| Article | 7 New Features That Enhance Security in SharePoint | Innovative authentication features built into MOSS 2007 let you employ Web-based security standards through custom authentication providers, Internet-style forms-based authentication, and Web single sign-on (SSO). Furthermore, MOSS offers granular rights management of business assets such as 2007 Microsoft® Office system files, native encryption features, and reduced client authentication obligations.
Here are seven security features provided by MOSS 2007 you can quickly put to work. | 4 | MOSS 2007 | Security |
| Article | A Look At The Improvements And Shortcomings Of |
Microsoft’s Office 2007 desktop applications feature a new user experience, an integrated graphics
engine, support for a new XML-based file format, numerous optional interdependencies with
SharePoint Server 2007, and a host of optional online services, the latter two pointing to perhaps the
most important aspects of Office 2007 desktop apps for enterprises. The Office programs now coexist
with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007, and, together, the two promise to tackle how
information workers author, use, collaborate on, and manage information. Stay away from generalized
evaluations of Office 2007 desktop apps, and don’t simply compare this new release with Office 2003,
XP, or 2000. Instead, focus on how distinct roles within the enterprise — such as financial analysts,
marketers, or legal — could benefit from this new release of desktop and server technology, and plan on
role-based rollouts. | 5 | MOSS 2007 | Analyst Report |
| Article | Application Templates for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 – Under the Hood | This white paper describes how Microsoft developed the Application Templates, identifying best practices for how to work with core capabilities within both Windows SharePoint Services and Office SharePoint Designer 2007, with the goal of empowering customers and partners to create their own applications. | 5 | WSSv3; MOSS 2007 | Templates |
| Article | Are You Ready for SharePoint 2007? | Harnessing its Records Center and records management capabilities.
Author: Russell Stalters with Robert Markham
The release of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 is making waves in the industry. However, will it help your organization control its records management policies? Take an intensive tour of MOSS’ Records Center feature to get the most from your investment. | 4 | MOSS 2007 | Analyst Report |
| Article | Bill Gates: How I use Office | People are often curious about which applications and technology I use, and if there are features in the new version of Office that have changed the way I work. Without a doubt, the 2007 Microsoft Office system enables me to get my work done more easily and quickly than before.
Not much different to me apart from having 3 monitors and a lot more money;-) | 4 | | Information Architecture |
| Article | Building Custom Search WebParts with Integrated SAP NetWeaver Portal Search | This whitepaper checks up the possibilities and the constraints to build federated search with the new MOSS server and provides a simple sample to demonstrate how to integrate SAP NetWeaver Portal (also known as SAP Enterprise Portal) search into MOSS. | 4 | MOSS 2007 | Search |
| Article | Business Data Catalog | The BDC is essentially a catalog of business applications that are of interest to SharePoint Server 2007 users, and it bridges the gap between the portal and business applications by bringing in key data from various applications to SharePoint sites, lists, search, and user profiles. The BDC is the key infrastructural component around which most of the other business data features of SharePoint Server 2007 are built. | 5 | MOSS 2007 | Business Data Catalogue |
| Article | Business Data Catalog using BDC MetaMan and Oracle | An example of how to get Oracle data into MOSS2007 using the BDC and MetaMan. | 5 | MOSS 2007 | Business Data Catalogue |
| Article | Collaboration Success Advisors - SharePoint for Business Report | an independent white paper that investigates how to use SharePoint for business. ($49).
Microsoft SharePoint is garnering much attention in organizations, with Microsoft's business partners, among the analyst community, and in the press. It is now a fundamental element of Microsoft's Office suite and servers. The technology of SharePoint has improved substantially with the 2007 edition, but the question remains: How does an organization think about using SharePoint for business? There is a plethora of written material on the technology, features and technical installation and maintenance of SharePoint, but surprisingly little on the strategic side. This White Paper addresses the latter.
