Stefan Goßner

SharePoint resources

WSS 2.0

• Best Practices: Using Disposable Windows SharePoint Services Objects
• Creating a link-enabled document library using Windows SharePoint Services and .NET 2.0
• WSS 2.0 SDK
• Whitepaper - Understanding and Troubleshooting the SharePoint Explorer View
  

SharePoint Portal Server 2003

• Best Practices: Using Disposable Windows SharePoint Services Objects
• SPS 2003 SDK
• Planning and Designing SharePoint Products and Technology Solutions for Geographically Dispersed Sites
• Planning for Growth
• "My Site" explained
• Configuring the Lotus Notes Protocol Handler
• Description of Windows SharePoint Services Service Pack 3
  

MCMS 2002 to MOSS 2007 Migration 

• Assessing and Analyzing Your MCMS 2002 Application for Migration
• Mapping MCMS 2002 APIs to SharePoint Server 2007
• Planning MCMS 2002 Application Migration to SharePoint Server 2007
• SharePoint Server 2007 for MCMS 2002 Developers
• MCMS to MOSS migration - Vivid Group Whitepaper
• Case-Study: Migrating from MCMS 2002 to MOST 2007 WCM

WSS 3.0/MOSS 2007

General Links 

• Office System on Technet
• Office SharePoint Server 2007 on Technet
• Windows SharePoint Service 3.0 on Technet

Architecture/Concepts 

• Shared Services Architecture
• Technical Reference for the 2007 Office release
• What is a MOSS 2007 vs. WSS 3.0 Feature?
• WSS 3.0 Technical Library
• Configuring Database Mirroring for SharePoint Products & Technologies
• Using Database Mirroring with Office SharePoint Server and Windows SharePoint Services

Authentication, Security and IRM

• Code Access Security (CAS) in SharePoint 2007 for Administrators
• Configure Web SSO authentication by using ADFS (Office SharePoint Server)
• Information Rights Management (IRM) in SharePoint
• IRM feature
• MOSS 2007 – Write your own Custom Authentication Provider (C#) - Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3 - Part 4
• Plan and Design for Security
• Plan for security roles
• Configure a MOSS 2007 Publishing Site with Dual Authentication Providers and Anonymous Access
• How to: Configure a MOSS 2007 Publishing Site with Dual Authentication Providers and Anonymous Access

Backup/Restore and Availibility, DB Maintenance

• Best Practice Analyzer (BPA) for WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007
• Configuring Database Mirroring for SharePoint Products & Technologies
• Database Maintenance for Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies
• Plan for Availibility
• Plan for software boundaries
• Using Backup and Restore (Office SharePoint Server 2007)
• Using Database Mirroring with Office SharePoint Server - includes hints on how to move databases to a new server
• Move all databases

Business Data Catalog 

• What is the Business Data Catalogue?

Coding related info

• Best Practices: Using Disposable Windows SharePoint Services Objects
• Book: 7 Development Projects with SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
• Content types - the soal of a new paradigm
• Deep Dive into the SharePoint Deployment and Migration API - Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3 - Part 4 - Part 5
• Deploying master pages through a custom SharePoint Feature
• How to: Create and Store Master Pages on the Server for Use with Site Collections
• Integrating ASP.NET AJAX with SharePoint
• List of content placeholders in SharePoint master pages
• SharePoint Server 2007 Developer Portal
• WSS 3.0 SDK - Online Version
• MOSS 2007 SDK
• SharePoint Community Kit
• Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Tools: Visual Studio 2005 Extensions
• Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Tools: Visual Studio 2005 Extensions, Version 1.1
• Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Tools: Visual Studio 2008 Extensions, Version 1.2
• Windows SharePoint Services Developer Center

Content Deployment

• Content Migration in SharePoint - Part 1 - Part 2
• Deep Dive into the SharePoint Deployment and Migration API - Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3 - Part 4 - Part 5
• Debugging Content Deployment issues

