A few years ago, I was working with a Microsoft customer to deploy a Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS 2007) solution. SharePoint 2007 had just been released at the time. The customer needed document URLs stored in SharePoint to continued to work even after the document was renamed or moved. I...

Windows Server 2008 R2 introduced a new File Classification Infrastructure (FCI) and the team has been sharing different ways to put it to good use. The latest one comes as a blog post that describes how to use the FCI SharePoint Upload PowerShell script in conjunction with the FCI File Management...

Jeff Teper (Corporate Vice President, SharePoint Server) and Steve Ballmer (CEO) shared SharePoint Server 2010 feature details and announced the November beta during the SharePoint Conference today in Las Vegas. Jeff also posted a long and revealing blog, outlining 8 categories and 40 feature areas...

This is an update to my complete reference of all STSADM operations in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, now including the changes in Service Pack 1. I repeated what I did for MOSS 2007 in MOSS 2007 SP1, using a little scripting to get the list of all commands for STSADM, including the options...

Documents in Databases The first time I tell anyone that SharePoint Server 2007 stores documents as blobs (binary objects) in the database, people stare at me for a few seconds and usually ask: "Really?" It takes a few moments to explain that this is actually a good thing and that SQL has no problem...

Web 2.0 is one of those things everyone is talking about. If you’re implementing Web 2.0 with Microsoft technologies, this usually leads to a SharePoint conversation. Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS 2007) includes built-in templates for all the different types of trendy Web 2.0 sites, but...

Rodney Viana (a friend from Brazil) just shared with me two very well crafted videos describing in great detail the process to install and configure Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. Rodney is working with Alfredo Fortenboher on a Video Book on Sharepoint for a project called LabClasses and was...

P.S.: WSS 3.0 will no longer be included in the box with Windows Server 2008, but as a separate download. The information in this post is no longer current. Check annoucement at http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2007/10/29/wss-3-0-to-be-download-in-windows-server-2008.aspx Windows Server...

SharePoint Applications Again In previous blog posts, I have shared some ideas around SharePoint applications (especially ones without any code), including “Packaging, Deploying and Instantiating SharePoint Applications”, “The risks around SharePoint application deployment” and “The Case for SharePoint...

In a previous blog post I mentioned an MVP training on Windows SharePoint Server 3.0 based on the eLearning Collection 5403 - Implementing Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 . I posted the questions I posed at the end of each course in the collection in that previous post, but never published...

As I mentioned previously, I have started an MVP training on Windows SharePoint Server 3.0 based on the eLearning Collection 5403 - Implementing Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. During the class, I posted a few questions at the end of each course in the collection. Here are those questions...

I will be starting an MVP-targeted course on Implementing Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 on April 23rd. This is something Microsoft offers to the MVPs and I will be monitoring that class. If you're interested in the MVP program, there are details at http://mvp.support.microsoft.com . The course uses...

It seems like the latest sport out there is looking for Windows SharePoint Server v3 (WSSv3) and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS 2007) sites. There are several blogs posts (which quickly become outdated) trying to list all the public sites that are publicly available. For instance, try...

Introduction Maybe you’re lucky enough to work for a company that has standardized on SharePoint portals and ASP.NET applications across the board. In that case, you do not need to integrate different types of portals and web applications. For most large corporations, though, there will be many portals...

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 uses an ActiveX control to provide rich text editing capabilities (actually HTML editing) in several places. Here are a few places where it is leveraged: Multiple-lines-of-text column editor in list item editing Content Editor Web Part Wiki editor...

I was looking for a list for all ActiveX controls used by Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007, but it seems like this list is not available at this time. The best references I could find was the SharePoint team blog post on web browser compatibility at http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive...

In a Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007, you will likely need to provide your users a list of sites you host. There are a few ways to do this. First, you can leverage the out-of-the-box Site Directory template, coupled with a few settings in Central Admin to force users to select one or...

This post is obsolete. Please check the SP1 version of it at: http://blogs.technet.com/josebda/archive/2008/03/15/complete-reference-of-all-stsadm-operations-with-parameters-in-moss-2007-sp1.aspx I was looking for a specific action under "STSADM -o spsearch" and I noticed that there is no...

When you setup your content sources in a Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS 2007), you have a few options to choose from: SharePoint Sites, Web Sites, File Shares, Exchange Public Folders and Business Data. When you use the SharePoint Sites option, you're instructing the indexer to crawl a WSS...

There are tools and methods to package, deploy and instantiate SharePoint applications (I made a case for these SharePoint applications as opposed to ASP.NET applications in a previous blog post here). If you are deploying Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS 2007) in a farm environment at an...

SharePoint is growing in popularity, partially due to its great model for describing and deploying packaged applications. This is especially true in the latest v3 or 2007 release, with the introduction of the "solution" deployment. However, if you're deploying those applications, you should be aware...

Introduction I have been spending some time on the idea of using SharePoint as an application hosting platform, as opposed to using regular ASP.NET applications. Some solutions are a great fit for this, others are not. My main goal is to describe some pros and cons, in order to help make the decision...

Outlook 2007 improves the SharePoint integration, which was already there in Outlook 2003. In a SharePoint list, you will find the "Connect to Outlook" option in the "Actions" menu in a list or library. In Outlook 2003, we had the option to use a registry setting or Group Policy Object (GPO) option...

P.S.: There's now a feature in SharePoint 2010 to address this: See http://blogs.technet.com/blairb/archive/2009/10/20/new-document-id-feature-in-sharepoint-2010.aspx I'm currently working on a Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 implementation at a large customer that uses LiveLink. They...

If you're upgrading your MOSS 2007 (Microsof Office SharePoint Server 2007) from Beta 2 TR to the final RTM release, you probably know you should be following the steps described at http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/3df597d0-bad0-4c73-9c26-a10bb80449881033.mspx?mfr=true However, if...