Entries in SharePoint (17)

Tuesday
02Mar2010

SharePoint 2010 vs. 2007 comparison chart (ongoing effort)

DateTuesday, March 2, 2010 at 9:58PM

 

This would be an on-going effort as I gather more details.  But at the moment I’m publishing what I have.

Different capabilities

 

2007
WSS3

2007
MOSS

2010
SP Foundation

2010
SP Standard

2010
SP Enterprise

Sites

          

Office Web Apps

      

X

X

User Experience

...

...

X
(ribbon)

X

X

Line of Business

  

X
(read-only)

X

X

X

Mobile Connectivity

...

...

X

(mobile dev enhancement)

X

X

Enterprise Management

...

...

(some reports)

X

(dev dashboards, monitors and self-checks)

X

(web analytics)

X

Tagging

    

X

X

X

Audience Targetting

  

...

X

X

X
           

Communities

          

Enterprise Social Network

  

...

  

X

X

Find People

  

...

...

X

X

My Site

  

...

  

X

X

Presence

  

X

...

X

X

Ask me...

      

X

X

Note board, recent activity

      

X

X

Enterprise Taxonomy

      

X

X

Community of interest / Tag Profile

      

X

X

Participation and Social feedback

      

X

X

Tag / Tag Cloud

      

X

X

Ratings

      

X

X

Navigation

      

X

X

Social Bookmarks

...
(add favourite)

...

...

X

X
           

Content

          

Compliance

      

X

X

Flexible Records Management

      

X

X

Shared Content Types

      

X

(enterprise content types)

X

Managed Metadata service

      

X

(indexed filtering)

X

Rich Media Content

      

X

X

Document Sets

      

X

X

Word Automation Service

      

X

X

Support for Accessibility Standards

      

X

X

Improved Alerts

  

...

X

X

X

Content Organizer

      

X

X

Document ID Service

      

X

X

Web Content improvements

    

X

X

X
           

Search

          

People Search

  

X

...

X

X

Windows Federated Search

    

X

X

X

Refinement

   (3rd party faceted-search)

X

X

X

Social behaviour improves relevance

      

X

X

Thumbnails, previews, and view in browser

      

X

X

Advanced content processing with strong linguistics

      

X

X
           

Insights

          

Business Connectivity Services

   …  

X

X

PerformancePoint Services

   X  

X

X

Excel Services

   X  

X

X
           
           
           
           

Composites

          

Client Object Model

    

X

X

X

List Improvements

    

X

X

X

Query Enhancements

    

X

X

X

Sandboxed Solutions

    

X

X

X

Silverlight Integration

    

X

X

X

Windows PowerShell

    

X

X

X

Workflow Improvements

...

...

X

X

X

InfoPath Form Services

   X  

X

X

Access Services

      

X

X

Site Templates

...

...

X

X

X

Synch Framework

    

X

X

X

 

Still to do:

1. add legend
2. add references / sources
3. link to specific details for some points
Let me know what you guys think:

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Monday
21Dec2009

SharePoint 2010 Speed, and Boot to VHD

DateMonday, December 21, 2009 at 3:39PM

Been pouring through all the new goodies in SharePoint 2010 like a kid opening his first Christmas present -
So much fun, so little time.

A few people have made the comment that SharePoint 2010 Public Beta runs pretty slowly for demo’s – here’re a few suggestions I’ve noticed that helps for me:

  1. You need more than 2GB of RAM for SharePoint on your demo machine. 
  2. Ideally, a generous amount of hard drive space

My setup has worked pretty well for me:

  1. Host is Win7 x64
  2. Created a VHD (virtual hard drive) with about 50GB allocated space. 
  3. Installed Windows 2008 R2, SQL Server 2008, SharePoint 2010 public beta, Office Web Apps, and Office 2010 client apps.
  4. Configure the VHD as a bootable device (new in Win7)
  5. On start of laptop, I get to choose to boot into Windows 2008 / SharePoint 2010 directly, which allocates all the laptop’s resources to the VM
  6. Oh – grab the ATI display drivers for DELL (see my previous post) to make sure Windows 2008 R2 can display via an external projector – ahead of the presentation.  (I nearly had a panic attack but got it all sorted before I had to go on stage).