Customization

• AC's WCM Custom Commands for STSADM.EXE
• Content types - the soal of a new paradigm
• Configuring and Customizing the Content Query Web Part
• Customizing the WSS 3.0/MOSS 2007 Menu Control -- MossMenu source code released
• Customizing Content Query RSS feeds
• Customizing and Branding WCM enabled SharePoint Sites - Part 1 - Understanding WCM and the Default Features
• Customizing and Branding WCM enabled SharePoint Sites - Part 2 - Extending WCM
• Customizing and Branding WCM enabled SharePoint Sites - Part 3 - Creating and Configuring WCM-Enabled Sites
• Deploying master pages through a custom SharePoint Feature
• Extending Stsadm.exe with Custom Commands using the ISPStsadmCommand Interface
• How to: Add custom workflow activities to SharePoint Designer - Part 1 - Part 2 - additional info
• How to: Add a Button to the HTML Editor Field Control
• How to: Add custom actions to the Site Actions menu
• How to: Add custom properties to the Advanced Search Dialog
• How to: Create and Store Master Pages on the Server for Use with Site Collections
• How to: Create a Minimal Master Page - Using the Minimal Master Page
• How to: Create a custom field control
• How to: Create a custom timer Job for MOSS
• How to: Customize Navigation
• How to: Customize Page Editing Toolbar Components
• How to: Customize the Asset Picker
• How to: Customize Styles
• How to: Customize the Content Query Web Part by using Custom Properties
• How to: Customize the HTML Editor Field Control
• How to: Display Custom Fields in a Content Query Web Part
• How to: Programmatically customize site navigation in MOSS 2007
• Modify Alert Notifications using AlertTemplates.xml in SharePoint 2007
• Renaming a MOSS Server
• SharePoint Community Kit

Document Conversion

• Design Document Conversion Topology
• Document Converters
• Document Converters Overview 

Performance

• Additional performance and capacity planning factors (Office SharePoint Server)
• Caching in Office SharePoint Server 2007 (Output Cache, Object Cache, Blob Cache)
• Estimate performance and capacity requirements for search environments
• How can I make my web site faster with caching?
• How to: Improve website performance in MOSS 2007 with caching
• How to: Optimize a SharePoint Server 2007 Web Content Management Site for Performance
• Plan for software boundaries (Office SharePoint Server) - sizing recommendations 
• White paper: Working with large lists in Office SharePoint Server 2007
• SharePoint Capacity Planning Tool

Search

• Displaying the Correct Titles of Lotus Notes Documents in SharePoint Search Results
• How to: Add custom properties to the Advanced Search Dialog
• Technical Whitepaper on Microsoft Deployed SharePoint Server 2007 Search
• Using SharePoint 2007 to index a Lotus Notes Database

Setup and Upgrade

• Before you begin with MOSS 2007 
• Changes in SharePoint Server 2007
• Configuring Database Mirroring for SharePoint Products & Technologies
• Controlling your admin content database name (or avoiding having a GUID in its name)
• Demo - Inplace Upgrade of SPS 2003 Medium Farm to 2007 RTM
• Demo - Resetting customized sites and configuring search after an Upgrade to 2007 RTM
• Deploy software updates for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
• Deploy software updates for Office SharePoint Server 2007
• Deployment for Office SharePoint Server 2007
• Differences between WSS 3.0 and the different CALs of MOSS 2007
• How to create a ‘Slipstream’ installation for MOSS with SP1
• How to: Configure Email Enabled Lists in Moss2007 RTM using Exchange 2003
• Installing Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 on a Server Running Windows Small Business Server 2003
• MOSS 2007 Setup and Administration
• Plan for Availibility
• Plan Content Approval and Scheduling
• Plan Content Deployment
• Plan site navigation
• Plan variations
• Planning and Architecture for Office SharePoint Server 2007
• Planning and Architecture for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Technology
• PSCONFIG for WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007 is your friend
• Renaming a MOSS Server
• Server language offerings
• Search Evaluation Guide
• SharePoint Server 2007 Language Pack
• Upgrading from Office SharePoint Server 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh to Release Version
• Upgrading SharePoint Portal Server 2003 Customizations to SharePoint Server 2007 - Part 1 - Part 2
• Upgrading to Office SharePoint Server 2007
• Virtual Server 2005 R2 Support for WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007
• Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Language Pack
• WSS 3.0 Setup and Administration
• Update Center for Microsoft Office, Office Servers, and Related Products

STSADM

• Complete reference of all STSADM operations (with parameters) in MOSS 2007
• Extending Stsadm.exe with Custom Commands using the ISPStsadmCommand Interface

Visual Studio Integration

• Adding Intellisense when editing XML files in WSS 3.0/MOSS 2007 
• Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Tools: Visual Studio 2005 Extensions

