July 09

Microsoft Office SharePoint

Server (MOSS) 2007

Resource Guide

Vedant Kulshreshtha

http:// blogs.technet.com/vedant/

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This document is for informational purposes only. I MAKE NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE

INFORMATION IN THIS DOCUMENT.

The inclusion of a Product Vendor or Product does not imply endorsement of the vendor or product. The names of actual companies and

products mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

1) Getting Started ........................................................................................................................................................................................... 5

a) Downloads ............................................................................................................................................................................................. 5

2) Application development ............................................................................................................................................................................ 5

a) Basics First ............................................................................................................................................................................................. 5

b) Start Programming ................................................................................................................................................................................. 6

c) Downloads ............................................................................................................................................................................................. 6

d) Web Parts .............................................................................................................................................................................................. 7

e) Event Receivers ..................................................................................................................................................................................... 7

f) Workflow ................................................................................................................................................................................................ 7

g) Content Types ........................................................................................................................................................................................ 8

h) Field Types ............................................................................................................................................................................................. 8

i) Timer Jobs ............................................................................................................................................................................................. 8

j) Features ................................................................................................................................................................................................. 8

k) Site and List Definitions .......................................................................................................................................................................... 9

l) Delegate Control .................................................................................................................................................................................... 9

m) STSADM Command Extensions ............................................................................................................................................................. 9

n) Mobile Development ............................................................................................................................................................................... 9

o) Web Services ......................................................................................................................................................................................... 9

p) Solution Development and Deployment ................................................................................................................................................ 10

3) Planning and Architecture ........................................................................................................................................................................ 10

a) Extranet Environment ........................................................................................................................................................................... 10

b) Capacity Planning and Performance ..................................................................................................................................................... 11

c) Web Browser Support .......................................................................................................................................................................... 11

d) Windows 2008 & SQL 2008 Support .................................................................................................................................................... 11

4) Document Management ........................................................................................................................................................................... 11

5) InfoPath & Form Services ......................................................................................................................................................................... 12

a) InfoPath Form Services ........................................................................................................................................................................ 12

6) Web Content Management ....................................................................................................................................................................... 12

a) Search Engine Optimization ................................................................................................................................................................. 13

7) Business Intelligence ................................................................................................................................................................................ 13

a) Business Data Catalog ......................................................................................................................................................................... 13

b) Excel Services ...................................................................................................................................................................................... 14

c) Report Center ....................................................................................................................................................................................... 14

8) Enterprise Search ..................................................................................................................................................................................... 14

9) Records Management .............................................................................................................................................................................. 15

10) Social Networking ..................................................................................................................................................................................... 15

11) SharePoint Designer ................................................................................................................................................................................ 16

a) Data Views ........................................................................................................................................................................................... 16

b) User Interface ....................................................................................................................................................................................... 16

c) Workflows ............................................................................................................................................................................................. 16

12) Governance .............................................................................................................................................................................................. 16

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13) Administration .......................................................................................................................................................................................... 17

a) Installation ............................................................................................................................................................................................ 17

b) Data Protection and Recovery .............................................................................................................................................................. 17

c) Monitoring ............................................................................................................................................................................................ 18

d) Performance Tuning ............................................................................................................................................................................. 18

e) Software Updates ................................................................................................................................................................................. 18

f) Tools .................................................................................................................................................................................................... 18

g) Troubleshooting .................................................................................................................................................................................... 19

h) Security ................................................................................................................................................................................................ 19

14) Integration ................................................................................................................................................................................................ 20

a) Office 2007 ........................................................................................................................................................................................... 20

b) AJAX .................................................................................................................................................................................................... 21

c) Silverlight.............................................................................................................................................................................................. 21

d) jQuery .................................................................................................................................................................................................. 22

e) Project Server 2007 .............................................................................................................................................................................. 22

f) SQL Reporting...................................................................................................................................................................................... 22

g) Rights Management Services ............................................................................................................................................................... 22

h) WSRP .................................................................................................................................................................................................. 22

i) SAP ...................................................................................................................................................................................................... 22

j) Siebel ................................................................................................................................................................................................... 23

k) LiveLink ................................................................................................................................................................................................ 23

l) EMC Documentum ............................................................................................................................................................................... 23

m) IBM FileNet .......................................................................................................................................................................................... 23

n) Lotus Notes .......................................................................................................................................................................................... 23

15) Accessibility .............................................................................................................................................................................................. 23

16) Codeplex projects ..................................................................................................................................................................................... 24

17) Best Practices .......................................................................................................................................................................................... 24

18) Migration Resources................................................................................................................................................................................. 25

a) From SharePoint 2003 ......................................................................................................................................................................... 25

b) From MCMS 2002 ................................................................................................................................................................................ 25

c) From IBM Lotus Notes/Domino ............................................................................................................................................................. 25

d) From Documentum ............................................................................................................................................................................... 26

e) From LiveLink ....................................................................................................................................................................................... 26

f) From IBM FileNet ................................................................................................................................................................................. 26

19) SharePoint Online .................................................................................................................................................................................... 26

20) Favorites for Your Browser ....................................................................................................................................................................... 26

21) Blogs & Online Magazines........................................................................................................................................................................ 27

22) Books ....................................................................................................................................................................................................... 27

23) Get Certified ............................................................................................................................................................................................. 27

24) Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) ...................................................................................................................................................... 28

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1) GETTING STARTED

Evaluation guide for Office SharePoint Server 2007

http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=83060&clcid=0x409

This evaluation guide is designed to give you a solid

understanding of the design goals and feature set for Microsoft

Office SharePoint Server 2007 and a familiarity with the product

implementation

Roadmap to using SharePoint Server 2007

http://office.microsoft.com/en-

us/sharepointserver/HA102486841033.aspx

Use this roadmap as a starting point to learn about the broad

capabilities of Office SharePoint Server 2007 and how to complete

common tasks

SharePoint Server demos

http://office.microsoft.com/en-

us/sharepointserver/CH102066971033.aspx

Virtual lab: What's New in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server

2007 Feature Walkthrough

http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=6269128

Learn about the new features in Microsoft Office SharePoint

Server 2007 including integration points with Microsoft Office 2007

programs

a) Downloads

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Trial Version (x86)

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=2e6e

5a9c-ebf6-4f7f-8467-f4de6bd6b831&displaylang=en

This is the x86 version of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007

Trial for Standard and Enterprise editions.

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Trial Version (x64)

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=3015F

DE4-85F6-4CBC-812D-55701FBFB563&displaylang=en

This is the x64 version of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007

Trial for Standard and Enterprise editions.

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 VHD

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=67f93

dcb-ada8-4db5-a47b-df17e14b2c74&displaylang=en

This fully functional pre-configured VHD provides you trial software

will automatically expire after 30 days

Application Templates for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-

us/windowsserver/sharepoint/bb407286.aspx

Application templates are out-of-the-box custom scenarios tailored

to address the needs and requirements of specific business

processes or sets of tasks in organizations of any size. They also

provide a starting point for partners and developers looking to

build deeper SharePoint-based solutions.

Get SharePoint training on your desktop

http://office.microsoft.com/en-

us/sharepointserver/HA102488011033.aspx

The training includes articles, videos, and interactive tutorials, will

lead you step-by-step through the rich features of Office

SharePoint Server

2) APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT

a) Basics First

Introduction to SharePoint Products and Technologies for the

Professional .NET Developer

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc537498.aspx

Explore the extensible solution platform of SharePoint Products

and Technologies and opportunities for its use in .NET

development.

SharePoint Architecture (2 Part series)

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb892189.aspx

Contents: IIS and ASP.NET 2.0 Primer, ASP.NET 2.0 Framework,

Windows SharePoint Services Integration with ASP.NET

SharePoint Page Types

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa979592.aspx

SharePoint provides several page types that have distinct

characteristics. In developing SharePoint sites, it is important to

understand these page types, their distinguishing properties, and

their usage

White Paper: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS)

as an Applications Development Platform

http://www.appliedis.com/ideas.html

Presents Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS) as a

development platform for building rich collaborative web

applications

An approach to solution architecture for SharePoint Products

and Technologies

http://www.microsoft.com/winme/0805/32847/mod4/index.html

Development Tools and Techniques for Working with Code in

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb530302.aspx

White Paper: Design and Build Sites for SharePoint Server

2007

http://office.microsoft.com/download/afile.aspx?AssetID=AM10257

4121033

Prescriptive guidance for coordinating the development and

deployment of enterprise Web sites based on SharePoint Server

2007. Learn specific information about how to set up multiple

development environments and how to deploy content and code

from one environment to another

Team-Based Development in Microsoft Office SharePoint

Server 2007

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb428899.aspx

Learn to properly conduct team-environment development of

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 sites and assemblies, as

well as develop Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer artifacts.

Using Team Foundation Server to Develop Custom

SharePoint Products and Technologies Applications

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc948982.aspx

Use Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Team Foundation Server to

support SharePoint application development, and provide an

integrated development environment and single source code

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repository for process activities, integrated progress reporting, and

team roles

b) Start Programming

Learn How to Develop on SharePoint

https://www.microsoft.com/click/SharePointDeveloper/default.aspx

Click on each of the topic areas to view screencasts, download

samples, view quickstart code and work through virtual labs

PPTs and Demos for Introductory SharePoint Developer

Modules

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=25F9C

C59-4EA3-4381-8B37-9430F664EAC6&displaylang=en

This download contains PowerPoint Presentations and associated

Demos for Introductory SharePoint Developer modules

Hands on Labs for Developing Applications on Windows

SharePoint Services 3.0

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=B885D

CE8-C93F-48AA-B798-4422FEBCC200&displaylang=en

A set of 10 Hands on Labs for Developing Applications for

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 with Visual Studio 2008

7 Development Projects for Microsoft Office SharePoint

Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0

http://download.microsoft.com/download/0/2/f/02f0f661-88e1-

43c2-b523-

88d2e9e6802f/7%20Development%20Projects%20with%20the%2

02007%20Microsoft%20Office%20System%20and%20Windows%

20SharePoint%20Services%202007.pdf

Getting References to Sites, Web Applications, and other Key

Objects

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms468609.aspx

To work with a deployment of Windows SharePoint Services, your

code must first get a reference to the objects it will be working

with, including Web sites, site collections, and Web applications

Working with List Objects and Collections

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms460897.aspx

Security Programming in SharePoint 2007

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc163287.aspx

Article highlights new security terms and concepts that are

introduced with WSS 3.0, and introduction to security

programming using the WSS object model.

Security Validation and Making Posts to Update Data

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms472879.aspx

For reasons of security, Windows SharePoint Services by default

does not allow you to make posts from a Web application to

modify the contents of the database unless you include security

validation on the page making the request

How To: Programmatically Add and Remove Web.config

values

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc768610.aspx

The Microsoft C# code examples demonstrate how to add and

remove configuration values programmatically

Forms of URL Strings

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms431831.aspx

Windows SharePoint Services uses different forms of URL strings,

depending on the context and members that are being used

Sample Object Model Tasks

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms412748.aspx

This section in the Windows SharePoint Services Software

Development Kit (SDK) provides sample programming tasks that

show how to use the Windows SharePoint Services object model

to customize SharePoint sites and lists within a deployment.

