CRIMTRAC is building a secure extranet that will enable Australia's police forces to swap crime information and work together in real-time.
The federal agency serves as an information broker for law-enforcement agencies and provides access to national criminal history services such as fingerprint and DNA databases.
Its work has been hampered by a "clunky old portal, from the IT stone age", and staff routinely fax key documents, chief technology officer Anthony Martin says.
This is changing since an internal deployment of Microsoft's SharePoint platform, which will underpin CrimTrac's long-term collaboration strategy.
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I wanted to add new web part zone to a one of my publishing page in an intranet. But I was getting above message and couldn’t edit the page. The reason for this is,
This message tells you that publishing pages that are based on a page layout cannot be edited in Office SharePoint Designer 2007, and that their content can be edited only in the browser. To edit the underlying page layout from which the page was created, you can click Edit Page Layout. (Note that you are able to rename pages in SharePoint Designer. To do so, right-click the page in the Folder List, and then click Rename on the shortcut menu.)
However, if you choose, you can edit a publishing page in Office SharePoint Designer 2007 by detaching it from the page layout that it is based on. For example, you might want to customize the Search Results Web Part on a publishing page. You can do so by detaching the publishing page from the page layout, then customizing the Web Part in SharePoint Designer, and finally reattaching the publishing page to the publishing page layout. To do so, right-click the page in the Folder List, and then click Detach from Page Layout on the shortcut menu. You will see the following message.
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointdesigner/HA101741331033.aspx
I was installing the training kit listed at following URL for a client.
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointserver/HA102488011033.aspx
I try to activate the feature in created training site when I got above error message. The site was configured to run under English (Australia) in the site regional settings.
To fix above problem you need to change the site regional settings for English (United State).
The feature can be only activated on the training site if the site regional setting is set to English (Unites sate). This is documented in the installation guide with more details.
FAST has released a set of installable Web parts (Web parts are reusable UI components for building SharePoint sites) for quickly integrating FAST ESP with SharePoint Server 2007. These Web parts allow SharePoint administrators to build ESP-based search sites inside SharePoint Server 2007 by simply dropping in and configuring the appropriate components.
Web Parts Functionality
These new ESP Web parts provide much of the functionality demonstrated in the FF08 SharePoint demonstration. Specifically, ESP search capabilities can be exposed within SharePoint Server 2007 sites using the following Web parts:
- Search Box -- Web part that supports creation of a search box for query term submission
- Result List -- Web part that displays search results and supports sorting, pagination, and navigator-based filtering
- Navigators -- Web part for displaying dynamic navigators that profile search results across a set of pre-defined dimensions and allow users to refine the search through navigation clicks
- Breadcrumb -- Web part for displaying the search term(s) and list of navigators used to obtain the current result set
- Search Site Template – Template for linking together the various Web parts to build a complete search site in one step
Codeplex Release
The Web parts have been released not through the normal product channel but as a free downloadable package (including both compiled code and source code) on Codeplex, the Microsoft-hosted open source project site.
You can find the Codeplex project for the ESP Web parts at www.codeplex.com/espwebparts
We have released the Web parts on Codeplex for several reasons:
1.) To foster a developer community that can grow and scale our integration capabilities faster
2.) To provide a forum for custom code solutions on top of SharePoint
3.) To encourage partner created solutions in the SharePoint space
While Microsoft and FAST will not directly support these Web parts and we do not intend to provide a future upgrade path, the Web parts are production quality and are fully intended for production use by customers and partners.
Developer Community
Given the reach of SharePoint and the power of ESP search we believe the project will generate tremendous interest in the marketplace. We hope to see the project grow into an active technology exchange for ESP/SharePoint integration components and are working to foster a strong developer community around the project. With the level of demand we expect to see for ESP/SharePoint integration, this developer community will be critical path to helping us grow and scale our integration capabilities. The Web parts themselves have been designed to be open and extensible, allowing developers to customize them to fit diverse branding and user experience requirements or extend them to fit new search requirements. This is our first open source initiative at FAST and we're looking forward to an enthusiastic response.
It is a common question how to start SharePoint development if you are a .NET developer. Have a look at following site to answer your questions
http://www.microsoft.com/click/SharePointDeveloper/
It contains
· Interviews with SharePoint Technical Program Mangers
· Whitepapers
· Downloadable VPC to conduct development
· Web cast
· Screen cast
· Quick Start
· Hands on Labs downloads
· Virtual Labs
· Presentations and Demos
I was trying to install MOSS on a SQL server environment and received above error message. The SQL Server database was installed on non default TCP port. So I need to type something like “Database Server name, TCP port” when I try to create the configuration databases. But it was failing with above error.
I had to update database TCP port to default 1433 port to get SharePoint successfully installed.
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We haven’t even unpacked our stuff yet, but we are already planning our June user group session – wherever it may be! You may have heard about the Heroes Happen Here campaign that Microsoft has been running. Give a 10 minute demo using Windows 2008, SQL 2008 or Visual Studio 2008 technology and go into the draw for some great prizes, including:
· Tickets to Tech-Ed 2008 in Sydney (including airfares)
· Media Centre Extender with DVD
· Tickets to Tech-Ed 2009 in the US (including airfares)
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So we have decided to throw a Heroes night for our June session. We are looking for up to 8 user group members to do their demo at our June meeting. We will take care of videoing your session (a requirement of the competition) and providing a friendly audience.
