A declarative workflow does not start automatically after you install Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Service Pack 1

SYMPTOMS
After you install Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Service Pack 1 (SP1), a declarative workflow does not start automatically in the following products:
-Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
-Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
-Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007

For example, if you configure a declarative workflow to start when a new item is created or when a new item is changed, the declarative workflow does not start as expected. The Unified Logging Service (ULS) log files contain no information about why this behavior occurs.
CAUSE
This behavior occurs because a security fix in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 SP1 prevents declarative workflows from starting automatically under the system account. After you install Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 SP1, declarative workflows do not start automatically if the following conditions are true:
-The Windows SharePoint Services Web application runs under a user's domain account.
-The user logs in by using this domain account.
-The site displays the user name as System Account
RESOLUTION
To resolve this behavior, set the application pool account to use a different user account. You may want to create a new user account specifically for this purpose.

To set the application pool account to use a different user account, follow these steps:
1 - On the server that is running one of the products that is listed in the "Applies to" section, click Start, point to All Programs, point to Microsoft Office Server, and then click SharePoint 3.0 Central Administration.
2 - Click the Operations tab.
3 - Under Security Configuration, click Service Accounts.
4 - Click Web application pool, and then click Windows SharePoint Services Web Application in the Web service box.
5 - In the Application pool box, click the application pool that you want to change.
6 - Under Select an account for this component, click Configurable, and then type the user name and the password for the different user account.
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MOSS MVP Wawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

I’ve just received the bellow mail from Microsoft today

Dear Shady Khorshed, 

Congratulations! We are pleased to present you with the 2008 Microsoft® MVP Award! The MVP Award is our way to say thank you for promoting the spirit of community and improving people’s lives and the industry’s success every day. We appreciate your extraordinary efforts in SharePoint Server technical communities during the past year. Microsoft will soon send your MVP Award gift package. It is our way to say “thank you for making a difference." You will receive an e-mail message in the next 10 business days that contains your MVP Award gift package shipping information and your tracking number.

So I achived the MVP in MCMS for the last year and now for MOSS :) I toke the MVP award for two different technologies

EDC 2008 is knocking the doors

Microsoft EDC
EDC 2008 is the biggest Developers Conference of the year in Egypt, and is a critical event for any developer who wants to see the newest as well as the next-generation technology. EDC is full of sessions and activities that help you to learn the current and the future of the Microsoft Platform and get to know people who are as passionate about software as you are.

Benefits of Attending EDC 2008
Egyptian Developer Conference is designed to help those who build, deploy, or operate solutions based on Microsoft technologies. It helps professional developers, designers, analysts and architects to learn the capabilities and the possibilities with the current Microsoft .Net Platform. It also helps technology managers evaluate the range of technologies to consider for the future growth and management of their ongoing IT systems needs and requirements.

Who should attend?
Whether you are an amateur developer, a "code-guru" or anything in between, you need to be at the biggest developer conference in the region. Code developers, webmasters, web designers, infrastructure architects, applications & database developers, hobbyists or just plain geeks: If your job title has even a passing resemblance to any of these, be sure to be there. This developer conference is your window into the future of the Microsoft platform and the software industry as a whole. After the event, you'll be more informed, more skilled, and more inspired than ever before.

When
Sunday April 13th

Attending fees
100 E.G.P

Please visit www.edc2008.com

Share Point Products Comparison

Here you go

How to configure your SharePoint extended IIS Web App for working with Silverlight 2 applications

Patrick Tisseghem wrote an important article about using silver light with MOSS, it takes you step by step how to do it.
Thanks Patrick

Creating a Web Service Connection by Using the Business Data Catalog Definition Editor

Learn how to create a Web service connection for the Business Data Catalog in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 by using the Microsoft Business Data Catalog Definition Editor tool for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.

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How to Optimize a SharePoint Server 2007 Web Content Management Site for Performance

We had a technical discussion about enhancing the performance of the MOSS , the discussion contains optimizing the core.css and core.js also to optimize the menu by using alternatives menus and integrate it with sitemap provider, yet the guys did great effort to optimize a MOSS site from 900K to 200K and they are still working to optimize more and more, I’ll share the final results after validating the optimized components. Also MSDN has a useful article about MOSS optimization please check it here

How to: Enable incoming/outgoing email for SharePoint 2007

Simply check this video

Linking Sharepoint 2007 with Outlook 2007

Step by step how to integrate Outlook 2007 with MOSS

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9CnBNVnBjk

How to change the Intranet URL to take new host header?

