(Scott Jamison) Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (aka MOSS) is a fantastic tool. Ive seen businesses deploy MOSS to help employees find information more easily, improve productivity via easy collaboration, and manage company Internet sites. Managers are amazed that a single tool can add so mu
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Eleven ways to make your SharePoint implementation more user-friendly
(Sadalit Van Buren) Based on my two years of working with customers’ MOSS 2007 implementations, and some of the great ideas my customers have had, here are eleven ways to improve the usability of your SharePoint implementation for your end-users. (Note: These five suggestions work for MOSS 2007; not
Auditing in SharePoint 2007
(Gustavo Velez) Tracking the complex trail of information within an organization is a major task. To address this issue, Microsoft introduced Audit support possibilities in SharePoint 2007. Audit undertakes the verification and validation of systems, and then processes the results in automated techn
Sharepoint 2007 Sliding Window Calendar Webpart
(N W Brown) Sharepoint Calendar Lists offer not only standard 1:00-2:30 pm type entries, but also entries that span multiple days, and all-day items, which have no set start or end time. Retrieving this data means learning something about CAML queries and Sharepoint gotchas and I hope this article
Delivering Modular SharePoint Workflow Functionality (Part 1 of 2)
(David Mann) A workflow represents a process from start to finish. Whatever the business scenario, the workflow models the events, actions, and situations that make up the process. For an independent software vendor (ISV) that process is often deeply entwined with his or her application. For a custo
How to implement Forms-based authentication for Office SharePoint Server 2007 by using SQL Server
This article describes how to implement Forms-based authentication for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 by using Microsoft SQL Server that is installed on the same computer.
Leveraging Content Types in SharePoint Document Libraries and Lists
(Daan De Brouckere and Raj Agarwal) Content types are a new feature introduced in Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) 3.0. To leverage this feature appropriately, users can’t just rely on the basic documentation. What you’ll find in the real world is that companies are implementing the various compone
Introduction to SharePoint Products and Technologies for the Professional .NET Developer
(Erika Ehrli Cabral and Paul Andrew) SharePoint Products and Technologies provide an extensible solution platform for the professional Microsoft .NET developer, and offer a wide array of built-in features and application hosting using well-known .NET development tools and technologies. SharePoint Pr
Developing and Deploying a SharePoint Feature – Part 1
(Steven Barden) SharePoint 2007 is far more feature packed than SharePoint 2003, which is what Microsoft wanted to make sure of. They have also made SharePoint 2007 even more extendable that 2003. This means that not only can you immediately take advantage of the existing base of features, but you c
External Storing of Binary Large Objects (BLOBs) in Windows SharePoint Services
Typically, as much as 80 percent of data for an enterprise-scale deployment of Windows SharePoint Server consists of file-based data streams that are stored as BLOB data. These BLOB objects comprise data associated with SharePoint files. However, maintaining large quantities of BLOB data in a Micros