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Starting to play with SharePoint PowerShell cmdlets

Hello, As you may know, SharePoint 2010 ships with Windows PowerShell. Being an automation geek, passionate by process, services and tools, I began to have a look at the INCREDIBLE possibilities brought by this architectural choice. To start, I just retrieved

Automating WSS v3/MOSS 2007 development environment setup: Synthesis

Hi, This long post series raised interest from many of you. Thanks for that. I was asked few times to provide a little synthesis and the scripts used, so here they are: Steps : Planning Decisions Windows Server 2003 unattended setup Unattended DC promo

White Paper on unattended / scripted MOSS 2007 setup is available !

Hi all, From various customer engagements, few months ago, I realized Microsoft had to bring in one place a way to industrialize MOSS 2007 environments setup. Once available in a coherent and unified resource, it could benefit equally SP developers, knowing
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Automating WSS v3/MOSS 2007 development environment setup: part XVI – SPDevmod from Scot Hillier

Hi, Last post of this long series. You definitely need to adapt your environment, with all these tools, to SharePoint development. Many references and advices exists in this area, from very strong people on SharePoint. The one I selected for me comes
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Automating WSS v3/MOSS 2007 development environment setup: part XV – Useful external tools

Hi, We now have most of what can offer Microsoft on our development platform. Approximately all the developers I met use additional tools and settings to ease their work (and especially with SharePoint). I selected few tools you may find useful, as their
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Automating WSS v3/MOSS 2007 development environment setup: part XIV – Install IE7 Developer Toolbar, WSS v3 and MOSS 2007 SDKs

Hi, Thanks for the support I received on this (long) series of posts. We are close to the end of it. So we now focus on more “developer centric” little tools: Internet Explorer 7 Developer Toolbar and Software Development Kits for WSS v3 and MOSS 2007.
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Automating WSS v3/MOSS 2007 development environment setup: part XIII – Install SharePoint Designer 2007

Hi, Now that you know how to setup Office 2007 (Enterprise in previous post), you’re able to setup SharePoint Designer 2007, Project Pro 2007 and Visio 2007. It’s just a question of reapplying the process and creating the right files. I stay on MSP approach
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Automating WSS v3/MOSS 2007 development environment setup: part IV – Unattended DC Promo

Hello, In the previous post, I described how to setup Windows Server 2003 an unattended way. Now, I'll describe how to transform this server in a Domain Controller. It's quite simple; just use an answer file, as an argument to the dcpromo.exe instruction.

Automating WSS v3/MOSS 2007 development environment setup: part III – Windows Server 2003 unattended setup

Hello, To setup Windows Server an unattended way, you have 3 options: Sysprep RIS (Remote Installation Services – named Windows Deployment Services (WDS) in Windows Server 2008) 1 answer file I will use the answer file. To create an answer file, insert
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Slipstream SharePoint SP1 with Infrastructure Update for MOSS 2007 clean installs

Hello, During various engagements, I recommend now the integration of Infrastructure Update for any new fresh farms setup of SharePoint products (either WSS v3 or MOSS 2007). If applicable, of course, as it depends of customers’ scenarios and current
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Speaker at TechReady7 – Creating and Presenting OFC302 MOSS 2007 scripting

Last week, Microsoft bi-annual biggest technical internal event took place at Seattle: TechReady. It was 7 th edition of this incredible technical readiness opportunity where products groups and field people meet. This one was my 4 th TechReady, but it

SharePoint Team Blog : "Design and Build Sites for Office SharePoint Server 2007"

Hello, Rob Silver wrote a post few days ago on "Design and Build Sites for Office SharePoint Server 2007". You can find the post here : http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2008/01/25/announcing-design-and-build-sites-for-office-sharepoint-server-2007.aspx
 
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