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SharePoint Patterns & Practices

Jesper Lönnqvist — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 12:19:43 +0000

This guidance helps architects and developers design, build, test, deploy and upgrade SharePoint intranet applications. A reference implementation that is named the Contoso Training Management application demonstrates solutions to common architectural, development, and application lifecycle management challenges.

This guidance discusses the following:

Architectural decisions about patterns, feature factoring, and packaging.
Design tradeoffs for common decisions many developers encounter, such as when to use SharePoint lists or a database to store information.
Implementation examples that are demonstrated in the Training Management application and in the QuickStarts.
How to design for testability, create unit tests, and run continuous integration.
How to set up different environments including the development, build, test, staging, and production environments.
How to manage the application life cycle through development, test, deployment, and upgrading.
Team-based intranet application development.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd203468.aspx

Should I move all my files to SharePoint

Jesper Lönnqvist — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 09:21:36 +0000

A commonly asked question is: Should I move all my files from my fileservers to SharePoint? As always the answer depends… Bob Mixon and Joel Olesson has a couple of interesting posts on the subject, have a look at them before you decide what’s best for your organization.

Bob Mixon:
http://www.sharesquared.com/blogs/bobmixon/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?List=eb030c45-c8d8-4886-a7b4-fdb1c03a1274&ID=36

Joel Olesson:
http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2007/01/02/is-the-file-server-dead.aspx

Office SharePoint Server 2007

Jesper Lönnqvist — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 20:53:31 +0000

The Office SharePoint Server 2007 RTM is finally available for download here. This is a trial version, but it should be possible to upgrade it just by entering a product key during or after the trial has expired.

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0

Jesper Lönnqvist — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 12:49:49 +0000

Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 are now available for download here.

SharePoint Server 2007: Beta 2 Technical Refresh

Jesper Lönnqvist — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 13:45:20 +0000

This is an update to the Beta 2 version of a 2007 Office system product. Beta 2 Technical Refresh updates are compatible with the Windows Vista RC1 pre-release product.

IMPORTANT: Please read the update documentation, referenced in the "To install this download" section on this page, BEFORE applying this Beta 2 Technical Refresh update. The documents list several steps that you must complete prior to installation to ensure a successful update. This is NOT a single click update.

Download it here.

SharePoint Server 2007: Software Development Kit

Jesper Lönnqvist — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 13:42:30 +0000

The Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (Beta) SDK contains conceptual overviews, programming tasks, code samples, and references to guide you in developing solutions based on Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server 2007.

Download it here.

Office 2007 Partner Technical Readiness Training Presentations

Jesper Lönnqvist — Fri, 11 Aug 2006 15:21:34 +0000

There are a couple of presentations on key features of Microsoft Office 2007 downloadable here. They cover the following topics:

New User Experience
Enterprise Content Management
Knowledge Management
Business Intelligence
Server Development
Developing in Word 2007
Core Excel Advances
InfoPath Forms In Outlook
New File Format
Office 2007 Servers
WSS Collaboration
Document Management

Shared Service Provider

Jesper Lönnqvist — Thu, 15 Jun 2006 22:32:07 +0000

I’ve just completed an installation of Office SharePoint Server 2007 and I encountered a problem when I was trying to add a Shared Service Provider to the new farm. The documentation states that one should create a web application to host the SSP and when you create your SSP you just select the web app that you have. But in my case the list of web apps were empty, no matter of how many web apps I created.

So I turned to stsadm to create a SSP instead, wich worked perfectly. Just run stsadm.exe -o createssp to get a list of options for creating your SSP.

2007 Office System Starter Kit: Enterprise Content Management Starter Kit

Jesper Lönnqvist — Wed, 14 Jun 2006 12:57:43 +0000

The Enterprise Content Management (ECM) Starter Kit for 2007 Office System (Beta 2) contains ECM feature extension code samples, supplemental developer white papers, and Microsoft® Visual Studio® project templates for workflow in Microsoft Office SharePoint® Server 2007 (Beta 2 version). … Continue reading →