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Content, Site and Disaster Recovery

Data protection and recovery for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 in small to medium-sized...

Author: Steve Caravajal Date: 11/17/2007

Upgrading to MOSS

Here is some recent information for those preparing to upgrade to MOSS from Portal Server 2003....

Author: Steve Caravajal Date: 11/17/2007

Securing Office 2007 Desktop Apps

2007 Microsoft Office Security Guide ...The 2007 Microsoft Office Security Guide provides IT...

Author: Steve Caravajal Date: 11/13/2007

SharePoint: Managing Users and Security

A white paper that may be of interest to those administrators just getting started with SharePoint...

Author: Steve Caravajal Date: 11/12/2007

Check out the new Enterprise Search Web site including some new announcements. </steve>

Author: Steve Caravajal Date: 11/11/2007

Windows Server 2008 and WSS v3

WSS v3 will be a separate download for Win2008 just like it is for Win2003 (preR2). This is a change...

Author: Steve Caravajal Date: 11/11/2007

SharePoint Workflow Resources

A good compilation of workflow-related content can be found here. A portion of the intro is given...

Author: Steve Caravajal Date: 11/04/2007

MOSS and Social Computing

SharePointPedia.com is now live. Many kudos to Lawrence and all those involved. If you haven’t heard...

Author: Steve Caravajal Date: 11/04/2007

Preview the SharePoint v3 Application Templates

The SharePoint v3 application templates provide several very useful scenarios. If you haven’t taken...

Author: Steve Caravajal Date: 11/04/2007

SharePoint Backup and Restore

A new white paper has recently been published so if you’re interested in the topic you might want to...

Author: Steve Caravajal Date: 11/02/2007

SharePoint and Web 2.0, Social Networking, etc.

A few blog posts worth reading: Will Microsoft Become Facebook for the Enterprise? Microsoft...

Author: Steve Caravajal Date: 11/01/2007

Office 2007 Desktop Applications

Office 2007 Definitely Has Value! "A Look at the Improvements and Shortcomings of Microsoft Office...

Author: Steve Caravajal Date: 11/01/2007

IIS 7.0 Webcast

As you forward thinkers get ready, this would be a good cast to check out. TechNet Webcast: How...

Author: Steve Caravajal Date: 11/01/2007

Windows Server 2008

For those interested in a good topline assessment of the new OS, you might want to check this out:...

Author: Steve Caravajal Date: 11/01/2007

Tools for Troubleshooting: Windows Sysinternals

Recall, Microsoft acquired Sysinternals in July, 2006. I was a big fan of Sysinternal's toolset and...

Author: Steve Caravajal Date: 11/01/2007

MOSS and Multiple AD Forests

During a couple of recent POCs, this topic came up so I thought I"d put the reference here so I can...

Author: Steve Caravajal Date: 10/31/2007

Email-Enabled Lists in SharePoint

There is growing interest in using email-enabled lists in SharePoint...not a lot of enterprise...

Author: Steve Caravajal Date: 10/30/2007

SharePoint 2007 and ADAM

For those interested in using ADAM as a user authentication store for SharePoint 2007 you might want...

Author: Steve Caravajal Date: 10/23/2007

Improving MOSS Search Relevancy

Recently I've been investigating the effects of changing the relevancy of MOSS search. If you are...

Author: Steve Caravajal Date: 09/24/2007

MOSS as a Development Platform: DoD 5015 Compliance Solution Case Study

Solving business problems by developing custom solutions on top of SharePoint is becoming more and...

Author: Steve Caravajal Date: 08/28/2007

Performance Characteristics of using Large MOSS Lists

Steve has published another excellent white paper on the performance characteristics of using large...

Author: Steve Caravajal Date: 08/27/2007

MOSS Customization

A really good example of utilizing multiple tools: MOSS, BDC, InfoPath, Forms Server, SharePoint...

Author: Steve Caravajal Date: 08/23/2007

MOSS SSO Stuff...

Lately I’ve been spending time configuring and demonstrating MOSS SSO functionality, as well as...

Author: Steve Caravajal Date: 08/23/2007

SharePoint SDKs Updated to v1.2

Go get the new MOSS and WSS SDKs. </steve>

Author: Steve Caravajal Date: 08/23/2007

Visual Studio Extensions for WSS is Updated

VSeWSS has been revised and a new CTP is available here. For those not familiar with VSeWSS, you can...

