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I came from portal background ...I mean share point portal 2003 and got some free time to do R&D on Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server(MOSS) 2007 from my vista personal laptop but question is how you will work Microsoft SharePoint Server on vista OS.Here is the simple trick.Download  the virtual PC image (e.g  Virtual Hard Disk ) from Microsoft site which is loaded with all you requirement.Yes,it work great.Then,I jump on to do dry run on it and thought to implement silverlight WbeParts on MOSS . Everything went great except the deployment of webparts.I wonder to spend couple of hour to find out the "Web Part Gallery" on Site Collection Administration page(Please let me know if you know it ;)  ).   ...

A SharePoint Server 2007 Scalability and Performance whitepaper was recently released "to provide strategic information about designing a high-volume, high-availability enterprise solution that can easily grow." it was announced yesterday in the SharePoint Product Team blog . There is plenty of good content here, lots of good ideas, and many attractive diagrams. As for the tests, these are idyllic goals to shoot for if you want great performance – minimize (or eliminate) inserts and deletes, keep fewer than 200 files per folder (if you do the math, they appear to cap it at 130), don’t use more than 5 WFEs, and spread your databases over many physical volumes. Note that the testers assign 2 (or 3 in the case of H:) business divisions...

Toronto SharePoint User Group 2 Bloor West, Toronto Wednesday, June 25 6:00pm Registration and Social 6:30pm Meeting 7:00pm Feature Presentation (description below) 8:30pm Closing This is our last meeting of the 2007-2008 season. After June 25 , TSPUG is on summer break until September 17 . Future-Ready SharePoint Architecture: From Taxonomy to Deployment by Eli Robillard ( Infusion Development ), Ruven Gotz (Ideaca), and Craig Lussier (Torys LLP). In last month's episode (by Mindsharp , with several courses in Toronto the week of July 14 to 18 ), we learned the benefits of designing an effective taxonomy. This month we'll continue with the how-to's of designing taxonomies, and then turn our business requirements and corporate taxonomy...

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Here's a nugget. At the May Toronto SharePoint User Group meeting I met Mike Maadarani who got me excited about his company's CLF 2.0 SharePoint Toolkit . Orangutech is based in our nation's capital and they've been working with a government department and Microsoft to help SharePoint meet CLF 2.0 and WCAG requirements. From the documentation: The CLF 2.0 Team Site Feature will allow departments and agencies to create SharePoint team web sites [and publishing sites] that conform to the new Common Look and Feel Standards 2.0 (CLF 2.0) that conforms to the World Wide Web (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 Priority 1 and 2 checkpoints, which are collectively known as WCAG 1.0 AA. The toolkit includes two solutions, one...

Topic: SharePoint and Silverlight – Bringing the best of both worlds together! In this session we'll explore different scenarios for integrating SharePoint 2007 and Silverlight. We’ll explore different ways on how you can leverage the SharePoint 2007 amazing framework to expose content and data in a much richer way. Speaker: Andy Nogueira (MCTS, MCPD, MCAD) has over 10 years of professional experience in the IT industry. He is the Team Lead for the Microsoft Practice Group at nonlinear creations Inc. (nonlinear.ca), a Microsoft Gold Partner. He is responsible for designing and implementing several successful technology solutions based on MOSS 2007 (Microsoft Office SharePoint Server) integrated with technologies such as Enterprise Search...

At Infusion ASP.NET developers regularly ask how to easily build a web part or how to host a user control (.ascx) in SharePoint. Someone invariably replies "SmartPart!" at which point my job is to make sure they understand just what they're getting the client into. SmartPart is a cleverly coded web part by SharePoint MVP Jan Tielens . Once installed, you can drag an instance of SmartPart into a SharePoint web part zone and configure the new web part to host an .ascx file stored on disk. And like magic, you can host user controls in SharePoint. Recent versions are even AJAX-aware, and the underlying code is really quite good. But, there are drawbacks, some of which may be overcome, some of which are fixed realities. 1. SmartPart...

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I've updated the article on how to build a development machine for SharePoint 2007 . The best tool I've discovered is the SharePoint Manager 2007 which takes over from the SharePoint Inspector as the object model browser of choice. Notable tools not yet on the how-to page are the U2U CAML Creator tool and Ms. White's Event Receiver Manager . Several of the recommended tools were moved into a new optional section, the most notable of which is the VSeWSS component which I really can't recommend. There are so many better project templates available on CodePlex that the sole bright spot of VSeWSS is the Solution Generator. In another tragic turn, VSeWSS was "updated" and baked into VS 2008 in a way that actually made a...

Taxonomy defines the structure that underpins Knowledge Management, Document Management, Records Management and more. Considerable effort goes into defining & developing taxonomy, with the goal of creating a common structure that will benefit the whole organization. The challenge, however, is to ensure that taxonomy work well for staff, beyond any organizational benefits that are sought. If not designed well, taxonomy can become 'white elephants' , too hard to understand and too complex to use...( read more ) Read More...