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SharePoint Online whitepaper

Ik krijg met  regelmaat vragen over wat er allemaal wel en niet kan bij SharePoint Online. Hierover is nu een whitepaper beschikbaar:

Service Description for Office SharePoint Online Standard
Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Online is a collection of Web-based tools and technologies built on Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 that help you store, share, and manage digital information within your company.This white paper describes the services and features that are included with the Standard offering of SharePoint Online.

Click here for the download.

Bart

The 2007 Microsoft Office Suite Service Pack 2 (SP2)

Zoals vorige week al gepost is gisteen SP2 voor Office 2007 uitgekomen:

The 2007 Microsoft Office Suite Service Pack 2 (SP2)

en voor de Servers: The 2007 Microsoft Office Servers Service Pack 2 (SP2)

Naast fixes is er deze keer ook nieuwe functionaliteit toegevoegd:

Save as ODF 1.1 for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint

OpenDocument 1.1 (ODF) has been added as an available file format for saving documents in Word, Excel and PowerPoint. Doug Mahugh has covered this extensively in his blog, and the ODF 1.1 implementer’s notes have also been available for a while. We first announced our intent to add ODF to the list of supported file types over a year ago. It is great to see this activity come to fruition. I’m especially pleased / surprised at the level of engagement from folks in the ODF community, helping talk through some of the harder parts of the installation. In case you are observing the feature-level impact of saving to ODF in Office, you can visit the links below to learn more about how ODF in Office will behave.

· PowerPoint: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/powerpoint/HA102877231033.aspx

· Excel: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/excel/HA102877221033.aspx

· Word: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word/HA102835631033.aspx

Save as PDF and XPS

Many have seen our announcement a few years back about the addition of PDF and XPS to the list of supported file types of Office 2007. This add-in was originally offered a free download for Office 2007, but SP2 has taken that a step forward and added the bits to the release – no longer a manual download. PDF export functionality will continue to support the creation of PDF 1.5 documents, as well as the ability to generate PDF/A – IS19500 compliant files.

Bart

Service Pack 2 for 2007 Microsoft Office System due April 28th

Via the Microsoft Update Blog:

 

Our friends over in the Office Sustained Engineering team asked us to post this info. You should be sure to check out their blog for updated information on service releases for our supported versions of Office.

Last October, we announced the upcoming release of the 2^nd service pack for the 2007 Microsoft Office System and the 2007 Microsoft Office. Today, we’re happy to provide both a formal release date, and more details on what you should expect to see in SP2.

A fair amount has been said about SP2 already, but there is a lot more to share. We’ll cover the highlights here, but please check back on April 28th when all of our documentation will be published. It is important to remember that the information provided today is by no means a comprehensive list. We worked with the individual teams in Office to come up with a list of changes that they were most proud of and felt would be most beneficial to you, our valued customers.

In addition to the numerous product improvements introduced by SP2, you may also notice that our SP2 documentation has been overhauled. Gone are the days of the long-winded or too sparse knowledge base articles that do little to describe what’s included in the actual service pack or that include details that may not be what you are looking for. In their place are what we hope are more user-friendly and informative KB’s. The technical information still exists, but it has been pulled from the main KB articles and now will live on TechNet. And, back by popular demand, is the spreadsheet listing individual bugs that were fixed across all of our products.

The Service Pack team would like to express our sincere thanks to the many beta testers who took the time to download, install, test, and provide feedback to us. This was the largest beta we’ve done to date for an Office service pack with thousands of beta testers from over 60 countries. We know your time is extremely valuable, and we very much appreciate all you’ve done. Your efforts have helped to make this a great release!

Don’t forget to come back on April 28^th. We’ll have a comprehensive list of everything we’ve released, where you can find it, and links to additional information.

Very sincerely,

The Office Service Pack team

We’ll start with updates that pertain to multiple products, highlight fixes to the individual desktop applications, and then discuss fixes to the server products.

Changes that impact desktop applications

· Service Pack 2 adds the ability to open, edit and save documents in version 1.1 of the OpenDocument Format for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. These applications now let users save, open, and edit files as OpenDocument Text (*.odt), OpenDocument Spreadsheet (*.ods), and OpenDocument Presentations (*.odp).

