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This blog will no longer be used for Sharepoint posts, as from today I will post my Sharepoint content to my other site called Sharepointology.com.

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Sharepoint

• 78 Sharepoint Portal Interview Questions.
• EndUserSharePoint.com posted some great Resources for Calculated Columns.
• SharePoint offers a robust and scalable content management framework and collaboration toolset with support for structured workflows. Groove, in contrast, is a collaboration toolset that allows rapid workspace deployment with little or no IT overhead. Create Powerful Connections with Groove and SharePoint.
• Microsoft made a new resource center where you can find:
  • Planning and how-to content for backup and recovery.
  • Pointers on how to use versioning and the recycle bins.
  • Content describing how to use System Center Data Protection Manager to protect Office SharePoint Server.
  • Availability content, including a great white paper and case study on using database mirroring in a single farm.
• Jopx compiled some email discussion with other MVPs about user adoption.
• A tribute to the humble “leave form” - Part 3.
• SQL Server 2008 is now released and is/should be supported soon by WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007 RTM. Upgrade from 2005 to 2008 is a pretty simple process. Here are some things to be aware of when using Upgrade Advisor.
• Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 (In.NET Frameworkstaller) and Microsoft  3.5 Service Pack 1 are released.
• Use SharePoint Designer to Email Daily Task Reminders

Sharepoint

• Daniel Leiszen is the lead developer of LINQ4SP project. He started to write a developer series about LINQ4SP. LINQ4SP - Query Evaluation.
• Dan Neff, President of Aquent‘s IT Solutions group, is pretty straightforward about it: “SharePoint is the most installed piece of software in the whole world that’s not being used properly…people don’t really understand what they’ve got.” What Is YOUR Firm’s SharePoint Balance?
• Pragmatism and Mary-Jo Foley on SharePoint: New studies highlight the potential downsides of SharePoint.
• Branding SharePoint is not an easy task, although the assistance of tools does help ease and allow us Designers to produce beautiful solutions.
• Colligo Contributor version 3.1 has just been released. The big news in this release is more advanced support for metadata, which is particularly useful for using SharePoint in ECM applications.

Sharepoint

• Paul Grenier has written a set of articles for EndUserSharePoint.com on performance management, The Road To Performance Management. The first article, Part 1, lays the ground work using a series of “Why” questions to setup the context for SharePoint. The section included here walks through Paul’s diagram of a SharePoint site collection hierarchy to use for Performance Management.
• In order for a web application to exist in today’s business environment, it must stand up to modern day information security standards. The purpose of this blogpost on sharepointmagazine.net is to explore the security model of MOSS and to explain how it is equipped to meet corporate security requirements.
• Why does RunWithElevatedPriviliges not work in Event Handlers?
• A new version of WSPBuilder Extensions 1.0.3 for Visual Studio has been released on codeplex.
• Steven Barden wrote a second part of his article about Developing and Deploying a SharePoint Feature. First part can be read here.
• New studies highlight the potential downsides of SharePoint.

Sharepoint

• In this post Alex describes how to create a custom SharePoint Event Receiver using the Visual Studio Extensions for SharePoint Services.
• In this post Tony Bierman[MVP WSS] illustrates how to programmatically add sub menus to the Site Actions menu. This post has an accompanying Visual Studio 2008 solution containing all source code for the Quick Site Settings Feature as discussed below.
• Upcoming conferences with plenty of SharePoint oriented content.
• Zac Smith posts a quick script for updating all ‘Pages’ libraries to have approval turned on.
• Integrating Project Server 2007 and Team Foundation Server 2008 Sharepoint Sites - (Neil van Wyngaard).
• Windows 2008 Single Development Machine environment - A quick tip.
• Tagged Links version 1.0 released: It’s social bookmarking for SharePoint, taking the standard “Links List” to a new level via browser integration, one-click tagging, advanced graphical views and global tags that allow you to define tags across an entire site collection. Take a look at the new “Walkthrough”.
• Learn how to design a workflow that runs when a specific field changes. In this example, when the Document Owner field changes, the workflow sends the new document owner a notification that contains the status of any workflows running on that document.

