Enterprise AI & Cloud Architecture

What are the system requirements for WSS 3.0? The minimum hardware requirements are dual-processor with minimum 2.5GHz or faster and at least 1GB of RAM. Minimum software requirements are Windows Server 2003 (Standard, Enterprise, Datacenter, or Web Edition) with NTFS partition, IIS 6.0 in worker processor isolation mode, Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 (which includes the Windows Workflow Foundation and ASP.NET 2.0). For server farms, SQL Server 2000 SP4 or higher or SQL Server 2005 SP1 or higher (preferred) are required. For complete details, check out the  WSS system requirements  page on Microsoft's Web site. Can I install WSS 3.0 on Windows Server 2003 Web Edition? Yes, but you will have to use a remote SQL Server because with WSS 3.0, you cannot install the Windows Internal Database Engine on the Web Edition. Do I have to install SQL Server for WSS 3.0? No. If you are installing WSS 3.0 on a single server with default settings, the setup program will automatically...

SharePoint 2007 is the latest release of Microsoft's enterprise collaboration suite, which tightly integrates with the Microsoft Office Suite and allows organizations to establish well-managed corporate knowledge from the darkest depths of informational chaos. At least that's Microsoft unbiased opinion. In my experience, SharePoint 2007 is a major improvement over its predecessor, but it still takes a bit of know-how to make it work. The latest rendition of SharePoint is built on top of ASP.NET 2.0, so ASP.NET developers should feel right at home developing against, and customizing, SharePoint 2007. In fact, some of the "latest technologies" in SharePoint, like Master Pages and Forms Authentication, are "not-quite-the-latest technologies" from ASP.NET. In this article, I'll cover some of the quirks to  Forms Authentication  that you will doubtless encounter when trying to set it up in SharePoint. A step-by-step guide to configuring Forms authenticatio...

Recently, I had to get a few of my team members ready quickly for implementing Search in MOSS to search in multiple content sources (Oracle, Lotus Notes, SQL Server). So I prepared a list of URLs about the information available publicly and that would be sufficient to get started with. Sharing those URLs here: General Search Overview Article:  Find It All with SharePoint Enterprise Search http://www.microsoft.com/technet/technetmag/issues/2007/01/Search/default.aspx     TechNet Webcast: An In-Depth Look at SharePoint Server 2007 Search Technology (Level 200)    Event ID: 1032309959 http://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?culture=en-US&EventID=1032309959&CountryCode=US TechNet Webcast: Installing and Configuring Search in SharePoint Server 2007 (Level 300)    Event ID: 1032325467 http://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?culture=en-US&EventID=1032325467&CountryCode=US Enterprise Sear...

Let me discuss about Single Sign-on (SSO) functionality in MOSS 2007.  This is a very useful feature in MOSS 2007 that lets you interact with external data in a secure manner. I have seen many useful blogs that give you introduction to MOSS 2007 SSO. I am going to try to differ a little bit by walking you through basic steps of configuring external data sources and accessing the data using a web part in MOSS 2007. Why do we need to use MOSS 2007 - Single Sign-On (SSO)? MOSS 2007 SSO facilitates securely accessing external data sources from MOSS 2007. The major advantage with using this approach is all external data source credentials passed to MOSS 2007 are encrypted and just plain text. You may be accessing ERP systems like Siebel, SAP which may in turn be using any databases and you don't want to be passing your login credentials without encryption. Further, BDC can be configured to use SSO to access external data securely. In our example, we will access a SQL Server data...

harepoint 2007 provides rich set of API’s that allows developers to develop custom components in Sharepoint to meet custom requirements. SharePoint API’s can be classified into two types. Sharepoint Object Model Sharepoint Web Services Sharepoint Object Model enables developers to customize almost anything that is in Sharepoint right from creating a Site Collection to connecting to external data sources. This object model is enclosed in 10 dll’s with 30 namespaces. A series of articles on consuming Sharepoint object model can be found  here  and  here . In on of my previous  posts , I wrote down the steps to access SharePoint list data using SharePoint object model and CAML queries. Now, lets see how to consume the Sharepoint Web Services in order to retrieve the Sharepoint List Data. Step By Step Create a new windows form project. Add Web Reference to Sharepoint Lists Web Service Right-click ‘Service Reference’ and select ‘Add Service Reference’. In the Add Ser...