May 2007 - Posts

Microsoft Office Interactive Developer Map

Wow, this looks really funky:

"The Microsoft Office Interactive Developer Map is a Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) application that helps developers visualize the different programs, servers, services, and tools that will help them build solutions. It allows them to drill down to each product and technology and learn about new features, objects, Web services, namespaces, and schemas required to extend Microsoft Office and build custom Office Business Applications (OBAs)."

Office Interactive Developer Map image

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Check it out here

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Facebook Developer Toolkit

" The Facebook Developer Toolkit is a full complement of components, controls and samples for developing applications using the Facebook Platform. The kit also includes Visual C# and Visual Basic wrappers for the Facebook API to make application development simple, fun and quick. You can use the Facebook Developer Toolkit to build applications using Windows Forms, ASP.NET or WPF. You can even use the toolkit to take advantage of LINQ.

See The Facebook Development Toolkit allows you to create applications that you can share with your Facebook friends. Download the toolkit today!

 Want to see the Facebook Developer Toolkit in action? Download this sample application that uses the Facebook Developer Toolkit to build a dynamic screensaver with Visual C# Express Edition. Explore the Facebook Developer Toolkit wiki for more details on the toolkit."

 

For more details check out Coding4Fun

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Sharepoint Weekly Competition - Sponsored but the Mindjet Corporation

 

Mindjet Corporation

I want to extend a big thank you to Mindjet for sponsoring our weekly competition on behalf of the new MindManager 7, available on May 30th.  In celebration of the launch, I’m going to be giving away a complimentary copy of MindManager Pro 7 (Windows), valued at $349,  to one lucky winner of next week’s “SharePoint Weekly.” Mindjet will choose the best user generated post from my “SharePoint Weekly” post. To qualify:

  • Your post must be an original article
  • Your post must have a collection of Sharepoint links around a specific topic
  • You release a free Shareponit tool
  • You release a useful code snippet

You also have to link back to this post.

Winner selection is final and will be chosen by a team made up of myself and a representative from Mindjet. Deadline for entries is May 31st, so to enter get your posts in, and link back to this post. For any questions please leave a comment. Best of Luck!

Product Description:

Mindjet MindManager 7 is software that helps to engage and align people to work smarter, think creatively and save precious time by visually capturing, organizing and communicating ideas and information effectively.

Hyperlink to more information about MindManager 7: http://www.mindjet.com/us/getmm7/

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Sharepoint Weekly 7

Feature extensions to the WSS blog site template

TheKid.me.uk extends the wss blog template - Check it out

Here is a list of the features...

  • Full MetaBlogAPI support for posting via LiveWriter or you favourite blogging tool.
  • It is an extension and so all current WSS blog functionality is still available.
  • Url rewriting along the same lines as Community Server...you should be able to move your blog from CS without any of your links changing.
  • Full support for Akismet anti-spam for comments, with moderation for comments classed as spam.
  • Currently 10 XHTML themes available...more to come.
  • Multiple categories allowed for posts.
  • Ability to generate tag clouds.
  • Extensible via the SharePoint API...no requirement to use a proprietary API to add functionality.
  • Possible to create XHTML blogs which pass validation.
  • Easily add new lists & modify the layout.

Roadmap

  • CAPTCHA for comments & contact form.
  • Blog Search.
  • Page hit counter.
  • Auto-trackback of referenced posts.
  • Automatic ping to Technorati etc.
  • RSS feeds for tags/categories.
  • More themes.
  • Blog import functionality.


JOPX on SharePoint 2007 (MOSS and WSS V3 ), Office and SOA does a great Sharepoint 2007 tools collection


A new Alpha of the BDS MetaManager has been released


Bob Mixon's Blog carries on their Document Centralization conversation with "MOSS 2007 Document Management Services - Document Centralization - Part 2"


Todd Baginski's SharePoint 2003 and MOSS 2007 Blog announces an update to the SharePoint Feature Manager with version 1.0.0.2


The Microsoft SharePoint Designer Team Blog shows us how to Plot Your Data Using Virtual Earth


Jackie Bodine: SharePoint Blog does an EXCELLENT! job in explaining Content Deployment in Sharepoint.


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IW Event - The Future of CRM and IW

On behalf of Microsoft, it gives us great pleasure to invite you to the Information Worker Forum in June 2007.

