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When Kerberos and SharePoint became friends :)

Wael A. Kabli — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 16:41:18 GMT

Finally, SharePoint and Kerberos became friends, the technet article: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263449.aspx is exmpaling the whole kerberos story along with sharepoint. This includes having NLB in the farm with multiple service account with multiple server roles.

The only thing that is missing from this article (which i think is out of scope) is the case of having SQL Cluster failover. in that case this article is the best one explaining that: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms189585(SQL.90).aspx.

Business Process Automation, a story to tell

Wael A. Kabli — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 09:00:08 GMT

eFroms solution Components

The eForms solution is a result of collaborating the following components all together:

· Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Infrastructure.

· Form Site (Portal): a SharePoint Site that hosts the whole solution and enabling this kind of integration.

· Email: a mail services that will send notifications within the workflows.

· Forms Template: This is the from that contains the target process. This is were you usually take a paper form or a manual process analyze, break-down and make an e-form out of it. In this solution we use Microsoft Office InfoPath 2007 in implement eForms or you can use APS.NET forms.

· Workflow: a component that is installed in the SharePoint that will contain the actual business process.

· Workflow Tasks: This is a SharePoint list that contains the tasks created by the workflow. A Task simply replaces a stage of a human task in the process (like an approval, signatures or a configuration).

· Security: to provide non-repudiation, data integrity and origin.

· Workflow History: This is a SharePoint list that stores the workflow logs. This includes cancellations, rejections, approvals and other workflow state transitions.

· Web Services: are set of services that will aid the solution in performing certain tasks such as getting user profiles from Active Directory and get the workflow logs to show a workflow history and maybe getting integrated with other services like Primavera for example.

· Other Lists: some forms depend on few SharePoint List to do some lookups on them.

· Archive: This is where the submitted form get stored which is basically a document or form library.

The flow of a workflow!

The story begins when a user find a link on the portal saying ( click here to fill XYZ form ). The link is actually pointing to the form template (which has the extension xsn) if you are using InfoPath. When he clicks on it, he will be redirected to the InfoPath Forms Server 2007 that is in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server2007 and it will render the form template (xsn) to be displayed on the web browser.

As soon as the form opens, the form had few rules inside it that will communicate with a web service to get the current user credentials from AD.

The user now will fill the form and submit which will actually will save this form in (XML) format in a document library or a form library for archiving.

As soon as this form is submitted, a workflow will run to follow the business process creating tasks to the people who are suppose to process that form (like a manager task to approve that form) and sending emails to the corresponding people to perform their tasks. the workflow will leave its foot prints on the history, so any time the user (or any body) can open the history and look what happened to the process, which task has been completed and what tasks are still pending.

The security model in SharePoint is taking care of who should see what and who can do something. Once the workflow is finished, it will indicate its state such as (Approved or Rejected by Manager or just completed).

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 - Arabic edition

Wael A. Kabli — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 16:56:00 GMT

if you are seeking for an Arabic Implementation for MOSS or WSS, you need to read this document first,,,

http://www.microsoft.com/middleeast/arabicdev/office/office2007/SharePoint.aspx
Introduction

What is the Arabic language support?

Adding Arabic support to the Environment

3.1 Adding Arabic language support to Windows XP/2003 server

3.2 Adding Arabic language support to Internet Explorer

3.3 Adding Arabic support in SQL Server

3.4 Office SharePoint Arabic language pack

Arabic support Level in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007

4.1 Central Administration page "الادارة المركزية"

4.2 Shared Services Administration page "ادارة الخدمات المشتركة"

4.3 Create page "أنشاء"

4.4 Create New Site page "أنشاء موقع جديد"

4.5 The Site Settings page "اعدادات الموقع"

4.6 Regional settings available for Office SharePoint Server 2007 sites

Adding more items to the site

5.1 Discussions "المناقشات"

5.2 Calendar "التقويم"

5.3 Documents "المستندات"

5.4 Tasks "المهام"

5.5   Search Feature in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007

5.6   What are the system requirements for SharePoint Server?

6.6   Q & A

if you want some instructions to deploye Language Packs on MOSS, read the following article:
http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/26c07867-0150-463d-b21a-a6d42aecf05a1033.mspx?mfr=true

• About language IDs and language packs

• Preparing your front-end Web servers for language packs

• Installing language packs on your front-end Web servers