Sharepoint

• Microsoft has recently released an update to the Central Administration site that makes it easy to move a Site Collection between different Content Databases. The Batch Site Manager can be very handy if you need to break up your content across multiple Content Databases – possibly sitting on different SQL Servers. The same tool also allows you to lock and delete site collections.
• In a previous article in the Exploiting or Being Exploited By SharePoint Search series, the author discussed how to create a simple Search Center that will allow you to search your team site for information. He has also discussed managed properties and scopes in previous articles. It is now time to put all of those resources together to build a more complex search center that can be used to search multiple team sites housed in their own site collections.
• E-mails and attachments contain a lot of critical project information, so it’s natural to want to store e-mails along with other documents in SharePoint document libraries.
• The Microsoft Best Practices Analyzer for Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and the 2007 Microsoft Office System creates detailed reports to help administrators achieve greater performance, scalability, and uptime.
• How to: Query Search using the Web Service by Corey Roth.

• Which Microsoft search product is for you? Microsoft currently offers three distinct enterprise search solutions:

  • Microsoft Search Server 2008 Express (MSS Express)

  • Microsoft Search Server 2008 (MSS)
  • Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS)
• This morning Microsoft released three new important updates that affect SharePoint Server 2007, Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, Project Server 2007, Search Server 2008, Search Server 2008 Express and Project Professional 2007. Read about it on the Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog.
• Microsoft SharePoint on the iPhone.
• Paul Culmsee wrote the first part of an article in sharepointmagazine.net about creating a Leave Form in SharePoint.

Sharepoint

• The BDC is essentially a catalog of business applications that are of interest to SharePoint Server 2007 users, and it bridges the gap between the portal and business applications by bringing in key data from various applications to SharePoint sites, lists, search, and user profiles. MOSS 2007 BDC Definition Editor gotchas.
• Developing Web Parts, considerations on Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies. Web Parts as defined by MSDN are an integrated set of controls for creating Web sites that enable end-users to modify the content, appearance, and behavior of Web pages in a browser.
• Office SharePoint Server Web browser support (white paper): This downloadable white paper includes detailed information about how many Web browsers work with various features in SharePoint sites. It also offers workarounds and other tips for handling browser differences. Some of the browsers covered are Windows Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Netscape Navigator, and Apple Safari.
• This post by Alex describes how you can create your own Custom List and connect your own Content Type to this list and lose the field “Title”.
• Search SharePoint from the Internet Explorer Toolbar Using a Custom Search Provide: Here is an easy way to search a SharePoint site from the IE toolbar without having to develop a custom add-in.
• SPDataSource - every SharePoint developer’s friend (part 1): Sooner or later, nearly every SharePoint developer needs to write code to retrieve all the items from a list and display them - either on the page, or often in a control like a dropdown list control.

Java

• Ludovic Poitou has announced the release of OpenDS 1.0. This is the first stable release of OpenDS, an Open Source LDAP Directory Server written in Java.
• In this article Babita provides a brief overview of JavaServer Faces (JSF), its components, life-cycle, and its advantages over so many frameworks and technologies like JSP, Servlet, Struts, etc.
• Apache Ant Team has released Apache ANT 1.7.1 as a maintenance release with some new features. Ant 1.7.1 is mostly a bug fix release which addresses numerous issues around Ant 1.7.0 released in December 2006.
• Add auto update and plugins to your Java application.
• RMI forms the basis for Java’s own remoting capabilities powering the platform’s domination on servers everywhere. This article attempts to see through all the frameworks, programming models and technology built on top of it, and tries to get to the lower level basics of RMI.

Sharepoint

• For those of you attempting to use Content Deployment in MOSS there has been a significant effort on the part of the folks at Microsoft to fix the many, many issues with the feature set.
  • WSS: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/952698
  • MOSS: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/952704
• Madhur Ahuja describes how to build an RSS Reader Web part which supports ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX 1.0 and makes use of AJAX Control Toolkit to implement multiple RSS readers in Tab Panels.
• Showing Exchange Inbox in MOSS 2007.
• Creating clones of SharePoint VPC images (renaming SharePoint instances).
• This blog post will cover how to delete a content type and how to troubleshoot the most common error, The content type is in use.
• Sometimes it may not be possible to actually receive an alert email on your system, in this blog entry you will find an SQL that shows the alerts that web app currently has queued.

