SharePoint Templates: Helpful tools in Hosted SharePoint Web Sites

Providing a starting point for the developers and the partner who look forward to build deeper solutions based on SharePoint hosting, the SharePoint Templates caters to the different business process needs in organization (irrespective of the size of the organizations). Fully compatible with the Microsoft office SharePoint designer 2007, the SharePoint Templates can actually be divided into two separate groups namely server admin templates and site admin templates. Providing out-of-the-box custom scenarios, the SharePoint Templates in SharePoint WSS 3.0 hosting can be applied in certain business tasks like sales campaign tracking or managing the helpdesk. Site admin templates are custom SharePoint Templates which can be easily installed into the template gallery by a SharePoint site administrator without requiring access to server administration. Server admin SharePoint Templates are site definitions. They enable tighter integration and increased functionality within Windows SharePoint Services platform. As against the Site admin templates their installation requires a server administrator.

The Application Templates which are out-of-the-box options and are pre-created can help you to start with your hosted SharePoint web site, or pages inside SharePoint Hosting Site. Easily applicable to the new pages, the SharePoint Templates and can be easily manipulated and changed, just like you do while building a SharePoint page from right from the scratch. The application templates also help to create web based applications which are capable of increasing the overall efficiency.

There are in total 40 SharePoint Templates created by Microsoft. These templates do not only save time but also increases the overall efficiency and also helps in the manipulation of the web parts (which are used to construct the SharePoint pages). The SharePoint templates are added or removed or can be edited according to your needs. All that you need to do is to identify your needs… You have a solution to your problem!

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Microsoft Details SharePoint-SQL 2008 Integration

Microsoft really wants SharePoint users to upgrade to SQL Server 2008, which was released to manufacturing on August 6. Yesterday, the company's SharePoint hosting and development blog pointed out that IT admins don't have to wait for the documentation to do so.

IT administrators typically look for Microsoft's "supportability statement" document before performing system upgrades. The document for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 is currently available, and it includes information about upgrading to SQL Server 2008 that was published on July 31.

The document describes MOSS 2007 hardware and software dependencies, along with precautions on upgrading from SQL Server 2005 to SQL Server 2008. For instance, you need to have the latest SharePoint service packs in place before installing SQL Server 2008.

"Office SharePoint Server 2007 supports SQL Server 2008," the document says. "However, you must install Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 SP1 or later and Office SharePoint Server 2007 SP1 or later before you install SQL Server 2008."

IT admins have to download and run the setup program, as well as "the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard," to perform the MOSS 2007 SP1 install.

The SharePoint Hosting and Development blog provides some upgrade tips and suggests that the "upgrade from [SQL Server] 2005 to 2008 is a pretty simple process." IT admins will have to install ".NET 3.5 SP1 and hotfix KB942288-v4" first in order to move to SQL Server 2008.

Microsoft's blog provides a list of features describing why IT admins should upgrade, but most of the benefits seem to apply just to improvements in SQL Server 2008. One potential benefit is data compression, which can be automated by default. Compression can reduce your backup size, although SharePoint stores data in the binary large object (blob) form, which doesn't compress as well as other data types.

"That said, you can probably see up to 30% [size reduction] on your blob-laden content databases and perhaps 90-95% on your other databases," the blog estimates.

Other improvements include a Resource Governor for SQL Server maintenance and administration, although the blog cautions that it "should not be used to control SharePoint's usage of SQL."

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How to Debug a Web Part for SharePoint 2007

The basic steps are as follows:

1. Open the solution with the web part(s).
2. Now goto Project ---> Properties --> Click on Debug ---> Set Start browser with URL to your share point site url e.g. http://sharepoint:80
3. Now Build the project. So it creates .dll and .pdb files in bin directory.
4. Now copy those both files into C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\wss\VirtualDirectories\ ( Your website)\bin directory.
5. Now deploy your web part project. Import the web part into the web part gallery so it is visbile, create a smaple page and add the web part to the page in design view and publish the page.
6. Now place a break point on the code of interest in Visual Studio.
7. Under the Debug Menu, select Attach to Process
8. Find the w3wp.exe process. If none exists, begin browsing to the site that has the web part you are debugging. (I usually conduct an IIS reset so that all of the w3wp.exe processes go away and the sole one that you are interested in is easier to find)
9. Watch as the page processes and as soon as your web part is hit, Visual Studio will load symbols and begin the debugging process
10. Enjoy....

