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Microsoft warns people about Sharepoint 2007 SP2
2009-05-24 19:01:00 During the last days and since the release of SharePoint SP2, there was a big buzz on the MSDN SharePoint forums about installing SharePoint SP2, where many people reported many problems, in the mean time Microsoft discovered a major bug that renders SharePoint inaccessible after 180 days, and they say they are working on a hotfix, I hope this will fix all SP2 problems. More About: People , Sharepoint 2007 , Sharepoint
What is new in Microsoft SharePoint 2010?
2009-05-20 12:42:00 First of all, forget the word MOSS for SharePoint 2010, since Microsoft will remove SharePoint from Office system, although we have been getting familiar with SharePoint in Office but I see it is more suitable for this great product to be a separated server product, but what shall we call MOSS then? I guess Microsoft is now thinking about new name to be added to SharePoint names. Chris Capossela, Senior Vice President, Information Worker Product Management Group, announced 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. Right now we don?t hav... More About: Sharepoint
Making Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Navigation Better
2009-04-20 15:03:00 Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (WSS 3.0) the great, versatile and free technology from Microsoft provides a foundation platform for building Web-based business applications that can flex and scale easily to meet the changing and growing needs of any organization, and by little customization you can have a great collaboration or even content management portal. First thing needed to be considered is to build a better navigation for WSS, so let?s begin.If you created a WSS team site, you will get a following page: In this page and under Site Action Menu you will find the following items: That is good, however I felt that this menu needs more items, what about adding View All Site Content and Recycle Bin menu items, to achieve that you need to install SharePoint Designer first, after that open the default.master from the following path: "/_catalogs/masterpage/"In the bottom design area click on Site Action control, this will highlight the ... More About: Microsoft , Navigation , Microsoft Windows
Service Pack 2 for the 2007 Microsoft Office System due to ship April 28th
2009-04-17 21:20:00 Last October, Microsoft announced the upcoming release of the 2nd service pack for the 2007 Microsoft Office System and the 2007 Microsoft Office servers. Today, Microsoft provides both a formal release date, and more details on what you should expect to see in SP2. Read more More About: April
Visual Studio 2010 & SharePoint tools, the promises and expectations
2009-04-17 20:52:00 Since the first release of Visual Studio 2005 Extensions for SharePoint which allowed us for developing custom SharePoint solutions, I?ve expected more support tools and templates for SharePoint in the next versions of Visual Studio, and I was always searching on what is new regarding SharePoint development, Somasegar from Visual Studio team has listed some new features of the next release of Visual Studio which support SharePoint development, I believe that a wide range of these features are expected, however I guess we expect more, I will give you a brief about what I need from Microsoft in this release: 1- Creating lists & libraries and managing their properties and content2- Creating and extending publishing controls3- Creating content types and custom fields in easier way4- Easier way for handling SharePoint events 5- Built-in SharePoint AJAX controls6- Creating and managing workflows on site level as well as on list level7- More fac... More About: Tools , Promises
Microsoft Office 2010 Products Will Redefine How People Work
2009-04-15 22:33:00 Microsoft announced the key capabilities and expected timeline for the next wave of Microsoft Office and related products. a discussion with Chris Capossela, senior vice president of Microsoft?s Information Worker Product Management Group, to find out more about how the next version of Microsoft Office -related products will deliver a synchronized experience across devices and provide greater choice and flexibility for customers. http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/featur es/2009/Apr09/04-15Office2010.mspx More About: Products , People , Microsoft
SharePoint 2007 (MOSS) Customization Tool