· The 2007 Microsoft Office Service Pack 2 is the first service pack to support uninstall of client updates through the Microsoft Service Pack Uninstall Tool for the 2007 Microsoft Office Suite as well as via Windows Installer command line. The Service Pack Uninstall Tool will be available as a separate download.

· Save As PDF/XPS support has been built into the SP2 of these Office applications. Users no longer have to download the add-in separately.

· When many graphic objects are present performance has been improved.

· In many scenarios, expect increased print fidelity of graphical objects.

· Improved interoperability using standard DrawingML markup to describe the visual properties of the SmartArt graphic.

The 2007 Office Suite SP2 has been tested and is supported for Internet Explorer 8. Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 SP2, Windows 7 and Windows Server R2 will all be supported upon their release.

Access

· The ability to export reports to Excel has been added.

· Fixes for issues with the import data wizards, report printing and previewing, macros, Excel integration, and date filters.

· Updates to Access Developer Extensions are now included in SP2.

Excel

· The charting mechanism has improved robustness and targeted performance improvements.

· A chart object model has been added to Word and PowerPoint.

· Improved printing of graphical content, especially on PCL printers.

Groove

· Improved form tools.

· Synchronization reliability has been improved.

InfoPath

· Increased compatibility between InfoPath forms and other Microsoft products, such as Groove and Outlook.

OneNote

· SharePoint synchronization has been improved which helps reduce the load on SharePoint servers and produce fewer errors.

Outlook

· Performance in startup, shutdown, view rendering, and folder switch has been improved.

· Calendar updates, search, and RSS are more reliable.

· The object model has been improved.

PowerPoint

· Resaving of files is faster.

· Several printer-specific problems have been fixed.

· The Microsoft Office Excel Chart Object Model has been more fully integrated.

Project

· The scheduling engine, Active Cache, and Gantt charts all have improvements.

· There is additional reliability with earlier versions of the .mpp format.

Publisher

· Fixes have been made in the following areas: print preview, compatibility with Internet Explorer 8, e-mail on Windows Vista, and saving to the Content library.

Visio

· Improved compatibility with other Microsoft products in several key scenarios, such as inserting Visio drawings as linked objects in PowerPoint or Word, exporting reports to Excel, and saving drawings as Web pages for browsing in Internet Explorer 8.

Word

· Fidelity of PDF and XPS output has been enhanced.

· Fuller integration of the Microsoft Office Excel Chart Object Model.

Changes that impact the server products

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 SP2 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server SP2 include fixes and enhancements designed to improve performance, availability, and stability in your server farms. SP2 provides the groundwork for future major releases of SharePoint Products and Technologies.

· An STSADM command line that scans your server farm to establish whether it is ready for upgrade to the next version of SharePoint and provides feedback and best practice recommendations on your current environment.

· SP2 offers support for standards-based documents formats and compatibility with a broader range of Web browsers.

· Substantial improvements to Forms-based authentication.

Windows Server 2008 SP2 and Windows Server R2 will be supported on their release.

Enterprise Content Management (ECM)

· The performance and stability of content deployment and variations feature has been improved.

· A new tool has been added to the STSADM command-line utility that enables a SharePoint administrator to scan sites that use the variations feature for errors.

Excel and Access Services

· SP2 makes it easier to configure Excel Web Access Web parts on new sites. Several rendering, calculation, and security issues have been resolved.

· Some display issues have been addressed.

· Improved compatibility with Mozilla Firefox browsers.

Groove Server

· Improved synchronization reliability.

· Groove Server 2007 Manager will install and run with SQL 2008.

· Groove’s LDAP connectivity and auto-activation functionality have been improved.

· Error reporting in the Groove Relay Server has improved significantly.

· Groove Relay Server has improved robustness.

Forms Server

· Memory requirements and the page load times for large browser-rendered forms have been reduced.

· Browser rendering of various controls, such as the 'cannot be blank' asterisk and the rich text field has been improved.

Project Server

· Better memory management in the queue service.

· Performance to certain database table indexes is improved

· Resource plans, build team, cost resources, and the server scheduling engine have improved.

