Gebruik MSDN (en ander) Forum vir SharePoint Ondersteuning

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Ek kan skryf op groot lengte oor MSDN forums, etiket, benoemings konvensies, soek, ens.. I may do that, in werklikheid. I wanted to point out a small thing which may help people have a better overall experience.

Ek het die afgelope tyd is om die mense te vertel dat as jy in 'n soort van probleem met jou SharePoint omgewing, die ontwikkelingsprojek of ander SharePoint aktiwiteit wat verband hou met, post a question to the forums earlier in your action chain rather than later. I know for myself that when I have a problem, a number of potential solutions present themselves right away. I order these potential solutions in terms of likelihood, applicability and how easy they are to investigate. I go through that list and by the time I’ve gotten to #10, Ek maak veranderinge in die register na 'n sleutel "/ foo / bar / almostThere / isThisIt / noThisIsNotIt / iCantBelieveIAmDoingThis / finallyThere!"Op die advies van 'n blog verskyn op bladsy 8 of a Google search. When that doesn’t work, Ek het uiteindelik na 'n vraag te MSDN (bijv. hier: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sharepointgeneral/threads).

I suggest that you reverse that approach. Post the forums much earlier in your investigation because:

  • Dit is in elk geval gratis aan jou.
  • Daar is geen gewaarborgde SLA (waarvan ek weet, ten minste).
  • Daarom, dit kan 'n lang tyd neem om vir mense om te reageer.
  • Mense reageer dikwels uiteindelik nie.
  • As jy wag totdat 2 of 3 dae na die probleem 1 opgeduik, jy woes is vir 'n antwoord en forums is nie 'n goeie plek vir 'n noodgeval hulp (tensy jy gelukkig is).

So, basies, dit is maklik en vry, en jy het 'n goeie kans om 'n soort van die antwoord, maar dit sal 'n rukkie neem om daardie antwoord te kry (weer, tensy jy gelukkig is).

I used to think that I should hold off on looking for community help because I don’t want to waste someone’s time asking for help when I could find it out myself. Some forum moderators and active participants may feel that way, maar ek doen nie (ten minste, Ek voel nie dat die pad nie meer). I don’t see any downside. The worst case is that you post a question and then answer it yourself some time later, possibly “wasting” some one’s time. I don’t see a big risk in that and there’s value in the researching of questions like that in any event.

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Klein Nota Oor Microsoft Online Services wagwoorde en Administrasie

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Ek het begin om te werk met Microsoft se Small Business produktiwiteit Online Suite n paar maande gelede, but now I have some better reason to be using it.

Ek is nog steeds besig om my manier om dit, sodat ek kan wees om 'n paar van die terminologie verkeerd, maar daar is basies twee groot koppelvlakke: die administrasie sentrum en die dienste wat hulle.

Die stelsel het my vertel dat ek het my wagwoord te verander, so I went ahead and did that. That allowed me to proceed and work with the services part (SharePoint, e-pos, en live vergadering). Egter, toe ek na die administrasie skerm, sou dit nie laat my deur vir my vertel dat hy nie glo dat my wagwoord korrek was.

The behavior was a little odd. If I entered the password I *thought* it should be, it would blank out the userid and the password and tell me the password or userid was incorrect. If I entered a blatantly wrong password, dit sal vertel my dieselfde, maar hou die gebruiker ID veld ongeskonde.

Ek het al speel rond met dit vir 'n rukkie en uiteindelik genoem (ja, op 'n Sondag oggend). Ongelooflik, 'n mede-, Ben, answered the phone right away. En, Ek het nie 'n kredietkaart te betree.

Lang storie kort, the administration center password uses different password rules than the services password. Admin password must contain alpha, numeric and special characters. When I changed my admin password the first time, Ek het nie volg die reël (dit het ook nie waarsku my!). I was able to change it to a valid administration password and got back in.

As jy ervaar dat die soort van probleme in die toekoms, jy weet wat vir my gewerk het en hopelik sal dit werk vir jou.