2009-04-07 18:47:00 Good day everyone, first accept my apologies for being silent last year; actually I was very busy managing my team in a number of big SharePoint projects. Today, I came with a tool for customizing SharePoint websites look and feel, and you also can use it for any website, because it is designed to override default CSS classes of any website. I?ve developed this tool specifically to customize look and feel without touching default CSS files of SharePoint. Features:1- Opens any online site or offline page and apply your new styles without refreshing the page by few steps2- Displays current CSS class attributes by click the class name3- Full review of the page HTML and styles through: a. Mouse selections of the item b. HTML tree view c. Property box4- You can add new/existing images and it will appended automatically to the CSS5- Auto Complete CSS feature6- You ca... More About: Tool , Moss , Sharepoint 2007 , Sharepoint , Customization
Forms Authentication in SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Servi
2007-12-31 04:04:00 Finally, we got official and detailed articles from Microsoft about Forms Authentication in SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: Forms Authentication in SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (Part 1 of 3): Introduction: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ bb975136.aspx Forms Authentication in SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (Part 2 of 3): Forms Authentication Samples: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ bb975135.aspx Forms Authentication in SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (Part 3 of 3): Differences Between Forms Authentication and Windows Authentication: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ bb977430.aspx More About: Sharepoint
Forms Authentication in SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Servi
2007-12-31 04:04:00 Finally, we got official and detailed articles from Microsoft about Forms Authentication in SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: Forms Authentication in SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (Part 1 of 3): Introduction: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ bb975136.aspx Forms Authentication in SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (Part 2 of 3): Forms Authentication Samples: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ bb975135.aspx Forms Authentication in SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (Part 3 of 3): Differences Between Forms Authentication and Windows Authentication: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ bb977430.aspx More About: Sharepoint
Forms Authentication in SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Servi
2007-12-31 04:04:00 Finally, we got official and detailed articles from Microsoft about Forms Authentication in SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: Forms Authentication in SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (Part 1 of 3): Introduction: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ bb975136.aspx Forms Authentication in SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (Part 2 of 3): Forms Authentication Samples: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ bb975135.aspx Forms Authentication in SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (Part 3 of 3): Differences Between Forms Authentication and Windows Authentication: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ bb977430.aspx More About: Sharepoint
Announcing the Release of WSS 3.0 SP1 and Office SharePoint Server 2007 SP1
2007-12-12 07:46:00 I'm excited to announce the release of SP1 for WSS 3.0 and Office SharePoint Server 2007. Before you install the service pack there are some very important things to understand. In this post I'll try to provide you with the resources you need to be successful in updating to the latest service pack. Please do NOT simply drop to the bottom and find the links and download and install directly on your production environments. It is essential that you understand the appropriate guidance and test out the patch in a separate test environment. For this purpose we have put together a special SP1 page on TechNet to guide you through the process. The more you know the better prepared you'll be for updating your environment. Read More More About: Release , Sharepoint
Announcing the Release of WSS 3.0 SP1 and Office SharePoint Server 2007 SP1
2007-12-12 07:46:00 I'm excited to announce the release of SP1 for WSS 3.0 and Office SharePoint Serve r 2007. Before you install the service pack there are some very important things to understand. In this post I'll try to provide you with the resources you need to be successful in updating to the latest service pack. Please do NOT simply drop to the bottom and find the links and download and install directly on your production environments. It is essential that you understand the appropriate guidance and test out the patch in a separate test environment. For this purpose we have put together a special SP1 page on TechNet to guide you through the process. The more you know the better prepared you'll be for updating your environment. Read More More About: Release , Sharepoint
Announcing the Release of WSS 3.0 SP1 and Office SharePoint Server 2007 SP1