Information Worker Forum – June 2007

The Future of CRM and IW – Speaker: Wynand Roos

1. The integration points between CRM and MOSS

2. How does Dynamics CRM leverage Office 2007

3. How do we leverage performance point

DATE:

Thursday, 7 June 2007

TIME:

15:00 - Registration
15:30 to 17:00 - Presentation
Please join us for cocktails at 17:00

VENUE:

Presentation Room, Microsoft Offices

ADDRESS:

3012 William Nicol Drive, Bryanston

CONTACT DETAILS:

Should you have any queries please contact Helen Vittle on 011 399 5663 or e-mail msiwforum@callit-it.com

Who should attend:

All Business Decision Makers, Divisional Managers, and IW technical specialists.

Please forward this invitation to any other relevant IW people within your organization.

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Party with Palermo: Tech Ed 2007 edition

Guess where im going!!!!

 

  http://partywith.palermo.cc
Glo Lounge:  http://www.gloloungeorlando.com/
8967 International Dr, Orlando, FL
(407) 351-0361
Cover charge is 1 business card.  This will get you in the door and register you for the grand prize drawings.

  • Free to attend
  • Free food
  • Free drink
  • Free swag

Sponsors:


KEEP TABS ON HTTP://PARTYWITH.PALERMO.CC BECAUSE THIS IS WHERE THE INFORMATION WILL BE POSTED.
Please post a comment if you are planning on attending.  Also, if you have a blog, write a post about the party and link back.

 

More details here

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Live Earth (also in South Africa)

Live Earth is a monumental music event that will bring together more than 2 billion people on 7/7/07 to raise awareness about global warming. With 24 hours of music across 7 continents, and performances by more than 150 of the world's top musicians, Live Earth will engage, connect, and inspire individuals, corporations and governments to take action to solve the climate crisis.

Concerts on all 7 continents
Shanghai
Sydney
Johannesburg
London
Brazil
Japan
United States

100+ artists
Current and legendary artists across all genres performing multiple hits.

Beastie Boys
Black Eyed Peas
Bloc Party
Corinne Bailey Rae
Damien Rice
David Gray
Duran Duran
Foo Fighters
Genesis
James Blunt
John Legend
Keane
Madonna
Paolo Nutini
Razorlight
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Snow Patrol

Kanye West
AFI
Kelly Clarkson
Akon
KT Tunstall
Alicia Keys
Ludacris
Bon Jovi
Melissa Etheridge
Dave Matthews Band
Rihanna
Fall Out Boy
Roger Waters
Smashing Pumpkins
John Mayer
The Police

Celebrities and thought leaders
Entertainers, athletes, scientists, government leaders and CEOs helping engage their constituencies with SOS.

More than 1 million audience members
Live concert attendance reaching more than 1 million people.

More than 2 billion viewers
Multi-platform distribution (television, radio, internet, wireless) reaching in excess of 2 billion people across the globe.

The global audience gathered for Live Earth, its ongoing actions, and the proceeds from the concerts, will form the foundation for a new, multi-year international initiative to combat the climate crisis led The Alliance for Climate Protection and its Chair, Al Gore.

View more details here

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SharePoint Weekly 6

Accurate Metadata Values May Be Difficult to Maintain Over Time in SharePoint Server 2007  - Bill English, author of the MOSS Administrators Companion, does a great job explaining one of the problems/caveats in MOSS content types.

 

Bill through Mindsharp also releases a STSADM White Paper.


Updated Sharepoint MSDN content

Randal puts together a nice list of updated MSDN content, including the following articles:


Scrum for Sharepoint

Bil Simser points us to an article on the Redmond Developer News called Building a Virtual Bullpen with Microsoft SharePoint.

 


BDCMetaMan

Liam does a really excellent job in explaining how easy it is to create Business Data Catalog definitions using the BDCMetaManager with his post MOSS2007 – Business Data Catalog using BDCMetaMan.

 


SharePoint Tip: How to Activate the Drop Down Menu in MOSS Sites - Heather shows us a really REALLY cool little hack but warns "Please don't abuse this dynamic display level.  As tempting as it is to provide instant access to something 5 levels deep in your site, drop down menus notoriously aggravate end users.  I highly recommend using no more than 2 levels (what we set in this walk through)."


Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Team Blog

This week the guys have been busy again with:

  • "ChatterBox" persistent chat session for SharePoint
  • Understanding the SharePoint calendar and how to export it to iCal format
  • Remaining 5 of the "Splendid 7" Role-Based Templates for MOSS 2007 My Sites now available!
    • Customer Service Manager Helps customer service managers streamline the process of monitoring team performance. The template assists in reviewing order status, displays key performance indicators for customer satisfaction and vendor performance, and provides a graphical view showing call distribution, service performance, operation costs, and quality indicators
    • HR Manager Helps HR managers keep track of employee composition and distribution within the organization. The template provides information on the status of performance reviews, displays details of employee training, shows attrition rates at the organization and business unit level, and lists job openings.
    • IT Manager Focuses on the IT manager in a maintenance division handling location support. The template helps oversee the support services provided by the team of IT engineers for SLA adherence, coordinate with the team for backups and updates, and review incident calls and escalations being logged in the help desk.
    • Marketing Manager Assists the marketing manager with streamlining the process of lead inquiries and conversions. The template helps with budget planning for marketing activities, planning activities for certain initiatives, planning for collateral, implementing a wide range of promotions for products, and tracking metrics related to activities.
    • Administrative Assistant Assists the administrative assistant with managing the day-to-day office activities. The template displays a company events, details of requisitions and assets, a summary of payment details for office items and supplies, lists of available company facilities, and details about issues related to office management


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Facebook meets the IW community

Hi guys, purely for networking purpose, i have created a FaceBook group for the IW community.
For those that dont know what Facebook is......well.....no comment.....but go get info here

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IW Community Involvement Survey

Not sure if anyone saw Uriels announcement on his blog:

"Hi,

In March we launched the IW community. So far the response has been good and we've been receiving a steady flow of new user registrations including many from other countries like India and New Zealand. Now it's time to take the next step and increase the momentum. In order to do this we would like to get a little more organized in the content publshing department, understand how involved in the community the members would like to be and hear some suggestions on what it would take to make the community great.

Please help us to do this by taking this survey!

The feedback will be used to build a content publishing roster which will allow us to ensure that there is a constant stream of new information.

Thanks for your help and I look forward to hearing from you!

Uriel

"

Please, if you are keen to get involved in the community, fill out the survey and let us know how much you would like to get involved. If you want to learn more about the Information Worker community, click here

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SharePoint Weekly 5


John Holliday describes the use of his CAML.net in "Working with CAML.Net - Part 1"



Colligo announces version 2.1 of the Colligo Contributor product. They were kind enough to send me a license, so ill do a full review on the product soon.

From their site: "Colligo ContributorT is an easy-to-deploy .NET client application that extends the power of Microsoft Office SharePoint® to the desktop. It increases productivity and adoption by enabling users to instantly and securely access, modify, and create SharePoint content online and offline through a rich client interface. The software includes two user interface options: a standalone desktop client and a Microsoft Office Outlook Add-in."

Their Office Addin looks pretty cool.

 


Bil at "Fear and Loathing" posts the latest version of the source code for his SharePoint Forums Web Part


Via Mark Harrison

Vamosa releases a Community edition of their product. According to their site:
"Vamosa Community Edition for SharePoint 2007 is a free content analysis and content migration product designed to bring value to the Microsoft SharePoint user community.

Vamosa Community Edition combines the functionality of Vamosa’s market leading products – Vamosa Content Analyser and Vamosa Content Migrator. Coupled with the Vamosa built SharePoint 2007 connector technology the product is designed to facilitate the implementation of SharePoint through the automation of the content migration process.

Although fully functional the product has been limited to 1000 unique URLs. If your organisation needs to analyse and migrate more than this amount please contact Vamosa to discuss your requirements. "

Check it out here


Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Team Blog (This weeks posts)


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Sharepoint 2007 Document and Records Management resource List (update)

Document and Records Management Definition

Document Management

According to Wikipedia :
"A document management system (DMS) is a computer system (or set of computer programs) used to track and store electronic documents and/or images of paper documents. The term has some overlap with the concepts of Content Management Systems and is often viewed as a component of Enterprise Content Management Systems and related to Digital Asset Management.

Records Management

According to Wikipedia:
"Records Management, or RM, is the practice of identifying, classifying, archiving, preserving, and destroying records. The ISO 15489: 2001 standard defines it as "The field of management responsible for the efficient and systematic control of the creation, receipt, maintenance, use and disposition of records, including the processes for capturing and maintaining evidence of and information about business activities and transactions in the form of records".