SharePoint for Business proposes a six step strategic framework for thinking about, installing, and driving business-oriented adoption of SharePoint within organizations. | 5 | MOSS 2007 | Analyst Report |
| Article | Compliance Features in the 2007 Microsoft Office System | This white paper showcases compliance-related features and extensibility opportunities with the 2007 Microsoft® Office system, and demonstrates how the Office system can help you meet the demands of regulatory compliance. By focusing on a few core products, including Microsoft Office SharePoint® Server, Office client-side applications, and Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, this paper introduces built-in features of the Office system that address compliance requirements. The paper also focuses on the opportunities for developers to use expanded tools support to build customized solutions that facilitate regulatory compliance without bogging down business processes. | 5 | MOSS 2007 | Document/Record Management |
| Article | Configuring and Customizing the Content Query Web Part | A blog post from the MS ECM Blog.
The Content Query Web Part allows you to show items from your site based on a query, or set of rules, that you define. You can control what part of the site the web part looks for content, what types of items it returns, and it lets you filter, sort, and group those results. And, it lets you control how the items are rendered, so you can make these aggregations match the look and feel of the rest of your web site, both in what content is shown as well as how it's styled. | 5 | MOSS 2007 | Content Query WP |
| Article | Configuring and Integrating Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Microsoft Commerce Server 2007 | This download provides setup and configuration information for solutions that are based on Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Microsoft Commerce Server 2007. This download includes step-by-step configuration tasks and sample code.
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Microsoft Commerce Server 2007 should not be installed. The document that is included with this download provides instructions for installing these applications in an integrated manner. | 5 | MOSS 2007 | Infrastructure Design |
| Article | Configuring Meeting Workspace Options in Outlook 2003 |
You can configure a number of options to set up and manage your Meeting Workspace deployment with Microsoft Office Outlook 2003. You can manage how users choose Meeting Workspace servers and other options when creating workspaces to include in Outlook meeting requests. You can configure Meeting Workspaces to work when you use a POP server as your messaging server, and you can also view Meeting Workspace error messages in a log file to help troubleshoot problems with Meeting Workspace configurations. | 5 | WSSv3 | Office - Outlook |
| Article | Consuming Sharepoint Lists in Excel Services | There are a few features that the v1 of Excel Services will not support out of the box. One of these is grabbing data from Sharepoint Lists.
Luckily enough the UDF framework allows us to write some pretty simple code that can grab the data from Sharepoint and return it to the Excel grid through an array formula | 5 | MOSS 2007 | Excel Services |
| Article | Create a custom list form | By default, most SharePoint lists and libraries include forms that are displayed when you want to add an item to, or edit or display an item in, that list or library. With Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007, you can easily replace any of the default list forms with a custom list form that you design to meet your specific needs. After you create the custom list form, including the fields that you want, you can make the new form the default form for that list or library | 4 | WSSv3; MOSS 2007 | Lists and Views |
| Article | Create a SharePoint Solution for an InfoPath Form | This post discusses how you can create a SharePoint solution package to deploy an InfoPath form to your SharePoint 2007 farm. No coding required. | 5 | MOSS 2007 | Forms/Infopath |
| Article | Creating a Basic ASP.NET AJAX-enabled Web Part | This walkthrough describes the steps for creating a basic ASP.NET AJAX-enabled Web Part that you can add to your Web Part page. The example creates a SayHello Web Part that derives from the ASP.NET 2.0 WebPart for use in a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Web site. | 4 | WSSv3; MOSS 2007 | Dev - Web Parts |
| Article | Creating Just-In-Time Business Solutions with Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 | This white paper is for IT professionals, business analysts, and sophisticated business users who are asked to quickly create and deploy customized business solutions for themselves or the clients they support. Windows SharePoint Services provides a broad range of features and capabilities for creating business solutions using multi-purpose Web site templates that are easy to create, deploy, and manage. | 5 | WSSv2; SPS 2003 | |