Search Server

· Improvements to the reliability and stability of very large corpus crawls.

· Backup-restore has been improved.

· A new command has been introduced to the stsadm.exe tool that lets a SharePoint Administrator to tune the Query processor multiplier parameter.

· Improved accuracy in searches involving numbers.

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The MU Team

MSDN Webcast: Social Networking Site Development with SharePoint Server (Level 200)

Social networking includes a wide variety of features that users have come to expect in online communities such as blogs, wikis, and personal profiles. In this webcast, we introduce you to the collaboration features in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and the Community Kit for SharePoint (CKS). We demonstrate how the Community Kit for SharePoint provides an enhanced message board implementation and central configuration of social networking elements.

Presenter:  Brendon Schwartz, Senior Software Engineer, Telligent , and Matt Ranlett, Principal Consultant, Intellinet Corporation

Click here for the webcast

Bart

Microsoft Office SharePoint Online - Whitepaper

There is a whitepaper available on SharePoint Online:

Overview

Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Online is a collection of Web-based tools and technologies that help you store, share, and manage digital information within your company. Built on Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, this hosted service is ideal for storing project documents in a central location and sharing them with others. By using SharePoint lists, libraries, and Web Parts, project members can work more efficiently and productively.
Intended for company decision-makers, this white paper describes the services and features that are included with the Standard offering of SharePoint Online. SharePoint Online Standard is a Microsoft Online Services offering for those who want rapid service adoption and a standardized administrative console.

Click here for the download.

Bart

Ramp up for SharePoint Developers

New on the MSDN site is Ramp up!

Take the Next Step on Your Career Path
Ramp Up is a free, online, community-based learning program, with a number of different tracks that will help you build your portfolio of professional development skills. Ramp Up has a solid foundation of premium technical content from subject-matter gurus, and provides easy-to-access content in a variety of forms that guide you in learning the important skills. Join Ramp Up (it's free!) and help advance your career - click on a track now to start!

On Ramp Up you can find a SharePoint for Developers track:

As a developer, would you like to learn more about Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS)? MOSS is based on Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services, which gives developers the opportunity to get more problems solved with less effort. Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 takes full advantage of Microsoft ASP.NET and the Microsoft .NET runtime. The new features and added programmability support in MOSS provide a wealth of development opportunities. This course will immerse you in many of the developer-centric capabilities of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server.

Level 1: Web Parts
Did you know that in SharePoint you can build pages as easy as in ASP.NET – and allow end users to create dashboards? Web parts allow for creating components of Web user interface that can be reused on multiple Web pages. These are introduced in ASP.NET and built on in SharePoint where they can be added to pages by end users and managed by IT Professionals. In this topic you will learn about building simple Web parts for SharePoint and how to connect them back to SharePoint site data.

Level 2: Data Lists
Did you know that SharePoint developers can work with data from lists that users get access to too? Data lists provide data storage for end users in SharePoint. End users can create lists with schema all through the SharePoint user interface and they can create, edit, and view the data. All of this data can be programmatically accessed by developers and this topic is all about that.

Level 3: Event Handlers
Did you know that SharePoint developers can automatically process data that your users upload via a spreadsheet? Event handlers (or event receivers) are custom code that runs on the SharePoint server in response to something that happens on the server. Event handlers can be useful for running business logic in response to data being added to the site. This topic shows how to create simple event handlers and investigates ways that event handlers can be used in SharePoint.

Level 4: Workflow
Did you know that you can write WF workflows in SharePoint without having to worry about storage, persistence, or how to interact with the user? Workflow in SharePoint allows for implementation of processes that require interaction such as email approvals or form completion by people in your organization. This topic shows you how to create simple workflows in SharePoint using Visual Studio that involve approvals from people by email and for meeting room resource bookings with an administrator.

Level 5: Silverlight Web Parts
Did you know that you can build rich Internet applications with SharePoint? Silverlight is a new Web user interface technology from Microsoft that allows for each implementation of animations and videos. This topic shows how a SharePoint user interface can be enhanced by using Silverlight in Web parts as part of a SharePoint site.

