I wanted to compare the capabilities of WSS 3.0 (Sharepoint 2007) to host forum-like discussions, blogs and wiki’s. After I’d developed my site, there were items that were visible to anonymous and standard users that I felt were inappropriate. I wanted information to be visible or not based upon the users role. Such as the ability to view lists of People and Groups. I’ve worked in several businesses where exposing customer names to all users is a violation of customer agreements. IMHO, this is a serious oversight in Microsoft’s implementation.
continue reading » »
SharePoint
Customizing and enhancing the security of a WSS 3.0/SharePoint 2007 site
Adding SSL support to an existing WSS 3.0 (SharePoint 2007) site
I developed and configured a WSS 3.0 (Sharepoint 2007) Team discussion site. My initial goal was to compare the capabilities of WSS 3.0 to host forum-like discussions. After I had a firmer grasp of the capabilities of SharePoint 2007 with respect to hosting discussions and AAA security ( Authentication, Authorization and Accounting); I wanted to support SSL. As you might guess, this involved more than simply installing an SSL certificate on my IIS website
Creating navigation links within a SharePoint 2007 or WSS 3.0 wiki page
I’m always hearing complaints about how deficient the SharePoint 2007 Wiki editor is. Although SharePoint 2007 is the 3rd release of the SharePoint product, some components are in their 1st release. The Wiki editor is one of these 1st release components.
One of the things people want to do is easily create inter-page navigation links like, top, bottom, etc. Although not the most user friendly approach, you can do this manually by entering anchors from the source view of the Wiki Editor. Here’s how I do it.