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Microsoft recently released the Beta version of SharePoint Server 2010. Microsoft claims that migrating from SharePoint 2007 to 2010 is a easy and straightforward, however, I remember when migrating from SharePoint 2003 to 2007 the process was painful and difficult and there were several  incompatible elements that had to be dealt with. So I approached [...]

Microsoft Excel is the most popular spreadsheet application used in every office. As such SharePoint Server provides special support for it. In the current article, we will review SharePoint Excel Services and  publish a sample spreadsheet using Excel services.

SharePoint 2010 comes with several inbuilt workflow templates, such as one for document approval. Sometimes these templates are not suitable and new workflows need to be created.  You can do this in one of the following ways:

Workflows (sequences of connected steps) are an everyday occurrence in most offices and as such, SharePoint 2010 provides support for workflows. In this article we review how to add an approval workflow to a SharePoint Document Library.

Sharepoint ships with several templates inbuilt but at some stage you will want to expand the available options by creating new templates. Tempaltes can be created from scratch but in practice most templates are created by modifying an existing template.

Select Site Actions > Create  on the right hand side of the default page.

Click Sites and Workspaces under the Web Pages heading
On the New Sharepoint site page. Enter the Title and Description of the site:

Enter an appropriate URL which the site will become accessible from.
Select an appropriate template for the site. Templates under the Collaboration [...]

If you have created a group in Sharepoint you will likely want to create some custom permissions for the group.

Sharepoint installs with several prebuilt groups but in practice you will want to add custom groups for you company.

Sharepoint comes with several prebuilt groups but in practise you will want to add custom groups for your company.

To add a new user in Sharepoint (MOSS or WSS) the first step is to create the user on the server. Normally Sharepoint users are created in the Active Directory and then given permissions to use the Sharepoint installation.

SharePoint is one of the buzzwords that are used almost in every office. When a newbie enters in the world of the SharePoint technologies, one of the first questions  is: “What is the difference between the available distributions?” Generally there are two main distributions: Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (WSS) and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 [...]

At some point in your company’s SharePoint usage, you will probably want to expand the usage of your Intranet sites to clients. Extranet deployment usually requires some additional server and license resources which can add to the expense of the Sharepoint deployment. Fortunately, SharePoint Server 2007 has the Authentication Zones feature, which allows [...]

Introduction
Enterprise portals are an important part of today’s enterprise IT infrastructure. Portals are used as an entry point for a specific topic, organization, project or team. Many enterprises have an enterprise portal, opened by default when an employee opens up a browser, which shows general information about the enterprise, its strategy, its departments, etc. From [...]

Today’s information workers have a constant need to collaborate, share information and find information they are looking for. This need exists around projects and teams, meetings and documents and furthermore on a department and company wide level. But also with customers, partners and vendors as organizational boundaries are more and more disappearing. Typical approaches have [...]

Introduction
Microsoft Office  is very tightly integrated with SharePoint by utilizing its web services. Windows SharePoint Services comes with sixteen different web services. SharePoint Portal Server  supports an additional five web services. The web services provided by SharePoint do provide a vast array of features. But not all SharePoint features are accessible through them. If required [...]