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Die SharePoint soos 'n besigheid bedryf stelsel

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Vandat ek gehoor het 'n kwotasie, na bewering tydens 'n Q&'N sessie met Steve Ballmer in Maart 2007, I’ve sort of been holding my breath for something to happen. The quote was basically this: “SharePoint is an operating system for business applications.” Knowing a fair bit about SharePoint and a middling bit about operating systems, I thought it was really apt. I’m holding my breath, waiting for companies to really buy into that concept and start to build applications within the SharePoint “operating system.”

Ek het 'n baie gedink aan hierdie onderwerp gewy hierdie jaar (gaan terug na my 2009 voorspellings) en ek gaan om te praat oor dit by die Mei 2de SharePoint Saterdag gebeurtenis in Washington.

Dit is die opsomming van my aanbieding, getiteld "Die gebruik van die SharePoint platform Vertikale Aansoeke om te bou":

"Horisontale?"Vertikale?"Wat wil hierdie woorde beteken in 'n SharePoint konteks? SharePoint, soos ons dikwels hoor, is 'n "platform" vir die bou van toepassings. Hierdie feit word dikwels op ons verloor sedert die sogenaamde horisontale platform funksies, soos dokument bestuur en soek, are so easy and useful in and of themselves. Egter, SharePoint is nog sterker en groter waarde sal terugkeer wanneer dit gebruik om vertikale aansoeke wat aangepas is om jou besigheid se dag om te voldoen aan die dag vereistes te skep. Hierdie sessie beskryf hoe platform funksies in 'n verticalized oplossing met behulp van 'n ware voorbeeld vir die wêreld om sake te vergader - 'n verkope kwotasie bestuur en kliënt poort. Die spreker se doel is om jou oë oop te maak aan die moontlikhede die SharePoint platform en op te bou sy horisontale platform gespesialiseerde oplossings vir jou vertikale organisasie te skep.

As daardie vak nie jou boot dryf, there are a bunch of other good topics. And DC is a great venue in and of itself to visit.

Registrasie open hierdie Donderdag, 04/16. Keep on top of the site and grab a seat before it’s too late 🙂

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Kanadese Notule

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Hierdie keer het verlede week, Ek was in Montreal, bywoning van die hoogs aanbeveel SharePoint Summit 2009. I gave a 3.5 hour tutorial on installing and customizing SharePoint. It was a scary subject on many levels. I’m not really a SharePoint admin, maar ek weet genoeg om 'n handleiding oor die onderwerp te gee. (Gelukkig, Geoff Schaller van Sagteware Doelwitte in Australië, onder 'n paar ander, was in die skare 'n paar van die dieper vrae te beantwoord [Ek weet nie wat hulle in die put, maar ons moet 'n paar van dit hier in die VSA]).

Maar, back to many levels of scariness… It had a lot of potential to be very boring. I actually installed WSS and then upgraded it to MOSS. In front of a room full of people. Canadian poeple. There were long 5 en 7 minute gaps where we were watching the installation process chug along. I needed to fill that time with something useful and interesting. I’m not sure I succeeded.

Ten slotte, it was loooong. Three and one half hours. That’s a long presentation. I made a little joke of it, saying “We have a long presentation ahead of us. Three and one half hours. That’s 210 minute. And I don’t even know how many minutes that is in Canadian.”

Almal het gelag en as gevolg, Montreal is officially on my Good Places list 🙂

Selfs as hulle het nie gelag my grap, I would love Montreal. I try very hard to be open minded and not take my cues from Suid-Park, maar ek moet erken, om my hartseer, that I had no idea how great is the metropolis of Montreal. I can’t wait to go back in a few months, wanneer dit 'n bietjie warmer, om weer te besoek.

