SharePoint Konferenca e praktikave më të mira, “Praktikat më të mira,” dhe elefant në dhomë

I was lucky to attend and present at last week’s SharePoint Best Practices conference. I’m still new to the whole speaking "thing" dhe, sinqerisht, I was a bit nervous for the first half while I sweated out waiting to speak myself. That sort of nervous feeling made it a little hard for me to pay attention to the presenters (not that I ignored them). Në vend të kësaj, I focused a bit more on the attendees.

Conferences always set my mind racing and there was a lot take in at this one. This conference was excellent. I think it was unusual in several ways. It wasn’t a heavy developer conference. There were certainly dev parts to it, but I think it was at least 60% focused on non-dev issues, maybe as high as 80%. I think that speaks to the evolving nature of the SharePoint market. Companies are implementing SharePoint in a variety of ways and they are looking for guidance on how to do it right. And not just guidance on how to create features/solutions (which by now, has been very well established).

I believe the conference was tremendously valuable to most everyone that attended and I know that the organizers plan to do the conference again early next year.

Having said that, I believe there was a missed opportunity which I hope the next conference addresses. I say it’s a missed opportunity, but that’s not a bad thing. Discovering a community need is in and of itself a good thing. The conference discussed a number of best practices in a variety of areas such as governance, stërvitje, requirements gathering, kërkoni, zhvillim, information architecture, etj. I think that the missed opportunity has to do with the "green field" assumptions underlying many of the best practices.

When we talk about green field, we mean that SharePoint hasn’t gone into production and we’re starting with a clean slate. This is ideal because you can start straight away using best practices for defining and managing governance, information architecture, etj. Megjithatë … what happens when you’re already in production with several thousand users (or 10’s of thousands) and you didn’t follow best practices at the beginning? I’ve seen companies with … ahem … a very odd information architecture baked into their environment. I don’t think that this conference provided much guidance for organizations with that kind of problem (and I don’t just mean IA, but governance, kërkoni, many other areas). Sigurisht, knowing you have a problem is a big part of the solution and that’s very valuable.

I think that the online SharePoint community hasn’t done much to address this either. I know I have not. It’s a very hard problem to solve at many levels. Technically it’s hard. Budget-wise it’s hard. Culturally, it’s hard. Megjithatë, it’s probably a bigger real world problem than most. Since the conference ended, I’ve been thinking about these kinds of problems and how one would solve them. There has to be a better answer than, "uninstall and reinstall" and the community needs to face it head on.

I think that this a great opportunity for the blogging community and experienced thought leaders to lay out some guidance on how to repair their environments. I think there’s a small but non-zero risk that SharePoint could end up with a bad and enduring reputation as a result of poorly architected implementations that fail due to poor governance, IA, etj.

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New Blogger në Bllokun

Kolegu im EMC, Erik Swenson, ka qenë e bindi të hidhen në përleshje, stand up and be counted 🙂

Ai bloget Rreth rreth një shumëllojshmëri të gjerë të quajtur temave SharePoint në http://erikswenson.blogspot.com/. Some of his recent posts include interesting stuff about Photoshop, Microsoft Office Jetoni për biznesin e vogël, SharePoint Qeverisja, creating custom WCM styles and so forth. He does not confine himself to branding. It’s quite an interesting mix which is a little bit different from a lot of the SharePoint blogs with which I’m familiar.

RSS tij është: http://feeds.feedburner.com/SharepointBrandingDesign

Check it out and give him a little encouragement. We all need that from time to time, sidomos kur kemi parë të vërtetë të zhyten në këtë botë Blogging.

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Praktikat më të mira Konferenca: “Get Kërkesat e Madhe” Prezantim PowerPoint

Unë kam ngarkuar PowerPoint për një nga seancat e mia, "Get Great Business Requirements," të drejtë këtu (http://cid-1cc1edb3daa9b8aa.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Public/Paul 20Galvin%%% 20Great 20Requirements.pptx).

Përveç një seri të pikave të shkëlqyer, bërë fuqimisht, the deck includes extensive notes which supplement and enhance the afore-mentioned brilliant talking points.

