SharePoint APAC Conference and recent articles
I have been getting ready for my presentation at the APAC conference. I will do a solo session on customization options of SharePoint which is titled
“UX01 A Guided Tour through SharePoint HTML, CSS, and Master Page Resources”. Once I finish this session I will post the resources and demo content on my blog which you can download and play with. Please check the times on the session’s time table for the exact times of the session if you are attending the conference. J
I will be co-presenting with Ari Bakker on guidelines and the solution accelerator available for IT pros to upgrade existing WSS V2 application templates to WSS V3. The session is titled “IT09 Upgrade Toolkit for Windows SharePoint Services Sites and Templates”. I recommend reading these guidelines even if you don’t have the application templates installed. SharePoint application templates are a good way to showcase the capabilities of using SharePoint in business scenarios. These often referred to as “Fab 40” templates can be downloaded from the Microsoft download center. Please make sure you have read the instructions on how to install these templates and have installed the “Application Template Core”. I have some of these available for demo on this site.
Totally excited about meeting a lot of people from the SharePoint community. J
**New articles and posts from the SharePoint community **
Usually I try not to do repeat posts or links to other posts but in some cases there are resources that just need that extra bit of promotion so that everyone who is working with SharePoint gets to see or read about these.
**My top picks for the last few weeks are **
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 on HP ProLiant Servers - Performance Summary
The white paper from HP showcases performance and example configuration details of SharePoint 2007 on HP hardware.
How DELL does IT: SharePoint Server 2007
“The new SharePoint infrastructure will deliver high availability, disaster recovery, and standardization, which contributes to a lower total cost of ownership.”
Marcus Brakewood, Dell IT Engineering Project Manager.
WSS 3.0 for Hosting Solution Kit on CodePlex
If you are a hosting SharePoint then you should look at this Solution Kit.
Customizing the Quick Launch menu: Adding fly-out menus to SharePoint navigation
How to customize the Quick Launch menu to display several levels of data in a dynamic way and use this customized menu for quick access to all Views within a List without consuming space on the Quick Launch
This white paper describes how different versions of Office programs work together with the 2003 and 2007 versions of SharePoint technologies. Although an overview of the integration features of Microsoft Office 2000 versus Microsoft Office XP with Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 is provided, the paper’s focus is on the integration features of the Office 2003 Editions versions the 2007 Office Suites with the 2007 SharePoint Products and Technologies.
**Top Picks for public facing MOSS sites **
How we did it: Mission critical HawaiianAir.com website powered by MOSS 2007
About a year ago, when Hawaiian Airlines planned to redesign the look and feel of their website, http://www.HawaiianAir.com, they wanted a solution that would improve the authoring and management of the website’s content. After an evaluation, they decided to take advantage of MOSS 2007’s Web Content Management (WCM) features even though the product was still in beta. So, they joined the MOSS 2007 Technology Adoption Program (TAP) and engaged Microsoft Consulting Services (MCS) to implement the new website.
Tourism Western Australia Launches Two MOSS 2007 Public Internet Sites
Via Sezai Komur and Angus Logan from across the ditch. Nice work guys. J
http://www.westernaustralia.com/
Prime examples that MOSS is one of the most powerful WCM systems in the market. This should really put any doubts that anyone has ever had on MOSS as a WCM platform
**Other public facing MOSS sites **
**Totally XHTML and table less design from the UK! **
Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust is an acute and general hospital providing services to 46,000 people in Plymouth, East Cornwall and South West Devon as well as specialist treatments to a population of up to two million from across Devon, Cornwall and Dorset. http://www.plymouthhospitals.nhs.uk/Pages/Home.aspx
Top 17 case studies for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and several new MOSS-based web sites
17 case studies and 100% MOSS. Check out the public facing sites list available via the above link.
There you have it.. if there are still doubts about performance scalability about SharePoint as a platform then the above should really help out in making a right decision to move to a platform that is highly capable of delivering above and beyond “it’s just another Microsoft product”.