Fancy a reader? Try SCE Kit Beta & Reader Beta SDK!

Microsoft has lounched a new SDK to support sindication of contents based on .net 3.0 and WPF. It is named Syndicated Client Experiences and if in Beta version with 3 implemented readers:

MSDN Reader

P-I Reader by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Times Reader by The New York Times

The SDK is freely available and there is documentation to support your own client development.

I have tried the MSDN reader and I’m preaty pleased with the fluent interface and usability of the reader.

Some related links:

• WindowsClient.net landing page
• Start Building Your Own Syndicated Client – Get Started Building Your Own Syndicated Client Experiences Application: Videos, docs, sdk, etc

Deploying Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 geographically

New post on the Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Team Blog. From the post:

…

 guidance that our team recently published around deploying Office SharePoint Server globally.

The guidance is published as a series of articles on TechNet:

• Plan to deploy Office SharePoint Server globally
• Supported global solutions for Office SharePoint Server
• Extending Office SharePoint Server global solutions with Office Outlook 2007 and Office Groove software
• Design global information architecture and governance
• Plan for global enterprise search
• Plan for bandwidth requirements
• Optimizing Office SharePoint Server for WAN environments
• Optimizing custom Web parts for the WAN

…

Deployment issue with cab file

While deploying a feature with a lot of files (200+; actually they are all the image files used in the project), I’ve used regular expressions to build the feature.xml and the element descriptor files. This is quite cool and you can actually build the files in a couple of minutes. But, as you don’t look at all the file names there are some issues that you will probably miss. In my case, I have built the WSP file with no sign of trouble. But when I was trying to deploy (stsadm -o add solution) I got the message “Failed to extract the cab file in the solution.”.

It seams that although the OS and all the WSP processing mechanism (WSPBuilder) allow, the deployment mechanism complains about special characters in the file names! After a thorough look, I found a file with a “+” in the name. 

Renamed the file, corrected all the references (deployment and usage) and it everything went OK.

If you get this king of message, my suggestion is to check all the file names. Look for special characters, language dependencies (i.e. çãõáéíóú…) in the file names included in the WSP.

Hope this helps.

Office Sharepoint 2007 Deployment on Technet

Yep, its that topic again. As I try to absorb as many information as I can on this topic, I came accross some technet information that I found useful. Here are the main links:

• Office Sharepoint Server 2007 landing page
• Sharepoint Deployment landing page

here is a snipet from that content:

In this section:

•	Downloadable books: Deployment and upgrade for Office SharePoint Server 2007 These downloadable books contain the full set of content for deploying and upgrading Office SharePoint Server 2007 in Word document format for easy printing.
•	Deployment worksheets for Office SharePoint Server 2007 These worksheets are companion pieces for several topics in this deployment section.
•	End-to-end deployment scenariosThese topics take you step by step through the process of installing Office SharePoint Server 2007 on a stand-alone server, deploying in a simple server farm, or deploying in an environment in which database administrators create and manage databases.
•	Deploy Office SharePoint Server 2007 in a server farm environmentThese topics help you deploy in more complex server farm environment and configure all of the Office SharePoint Server 2007 services and features you need to make available in that server farm.
•	Upgrading to Office SharePoint Server 2007These topics help you plan, prepare, and perform an upgrade from Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003 to Office SharePoint Server 2007, or to migrate from a Microsoft Content Management Server 2002 application to Office SharePoint Server 2007.

You can also install Office SharePoint Server 2007 from the command line instead of using the wizard interface. The following technical reference topics can help you understand the options available for using Setup.exe, Psconfig.exe and the Config.xml file from the command line.

•	Setup.exe command-line reference (Office SharePoint Server)
•	Command-line reference for the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard (Office SharePoint Server)
•	Config.xml reference (Office SharePoint Server)

Advanced SharePoint Videos and Whitepapers

New content on Technet about Sharepoint with videos and white papers.This is the current content available from Technet:

Title	Description	Streaming Video	White Paper
Overview: Office SharePoint Server server farm architecture	Describes how to plan server farms for reliability and scalability, and how to deploy Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 on a server farm.	None	Download
Overview: Configuring server farms	Describes configuration steps needed for server farms after deployment.	Watch	Download
Securing server farms	Describes how to help control access to information and how to help protect deployments from malicious users.	Watch	Download
Configuring performance options	Describes how to set up caching, IIS compression, and other options to help maximize performance of an Office SharePoint Server server farm.	Watch	None
Backing up and restoring Office SharePoint Server server farms	Describes how to back up and recover Office SharePoint Server server farms.	Watch	Download
Operations and management	Provides information about common operations and management tasks.	Watch	Download
Capacity planning	Describes how to determine requirements to support your capacity requirements.	Watch	Download
Search architecture and configuration	Describes how to plan for and configure search for Office SharePoint Server.	Watch	Download

This is the original post from Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Team Blog.

stsadm extensions (lots of useful new operations)

In an impressive contribution, Gary Lapointe has created an extension with 90+ operations to the stsadm command. We’ll soon need a bible to use stsadm, but nevertheless, a lot of iteresting operations are available with this. Here is the list of the current commands.

