SharePoint BUZZ

Microsoft has just released their prescan tool for pre upgrade. Before you can upgrade to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 or Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, you must run the Prescan.exe utility against your existing Web sites. This pre-upgrade scan tool scans your sites and reports issues, allowing you ...

Calling all SharePoint 2007 beginners! If you want to learn the following: Installing a new farm Configuring global workflow settings Configuring incoming e-mail Administrative tasks Farm topology Provisioning new web applications Configuring alternate forms based authentication If you so, check out this Virtual Lab by Microsoft:

Microsoft Office InfoPath 2007 is the defacto standard for choosing a forms designer. But the average SharePoint developer is used to reaching for ASP.NET when he needs to create a form for SharePoint. You might be surprised at all the places you can employ InfoPath to quickly create forms for enterprise management functions. Recently a client wanted to embed InfoPath forms into a SharePoint 2007 site. Searching the web you can find Patrick Tisseghem's post on hosting InfoPath 2007 forms in WSS v3 / MOSS 2007 pages. It does not provide much information for those looking to get a step by step walkthrough. If you wanted, you could just create a forms library and link to the appropriate InfoPath forms, but some clients would rather embed the InfoPath 2007 form right inside SharePoint 2007. We can do that using web parts or you can also doing programmatically: How To: Display browser enabled InfoPath forms in a web part supporting connections Embed InfoPath form in SharePoint page as Web Part NOTE: You need Forms Server 2007 licence to host these in your SharePoint portal, site or web application. After resolving your licensing issues, why not learn how to Configure InfoPath Forms Services for Office SharePoint Server.

It is possible to manually change the SharePoint Timer Service account: From a command prompt change to the directory where the SharePoint Timer Service is running C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\BIN Run the command stsadm -o updatefarmcredentials -identitytype configurableid -userlogin domain\account -password password Once you have run this command restart IIS That's a quick post ...

Microsoft has just provided this collection of 3 2-hour premium clinics for your viewing pleasure. Its free for a limited time. The clinics teach about the new capabilities provided by the .NET Framework 3.0. Topics covered within the collection include: Windows Presentation Foundation [msdn] [wiki] [community site] Windows Workflow Foundation [msdn] Windows Communication Foundation [msdn] Links after the jump.

If you have created a custom button and would like to redirect the user to a custom thank you page then Shane Perran has a tip that he would like to share with you. Go ahead and check out his post on SharePoint Customization Tip: Redirect ...

A white paper has just been released that talks about the integration between SAP Portals and MOSS. Here are the table of contents: Introduction The Anatomy of Enterprise Search Federated Search in Enterprise The Scenario in the Whitepaper Intended Audience Prerequisites Building a Simple Federated Search WebPart with Integrated SAP Search Basic for Building WebPart Building a ...