Building Personalized Solutions

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd490570.aspx

Introduces you to the key concepts of building a SharePoint portal

site: Using built-in features such as profiles, colleagues, and

audiences, creating custom applications by developing with the

Profiles API, managing membership by designing your own

custom people picker and working with audiences

programmatically

Batch Updating List Items in Windows SharePoint Services

3.0

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc404818.aspx

Learn how to update multiple items in a list in Windows SharePoint

Services 3.0 by constructing and executing a batch of commands

Simplifying SharePoint debugging by creating the

troubleshooting toolbox

http://sharepointmagazine.net/technical/development/getting-

started-with-sharepoint-programming-simplifying-sharepoint-

debugging-by-creating-the-troubleshooting-toolbox

This series of articles is intended to help you getting ramped up

with SharePoint programming

Custom Auditing In SharePoint

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc794261.aspx

Build a custom SharePoint solution with Visual Studio and create a

custom application page that allows a site-collection administrator

to enable and configure WSS activity event logging

c) Downloads

SharePoint Server 2007 SDK: Software Development Kit

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=6d94e

307-67d9-41ac-b2d6-0074d6286fa9&displaylang=en

SDK contains conceptual overviews, “How Do I…?” programming

tasks, developer tools, code samples, references, and an

Enterprise Content Management (ECM) starter kit to guide you in

developing solutions based on MOSS 2007

Visual Studio 2005 extensions for Windows SharePoint

Services 3.0

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=3E1D

CCCD-1CCA-433A-BB4D-97B96BF7AB63&displaylang=en

Visual Studio 2008 extensions for Windows SharePoint

Services 3.0

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=7BF65

B28-06E2-4E87-9BAD-086E32185E68&displaylang=en

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Technical Library in

Compiled Help format

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=c9d6c

8c5-8a62-4961-8c1b-df08b667b1c4&DisplayLang=en

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Downloadable CHM version of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0

content on TechNet

Office SharePoint Server 2007 Technical Library in Compiled

Help format

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=ba00

6584-711d-4ce7-9e1f-181aedf6434a&displaylang=en

Downloadable CHM version of SharePoint Server content on

TechNet

Microsoft® Silverlight™ Tools for Visual Studio 2008 SP1

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=c22d6

a7b-546f-4407-8ef6-d60c8ee221ed&displaylang=en Add-on for

Visual Studio 2008 SP1 for developing Silverlight 2 applications

Microsoft® Silverlight™ 2 Software Development Kit

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=8D93

3343-038F-499C-986C-C3C7E87A60B3&displaylang=en

The Microsoft® Silverlight™ 2 Software Development Kit provides

documentation, libraries and tools for developing Silverlight

applications

Download: Release jQuery 1.3.2

http://docs.jquery.com/Release:jQuery_1.3.2

d) Web Parts

Web Parts Overview

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms432401.aspx

Walkthrough: Creating a Basic Web Part

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms415817.aspx

This walkthrough provides the steps for creating a basic custom

Web Part that can be added to your Web Part Pages

Walkthrough: Creating Connectable Web Parts in Windows

SharePoint Services

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/ms469765.aspx

This programming task describes how to create two connectable

SharePoint Web Parts

Securing Web Parts in Windows SharePoint Services

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc768613.aspx

This topic introduces the built-in settings, an overview of a Code

Access Security (CAS) policy, and how to include a custom Code

Access Security policy in a Windows SharePoint Services solution

Deploying Web Parts in Windows SharePoint Services

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc768621.aspx

This section describes differences between the bin folder and the

Global Assembly Cache (GAC), security permissions

considerations, how to strong name an assembly for deployment,

how to create a SafeControl entry, and finally, how to create a

Web Part definition file to deploy the Web Part

How to: Export an ASP.NET Web Part and Import it to a

Windows SharePoint Services Site

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms431087.aspx

Working with ASP.NET 2.0 Web Parts and Windows

SharePoint Services 3.0

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb153523.aspx

Explore the advantages of creating ASP.NET 2.0 Web Parts and

hosting them by using Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. Learn

best practices for deploying the custom Web Parts to SharePoint

sites

How to: Wrap a User Control Inside of a Web Part for

SharePoint

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd206945.aspx

This topic demonstrates how to create a Web Part to serve as a

wrapper for an ASP.NET user control that is hosted inside of a

SharePoint application. It also demonstrates how to create Web

Part properties that are propagated to the user control.

Checklist for Creating SharePoint Web Parts

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb985502.aspx

Use this checklist to assist with the deployment and maintenance

of Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Web Parts

e) Event Receivers

Events in SharePoint 2007

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc163318.aspx

Add a Counter to a SharePoint List Using an Event Receiver

http://www.binarywave.com/blogs/eshupps/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?I

D=114

f) Workflow

Developer Introduction to Workflows for Windows SharePoint

Services 3.0 and SharePoint Server 2007

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa830816.aspx

Get a high-level overview of how Microsoft Windows SharePoint

Services 3.0 implements the workflow capabilities of the Windows

Workflow Foundation, and how Microsoft Office SharePoint Server

2007 extends those capabilities with symmetrical Microsoft Office

InfoPath 2007 forms

Workflows roadmap

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263262.aspx

This roadmap page provides links to Web articles, white papers,

training, blog entries, and tools to help guide you in implementing

workflows in Office SharePoint Server 2007

White Paper: Understanding Workflow in Microsoft Windows

SharePoint Services and the 2007 Microsoft Office System

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=DBBD

82C7-9BDE-4974-8443-67B8F30126A8&displaylang=en

Learn the basics of the Windows Workflow Foundation, how this

technology has been integrated into both Windows SharePoint

Services and the 2007 Office System, and how to benefit from

workflows applied to business processes

White Paper: Workflow with Microsoft Office SharePoint

Server 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=15D9D

316-2FF3-40C9-85ED-4537657FA965&displaylang=en

Workflow Development Tools Comparison

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms461944.aspx

Offers a detailed comparison between the capabilities offered by

the Visual Studio 2005 Designer for Windows Workflow

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Foundation and Office SharePoint Designer 2007, and the

workflows you can create with each.

Developing Workflow Solutions with SharePoint Server 2007

and Windows Workflow Foundation

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc514224.aspx

This article describes best practices for developing workflows for

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 by using Microsoft Visual

Studio

Developing SharePoint 2007 Sequential and State Machine

Workflows with Visual Studio 2008

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc936631.aspx

Learn how to develop sequential workflows and state machine

workflows for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 by using

Microsoft Visual Studio 2008

Creating SharePoint Sequential Workflows with Visual Studio

2008

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc936628.aspx

Learn to create Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007

sequential workflows by using Microsoft Visual Studio 2008

Workflow Deployment Using Features

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms414556.aspx

How to: Debug Your Windows SharePoint Services Workflow

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms455354.aspx

Workflow Scalability and Performance in Windows SharePoint

Services 3.0

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd441390.aspx

Learn how to test the performance of workflow applications and

determine how to apply the results.

White Paper: Workflow Security in Windows SharePoint

Services 3.0 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007

http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=132121&clcid=0x409

Provides an overview of which aspects of workflow behavior IT

professionals need to be aware of in order to understand how they

can configure and deploy Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 workflows more securely

g) Content Types

Introduction to Content Types

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms472236.aspx

Plan content types

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262735.aspx

Building Custom Content Types in Windows SharePoint

Services 3.0

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc161067.aspx

Learn how to build a custom content type by using Microsoft

Visual Studio 2005 Extensions for Windows SharePoint Services

3.0

h) Field Types

Using Custom Field Types and Field Controls

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd239282.aspx

Creating a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Custom Field by

Using the EntityPicker

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc889345.aspx

Learn to create an advanced custom field for Windows SharePoint

Services 3.0 and use built-in search dialogs in SharePoint to your

advantage

Visual How To: Building Custom Field Types in Windows

SharePoint Services 3.0

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb684919.aspx

Patterns of Custom Field Rendering

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb862248.aspx

You have a wide variety of options for fine-grained control of how

your custom fields are rendered. This topic discusses some

common patterns and indicates how you can modify them to meet

your needs.

i) Timer Jobs

Creating Custom Timer Jobs in Windows SharePoint Services

3.0

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc406686.aspx

Learn about building, deploying, and debugging custom timer jobs

in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, and examine the various

configuration options that are available to developers

Visual How To: Creating, Deploying, and Debugging Custom

Timer Jobs in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc427068.aspx

Learn how to harness the power of custom timer jobs in Windows

SharePoint Services 3.0

j) Features

SharePoint Feature

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb861828.aspx

Represents a modular server-side, file system-level customization

that contains items that can be installed and activated in a

SharePoint environment

Features for SharePoint

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc163428.aspx

Feature Stapling

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb861862.aspx

Causes the attachment of a Feature to all new instances of sites

that use a given site definition, without modifying the site definition

or creating code routines to activate the Feature on each site

How to: Create a Simple Feature

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms475286.aspx

This example steps you through the process of creating a custom

action Feature that adds a button to the toolbar of the form for

editing announcements items within the scope of a SharePoint site

How to: Create an Event Handler Feature

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms453149.aspx

This example shows how to add a simple event handler that

prevents items from being deleted from a list.

How to: Create a Custom Action Specific to a List

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc768562.aspx

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Visual How To: Creating a Feature for the Site Actions Menu

in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb418728.aspx

k) Site and List Definit ions

Site Definitions and Configurations

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa978512.aspx

A site definition defines a unique type of SharePoint site. A site

definition can include more than one site definition configuration.

SharePoint Web sites are based on particular site definition

configurations

Working with Site Templates and Definitions

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms434313.aspx

Deciding Between Custom Templates and Definitions

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa979683.aspx

How to choose whether to create a site template or a site definition

How to: Create a Custom List Definition

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms466023.aspx

This task demonstrates how to create a custom list template

feature and add it to the selection of lists available for creating on

the Create Page

l) Delegate Control

DelegateControl Class

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-

us/library/microsoft.sharepoint.webcontrols.delegatecontrol.aspx

A generic control that is able to render an ASP.NET control.

Delegate controls make their child candidate controls pluggable

and replaceable.

How to: Customize a Delegate Control

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms470880.aspx

This example shows the basic process of creating and

implementing a delegate control candidate to use for the search

box that is displayed on site pages

Using the Delegate Control

http://www.sharepointnutsandbolts.com/2007/06/using-delegate-

control.html

Using DelegateControls to Customize the User Experience

http://sharepointmagazine.net/technical/development/sharepoint-

magazine-user-experience-week-using-delegatecontrols-to-

customize-the-user-experience

Will talk about one of the least used, but most powerful techniques

we have for customizing the SharePoint User Experience, namely

the DelegateControl

m) STSADM Command Extensions

How to: Extend the STSADM Utility

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb417382.aspx

AC's WCM Custom Commands for STSADM.EXE

http://www.andrewconnell.com/blog/articles/MossStsadmWcmCo

mmands.aspx

Custom STSADM.EXE commands written for Web Content

Management (WCM) developers

n) Mobile Development

Mobile Development Overview

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms462572.aspx

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 provides an architecture and

feature set to support mobile access to SharePoint list data

Mobile Page Rendering System

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb862633.aspx

This topic describes how Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 uses

RenderingTemplates and template selector controls to render

pages that are accessible from mobile devices.

Mobile Customization How Tos and Walkthroughs

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb802700.aspx

This section provides you with practical information about applying

the concepts of mobile development in Windows SharePoint

Services 3.0

Walkthrough: Customizing a Mobile Home Page

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms462788.aspx

This walkthrough shows how to customize the mobile home page

by implementing a custom RenderingTemplate control

Walkthrough: Customizing a Mobile List View Page

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms457259.aspx

This walkthrough shows how to customize a mobile list view page

by implementing a custom RenderingTemplate control

Walkthrough: Customizing Item Titles on a Mobile Display

Form

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms454716.aspx

This walkthrough shows how to customize the rendering of fields

on mobile pages by implementing a custom RenderingTemplate.