The best part is when we move on from the public beta, I’ll just copy a new VHD over the same directory under Win7, then it’s all set.

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Friday
22May2009

SharePoint: MOSS SP2 Major Bug

DateFriday, May 22, 2009 at 10:04PM

The SharePoint Team blog announced a major bug with SharePoint MOSS SP2:

This is funny, but extremely serious and important.

During the installation of SP2, a product expiration date is improperly activated. This means SharePoint will expire as though it was a trial installation 180 days after SP2 is deployed. The activation of the expiration date will not affect the normal function of SharePoint up until the expiration date passes. Furthermore, product expiration 180 days after SP2 installation will not affect customer’s data, configuration or application code but will render SharePoint inaccessible for end-users.

http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2009/05/21/attention-important-information-on-service-pack-2.aspx

  • Does not affect data
  • But it will silently deactivate after 180 days
  • Users can come to work without warning and SharePoint will be unavailable.
  • If you are installing SP2 - apply hot-fix from MSDN immediately afterwards.

Get the word out.

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Thursday
21May2009

SharePoint – InfoPath /cache clearall

DateThursday, May 21, 2009 at 8:37PM

So continuing my InfoPath self education.

  1. I publish a new version of the InfoPath form to the Forms Library
  2. I then create a new form based on this template
  3. In Browser – I see the new form
  4. In InfoPath – I see the old form

So it appears that InfoPath is caching the older version of my template and using that.

  • I clear the internet temporary files - didn't do it

A quick search lead me to this explanation: http://blogs.msdn.com/michael_yeager/archive/2008/07/09/infopath-cache.aspx

And sure enough,

start –> run –> InfoPath /cache clearall

Indeed clears out my cache, and now when I create a new form from SharePoint it is using the latest template

What befuddles me is that Michael Yeager says that InfoPath should be checking the version automatically so I don’t understand why it wasn’t doing that.

Here’s another more user-friendly way of removing a form from cache

File –> Fill out a form…

image

You can also "Get update of this form" from this dialog.

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Thursday
21May2009

SharePoint – InfoPath / Forms Library missing

DateThursday, May 21, 2009 at 8:19PM

Testing InfoPath, I try to do the simplest thing – publishing an InfoPath form to a SharePoint as a template, and allowing it to create a new library based on this template - I got this error:

The following computer running windows SharePoint Services does not contain the required InfoPath form template:
http://vm-spdev-xxxx/
A generic form template will be used instead

Warning: This is very bad

You should not continue – because if you do…

  1. InfoPath will create a new Document Library instead of a Forms Library and deploy the InfoPath file as a template in this document library. 
  2. It will appear as if everything’s working – you can do New –> InfoPath Form (as a document), fill it out and save it back to the list.
  3. And when you want to update the template it will complain that the default document isn’t based on a Form template.

    InfoPath failed to publish because the default content type in the document library is not based on the Form content type
  4. You got confused – you went to check the Library and sure enough it says the default content type is a Document
  5. You add a Form content type, and switch it over as the default content type… only to discover SharePoint now publishes two different sets of columns in this list – one set for Forms, another set for Documents.
  6. And it doesn’t appear as if the second publish worked…  I think this may be a different problem – because if I view as web page I see the new updated template

 

Instead, back out right now – delete that list in SharePoint and start over…  By the way… where’s – hmm where’s my Forms Library?

 

Went to site settings and activated:

  • Site Collection Features –> Office SharePoint Server Enterprise Site Collection features
  • Site Features –> Office SharePoint Server Enterprise Site features

No good, still no forms library.

