Steve Caravajal's Ramblings

I've been working lately on creating some custom policies just to demo for customers to illustrate the extensibility. As you know, MOSS provides 4 policies OOTB but also provides the ability to create custom policies. Here are some really good references...

Q: Can an already provisioned team site be converted to a publishing site? A: No, but as long as you are running MOSS you can enable the publishing features for the team site. </steve>

A couple of useful resources you should check out: Deployment for Office SharePoint Server 2007 Office SharePoint Server 2007 Evaluation Guide Planning and Architecture for Office SharePoint Server 2007 Planning MCMS Application Migration...

If you are planning to do this, then check out the Community Kit for Sharepoint . The Community Kit for SharePoint is a set of best practices, templates, Web Parts, tools, and source code that enables practically anyone to create a community website...

Well, they're heeere .......well 20 of the 40 anyway. Go check them out. Plus, there is more.....role-based templates for My Sites can be found here . </steve>

This is a common question I get from customers... Q: Does Microsoft support running WSS v3 and MOSS in a virtualized software environment? A: Unlike SPS2003, there will be product support for WSS v3 and MOSS on Virtual Server 2005 R2 x86 or x64...

Q: How do you upgrade WSS v2 pages customized with FrontPage 2003 to WSS v3 (or MOSS)? A: Unfortunately there is not an automatic upgrade process that maintains the customizations AND upgrades to the new v3 features. Since pages that remain uncustomized...

Go check out the new Office Space column on MSDN Mag authored by Ted Pattison. This column is devoted to development with and for the Office 2007 system. Building Office Open XML Files You can also check out a previous column by Ted: Server-Side...

Building Custom Search WebParts with Integrated SAP NetWeaver Portal Search for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS) good discussion, go check it out. </steve>

Prepare to crawl host-named sites that use forms authentication Prepare to crawl host-named sites that use Basic authentication </steve>

If you are writing or customizing your own search queries, you might want to check out this article. It provides some basic tips to make sure your getting the most relevant results you can: Best Practices: Writing SQL Syntax Queries for Relevant Results...

I continue to get a lot of questions re: which of the VS2005 products have which features and do what so I generally send folks here since it's pretty comprehensive: </steve>

Gartner discusses the need to deploy document converters so employees can collaborate using Office 2007 and previous versions. Plan and implement now, don't wait. Office 2007 Launch Shows Need for Document Converters </steve>

... The Office Migration Planning Manager (OMPM) is a collection of tools that enables you to prepare for migration to the Microsoft 2007 Office system. OMPM checks for, and reports on, file properties to help you analyze your environment. You can...

This is an excellent reference. If you are customizing 2007 sites,.......duh??... and who won't be, then you will need this printed out and stapled to your hand....great job Heather! </steve>

This sample schema submitted here will allow you to get XML intellisense inside of Visual Studio while editing the XAML contained inside of the workflow .xoml files… </steve>

See my earlier post for a summary of the new templates. I get asked a lot what the new templates look like installed. Well, you can check them out on Ian's site or on the new SharePoint Community Portal site under Templates. </steve>

Good article by Robert Bogue worth your time if this is something you need to do. </steve>

Go here for the update and here for the manual editing of the timezone.xml file. Note: both of these are for v2. </steve>

Have a look here and here ; these 2 posts will definitely be helpful if you are involved in doing this. Make sure you subscribe to their blogs because more info will be coming. </steve>

Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Data Mining Add-ins for Microsoft Office 2007 Brief Description Download SQL Server 2005 Data Mining Add-ins for Office 2007. This package includes two add-ins for Microsoft Office Excel 2007 (Table Analysis Tools and Data...

You have to check this out: Colligo Reader for SharePoint Colligo Reader enables you to easily download content from SharePoint sites to your laptop - so you can access the content offline, rather than having to copy files one by one through a browser...

Installing MOSS as a claims aware application in ADFS The content of this blog is being turned into 2 whitepapers that will be published on TechNet. You can find the references here . </steve>

Well written, objective summary of the strengths and areas for improvement for MOSS search. </steve>

This download package includes all forty of the Application Templates for Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 plus the Application Template Core solution, which is required to deploy server administration templates. </steve>