Walkthrough: Creating a Custom Field Rendering Control for

Mobile Pages

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb862011.aspx

This walkthrough shows how to customize field rendering on

mobile pages by implementing a custom field rendering control in

conjunction with a RenderingTemplate

o) Web Services

Windows SharePoint Services Web Services

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms479390.aspx

Windows SharePoint Services Web services provide methods that

you can use to work remotely with a deployment of Windows

SharePoint Services

Web Service Guidelines

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms458094.aspx

Walkthrough: Creating a Custom Web Service

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms464040.aspx

This programming task provides an overview of how to create a

custom Web service that operates within the context of Windows

SharePoint Services 3.0

Examples for the SharePoint and Office Live javascript API

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http://darrenjohnstone.net/2008/07/22/examples-for-the-

sharepoint-and-office-live-javascript-api/

Examples illustrate the use of the javascript API for SharePoint

and Office Live. These examples are intended to demonstrate the

core uses of the API for solution developers

Drawing charts in SharePoint and Office Live

http://darrenjohnstone.net/2007/06/15/drawing-charts-in-office-live/

How to use Lists Web service along with a Flash charting

component to build live charts in web parts which are populated

directly from data held in lists within Office Live or SharePoint site

p) Solution Development and Deployment

Solutions Overview

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa543214.aspx

The Windows SharePoint Services solution framework provides a

way to bundle all the components for extending Windows

SharePoint Services in a new file that is called a solution file

Solution Deployment with SharePoint 2007

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc163379.aspx

Creating a Solution

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa543741.aspx

Deploying a Solution

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa544500.aspx

Solution deployment is a multipart framework for letting developers

create custom solutions, and letting administrators deploy those

solutions in a straightforward, safe, and consistent manner

3) PLANNING AND ARCHITECTURE

Planning for your first Microsoft Office SharePoint Server

2007 site

http://office.microsoft.com/en-

us/sharepointserver/HA102893591033.aspx

Before you begin to set up a Microsoft Office SharePoint Server

2007 site, it will be useful for you to understand the main

components of SharePoint Server, what they do, and how they fit

together. This article will help you with these two tasks.

Downloadable book: Planning and architecture for Office

SharePoint Server 2007

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262757.aspx

Provides information and guidelines to lead a team through the

steps of planning the deployment of a solution based on Microsoft

Office SharePoint Server 2007

SharePoint Guidance - November 2008

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=C372

2DBA-6EE7-4E0E-82B5-FDAF3C5EC927&displaylang=en

This guidance helps architects and developers design, build, test,

deploy, and upgrade SharePoint intranet applications. A reference

implementation demonstrates solutions to common architectural,

development, and application lifecycle management challenges

Sample project plan: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007

deployment

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262825.aspx

Plan authentication methods

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc288475.aspx

This article describes the authentication methods that are

supported by Windows SharePoint Services 3.0

Logical architecture model: Corporate deployment

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc261995.aspx

Logical architecture sample design: collaboration sites

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc835621.aspx

This article describes a practical implementation of logical

architecture components to achieve a workable design

Internet presence scenario

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc950780.aspx

This series of articles and accompanying poster is an end-to-end

scenario that outlines how to plan, design, build, and maintain an

enterprise’s Internet presence Web site based on Microsoft Office

SharePoint Server 2007

What Not to Store in SharePoint

http://blogs.msdn.com/joelo/archive/2007/11/08/what-not-to-store-

in-sharepoint.aspx

Provides prescriptive guidance around what doesn't work well for

storing in SharePoint Server, SQL Content databases

a) Extranet Environment

Downloadable guide: Plan an extranet environment for

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0

http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=93315

This guide discusses the extranet topologies that are supported

and details the hardening requirements for servers within an

extranet environment

Downloadable guide: Plan an extranet environment for Office

SharePoint Server 2007

http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=93372

This guide discusses the extranet topologies that are supported,

details the hardening requirements for servers within an extranet

environment, and describes a logical architecture.

Design extranet farm topology

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263513.aspx

In this article, about extranet environments and planning for

extranet environments

External Collaboration Toolkit for SharePoint

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc268155.aspx

Toolkit consists of software and guidance that will help you to

deploy a customizable solution that teams can use to collaborate

securely with partners outside the firewall.

Plan security for an external secure collaboration

environment

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263096.aspx

Security recommendations for an external secure collaboration

environment

Plan security hardening for extranet environments

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262834.aspx

This article details the hardening requirements for an extranet

environment in which a Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007

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server farm is placed inside a perimeter network and content is

available from the Internet or from the corporate network

Plan alternate access mappings

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc261814.aspx

Alternate access mappings enable Office SharePoint Server 2007

to map Web requests to the correct Web applications and sites,

and they enable Office SharePoint Server 2007 to serve the

correct content back to the user

b) Capacity Planning and Performance

About performance and capacity planning

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc261700.aspx

Plan for redundancy

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263044.aspx

Plan for availability

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc748824.aspx

Estimate performance and capacity requirements

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc261716.aspx

This article includes links to estimate performance and capacity

requirements for most common usage scenarios for Microsoft

Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services

3.0

Plan for software boundaries

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262787.aspx

This article provides information to help you understand the tested

performance and capacity limits of Microsoft Office SharePoint

Server 2007, the test environment and test results, and offers

guidelines for acceptable performance

White paper: Working with large lists in Office SharePoint

Server 2007

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262813.aspx

Microsoft performed performance testing against Microsoft® Office

SharePoint® Server 2007 to determine the performance

characteristics of large SharePoint lists under different loads and

modes of operation.

Case Study: Using Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server to

implement a large-scale content storage scenario with rapid

search availability

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262067.aspx

SharePoint Capacity Planning Tool

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb961988.aspx

Provides a first approximation of the topology your organization

needs

HP ProLiant Sizer for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007

http://h71019.www7.hp.com/activeanswers/Secure/548230-0-0-0-

121.html

A tool that provides a quick and consistent methodology to

determine a "best-fit" server for your individual needs and enables

you to both quickly compare different solution configuration (what-

if scenario) and also to obtain a highly detailed, customizable

server and storage solution complete with bill of materials and

pricing

c) Web Browser Support

Plan browser support

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263526.aspx

White Paper: Office SharePoint Server Web browser support

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc706882.aspx

This downloadable white paper includes detailed information about

how many Web browsers work with various features in SharePoint

sites. It also offers workarounds and other tips for handling

browser differences.

d) Windows 2008 & SQL 2008 Support

Windows Server 2008 Resource Center for SharePoint

Products and Technologies

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-

us/office/sharepointserver/bb735844.aspx

White paper: Advantages of Deploying SharePoint Products

and Technologies with Windows Server 2008

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc505993.aspx

Using SharePoint Products and Technologies in a Hyper-V

virtual environment

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc816955.aspx

This article provides preliminary guidance for using SharePoint

Products and Technologies with the Windows Server 2008 Hyper-

V virtualization technology

Performance and capacity requirements for Hyper-V

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd277865.aspx

This article provides information about the performance and

capacity requirements for deploying Microsoft Office SharePoint

Server 2007 in a Hyper-V™ virtual environment.

SQL Server 2008 Support for SharePoint Products and

Technologies

http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2008/08/15/sql-server-

2008-support-for-sharepoint-products-and-technologies.aspx

Top 10 SQL 2008 Features for SharePoint IT Pros

http://blogs.msdn.com/joelo/archive/2008/03/10/top-10-sql-2008-

features-answer-why-plan-to-upgrade.aspx

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 with Windows 2008

and SQL Server 2008 on HP servers and storage technologies

http://h20195.www2.hp.com/V2/GetDocument.aspx?docname=4A

A2-2981ENW

This white paper describes the performance differences observed

by the HP SAE labs when comparing the performance of Microsoft

Office SharePoint Server 2007 SP1 running on Windows Server

2008 and SQL Server 2008 versus current deployments running

Windows Server 2003 and SQL Server 2005

4) DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT

Introduction to document management

http://office.microsoft.com/en-

us/sharepointserver/HA102413991033.aspx

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Document management focuses on the storage and organization

of documents to support active work in progress, including content

creation and sharing within an organization

White paper - Document Management with Microsoft Office

SharePoint Server 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=D1AA2

974-7B03-4FF3-86FF-58DB2819C1DD&displaylang=en

This guide provides information architects, enterprise solution

planners and designers, program managers, and information

technology specialists with the information that they need to plan a

document management solution based on Office SharePoint

Server 2007

White Paper: Enterprise content management in regulated

industries

http://www.microsoft.com/industry/healthcare/lifesciences/busines

svalue/whitepaperecm.mspx

Explores the ways in which life sciences industries—such as

pharmaceutical and biotechnical companies—can use enterprise

content management solutions (ECM). Learn how Microsoft is

addressing ECM needs in the 2007 Microsoft Office System and

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007

5) INFOPATH & FORM SERVICES

Introduction to Microsoft Office InfoPath 2007

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/infopath/HA101635771033.aspx

InfoPath Demos

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/infopath/CH100740821033.aspx

InfoPath Forms Services roadmap

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262885.aspx

This roadmap page provides links to Web articles and other

resources to help guide you in implementing forms in Office

SharePoint Server 2007

Overview of Web Service Support in InfoPath 2007

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb852081.aspx

Learn about the features, requirements, and limitations of Web

service support in Microsoft Office InfoPath 2007

A Smart Approach to Gathering Data in the Enterprise

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc194406.aspx

How you can build flexible data-gathering solutions using InfoPath

2007, Office SharePoint Server 2007, and Forms Services.

InfoPath Form View Control

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb861998.aspx

Specifies a server-side Microsoft Office InfoPath form viewer

control that displays a Web browser view of an InfoPath form.

Improving the Performance of InfoPath 2007 Forms

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb380251.aspx

Learn how to avoid performance issues when designing Microsoft

Office InfoPath 2007 form templates, and how to troubleshoot

existing form templates that display poor performance

Best Practices for Deploying InfoPath 2007 Form Templates

to a Production Environment

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc704269.aspx

This article identifies best practices for efficiently deploying a

Microsoft Office InfoPath 2007 form template to a production

environment. It also describes how to optimize browser form

scenarios using configuration options

Advanced server-side authentication for data connections [3

parts]

http://blogs.msdn.com/infopath/archive/2006/06/14/advanced-

server-side-authentication-for-data-connections-part-1.aspx

The anatomy of a UDC file

http://blogs.msdn.com/infopath/archive/2006/10/30/the-anatomy-

of-a-udc-file.aspx

Enabling anonymous users to open and submit data via

InfoPath Forms published to SharePoint 2007

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/ervingayle/archive/2006/10/13/en

abling-anonymous-users-to-open-and-submit-data-via-infopath-

forms-published-to-sharepoint-2007.aspx

a) InfoPath Form Services

Data Connections in Browser Forms

http://blogs.msdn.com/infopath/archive/2006/10/02/Data-

Connections-in-Browser-Forms.aspx

Designing browser-enabled forms for performance in InfoPath

Forms Services (6 Part series)

http://blogs.msdn.com/infopath/archive/tags/Browser+Forms/defau

lt.aspx

A series of 6 articles about optimizing the performance of InfoPath

browser-enabled forms

Estimate performance and capacity requirements for InfoPath

Forms Services environments

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc879113.aspx

This performance and capacity planning scenario incorporates a

single Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 farm that is

running InfoPath Forms Services.

