Joel announced on his blog this morning that he has joined Quest Software. As an SharePoint Architect within Quest I have had the experience to speak and work with Joel and look forward to working with him. Read all about the how and why Joel joined Quest Software.
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I was working with a customer as part of a public folder migration to SharePoint. When during a discussion with the end users we encountered an issue that the business was not prepared to deal with. The business unit whose folders were set to migrate wanted to continue to drag and drop from Outlook into their published SharePoint Folders. This is where the issue started.
Outlook 2007 will allow for drag-n-drop from the following:
What is missing here is Mail directly into a SharePoint List or SharePoint Library. “What do you mean.” Outlook does not support drag-n-drop to a SharePoint List or Library. You will receive a read-only error.
Because of Web-Dav this is not possible without setting up synchronization or a third party utility. Todd Klindt has several blog entries on Outlook and Sharepoint one of which discusses synchronization.
Drag-n-Drop into a Document Library
Manage your document libraries from Outlook 2007 using drag-n-drop. If you have a SharePoint Library synchronized with Outlook, you can drag e-mail attachments directly to it. Select and drag it to the folder. This will be sent automatically to SharePoint when the next synchronization occurs.
If that solution does not work for you there are several vendors with solutions.
I have not fully tested any of the above add ons for SharePoint but have heard great things about all of them.
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Microsoft, IBM, EMC, Alfresco, Oracle, SAP and OpenText have worked together on driving a standards effort for Enterprise Content Management. This will be referred to as “Content Management Operabililty Services”, (CIMS for short).
The Technical Specification is posted here.
See the blog post at Enterprise Content Management Blog.
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Zach Rosenfield announced on his blog the availability of the SharePoint Administration Kit V2.0. This is the latest in the update of the SharePoint Administration ToolKit as previously released in April. This release added one new tool the User Profile Replication Engine for the MOSS version. Addtionally the tool now supports an installation package that is customizable and selectable. This new tool enhances the High Availability of SharePoint. There are now three tools contained within the Administration Toolkit for MOSS:
There are two tools for WSS V3:
For a full overview and installation instructions see both Zach’s blog and the SharePoint Team Blog.
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I know a number of customers and organizations out there who have taken the plunge and are moving Production based servers to a level of virtualization not seen in past years. With that in mind we are constantly being asked for our best Architecture and Support recommendations on running SharePoint in a virtual environment so I thought I would share some thoughts and links on the subject.
Microsoft has published their Support guidlines for running SharePoint on a Virtual Environment. They have taken the stance on supporting SharePoint running on Hyper-V and support for third parties as defined in a KB Article. Additionally Microsoft has established the Server Virtualization Validation Page (SVVP). For full details see the blog entry from the SharePoint Team from August 18th.
Michael Donovan has done a great job evaluating Hyper-V versus Virtual Server. This is a great comparison and has convinced me to switch to Hyper-V where possible.
Now for the Infrastrucute recommendations Microsoft has stated they will have something shortly. But until then I tend to go with the experience I have gained.
I am willing to reevaluate and plan differently I look forward to comments and feedback.
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I was doing a bit of research for one of my clients and they were asking for guidance on how to design and deploy applications to SharePoint. In my hunts and travels I came across this bit of useful information on codeplex.
Patterns and Practices for SharePoint Guidance this is published and updated on a regular basis and while not a complete guide to all there is, it is a great place to start.
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Working with a client who has a mixture of both IE and Firefox for connecting to SharePoint. They are using internally and are currently using NTLM. Firefox was prompting for a login prompt every time user was connecting to SharePoint and this was causing a headache.
It turns out the fix is not too difficult and I wanted to repost here.
This was posted on various blogs but wanted to point this out as the client couldn’t seem to locate themselves.
Note: This is not a problem for those clients using Kerberos
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Microsoft SharePoint Team has posted a blog announcement about V2 becoming unuseable when you install the .Net Framework 3.5 SP1 on the server.
The long and the short of it is that this is not a good idea and you will be left with a series of uninstalls and reinstalls for the .Net Framework.
Here is the link for the SharePoint Team blog alert on this issue.
Microsoft Knowledge base article 957254.
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It appears that the time before the Labor Day Weekend was busy for the SharePoint Team. They have released a number of updates, additions and new features.
The MOSS 2007 SDK 1.4 was released and added additional coverage for Federated Search, Documentation and Records Management API. See the Link below.
The Best Practice Resource Center for SharePoint is now available and is based on real world MCS experience.
The SharePoint Administration Toolkit 2.0 is now available and assists with High Availablity for SSP and synchronizing User Profiles. This is a must have for all of those geographically dispersed environments.
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Recently in a class I was giving on Advanced SharePoint Administration course and we ran into a situation I had not dealt with before.
One of the students had created an SSP and needed to delete it because of a misspelling. While this is normally a straight forward process it is a little more complicated when it is the first/default SSP.
As we quickly discovered you can not delete the default SSP from the Central Administration interface. A little quick digging and we came up with three different options which I thought I would share here.
These should help if you run into the need to delete the default SSP.
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