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Friday, February 29, 2008
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
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.
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
Problem # 3
Content Deployment: Ensure your platform hygiene before randomly abusing the product and calling support.
By Spencer Harbar
Wednesday, January 09, 2008
Me @ TechNet :)
My profile in the homepage of CMS community @ TechNet
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/en-us/cmserver/default.mspx
Tuesday, January 08, 2008
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
Sunday, November 25, 2007
Creating a Custom User Site Provisioning Solution with SharePoint Server 2007 (Part 2 of 2)
Summary: Examine new capabilities built in to the Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Enterprise Edition, which enable business process automation and simplify the business process. This article is part 2 of 2.
Custom Permission Request Workflow
One of the most innovative features of the new MOSS 2007 Enterprise Edition is the workflow feature. The new workflow capabilities are extensive, including built-in support for the following types of workflow:
Approval
Collect Feedback
Collect Signatures
Disposition Approval
Group Approval
Translation Management
Issue Tracking
As a site administrator, you can instantiate these built-in workflows on any entity within MOSS with a few simple configuration steps.
However, for the permission request solution, a custom workflow is required to emulate properly the manual business process that the workflow is replacing. The workflow must accommodate sending various e-mail messages throughout the process, and depending on whether the request is approved, generate XML to be processed to add the requestor to the Members group within MOSS.
MOSS also provides a mechanism to create custom workflows. There are two primary developer tools to use for this: Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 and Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Extensions for Microsoft Windows Workflow Foundation. Using SharePoint Designer allows a business analyst or a developer to use the workflow activities that come with Windows Workflow Foundation and MOSS. The built-in workflow actions that you can use by default in SharePoint Designer include the following:
Setting list metadata
Creating, copying, deleting, or changing list items (including documents)
Checking items in or out
Pausing, starting, or stopping the workflow
Sending e-mail messages
Setting the moderation status of an item
Setting an item's metadata
Assigning tasks
You can create custom workflows with SharePoint Designer by selecting an existing document library or list within an existing MOSS or Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 site, and then on the File menu, point to New and then click Workflow. The workflow designer wizard appears, allowing you to create a custom workflow without writing a single line of code. The workflow designer allows you to add conditions and actions to the workflow to determine when to execute specific actions.
For example, using the built-in actions mentioned earlier, you could develop a custom workflow that checks a metadata column of a particular document in a document library, and based on the value send an e-mail message or assign a task to the appropriate team member. In any case, SharePoint Designer allows for great flexibility in designing custom workflows without the need to write code.
Using Visual Studio 2005 with the Windows Workflow Foundation add-in allows you to create custom workflow actions and complex custom workflows. The add-in for Visual Studio imports Windows Workflow Foundation activities that are available by default for you to use in designing workflows. These activities are included in a Workflow toolbox and you can drag them to the design surface of the custom workflow. The next section examines this in more detail and describes the development of the custom workflow activity used in the permission request solution.
Figures 13a and 13b show the built-in workflow activities that are included with the Windows Workflow Foundation add-in for Visual Studio in the Workflow toolbox. Figure 13a shows the built-in activities for a custom state-machine workflow project.
Figure 13a. State-machine built-in workflow activity
Figure 13b shows the built-in activities for a custom sequential workflow project. For more information, see the workflow resources in Additional Resources.
Figure 13b. Sequential Workflow built-in workflow activity in Visual Studio 2005 toolbox
Although most of the actions that must be included in this permission request workflow are available as standard workflow activities with Windows Workflow Foundation and MOSS, a custom activity was developed to generate the XML file from the submitted request, which could then be processed on other servers within the SharePoint farm.
The custom workflow activity was developed with Visual Studio 2005 and Windows Workflow Foundation Extensions add-in. The activity was then deployed to the MOSS environment and used within a custom workflow. The custom workflow was developed by using SharePoint Designer.
Creating a Custom User Site Provisioning Solution with SharePoint Server 2007 (Part 1 of 2)
Summary: Examine new capabilities built into the Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Enterprise Edition, which enable business process automation and simplify the business process. This article is part 1 of 2.
Overview of a Custom User Site Provisioning Solution
This article examines some of the new capabilities that are built into the Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 Enterprise Edition, which enable business process automation and simplify the business process. This article demonstrates the tight integration between the Office SharePoint Server 2007 portal, including Microsoft Office InfoPath Forms Services and the Business Data Catalog, and the various other 2007 Office system applications and features, such as InfoPath 2007 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007. In addition, the solution that accompanies this article shows how accessing and manipulating various SharePoint Server components programmatically—such as the Member group and user permissions, and Business Data Catalog and legacy line-of-business (LOB) data sources—with the built-in SharePoint Server APIs enable this type of business process automation. The automation was developed primarily by using Visual Studio Tools for Office 2007 Second Edition and the Visual Studio 2005 Extensions for Windows Workflow Foundation. Additionally, you can develop traditional .NET Framework console and Windows Forms applications to make use of the SharePoint Server APIs and 2007 Office system APIs that will also facilitate the automation and simplification of business processes within the enterprise.