6) WEB CONTENT MANAGEMENT

Introduction to Web content management

http://office.microsoft.com/en-

us/sharepointserver/HA102406301033.aspx

The Web content management capabilities in Microsoft Office

SharePoint Server 2007 can help you communicate more

effectively with employees, partners, and customers

Whitepaper: Web Content Management with Microsoft Office

SharePoint Server 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=5DDA

96C8-3744-48C4-9BDA-C271929FD4AA&displaylang=en

Understanding Web Content Management and the Default

Features

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa830818.aspx

Web Publishing and Planning Guide with Microsoft Office

SharePoint Server

http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=92330

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The articles in this guide will help you in planning your Web site's

structure, authoring environment, and publishing environment

Top SharePoint WCM Web Sites

http://www.wssdemo.com/Pages/topwebsites.aspx

Prescriptive Guidance for SharePoint Server 2007 Web

Content Management Sites

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc879144.aspx

Learn prescriptive guidance for creating and deploying Microsoft

Office SharePoint Server 2007 Web content management (WCM)

publishing sites

Extending WCM

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa830815.aspx

Creating and Configuring WCM-Enabled Sites

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa830817.aspx

How to Optimize a SharePoint Server 2007 Web Content

Management Site for Performance

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb727371.aspx

Summary: Learn how to optimize an Internet-facing Web content

management (WCM) site to achieve maximum performance and

an effective user experience

Page design roadmap

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc261968.aspx

This roadmap provides links to Web articles, white papers,

training, blog entries, and tools to guide you in implementing Page

Design of your site based on Office SharePoint Server 2007

Common Page and Site Customization Tasks

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms563713.aspx

This section contains detailed, step-by-step procedures for

common page and site customization tasks

Implementing a Brand in a SharePoint Server 2007 Publishing

Site

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd221375.aspx

Learn how to select the best approach for implementing a brand in

a Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 publishing site

Customizing and Branding Web Content Management-

Enabled SharePoint Sites [3 Parts]

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa830818.aspx

This article discusses topics that you should understand before

you use Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 to create sites

that support Web content management (WCM) and gives a

general overview of the various artifacts that are available in the

product

Automated SharePoint Site Branding

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc700347.aspx

A custom branding solution for SharePoint sites that integrates

Master Pages and CSS files at the level of the site collection

Controlling Single Web Parts with CSS

http://www.heathersolomon.com/blog/articles/Controlling-Single-

Web-Parts-with-CSS.aspx

How can a particular web part be branded separately from all the

rest or be branded by type

Understanding Field Controls and Web Parts in SharePoint

Server 2007 Publishing Sites

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd571480.aspx

Learn the details of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 field

controls and Web Parts and how they differ, and best practices for

when to use each type of control

Web Content Management Links and Resources

http://andrewconnell.com/blog/articles/MossWcmResources.aspx

An exhaustive list of and resources specific to Web Content

Management, maintained by Andrew Connell

a) Search Engine Optimization

How to Optimize SharePoint Server 2007 Web Content

Management Sites for Search Engines

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc721591.aspx

Learn techniques to create Microsoft Office SharePoint Server

2007 Web content management (WCM) sites that are optimized

for search engines, and what to avoid to help improve search

ratings.

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server Search Engine

Optimization

http://www.mossseo.com/

MOSS SEO explains how to optimize your public facing

SharePoint 2007 WCM based web site for internet search

engines.

7) BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE

Introduction to Business Intelligence features

http://office.microsoft.com/en-

us/sharepointserver/HA100872181033.aspx

Roadmap to business intelligence features of SharePoint

Server 2007

http://office.microsoft.com/en-

us/sharepointserver/HA102472901033.aspx

Business intelligence roadmap

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263062.aspx

Provides links to Web articles, white papers, training, blog entries,

and tools to guide you in implementing the business data and

business intelligence features of your site based on Office

SharePoint Server 2007

Video: Microsoft BI Roadmap Update

http://download.microsoft.com/download/A/E/E/AEEE26CB-1536-

4EC9-809E-

536F6E49A1BB/Guy_Weismantel_BI_Announcement_MBR.wmv

IT Showcase: Centralizing and Sharing Business Intelligence

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb735122.aspx

The myBI portal enables Microsoft business units to exploit the

potential of the Microsoft business intelligence solutions more fully,

more securely, and in closer collaboration with partners and

vendors

a) Business Data Catalog

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http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms563661.aspx

Introduction to Business Data Catalog features

http://office.microsoft.com/en-

us/sharepointserver/HA102200501033.aspx

Integrating Line-of-Business Data into MOSS 2007 with the

Business Data Catalog

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=9fa34

e43-1cc7-4af9-8e24-6252c8f0dde5&DisplayLang=en

Get a better architectural understanding of the Business Data

Catalog and find out how features in SharePoint Server 2007

make use of it to experience seamless streamlining of business

data

Creating a Database Connection by Using the Business Data

Catalog Definition Editor

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb736296.aspx

Creating a Web Service Connection by Using the Business

Data Catalog Definition Editor

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb737887.aspx

Building Custom Applications Using the Business Data

Catalog

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms546489.aspx

Editing Business Data Using Business Data Catalog Actions

and InfoPath Forms Services

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb852170.aspx

Learn how to build applications that use the Business Data

Catalog in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 with Web

services and the Single Sign-On Service

b) Excel Services

Business Intelligence with SharePoint and Excel

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/2009.02.bookbi.aspx

How you can use Excel and Excel Services to analyze business

intelligence data within SharePoint sites

Introduction to Excel Services and Excel Web Access

http://office.microsoft.com/en-

us/sharepointserver/HA101054761033.aspx

Excel Services Technical Overview

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa972194.aspx

Learn about Excel Services and how it works with Excel 2007 to

provide robust and secure shared workbook solutions. Read about

Excel Services extensibility features, architecture, performance

optimization, and deployment.

Publishing to SharePoint Server Excel Services

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/excel/CH101024611033.aspx

Building an Asset Tracking application in Excel Services: A

five part series

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/excel/HA102850131033.aspx

Learn how to build an Asset Tracking Application in Excel

Services: Part one — An overview of the application, Part two —

Creating the Workbook, Part three — Creating a SharePoint List

and a User Defined Function, Part four — Building the Web Part

Pages, Part five — Creating the Archive Web Part

IT Showcase: Connecting with Excel Services in Microsoft

Office SharePoint Server 2007 to Create a Controller

Workspace

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd433177.aspx

The solution enables Microsoft controllers to view the offices'

account reconciliation and compliance status, receive immediate

updates, and contact finance personnel responsible for any

compliance activities or reconciliations that might not be performed

by the statutory deadlines.

c) Report Center

Introduction to the Report Center

http://office.microsoft.com/en-

us/sharepointserver/HA101741991033.aspx

Understanding the Report Center and Dashboards in

SharePoint Server 2007

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb966994.aspx

Examine new capabilities built into Microsoft Office SharePoint

Server 2007 Enterprise Edition, which enable and simplify

business process automation

8) ENTERPRISE SEARCH

Enterprise Search for IT Professionals

http://www.microsoft.com/enterprisesearch/techresources/itpros.as

px

Enterprise Search Resources for Developers

http://www.microsoft.com/enterprisesearch/techresources/develop

ers.aspx

Enterprise Search Architecture

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms570748.aspx

This topic provides information about the internal architecture of

Enterprise Search, as well as Enterprise Search as a shared

service.

Downloadable book: Administering Enterprise Search for

Office SharePoint Server

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262382.aspx

This book provides prescriptive guidance for maintaining and

managing the Office SharePoint Server Search service in

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. This includes step-by-

step instructions about search operations for crawling content

Plan the end-user search experience

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263089.aspx

This article contains information that can help Shared Services

Provider (SSP) administrators and site collection administrators

optimize the end-user search experience.

Searching Sites Protected by Forms Authentication with

Enterprise Search in SharePoint Server 2007

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb852172.aspx

Learn to use Enterprise Search to crawl sites that are protected by

forms authentication or cookie-based authentication, and walk

through creating a sample custom security trimmer for trimming

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Evaluating and Customizing Search Relevance in SharePoint

Server 2007

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb499682.aspx

Learn about settings you can adjust to improve relevance in

Enterprise Search in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, and

how to implement an evaluation process to determine the impact

your adjustments make on relevance

Configure Office SharePoint Server Search to crawl Lotus

Notes

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262927.aspx

This article helps you gain an understanding of the prerequisites

you need, the decisions you must make, and the information you

must gather from the Domino administrator

Manage settings to improve search results

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc835623.aspx

Links to articles that introduces features for better search results,

provides information on how an administrator can configure these

features, and where and how search queries employ these

features

Administering people search

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd819092.aspx

IT Showcase: Deploying and Supporting Enterprise Search

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb735129.aspx

Microsoft IT has deployed the Enterprise Search feature of

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 to help users locate

relevant information faster and easier than ever before

Microsoft Filter Pack

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=60C9

2A37-719C-4077-B5C6-CAC34F4227CC&displaylang=en

This Filter Pack includes IFilters for the following formats: .docx,

.docm, .pptx, .pptm, .xlsx, .xlsm, .xlsb, .zip, .one, .vdx, .vsd, .vss,

.vst, .vdx, .vsx, and .vtx

File types and IFilter reference

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc261754.aspx

Lists the file types supported by the IFilters that are installed by

default and which file types are enabled on the Manage File Types

page by default

Limit or increase the quantity of content that is crawled

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262531.aspx

How to change the quantity of content that you are currently

crawling

Adobe PDF iFilter 9 for 64-bit platforms

http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=4025

Designed for end users or administrators who wish to index Adobe

PDF documents using Microsoft indexing clients

Foxit PDF IFilter

http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/ifilter/

Designed to help users to index a large amount of PDF documents

and then quickly find text within these documents

9) RECORDS MANAGEMENT

Whitepaper - Records Management with Microsoft Office

SharePoint Server 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=717A3

870-520E-4E4F-B996-A067D13CD4AD&displaylang=en

Downloadable book: Records Management Guide for

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262578.aspx

covers general records management planning considerations and

guidelines for configuring Office SharePoint Server 2007.

Records management roadmap

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263372.aspx

This roadmap page provides links to Web articles, white papers,

training, blog entries, and tools to help guide you in implementing

the records management features of your site based on Office

SharePoint Server 2007

Plan records management

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262114.aspx

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 includes records

management features you can use to help your organization meet

its regulatory and legal requirements and manage its corporate

knowledge

Demo: Add a library to a Records Center site

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263523.aspx

shows the process for adding a library to an existing Record

Center, applying policies to the library, and configuring the

Records Center site so that submitted documents are routed to the

right library.

10) SOCIAL NETWORKING

White Paper: Social Computing in the Enterprise - Microsoft

Vision for Business Leaders

http://download.microsoft.com/download/8/3/A/83A83256-4BC7-

4512-9C73-

2B6AB50F144E/Social_Computing_in_the_Enterprise.pdf

This white paper is intended to present a strategic business vision

around social computing

White paper: Managing social networking with Microsoft

Office SharePoint Server 2007

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262436.aspx

Learn about the importance of social networking in an organization

and how to properly implement Microsoft Office SharePoint Server

2007 as a social networking platform

Capitalizing On the Social Network Capabilities of SharePoint

Server 2007 User Profiles

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc973103.aspx

Learn about organization hierarchy, membership groups, and

quick links to understand the user profile social network capability

in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, and concepts such as

custom properties, colleagues, and workgroups.