Besides SharePoint there are tracks for Aspiring Developers, Java Developers switching to C#, and Visual Studio.

Bart

Using Office Data Connection files (.odc) and the DataConnections Web Part in SharePoint to Specify External Data Connections in Newly Created Excel Workbooks

On the Excel blog you can read this interesting article:

Overview

Excel and Excel Services support importing external data, which can be specified using connections embedded in the workbook itself or in Office Data Connection (.odc) files. One of the advantages of using .odc files is that any updates to the external data connection properties only have to be done once in the .odc file itself - any workbook using the .odc file for its data connection will use the updated connection properties. Another advantage of .odc files is that the user can open an .odc file directly, which results in Excel creating a new workbook that already contains the external data connection.

Excel Services can only open .odc files that are located in trusted data connection libraries. For additional information please see White paper: Excel Services step-by-step guides and Plan external data connections for Excel Services

 

Read full article here.

Bart

SharePoint whitepapers

4 whitepapers on MOSS are published:

Office SharePoint Server 2007 Document Management Whitepaper

Overview

Microsoft delivers an integrated solution that extends document management to all employees. By recognizing that a document’s lifecycle begins the moment it is created and does not end until it is destroyed, organizations can achieve wide adoption and enforcement of enterprise standards, resulting in decreased management costs and reduced corporate risk.

Office SharePoint Server 2007 Web Content Management Whitepaper

Overview

Over the last few decades, Web technologies have dramatically changed the way that companies conduct business with their customers, partners, and employees. What began as a static store for public information has become a dynamic, evolving environment for managing customer relationships, collaborating with partners, and communicating with employees. Because of the explosive growth of online channels, companies are struggling to manage Web sites and applications, especially in terms of managing content targeted for different audiences in a global environment. As the reliance on Web content has increased, so has the demand for a solution that empowers both business and IT users with the tools they need to efficiently and effectively manage multiple, complex Web sites.
Microsoft has responded to these changes by delivering a WCM solution that combines the rich features of a traditional content management system with a unified, enterprise WCM platform—all delivered with the usability of Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server 2007.

Overview

Microsoft delivers a records management platform that can be extended to every information worker. By viewing retention and records management as a component of the overall document lifecycle, organizations can reduce risk and improve compliance with increased adoption of records management practices.

Office SharePoint Server 2007 Workflow Whitepaper

Overview

Over the last decade, business process management solutions have been gaining considerable momentum as organizations are struggling to maintain consistency and efficiency in executing their core business processes. Workflow for automating formal business processes has been built into enterprise solutions and line-of-business applications, and business process management point solutions have emerged for more comprehensive process management capabilities. Despite these advancements in business process management technologies, workflow and business process management solutions are typically used to address only a small percentage of the work that is done within an enterprise. By focusing exclusively on highly structured business processes designed by a small number of employees, organizations have historically neglected to address and enable the less formal and more iterative work that is completed by the vast majority of employees.
Microsoft has responded to these industry challenges by providing the Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server 2007 Workflow solution that delivers highly flexible tools like InfoPath Forms Services for data collection and workflow interaction and SharePoint® Designer for easy workflow design and customization including robust out of the box features to enable the rapid deployment and adoption of business process solutions across the enterprise. By supplementing formalized process execution with collaborative human interaction, employees can work more effectively in the context of the larger goals of the enterprise.

Bart

New Hands on Labs for Developing Applications on Windows SharePoint Services 3.0

There is a new Virtual PC available for download that contains Hands on Labs for Developers on SharePoint:

Brief Description

A set of 10 Hands on Labs for Developing Applications for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 with Visual Studio 2005

Overview

A set of 10 Hands on Labs for Developing Applications for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 with Visual Studio 2005. These labs are provided in C# and VB.NET languages. Each Hands on Lab is expected to take 60 minutes to complete and no SharePoint development experience is required. Participants are expected to have .NET development experience. The download includes lab manuals, completed lab exercises and any resource files required by the labs. The HOLs included are:
1. Web Parts
2. Data Lists
3. Event Handlers
4. Workflow
5. Silverlight
6. Page Navigation
7. Page Branding
8. Web Services
9. Content Types
10. User Authentication

Click here for the download.

