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A blog by John West of Microsoft Consulting Services - Central Region

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January 2007 - Posts

20 of the Fantastic 40 are now available for download!
Thanks to Mike Gannotti for helping make the community aware! http://www.microsoft.com/technet/windowsserver/sharepoint/wssapps/templates/default.mspx Make sure to hit refresh if you have already been to the site before, to see the new dowloadable list Read More...
Building a webpart using AJAX
http://sharethispoint.com/archive/2006/11/15/Build-web-parts-with-ajax.aspx Great article. Thanks Mark! Read More...
Announcing the return of the Smart Part!
From Jan Tielen's blog. This web part allows you to host existing asp.net web user controls. Thanks Jan! http://weblogs.asp.net/jan/archive/2006/12/02/announcing-the-return-of-the-smartpart.aspx Read More...
Some decent walk throughs of MOSS 2007 interface and admin features
About 10 minutes each, not extremely detailed from a technical perspective, but good for an introduction. http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/events/moss2007/dsk-102.mspx Read More...
Implications of Stopping the Windows SharePoint Service Web Application Service
Thanks to Daniel Webster for this great Post! http://mindsharpblogs.com/daniel/archive/2007/01/12/1473.aspx Read More...
A better link for MOSS required Service accounts
My previous post was actually focused on WSS. Thanks! http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/f07768d4-ca37-447a-a056-1a67d93ef5401033.mspx?mfr=true Read More...
Link to another good cusomizing Web Content in MOSS 2007 Article
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa830818.aspx Thanks to Patrick Tisseghem for writing! Read More...
SQL Rights Required for MOSS 2007
Rights for installation and operation are documented here: http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/f/?en-us/library/89e4c579-5720-45e0-917e-abeb95266c3e1033.mspx the instructions here: http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/798aa915-7025-4adc-a210-4f6ff14c43fc1033.mspx?pf=true Read More...
Why (dbcreator) SQL Rights are Required for MOSS 2007!
Within a day of making a post on SQL rights, I was contacted by Chris Gideon of our support arm and he quickly pointed out some big reasons why you do NOT want to remove dbcreator, even after the databases are created. I will be modifying my SQL Rights Read More...
Administrative Accounts and Rights required for MOSS 2007 (includes SQL Rights)
Found this link and wanted to highlight and share. http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/f/?en-us/library/89e4c579-5720-45e0-917e-abeb95266c3e1033.mspx Read More...
New Search Article from Technet
Good review of the new features and the architecture. http://www.microsoft.com/technet/technetmag/issues/2007/01/Search/default.aspx Read More...
Adding Properties to Advance Search
Thanks to Ishai Sagi for the tip! http://spstips.blogspot.com/2006/07/found-it-how-to-add-properties-to.html Read More...
How To Enable Scheduled Publishing in a MOSS Collaboration Portal
From Jan Tielens Blog http://weblogs.asp.net/jan/archive/2007/01/11/how-to-enable-scheduled-publishing-in-a-moss-collaboration-portal.aspx Thanks Jan! Read More...
A few of my favorite MOSS 2007 Links
Hi all, I will be posting this as an article as well, with a link available from the front page. That will make updates and finding this information a bit easier (at least for me J ) in the future. Feel free to send me suggestions for additional links! Read More...
Things to keep in mind if you are working with a SharePoint site directly from the IIS manager
I was going through Joel Oleson's blog and ran across this article http://blogs.msdn.com/joelo/archive/2007/01/02/relationship-between-the-iis-metabase-and-sharepoint-configuration-database.aspx Which points out that certain settings (such as binding Read More...
WSS 3.0 Application Templates Coming Soon!
Thanks to James Lakes for passing on this information to me. Here is a link to a landing page that describes the upcoming templates. http://www.microsoft.com/technet/windowsserver/sharepoint/wssapps/v3templates.mspx Read More...
2007 Microsoft Office Learning Portal
Includes links to E-Learning that is currently available for free. Enjoy! http://www.microsoft.com/learning/office2007/itpro/default.mspx Read More...
Downloadable book: Deployment for Office SharePoint Server 2007
This book provides information and guidelines to lead a team through the steps of deploying a solution based on Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. The audiences for this book are business application specialists, line-of-business specialists, information Read More...
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