[Ref] Eli's SharePoint Resources

Eli's SharePoint Resources

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Http://weblogs.asp.net/erobillard/archive/2004/06/17/158311.aspx

Reference
SharePoint 2003 Administrator's Guide. Guide for installing, login ing, managing, and maintaining Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003.

Kbalertz. receive free e-Mail Alerts whenever Microsoft posts a new support or KB article. [index by technology] [SharePoint 2003]

SharePoint FAQ on gotdotnet. Questions and Answers contributed by Sharepoint and Microsoft newsgroup users.

Spsfaq. SharePoint Portal Server Frequently Asked Questions

Wssfaq. Windows SharePoint Services Frequently Asked Questions

Google search Microsoft.com.

Hubs
SharePoint on msdn.

Lamont Harrington's SharePoint resources. Had I seen this first I might have saved myself the trouble!

SharePoint D2d. A collection of resources including tools, webcasts and discussion areas.

Sharepointsolutions.com.

Community
Discussions.
SharePoint newsgroups (Microsoft.com). Release e the support newsgroups to ask questions, share information, or exchange ideas with others who use SharePoint Portal Server.

Weblogs.
[Amanda Murphy's weblog]
[Arpan Shah's weblog]
[Eli Robillard's weblog]
[Ian Morris 'weblog]
[Jan tielens 'weblog]
[Jim's SharePoint weblog]
[Steve Clark's weblog (SharePoint category)]
[Maxim V. Karpov's weblog (SharePoint category)] Wow. Go look.
Note: The category views above may not show links to the RSS/XML sources; to get those, click on the blog's title to get back to the unfiltered view and then look for the RSS link (s ).

Development
SharePoint Portal Server 2003 software development kit. This SDK contains conceptual overviews, programming tasks, samples, and references to guide you in developing solutions based on Microsoft SharePoint products and technologies. [documentation]

Web parts.
[Web Part pages and the Web Part infrastucture (msdn.com)]
[Creating a basic Web part]
[Debugging Web parts]
[Web Part templates for Visual Studio. NET]

Event Handlers.
[Document library event handler toolkit]
[Creating event log messages for a document library] Between des source code which may be extended to handle any document library event.

Namespaces.
[Microsoft. SharePoint namespace]
[Microsoft. Sharepoint. Utilities namespace]
[Microsoft. Sharepoint. webcontrols namespace]
[Microsoft. Sharepoint. webpartpages namespace] [microsoft. Sharepoint. webpartpages. Communication namespace]

Customization
Using pointmizmization.com. A collection of templates, skins and guidance for modifying the look and feel of SPs and WSS with FrontPage.

Customizing SharePoint sites and portals. A three-part series of msdn articles. [Part 1] [Part 2] [Part 3]

WSS demo site. it looks like a hub but it's really a sweet developer resource for WSS site customisation. the home page has a list of recent kb articles (It reads the kbalertz RSS feed) and the sections on articles and Demos provide a number of quick useful tips.

Webparts
Web component directory (Microsoft.com). Web parts, templates, tools, and complete solutions.

Smartpart for Sharepoint. A SharePoint webpart that can host any ASP. NET user control. Create Your webparts by using the Vs. Net designer instead of coding everything by hand!

Ifilters
Acrobat. Installing the Adobe Acrobat ifilter and associated icon.

MP3. an MP3 ifilter originally written for the meticulist document management system.

Tiff. this article describes how to enable Optical Character Recognition for Tagged Image File Format (TIFF) files, how to change the TIFF file size limit, how to enable automatic IC file rotation, and how to log tiff error messages to the Application Event Log.

Visio. with this download, you can extend the text search features in Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office and Microsoft SharePoint products and technologies to include searching within Microsoft Office Visio 2003 files. visio binary and XML formats are supported.

Ifilter shop. Commercial ifilters for a variety of formats including ZIP, shtml, WMA, vCard, and OpenOffice.

Integration
Microsoft Content Management Server 2002 Connector for Sharepoint technologies. mcms connector for Sharepoint technologies consists. net server controls, Web parts, Asp. net files, and documentation that enable MERs to integrate SharePoint Portal Server 2003 and Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 technologies with Microsoft Content Management Server 2002.

Microsoft Live Communication Server. An Instant Messaging Server platform to support SPS presence and document collaboration features.

Reporting services. A collection of SharePoint webparts that integrate with SQL Server reporting services.

Infopath Development
Infopath 2003 Service Pack 1 preview. advantages include. net allowing C # and VB. net code, improved access to data sources (schema changes don't break forms), and enhancements to the object model. this update will be released as part of an Office 2003 Service Pack, and no breaking changes are expected from this preview release to the RTM release.

Infopath toolkit for Visual Studio. NET preview. Create forms templates in infopath using Visual Studio.

Add-ons
Brightwork. a help desk ticket application built on SharePoint.

Microsoft Office solution accelerator for Sarbanes-Oxley. help your company efficiently manage the extensive work required to comply with sections 302 and 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. built on WSS. [Download] [Deployment Guide]

Archival tools

Avepoint. allows for the successful backup and restore of whole sites, documents and images with history, versions and meta data, areas with portal links, and all lists and items including contacts, events, tasks, and discussions.

Commvault. A product exists for SPS 2001, not yet for 2003. However an alpha ("engineering") release for SPS 2003 is available to existing MERs.

KVS Enterprise Vault for SharePoint Portal Server. automatically archive older information off the Sharepoint Server and into on-line stores. solves SPS's lack of an undelete feature and provides an alternative to document versioning without bloating the database.

Books
Microsoft SharePoint 2003 unleashed. Lynn langfield, Colin Spence, and Michael Noel (SAMS publishing ).

Microsoft SharePoint products and technologies resource kit. Bill English (Microsoft Press ).

Microsoft SharePoint: Building Office 2003 solutions. Scot Hillier (apress ).

Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server 2003: planning, design and implementation. Release Date: July 1. Kevin laahs, Emer McKenna, Veli-Matti vanamo (Digital Press ).

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