WCM/ECM

• Case-Study: Building TylerButler.com
• Cross-browser support, WCM XHTML compliance, and ASP.NET 2.0 vs. WSS v3 Web Parts
• Customizing and Branding WCM enabled SharePoint Sites - Part 1 - Understanding WCM and the Default Features
• Customizing and Branding WCM enabled SharePoint Sites - Part 2 - Extending WCM
• Customizing and Branding WCM enabled SharePoint Sites - Part 3 - Creating and Configuring WCM-Enabled Sites
• Deploying master pages through a custom SharePoint Feature
• Design Document Conversion Topology
• ECM Starter Kit
• How to: Add a Button to the HTML Editor Field Control
• How to: Create a Minimal Master Page - Using the Minimal Master Page
• How to: Create a custom field control
• How to: Customize the HTML Editor Field ControlList of content placeholders in SharePoint master pages
• How to: Create and Store Master Pages on the Server for Use with Site Collections
• List of content placeholders in SharePoint master pages
• Web Content Management with MOSS 2007

Workflow

• Design Document Conversion Topology 
• How to: Add custom workflow activities to SharePoint Designer - Part 1 - Part 2 - additional info
• MOSS 2007 and Windows Workflow Foundation: Integrating divergent worlds
• Understanding Workflow in Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services and the 2007 Microsoft Office System
  

SharePoint Designer

• Trainings Videos
• Team Blog
  

Downloads

• Trail Version of MOSS 2007
• Trial Version of WSS 3.0
• .NET framework 3.0 redistributable package
• SharePoint Server 2007 Code Sample: Item-Level Auditing
• WSS 3.0 Service Pack 1
• MOSS 2007 Service Pack 1
• WSS 3.0 Service Pack 2
• MOSS 2007 Service Pack 2

related KB articles

   SPS 2003

• 905854 - The prerequisites that are required to install SharePoint Portal Server 2003 SP2 on a computer that is running Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition

   WSS 3.0/MOSS 2007

• 288816 - How to Configure Search to Honor Lotus Notes Security Settings
• 841057 - Support may not be available if you modify tables or stored procedures in SharePoint Portal Server or Windows SharePoint Services databases
• 894164 - How to move the databases that are used by SharePoint Portal Server 2003 to a computer that is running SQL Server
• 904646 - A gradual reduction in system performance occurs when you run a .NET Framework 1.1 application that uses COM+ components and the common language runtime
• 830601 - Crawl performance and index performance of SharePoint Portal Server 2003 decrease
• 927362 - How to upgrade from Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Beta 2 TR or SharePoint Server 2007 Beta 2 TR to the original release versions when you did not rename the DSN registry key to DSN2
• 929259 - How to programmatically download attachments from list items in Windows SharePoint Services
• 929912 - How to turn on word breakers and stemmers in SharePoint Server 2007
• 930462 - Error message when you try to migrate content from Content Management Server 2002 to SharePoint Server 2007: "Unable to connect to the database server"
• 918744 - Description of a new command-line operation that you can use to repair content databases in Windows SharePoint Services
• 932744 - Information about the Maintenance Plan Wizard in SQL Server 2005 and about tasks that administrators can perform against SharePoint databases
• 934838 - How to change the password of service accounts in SharePoint Server 2007 and in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
• 942989 - Some SharePoint timer job definitions are not restored successfully when you back up a WSS Web application or a MOSS 2007 Web application, and then you restore this application to a new farm
• 943345 - How to defragment Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 databases and SharePoint Server 2007 databases
• 948614 - New pages that are created in a subfolder of a Pages library of SharePoint Server 2007 are saved in the root of the Pages library
• 948725 - Restoration of the configuration database is not supported in SharePoint Server 2007 and in Windows SharePoint Services

Code Samples

• MOSS 2007 Vertical Navigation - For use in a MOSS 2007 Publishing web site, This custom control is an alternative to the out-of-the-box "Current Navigation" aka AspMenu. It renders navigational nodes using list tags like
• MOSS 2007 Site Map Web Part - For use in a MOSS 2007 Publishing web site, this web part displays the site structure in a hierarchical tree that is expandable and collapsible. It is based on his Site Map custom control written for CMS 2002.
• MOSS 2007 Summary Links - For use in a MOSS 2007 Publishing web site, this user control displays a summary list of page links for a sub-site and optionally selected page field values. It offers features similar to the out-of-the-box Content Query Web Part but is written as a user control.

Videos

• Training videos for enterprise search

Related downloads

• .NET Framework 3.0 

Tools

• SPS Report