Author: Steve Caravajal Date: 08/23/2007

WebDAV and Explorer View

If you are trying to use WebDAV and Explorer View and having some difficulties, you may want to...

Author: Steve Caravajal Date: 08/15/2007

MySite Customization

This continues to come up during customization discussions. This is a good place to start. Another...

Author: Steve Caravajal Date: 08/15/2007

Master Page Reuse Across Applications

Interesting read...ran across this while developing for a recent POC Sharing Master Pages amongst...

Author: Steve Caravajal Date: 08/13/2007

Configuring Email-Enabled Lists

Very good white paper on how to do this by Steve Smith... How to configure Email Enabled Lists in...

Author: Steve Caravajal Date: 08/03/2007

Tools for the Graphics Design Challenged

Yes, I belong to this illustrious group. On numerous occasions I've been browsing and came across a...

Author: Steve Caravajal Date: 07/31/2007

Utilizing Custom Navigation Controls in MOSS

I've blogged before about Telerik and their cross-browser authoring tool for Web Content Management....

Author: Steve Caravajal Date: 07/26/2007

Effects on Search After Upgrading from SPS2003 to MOSS

If you are planning to upgrade your SharePoint deployment from SPS2003 to MOSS then you should take...

Author: Steve Caravajal Date: 07/15/2007

MOSS Security

This white paper was just published; it provides an introduction to the MOSS security model for...

Author: Steve Caravajal Date: 07/14/2007

WCM Training

If you need, or think you need or just want to learn more cool MOSS stuff, you must check out the...

Author: Steve Caravajal Date: 07/12/2007

Utilizing MOSS Search Programmatically via the OM or Web Services

Three new good Visual How Tos: Creating Search Queries Programmatically by using the Search Web...

Author: Steve Caravajal Date: 07/12/2007

Web Browser Support

If you are using a non-IE browser to access SharePoint these references may come in handy:...

Author: Steve Caravajal Date: 07/08/2007

MOSS Search and BI

Extending Enterprise Search Capabilities to your Business Intelligence Applications …and...

Author: Steve Caravajal Date: 07/07/2007

Two good articles for those working with search: Customizing and Extending the Microsoft Office...

Author: Steve Caravajal Date: 07/07/2007

A good article has been posted that discusses how to: Plan the end-user search experience Search...

Author: Steve Caravajal Date: 07/05/2007

SharePoint OOTB Web Parts

Q: Where is there a listing of SharePoint's OOTB Web Parts? A: You can find a listing here and here...

Author: Steve Caravajal Date: 07/05/2007

Office and LOB Application Integration

Check out the InfoWorld article... Microsoft pushes OBAs to take Office to next level Microsoft...

Author: Steve Caravajal Date: 07/03/2007

MOSS Multilingual Internet Site

Check out the Swiss International Air Lines Web site at www.swiss.com </steve>

Author: Steve Caravajal Date: 07/03/2007

Publish to Excel Services from Excel 2007

During a recent POC, I ran into this with a customer and also had the question come up several times...

Author: Steve Caravajal Date: 07/03/2007

Integrating Office 2007 and SAP using VSTO

The VSTO team developed a starter kit for Office 2007 and SAP integration. The documentation and the...

Author: Steve Caravajal Date: 07/02/2007

Office 2007 and LOB Integration

An article definitely worth reading and devouring…kudos Scot… Using the Business Data Catalog and...

Author: Steve Caravajal Date: 07/01/2007

MOSS continues to gain momentum...

From SearchWinIT.com… SharePoint is bursting local boundaries, study says Microsoft's SharePoint...

Author: Steve Caravajal Date: 07/01/2007

Site Templates and Retaining Web Part Configuration Settings

Several folks have asked me about this recently so I thought I would post the answer. Q:Why don't...

Author: Steve Caravajal Date: 06/28/2007

Excel 2007 Add-in for Syncing with SharePoint

For those that love the 2-way sync of Excel 2003 spreadsheet data and SharePoint lists and wonder...

Author: Steve Caravajal Date: 06/28/2007

Application and Role-based Templates: Business Design and Technical Configuration

Two white papers have recently been published that provide much deeper perspective on the Fantastic...

Author: Steve Caravajal Date: 06/28/2007

MOSS and Composite Applications

Check out this white paper. </steve>

Author: Steve Caravajal Date: 06/28/2007

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