December, 2006

One of the hottest areas right now (aside from SharePoint) is Unified Communications/Unified Messaging.

They have created a Devil Wears Prada spoof - my buddy Johann Kruse blogged about it.

MTV Rocks on Office 2007

Media and entertainment powerhouse uses the 2007 Microsoft Office system to improve handling of internal concert ticket requests.

Very Cool!

THIS IS AWESOME!

So I checked it out and it was using Snap Preview anywhere - firstly - kudos on the domain name - www.snap.com - secondly - AWESOME TOOL!

Sign up - its free.

and Yes - you probably could just embed this in the header of your MOSS 2007 website however I add this disclaimer - I haven't fully tested this so I'm not sure if any of the JavaScript breaks MOSS 2007.

Shane Perran has a great tip for fixing the MOSS menus when you are custimising them for WIDE items.

The problem child:
The *width and min-width seem to cause trouble when you have long items. 

.ms-topNavFlyOuts a
{
display:block;
*width:120px;
min-width:120px;
color:#3764a0;
padding:4px 8px 4px 8px;
}

The Fix:
Pretty straight forward, remove or comment out those two properties.  Use width:100%; instead.

.ms-topNavFlyOuts a
{
 display:block;
 width:100%;
 padding:4px 8px 4px 8px;
}

See his blog entry here.

Side note - remember we released the source code for the WSS3.0/MOSS ASP.NET Menu Control too...

Liam Cleary (VSTO/SharePoint/Office/Vista) guru guy has posted a KILLER ENTRY on how to:

"Write your own Custom Authentication Provider C#" for MOSS 2007.

Check it out here.

COMMUNITY CHALLENGE: Someone write a Membership/role/Custom Authentication provide for MOSS 2007 which backs onto custom attributes in Microsoft CRM - send me the code (or a link) and I'll make you famous (or try to).

I signed up to ClustrMaps today and added it to my blog on the left hand side.

Sad thing is on my first visit it has been overloaded (I doubt by my blog).

Lesson: If you are going to run a public website monitor and guage your load and appropriately plan for capacity... With MOSS 2007 look to these documents.

(I'm not even going to mention that a common thought about the LAMP stack that it is super scalable... :)  )

IE7 is a major upgrade to IE6!

The major killer feature is Security but to get a tangible productivity gain from security is hard to recognise...

My killer producitivity gain is Searching History.

I was working on an RFP a while ago and a colleague told me to check out a Microsoft Partner's website...

The name of the partner escaped me but I remember looking at their site.

So I opened up Internet Explorer and then selected to search my history - BAM! name of partner website is there :)

Real world productivity gains.

My buddy/code monkey/documentor, Sahil, has written a quick blog entry on MOSS 2007 and Microsoft.com.

"Now, microsoft.com is one of the top 10, if not the top 5 sites in the world. If this isn't an endorsement on the capabilities of SharePoint 2007, I don't know what is."

Check it out here.

Bob Mixon has a quick blog entry on how to do a bit of a migration.

The functionality from STS 2001 to WSS 3.0 has increased exponentially so it is definately worth doing an upgrade.

Check it out here.

Stephen Huen has written some great articles/samples up on Code Project.

Go and check them out now:

MOSS 2007 Vertical Navigation

For use in a Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (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 Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (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 my Site Map custom control written for Content Management Server 2002.

 

MOSS 2007 Summary Links

For use in a Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (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.