Microsoft Enterprise Content Management (ECM) Team Blog

Around two-and-a-half years ago (at the AIIM conference in Philadelphia in May of 2006), my counterparts at IBM and EMC and I started discussing the need to form a group to create an open services standard for interacting with Enterprise Content Management...

There isn't a week that goes by where I don't get an email asking me this very question. More often than not, its because someone has been using the Content Editor Web Part (CEWP) when they should have been using the Publishing HTML field type. This mistake...

Today, we're excited to announce the launch of a standards effort for Enterprise Content Management systems that Microsoft has been driving with several other major vendors (IBM, EMC, Alfresco, OpenText, SAP, Oracle) called "Content Management Interoperability...

The SharePoint IT Pro Documentation team has launched a new blog. This is a great place to find out about new and upcoming SharePoint documentation and provide your feedback. Check it out here: To the SharePoint .

On the 20th May, we released two hotfix packages focused on Content Deployment. These packages delivered performance improvements and addressed a number of known customer pain points. The hotfixes have been rolled in to the Infrastructure Update for Office...

Hi, I'm Cern McAtee, a technical writer for Office SharePoint Server 2007. I'm pleased to announce that the Office SharePoint Server 2007 content team and the Global Readiness team have combined efforts to write and publish a new walkthrough guide for...

Hi, my name is Claudia Lake. I am a technical writer on the SharePoint Enterprise Solutions content team. In response to feedback from users, we have created Administering Records Management , which is a new set of IT Pro documentation on TechNet about...

[ Part 1 ] [ Part 2 ] [ Part 3 ] [ Part 4 ] Greetings and welcome to the fifth and final post in this series describing the news management and delivery service we built on Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 for our internal employee communication...

[ Part 1 ] [ Part 2 ] [ Part 3 ] Hello again! Sean Squires here. This is part 4 of my series about the news management and delivery service we built on Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 for our internal employee communication portal, Microsoft...

[ Updated March 11, 2008: Based on your feedback, we have created a downloadable version of this guide . It's the same content, but now available in a convenient .doc format.] Hello, ECM Team Blog readers. My name is Rob Silver. I'm a technical...

[ Part 1 ] [ Part 2 ] Welcome to part 3 in my series about the creation of a news management and delivery service on Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. I left off last time talking about how we provide editors with a custom form to tag imported...

[ Part 1 ] Welcome back! Last time I introduced the overall solution we developed to enable a news management and delivery service on MSW. In the next few posts I will dig into the details, providing more information on the design configuration and...

As we've often written in this blog, the Content Query Web Part is a great tool for aggregating portions of your site's content based on certain rules (filters, sorts, groupings). However, out of the box the web part is pretty static in what piece of...

[Ed. note: This is the first of a five-post series about a solution that our Microsoft Web enterprise portal team built that deals with collecting, organizing, and publishing news content. We thought it would be interesting for people to read about the...

[Cross-posted from the SharePoint Team Blog .] Back in May of last year, we announced that MOSS 2007 had passed the U.S. government's DoD 5015.2 certification. Now, all of the work that was done to achieve that important milestone has been packaged...

Just a quick note that two more visual how-tos have been published, that may be of interest to readers of this blog: Adding Custom Quick Access Buttons to the Page Editing Toolbar in SharePoint Server 2007 Adding Code-Behind Files to Master Pages...

Happy new year! I just wanted to make the first post of 2008 advertise a set of relatively new web sites that are running MOSS 2007: Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights - United Nations World Vision Canada Axon Municipality...

You've probably seen the announcements by now, but I wanted to let you know that we made Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 SP1 available for download today. You can download the service pack , and you can read through the fixes that are included...

Another visual how-to for the Content Query Web Part was just posted. While the previous one we blogged about discussed the use of the CommonViewFields property, this one also goes into how to use the QueryOverride and the DataColumnRenames property....

We've just published some new articles on document-to-page converters, including an overview topic and converter-specific articles for our .docx, InfoPath XML, and generic XML converters. Take a look, and feel free to offer feedback and ask questions...

The topic of making the Content Query web part display custom fields has been a hot topic on this blog (137 comments and counting!). I wanted to let people know that a new article on this topic was just published on MSDN, and it includes a visual how...

In case you missed them, two new WCM-focused articles hit MSDN recently: How to Create a SharePoint Server 2007 Custom Master Page and Page Layouts for a Web Content Management Site How to Optimize a SharePoint Server 2007 Web Content Management...

If you haven't seen it already, Stefan Goßner has published a great series on how to develop using the Content Deployment and Migration API. He touches on several examples that reflect many of the things you can do with the API. You can read his 4-part...

A couple months ago, I posted an entry on the Microsoft Records Management Team Blog about our DoD 5015.2 certification plans . Well, the test date finally came and went and, over the past two weeks, JITC (the organization within the Department of...

Performance is usually top-of-mind for any web site deployment, including MOSS. If you're writing code that deals with SharePoint items, and you're deploying that code to a site with even moderate traffic, you should consider using the PortalSiteMapProvider...