Monday, February 25, 2008

Microsoft Transporter Suite

On 20th Feb 2008 Microsoft release new tool to migrate Lotus Domino to Exchange or WSS

Transporter Suite contains a set of tools for migrations from both Lotus Domino Servers, and generic IMAP/POP sources. For Lotus Domino the suite contains a set of tools for Directory and Free/Busy interoperability between Lotus Domino 6 or 7 and Exchange Server 2007 and Windows Server 2003 Active Directory. In addition for Lotus Domino the suite contains migration tools to migrate users, groups, personal address lists, mailboxes, personal mail archives, and applications from Lotus Domino 5, 6 or 7 to Active Directory, Exchange Server 2007, and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. For generic POP/IMAP servers the suite contains a set of tools to bulk migrate mailboxes from any generic email servers that support the POP3 or IMAP4 protocol to mailboxes in Exchange Server 2007


To download tool click here

Thursday, February 21, 2008

Community Kit for SharePoint

Recently come across the Community Kit for SharePoint: Enhanced Blog Edition is designed to enhance and extend the functionality of the built-in blog feature in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. which provide the following enhancements are included in the CKS:EBE 2.0 Beta 1 release:

Easily deployable solution file (.WSP) with Features that can be activivated or deactivated
Modular Theme Framework ("MTF") with optional "night time" autoswitch themelet
Protection for anonymous access to 'System Pages'. This means anonymous users cannot access /lists/.aspx, /forms/.aspx, /_layouts/*.aspx
MetaBlogApi working a bit better...You will need to create a Picture/Document library called Media for it to upload images.
Support for Akismet comment spam detection
Multiple categories/tags can be mapped to each blog entry/post
Anonymous comments can be moderated
Name and URL fields in comments
Friendly URL ("FURL") for the blog's posts
Friendly URL for the blog's RSS feed
Support for CKS:TagCloud web part (being released separately)
Configurable settings
Enable content caching
Enable post triming (Vince, can you add a number field to set the # of characters?)
Lock down system pages
Akismet key
Set specific blog theme (as the default)
Custom RSS feed (e.g. from Feedburner)
Enable Theme Selector (so users can select their own theme)
Redirect the Post.aspx page (Vince, what's this for?)


To See Video Click here

To View Online Demo Click here

Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Training for Admin

The Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Training, built on the Microsoft SharePoint Learning Kit, is designed for server administrators to install on an Office SharePoint Server site to help end-users learn about Office SharePoint Server.

To download Click here

Monday, February 18, 2008

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Training @ your desktop

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Training at your desktop which contains articles, videos, and interactive training to help you learn and use the rich set of features in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
• The topic are :
• Collaboration
• Enterprise Content Management
• Search
• Portals and Personalization
• Business Processes and Forms
• Business Intelligence

For Download Click Here

Sunday, February 17, 2008

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS)

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, or MOSS, is a product help collaboration between teams both within and outside of an organization

The MOSS brings together six key functional areas of features and benefits that allow organizations to more effectively address these industry phenomena and stay competitive.

These areas are

Collaboration,
Portal,
Enterprise
Search,
Enterprise Content Management,
Business Process and Forms and Business Intelligence



The Collaboration “Collaboration” functional area can be summed up with the following feature

• Document collaboration
• Contacts
• Calendars
• Tasks
• Discussions
• Blogs
• Wikis
• Outlook integration
• Email integration
• Project management
• Offline lists and documents

SharePoint Deployment Essentials Guide

A new SharePoint Deployment Essentials Guide ready for download.

This guide was designed to provide you

1. Differences between WSS 3.0, SharePoint Server Standard and SharePoint Server Enterprise editions
2. Bulletted Sample SharePoint Server Deployment Plan
3. Checklists for IA, Taxonomy, Training, PM and Ops including sample SLAs and roles, Dev considerations, Infra, Dev and Test env, DR and HA and applicable descriptions (on the back) including a master page wireframe
4. Deployment Roles Diagram
5. Containment Hierarchy
6. Common Physical Toplogies
7. Intranet Governance Model (Pyramid)
8. 10 Steps to a succesful deployment
9. Deployment Flow Chart Role Swimlanes
10. Links and Additional Resources

Click here to Download and print this handy reference.

MOSS 2007 : Advanced lectures and white papers

Microsoft tech net released Advanced lectures and white papers for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. Which cover following topics

Overview: Office SharePoint Server server farm architecture
Overview: Configuring server farms
Securing server farms
Configuring performance options
Backing up and restoring Office SharePoint Server server farms
Operations and management
Capacity planning
Search architecture and configuration

Click here to access Technet

Saturday, February 9, 2008

Wockhardt Hospital and Emarr MGF IPO withdrew

Wockhardt Hospital and Emarr MGF withdrew its IPO yesterday due to poor response also this companies highly priced compared to its peers. 0.20 times and 0.43 times respectively. They will refund IPO money in the next 10-15 days.