Very cool - Andrew Connell posted this:
On March 21, 2007 from 9a-5p ET (GMT -0500), there will be a *FREE* online virtual conference on SharePoint v3/2007. This *FREE* 1-day conference is comprised of sessions for developers, IT professionals, and end users. I'll be presenting along with fellow SharePoint MVP's Daniel Larson (the man when it comes to marrying up AJAX & SharePoint) and Bob Mixon. My session is on Web Parts in WSS v3 @ 2:45p: Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) v3 Web Part DevelopmentWeb Parts provide the foundation for customization and personalization. Depending on the site configuration, users can easily personalize or customize pages in a Windows SharePoint Services site by adding, reconfiguring, and removing Web Parts. The next step in an evolving site or portal solution is to integrate it with existing production systems and provide a means to view information in ways that makes sense to your specific users. Custom Web Part development in WSS v3 is different than what you dealt with in earlier versions. In this session, designed for developers, you will learn how to develop and deploy a custom Web Part for use in WSS v3. » SharePoint Pro Live - Agenda & Registration
On March 21, 2007 from 9a-5p ET (GMT -0500), there will be a *FREE* online virtual conference on SharePoint v3/2007. This *FREE* 1-day conference is comprised of sessions for developers, IT professionals, and end users. I'll be presenting along with fellow SharePoint MVP's Daniel Larson (the man when it comes to marrying up AJAX & SharePoint) and Bob Mixon. My session is on Web Parts in WSS v3 @ 2:45p:
Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) v3 Web Part DevelopmentWeb Parts provide the foundation for customization and personalization. Depending on the site configuration, users can easily personalize or customize pages in a Windows SharePoint Services site by adding, reconfiguring, and removing Web Parts. The next step in an evolving site or portal solution is to integrate it with existing production systems and provide a means to view information in ways that makes sense to your specific users. Custom Web Part development in WSS v3 is different than what you dealt with in earlier versions. In this session, designed for developers, you will learn how to develop and deploy a custom Web Part for use in WSS v3.
» SharePoint Pro Live - Agenda & Registration
Technorati tags: sharepoint, wss, web parts
WDS Admin Guide http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windows/search/dtsguide.mspx iFilters http://channel9.msdn.com/wiki/default.aspx/Channel9.DesktopSearchIFilters Syntax http://toolbar.search.msn.com/docs/toolbarts.aspx?t=MSNTbar_PROC_CompleteSearchSyntax.htm And the latest client for XP just released WDS 3.01 http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=10&SrcDisplayLang=en&SrcCategoryId=&SrcFamilyId=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3fFamilyID%3d738fc2de-49b9-4e69-9227-2206277ab7c9%26DisplayLang%3den
WDS Admin Guide
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windows/search/dtsguide.mspx
iFilters
http://channel9.msdn.com/wiki/default.aspx/Channel9.DesktopSearchIFilters
Syntax
http://toolbar.search.msn.com/docs/toolbarts.aspx?t=MSNTbar_PROC_CompleteSearchSyntax.htm
And the latest client for XP just released WDS 3.01
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=10&SrcDisplayLang=en&SrcCategoryId=&SrcFamilyId=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3fFamilyID%3d738fc2de-49b9-4e69-9227-2206277ab7c9%26DisplayLang%3den
I spent a lot of time working with Media & Entertainment customers and they are always asking about Digital Asset Management - which is possible with MOSS 2007 but you always find yourself in the build vs buy conversation when talking about high end functionality.
Mark Harrison just posted a link to Equilibrium MediaRich for SharePoint 2007.
Equilibrium MediaRich for SharePoint 2007 is now available and brings a robust, low cost Digital Asset Management (DAM) solution to Microsoft Office Systems. Companies are able to leverage their investment in the Microsoft platform without having to move to another, more costly system, thereby reducing IT management costs, training and productivity costs, and extending their return on investment.