Për ata prej jush që e humbi të mirë konferencë Praktikat, I was lucky enough to present and discuss a process that works very well when trying to discover accurate end user business requirements for SharePoint projects. The PowerPoint plus notes describe this in pretty good detail. It supplements one of my earliest blog postings here: http://paulgalvin.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!1CC1EDB3DAA9B8AA!146.entry

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SharePoint Dashboards Seminar Online

Miku im internet, Mark Miller mbi dhe End User SharePoint (www.endusersharepoint.com) është drejtimin e një seminar të lirë një orë në shënjestër, si ai gjithmonë e bën, at the SharePoint End User community. It takes place at 1pm EDT. Details are here: http://www.endusersharepoint.com/?p=785

Unë kam ulur në njërën nga seminari tij online muajin e kaluar dhe kjo është bërë mjaft mirë dhe në qoftë se ju jeni të interesuar në disa info shumë praktik mbi dashboards në SharePoint, Unë jam i sigurt se kjo vlen 1 Investimi orë.

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Grupi Webcast SharePoint User Sonte

Sonte, 08/20/08, SharePoint grupi Connecticut përdorues Takimi transmetimin e një webcast në vend të një takimi fizike këtë muaj.

Tema Sonte: "Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 – Vendosjen metodologjitë Extranet"

Microsoft’s own Chris Lavista will lead the discussion. I’ve worked with Chris before and he really knows his stuff. If you have any interest in this subject, check it out. Here are the details:

SharePoint User Group Webcast: https://www.clicktoattend.com/invitation.aspx?code=130299

Topic: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 – Vendosjen metodologjitë Extranet
Speaker:
Chris Lavista of Microsoft

Date: Gusht 20th Welcome Time: 6:15 PM Time: 6:30 PM -8:00PM


Përshkrim:
SharePoint allows for multiple deployment options. The discussion will be centered on how a secure extranet on the SharePoint platform could be deployed. Discuss best practices and scenarios involving the integration of Forefront technologies, ISA Server 2006 and IAG 2007. Optionally, talk to supported single sign on use cases.
About Chris:
Chris Lavista is a Technical Architect at recently opened Microsoft Technology Center in New York. His focus is on SharePoint, Bashkëpunim, and Unified Communications. He has worked in the financial services industry (Chase, Citigroup) prior to joining Microsoft for 8 vjet. He started at Microsoft in 2000 as part of their consulting services practice before joining the MTC team in early 2006.

Registration & More Info: https://www.clicktoattend.com/invitation.aspx?code=130299

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Komiteti ka Kërkimi juaj Met Kete Muaj?

Është fillimi i muajit dhe tani është aq i mirë një kohë si çdo të komitetit të kompanisë suaj të kërkimit për të marrë së bashku dhe të analizojë Bastet mirë, searches suksesshme dhe jo aq të suksesshme, etj.

Ju nuk keni një komitet kërkimit? Then form one 🙂

WSS and especially MOSS search benefit from some human oversight. Investing a few hours a month on a consistent monthly basis is not only fun më shumë se një fuçi e monkeys, ajo mund të:

  • Give insight into the information needs of the enterprise. If people are searching left and right for topic "xyzzy," you know that’s an important topic to the enterprise.
  • Identify potential training requirements. If people are searching for topic "xyzzy" but should really be searching for "abcd" atëherë ju mund të përdorni atë për të edukuar folks se ku dhe si për të gjetur informacion.
  • Help your organization refine its information architecture.
  • Identifikimi i mundësive për të rritur Thesaurus.
  • Mundësi të tjera pa dyshim do të paraqesin veten.

Kush duhet të jetë në komitetin e kërkimit? You would know your people best, por e konsiderojnë:

  • Së paku një (dhe ndoshta vetëm një) IT personi i cili e kupton (ose mund të mësojnë) mënyra të ndryshme për të shkulje kërkim, duke përfshirë bastet më të mira, enciklopedi, Prona të menaxhuara, etj.
  • Disa ekspertë lëndën që mund të lexojnë raportet e kërkimit, ha atë dhe të komunikojnë biznesit-tru veprime në atë mënyrë që ajo mund të shtyjë butonat, tërheq levat dhe të hapur / ngushtë si valvulat e nevojshme që në rekomandimet e komisionit.
  • Një ose më shumë arkitektë e informacionit që mund të validate, një mënyrë ose në një tjetër, nëse informacioni është arkitektura kërko miqësore dhe nëse ajo është duke punuar jashtë edhe për ndërmarrjen.
  • A rotating seat on the committee. Bring in one or two people who don’t normally participate in these kinds of efforts. They may bring unusual and valuable insights to the table.

Analizimi i lumtur!

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Quick dhe Easy: Get SPFolder e SPItemList

Unë mbaj në drejtimin e këtij problemi dhe Google nuk duket për të kuptuar atë që unë dua të bëj, kështu që unë i realizuar artistikisht unë do të shkruaj këtë poshtë.