2007-12-12 07:46:00 I'm excited to announce the release of SP1 for WSS 3.0 and Office SharePoint Server 2007. Before you install the service pack there are some very important things to understand. In this post I'll try to provide you with the resources you need to be successful in updating to the latest service pack. Please do NOT simply drop to the bottom and find the links and download and install directly on your production environments. It is essential that you understand the appropriate guidance and test out the patch in a separate test environment. For this purpose we have put together a special SP1 page on TechNet to guide you through the process. The more you know the better prepared you'll be for updating your environment. Read More More About: Release , Sharepoint
Announcing Microsoft Search Server 2008
2007-12-04 05:35:00 Microsoft has unveiled Search Server 2008 , the really exciting news is that Microsoft is also offering a free version of this product. Search Server 2008 is implemented and administered as managed properties, so HTML pages, Office documents, SharePoint lists, database tables, web services - in fact, any content source indexed by MOSS can be made available as a facet. Read More: http://www.microsoft.com/enterprisesearch / More About: Microsoft
Announcing Microsoft Search Server 2008
2007-12-04 05:35:00 Microsoft has unveiled Search Serve r 2008 , the really exciting news is that Microsoft is also offering a free version of this product. Search Server 2008 is implemented and administered as managed properties, so HTML pages, Office documents, SharePoint lists, database tables, web services - in fact, any content source indexed by MOSS can be made available as a facet. Read More: http://www.microsoft.com/enterprisesearch / More About: Microsoft
Announcing Microsoft Search Server 2008
2007-12-04 05:35:00 Microsoft has unveiled Search Server 2008 , the really exciting news is that Microsoft is also offering a free version of this product. Search Server 2008 is implemented and administered as managed properties, so HTML pages, Office documents, SharePoint lists, database tables, web services - in fact, any content source indexed by MOSS can be made available as a facet. Read More: http://www.microsoft.com/enterprisesearch / More About: Microsoft
Microsoft Announces Software Licensing and Protection (SLP) Services to Str
2007-07-14 14:15:00 July 10, 2007 at the Worldwide Partner Conference in Denver, Microsoft announced that a new suite of products called Software Licensing and Protection Services (SLP Services) will become available in the October timeframe. The products comprise a set of tools designed to help developers ? from ISVs selling software to those working on internal line-of-business applications ? protect their intellectual property (IP), easily and flexibly create and license product versions, track product and feature usage, and integrate into backend business processes. Read more More About: Vice
Microsoft Announces Software Licensing and Protection (SLP) Services to Str
2007-07-14 14:15:00 July 10, 2007 at the Worldwide Partner Conference in Denver, Microsoft announced that a new suite of products called Software Licensing and Protection Services (SLP Services) will become available in the October timeframe. The products comprise a set of tools designed to help developers ? from ISVs selling software to those working on internal line-of-business applications ? protect their intellectual property (IP), easily and flexibly create and license product versions, track product and feature usage, and integrate into backend business processes. Read more More About: Anno
Microsoft Announces Software Licensing and Protection (SLP) Services to Str
2007-07-14 14:15:00 July 10, 2007 at the Worldwide Partner Conference in Denver, Microsoft announced that a new suite of products called Software Licensing and Protection Services (SLP Services) will become available in the October timeframe. The products comprise a set of tools designed to help developers ? from ISVs selling software to those working on internal line-of-business applications ? protect their intellectual property (IP), easily and flexibly create and license product versions, track product and feature usage, and integrate into backend business processes. Read more
Microsoft Announces Software Licensing and Protection (SLP) Services to Str
2007-07-14 14:15:00 July 10, 2007 at the Worldwide Partner Conference in Denver, Microsoft announced that a new suite of products called Software Licensing and Protection Services (SLP Services) will become available in the October timeframe. The products comprise a set of tools designed to help developers ? from ISVs selling software to those working on internal line-of-business applications ? protect their intellectual property (IP), easily and flexibly create and license product versions, track product and feature usage, and integrate into backend business processes. Read more