1. createquotatemplate
2. editquotatemplate
3. setmastersitedirectory
4. setallowaccesstoonlinegallery
5. disableuserpermissionforwebapp
6. enableuserpermissionforwebapp
7. setselfservicesitecreation
8. connecttoportalsite
9. setsitecollectiontitle setsitegeneralsettings
10. setuserprofiledefaultaccessaccount
11. setuserprofileimportschedule
12. gen2003to2007profilepropertymap
13. migrate2003profilesto2007
14. setpictureurlnewpath
15. setsitenamingformat (use mysitesettings instead)
16. enuminstalledsitetemplates
17. enumavailablesitetemplates
18. addavailablesitetemplate
19. removeavailablesitetemplate
20. enumnavigation
21. addnavigationnode
22. setnavigationnodes
23. copynavigation
24. enumfeatures
25. copycontenttypes
26. enumavailablepagelayouts
27. fixpublishingpagespagelayouturl
28. repairsitecollectionimportedfromsubsite
29. convertsubsitetositecollection
30. setsitedirectoryscanviewurls
31. enumtimerjobdefinitions
32. exportlist
33. importlist
34. copylist
35. getlistschemaxml
36. enumunghostedfiles
37. reghostfile
38. deletelistfield
39. moveweb
40. managecontentdbsettings
41. addsiteadmin
42. deleteweb2
43. mysitesettings
44. upgrade2
45. enumpagewebparts
46. movewebpart
47. setwebpartstate
48. retargetcontentquerywebpart
49. replacefieldvalues
50. applyupgradeareaurlmappings
51. publishitems
52. setlocalsitedirectory
53. import2
54. setsearchcenter
55. replacewebpartcontent
56. enumeffectivebaseperms
57. createwebapp
58. deletewebapp
59. exportlistitem
60. importlistitem
61. copylistitem
62. deletelistitem
63. setnavigationsettings
64. enumprofileprivacypolicies
65. setprofileprivacypolicy
66. enumprofileproperties
67. editprofileproperty
68. exportlistfield
69. importlistfield
70. updatelistfield
71. deletelist
72. copylistsecurity
73. updatelistview
74. setsspacl
75. createsearchscope
76. updatesearchscope
77. addsearchrule
78. setauditsettings
79. setusageanalysis
80. adduser2
81. adduserpolicyforwebapp
82. addlistitem
83. exportlistitem2
84. movesite
85. applytheme
86. retargetgroupedlistingswebpart
87. sitewelcomepage
88. enumwelcomepages
89. createcontentdb
90. createsiteindb
91. exportcontenttypes
92. exportsitecolumns
93. importsitecolumns

Please check the original post for updates.

Sharepoint resource usage and deployment

This is my kind of post: one that explains a topic top to bottom: SharePoint Resources, Types, Use and Deployment. Here Mikhail explains how to deploy and access resuorce files.

SharePoint 2007 and WSS 3.0 Dispose Patterns by Example

Great article with snipets on the topic of “to dispose or not to dispose”. Find it here.

MOSS/WSS SiteTemplate codes

If you ever tried to use stsadm -o createsite or createweb operations, you come accorss a the -sitetemplate parameter. It actually took me some time to find the accepted values for this, so I compiled all the ones I could find. I haven’t tried them all, so please keep me posted if you find any inaccurate information.

Value	Site Definition	Origin
STS#0	Team Site	WSS
STS#1	Blank Site	WSS
STS#2	Document Workspace	WSS
MPS#0	Basic Meeting Workspace	WSS
MPS#1	Blank Meeting Workspace	WSS
MPS#2	Decision Meeting Workspace	WSS
MPS#3	Social Meeting Workspace	WSS
MPS#4	Multipage Meeting Workspace	WSS
WIKI#0	Wiki	WSS
BLOG#0	Blog	WSS
BAS#0	Business Activity Services Team Site	MOSS
SPS#0	SharePoint Portal Server Site	MOSS
SPSPERS#0	SharePoint Portal Server Personal Space	MOSS
SPSMSITE#0	SharePoint Portal Server My Site	MOSS
SPSTOC#0	Contents area Template	MOSS
SPSTOPIC#0	Topic area template	MOSS
SPSNEWS#0	News area template	MOSS
SPSNHOME#0	News Home area template	MOSS
SPSSITES#0	Site Directory area template	MOSS
SPSBWEB#0	SharePoint Portal Server BucketWeb Template	MOSS
SPSCOMMU#0	Community area template	MOSS
_GLOBAL_#1	sitetemplate <- Can’t use this one! Just so you know it exists.	MOSS

10 ASP.NET Performance and Scalability Secrets

A very interesting article written by Omar AL Zabir, on a subject that should matter to us all: Performance and scalability of our solutions.

You can find the article here.

 (from the author blog)
…
In this article I (Omar) have shown the following techniques:

• ASP.NET Pipeline optimization
• ASP.NET Process configuration optimization
• Things you must do for ASP.NET before going live
• Content Delivery Network
• Caching AJAX calls on browser
• Making best use of Browser Cache
• On demand progressive UI loading for fast smooth experience
• Optimize ASP.NET 2.0 Profile provider
• How to query ASP.NET 2.0 Membership tables without bringing down the site
• Prevent Denial of Service (DOS) attack

My coment on the post: well written and documented. All the topics are sampled and coded from the C# to the SQL and IIS configuration. A must read.