White Paper: How to Get the Most Value from Social

Computing for Business with Microsoft

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=C584

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Discusses the value of social computing for business, citing 2

customer references of large scale enterprise deployments, and

the technologies that enable successful results from social

computing

11) SHAREPOINT DESIGNER

SharePoint Designer Home Page

http://office.microsoft.com/en-

us/sharepointdesigner/FX100487631033.aspx

Get SharePoint Designer training on your desktop

http://office.microsoft.com/en-

us/sharepointdesigner/HA102632321033.aspx?pid=CL100796271

033

Demos: A six-part series on getting the most out of

SharePoint Designer 2007

http://office.microsoft.com/en-

us/sharepointdesigner/HA102199841033.aspx

This six-part training demo series provides information on how

power users can get the most from Office SharePoint Designer

2007

SharePoint Designer 2007 Business Administrator Training

http://office.microsoft.com/en-

us/sharepointdesigner/HA102540351033.aspx

This video series shows you how to quickly and easily build

complex business solutions on the SharePoint platform

Locking Down SharePoint Designer

http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepointdesigner/archive/2008/11/25/lock

ing-down-sharepoint-designer.aspx

a) Data Views

Data Views

http://office.microsoft.com/en-

us/sharepointdesigner/CH100667641033.aspx

You can use a Data View to view data from a wide variety of

sources, including database queries, XML documents, Web

services, SharePoint lists and libraries, and server-side scripts

SPDataSource and Rollups with the Data View

http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepointdesigner/archive/2007/04/24/spd

atasource-and-rollups-with-the-data-view.aspx

Most of the Data View’s List-related features use the

SPDataSource in List or ListItem mode. In addition to these

modes, the SPDataSource has a number of other modes that

aren’t directly exposed in the UI: ListofLists, Webs, and CrossList

mode.

b) User Interface

CSS Reference Chart for SharePoint 2007

http://www.heathersolomon.com/content/sp07cssreference.htm

CSS reference guide highlights the major styles used in MOSS

and WSS v3 sites

Apply a custom style sheet to a SharePoint site

http://office.microsoft.com/en-

us/sharepointdesigner/HA101691741033.aspx

This article also shows you how to apply new style sheet to sites

or subsites and how to revert to the default style sheet later if you

want to

Using an alternate CSS on your SharePoint sites

http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/blogs/GetThePoint/Lists/Posts/Pos

t.aspx?ID=155

How to: Create a Minimal Master Page

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa660698.aspx

This topic shows you how to create a minimal master page that

includes only the minimal functionality that Office SharePoint

Server 2007 requires so that you have a stable platform upon

which to build your own master pages

How to: Customize the Display of Quick Launch

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms466994.aspx

Customizing the Content Query Web Part and Custom Item

Styles

http://www.heathersolomon.com/blog/articles/customitemstyle.asp

x

Displaying SharePoint Fields by Permission Level

http://spinsiders.com/laurar/2009/01/23/displaying-sharepoint-

fields-by-permission-level/

Learn how to hide or display certain fields in lists or libraries,

according to the permission level of the logged in user, using

conditional formatting in SharePoint Designer

c) Workflows

Introduction to workflows

http://office.microsoft.com/en-

us/sharepointdesigner/HA101005871033.aspx

With Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007, you can design

workflows that add no-code application logic to your SharePoint

sites and applications

Watch this: Design a document review workflow solution

http://office.microsoft.com/en-

us/sharepointdesigner/HA102564171033.aspx

Learn how to design a document review workflow and a custom

Workflow Dashboard that shows you at a glance the status of all

workflow tasks related to a specific document

Watch this: Run a workflow when a specific field changes

http://office.microsoft.com/en-

us/sharepointdesigner/HA102564191033.aspx

Learn how to design a workflow that runs when a specific field

changes

Workflow Development in Office SharePoint Designer

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms414204.aspx

Porting a Simple SharePoint Designer Workflow One List to

Another

http://www.endusersharepoint.com/?p=1037

Describes how to port a SharePoint Designer workflow from one

list to another

12) GOVERNANCE

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Plan governance

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263341.aspx

The articles in this chapter can help you determine the aspects of

your Office SharePoint Server 2007 deployment to govern and

include discussions of governance techniques

Governance features in Office SharePoint Server 2007

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262287.aspx

This article reviews a set of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server

2007 features that your organization can use to help govern your

Office SharePoint Server 2007 IT service or your enterprise’s

information architecture

White Paper: Steps for building governance into Microsoft

Office SharePoint Server 2007

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262879.aspx

This white paper describes how planning for governance, although

challenging, can provide benefits in the enterprise by eliminating

chaos and improving productivity.

White Paper: SharePoint Products and Technologies

governance checklist guide

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc261826.aspx

This governance checklist can help your governance body develop

your enterprise's governance plan

Sample template: SharePoint Products and Technologies

governance plan

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262943.aspx

This sample template is designed to help an enterprise's

governance body record its decisions, including governance

objectives, stakeholders, policies, support, and other elements of

the governance plan.

13) ADMINISTRATION

a) Installation

Determine hardware and software requirements

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262485.aspx

This article describes the hardware and software requirements for

installing Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007

Downloadable book: Installation guide for Office SharePoint

Server 2007

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc298924.aspx

This guide provides the information you need to successfully

install Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 to a stand-alone

computer or simple server farm

Virtual lab: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007

Installation and Configuration

http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=6555312

Learn about the installation and configuration options available in

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007

End-to-end deployment scenarios

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263138.aspx

Provides information and directions for deploying Microsoft Office

SharePoint Server 2007 as an end-to-end solution, whether on a

single computer or on a simple server farm

White Paper: Administrator’s Guide of Topics to Consider

before Deployment

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd379034.aspx

Guides administrators who are new to SharePoint products and

technologies through key articles to consider before deploying

SharePoint products and technologies in their environments

SharePoint Gear Up

http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/gearup/Pages/default.aspx

Helps you find the right resources at the right time for your

SharePoint Server 2007 deployment

Using scripts to automate SharePoint Server 2007 installation

http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=135694&clcid=0x409

Automate Web App Deployment with the SharePoint API

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc507633.aspx

How to automate custom SharePoint application deployments, use

the SharePoint API, and avoid the hassle of custom site definitions

Best practices for deploying Microsoft Office SharePoint

Server 2007 with Hyper-V on HP ProLiant servers

http://h20195.www2.hp.com/V2/GetDocument.aspx?docname=4A

A2-1877ENW

Physical storage recommendations

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc298801.aspx

Recommendations for SharePoint Application Pool Settings

http://blogs.msdn.com/joelo/archive/2007/10/29/sharepoint-app-

pool-settings.aspx

EXTERNAL BLOB STORAGE

External Storing of Binary Large Objects (BLOBs) in Windows

SharePoint Services

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb802976.aspx

The Help topics in this section describe how to use the special

external binary large object (BLOB) store provider (EBS Provider)

interface, ISPExternalBinaryProvider, to allow you to store BLOB

data in a data store that is external to the SharePoint content

database

Inside SharePoint - Creating an External Storage Solution for

SharePoint

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-

us/magazine/2009.06.insidesharepoint.aspx

This article discusses the advantages and disadvantages of using

an external storage solution; extending the SharePoint storage

architecture using the ISPExternalBinaryProvider API in managed

and unmanaged code; and how to avoid data loss during lazy

garbage collection

b) Data Protection and Recovery

Plan for data protection and recovery

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263031.aspx

Features in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 that provide

data protection and recovery and additional data protection and

recovery tools

Choose what to protect

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http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc261903.aspx

Recommendations for data protection and recovery scenarios

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262564.aspx

A system-wide strategy for data protection and recovery should

encompass the plans you have created for the sites and Web

applications in your farm and address the specific scenarios you

support.

White Paper: Data protection and recovery for Office

SharePoint Server

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262129.aspx

Explains how administrators can protect and recover data in

SharePoint Products and Technologies. This paper describes data

recovery from the item level to the farm level

Back up and restore an entire farm

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262412.aspx

There are several methods you can use to back up and restore

data for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007

How to Recover a Windows SharePoint Services Farm

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb795596.aspx

Demo: Backing up, restoring, high availability, and disaster

recovery for SharePoint Server farms

http://www.microsoft.com/winme/0712/31729/Module6/Local/index

.html

Choose backup and recovery tools

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263427.aspx

In this article, built-in backup and recovery tools, external backup

and recovery tools and Third-party solutions and custom tools

Tips for improving backup and recovery performance

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc901593.aspx

Use the tips in this article to help you decrease the effect on

performance of backup and recovery operations

How to defragment Windows SharePoint Services 3.0

databases and SharePoint Server 2007 databases

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/943345

This article describes how to defragment Microsoft Windows

SharePoint Services 3.0 databases and Microsoft Office

SharePoint Server 2007 databases

DATA PROTECTION MANAGER

DPM 2007 and SharePoint

http://www.microsoft.com/SystemCenter/DataProtectionManager/e

n/us/protect-SharePoint.aspx

White Paper: Protecting Office SharePoint Server 2007 by

using System Center Data Protection Manager

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd252713.aspx

White Paper: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Search

Backup for DPM 2007

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc505995.aspx

c) Monitoring

White Paper: Analyzing Microsoft SharePoint Products and

Technologies Usage

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=f159a

f68-c3a3-413c-a3f7-2e0be6d5532e&displaylang=en

How to gather and analyze SharePoint Products and Technologies

usage data

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 health model

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc288911.aspx

d) Performance Tuning

How can I make my web site faster with caching?

http://blogs.msdn.com/ecm/archive/2006/11/08/how-to-make-your-

moss-2007-web-site-faster-with-caching.aspx

Tune Web server performance

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc298550.aspx

Improve the performance of Web servers by using the

recommendations for physical architecture and tuning in this

article

e) Software Updates

Deploy software updates for Windows SharePoint Services

3.0

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc288269.aspx

Deploy software updates for Office SharePoint Server 2007

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263467.aspx

Video: Understanding and Deploying Hotfixes, Public

Updates, and Service Packs

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=387c

def6-a807-4cf8-ae2c-16f0afccaf3c&DisplayLang=en

This presentation, given by an escalation engineer at the Microsoft

Office SharePoint Server conference in March 2008, provides

valuable information about the different types of software updates

that Microsoft releases for Windows SharePoint Services and

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server

f) Tools

STSADM

Stsadm command-line tool

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc261956.aspx

Stsadm Technical Reference for SharePoint Server 2007

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-

us/office/sharepointserver/cc948709.aspx

Use the interactive application on this page to learn about the

commands available

Index for Stsadm operations and properties (Windows

SharePoint Services)

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc288413.aspx

Poster: Stsadm Technical Reference – Windows SharePoint

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http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=120151&clcid=0x409

Index for Stsadm operations and properties (Office

SharePoint Server)

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263384.aspx

Poster: Stsadm Technical Reference – Office SharePoint

Server

http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=120150&clcid=0x409

MICROSOFT SHAREPOINT ADMINISTRATION

TOOLKIT

Microsoft SharePoint Administration Toolkit v3.0 x86

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=412A9

EF1-3358-4420-B820-0CA3F4641651&displaylang=en

This toolkit contains the ability to diagnose performance issues,

perform bulk operations on site collections, an Stsadm operation

to update alert e-mails after the URL for a Web application has

been changed, and a User Profile Replication Engine tool

Microsoft SharePoint Administration Toolkit v3.0 x64

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=BE58D

769-2516-43CB-9890-3F79304528FF&displaylang=en

SharePoint Diagnostics Tool (SPDiag)

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd745013.aspx

User Profile Replication Engine

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc663011.aspx

Batch Site Manager

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc508852.aspx

Updatealert Stsadm operation

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc508847.aspx

SHAREPOINT ASSET INVENTORY TOOL

SharePoint Asset Inventory Tool

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc295797.aspx

Allows IT professionals to inventory all of the computers in the

network and identify servers that have SharePoint installed on

them

SHAREPOINT MONITORING TOOLKIT

SharePoint Monitoring Toolkit

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb975149.aspx

Contains two management packs for System Center Operations

Manager 2007 that facilitate the management of SharePoint®

environments of all sizes

g) Troubleshooting

SharePoint 2007 Versions

http://www.davehunter.co.uk/Blog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=77

How do you find out what version of SharePoint you are running?