Op 'n soort van verwante noot, Ek sit ook deur Erik Swenson se eerste openbare aanbieding getiteld "IA en Branding Proses: Sketse wireframes te Hi-Fidelity ontwerpe. " (Erik is my kollega EMC). Check out the abstract here: http://www.sharepointsummit2009.com/conference_day2.htm. Ek het selfs aangeteken is dit vir hom vir. I tried several times for some “action shots” and zoomed in on him when he paused to drink some water. I didn’t always succeed, but I tried 🙂

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Fun SharePoint SSO Feit van die Dag

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I’ve been working with SharePoint SSO and learning as I go. One way in which this works is that you tell SharePoint about external applications. Users log into that application via some SharePoint function (bijv. iView web deel). The first time the user performs this action, it prompts them for the correct user id and password to use for that system. It’s setting up a mapping between your SharePoint credentials and your credentials for that backend system. Thereafter, Die gebruiker sal nie hul ID te tree wanneer hulle getref het dat die stelsel.

That part worked well for me. Egter, Dit lei tot die vraag, "Hoe die gebruiker verander wat 'n gebruiker id of wagwoord?” The user might have made a mistake, Of miskien het jy besig met 'n toets in 'n dev omgewing en die behoefte om vinnig te skakel tussen rekeninge.

Ek weet nie die antwoord op daardie, maar ek weet dat jy kan gaan in die Sentrale Administrasie en die bestuur van die gebruiker se geloofsbriewe:

Sentrale Administrasie -> Bedrywighede -> Bestuur Single Sign-On -> Bestuur rekening inligting vir 'n Enterprise Aansoek Definisie

Van daar, jy kan die eksterne program (bijv. SAP) and the account you want to delete. You can also change the mapping.

As jy weet hoe om die einde kliënte toelaat om direk verander hul geloofsbriewe, kindly post a comment 🙂

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Die Adventures Met iView Web Parts

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I needed to do some minimal proving today that iView web parts can work in my client’s environment. I’ve never worked with this slice of SharePoint before.

Microsoft het 'n baie hoë gehalte wit papier op hierdie onderwerp.

Die eerste hindernis het ek moes oorkom was - waar is die iView web deel? Vir een of ander rede, my first thought was that I’d have to download it from a site somewhere, perhaps SAP’s site. Ek moes 1/2 convinced myself that iView web parts might even cost extra. Natuurlik, they are included with MOSS (I think Enterprise; that’s what I’m using here in any event). I’ve seen the standard “add a web part” dialog box hundreds or more times and always glossed over it. No more!

The next obstacle is that I can’t read instructions.

I was using the web part and kept getting this annoying message:

No SAP servers are configured for this site. Contact your administrator to configure trusted SAP servers.

The white paper clearly says to edit a configuration file located at file “<Drive Letter:>\Program Files\Microsoft Office Servers\12.0\Config\TrustedSAPHosts.config”. The first dozen times I looked at that, all I saw was “Program Files…Config” and I went straight away to the 12 Hive. Once I finally slowed down to read it, I realized my mistake and it was easy to fix.

I continued on my merry way with SSO configuration. It’s not all at clear to me if that worked, but that’s another story for another day.

Bottom line:

1. iView web parts are included out of the box with SharePoint (probably Enterprise).

2. The magic configuration file, “TrustedSAPHosts.config”, does not live in the 12 Hive.

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MOSS User Profile as die Owerheid vir gebruiker Taalvoorkeur

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Op my huidige projek, sommige van die gebruikers sal reis regoor die wêreld, en wanneer hulle kom op verskillende bestemmings, use whatever machine is handy at the time. Those guest machines will be running Windows and installed and configured for the local locale. (Ek het net besef dat die gaste masjiene nie kan het die reg om taal pakkette… sal waarskynlik nie, in werklikheid… Ek parkeer dat 'n mens vir nou).

SharePoint needs to provide a mechanism whereby the user can pick their preferred language and then have MOSS honor that language regardless of how the user accesses MOSS. In other words, disregard whatever the browser tells IIS/MOSS and instead look up that preferred language and use it.