The top 10 reasons for deploying MediaRich for SharePoint are:
1. Control digital media assets corporate wide within the SharePoint environment.MediaRich extends SharePoint's document collaboration capabilities to create a powerful, yet cost-effective digital asset management solution. Remove the added cost of training, maintenance and support of a third party system for media asset management. 2. Reduce high cost image production and media storage.MediaRich for SharePoint reduces the time and cost of locating, modifying, managing, and deploying media assets, in a secure self-service portal. Transform your images using corporate guidelines or provide the flexibility to allow information workers to select the file format, size, and resolution before downloading the required image. 3. Enforce brand consistency and maintain greater control over multi-channel marketing materials. Enable "self-service" creation of graphics for use in product images, marketing collateral, and presentations for Web, print, and multimedia. This ensures that the same corporate-approved original image is being used by everyone in your organization – eliminating the dilution of your brands assets. 4. Use Microsoft Office as a powerful set of collaboration tools.Thanks to the Web services provided by Windows SharePoint Services, search and access corporate approved images directly from a Microsoft Office application (Word, PowerPoint or Excel) or within SharePoint Portal Server and Windows SharePoint Services sites. 5. Accelerate time-to-market for critical product launches and marketing campaigns .Establish approval workflows to streamline production and reduce costs. Quickly and easily locate media assets by browsing thumbnail previews and accelerate the approval process with threaded discussions, alerts, check-in/check-out functionality and version history. 6. Manage a global brand from within a single IT platform. MediaRich extends SharePoint Portal Server so that organizations, from small work groups to large enterprises, can manage all corporate brand assets in a secure environment and leverages Microsoft Windows Active Directory for security, user roles, and account management. 7. Increase productivity with powerful search tools including image-specific metadata.Use metadata specific to images for more accurate search results. Extend powerful SharePoint search capabilities with MediaRich metadata support to both read and write industry standard image metadata and to provide thumbnail previews in your search results of the most popular file formats. 8. Provide partners and remote sales team access to brand assets through a corporate portal.Collaborate on assets with customers and partners to strengthen business relations. Businesses can protect brand asset integrity while providing a Web-based environment for both partners and remote sales force to access and use brand assets within corporate defined guidelines. 9. Deliver a robust, yet cost-effective digital asset management solution on the Microsoft Windows platform.Whether your company is using Windows SharePoint Services for workgroup productivity or SharePoint Portal Server for an entire enterprise, MediaRich for SharePoint provides all the functionality you need, without the high price you may expect. 10. Reuse rather than recreate brand assets eliminating errors and duplicated work.Protect the commercial value of media and reinforce consistent branding with MediaRich by displaying media previews of all popular image file formats. Enables non-technical information workers to update and manage visual content without burdening the art department.
1. Control digital media assets corporate wide within the SharePoint environment.MediaRich extends SharePoint's document collaboration capabilities to create a powerful, yet cost-effective digital asset management solution. Remove the added cost of training, maintenance and support of a third party system for media asset management.
2. Reduce high cost image production and media storage.MediaRich for SharePoint reduces the time and cost of locating, modifying, managing, and deploying media assets, in a secure self-service portal. Transform your images using corporate guidelines or provide the flexibility to allow information workers to select the file format, size, and resolution before downloading the required image.
3. Enforce brand consistency and maintain greater control over multi-channel marketing materials. Enable "self-service" creation of graphics for use in product images, marketing collateral, and presentations for Web, print, and multimedia. This ensures that the same corporate-approved original image is being used by everyone in your organization – eliminating the dilution of your brands assets.
4. Use Microsoft Office as a powerful set of collaboration tools.Thanks to the Web services provided by Windows SharePoint Services, search and access corporate approved images directly from a Microsoft Office application (Word, PowerPoint or Excel) or within SharePoint Portal Server and Windows SharePoint Services sites.
5. Accelerate time-to-market for critical product launches and marketing campaigns .Establish approval workflows to streamline production and reduce costs. Quickly and easily locate media assets by browsing thumbnail previews and accelerate the approval process with threaded discussions, alerts, check-in/check-out functionality and version history.
6. Manage a global brand from within a single IT platform. MediaRich extends SharePoint Portal Server so that organizations, from small work groups to large enterprises, can manage all corporate brand assets in a secure environment and leverages Microsoft Windows Active Directory for security, user roles, and account management.
7. Increase productivity with powerful search tools including image-specific metadata.Use metadata specific to images for more accurate search results. Extend powerful SharePoint search capabilities with MediaRich metadata support to both read and write industry standard image metadata and to provide thumbnail previews in your search results of the most popular file formats.
8. Provide partners and remote sales team access to brand assets through a corporate portal.Collaborate on assets with customers and partners to strengthen business relations. Businesses can protect brand asset integrity while providing a Web-based environment for both partners and remote sales force to access and use brand assets within corporate defined guidelines.
9. Deliver a robust, yet cost-effective digital asset management solution on the Microsoft Windows platform.Whether your company is using Windows SharePoint Services for workgroup productivity or SharePoint Portal Server for an entire enterprise, MediaRich for SharePoint provides all the functionality you need, without the high price you may expect.