The ISO defines records as "information created, received, and maintained as evidence and information by an organisation or person, in pursuance of legal obligations or in the transaction of business". The International Council on Archives (ICA) Committee on Electronic Records defines a record as, "a recorded information produced or received in the initiation, conduct or completion of an institutional or individual activity and that comprises content, context and structure sufficient to provide evidence of the activity. While the definition of a record is often identified strongly with a document, a record can be either a tangible object or digital information which has value to an organization. For example, birth certificates, medical x-rays, office documents, databases, application data, and e-mail are all examples of records."

Enterprise Content Management

According to Wikipedia:
"Enterprise Content Management
(ECM) is any of the strategies and technologies employed in the information technology industry for managing the capture, storage, security, revision control, retrieval, distribution, preservation and destruction of documents and content.

ECM especially concerns content imported into or generated from within an organization in the course of its operation, and includes the control of access to this content from outside of the organization's processes.

ECM systems are designed to manage both structured and unstructured content, so that an organization, such as a business or governmental agency, can more effectively meet business goals (increase profit or improve the efficient use of budgets), serve its customers (as a competitive advantage, or to improve responsiveness), and protect itself (against non-compliance, law-suits, uncoordinated departments or turnover within the organization). In a large enterprise, ECM is not regarded as an optional expense, where it is essential to content preservation and re-usability, and to the control of access to content - whereas, very small organizations may find their needs temporarily met by carefully managed shared folders and a wiki, for example. Recent trends in business and government indicate that ECM is becoming a core investment for organizations of all sizes, more immediately tied to organizational goals than in the past: increasingly more central to what an enterprise does, and how it accomplishes its mission".

 


What is Sharepoint 2007?

 From Microsoft: "Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 is an integrated suite of server capabilities that can help improve organizational effectiveness by providing comprehensive content management and enterprise search, accelerating shared business processes, and facilitating information-sharing across boundaries for better business insight. Office SharePoint Server 2007 supports all intranet, extranet, and Web applications across an enterprise within one integrated platform, instead of relying on separate fragmented systems. Additionally, this collaboration and content management server provides IT professionals and developers with the platform and tools they need for server administration, application extensibility, and interoperability."

For More Information:

 


Essential Sharepoint 2007 Content and Links

Essential Sites

Essential Blogs

 

Essential Books

 

Other Links (tbc)

 

Download Links

 

Application Templates Available for Download

Package Downloads

 


Planning Document and Records Management with Sharepoint 2007

Plan document management

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 includes document management features that you can use to control the life cycle of documents in your organization — how they are created, reviewed, published, and consumed, and how they are ultimately disposed of or retained. The articles in this chapter will guide you in planning the document management features of your solution based on Office SharePoint Server 2007.

The articles in this chapter include:

  • What is document management? includes an introduction to document management in the enterprise, along with a description of the document management planning process recommended in this planning guide.
  • Identify document management participants and stakeholders describes the creation of a document management planning team.
  • Analyze document usage provides guidance on determining the types of documents used in your enterprise and analyzing the stages in the documents' life cycles.
  • Plan document libraries describes using document libraries to organize documents in your enterprise.
  • Plan content types (Office SharePoint Server) describes planning content types, which are the Office SharePoint Server 2007 mechanism for defining and sharing the attributes of documents, list items, and folders.
  • Plan versioning, content approval, and check-outs provides guidance on planning content control in Office SharePoint Server 2007, such as by using versioning, check-in and check-out, and approval for publishing content.
  • Plan Information Rights Management describes how to plan Information Rights Management on documents stored in document libraries so that you can control which actions users can take on documents when they open them from libraries in Office SharePoint Server 2007.
  • Plan workflows for document management describes how to use the Office SharePoint Server 2007 workflow feature to design document-related processes.
  • Plan information management policies describes planning and implementing enterprise policies that will help your organization comply with regulatory and legal obligations, in addition to best practices such as auditing documents and retaining them properly
  • Plan enterprise content storage contains information to help solution planners and designers properly plan and configure a large-scale enterprise content management solution based on Office SharePoint Server 2007 so that it performs well while providing the features needed by site users.

Plan records management

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 includes records management features you can use to help your organization meet its regulatory and legal requirements and manage its corporate knowledge.

The articles in this chapter include:

Planning Worksheets

 

 


Sharepoint 2007 Document and Records Management: Help and How-to

Document management

Information management policies

Records Management

 


Document and Records Management Webcasts

Other Sharepoint Webcasts