To do that Kindly follow the following steps

Open IIS

Right click on your site and select properties

Web site tab will be automatically opened

Select advanced

Select add

Type on TCP port 80

Add the host header name (http://intranet/)

Click OK

Open central administration

Click the operations tab

Under global configuration > Alternate access mappings

Click edit public URLs

Under Alternate Access Mapping Collection select your site

In the default field replace the url with http://intranet/

How to assign admins for specific site or list?

To Assign users to be admins for specific site or list do the following

1.       Login to the system with administrator user “sysadmin”

2.       Open site actions menu > site sittings > people and groups

3.       Select New> New Group

4.       Type the name of the group and under “Give Group Permission to this Site” select “Read - Can view only.”

5.       Click create

6.       Go to the site that you need to create the permission on it

7.       Open site actions menu > site sittings > people and groups

8.       Click from the left navigation “site permissions”

9.       You will find list of all the groups listed on the page

10.   From the top select actions > Edit permissions

11.   Click ok for the message that will prompt

12.   The page will has checkbox beside each group

13.   check the created group

14.   and from the top action menu select edit user permissions

15.   uncheck the read and check full control

16.   click ok

17.   add the users under this group

Microsoft Student Festival 2008 - Event Agenda

Here you go

http://www.ahmadzvillage.com/msf/agenda.htm

New MOSS session @ Microsoft Egypt

I’ll present MOSS session in Microsoft Students Festival event next Saturday , March 1 from 4 pm To 4:30 PM.
Session will cover the history of MOSS and the features.
We are expecting 800 students to attend this event
See you all there

Enterprise Content Management Features

Over the last several years, organizations have created a huge volume of unstructured content that includes documents, e-mail messages, videos, instant messages, Web pages, and more. This content often exists in a state of unmanaged chaos that prevents an organization from properly using these valuable assets for better knowledge sharing, improved customer communications, and increased process efficiency. Enterprise Content Management (ECM) from Microsoft is a key component of an organization's infrastructure, that can help companies overcome these challenges.

Built on a well-integrated platform, ECM from Microsoft easily extends content management to every information worker in an organization through integration with familiar tools like the Microsoft Office system. A Microsoft ECM solution can help businesses:

Manage diverse content

The document management capabilities in the Microsoft integrated ECM solution can help organizations consolidate diverse content from multiple file shares and personal drives into a centrally managed repository with consistent categorization. Integrated search capabilities can then help people find and share this information. IT organizations can also protect the content in this centrally managed repository from unauthorized access.

Integrated collaboration capabilities, such as automated workflow, help people work better together to create, review, and approve documents in a more structured way. That way, they no longer have to rely solely on e-mail to share documents. Mobile workers can also use these documents offline when they are not connected to the network.

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Get SharePoint training on your desktop

Microsoft released share point training that you can install it on your local machine or you can install it on a server, the training contains some videos, articles, interactive flash.

The training covers some features and benefits of MOSS.

Download here

MOSS Deployment issues

I’ll try to post here in this post the most deployment issues for your MOSS application also I need your inputs and comments for the deployment problems that you have faced and what was the solution for these problems, let’s make this thread helpful as we can

I’ll add some references to other blogs with some problems also I’ll mention my own problems

Your inputs in this thread will be very valuable so please share with us

 

Problem # 1

Another content deployment issue

By William Cornwill

http://wcornwill.wordpress.com/2007/07/04/another-content-deployment-issue/

 

Problem # 2

MOSS 2007 Content Deployment - Problem -- *Solved

By ChadClarke

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/chadclarkesmossblog/archive/2008/01/16/moss-2007-content-deployment-problem.aspx

 

 

Problem # 3

Content Deployment: Ensure your platform hygiene before randomly abusing the product and calling support. 

By Spencer Harbar

http://www.harbar.net/archive/2007/06/27/Content-Deployment-Ensure-your-platform-hygiene-before-randomly-abusing-the.aspx

 

Me @ TechNet :)

My profile in the homepage of CMS community @ TechNet

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/en-us/cmserver/default.mspx

MOSS SP1 now available

The 2007 Microsoft Office Servers Service Pack 1 (SP1)

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=ad59175c-ad6a-4027-8c2f-db25322f791b&DisplayLang=en

Microsoft Office Share Point Designer 2007 Service Pack 1 (SP1)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=B57C805D-2821-4625-A6F1-80725267F887&displaylang=en