If you are interested, send the details of your demo to Sydney@sharepointusers.org.au. You can read up on the rules for the competition at http://www.microsoft.com/australia/heroes/tandc.aspx
The SharePoint Forum content is now available at following location
http://www.microsoftsharepoint.com/strategy/resources/Pages/Keynote.aspx
You can access
· Key Note video
· All the session content on PDF format
· Session Videos for
o Social Computing in the Enterprise
o Office Business Applications: The people-friendly face of Service-orientated Architecture
o SharePoint and Silverlight
o Records management and compliance solutions
o Find it faster with MOSS 2007 Search
You can also access the key notes via live meeting with following information,
You can now View online, the Keynote in two formats:
· High-Fidelity Presentation (HFP) ~100 MB
· Windows Media Player ~18 MB
From
https://www.livemeeting.com/cc/lmevents/view?id=msft050508jc&pw=AJG732&
(Cut and paste link if it fails to open)
On Monday, May 19, at 6:00 AM PT, Microsoft will announce the availability of SharePoint Deployment Planning Services (SDPS), a new partner-delivered offering designed to help Microsoft Office SharePoint Server customers with qualified, Volume Licensing Software Assurance enrollments, successfully plan their deployment of SharePoint. Microsoft developed SDPS in response to the remarkable growth of SharePoint in the Enterprise market.
SDPS introduces a host of new knowledge offerings to the SharePoint partner community for their customers’ benefit. These tools include SharePoint Deployment Plan Templates, Architecture Design Guidance Documents, and SharePoint server farm deployment guidance. These tools will better equip partners to give customers the best possible experience when deploying SharePoint server. In addition, SDPS certified partners will be able to participate in a new online community that Microsoft has created to facilitate collaboration and information sharing among partners on SharePoint deployment best practices. Partners can get more details and register to be an SDPS provider at www.microsoftsdps.com.
National Native Title Tribunal went live with MOSS yesterday. Its very cool site that support
· Web accessibility standards
· Online forms
· BDC search with MOSS Search
· Customer data management with MS CRM (email subscription via SharePoint and add data to the MS CRM)
· AGLS (Australian Government Locator Service) metadata
http://www.nntt.gov.au/Pages/default.aspx
The Vivid Group guys done a fantastic job on delivering this project.
Since its launch in 2007 of Australian and international businesses have used SharePoint(R) 2007 to help reduce costs, improve productivity, and increase their competitiveness. This has put CIO’s at the centre of organisational strategy and success; Phillips Fox achieved savings of approximately AU$700,000 and eliminated the manual input of around 16,000 documents a year.
Now, Microsoft invites you to “experience the possibilities” at the SharePoint 2008 Forum.
http://www.microsoftsharepoint.com/strategy/Pages/default.aspx
So, with the above in hand what is this OBA Sample Application Kit for PeopleSoft?
In many cases, developers don't have the knowledge on how to programmatically integrate Office applications with LOB systems. What this kit provides is guidance on how you can integrate with Web services that have been generated from within PeopleSoft and then consume those services within a .NET and managed code environment. The OBA Sample Application Kit for PeopleSoft (one in a series of kits) includes a whitepaper, installation document, source code, and client-side binaries (server-side (MOSS) code is discussed in the documents how to deploy) for you to use and learn how you integrate PeopleSoft programmatically into your Office system.
The goal of the kit is to provide developers with some information on how they can go ahead and learn how to programmatically integrate PeopleSoft with Office (specifically Outlook 2007 and MOSS 2007), thus providing you with specific knowledge around Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO) - a component technology within Visual Studio 2008 that enables you to build Office solutions, the MOSS 2007 BDC and the integration with Web services, and more generically the use of Web services developed using PeopleTool within .NET and the Visual Studio IDE.
http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/obapsftsak
I have been asked few times last week what is the hardware virtualisation support for SharePoint technologies. Following some information from the original MS support article listed below,
Currently, you can use the following products together with hardware virtualization software products only for testing:
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Windows SharePoint Services |
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SharePoint Portal Server 2003 |
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Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (Virtualization is supported for production when you use Virtual Server 2005 R2.) |
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Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (Virtualization is supported for production when you use Virtual Server 2005 R2.) |
When you use Virtual Server 2005 R2 or a later version of Virtual Server, the following products are supported for production use:
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Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 |
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SharePoint Server 2007 |
Read the full article at,
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/909840/en-us
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Would you like to find out;
- How can you leverage Microsoft Office SharePoint technologies to provide a platform for collaboration, ECM, search, BI and social computing?
- The interoperability with MOSS and other line of business applications such as SAP?
- How SharePoint and Office can be the people friendly face of service oriented architecture?
Well we’ve got just the man to answer those burning questions... Microsoft’s Mike Fitzmaurice, Enterprise Technology Strategist and former Technical Product manager for WSS/MOSS, has kindly agreed to hold a lunch time ‘Open Mike’ session when he visits Sydney in May.
We look forward to seeing you there!
Please click here to register for this event.
Registration opens at 12:30pm and the Q&A session commence at 1:00pm. The May User Group will be held at the Microsoft’s office, 1 Epping Road, North Ryde, Sydney.
Food & Refreshments will be provided.
‘Open Mike’ – Mike Fitzmaurice Q&A Date: Monday May 5th 2008 Time: 12:30-2:00pm
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Visit http://www.sharepointusers.org.au/sydney for further information.
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Mike Fitzmaurice is an Enterprise Technology Strategist at Microsoft, advising customers, partners, and Microsoft teams on portal, collaboration, and search technology. He spent the past five years as a Technical Product Manager for Windows® SharePoint® Services and Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server, focused on developer evangelism and interoperability issues. He joined Microsoft Corp. in December 1997 as a senior consultant for Microsoft Consulting Services, overseeing several development initiatives involving Exchange Server and SharePoint technology for a wide range of customers. Before joining Microsoft, Fitzmaurice served as Director of Research and Development at Advanced Paradigms Inc., a Washington, D.C.-based Microsoft Solution Provider Partner, as well as a five-year tenure as IT Director of the National Association of Broadcasters. |