Prefer to work with Visual Studio 2008? There is a "timebombed" vpc available as well:

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 SP1 Developer Evaluation VPC Image

Brief Description

A time limited evaluation VHD containing Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 SP1 and Visual Studio 2008 for use with Virtual PC or Virtual Server

Overview

A time limited evaluation VHD containing Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 SP1, Visual Studio 2008 and the Visual Studio 2008 extensions for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, v1.1 for use with Virtual PC or Virtual Server.

Click here for the download.

Bart

SharePoint 2007 and Windows Server 2008

Arpan wrote an interesting article on the benefits of using SharePoint on windows Server 2008:

With SharePoint SP1, SharePoint 2007 supports Windows Server 2008. The MOSS & WSS evaluation guides have been updated with installation instructions for Windows Server 2008. We also published a Resource Center on TechNet with information for WS08 & SharePoint @ http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/office/sharepointserver/bb735844.aspx.

Recently, we released a whitepaper that does a great job highlighting the benefits of WS08 w/ SharePoint @ http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=116395&clcid=0x409. It's new and a great, quick read. Here's a table from the whitepaper that summarizes some of the benefits that can be achieved when you deploy SharePoint on Windows Server 2008:

Functional Area

Feature

Notes

Manageability

IIS 7.0

• New IIS Manager with improved and simplified task-oriented work flow and increased functionality
• New Command-Line Interface (CLI) to configure IIS from command prompt or batch files
• New .NET Windows Management Interface (WMI) that allows for IIS configuration from PowerShell scripts or custom .NET Framework applications
• Request Tracing features to improve diagnostics
• Improved availability through immediate configuration changes without requiring site downtime
• Modular Architecture where only those modules required by the applications are actually present – reduces maintenance complexity

Custom Event Log Views

• Create custom views of logged events to automatically filter events (by source, severity, and more) to speed up troubleshooting
• Assign tasks to events (for example, notifications and custom program actions) when specific events occur, prompting timely action on problems

Hyper-V

• Advanced virtualization technology for hosting multiple logical platforms under a single, minimally-configured server
• Consolidated environment, specifically for development and testing of multi-server SharePoint farms
• Reduce resource costs by reducing the number of physical servers required for development

Security

Roles and Features

• Minimizing the deployment footprint by tailoring roles, services and features installed. This reduces the attack surface
• New Windows Firewall, increasing individual server security
• New Security Configuration Wizard (2.0) that enables role- and feature-based security hardening, simplified from earlier versions
• Enhanced Group Policy Management by using wizards to simplify the creation and maintenance of group policies

Reliability & Performance

Roles and Features

• Customized configuration by using required roles and features reduces overall footprint and makes sure that nonessential services and processes are not present. This guarantees that resources are dedicated exclusively to required services

New TCP/IP Stack

• Support for IPv4 and IPv6
• Improved performance for high-latency networks

IPsec Enhancements

• Improved performance almost to level of unprotected traffic

Reliability & Performance Manager

• New console for monitoring performance and reliability both in real time and historically
• Set thresholds for performance metrics that result in custom actions (for example, alerts)
• Stability index correlates significant system events with server reliability as an help in troubleshooting problems that evolve over time

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Silverlight 2 (Beta 2) Blueprint for SharePoint

Op CodePlex staat nu de Silverlight 2 (Beta 2) Blueprint for SharePoint:

http://www.codeplex.com/SL4SP

For more information about Software-plus-Services Blueprints please visit out main landing page on Channel9: http://channel9.msdn.com/blueprints

Bart

Best Practices Resource Center for SharePoint Server 2007

Op TechNet staat nu een Best Practices center voor SharePoint 2007!

Best Practice Center for SharePoint Server 2007

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SharePoint Server 2007 SDK: Software Development Kit

Version 1.4 (aug 2008) of the SharePoint SDK is out:

Brief Description

The Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 SDK contains conceptual overviews, “How Do I…?” programming tasks, developer tools, code samples, references, and an Enterprise Content Management (ECM) starter kit to guide you in developing solutions based on Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.

