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One of my collegeas Stefan pointed out to me a webpage on Technet containing links to downloadable books for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. It contains information about planning and architecture, deployment, upgrading, records management and security. http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/3e3b8737-c6a3-4e2c-a35f-f0095d952b781033.mspx?mfr=true
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Last week we had a Jump! session happening in Amstelveen. This session is done 4 times a year and is visited by collegeas from all over the Netherlands. Our business unit is spreaded over different locations in the Netherlands and therefore we used a new way of having a meeting. By using live conferencing there were multiple locations from where the session could be followed. You can see the people from Eindhoven sitting on the left screen. :) It was also an innovative session were information was...
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To increase your blogs visibility there are several ways to do this. One method is adding yourself to the website of Technorati. Technorati Profile The following article written by Seth describes more ways to get traffic to your blog. http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2006/06/how_to_get_traf.html
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"What if your photo collection was an entry point into the world, like a wormhole that you could jump through and explore.." A great introduction written by Microsoft for introducing Microsoft PhotoSynth . Microsoft PhotoSynth is an exiting new way of viewing photos of a place or object. The technology analyzes a large collection of photos of a place or object for similarities and reconstruct those photos into a 3 dimensional space. The user experiences an incredible view of that place...
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From SharePoint Cafe the following: MindSharp has just published a new white paper on Sarbanes Oxley compliance using Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. The title of the paper is "The Role of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 in Supporting Compliance with the Sarbanes Oxley Act of 2002". The paper is written by Mark Schneider, PMP and Project Server expert. In this paper, he discusses a summary of SOX and help you understand how the Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS...
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Bart Wessels has put some nice demos online about using OneNote and InfoPath forms in combination with SharePoint. For the people who don't know what OneNote is: Microsoft Office OneNote 2007 is an easy-to-use note-taking and information-management program where you can capture ideas and information in electronic form. Insert files or Web content in full-color, searchable format or as icons that you can click to access. For more information about InfoPath check the following link: Introduction...
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During one of my projects we are writing a migration application for converting WSS 2.0 data to WSS 3.0 data. Yes, i know there are several methods from Microsoft to do migration but all of them were not sufficient enough :) So we are writing our own. One of the problems we encountered was copying files and their versions stored in SPFile and SPFileVersion objects. Trying a lot, following Microsoft documentation and reading a lot of discussions on the internet, we finally came up with the solution...
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Two weeks ago i saw something great on the internet. It was Microsoft Surface. A new technology which makes it possible for people to interact to a screen with movements of hands, objects and lots more. This is a very good example of a technology which will help accomplish "The new world of work". The screen communicates with objects put on it like daily objects as a cup of coffee or a phone. It automatically connects wireless to your phone or other devices and gives possibilities like...
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Naveedullah Khan wrote a nice article on Code Project about multilangual site configuration. In SharePoint Portal Server 2003 was limited support of lnaguage configuration for multilangual websites. With the new version of SharePoint these problems are moved to the past. I'm not saying that this will solve all multilangual site problems but it is a big step into the right direction. SharePoint 2007 offerts Language Packs and Site Variations which makes it possible. This article describes "What...
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Creating a deployment solution for WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007 is not that difficult but can be time consuming. This is caused by creating the manifest.xml and a DDF file. Using makecab.exe creates a WSP file which is you deployment solution. It alreadu doesn't work if you make a little mistake and it takes time to find the errors you made. Last week i went to London for a business meeting which i was gonna explain how to create a deployment solution project. One of the guys pointed out to me a nice...
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Microsoft is offering a lot of different language packs for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. Not all language are available for free through the internet. Here is some usefull information regarding MOSS language packs. It seems that MOSS language packs are only available through Volume Licensing at the moment. MVLS: https://licensing.microsoft.com/eLicense/L1033/Default.asp MS.Com/eOpen: https://eopen.microsoft.com/EN/default.asp More information: http...
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Thanks to a collegea of mine my attention was put to the blog of Heather Solomon. Some articles can be found discussing how to style SharePoint 2007 using CSS. one of the articles contains a reference chart with most of the styles numbered and each containing an example were you can find it in your Portal. You can find it at http://www.heathersolomon.com/content/sp07cssreference.htm Heather, you did a great job!!
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Through a blog of Bart Wessels i came accross a white paper which describes the differences between versions of Microsoft Office applications working togther with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2003 and 2007. The document describes mainly the collaboration differences between Microsoft Office 2003 and 2007 Office Suite together with Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and Office SharePoint Server 2007. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=E0D05A69-F67B-4D37-961E-2DB3C4065CB9&displaylang...