Java

• Referencing Multiple Web Services From An Application Client by Bhakti Mehta.
• This article by Dmitry Bondarenko describes a feature that allows creating applications with translucent and shaped windows.
• While there are indeed several advantages to using GlassFish vs. Tomcat, it’s probably useful to know that Sun is the original creator of Tomcat and that any application running today on Tomcat should run just fine (no modification whatsoever) on GlassFish. Tomcat Today, GlassFish Tomorrow?
• Apache POI 3.1-FINAL: Apache POI is well-known in the Java field as a library for reading and writing OLE2 office file formats, such as Excel, PowerPoint, Visio and Word. See http://poi.apache.org.
• Geertjan Wielenga wrote 2 nice articles about programming in Spring RCP, Getting Started with Spring RCP and Getting Further with Spring RCP.
• Have you ever wanted to program a game for mobile phones, but found the introductions provided by SUN, Nokia and other more confusing than enlighting? This course takes you through every single step required to program your own J2ME game.

Sharepoint

• User Profile related SharePoint Designer Activities - a solution package that contains the following activities: Get user title, Find manager of the use, Find display name of the use, Find department of the use. Includes the VS 2005 project.
• Jon published a quick how-to on creating a simple bar graph of your data by using CSS and the Data View features of SharePoint Designer 2007.
• Running out of disk space? Check WSS_AdminService.log.

Java

• Eclipse Delivers Its Annual Release Train: The Eclipse Foundation and the entire Eclipse community are pleased to announce the availability of the Ganymede Release, the annual release train developed by the Eclipse community. The Ganymede Release is a coordinated release of 23 different Eclipse project teams that represents over 18 million lines of code. New features in the Platform, New features for Java developers, New APIs in the platform and SWT, New features for plug-in developers.
• The Mylyn team is very pleased to announce today’s release of Mylyn 3.0 along with the Eclipse Ganymede release train. This occasion marks a big step in the evolution of the task-focused interface.
• Through parts 1, 2, and 3 we have discovered JasperReports architecture, declarative file construction, integration with live parameters, and finally working with iReport as designing tool. In Part 4 you can read about using Charts in a report.
• Are you looking to learn what is C# and you already know Java? Then this article is for you.
• ECF version 2.0.0 includes a plugin called DocShare (org.eclipse.ecf.docshare) that implements real-time shared editing.

Sharepoint

• A lot of people have been asking how to move their databases to a new server and to do this the way most people are prescribing you’ve got a lot of reading and a lot of steps to perform. Gary Lapointe shows you how to move your database the easy way.
• SharePoint Server 2007 Scalability and Performance whitepaper: it documents the architectural design considerations and performance characteristics of a real-world, large-scale SharePoint lab implementation containing around 50 million content items, and reflects both “scale-up” and “scale-out” scenarios.
• Billy Bear talks about renaming a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 content database.
• EndUserSharePoint.com: Taming the Elusive “Calculated Column” - Customizing a Task List: A good place to start with learning how to work with calculated columns is to start with an existing list and see what additional functionality you can add to give it more “value” (and make it worth using).
• How do I make our SharePoint site stop asking me to login? This was one of the most common user requests Eric Eaton got during his system admin days.
• You have a document library with a required column on it. One of your users is about to leave for vacation and uploads some documents to the library. She is in a rush and forgets to enter the required metadata. The documents remain checked out to her. Unfortunately, no one else can see the documents because they have never been checked in. Even the site owner can’t see the documents. Ricky Spears shows you a way to see new documents checked out to someone else.
• Learn about the steps that are necessary to successfully deliver a workflow into a customer or partner environment using SharePoint Products and Technologies.

Java

• Through the previous articles (Part 1 and Part 2) we’ve covered the Jasper introduction, architecture, environment, and finally we managed to run a sample report. Today, in Part 3, we’re going to work with visual report design tools and enhance our sample application to receive run-time parameters.