Steve Caravajal's Ramblings

If you've never used STSADM then go check this out: Powerful Command Line Administration for SharePoint </steve>

A brief, to the point introductory article on MOSS search recently posted to TechNet: Find It All with SharePoint Enterprise Search </steve>

What, you've never heard of Wikis? Well, push very hard on the rock you're under and once you are free go check out this intro on TechNet: Wiki While You Work </steve>

The list continues to grow rapidly. See my last blog for references and a very recent blog by Lawrence that summarizes quite a few new ones. Merry Christmas!! </steve>

If you are a .NET developer and considering jumping into Web Part development, then you should check out these 2 articles by Sahil Malik published on CoDe Magazine. This is a skill that is directly transferable to SharePoint custom development. In fact...

Make sure to check this out!! Problem ...handling internal ticket orders is very time-consuming and requires several steps to fulfill. As a result, ticketing staff are limited in the number of requests they can handle in a given day. With the rising...

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 for Search feature comparison Office SharePoint Server 2007 for Search is available for customers who require core search functionality and do not need the complete, integrated Office SharePoint Server 2007 offering...

Microsoft.com a SharePoint 2007 site?? If you've keeping up with the previous parts , then you'll know that the number of folks deploying SharePoint 2007 for hosting their internet sites is increasing. I've been highlighting a few of them in this blog...

For those of us writing Web Parts for WSS v3, we know that we have 2 choices. We can create an ASP.NET v2 Web part, a precompiled .NET class that inherits from the ASP.NET v2 WebPart class, or we can create a class which inherits from the WSS v3 WebPart...

Good resource for those interested in MOSS search. Planning and architecture, deployment, and operations for Office SharePoint Server 2007 for Search This book is designed to lead a team through the steps of planning, deploying, and administering...

The white paper below provides information and guidelines for using Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 in scenarios where content is managed across different languages. It details most of the functionality provided by Office SharePoint Server 2007...

I usually get asked for “real world” examples of how SharePoint technology is being utilized to solve real problems. Go check this out: Facilitating Effective Employee Reviews at Microsoft This is an example of an automated business process which...

A very good MSDN Mag article on the activities that are available OOTB in WinWF. A Tour of Windows Workflow Activities Activities are the building blocks of workflows. You create workflow solutions by composing activities in the Visual Studio 2005...

If you are using or plan to use Excel Services then you need to check out this article. Plan External Data Connections for Excel Services </steve>

The RTM versions of MOSS and WSS have been released and are on MSDN. The download versions are coming. </steve>

Some new information on performance and capacity planning just posted for MOSS and WSS v3 . </steve>

Previously, I posted on IRM in MOSS. I continue to get a number of questions so I thought I would summarize a couple of things. Why should you care? Well, in SharePoint 2003 we didn't have item-level security so IRM was necessary if you wanted to...