Embedding Ajax Control ToolKit into SharePoint 2007: Accordion Sample Web P
2007-07-01 09:38:00 The ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit provides a set of sample controls and extenders that makes it a snap to spice up your web site with rich functionality, and I think it will be very interesting to embed this toolkit into MOSS 2007. In the following example I?ve started with ASP.NET Ajax Accordion control, and may be later I?ll get the opportunity to embed more controls. Software Needed: SharePoint Portal Server 2007 (installed with site collection created on port: 80) Visual Studio 2005 SharePoint 2007 Extensions for Visual Studio 2005 ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX 1.0 Ajax Control ToolKit For all people who are enabling Ajax for the first time in SharePoint 2007, you need first to configure your SharePoint Portal to support AJAX. To do this, it is better to open a new AJAX web site in Visual Studio to pick a copy from configuration sections in web.config , and if you have configured it before you can start directly from step 9. 1? Add the following part under: <configSe... More About: Sharepoint 2007 , Sharepoint
Embedding Ajax Control ToolKit into SharePoint 2007: Accordion Sample Web P
2007-07-01 09:38:00 The ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit provides a set of sample controls and extenders that makes it a snap to spice up your web site with rich functionality, and I think it will be very interesting to embed this toolkit into MOSS 2007. In the following example I?ve started with ASP.NET Ajax Accordion control, and may be later I?ll get the opportunity to embed more controls. Software Needed: SharePoint Portal Server 2007 (installed with site collection created on port: 80) Visual Studio 2005 SharePoint 2007 Extensions for Visual Studio 2005 ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX 1.0 Ajax Control ToolKit For all people who are enabling Ajax for the first time in SharePoint 2007, you need first to configure your SharePoint Portal to support AJAX. To do this, it is better to open a new AJAX web site in Visual Studio to pick a copy from configuration sections in web.config , and if you have configured it before you can start directly from step 9. 1? Add the following part under: <configSe... More About: Sharepoint 2007 , Sharepoint
Embedding Ajax Control ToolKit into SharePoint 2007: Accordion Sample Web P
2007-07-01 09:38:00 The ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit provides a set of sample controls and extenders that makes it a snap to spice up your web site with rich functionality, and I think it will be very interesting to embed this toolkit into MOSS 2007. In the following example I?ve started with ASP.NET Ajax Accordion control, and may be later I?ll get the opportunity to embed more controls. Software Needed: SharePoint Portal Server 2007 (installed with site collection created on port: 80) Visual Studio 2005 SharePoint 2007 Extensions for Visual Studio 2005 ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX 1.0 Ajax Control ToolKit For all people who are enabling Ajax for the first time in SharePoint 2007, you need first to configure your SharePoint Portal to support AJAX. To do this, it is better to open a new AJAX web site in Visual Studio to pick a copy from configuration sections in web.config , and if you have configured it before you can start directly from step 9. 1? Add the following part under: <configSe... More About: Sharepoint 2007 , Sharepoint
Embedding Ajax Control ToolKit into SharePoint 2007: Accordion Sample Web P
2007-07-01 09:38:00 The ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit provides a set of sample controls and extenders that makes it a snap to spice up your web site with rich functionality, and I think it will be very interesting to embed this toolkit into MOSS 2007. In the following example I?ve started with ASP.NET Ajax Accordion control, and may be later I?ll get the opportunity to embed more controls. Software Needed: SharePoint Portal Server 2007 (installed with site collection created on port: 80) Visual Studio 2005 SharePoint 2007 Extensions for Visual Studio 2005 ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX 1.0 Ajax Control ToolKit For all people who are enabling Ajax for the first time in SharePoint 2007, you need first to configure your SharePoint Portal to support AJAX. To do this, it is better to open a new AJAX web site in Visual Studio to pick a copy from configuration sections in web.config , and if you have configured it before you can start directly from step 9. 1? Add the following part under: <configSe... More About: Sharepoint 2007 , Sharepoint
Customizing MOSS 2007 Navigation Menu
