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Sharpeoint: Republished Deployment articles on MSDN

Deploying SharePoint Products and Technologies for Enterprise Collaboration

Detailed discussion about the design and deployment of the Microsoft IT hosted collaboration platform. The platform supports personal storage, team Web sites, group and division portals, and enterprise services. With server farms centralized in three regional data centers, Microsoft saves both hardware and support costs.

Microsoft Web Enterprise Portal

Discussion of how Microsoft's Knowledge Network Group updated the MSWeb intranet home page to use the centrally hosted portal infrastructure provided by Microsoft IT. This paper describes the business benefits that motivated the deployment, the planning and prioritization process, implementation, lessons learned, and best practices.

Deploying SharePoint Portal Server 2003 Shared Services at Microsoft

Detailed discussion about how the Knowledge Network Group and Microsoft IT deployed the portal shared services that ship with SharePoint Portal Server 2003. Common interfaces for search, content notifications, audience definitions and user profiles are an integral part of the Microsoft intranet home page, team sites and portals across the enterprise.

Sharepoint: Building Custom Alert Result Channels

Great new article on MSDN that shows you how you can create MSN like alerts.

Jazmine Framework

This looks interesting. A Web Part Framework.

“An extension framework for building SharePoint Web Parts. The initial goals of this framework is to extend the base Web Part class with features needed in most common Web Parts. First and foremost, we have integrated the log4net Logging Services to facilitate the consistent logging of exceptions and program flow. As the framework grows, we will provide more documentation and examples. If you use the framework tell us and the community about it. Share your knowledge and code! ”

GotDotNet Workspace

How to include your programatically created sites in the site directory list?

Managing Sharepoint Portals

Hi guys, some Sharepoint Training i found on the Microsoft Site.

Requires Flash and IE. Enjoy.

Code Access Security (CAS) – "Guilty until proven Innocent" (Partially Trusted Code)

Great article written on IPattern.com (Maxim V. Karpov) .

Read article here.

Eli's SharePoint Resources

Eli's SharePoint Resources.

Great Resource for all things Sharepoint.

Sharepoint Templates

A questions i get alot, is on how to create a Sharepoint Template that can be added to the templates list when creating new sites.

1. Create a site that you want to use as a template
2. Modify using Frontpage
3. Add content you want carried through
4. Save Site as Tempalte to C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\60\BIN
5. If you want to include content, check the box
6. run stsadm.exe -o addtemplate -filename [filemane] -title "[title]"

Now when you create a site, it will carry all content and look n feel.

17 White Papers from the SharePoint Products and Technologies Resource Kit

17 SharePoint white papers from the SharePoint Products and Technologies Resource Kit are now available on Technet.

Taken from Mark Harrison Blog

Introducing "SmartPart" for Sharepoint

Is anyone else irritated with how long it takes to create a Sharepoint Webpart?

SmartParts are sharePoint Webparts that can host any ASP.NET user control. Create your webparts by using the VS.NET designer instead of coding everything by hand! Check out this video to see how easy it is.

GotDotNet Workspace