Letter to Content Management Server Customers

Hear from Jeff Teper, Corporate Vice President of the Office Servers Group, about why the Content Management Server product has been incorporated the new Office SharePoint Server 2007.
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Using the Visual Studio 2005 Web Application Project with MCMS SP2

Lets's talk about using 2003 Project Model for Web Applications instead of using the Web Site model which we already found some issues using it specially when using it with the SourceSafe



So the benefits listed in this blogs http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2006/05/08/445742.aspx (Scott is a General Manager within the Microsoft Developer Division - http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/about.aspx )



And you can download the solution from here http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/asp.net/aa336618.aspx


Additionally, we should use it to avoid many known issues when integrate with CMS (Check this one http://www.mcmsfaq.com/articles/sp2wap.asp) so we should use this solution (no code change it's just for the Project Model and How visual studio deal with it)

MCMS Site Map Provider for ASP.NET 2.0

Sample provider which can be used with the ASP.NET 2.0 navigation controls to implement site navigation with MCMS.


really it's amazing thanks Stefan

SharePoint Learning Kit (SLK) Beta Available for Download.

The SharePoint Learning Kit beta has been released
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Code Samples - Huge samples

Check this huge CMS code samples, really there are lots of useful code samples
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Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Tools: Visual Studio 2005 Extensions

Brief Description

Visual Studio 2005 extensions for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, November CTP)
Tools for developing custom SharePoint applications: Visual Studio project templates for Web Parts, site definitions, and list definitions; and a stand-alone utility program, the SharePoint Solution Generator.

Overview

This Community Technology Preview (CTP) of the Visual Studio 2005 Extensions for Windows SharePoint Services contains the following tools to aid developers in building SharePoint applications:
Visual Studio 2005 Project Templates

• Web Part


• Team Site Definition


• Blank Site Definition


• List Definition

Visual Studio 2005 Item Templates (items that can be added into an existing project)

• Web Part


• Custom Field


• List Definition (with optional Event Receiver)


• Content Type (with optional Event Receiver)


• Module

SharePoint Solution Generator

• This stand-alone program generates a Site Definition project from an existing SharePoint site. The program enables developers to use the browser and Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer to customize the content of their sites before creating code by using Visual Studio.

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Tyler provides insights in his experiences in porting his website to MOSS 2007 using WCM

Stefan Goßner posted this article on his blog, these article speaks about Tyler Butler and his experience to porting his website to MOSS 2007 using WCM. This article is a very good start to any one who will work with WCM
Stefan's article

Tyler's article Part1 Planning and Basic Branding

Tyler's article Part2 Building Content Types and Page Layouts

With Software Assurance, how many licenses of Office SharePoint Server 2007 do I get for each license of CMS 2002?

The license transitions will be specified in the update to the product list in November 2006. You can also contact your Microsoft account team for additional information.

What if I have CMS 2002 today without Software Assurance?

If you do not have Software Assurance, or your agreement expires before November 1, 2006, you must purchase new licenses of Office SharePoint Server 2007. A benefit of Software Assurance is that customers are eligible for future upgrades to the product.

If I want to purchase a Web content management solution from Microsoft, what product should I get?

For a Web content management solution for extranet or Internet-facing sites, get Office SharePoint Server 2007 for Internet sites. This product is licensed on a per-server basis and does not require the purchase of client access licenses (CALs).

For intranet-facing Web content management solutions, get Office SharePoint Server 2007 and CALs for the number of users on the intranet.

How long will support be offered for CMS 2002?

Customer support for CMS 2002 will be offered according to the usual Microsoft support guidelines. Mainstream support remains available for CMS 2002 until January 2008, after which the product enters extended support until January 2013.

If I have Software Assurance on CMS 2002, what product do I get in the 2007 Microsoft Office System?

Office SharePoint Server 2007 is the new product that provides the Web content management functionality which was previously provided by CMS 2002. If you own CMS 2002 licenses under active Software Assurance, you have the rights to use Office SharePoint Server 2007. The exact transitions of CMS 2002 licenses to Office SharePoint Server 2007 will be defined in the November 2006 update to the product list.

How can existing CMS 2002 customers migrate to Office SharePoint Server 2007?

Microsoft supports automatic data migration from CMS 2002 to Office SharePoint Server 2007. You can use Office SharePoint Server 2007 features such as search, master pages, and authentication UI to retire custom code that was created to implement these features. The remaining custom code must be migrated manually.

For more migration resources, see Migration and Upgrade Information for SharePoint Developers.

Microsoft Content Management Server (MCMS) Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

Stefan Goßner and Steve Cawood did a very wonderful documentation for MCMS 2002 FAQs, it covers most of the problems for MCMS 2002, and these questions are collected from the MCMS newsgroup.
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SharePoint Server 2007 for MCMS 2002 Developers

Microsoft Corporation

May 2006

Applies to:
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003
Microsoft Content Management Server 2002


Summary: Explore Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, which merges functionality of Microsoft Content Management Server (MCMS) 2002 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003 with new functionality to create one integrated set of technologies built on Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services (version 3). (20 printed pages)
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Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 top 10 benefits

What are the main top 10 benefits for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007?