Troubleshooting backup and recovery

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263025.aspx

Use this information to troubleshoot problems that you encounter

during backup or recovery

Troubleshoot Messaging Integration

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc718983.aspx

Events and error reference

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc721660.aspx

Account permissions and security settings (Office SharePoint

Server)

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc678863.aspx

This article describes Microsoft Office SharePoint Server

administrative and services account permissions. It covers the

following areas: Microsoft SQL Server, the file system, file shares,

and registry entries

Plan for administrative and service accounts

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263445.aspx

Special directories and storage locations (Office SharePoint

Server)

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc721635.aspx

This article lists the folders and files that are used by Microsoft

Office SharePoint Server 2007

Files and permissions for Office SharePoint Server 2007

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc721637.aspx

This article lists the detailed minimum file permission settings for

folders and files created when you install MOSS 2007

Running Central Admin on Multiple Servers within a Farm

http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/blogs/fromthefield/Lists/Posts/Post.

aspx?ID=60

Decentralizing Site Administration

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc510330.aspx

Security model of WSS 3.0, including its advantages and

implications when delegating administrative control over

SharePoint sites to individual departments while maintaining

centralized administrative control over the SharePoint

infrastructure.

Special directories and storage locations

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc721635.aspx

This article lists the folders and files that are used by Microsoft

Office SharePoint Server 2007.

Moving all databases to a different database server or a

server with the same name

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=6568

6896-c171-46a8-a95f-54f43ad79952&displaylang=en

Two procedures describing how to move databases to a different

server or a server with the same name

h) Security

Roadmap to security content for Office SharePoint Server

2007

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263518.aspx

Links to security topics relating to Microsoft Office SharePoint

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Downloadable book: Security for Office SharePoint Server

2007

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262619.aspx

This guide describes how security is implemented in Microsoft

Office SharePoint Server 2007. The audiences for this guide

include information architects, IT generalists, and program

managers who are planning to make Office SharePoint Server

2007 sites accessible from the Internet

Account permissions and security settings

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc678863.aspx

This article describes Microsoft Office SharePoint Server

administrative and services account permissions. It covers the

following areas: Microsoft SQL Server, the file system, file shares,

and registry entries

Plan for security roles

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262918.aspx

SharePoint Security Accounts

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/dd297618.aspx

Maintaining Security Account Credentials

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-

us/magazine/2009.02.insidesharepoint.aspx

Deals with the architectural details and the complicated process of

accomplishing password changes

Folders may have to be excluded from antivirus scanning

when you use a file-level antivirus program

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/952167

Plan for secure communication within a server farm

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263077.aspx

This article provides guidance on securing server-to-server

communication and client-server communication

Security Hardening

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262331.aspx

Plan security for an external anonymous access environment

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263468.aspx

14) INTEGRATION

a) Office 2007

White paper: Good, better, best: Office and SharePoint

Products and Technologies

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263391.aspx

This white paper describes how different versions of Microsoft

Office programs work together with the 2003 and 2007 versions of

SharePoint Products and Technologies.

Blueprint for using data in SharePoint Server

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/excel/HA102639771033.aspx

By combining Office SharePoint Server 2007, the 2007 Microsoft

Office system, and the data in your enterprise, you can create a

business solution that will make you feel right at home

Setting Up Development Environments for the 2007 Microsoft

Office System

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb330848.aspx

Learn how to set up development environments for the 2007

Microsoft Office system, including client and server applications

White Paper: Compliance Features in the 2007 Microsoft

Office System

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=D64D

FB49-AA29-4A4B-8F5A-32C922E850CA&displaylang=en

Describes compliance-related features and extensibility

opportunities within the 2007 Microsoft Office system that can

assist you to meet the demands of regulatory compliance

Integrate VSTO with SharePoint Content Types

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc507632.aspx

How to build a document-level Visual Studio Tools for Office

customization and integrate it with a content type in SharePoint

Extending Office Applications with Web Services

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-

us/magazine/2008.11.insidesharepoint.aspx

The 21 standard Web services in Microsoft Windows SharePoint

Services (WSS) 3.0 and 19 standard Web services in Microsoft

Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 enable you to create

remarkably flexible solutions for retrieving data from local and

remote resources, extending standard Microsoft Office suite

features and integrating business applications

DOCUMENT INFORMATION PANEL

Document Information Panel Overview

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms550037.aspx

Manage Metadata with Document Information Panels

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc500578.aspx

How to use Document Information Panels in the Microsoft 2007

Office system to manipulate metadata from Office docs for better

discovery and management

Creating and Editing Custom Document Information Panels

from Office SharePoint Server 2007

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb684925.aspx

How to Create a Custom Document Information Panel from

InfoPath

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms563688.aspx

How to insert SharePoint metadata into your Word document

using Quick Parts and Content Types

http://amatterofdegree.typepad.com/a_matter_of_degree/2008/05/

how-to-get-shar.html

TASK PANE

Creating a Custom Task Pane to Consume SharePoint Server

2007 Query Services in Word 2007

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb870301.aspx

SMART TAGS

Using the Business Data Catalog and Smart Tags with the

2007 Microsoft Office System

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Learn how to build custom applications that use the business data

catalog and smart tags

OFFICE BUSINESS APPLICATIONS

Office Business Application for Sales Proposal Document

Management

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc185135.aspx

Learn how to use the Microsoft Office platform to create a custom

solution that allows multiple users to collaborate on the creation of

a sales proposal response document

Office Business Application for Customer Support

Management

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc185134.aspx

Learn to build custom applications that use Microsoft Office

SharePoint Server 2007, Microsoft Office InfoPath 2007, SQL

Server Analysis Services, SQL Server Integration Services, and

the Business Data Catalog

Office Business Applications: Pricing Exception Management

Solution

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb977552.aspx

Learn to implement an internal Price Exception Management

solution. Examine how you can use Office Business Applications

to establish interoperability between SAP and the 2007 Microsoft

Office system

EXCEL 2007

Using Excel and Excel Services with SQL Server Analysis

Services 2008

http://blogs.msdn.com/excel/archive/2008/08/28/using-excel-excel-

services-with-sql-server-analysis-services-2008.aspx

Shows how to enable Excel 2007 and Excel Services to access

SQL Server Analysis Services 2008 by adding MSOLAP.4 as a

trusted data provider

Working with Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 from Excel

2007

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb395217.aspx

Learn about important changes to Microsoft Office Excel 2007 that

allow more powerful analysis of Microsoft Windows SharePoint

Services lists. Find out how these changes affect the ability of

Excel 2007 to read and write changes to Windows SharePoint

Services linked lists

ONE NOTE 2007

OneNote and SharePoint – the basics

http://blogs.msdn.com/mcsnoiwb/archive/2008/12/03/onenote-and-

sharepoint-the-basics.aspx

How to configure SharePoint to let you search OneNote 2007

content on SharePoint sites

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/925765

VISIO 2007

Integrating Visio 2007 and SharePoint Products and

Technologies

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb229690.aspx

Learn about enhanced features for integrating Microsoft Office

Visio 2007 with Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007

b) AJAX

Installing ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX Extensions 1.0 in Windows

SharePoint Services Version 3.0

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb861898.aspx

Describes the procedures to install and configure the ASP.NET

AJAX 1.0 Extensions

Walkthrough: Creating a Basic ASP.NET AJAX-enabled Web

Part

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb861877.aspx

This walkthrough describes the steps for creating a basic

ASP.NET AJAX-enabled Web Part that you can add to your Web

Part page.

Integrating ASP.NET AJAX with SharePoint

http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/blogs/mike/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?I

D=3

How To Create AJAX-enabled SharePoint Web Part with

UpdatePanel and UpdateProgress in 10 minutes

http://jamestsai.net/Blog/post/How-To-Create-AJAX-enabled-

SharePoint-Web-Part-with-UpdatePanel-and-UpdateProgress-in-

10-minutes.aspx

How you can setup your SharePoint site to support Microsoft

ASP.NET AJAX framework and create a basic AJAX-enabled

SharePoint Web Part

Add support for AJAX in your SharePoint installation

http://www.zimmergren.net/archive/2008/03/15/moss-2007-add-

support-for-ajax-in-your-sharepoint-installation.aspx

AJAX SharePoint List Rotator WebPart

http://www.sharepointsecurity.com/blog/sharepoint/sharepoint-

2007-development/ajax-sharepoint-list-rotator-webpart/

Calling into SharePoint Web Service using AJAX-Enabled

Web Parts

http://www.synergyonline.com/blog/blog-

moss/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=15

c) Silverlight

Get Started: The Official Microsoft Silverlight Site

http://silverlight.net/GetStarted/

Microsoft Silverlight extends and amplifies your existing

development skills, empowering you to build new types of

applications for the Web regardless of target platform or browser

Microsoft Silverlight Developer Center

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/silverlight/default.aspx

How to Create a Silverlight Web Part in ASP.NET for Use in

SharePoint Server 2007

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc627341.aspx

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Silverlight Blueprint for SharePoint

http://www.codeplex.com/SL4SP

How To: Get up and running with the Silverlight 2.0 Blueprints

for SharePoint 2007

http://www.zimmergren.net/archive/2008/03/19/how-to-get-up-and-

running-with-the-silverlight-2-0-blueprints-for-sharepoint-

2007.aspx

SharePoint and Silverlight-Accessing SharePoint list data for

Silverlight without web services

http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/blogs/GetThePoint/Lists/Posts/Pos

t.aspx?ID=204

d) jQuery

Tutorials: jQuery

http://docs.jquery.com/Tutorials

jQuery Cheatsheet

http://colorcharge.com/jquery/

Integrating SharePoint 2007 and jQuery

http://weblogs.asp.net/jan/archive/2008/11/20/sharepoint-2007-

and-jquery-1.aspx

http://weblogs.asp.net/jan/archive/2008/11/20/sharepoint-2007-

and-jquery-2.aspx

jQuery | End User SharePoint

http://www.endusersharepoint.com/?s=jquery

Explore Rich Client scripting with jQuery, Part 1

http://msdn.microsoft.com/magazine/dd453033

Explore Rich Client scripting with jQuery, Part 2

http://msdn.microsoft.com/magazine/dd569752

Build Rich User Interfaces with jQuery

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/dd722809.aspx

Calling the SharePoint Web Services with jQuery

http://weblogs.asp.net/jan/archive/2009/04/09/calling-the-

sharepoint-web-services-with-jquery.aspx

Querying SharePoint List Items using jQuery

http://weblogs.asp.net/jan/archive/2009/05/06/querying-

sharepoint-list-items-using-jquery.aspx

Creating List Items with jQuery and the SharePoint Web

Services

http://weblogs.asp.net/jan/archive/2009/04/10/creating-list-items-

with-jquery-and-the-sharepoint-web-services.aspx

Using jQuery in SharePoint to Display Notifications for Open

Tasks

http://weblogs.asp.net/jan/archive/2009/05/07/using-jquery-in-

sharepoint-to-display-notifications-for-open-tasks.aspx

e) Project Server 2007

Enterprise Project Management with SharePoint

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-

us/magazine/2008.12.insidesharepoint.aspx

Review the MOPS architecture to show how the components

integrate with WSS 3.0 from a system architect's point of view

Deploy Office Project Server 2007 with Office SharePoint

Server 2007

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc197758.aspx

Discusses different deployment scenarios when integrating Office

Project Server 2007 with Office SharePoint Server 2007

f) SQL Reporting

Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services Add-in for

Microsoft SharePoint Technologies

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=0acb

75a6-7c1d-4e2b-af69-7e5f9ecad299&DisplayLang=en

Allows you to take advantage of SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 3