More stumbling around, finally figured it out – I need to activate:

  • Site Features –> Team Collaboration Lists

Personally I didn’t think this was obvious – but I did know Forms Library is part of WSS…  so may be it made some sense.

 

Now go back to InfoPath again and try to publish.

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Thursday
21May2009

SharePoint – how do you stay on top of all this stuff?

DateThursday, May 21, 2009 at 12:39PM

SharePoint is a big product – and getting bigger.

People have wondered – how do you stay on top of all the new developments?

This is one trick I’ve found via Twitter – works relatively well.

  1. You will of course need a twitter account
  2. Go to the twitter search page and look for users.  Find “sharepoint”
    http://twitter.com/search/users?q=sharepoint&category=people&source=find_on_twitter
  3. You will see a bunch that comes up on top – sorted by # of followers:
    • sharepointbuzz is crazy – as far as I can tell – this re-twits anything anyone says about #sharepoint (that’s useful).  I followed for a bit and decided that was too much reading.
    • SharePointMVPs is a good one – basically this one twits whenever one of the SharePoint MVPs writes a new blog (or white paper) – HIGHLY recommended
    • SharePoint is the MS official one – not necessary if you are already following the SharePoint team blog RSS
  4. Read twitter on the go – in your iPhone or BlackBerry or Windows Mobile
  5. If you see a topic that’s interesting, flag it with “favourites”
  6. Review your twitter favourites a couple times a week.

Bingo!

Stay on top of all the up to date #SharePoint news

Anyone has a good tip about how to catch up on the old stuff between 2007 – 2009 let me know…

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Thursday
21May2009

SharePoint – thoughts on sharepoint.microsoft.com

DateThursday, May 21, 2009 at 12:18PM

http://sharepoint.microsoft.com had a face lift.  I decided to go have a quick look and make some comments.

Nice bits

  • The site looks cleaner
  • It is running on SharePoint
  • Sign-in is tied with Windows Live (passport)

Horrible bits

  • View Source was horrifying – I had hoped it may be running on SharePoint 2010 – but it looks like it’s still MOSS 2007
    • Big viewstate
    • Big initialize data for SilverLight
    • These are all things I’d hope to see disappear when we finally see SharePoint 2010…  I guess I’ll have to keep waiting.

Awesome

  • Great HTML comment in the footer of the page:

    • <!---

    Developed by Celina Moser Baginski

    For questions and/or comments, please email me at

    celina_baginski@consejoinc.com

    --->

  • Given that this is on every page – I assume it’s on the master
  • I can’t fine Celina Moser Baginski when I went to browse around http://www.consejoinc.com/ though.  Makes me wonder – if you don’t talk about your employees on your company’s own site, why would you let them put their email addresses directly into the master page of your client’s site?
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Wednesday
20May2009

SharePoint – Microsoft Certified Masters, and why I should care

DateWednesday, May 20, 2009 at 2:28PM

A couple of weeks ago, the first batch of MCM: SharePoint were announced.

Curiously, I went to see what it takes to be a SharePoint master.

 

Initially, I had assumed that it was just going to be a higher level of certification after you’ve completed the 4x MSTS: SharePoint certificates.

First reaction was: woah US$18,000?  Hmm… sounds a bit crazy.

Realizing that it is a 3 weeks training course made the money side more acceptable.

Seriously, if a company will send their top SharePoint architect on a 3 week full time training, US$18,000 – this must be some serious crack.

 

But then starting to read about what they say after completing the training

http://www.harbar.net/archive/2009/05/07/reality-check-microsoft-certified-master-for-sharepoint-2007.aspx

It begins to dawn on me that this is not your average level yet-another-certification.

 

It is a massive amount of work, time, effort.  In fact I would argue that the money aspect quickly went out the window with the shear amount of work that’s required to actually make it, and pass it at the end.  If you can take that much time off from client work to get through the course, by all means go for it!

