Sharepoint

I stumbled today upon a nice tool mensioned on Kailash blog, the Tool called BDC Batman which help you generate your BDC definition file

 

 

Download it here

Tool homepage and Quick How to is here 

Robert Bogue refered us to a nice sharepoint tutorials on LearnVu

Thank you Robert for the post

if you have saved some PDF documents in WSS 3.0 document library;but ni pdf documents are returned in the search results then read the following KB article on Microsoft which describes how to install adope pdf ifilter, the steps as described in the article are:   1. Download and then install the Adobe PDF IFilter from the following Adobe Web site: http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=2611 (http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=2611) Microsoft provides third-party contact information to help you find technical support. This contact information may change without notice. Microsoft does not guarantee the accuracy of this third-party contact information. 2. Add the following registry entry, and then set the registry entry value to pdf: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Web Server Extensions\12.0\Search\Applications\<GUID>\Gather\Search\Extensions\ExtensionList\38 To do this, follow these steps: a. Click Start, click Run, type regedit, and then click OK. b. Locate and then click the following registry subkey: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Web Server Extensions\12.0\Search\Applications\GUID\Gather\Search\Extensions\ExtensionList c. On the Edit menu, point to New, and then click String Value. d. Type 38, and then press ENTER. e. Right-click the registry entry that you created, and then click Modify. f. In the Value data box, type pdf, and then click OK. 3. Verify that the following two registry subkeys are present and that they contain the appropriate values. Note These registry subkeys and the values that they contain are created when you installed the Adobe PDF IFilter on the server. • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Web Server Extensions\12.0\Search\Setup\ContentIndexCommon\Filters\Extension\.pdf This registry subkey must contain the following registry entry: • Name: Default Type: REG_MULTI_SZ Data: {4C904448-74A9-11D0-AF6E-00C04FD8DC02} • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Web Server Extensions\12.0\Search\Setup\Filters\.pdf This registry subkey must contain the following registry entries: • Name: Default Type: REG_SZ Data: (value not set) • Name: Extension Type: REG_SZ Data: pdf • Name: FileTypeBucket Type: REG_DWORD Data: 0x00000001 (1) • Name: MimeTypes Type: REG_SZ Data: application/pdf 4. Upload the PDF documents to the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Web site. 5. Stop and then start the Windows SharePoint Services Search service. To do this, follow these steps: a. Click Start, click Run, type cmd, and then click OK. b. Stop the Windows SharePoint Services Search service. To do this, type net stop spsearch at the command prompt, and then press ENTER. c. Start the Windows SharePoint Services Search service. To do this, type net start spsearch at the command prompt, and then press ENTER. d. Type exit to exit the command prompt.

Stumbled across this nice post on Combined Knowledge, it have some wonderful white papers:

* How to configure Email Enabled Lists in Moss2007 RTM using Exchange 2003
* Code Access Security in SharePoint 2007 for Administrators
* Demo - Inplace Upgrade of SPS 2003 Medium Farm to 2007 RTM

Finally it"s there, up on MSDN subscriber downloads site the MOSS 2007 RTM version is available :),

also you can find the Forms server Project Server and Groove server there.

Stumbled across this post from Nick Swan who illustrates how to enable forms authentication on MOSS 2007

 

Thank you Nick

 

Patrick Tisseghim highlighted today new update (2.1.0.0) to the great CAML Builder tool.

 

You can download it from here

 

Thank you Patrick

Eilene Hao started posting a new series on /folder/sharepoint.htm team blog focusing on how to write sharepoint custom workflows in VS, the series will cover the following topics

 

if you ever wondered if using Wikis or Blogs withing your organization would be useful, this Microsoft white paper is answering this questions and highlights the possible uses and advantages for Microsoft /folder/sharepoint.htm Blogs and Wikis

 

Read it here

[Patrick Tisseghim] has developed a sharepoint feature that lists all the installed features in MOSS 2007 server.

nice tool Patrick

 

You can download it from here

 

It brings you to a page with a simple listing of all of the individual features available in the server farm per scope where it can be activated.