(SP3) report processing and management capabilities within

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 or Microsoft Office SharePoint

Server 2007

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services Add-in for

Microsoft SharePoint Technologies

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=200fd

7b5-db7c-4b8c-a7dc-5efee6e19005&displaylang=en

g) Rights Management Services

AD RMS Deployment with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server

2007 Step-by-Step Guide

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=d7d0

05da-b5e4-4c2e-9d44-58b5594232be&DisplayLang=en Step-by-

step procedures for deploying Active Directory Rights

Management Services with Office SharePoint Server 2007

h) WSRP

WSRP Toolkit for SharePoint 2007

http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/WSRPToolkit

Toolkit contains two sample implementations, including the source

code, of a WSRP producer for SharePoint and a whitepaper on

SharePoint interoperability using the WSRP Standard

i) SAP

Microsoft | SAP Customer Information Center

http://www.microsoft.com/isv/sap/

SAP MOSS Interop Animation ZIP

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=595b

6021-58bf-4628-8a27-8f54e7029eea&DisplayLang=en

Explains options and possibilities as well as limitations in the

combination of SharePoint 2007 and SAP NetWeaver

White paper: Integrating Office SharePoint Server 2007 and

SAP

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc261738.aspx

Explains the general business and technical challenges facing

customers who want to bring the power of their SAP assets into

the tools and places where information workers do most of their

work.

White paper: Integrating the Office SharePoint Server 2007

Business Data Catalog and SAP Enterprise for Search

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http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262344.aspx

Provides the configuration steps that allow search in Office

SharePoint Server 2007 to index and retrieve content from SAP by

using the Office SharePoint Server 2007 Business Data Catalog

Interoperability between SAP NetWeaver Portal and Microsoft

SharePoint Technologies

http://download.microsoft.com/download/b/c/1/bc1939d9-638f-

4053-b602-

4258f18bb683/CB_045_Interoperability%20between%20SAP%20

NetWeaver%20Portal%20and%20Microsoft%20SharePoint%20Se

rver%202007.pdf

This white paper describes all currently available interoperability

options between SAP NetWeaver and Microsoft SharePoint

Technologies possible

Using SAP Business Server Pages with Office SharePoint

Server 2007

http://download.microsoft.com/download/4/3/d/43de0f43-df6a-

4cf2-8c91-

2c9001df5945/cb_027_integration_of_sap_bsp_into_sharepoint_s

erver_2007.pdf

Configure Office SharePoint Server for SAP iView Web Parts

http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=96087&clcid=0x409

White Paper: Integrating SAP data by using the Business Data

Catalog

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=d5f7a

3ac-b983-4065-9d29-1ad31029f154&displaylang=en

How to integrate data from SAP 6.4 and Netweaver 5.0 by using

the Business Data Catalog

j) Siebel

Integrating Siebel CRM with Office SharePoint Server 2007

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb613692.aspx

Learn how to integrate Siebel CRM 7.8 with Microsoft Office

SharePoint Server 2007

k) LiveLink

Syntergy ShareLink Suite

http://www.syntergy.com/sharepoint%5Cproducts/sharelink/

A set of tools and experience to help you integrate Livelink and

SharePoint

l) EMC Documentum

Microsoft and EMC - Managing Content across an Enterprise

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=B104F

B63-D018-452A-899A-B88AF80A8CF0&displaylang=en

This paper describes the options available to customers who want

to take advantage of both Microsoft and Documentum EMC

enterprise content management solutions

Enterprise Search Indexing Connector 2008 for EMC

Documentum

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=2BE6

6504-21FB-4130-844C-0F89DA54515F&displaylang=en

Enables Microsoft enterprise search systems to index the contents

of an EMC Documentum repository and allows search results to

be displayed for users from within the Microsoft enterprise search

system

Overview Video - Installing and configuring the EMC

Documentum Connector

http://www.microsoft.com/winme/0804/32391/ConnectorTraining_

EMCDocumentum/index.html

Vorsite v-Parts for EMC Documentum

http://www.vorsite.com/WebParts.aspx

Connects employees to content stored across the organization,

allowing users to collaborate within the context of the business

process in which they are involved, while using the familiar user

interface of SharePoint

EMC Documentum Content Services for SharePoint

http://www.emc.com/products/detail/software/content-services-

sharepoint.htm

Provides direct access to the EMC Documentum Content Server

natively through the Microsoft SharePoint interface

EMC Documentum Archive Services

http://www.emc.com/products/detail/software/archive-services-for-

sharepoint.htm

Capture content in a consolidated infrastructure for records

retention, reuse, and electronic discovery needs

m) IBM FileNet

IBM FileNet Connectors for Microsoft SharePoint

http://www-01.ibm.com/software/data/content-management/filenet-

connector-sharepoint/

extends the capabilities of Microsoft® SharePoint, assisting life

cycle management.Users can stay in the familiar Microsoft

environment for document activities while using IBM FileNet P8

enterprise content management capabilities

Enterprise Search Indexing Connector 2008 for IBM FileNet

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=15000

4F9-FA15-41C6-902B-202AD2FC16D2&displaylang=en

Enables Microsoft enterprise search systems to index the contents

of an IBM FileNet repository and allows search results to be

displayed for users from within the Microsoft enterprise search

system

Overview Video - Installing and configuring the IBM FileNet

Connector

http://www.microsoft.com/winme/0804/32391/ConnectorTraining_I

BMFilenet/index.html

n) Lotus Notes

Mainsoft SharePoint Integrator for Lotus Notes

http://www.mainsoft.com/products/sharepoint_lotusnotes.aspx

Client-side add-on for Lotus Notes that provides direct access to

SharePoint document libraries from a Notes sidebar

15) ACCESSIBILITY

White Paper: Delivering Accessible Solutions using Microsoft

Office SharePoint Server 2007

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc668367.aspx

Provides information and guidelines about the issues that

organizations face when delivering Web solutions, including those

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built by using Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 that are

accessible to people with disabilities

White Paper: Best practices for developing accessible Web

sites

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc716527.aspx

Provides information about designing and developing accessible

Web sites in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007

The Accessibility Kit for SharePoint® (AKS)

http://aks.hisoftware.com/index.html

Set of files, programs, and utilities that facilitate the enhanced

accessible and usable output of Office SharePoint Server 2007

and Windows SharePoint Services

16) CODEPLEX PROJECTS

Podcasting Kit for SharePoint (PKS)

http://www.codeplex.com/pks

Podcasting solution developed on SharePoint Server 2007

Community Kit for SharePoint

http://www.codeplex.com/CKS

Set of best practices, templates, Web Parts, tools, and source

code that enable practically anyone to create a community website

based on SharePoint technology

SharePoint Governance and Manageability

http://www.codeplex.com/governance

Governance and manageability samples and tools designed to

help IT Professionals

Search Community Toolkit

http://www.codeplex.com/sct

Tools and code samples that have been contributed to enhance

the Microsoft search experience

Silverlight Blueprint for SharePoint

http://www.codeplex.com/SL4SP

Sample Silverlight web parts for SharePoint

SharePoint Tool Basket

http://www.codeplex.com/sptoolbasket

Set of tools for SharePoint - Document Rating, Ajax enabled

lookup field, Content Type Explorer, Feature Explorer, Audience to

group convertor...

SharePoint config store

http://www.codeplex.com/SPConfigStore

Provides the framework to be able to use a SharePoint list for

application configuration values

SharePoint 2007 Test Data Population Tool

http://www.codeplex.com/sptdatapop

Capacity planning and performance testing tool that populates

data for testing SharePoint deployments

Useful SharePoint Designer Custom Workflow Activities

http://www.codeplex.com/SPDActivities

SharePoint Access Checker Web Part

http://www.codeplex.com/AccessChecker

Quickly check what objects within a SharePoint site hierarchy a

user has access to

SharePoint AJAX RSS Aggregator WebPart

http://www.codeplex.com/AJAXRSSAggregator

Silverlight Toolkit

http://www.codeplex.com/Silverlight

Collection of Silverlight controls, components and utilities made

available outside the normal Silverlight release cycle

17) BEST PRACTICES

10 Best Practices For Building SharePoint Solutions

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/dd458798.aspx

These tips should help reinforce your knowledge, encourage

discussion, and ultimately lead to building great SharePoint

applications. In addition, a number of online references are

provided where you can learn more about the topics discussed

Best practices for operational excellence

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc850692.aspx

Best Practices for capacity management

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd335963.aspx

Best practices for publishing portals

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc850698.aspx

Best practices for team collaboration sites

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc850694.aspx

Best practices for My Sites

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262706.aspx

Best practices for Search in Office SharePoint Server

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc850696.aspx

White Paper: Best practices for developing accessible Web

sites

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc716527.aspx

Common Coding Issues When Using the SharePoint Object

Model

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb687949.aspx

Using Disposable Windows SharePoint Services Objects

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa973248.aspx

Best Practice to create designer friendly server controls

http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepointdesigner/archive/2008/10/03/best

-practice-to-create-designer-friendly-server-controls.aspx

Best Practices: Writing SQL Syntax Queries for Relevant

Results in Enterprise Search

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb219479.aspx

Planning and Monitoring SQL Server Storage for SharePoint:

Performance Recommendations and Best Practices

http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=105623&clcid=0x409

This paper provides key recommendations and best practices to

help administrators of SharePoint Products and Technologies plan

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and monitor their SQL Server storage requirements to support

optimal performance and operation of their server farms

18) MIGRATION RESOURCES

a) From SharePoint 2003

Upgrading SharePoint Portal Server 2003 Customizations to

SharePoint Server 2007 (2 part article)

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb954662.aspx

Learn the requirements to perform an upgrade of Microsoft Office

SharePoint Portal Server 2003 customizations to Microsoft Office

SharePoint Server 2007

SharePoint Portal Server 2003 APIs Deprecated in Office

SharePoint Server 2007

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/ms545807

See a list of the APIs that are deprecated in SharePoint Server

2007, because a new feature was introduced or a feature was

enhanced.

SharePoint Portal Server 2003 APIs that Do Not Work in Office

SharePoint Server 2007

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/ms544843

See a list of the APIs that do not work or that were removed.