10. Reuse rather than recreate brand assets eliminating errors and duplicated work.Protect the commercial value of media and reinforce consistent branding with MediaRich by displaying media previews of all popular image file formats. Enables non-technical information workers to update and manage visual content without burdening the art department.
You can view the new guidance :"Estimate performance and capacity requirements for search environments".
Key characteristics describe environmental factors, usage characteristics, and other considerations that are likely to be found in deployments based on this scenario. The key characteristics for this scenario include: User response times : Target user response times for common, uncommon, long-running, and rare operations are listed in the "User response time" table in Plan for software boundaries (Office SharePoint Server) . Some organizations might tolerate slower user response times or might require faster user response times. The expected user response time is a key factor that determines overall throughput targets. Throughput is how many requests the server farm can process per second. When you have more users, you require a higher throughput target to achieve the same user response time. User concurrency : A concurrency rate of 10 percent is assumed, with one percent of concurrent users making requests at a given moment. For example, for 10,000 users, 1,000 users are actively using the solution simultaneously, and 100 users are actively making requests. Long-running asynchronous tasks : Tasks such as crawling content and backing up databases add a performance load to the server farm. The general performance characteristics of sample topologies assume that these tasks are running during off-peak hours, such as overnight. Thus, user response rates during business hours are not affected.
Key characteristics describe environmental factors, usage characteristics, and other considerations that are likely to be found in deployments based on this scenario.
The key characteristics for this scenario include:
The following graph shows changes in throughput for search operations when the number of Web servers changes.
Telerik rock - I love their work and its great they have now shipped r.a.d.Editor for MOSS.
from the SharePoint blog:
With the release of the r.a.d.editor for MOSS, Telerik has taken into account the feedback they gathered during the beta period. In addition to the downloadable file on their website at http://www.telerik.com/sharepoint, Telerik has also published a Deployment and Customization manual as well as a Feature Comparison guide for r.a.d.editor for MOSS vs. the OOTB MOSS rich-text editor vs. the full featured r.a.d.editor for ASP.NET.
Jan has created a new version of the smart part with AJAX.NET support
check it out here.
Via William Cornwill (SDM)
The Microsoft SharePoint team have just announced that the 20 remaining Application Templates of the “Fantastic 40” are now available for download! [via Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog] These server admin templates for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 provide more enhanced functionality than the first 20 templates, including some with built-in workflows, heavily customized lists and libraries, and advanced data views. Moreover, these new templates (full descriptions here) are available not just in English but 10 additional languages: French, Italian, German, Spanish, Portuguese (BR), Japanese, Korean, Hebrew, Chinese (simplified), and Chinese (traditional). The additional languages will be available within the next few days. You can try out the fully functional demo versions of the English templates here, here, or here.
The Microsoft SharePoint team have just announced that the 20 remaining Application Templates of the “Fantastic 40” are now available for download!
[via Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog]
These server admin templates for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 provide more enhanced functionality than the first 20 templates, including some with built-in workflows, heavily customized lists and libraries, and advanced data views. Moreover, these new templates (full descriptions here) are available not just in English but 10 additional languages: French, Italian, German, Spanish, Portuguese (BR), Japanese, Korean, Hebrew, Chinese (simplified), and Chinese (traditional). The additional languages will be available within the next few days. You can try out the fully functional demo versions of the English templates here, here, or here.
Download Virtual PC 2007 (I've been using the beta and it rocks hard!) from here.
Thanks to Jan for posting this.
[for the benefit of anyone who tries to find anything about this exception]
I was onsite building stuff *YAY* and I ran into an error (where?):
- MOSS 2007 (SharePoint 2007) RTM Trial Bits
- SQL Server 2005 RTM bits
The Office Search Service was causing a "Fatal Exception" in my SQL server and it was causing SQL to dump mdmp files every second (at 4Mb each it filled up the drive).
Anyway what you need to do to fix it is:
- Install SQL 2005 SP1 + Roll Up
OR
Install the new SQL 2005 Service Pack 2
This fixed the issue immediately.
From the Event Log: A user request from the session with SPID 56 generated a fatal exception. SQL Server is terminating this session. Contact Product Support Services with the dump produced in the log directory.
From the Event Log:
A user request from the session with SPID 56 generated a fatal exception. SQL Server is terminating this session. Contact Product Support Services with the dump produced in the log directory.
Exact same error as this.
Arpan has blogged a link to the new SharePoint Evaluation Guide.
Very cool stuff.