1. Provide a simple, familiar, and consistent user experience.


2. Boost employee productivity by simplifying everyday business activities.


3. Help meet regulatory requirements through comprehensive control over content.


4. Effectively manage and repurpose content to gain increased business value.


5. Simplify organization-wide access to both structured and unstructured information across disparate systems.


6. Connect people with information and expertise.


7. Accelerate shared business processes across organizational boundaries.


8. Share business data without divulging sensitive information.


9. Enable people to make better-informed decisions by presenting business-critical information in one central location.


10. Provide a single, integrated platform to manage intranet, extranet, and Internet applications across the enterprise.

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Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 products comparison download

Included in this document is a complete breakdown of the features of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and a comparison between the different 2007 server editions and SharePoint Portal Server 2003.
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Microsoft Enterprise Content Management

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.
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The Future of Content Management Server 2002

Based on extensive customer feedback, we have integrated the Web content management capabilities of CMS 2002 into the new Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and added new functionality for enterprise content management, business intelligence, and search. If you're looking for Web content management functionality from Microsoft, check out Office SharePoint Server 2007.

2007 Microsoft Office System Is Golden

2007 Office system released to manufacturers; the company looks ahead to worldwide business availability.
REDMOND, Wash. — Nov. 6, 2006 — Microsoft Corp. today announced the completion of the 2007 Microsoft® Office system code and confirmed its release to manufacturing (RTM). This gold code milestone concludes the largest Microsoft Office beta program to date, with more than 3.5 million people downloading Beta 2. The unprecedented quantity of feedback from beta testers and customers helped the Office development team effectively validate product quality and optimize performance. Microsoft Office RTM also marks a critical step toward worldwide business availability of the 2007 Office system, Windows Vista™ operating system and Exchange Server 2007 on Nov. 30, 2006. To underscore the significance of this new day for business, Microsoft executives will participate in events around the globe, including an event with Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer in New York. General availability of the products will follow in early 2007.
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CMS 2002 Website Deployment

Table of contents :

• Installation Prerequisites
• Servers Installation
• Installing Microsoft SQL Server 2000
• Installing Microsoft Content Management server 2002

Installation Prerequisites:

• Install Windows 2003 Server Standard Or Enterprise Edition
• Install IIS 6.0 + ASP.NET
• Install Windows 2003 Server Service Pack 1
• Install Windows Updates

Servers Installation:

• Installing SQL 2000 Server
1. Install SQL 2000 Server Standard Or Enterprise Edition (Install SQL Client if the SQL Server is installed on another Server)
2. Install SQL SP4
3. Create a domain account and give it admin rights on the server.
• Install Content Management Server
1. Install IE Web controls from webcontrols folder inside content server Installation directory
2. Install Visual J# .net redistributable package 1.1
3. Create a SQL Database DB_Name
4. Create Website on the IIS with name “Site_Name”
5. Start installing the CMS
• Nexts
• Don’t choose to install ( site manager, stager or developer tools now )
• Then Nexts then finish
• Next then choose mixed mode
• Choose the “Site_Name”and “read /write site”, then next
• Enter a domain user to be the MCMS System user
• Hit the select database and choose your SQL server and hit the options and choose the “DB_Name” database you created previously
• Enter a domain account to be an administrator on the Server
• Choose don’t restrict access
• Nexts and finish
• Installing CMS SP1a
• Install the CMS SP1a on the server
• Go to add\remove programs and check (site manager, stager) check boxes.

Arabic post name problems with windows 2003

Once upon a time I was in my office and I found Tamer Atia came to my room asking, I’m facing a problem on a CMS site, the client created many posts and makes the name and display name in Arabic and we can’t browse to these posts so why this happened and what is the solution?
Windows 2003 has a bug in reading the Arabic posts (post name in Arabic) so if you deployed your site on windows 2003 take care not to make any post name in Arabic, you can make the display name in Arabic but not the post name and if your server is windows 2000 so you can make the post name in Arabic no problem but also to avoid any problem keep the post name in English.

Create Resource Gallery Programmatically

This issue has many negotiations for the legality of doing that, Tarek Yehia posted an article of how to do this and Stefan Goßner raised a red flag for doing this and he strongly refuse this issue and posted an article (Some people never learn :-( )for this issue.

I'm one of the people who used Tarek's article and it works well with me BUT after Stefan mentioned that in his article and also we had this discussion on a news group and I recommended this solution to someone but I found Stefan's replay, he said in his replay (NEVER EVER RECOMMEND SUCH METHODS!).

Stefan explained that the whole database will be unsupported after using this method.
And I'm not sure that if we can do it with WCM.

So we need to stop using this method until find a legal solution with WCM.

Can I find Channel Authors?

This was a request on CMS newsgroup, the question was about finding the authors programmatically.

So, is it possible? Can we find it or find any supported method to enumerate the users?

Unfortunately there is no method to do that in MCMS 2002.

Multiple CMS sites on same CMS database

Is it doable? Can we create multiple sites and manage these sites from one site manager?
You can only connect to only one database from your DCA but you can divide your channels under the main channel root to make sub channels like site1, site2 and from your code you can work in the first site with site1 as your root channel not channels root and make the same with the second site.
So you can create any number of sites under one CMS DB.

Posting limitations under one channel

Posting limitations under one channel
This is a famous problem can be faced while working with MCMS 2002, if you have a channel and the posts under this channel exceed 200 posts you will face a problem, the channel won't be displayed and no post will be displayed.

The solution
From my practice we have to archive the posts under sub channels, there is no problem to create a tree of channels under your main channel and to archive your posts in this tree.
Also it's recommended to do the same with the resource galleries.