Overview

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. It features conceptual and "How to" articles, sample code, and programming references.
What’s New in this Release for the Microsoft Office SharePoint Server SDK

• Installation enhancements: You now have a choice of installation path when you’re installing the SDK. Browse to your preferred folder during setup. The default installation path for the Microsoft Office SharePoint Server SDK is <%Program Files%>\2007 Office System Developer Resources\.
• Start menu navigation: This release features a new Start menu shortcut for quick access to documentation (compiled HTML Help, or CHM for short) files and the Welcome Guide (ReadMe.htm), which is a landing page with links to all the tools and samples. In Windows Server 2003, click Start, Programs, 2007 Microsoft Office System Developer Resources, Office SharePoint Server 2007 SDK to open: MOSS 2007 Technical Articles and Visual How-Tos, Office Forms Server SDK Documentation, Office SharePoint Server SDK Documentation, Welcome Guide, Windows SharePoint Services SDK Documentation. In Windows Vista, click the Windows Vista Start button, All Programs, 2007 Microsoft Office System Developer Resources, Office SharePoint Server 2007 SDK to open: MOSS 2007 Technical Articles and Visual How-Tos, Office Forms Server SDK Documentation, Office SharePoint Server SDK Documentation, Welcome Guide, Windows SharePoint Services SDK Documentation.
• Offline experience improvements: All of the technical articles, visual how-to articles, and book excerpts are now packaged—plus the Excel Services and Excel 2007 Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 Job Submission Developer Guide—into one searchable CHM file. Browse offline for content published on MSDN out-of-band with the SDK. (Known issue: Several links in the MOSSSDK_TechArticles.chm and WSSSDK_TechArticles.chm do not work in a strictly offline scenario. Also, WMV file screencasts or downloads associated with articles are not packaged in the CHM, to keep the download size manageable. Workaround: Browse to the content on MSDN online; for ease-of-use, the CHM file table of contents is the same as the MSDN Library table of contents.
• New tools and samples included with the Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 SDK: Developer tools and samples for the following areas of Office SharePoint Server development (new items in bold):
  • Business Data Catalog Samples and Utilities
    • Microsoft Business Data Catalog Definition Editor
    • Sample Pluggable SSO Provider
    • WSHelloWorld Web Service
    • WSOrders Web Service
    • Excel Services User Defined Function Sample
    • WSOrders Custom Proxy Sample
    • Amazon Web Service Sample
    • AdventureWorks Metadata Samples
    • SAP Sample
  • Document Management and Content Processing Samples
    • Comment Scrub Document Converter
    • Term Replacement Document Inspector
  • Search Samples
    • Sample Protocol Handler
    • Custom Content Source
    • Custom Federated Search Web Part with a Credentials UI (also available at MSDN Code Gallery)
    • Federated Search SQL Server Connector (also available at MSDN Code Gallery)
    • Federated Search HTML to RSS Connector (also available at MSDN Code Gallery)
    • Federated Search Virtual Earth Map Connector (also available at MSDN Code Gallery)
  • Records Management and Policy Samples
    • De-Duplication Router
    • Document Integrity Verifier
    • Records Center Web Service Console Application
    • Search, Collect, and Hold Tool
    • Sample Custom Barcode Generator
    • IRM Document Protector
  • Workflow Samples
    • Custom Workflow Report Query Generator
    • Custom Workflow Report XLSX Injector
    • Visual Studio Workflow Templates
    • Enterprise Content Management Workflow Activities
    • List Item Activities
    • Hello World Sequential Workflow
    • State Based Approval Workflow
    • Modification Workflow
    • Replication and Contact Selector Workflow
    • Intersystem Purchase Order
    • Confidential Approval Workflow
    • Group Approval Workflow
    • Approval Workflow Sample
    • Multi-Stage Workflow
    • Server-side Collect Signatures Workflow