Changes in SharePoint Portal Server 2003 APIs in Office

SharePoint Server 2007

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/ms548153

Learn about APIs changes

Determine upgrade approach

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263447.aspx

Before you run any upgrade process, you need to determine which

upgrade approach to take. This article to help compare the pros

and cons for each approach, and review information about special

cases that might influence your approach

Upgrade Toolkit for Windows SharePoint Services Sites and

Templates Guide

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=A70BD

8F8-A0F0-4D00-9010-

8E40B7C98F68&mg_id=10095&displaylang=en

Guidance and tools to enable IT Pros to upgrade custom Windows

SharePoint Services 2.0 sites and templates to function in

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 environments

Upgrading Windows SharePoint Services

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms460185.aspx

Provides information about how to extend the process of

upgrading sites that have been heavily customized in Microsoft

Windows SharePoint Services from version 2 to version 3

ISV PRODUCTS

DocAve SharePoint Migrator

http://www.avepoint.com/products/sharepoint-

migration/sharepoint-migrator

Metalogix SharePoint Site Migration Manager

http://www.metalogix.net/products/migrationmanagersp/

Quest Migration Manager for SharePoint

http://www.quest.com/Migration-Manager-for-SharePoint/

Tzunami Deployer for SharePoint 2003 Migration

http://www.tzunami.com/products/Pages/TDSharePoint2003Migrat

ion.aspx

b) From MCMS 2002

SharePoint Server 2007 for MCMS 2002 Developers

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/aa830819

See how SharePoint Server 2007 merges the functionality of

MCMS 2002 and SharePoint Portal Server 2003 together with new

functionality.

Assessing and Analyzing Your MCMS 2002 Application for

Migration

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/aa480227

Learn to use the CMS Assessment Tool to determine the level of

work required to migrate your MCMS 2002 site.

CMS Assessment Tool

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=360d0

e83-fa70-4c24-bcd6-426cafbcc627

Download this tool to assess and analyze the work required to

migrate your MCMS 2002 site to SharePoint Server 2007.

Mapping MCMS 2002 APIs to SharePoint Server 2007

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/aa480228

Understand the changes, differences, and benefits of the MCMS

APIs as implemented in SharePoint Server.

Planning MCMS 2002 Application Migration to SharePoint

Server 2007

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/aa480225

Use this guide in planning your migration to SharePoint 2007.

c) From IBM Lotus Notes/Domino

Resources for Interoperability and Migration from Lotus

Domino

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-

us/interopmigration/bb403105.aspx

TechNet homepage for Interoperability and Migration from Lotus

Domino

Migrating from Lotus Notes to the Microsoft Collaboration

Platform

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=A53A3

9B5-29F9-4F7E-86DA-D0A94BFD3882&displaylang=en

Provides you with a high-level overview of the process of

analyzing and planning a migration from Lotus Notes to the

Microsoft Collaboration Platform

Application Analysis Envisioning Process

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=AE068

FF4-75C0-4DDB-B632-AC639762D9F4&displaylang=en

Discusses the Application Analysis Envisioning Process (AAEP)

for Lotus Notes applications

ANALYSIS TOOLS

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Microsoft Application Analyzer 2006 for Lotus Domino

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=d94c5

719-570d-4adb-b449-70e1e42cbfc5&displaylang=en

BinaryTree CMT Inspector for Lotus Notes

http://www.binarytree.com/products/cmtio.aspx

MIGRATION TOOLS

Microsoft Transporter Suite

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=35FC

4205-792B-4306-8E4B-0DE9CCE72172&displaylang=en

Set of interoperability and migration tools to migrate content from

Lotus Domino servers

CASAHL ecKnowledge

http://www.casahl.com/solutions/IntegrateMigrateDomino.html

Migrate content from Lotus Notes, QuickPlace, Domino.Doc to

SharePoint, InfoPath, Groove, SQL Server, .NET and coexist, with

two-way integration between IBM and Microsoft

DocAve Lotus Notes Migrator for SharePoint 2007

http://www.avepoint.com/products/sharepoint-migration/lotus-

notes-migrator

Solution for the transfer of documents and application content from

Lotus Notes/QuickPlace/Quickr to SharePoint 2007

Tzunami Deployer For Lotus Notes Migration

http://www.tzunami.com/products/Pages/TDLotusNotesMigration.a

spx

Enables Lotus Notes migration into SharePoint products and

technologies

Quest Notes Migrator for SharePoint

http://www.quest.com/Notes-Migrator-for-SharePoint/

Tool for analyzing and migrating Notes, QuickPlace and

Domino.Doc application content to SharePoint

d) From Documentum

Tzunami Deployer for EMC Documentum

http://www.tzunami.com/products/Pages/TDDocumentumMigration

.aspx

Enables migrating EMC Documentum Content into SharePoint

products and technologies

Vorsite v-Pass for EMC Documentum

http://www.vorsite.com/DocumentumTA.aspx

e) From LiveLink

Tzunami Deployer For OpenText Live Link Migration

http://www.tzunami.com/products/Pages/TDLiveLinkMigration.asp

x

Enables migrating LiveLink content into SharePoint products and

technologies

f) From IBM FileNet

Vorsite v-Pass for IBM FileNet

http://www.vorsite.com/FileNetTA.aspx

Enables SharePoint to connect to existing FileNet repositories

19) SHAREPOINT ONLINE

Microsoft SharePoint Online

http://www.microsoft.com/online/sharepoint-online.mspx

Microsoft SharePoint Online Standard Developer Guide

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=d007f3

5e-375c-4b11-bc40-bc9082bb224a&displaylang=en&tm

This white paper describes the customization (or extensibility)

capabilities that are supported with the Standard offering of

SharePoint Online

20) FAVORITES FOR YOUR BROWSER

SharePoint Server 2007 Developer Portal

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/aa905503.aspx

Information about planning, coding, building, deploying, and

migrating solutions for Office SharePoint Server 2007

SharePoint Server TechCenter

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-

us/office/sharepointserver/default.aspx

Technical articles, highlights, communities, and blogs about Office

SharePoint Server

SharePoint Server 2007 Help and How-to

http://office.microsoft.com/en-

us/sharepointserver/FX101211721033.aspx

A complete Help system that includes conceptual and reference

information, as well as step-by-step procedures

Downloadable content for Office SharePoint Server 2007

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262788.aspx

White papers for Office SharePoint Server 2007

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262733.aspx

Video demos and training for Office SharePoint Server 2007

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262880.aspx

SharePoint Server - Virtual Labs

http://www.microsoft.com/events/series/sharepointserver.aspx?tab

=virtuallabs

SharePoint Server – Podcasts

http://www.microsoft.com/events/series/sharepointserver.aspx?tab

=podcasts

Webcasts - Technet

http://www.microsoft.com/events/series/technetoffice.aspx?tab=we

bcasts&id=42297

Webcasts - MSDN

http://www.microsoft.com/events/series/sharepointserver.aspx?tab

=webcasts&id=odall

Technical diagrams and other supplemental documentation

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263199.aspx

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MSDN Forums » SharePoint Products and Technologies

http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/default.aspx?ForumGroupID=3

28&SiteID=1

Migration and Upgrade Resource Center

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/aa905505.aspx

Governance Resource Center for SharePoint Server 2007

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-

us/office/sharepointserver/bb507202.aspx

Workflow Resource Center for SharePoint Server

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/bb421687.aspx

MOSS 2007 Case Studies

http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/search.aspx?ProTaxID=190

2

InfoPath Developer Portal

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/aa905434.aspx

21) BLOGS & ONLINE MAGAZINES

Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog

http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/

Microsoft Enterprise Content Management (ECM) Team Blog

http://blogs.msdn.com/ecm/default.aspx

InfoPath Team Blog

http://blogs.msdn.com/infopath/

Microsoft SharePoint Designer Team Blog

http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepointdesigner/default.aspx

Microsoft SharePoint End-User Content Team

http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/blogs/GetThePoint/default.aspx

From The Field

http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/blogs/fromthefield/default.aspx

Aggregated Feed: SharePoint Team Blogs

http://feeds.feedburner.com/sharepointmsteamblogs?format=xml

SharePoint Joel's SharePoint Land

http://www.sharepointjoel.com/default.aspx

Andrew Connell

http://andrewconnell.com/blog/Default.aspx

Ian's SharePoint Blog

http://www.wssdemo.com/Blog/default.aspx

Jan Tielens' Bloggings

http://weblogs.asp.net/jan/default.aspx

Serge van den Oever [Macaw]

http://weblogs.asp.net/soever/default.aspx

Heather Solomon - SharePoint Branding and Design

http://www.heathersolomon.com/Blog/

Stefan Goßner

http://blogs.technet.com/stefan_gossner/default.aspx

End User SharePoint

http://www.endusersharepoint.com/

SharePoint Demystified

http://blog.sharepointhosting.com/default.aspx

Michael Gannotti on SharePoint

http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/blogs/mikeg/default.aspx

Path to SharePoint

http://pathtosharepoint.wordpress.com/

Darren’s SharePoint and .Net blog

http://darrenjohnstone.net/

Steve Pietrek

http://stevepietrek.com/

SharePoint Reviews

http://www.sharepointreviews.com/

Independent product directory that provides SharePoint power

users, developers and administrators with objective reviews and

opinions on SharePoint Web parts, applications and development

platforms

SharePoint Magazine

http://sharepointmagazine.net/

SharePoint Magazine is an online magazine dedicated to the

world of SharePoint and related Information Worker Technologies

22) BOOKS

Inside Microsoft® Windows® SharePoint® Services 3.0

http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/books/9692.aspx

Author: Ted Pattison; Daniel Larson

Inside Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/Books/10472.aspx

Author: Patrick Tisseghem

Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server 2007 Best Practices

http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/Books/12197.aspx

Author: Ben Curry and Bill English with the Microsoft SharePoint

Teams

23) GET CERTIFIED

Exam 70-630: TS: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007,

Configuring

https://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/exams/70-630.mspx

Exam 70-631: TS: Windows SharePoint Services 3.0,

Configuring

http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/exams/70-631.mspx

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Exam 70-541: TS: Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0

– Application Development

http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/exams/70-541.mspx

Exam 70-542: TS: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 –

Application Development

http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/exams/70-542.mspx

Microsoft Certified Master: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server

2007

http://www.microsoft.com/learning/mcp/master/SharePoint/default.

mspx

24) INDEPENDENT SOFTWARE VENDORS

(ISVS)

Important Note: The Vendor list given below is for reference

only. None of the vendors or their products is endorsed by me.

Please independently evaluate suitability of a product before

installing and/or using it.

AvePoint, Inc

http://www.avepoint.com/

Bamboo Solutions

http://store.bamboosolutions.com/

Bluethread, Inc

http://www.bluethreadinc.com/

BrightWork

http://www.brightwork.com

CASAHL Technology, Inc.

http://www.casahl.com/Solutions/SharePointSolutions.html

Colligo Networks, Inc

http://www.colligo.com/

CorasWorks Corporation

http://www.corasworks.com/Products/

Dark Blue Duck

http://www.darkblueduck.com/

Data Springs, Inc.

http://www.datasprings.com/

KnowledgeLake, Inc.

http://www.knowledgelake.com/

KWizCom Corporation

http://www.kwizcom.com/

Lightning Tools Ltd

http://www.lightningtools.com/

Metalogix Software Corporation

http://www.metalogix.com/

Nintex USA LLC

http://www.nintex.com/

Quest Software, Inc.

http://www.quest.com/sharepoint/

Skelta Software

http://www.skelta.com/

Sharepoint360, LLC

http://www.sharepoint360.com/

SourceCode

http://www.k2.com/en/index.aspx

Techtra Inc.

http://www.techtra.ca

Telerik Corporation

http://www.telerik.com/

Tzunami Inc.

http://www.tzunami.com

Web Part Gallery.com

http://www.webpartgallery.com/

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