Steve Caravajal's Ramblings

During recent search discussions and POCs, a number of questions have surfaced as well as some key points re: SSPs which I have tried to capture here. Q : How many index servers can be a part of a MOSS farm? A : The number of Shared Service Providers...

As you evaluate single sign-on solutions, make sure to check out ADFS. Here is some content to get you started... Simplify Single Sign-on Using ADFS Configure Web SSO authentication by using ADFS (Office SharePoint Server) Configure Web...

Some good content worth checking out if you are planning this kind of a deployment. Design extranet farm topology (Office SharePoint Server) Plan security hardening for extranet environments </steve>

Definitely worth a read... Indexing pdf documents with Adobe Reader v.8 and MOSS 2007 The version 8 of the adobe reader has some significant architectural changes (for the better of course) including an inbuilt IFilter to index PDF documents. Previously...

If you are using SPD to customize the NewForm.aspx you need to be aware of this: Error message when you click "New" to create a new item in a list or when you click an existing item in SharePoint Server 2007: "Invalid page URL" or "An unexpected...

Last week, a customer came to me with a security trimming issue they were experiencing. Users were seeing search results that they didn’t have permission to see. Fortunately, they were denied access when they tried to access the information from the link...

A new white paper has recently been published here : Overview Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 includes a new wiki site template, providing a low-maintenance way to capture community knowledge. It can be used for brainstorming ideas, recording internal...

EMC Announces Availability of Integrated Enterprise Content Management Support for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 EMC Corporation EMC, the world leader in information infrastructure solutions, today announced the immediate availability of...

For those thinking or planning on this kind of a deployment, there is a new tool you should check out. I know the folks that put this together and they are top notch. </steve> Extranet Collaboration Manager for SharePoint 2007 Extranet...

SharePoint: The next big ‘operating system’ from Microsoft? A related article that also demonstrates future direction is: Microsoft Announces New Package to Extend Microsoft Dynamics ERP Solutions to Microsoft Office Users SAN DIEGO — March 12...

Three good references to get you started: HOW TO: Create a custom Windows Workflow Activity and make it available in SharePoint Designer SPD Workflow activity : Creating a document library Adding Activities to SPD </steve>

An excellent white paper, check it out. [Updated May 11, 07 - more great stuff, check out the two MSDN articles, part 1 and part 2 .] </steve>

6 different videos can be found here . </steve>

This white paper describes how different versions of Office programs work together with the 2003 and 2007 versions of SharePoint technologies. Although an overview of the integration features of Microsoft Office 2000 versus Microsoft Office XP with Microsoft...

Cross-browser rich text editor for SharePoint 2007 Who said there is no free lunch, or free editor??? Well, this is definitely a deal you can’t pass up. If you are using the WCM features of MOSS, then you definitely need to go grab this tool: r.a.d...

Good summary is here . </steve>

Very good comprehensive list of books . </steve>

These two sites ( 1 and 2 ) are pretty cool looking, and yes the are MOSS sites. </steve>

Working with ASP.NET 2.0 Web Parts and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 </steve>

Go check out Microsoft Silverlight ! "Silverlight is a cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for delivering the next generation of media experiences and rich interactive applications (RIAs) for the Web." The MSDN forum can be found here if you want...

Reliable Repositories: Using Microsoft Forefront Security for SharePoint to Defend Collaboration </steve>

This information up on TechNet has recently been updated. </steve>

You need to check out this site. It has some really good articles and make sure to take a look at the Universal Provider Framework. </steve>

The online SDK has been updated; go check it out. A couple of additions I've used recently: New conceptual sections: Content Migration Change Log and Synchronizing Applications Creating Declarative, No-Code Workflow Editors Procedural...