Wednesday, March 19, 2008

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

Sunday, March 09, 2008

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/
  • Saturday, March 08, 2008

    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

    Monday, February 25, 2008

    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

    Saturday, February 16, 2008

    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.


    Read More

    Saturday, February 09, 2008

    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

    Tuesday, February 05, 2008

    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