Employee SharePoint Permissions within the Enterprise
Most organizations have an approval process in place that allows employees’ managers to approve any costs that are associated with using new IT resources implemented in the enterprise. Usually the employee who requires access to the new system initiates the process, which spans several approval cycles by various managers, as well as a long delay and many e-mail messages. This is often a monotonous process, which consumes not only the time of the employee, but also that of the approving manager.
This article presents a solution that integrates Active Directory domain controllers, LOB data, InfoPath Forms Services, and workflow with the 2007 Office system to support the submission and automation of such requests. The solution uses employee information contained within the Active Directory domain controller and the human resources database to support the submission of the request. The data pulled from these two sources provides all the employee’s relevant information and the approving cost center manager’s information. In this scenario, an employee uses a solution based on InfoPath 2007, and the Business Data Catalog and InfoPath Forms Services features of MOSS 2007 Enterprise Edition to submit a request for permission to create SharePoint sites within the enterprise SharePoint portal.
The Business Data Catalog is a new, powerful feature of MOSS, which allows developers to surface LOB data up to MOSS from disparate legacy systems and LOB systems that exist within the enterprise. By default, the Business Data Catalog can connect to Oracle, CRM, and SAP databases, and other systems without extra development. The new and powerful InfoPath Forms Services feature of MOSS is a browser-based, thin-client run-time version of InfoPath, which allows users to read and complete InfoPath forms through the browser when the forms are integrated with MOSS.
The solution also allows the employees’ cost center manager to review the requests submitted, and approve or reject them. After the cost center manager reviews the request, the custom workflow and custom workflow activity, designed with Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 and Visual Studio 2005 Extensions for Windows Workflow Foundation, automatically sends out the appropriate e-mail messages and adds the appropriate permissions for the employee within the SharePoint portal.
To clarify the overall process of this custom permission request solution, the following diagram depicts the entire process flow logically and all of the various pieces and steps that make up the process.
Figure 1. Overview of entire permission request process
The Request InfoPath Form
The main user-centric piece of this process is the employee request form. This request form is an InfoPath form that the employee submits with the relevant data needed to review the request. Many of the fields on the form are pre-populated when the employee creates a request, to ensure data integrity throughout the process and to eliminate the amount of data that the employee is required to provide.
Figure 2 shows the request form that is used by the employees. The form pre-populates the following fields when the user creates a request:
Employee NT ID
Employee Full Name
Employee Email
Employee Cost Center
Cost Center Approver Name
Cost Center Approver Email
Integrating Siebel CRM with Office SharePoint Server 2007
Summary: Learn how to integrate Siebel CRM 7.8 with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
Introduction to Siebel CRM Integration with SharePoint Server 2007
The enterprise domains of most organizations usually have heterogeneous applications, and key business data is available to the users across the applications such as Siebel CRM, SAP, or PeopleSoft. In such scenarios, there is a need to have the key data available to users in a single-stop Web portal. Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 offers one such portal to organizations around the world.
This article provides prescriptive guidance on the appropriate approach to build an integration solution between Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Siebel CRM 7.8 by using Web services. After integration, Office SharePoint Server 2007 users can view key data from the various modules in the Siebel system.
Integration Scope
The scope of this integration is to provide a read-only view of the data retrieved from line-of-business (LOB) applications—in this case Siebel CRM. How to insert and delete data in Siebel CRM from Office SharePoint Server 2007 is beyond the scope of this article.
Integration Benefits and Values
You can achieve the following benefits from this integration solution.
The solution provides a one-stop data access of different LOB applications.
The solution requires no training for SharePoint users in Siebel because they can access the Siebel data on the SharePoint portal.
Office SharePoint Server 2007 features enable Siebel data to improve the efficiency of the SharePoint users, and improve the level of service provided to the customer.
Users of Office SharePoint Server 2007 can access the different Siebel features from the Office SharePoint Server portal easily.
Solution Configuration Overview
The Business Data Catalog, a new integration feature in Office SharePoint Server 2007, provides the means to integrate data directly to LOB applications through Web services. The Business Data Catalog enables users to retrieve and display key business data from LOB applications in sites, lists, and user profiles within an Office SharePoint Server portal without any custom coding. The Business Data Catalog also supports features such as specific search, full text search, filtered data views, and so on.
Figure 1 provides a high-level overview of the participating components for this integration solution.
Figure 1. Solution Overview diagram
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