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November 2006 - Posts

• Free! Clinic 5046: Inside Look at Building and Developing Solutions with Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server 2007

  I found this link via one of the msdn blogs (I can't remember which one anymore, sorry :) ). It appears you can have a free go at the Clinic 5046 now! This is a really interesting e-course teaching you how to use the Solution framework in MOSS 2007! Read More... Posted Sunday, November 26, 2006 4:28 PM by Bart Gunneman | 0 Comments Filed under: General .NET Development, Office System 2007, Courses

• Capacity planning documents for WSS v3 and MOSS 2007 are ready.

  One of the toughest things to do is estimating the amount of servers you'll need to host your webfarm. Microsoft released two capacity planning document with educated estimates and best practices on this subject. Read them at Technet: WSS v3 capacity Read More... Posted Sunday, November 26, 2006 4:22 PM by Bart Gunneman | 1 Comments Filed under: Office System 2007

• SQL Server Reporting services 2005 add-in for Sharepoint CTP

  If you want to view your SQL Reports on the sites in your Sharepoint farm. You'll need some webparts to offer you this functionality. Luckily for you, Microsoft released the CTP for "Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services Add-in for Microsoft SharePoint Read More... Posted Friday, November 24, 2006 10:17 AM by Bart Gunneman | 0 Comments Filed under: Office System 2007

• MOSS 2007 licensing

  This page at the Microsoft gives a good view on what kind of licenses are available with MOSS and how you can get them. Click Read More... Posted Friday, November 24, 2006 10:13 AM by Bart Gunneman | 0 Comments Filed under: Office System 2007

• Customizing and branding a WCM site article series

  Yesterday I did another one day feature-overview of MOSS 2007 and WSS v3. (download the intro slides here btw) During the day I spoke about Web Content Management (amongst others) and told the attendees there was an article series available at MSDN describing Read More... Posted Friday, November 24, 2006 10:12 AM by Bart Gunneman | 1 Comments Filed under: Office System 2007

• Which Sharepoint version is good for you?

  My colleague Eric pointed my to this link: click . It is a help page explaining the different Sharepoint versions available to you. With this page, you can easily look for what ever functionality you need and choose the right product version! It is really Read More... Posted Wednesday, November 22, 2006 8:18 AM by Bart Gunneman | 0 Comments Filed under: Office System 2007

• New certifications for Office 2007

  Earlier this week, Microsoft announced on the MCP site the new MCTS certifications for Office 2007. Since this is a site you can only get access to if you are an MCP I wasn't sure I could blog about this. Now I find this blog on blogs.msdn.com -> Read More... Posted Thursday, November 16, 2006 1:23 PM by Bart Gunneman | 0 Comments Filed under: Office System 2007

• MOSS 2007 trial version also available

  After the discovery of WSS, I found the trial edition for MOSS 2007 RTM. Get it here UPDATE This happens when you are one of the first to try the bits: The installer asks you for a key, (even the trial version), instructions on how to get one is going Read More... Posted Thursday, November 16, 2006 12:34 PM by Bart Gunneman | 0 Comments Filed under: Office System 2007

• WSS v3 RTM available!

  Download it here Read More... Posted Thursday, November 16, 2006 10:35 AM by Bart Gunneman | 0 Comments Filed under: Office System 2007

• Tutorial for building a "Hello World" web part with the VS Extensions

  Patrick just posted a small tutorial on how to get you started with the new Visual Studio extensions for WSS v3.0. Read it here Read More... Posted Wednesday, November 15, 2006 4:12 PM by Bart Gunneman | 0 Comments Filed under: Office System 2007

• WSS v3 Solution and Feature framework applied to the FlexListViewer webpart

  Probably a lot of you know about the existence of the FlexListViewer webpart created by my colleague Robert te Kaat. This webpart was originally build for Sharepoint 2003 to display content of a list on your site, although the actual list resides on another Read More... Posted Tuesday, November 14, 2006 6:02 PM by Bart Gunneman | 5 Comments Filed under: FlexListViewer, General .NET Development, Office System 2007, Windows Sharepoint Services v3

• Visual Studio 2005 extensions for Windows Sharepoint Services 3.0

  Alex Malek announced the availability of Visual Studio 2005 extensions for WSS v3 from the TechEd floor in Barcelona. I tried the CTP for a few minutes because I was doing a MOSS Touchdown redelivery over here in the Netherlands. It appears to be working Read More... Posted Sunday, November 12, 2006 12:13 PM by Bart Gunneman | 2 Comments Filed under: General .NET Development, Office System 2007

• Free Microsoft e-Learing courses for .NET 3.0!

  You probably noticed that this week a lot of stuff got RTM'd! This includes the .NET Framework 3.0. Training materials for .NET 3.0 are now temporary free, so be quick and go grab them! This includes courses for: Windows Presentation Foundation Windows Read More... Posted Friday, November 10, 2006 11:46 AM by Robert te Kaat | 1 Comments Filed under: General .NET Development, Vista

• Vista Released to Manufacturing!

  Earlier this week they RTM'ed office 2007 and a lot of other products, now they just announced the RTM of Vista! Jim Allchin used a lot of words to announce it on the Windows Vista Team blog, read it here :) Read More... Posted Wednesday, November 08, 2006 8:57 PM by Bart Gunneman | 0 Comments Filed under: Vista

• Upgrade WSS v2 to v3 for Team Foundation Server projects not supported!

  According to Jason Barile , you will not be able to create project portals for TFS projects if you upgrade Windows Sharepoint Services v2 to v3. Although I believe him, I would like to test it myself. Because the MSF Agile and MSF CMMI project portals Read More... Posted Wednesday, November 08, 2006 8:46 PM by Bart Gunneman | 1 Comments Filed under: SharePoint Portal Server, Office System 2007, Visual Studio Team System

• Quickly change the look and feel of Sharepoint 2003

  Using this webpage you can quickly change the colorscheme of Sharepoint 2003. A very usefull page of which I keep forgetting the URL :) Read More... Posted Monday, November 06, 2006 1:19 PM by Bart Gunneman | 0 Comments Filed under: SharePoint Portal Server

• Publishing an InfoPath 2007-form to a InfoPath Form Services server: URL not valid

  Today I encountered a very irritating error while publishing my InfoPath 2007 form to a MOSS 2007 server with InfoPath Form Services installed. InfoPath refused to publish my form with the message: "The following URL is not valid: http://oss1 . Since Read More... Posted Wednesday, November 01, 2006 3:38 PM by Robert te Kaat | 6 Comments Filed under: SharePoint Portal Server, Office, Office System 2007