• Compiled HTML Help files (updated with new content since RTM), OSSSDK2007.chm and WSS3sdk.chm, which contain conceptual topics, Class Library and Web Service References for SharePoint Server 2007 and Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0.
  Updates to the MOSS SDK conceptual topics include:
  • How to: Customize RSS for the Content Query Web Part (new)
  • How to: Create a Minimal Master Page (revised)
  • Provisioning Portal Sites (revised)
  • Portal Site Template File (revised)
  • Portal (Portal Site Template) (revised)
  • Webs (Portal Site Template) (revised)
  • Web (Portal Site Template) (revised)
  • Federated Search (new)
  Updates to the MOSS SDK Class Library and Web Service Reference include:
  • Microsoft.Office.Workflow.ISoapServerWorkflow
  • Microsoft.Office.Workflow.IWorkflow
  • Microsoft.Office.Workflow.Workflow
  • Microsoft.Office.RecordsManagement.PolicyFeatures.IBarCodeGenerator
  • Microsoft.Office.RecordsManagement.InformationPolicy.IPolicyFeatures
  • Workflow Web service
  • Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Federation
• Code samples that relate to topics in the SDK: Business Data Catalog metadata samples, Custom Single Sign-On Provider, SampleWebService, and Custom Filter Web Parts. The sample projects use Microsoft Visual C# and Microsoft Visual Studio 2005.
  Updates to the MOSS SDK code samples include:
  • Microsoft Business Data Catalog Definition Editor tool
  • Protocol Handler Sample
• Enterprise Content Management Starter Kit.

• 2007 Office System Digital Signatures Developers Guide
• 2007 Office System Encryption Developers Guide
• Information Rights Management - Pluggable Rights Management, Technical Overview
• Importing Custom Actions into SharePoint Designer
• Workflow Security Topics

• Content Processing
  • Term Replacement Document Inspector Module
  • Document Converters (server-side custom property remover, docm-to-docx converter)
• Records Management and Policy
  • De-Duplication Router
  • Document Integrity Verifier
  • Records Repository Web Service Console Application
  • Search, Collect, and Hold Tool
  • Default Site Policy
• Workflow
  Note: The following workflow samples are meant to demonstrate concepts and provide a starting point for extension. They are not the same workflows that are included with Office SharePoint Server 2007.
  • Custom Reports
  • ECM Activities
  • List Item Activities
  • Hello World Sequential Workflow
  • State Based Approval Workflow
  • Modification Workflow
  • Replication and Contact Selector Workflow
  • Intersystem Purchase Order
  • Confidential Approval
  • Group Approval
  • Review Workflows
  • Collect Feedback Workflow
  • Multi-Stage Workflow
  • Server-side Collect Signatures Workflow

• SharePoint Server Sequential Workflow Library
• SharePoint Server State Machine Workflow Library

Click here for the download.

Bart

Microsoft® SharePoint® Administration Toolkit v2

Verise 2  van de Administration toolkit is gepubliceerd:

Brief Description

The Microsoft® SharePoint® Administration Toolkit contains functionality to help administrate and manage Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server 2007 and Windows® SharePoint® Services version 3.0.

Overview

The Microsoft SharePoint Administration Toolkit contains functionality to help manage Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services version 3.0. This toolkit contains the ability to perform bulk operations on site collections, an Stsadm operation to update alert e-mails after the URL for a Web application has been changed, and a User Profile Replication Engine tool. For new functionality, see New Features.
New Features:

• One new tool added: User Profile Replication Engine (Office SharePoint Server 2007 only).
• The MSI is customizable and selectable, meaning that a user can control which tools are installed or uninstalled and when the User Profile Replication Engine tool is installed, a custom installation folder can be selected. The MSI also supports the /quiet switch for quiet installation.
• For x86 and x64 platforms, installation is automatic. There is no need to manually run Psconfig and Stsadm commands after running Setup, as with the April 2008 release.

• Information for farm administrators about Batch Site Manager, User Profile Replication Engine, and the updatealert operation for the Stsadm command-line tool can be found in SharePoint Administration Toolkit (Office SharePoint Server) and SharePoint Administration Toolkit (Windows SharePoint Services).

Click here for the x86 download

Click here for the x64 download

Bart

Zijn SharePoint ontwikkelaars goede programmeurs?

Matthijs heeft een leuke post, doe je iets met SharePoint, open dan de onderstaande link even:

Zijn SharePoint ontwikkelaars goede programmeurs?

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