Heathers SharePoint Resource page
[Via Andrew] Heather Solomon has put together a nice list of resources to many different SharePoint related topics, pointers to web parts, documentation and specs. Check it out!
Portal Webcasts in October
[Via Eileen] TechNet Webcast: Getting Started with Microsoft Collaboration: 30 New Applications for SharePoint Services (Level 100)Tuesday, October 4, 2005 – 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM Pacific TimeJason Bunge, SR. Product Manager – WSS, Microsoft Corporation Collaborative workspaces are one of the most important and easiest ways to jump-start your collaboration efforts. Microsoft has released […]
Building Websites with MCMS – now also available as ebook!
[Via Mei Ying] Building Websites with Microsoft Content Management Server is now available as an eBook. Get the bundle now from directly from Packt Publishing @ http://www.packtpub.com/mcms/book and enjoy a discount of 10% of the book and 80% off the eBook.
SharePoint Products and Technologies/CMS future – which is which?
Arpan talks about confusion for packaging and licensing of Office 12:http://blogs.msdn.com/arpans/archive/2005/09/18/471088.aspx
Some good news for MCMS customes I forgot to mention earlier…
Office 12 will have API completeness. So with next version of CMS the times that a tool like Site Manager is required to manually create resource galleries, create custom channel properties, maintain rights groups or to manually assign rights to containers will be gone! Means all and everything can be scripted! So no longer a […]
Slide Deck of Content Management Session of Ryan Stocker now online!
As Mark pointed out, all PDC slide decks are now online. Especiall interesting for all MCMS customers would be the following slide deck from Microsoft Lead Program Manager for Content Management Server Ryan Stocker: OFF313 Web Content Management Application Development and Engine Extensibility OFF313_Stocker.ppt And here is a link to another related sessions: OFF308 […]
Differences between CmsHttpContext.Current.Mode and WebAuthorContext.Current.Mode
This week I received two questions on confusion caused by the fact that the difference between CmsHttpContext.Current.Mode and WebAuthorContext.Current.Mode was not clear. CmsHttpContext.Current.Mode – Publishing Mode This mode reflects the current Publishing Mode of MCMS. So this mode indicates if the API will currently see the published or the unpublished version of the posting and […]
Must have hotfixes for ASP.NET 1.1 – yes that also affects MCMS!
Todd has listed a couple of must have hotfixes for .NET framework 1.1 which should be applied to almost every web server running ASP.NET 1.1! http://blogs.msdn.com/toddca/archive/2005/08/23/455116.aspx
MCMS v.Next – The curtain has been lifted at PDC
Ok, finally some official information next version of MCMS has been officially anounced and presented at PDC. Here is a short summary of everything that has been anounced so far: Next version of MCMS will be build on top of WSS in Office 12 ASP.NET 2.0 features like Masterpages will be leveraged Plugable Membership and Role providers allow […]
Office 12 User Interface – Another Channel 9 Video
At the PDC this morning Microsoft demonstrated Office 12 in public for the first time. The news you’ll hear is “they changed the user interface.” So, we wanted to talk with the team who came up with this new UI and we wanted to ask them “are you nuts?” After all, changing how Office works […]
Wanna see a demo of WSS V3?
There is a nice video up on Channel 9: http://channel9.msdn.com/showpost.aspx?postid=115383
Best Practice Whitepapers for MCMS 2002 and WSS
Designing Your MCMS 2002 Solution for Reusability Summary: Use best-practice design recommendations for Microsoft Content Management Server 2002 applications and Web sites to help you create your site in a way that prepares it for future versions of MCMS technology. (8 printed pages) Best Practices for Ensuring Application Reusability and Upgrade in Windows SharePoint Services […]