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Browser and wiki workflow independence with Liferay the open source “SharePoint”

Jul 4th, 2009
by david.
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July 4th, 2009; today is the US independence day. This has put me in a reflective mood. As I was thinking about the current projects that I’m working on, I thought about this…

SharePoint 2007 is a great improvement over its ancestors: SharePoint 2003 and SharePoint 2001. The capabilities in document management make the old shared file systems obsolete. This is especially true for Microsoft Office products that integrate with SharePoint. I’m waiting for SharePoint 2010 to hopefully resolve some of the issues that the blog and wiki tools have. In the meantime, we have wiki and blog requirements that need to be met. In our search for a top flight wiki that was easy to learn and use by users; we discovered Liferay. continue reading » »

Using PowerShell to activate a feature across all Sharepoint 2007/WSS 3.0 sites and subsites

Jan 17th, 2009
by david.
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Recently, I was deploying a new feature to a WSS 3.0 site and needed to activate the feature on roughly 100 subsites. I did not want to do this manually with the web interface. I knew that I could write a C# program to do this, but I’d read a lot about the capabilities of PowerShell and decided to see how this could be done with PowerShell.
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Creating and registering a sitemap to Google for a WSS 3.0/SharePoint 2007 site.

Jan 10th, 2009
by david.
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If you develop or maintain internet facing websites, then you already know what a sitemap is and does. I create and maintain site maps for several sites. I recently added a sitemap to my WSS 3.0 site. With other web technologies this can be a 10 minute process. With SharePoint this turned out to have a few wrinkles.
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Customizing and enhancing the security of a WSS 3.0/SharePoint 2007 site

Jan 8th, 2009
by david.
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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.
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Adding SSL support to an existing WSS 3.0 (SharePoint 2007) site

Jan 6th, 2009
by david.
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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

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