 

Here are more materials.

http://www.microsoft.com/learning/mcp/master/Sharepoint/default.mspx

 

So finally, what does this all mean for me?

 

For now, as a personal goal - I’ve decided to chew through the pre-reading list.

http://www.dynamicevents.com/MCM/MCMSharePointPre-Reads.pdf

They even provided a nice checkbox column for me to tick them off as I go…  nice!

I think if I can get through these 81 documents before SharePoint 2010 comes out it’d be awesome!

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Thursday
14May2009

SharePoint: Groove assimilated by the Borg (aka SharePoint)

DateThursday, May 14, 2009 at 12:58PM

Prepare to be assimilated by the Borg.

http://blogs.msdn.com/groove_development_team/archive/2009/05/13/makeover-for-groove-sharepoint-workspace-2010.aspx

...Groove is getting a new name as of the coming release of Office 2010. Please welcome SharePoint Workspace 2010!

The name makeover is in concert with the direction the product is going. SharePoint Workspace will provide easy access to SharePoint content (or content from any server that implements the publicly documented protocols) in an effort to provide a seamless online/offline experience.

 

Groove SharePoint Workspace and OneNote will appear in Office 2010 Professional Plus (yes that’s the name... it’s a bit ridiculous).

Regardless, Groove has always been a pretty niche product – people that have used it liked it. Other people didn’t understand what it did. Now that it gets this re-branding I think there will be a lot more interest in this product and the offline capabilities. Good move on MS.

My colleague Marlon always complains to me that he can’t get his docs from SharePoint when we put our SharePoint on maintenance...  I’m sure he’ll be happier now.

 

jliu

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Monday
04May2009

SharePoint - service pack 2 thoughts

DateMonday, May 4, 2009 at 3:00PM

SharePoint service pack 2 came out a couple of days ago, for some reason I was really excited about it and even woke up checking twitter regarding any news…  It was surprisingly empty.

Anyway, over the last couple of days I’ve had a good whirl and here’s some thoughts – both mine, and heard over the grapevine.

 

Authentication — Improvements to forms-based authentication, authentication for Web applications, and the Business Data Catalog.

MSDN is saying that when Forms authentication is used SharePoint “should” do a better job at letting client (Browser) remember the password.

I’m hoping this means I don’t need to re-enter my password a billion times.

 

Database performance and integrity — Improved database performance and integrity by automatically rebuilding database indexes with a timer job. 

Self checks are good

 

Interoperability — Improved support for standards-based document formats and compatibility with a broader range of browsers level 1 and level 2 browser support.

IE8 enters level 1 browser support – the rich text editing should get fixed

FireFox2/3 enters level 2 browser support

 

Read-only content databases — Improved user experience by automatically configuring site collections as read-only when the content database is configured as read-only.

Again a good thing

 

Stsadm command-line tool — In addition to operations for pre-upgrade scanning and variations analysis and repair, several operations are improved and new operations added to better support farm administration.

stsadm –o backup will now issue a stsadm –o setsitelock prior to the backup, unless otherwise stated.

This means that sharepoint administrators no longer need to do this in two steps.

stsadm –o deletesite now supports a force argument that allows orphaned site collections or orphaned sites to be deleted.  Only time I’ve seen an orphan site is when we had a bad import that failed halfway.

 

Pre-upgrade scanning and reporting — An Stsadm operation that enables you to scan an existing farm and its servers to verify that they can be upgraded SharePoint Products and Technologies "14".

stsadm -o preupgradecheck

is only to check against future versions of SharePoint 2010.

 

Variations analysis and repair — An Stsadm operation that enables farm administrators to better manage and perform necessary operations against variations.

There’s a quite bit of work for variations.  This isn’t an area where I’ve had a lot of experience.

 

Merge Content DB bug fixed

Yay

 

Breaking Changes:

Areas web service removed

There’s some impact to Nintex Workflows – there’s an interim fix that they’ve released, as well as a patch coming out within a week.

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