Ons gaan twee benaderings te ondersoek:

  1. HTTP Handler: 'N persoonlike HTTP hanteerder geïnstalleer op IIS sal kyk op die gebruiker se mos profiel, die taal van voorkeur en dan skakel die HTTP-kop rond soos nodig voordat beheer te MOSS.
  2. Global.asax: Modify global.asax to do the same thing. We may modify something else, but the idea is that we find some place where we can insert our locale-switching logic.

Die ander kompliserende faktor is dat ons moet 60k gebruikers te ondersteun, oor 1,000 wat gelyktydig toegang tot spitslas word mos.

Die HTTP-hanteerder lyk redelik drastiese, but possibly the best place to put the code since it’s at the IIS level and all-knowing. It’s a good single point of work.

Ons leun na 'n Global.asax tipe benadering, hoofsaaklik omdat ons glo dat ons meer opsies vir die kas van data sal op daardie stadium.

Ek sal blog meer oor hierdie onderwerp as ek meer inligting.

As jy weet niks oor hierdie, please post a comment 🙂

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Vaslegging “mailto:” Statistieke

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I’m on a project where we need to collect metrics around a function named "Share a Story." The idea is very simple — as jy op soek na 'n interessante artikel op die intranet en die wil om dit te deel met iemand, click a link labeled "Share this story" e-pos dit aan jou buddy.

Ons speel rond met 'n persoonlike vorm vir hierdie doel, maar op die ou end, gesonde verstand het die dag en ons gebruik net die bekende <a href = mailto:…> technique. (<'n href mailto:…> is 'n verbasend sterk bietjie van HTML; as 'n bonus, skakel bring my terug na my ou UNIX man bladsye dae; Dit was die dae!).

Hierdie tegniek bied 'n groot koppelvlak vir eindgebruikers, aangesien hulle hul bekende MS Outlook kliënt te gebruik (of enige e-pos kliënt dit geïnstalleer).

Dit maak dinge moeiliker op ons arme ontwikkelaar tipes omdat hulle kliënt * ook * wil 'n verslag in die toekoms wat toon hoe dikwels gebruikers deel stories en selfs watter stories is meestal gedeel uit te voer.

We whiteboarded a few potential solutions. My favorite is to carbon copy (CC) a SharePoint list. That way, the end user still gets the outlook client while we get to capture the event because we’ll get a copy of the email ourselves. There are some obvious drawbacks. The main problem is that the user could simply blank out or otherwise mangle the CC address. En, we need to manage that event library of emails. We have a scheduled job on the white board responsible for that cleanup.

As jy 'n slim benadering tot die oplossing van hierdie probleem, doen vertel.

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Groot handleiding en Walk-deur gebruik te maak van Path en workflow 'n Skedulering probleem op te los

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Hierdie dae, Ek altyd speel met my blog lees inhaal en ek het net oor hierdie post: http://sharepointsolutions.blogspot.com/2009/02/give-blood-to-your-workflow.html

Dit is as vaste en gedetailleerde 'n SharePoint Designer workflow handleiding (plus meer!) that you’ll see anywhere on the interwebs. I’d check it out, even if you’re a scarred SPD veteran.

Dit is 'n groot SharePoint handleiding vir beide Path en workflow.

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NYC SharePoint Ontwikkelaar Group – Diep Tech Talk

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'N Paar weke gelede, I presented at the New York City SharePoint Developers Group meeting at the Microsoft office in Manhattan. They meet every last Tuesday of the month.

I’ve been spending most of my time lately in my beloved New Jersey so I don’t get to go into the city as much as I like. As 'n gevolg, I think I made it to the first or second of this group’s meetings and then again at January’s meeting. I missed all of the meetings in between (four or five of them probably). It’s a new group.

I was really struck by the truly technical focus and high quality of the discussion, before, during and after my presentation. We talked about a wide range of subjects relating to SharePoint and other Microsoft technology.

If you’re looking for a friendly place to get real techy, I highly recommend this group.

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