2007-06-26 13:46:00 Hi all, I've received the following message from MOSS 2007 interested guy, he did use the idea of my previuos post: Custom izing SharePoint 2007 Navigation Menu . Hi, we needed the diferent color tabs, and we use your idea but with some modification. Hope it works for some people: <SharePoint:AspMenu ID="TopNavigationMenu" Runat="server" DataSourceID="topSiteMap" EnableViewState="false" AccessKey="<%$Resources:wss,navigation _accesskey%>" Orientation="Horizontal" StaticDisplayLevels="2" MaximumDynamicDisplayLevels="1" DynamicHorizontalOffset="0" StaticPopoutImageUrl="/_layouts/images/me nudark.gif" StaticPopoutImageTextFormatString="" ; DynamicHoverStyle-BackColor="#CBE3F0"&nbs p; SkipLinkText="" StaticSubMenuIndent="0" CssClass="ms-topNavContainer"> <StaticMenuItemStyle CssClass="" ItemSpacing="4px" /> <StaticSelectedStyle CssClass="ms-topnavselected" Item... More About: Moss
Customizing MOSS 2007 Navigation Menu
2007-06-26 13:46:00 Hi all, I've received the following message from MOSS 2007 interested guy, he did use the idea of my previuos post: Customizing SharePoint 2007 Navigation Menu . Hi, we needed the diferent color tabs, and we use your idea but with some modification. Hope it works for some people: <SharePoint:AspMenu ID="TopNavigationMenu" Runat="server" DataSourceID="topSiteMap" EnableViewState="false" AccessKey="<%$Resources:wss,navigation _accesskey%>" Orientation="Horizontal" StaticDisplayLevels="2" MaximumDynamicDisplayLevels="1" DynamicHorizontalOffset="0" StaticPopoutImageUrl="/_layouts/images/me nudark.gif" StaticPopoutImageTextFormatString="" ; DynamicHoverStyle-BackColor="#CBE3F0"&nbs p; SkipLinkText="" StaticSubMenuIndent="0" CssClass="ms-topNavContainer"> <StaticMenuItemStyle CssClass="" ItemSpacing="4px" /> <StaticSelectedStyle CssClass="ms-topnavselected" Item... More About: Moss
Customizing MOSS 2007 Navigation Menu
2007-06-26 13:46:00 Hi all, I've received the following message from MOSS 2007 interested guy, he did use the idea of my previuos post: Customizing SharePoint 2007 Navigation Menu . Hi, we needed the diferent color tabs, and we use your idea but with some modification. Hope it works for some people: <SharePoint:AspMenu ID="TopNavigationMenu" Runat="server" DataSourceID="topSiteMap" EnableViewState="false" AccessKey="<%$Resources:wss,navigation _accesskey%>" Orientation="Horizontal" StaticDisplayLevels="2" MaximumDynamicDisplayLevels="1" DynamicHorizontalOffset="0" StaticPopoutImageUrl="/_layouts/images/me nudark.gif" StaticPopoutImageTextFormatString="" ; DynamicHoverStyle-BackColor="#CBE3F0"&nbs p; SkipLinkText="" StaticSubMenuIndent="0" CssClass="ms-topNavContainer"> <StaticMenuItemStyle CssClass="" ItemSpacing="4px" /> <StaticSelectedStyle CssClass="ms-topnavselected" Item... More About: Moss
Customizing MOSS 2007 Navigation Menu
2007-06-26 13:46:00 Hi all, I've received the following message from "Jorge Zambrano", he did use the idea of my previuos post: Custom izing SharePoint 2007 Navigation Menu . Hi, we needed the diferent color tabs, and we use your idea but with some modification. Hope it works for some people: <SharePoint:AspMenu ID="TopNavigationMenu" Runat="server" DataSourceID="topSiteMap" EnableViewState="false" AccessKey="<%$Resources:wss,navigation _accesskey%>" Orientation="Horizontal" StaticDisplayLevels="2" MaximumDynamicDisplayLevels="1" DynamicHorizontalOffset="0" StaticPopoutImageUrl="/_layouts/images/me nudark.gif" StaticPopoutImageTextFormatString="" ; DynamicHoverStyle-BackColor="#CBE3F0"&nbs p; SkipLinkText="" StaticSubMenuIndent="0" CssClass="ms-topNavContainer"> <StaticMenuItemStyle CssClass="" ItemSpacing="4px" /> <StaticSelectedStyle CssClass="ms-topnavselected" ItemSpacing=... More About: Moss
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 code name "katmai" Release-June CTP
2007-06-25 17:27:00 SQL Server 2008, the next release of Microsoft SQL Server, provides a comprehensive data platform that is more secure, reliable, manageable and scalable for your mission critical applications, while enabling developers to create new applications that can store and consume any type of data on any device, and enabling all your users to make informed decisions with relevant insights. Download release & Read more More About: June , Code , Release
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 code name "katmai" Release-June CTP
More articles from this author:2007-06-25 17:27:00 SQL Server 2008, the next release of Microsoft SQL Server, provides a comprehensive data platform that is more secure, reliable, manageable and scalable for your mission critical applications, while enabling developers to create new applications that can store and consume any type of data on any device, and enabling all your users to make informed decisions with relevant insights. Download release & Read more More About: June , Code , Release 1, 2, 3 |
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