Microsoft Share Point Server Solutions by Offshore Software Development India

“Offshore Software Development India is a software solution provider based in Ahmedabad, India Offers Microsoft Share point server solutions, moss site creation, web parts and workflow development, programmatically implementation of Project server"

Offshore software development India has added one more technology in its work profile. OSDI has successfully delivered site definition using Microsoft Share Point Server 2007 and Share point services 3.0. This site definition is for the job portal uses Master pages, Page Layouts, lists, web parts, site template, site columns, content types, customize search solution for the portal and many other share point features. All the development is done programmatically and solution of site definition is totally customizable with the features. Solution is easily installed and deployed in share point farm using installer.

The second part of the development was for the project server 2007. New site template has been created for the project server using FBA authentication. All the site definition and site templates are installable in the server farm using their installer or using manual installation.

Apart from the above site definition and site templates there are readily available web parts for the MOSS 2007 custom calendar, tree view control for the document library, people picker for Active directory users. All the web parts are available with installation package.

Team at OSDI is Please contact info@offshoresoftwaredevelopmentindia.com for the inquiry and development using share point server and project server.

About Share Point Server:

Office SharePoint Server 2007 provides integrated enterprise-class capabilities that can help improve organizational effectiveness by connecting people, processes, and information across boundaries. This helps in Manage content and streamline processes, Improve business insight, Find and share information more simply, Empower IT to make a strategic impact.

Benefits:

• Provide a simple, familiar, and consistent user experience.
• Boost employee productivity by simplifying everyday business activities.
• Help meet regulatory requirements through comprehensive control over content.
• Effectively manage and repurpose content to gain increased business value.
• Simplify organization-wide access to both structured and unstructured information across disparate systems.
• Connect people with information and expertise.
• Accelerate shared business processes across organizational boundaries.
• Share business data without divulging sensitive information.
• Enable people to make better-informed decisions by presenting
• Provide a single, integrated platform to manage intranet, extranet, and Internet applications across the enterprise.

For more information please refer http://office.microsoft.com/sharepoint/.

About Project Server:

With Microsoft Office Project Server 2007 and its clients, your organization can more effectively manage and coordinate work ranging from one-time projects to complex programs across the entire project life cycle. Office Project Server 2007 is designed to be accessible by its clients, Microsoft Office Project Professional 2007 and Microsoft Office Project Web Access.

Benefits:

• Budget Tracking and Cost Resources permit better financial insight and tracking.
• The Proposals capability in Office Project Web Access manages plans and activities prior to project approval.
• The Activity Plan capability of Office Project Web Access helps manage ongoing operations activities after project completion.
• The Reporting Data Service permits easy user reporting with common business reporting tools such as Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.
• With the Cube Building Service, users can easily select data to build portfolio analyzer cubes, for sophisticated analysis and reporting.
• About Offshore Software Development India:

For more information please refer http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/projectserver/.

About Offshore Software Development India:

OSDI offering a wide range of skills in IT Services, Mainly focusing in Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Software Development, IT Consultancy, Web Designing / Web Development, Offshore Outsourcing, Multimedia, Customized Software Applications and Search Engine Optimization (SEO).

OSDI offers following services

• B2B, B2C portal development, CMS, E accounting solution,
• Web development of full-scale enterprise applications using Asp.NET. PHP, Flash
• Customization of Drupal, Joomla, Magento Commerce, Oscommerce
• Php Development using Zend framework, Symphony framework.
• Enterprise solutions using share point server and project server
• Solutions, administrations and maintenance for the Microsoft Commerce Server.
• Development using Microsoft BizTalk Server

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