| Article | Creating Search Queries Programmatically by using the Search Object Model in SharePoint Server 2007 |
You can execute search queries programmatically by either working directly with the object model within the context of Microsoft Office SharePoint, or when working remotely, by using the Search Web service. The Office SharePoint Server 2007 object model offers a new set of classes you can use to program the execution of a search query. | 4 | MOSS 2007 | Search |
| Article | Customizing and Branding Web Content Management-Enabled SharePoint Sites (Part 1 of 3) |
Understanding Web Content Management and the Default Features
This article discusses topics that you should understand before you use Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 to create sites that support Web content management (WCM) and gives a general overview of the various artifacts that are available in the product. | 5 | MOSS 2007 | Web Content Management; SharePoint Designer |
| Article | Customizing and Branding Web Content Management-Enabled SharePoint Sites (Part 2 of 3) | Extending WCM
This article explains the structure of master pages, the steps to create a custom master page, the underlying mechanisms of navigation in WCM-enabled sites, the creation of custom field controls, and how to customize the Page Editing toolbar. | 5 | MOSS 2007 | SharePoint Designer; Web Content Management |
| Article | Customizing and Branding Web Content Management-Enabled SharePoint Sites (Part 3 of 3): | | 5 | MOSS 2007 | Web Content Management; SharePoint Designer |
| Article | Customizing and Extending the Microsoft Office SharePoint 2007 Search (Part 1 of 2) | This article is an excerpt from Inside Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 by Patrick Tisseghem.
In this chapter, I’ll start with a discussion of the architecture that makes it all happen behind the scenes and will continue with topics that will give you an understanding of how, as a developer, you can start customizing and extending the different features involved. | 5 | MOSS 2007 | Search |
| Article | Customizing and Extending the Microsoft Office SharePoint 2007 Search (Part 2 of 2) | This article is an excerpt from Inside Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 by Patrick Tisseghem.
This excerpt is part 2 of 2. | 5 | MOSS 2007 | Search |
| Article | Dashboards for WSS 3.0 Part I The Stylesheet | Using SharePoint Designer and the Data View web part, you can customize the the examples that come with the fantastic 40 templates. | 5 | WSSv3; MOSS 2007 | SharePoint Designer |
| Article | Data protection and recovery for Office SharePoint Server in small to medium deployments |
This downloadable white paper explains how administrators managing small to medium-size deployments can protect and recover data. This paper describes data recovery from the item level to the farm level. | 5 | MOSS 2007 | Backup/Recovery; Infrastructure Design |
| Article | Database Maintenance for SharePoint | Consistently maintaining the databases that host SharePoint Products and Technologies can significantly improve the health and performance of your system. This whitepaper provides DBA guidance for the propper care and maintenance of your content databases. | 5 | WSSv3; MOSS 2007 | Administration |
| Article | Developer Introduction to Workflows for Windows SharePoint Services V3 and SharePoint Server 2007 | Get a high-level overview of how Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services (version 3) implements the workflow capabilities of the Windows Workflow Foundation, and how Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 extends those capabilities with symmetrical Microsoft Office InfoPath 2007 forms. | 5 | WSSv3; MOSS 2007 | Workflow |
| Article | Developers, Get Ready: 2007 Microsoft Office is a Serious Application Platform | A Forrester Trends report "the 2007 Microsoft Office system (Office 2007) will be a
strong alternative to custom desktop applications built using Windows Forms and a good platform for
collaborative Windows desktop applications. Office 2007 will also provide an alternative for building
some kinds of rich Internet applications and will compete with Ajax techniques and Adobe Flex." | 4 | WSSv3; MOSS 2007 | Analyst Report |
| Article | Developing and Using Web User Controls WebParts in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 | Visually designing components for SharePoint using a paired WebPart - Web User Control approach.
We will need to create a Visual Studio Web Application project, create a Web User Control (ASCX), a class that can act as the Web Part interface to our ASCX Web User Control and a ASP.NET web page in which we can test and debug our components. | 5 | WSSv3; MOSS 2007 | Dev - Web Parts |