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Recommended Reading for February 2007

   Recommended Reading for February (click here for previous recommendations):

·         Customizing MOSS Search – written by Ian Morrish, SharePoint Insider; provides a walkthrough of how to add 1) Microsoft Live Search results to the SharePoint Search page and 2) custom list/document property values to the search results summary.
·         Mobile browsers and devices that are supported in WSS 3.0 and in MOSS 2007 – Microsoft KB article that answers one of the most common FAQs.
·         Make your SharePoint debugging experience a little less painful – written by Andrew Connell, SharePoint MVP; provides 3 macros for Visual Studio 2005 to attached to the relevant SharePoint processes for debugging.
·         SharePoint 2007 CSS Reference Chart – maintained by Heather Solomon, SharePoint MVP; provides an excellent visual reference for the CSS styles used by WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007, which enable very easy customization using the Site Settings | Look and Feel | Master Page | Alternate CSS URL option for a site.
·         How to configure SharePoint trusted WSRP producers – Ian’s on a roll with another useful walkthrough that answers one of the most common (presales) FAQs (usually only needed from an RFI/RFP checkbox J) about MOSS. And one more helpful tip from Ian: How to run inline code in SharePoint aspx pages.
·         Displaying the Correct Titles of Lotus Notes Documents in SharePoint Search Results – written by Mei Ying Lim, SharePoint MVP; supplements Liam Cleary’s How to setup MOSS Search to index Lotus Notes walkthrough that would be useful for the many Notes customers, who want to leverage MOSS Search as a unified intranet search solution.
·         Careful When Working with Sealed Site Columns – written by John Holliday, SharePoint MVP; provides an insightful caveat about sealed site columns used by MOSS’s Publishing feature.
·         How to setup and Configure Forms Based User Administration Feature (Alpha Release) – written by Chandima Kulathilake; provides a walkthrough and sample code on how to address one of the most common FAQs about SharePoint authentication.
·         How to create the “Contact Map” mashup with a SharePoint Contacts List and Windows Live Maps – written by the Office Live team; provides a walkthrough and sample code for one of the most common FAQs about how to leverage Windows Live Services in SharePoint.
·         SharePoint Deployment and Provisioning Checklists, Powerful Keyword and Property Search in SharePoint Server, and Good List of Performance Counters – a few of the excellent reference articles written by my teammate, Joel Oleson, that you should bookmark.
·         Lastly, a couple of very handy deployment tools (with source code) conceptualized by Angus Logan, SharePoint Insider, and developed by Sanil Malik: MOSS 2007 Utility to Import/Export User Profiles and MOSS 2007 Utility to Import/Export User Profile Properties. Sanil also posted a well written article about User Profiles and Audience Targeting, which provides the key reasons for why you need these tools.

 

 

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Published Wednesday, February 07, 2007 5:41 AM by LLiu

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# re: Recommended Reading for February 2007

Beta Release 1.0 of the Forms Authentication Feature is now available on CodePlex

http://www.codeplex.com/MOSSFormsFeature/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=1766

Chandima

Wednesday, February 07, 2007 2:59 PM by digitalmelon

# SharePoint 2007 - Letture per il mese di Febbraio

Friday, February 09, 2007 9:18 AM by Di niente, di meno, sul mondo dell'informatica....

# re: Recommended Reading for February 2007

Live demo of the “Contact Map” mashup with a SharePoint Contacts List and Windows Live Maps now available here...

http://www.wssdemo.com/demo/default.aspx

Friday, February 09, 2007 6:29 PM by Ian Morrish

# re: Recommended Reading for February 2007

You are now part of the Buzz, SharePoint Buzz

Visit http://www.sharepointbuzz.com

Tuesday, February 13, 2007 11:36 AM by Kanwal

# Virtual Earth Map + Office Live Contacts mashup

Just as we were preparing to write a blog post on our team blog about a new code sample, we got scooped

Friday, March 09, 2007 8:41 PM by Chris's unofficial Office Live developer blog

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