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With the different authentication provider support for MOSS, there are more and more free applications that will provide user management tools integrated in the SharePoint environment. One very good example is the Forms Based User Administration Feature, which can be downloaded from codeplex. Feature list: Administrator web part to view/edit/delete and add users to the data store by an administrator. Self registration page for users to request access to the site. New functionality for self registration Password retrieval via email CAPTCHA validation on self registration UI Enhancements

Here's a very decent virtual lab for using Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 to design a custom workflow that is triggered on file creation or change. Within the workflow designer, you will use out-of-the-box actions such as assigning a task or sending an e-mail message based on promoted values in your form data. In addition

Did you know that in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, you can define workflow tasks as bulk editable? You do that and provide a custom InfoPath form view to enable users to edit workflow tasks as a group? Well Andrew May tackles this exact topic in his latest post titled Bulk Editing Workflow Tasks In MOSS 2007. Here's an excerpt: Bulk editable tasks are workflow tasks that can be edited as a group. All the tasks must be of the same task type, and from the same workflow association. For example, a user might want to mark all tasks of a certain type as 'complete' for a given workflow association

Ted Pattison Group's has created a series of screencasts (i.e. how-to videos) for Microsoft's Channel 9 and for the MSDN Office Developers Center to assist developers getting up to speed with various development techniques related to Office 2007 and SharePoint Technologies. The philosophy behind these screencasts is to jump ...

If you recieve an error message that states: The Form Cannot Be Displayed Because Session State Is Not Available Reason For Error As the Sharepoint Team points out, you get this error message because you have not configured a Shared Service Provider (SSP). Quick Fix As many others have stated, just uncomment the following line: <add name="Session" type="System.Web.SessionState.SessionStateModule"/> In web.config file of the Site. You can find the tag under httpmodules. Best Practice Which is to configure the Shared Service Provider.

Have questions about using aspx forms in workflows? Well the Sharepoint team has decided to answer some of those questions once in for all. They keep the the post pretty high level and short. I’d recommend reading and understanding Eilene's post titled "Workflow and ASPX Forms Integration Explained" Here's a snippet: Aspx form solutions are not that different from InfoPath (IP) solutions. IP forms are just special out-of-box aspx pages with an IP UI. Aspx forms are just custom aspx pages with aspx UI. That word “custom” instead of “out-of-box” is really all the difference. Aspx forms are just one level of abstraction lower, so if you understand how data flows from an IP form into a workflow, then you’ll understand what your aspx page needs to do. So what do you do differently when using aspx instead of IP? Perhaps this would be better illustrated with a couple pictures.

Ahmed has a well written post on how to create a custom web service. If you are an experienced SharePoint developer, then the articles mentioned above should be enough to get you started but if you are a developer who is new to SharePoint development and ...