta says.

SharePoint does many things, but scaling is not one of them. SharePoint stores everything in SQL Server in what amounts to one universal table, which leads to lots of on-the-wire traffic and a Microsoft recommendation of only 2,000 items per list. By contrast, IBM WebSphere permits hundreds of millions of items per list.

The social-networking tools are uninspiring, and Microsoft is partnering with NewsGator (feed reader) and Atlassian (wiki) to cover bases, which will lead to inevitable feature clashes as SharePoint evolves.

Source: Infoworld

Issue or Bug in Explorer View?

Geek — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:25:37 +0000

Is basic test case missed? The explorer view is not updated even after refreshing the page when we delete the documents from the document library in “All documents” view.

Issue repro steps:

1)Create a document library “MyDocs1” and upload the documents

2) Now change the view from “All Documents” to “Explorer View”, it correctly displays all the documents added

3)Switch to “All Documents view” from explorer view

4)Delete all the documents in the document library using “All documents” view.

5) Now again change the view from “All documents” to Explorer view, and observe that the deleted documents are still shown, do page refresh and etc, no change, deleted documents are wrongly displayed in explorer view

Sharepoint Object Model Best Practices

Geek — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 18:46:01 +0000

Follow the below best practices while doing custom coding using sharepoint object model. I found these articles very useful.

1) Best Practices: Common Coding Issues When Using the SharePoint Object Model
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb687949.aspx

2) Best Practices: Using Disposable Windows SharePoint Services Objects
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms473633.aspx

How to activate or deactivate feature using sharepoint object model

Geek — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 18:40:48 +0000

To activate feature through Sharepoint object model use the following code

Activate a feature:

spSite.Features.Add(“featureId”)

Deactivate a feature:

spSite.Features.Remove(“featureId”)

How to Log errors to SharePoint Log file

Geek — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 18:37:00 +0000

In SharePoint log files are available under \Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\LOG.

Exceptions can be logged to the default SharePoint log file using the following line of code.
Microsoft.Office.Server.Diagnostics.PortalLog.LogString(”Exception Occurred: {0} || {1}”, Ex.Message, Ex.StackTrace);

Note: Make sure that you add the reference to Microsfot.Office.Server dll

How get the process ID of a SharePoint application if multiple web Applications are running

Geek — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 18:25:39 +0000

You can run IISAPP utility from the command prompt which will list all the w3wp processes, their Application Pool Id and process ID.

This is helpful when you want to attach w3wp process to a debugger ,and when multiple web Applications are running.

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Trial Version

Bs Raju — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 08:31:57 +0000

Here is the link to download the Trial version of Standard and Enterprise editions of Microsoft Sharepoint Server 2007.

Download

Welcome to MOSSGEEK

admin — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 05:45:06 +0000

Welcome to mossgeek , a blog for share point professionals.