Unë kam qenë duke bërë një shumë të pranuesit debugging ngjarje në javën e kaluar apo dy. The ER is defined against a document library. The individual items in the document library are tightly related to their parent folders. Kështu, I am always getting the folder of the item for various manipulations. While debugging, I needed to update the metadata of a folder for a specific item whose ID I know.

Here’s a little console application (designed to run on server in the farm) that takes two arguments: the ID of an item and a value to assign to a field, "Approval Status". It hard codes a lot of stuff and has no error checking.

The code looks up a hard coded site, gets a hard coded document library and then finds the indicated item. It then finds the parent folder of that item and assigns the status value.

The key lesson here for me is that SPItem doesn’t get you access to the folder. You need to use SPListItem.File.

If anyone cares to offer a critique or suggest a better way to get the folder of an item, ju lutemi të lënë një koment.

<code>
përdorim Sistem;
përdorim System.Collections.Generic;
përdorim System.Text;
përdorim Microsoft.SharePoint;
përdorim System.Collections;

namespace Conchango
{
    /// <përmbledhje>
 /// </përmbledhje>
 klasë ManualFolderUpdate
    {
        i pandryshueshëm pavlefshme Kryesor(varg[] args)
        {
            varg msh = "ManualFolderUpdate (v1.0): "; // msh = "Message Header"

 Konsol.WriteLine(msh + "Starting up.  I was last modified on 08/04/08.");

            varg url = http://localhost/xyzzy;

            përdorim (SPSite oSPSite = i ri SPSite(url))
            {

                përdorim (SPWeb oSPWeb = oSPSite.OpenWeb())
                {
                    SPList docLib = oSPWeb.Lists["Documents"];

                    Konsol.WriteLine(msh + "Got the document library.");

                    Konsol.WriteLine(msh + "Doc lib item count: [" + docLib.ItemCount + "].");

                    int FolderID = 0;
                    varg NewStatus = "xyzzy";

                    FolderID = System.Convert.ToInt32(args[0].ToString());
                    Konsol.WriteLine("Seeking folder for item: [" + FolderID + "].");

                    SPListItem li = docLib.GetItemById(FolderID);

                    SPFolder thisItemFolder = li.File.ParentFolder;

                    Konsol.WriteLine(msh + "Got the parent folder.");

                    NewStatus = args[1].ToString();
                    Konsol.WriteLine("Setting status to [" + NewStatus + "].");

                    Konsol.WriteLine("Press return to commit the update or CTRL-C to abort.");

                    Konsol.Linja leximi();

                    thisItemFolder.Item["Approval Status"] = NewStatus;
                    thisItemFolder.Item.Update();

                    Konsol.WriteLine(msh + "Finished updating the folder.  Exiting.");

                } // using SPWeb

            } // using SPSite

 Konsol.WriteLine(msh + "Finished.");

        } // Kryesor

    } // class foldersync
} // namespace
</code>

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E diela Morning Funny: “Baba, Ai nuk e di edhe ju”

Ne Northern New Jersey-së Galvin janë tifozë të mëdha të TV satirë politike. program, The Daily Show hosted by Jon Stewart. I don’t like to get political in my blogging, so all I’ll say on that is that without the Daily Show, Unë mund të ketë humbur përgjithmonë të gjithë sensin e humorit në ose rreth 12/12/2000.

We were having a meal on the deck early last week and my ten year old son brings up a recent episode of the Show. I made the comment, "Jon Stewart knows that he better not make fun of me or there will be terrible consequences for Jon Stewart."

My son thinks about it for a minute and says: "Dad, number one: He doesn’t even know you."

I waited for a number two, but he decided that was enough and moved on to the next subject without skipping a beat.

It used to be that I could get a lot more mileage out of those kinds of jokes, but he’s getting too used to me or too mature or both. I need to adjust somehow.

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Trajnimi Punonjës Orari dhe Materiale Template — Numërimi Seat PLUS Bug Fix Sigurimit(?)

Kjo është mjaft popullor "i pabesueshëm 40" shabllon. It also has a bug which is widely known (Unë kam blogged edhe rreth asaj se si për të rregulluar atë).

Sogeti lëshuar një CodePlex projekt këtë javë se fixes bug (e cila është e bukur në vetvete, por jo tokë-shkatërrimtar) por ata gjithashtu pohojnë se kanë zgjidhur një problem shumë thornier: siguri. The fab 40 template kërkon një mjedis shumë bujare sigurisë (përdoruesit duhet të nivelit qasje kontribues në pothuajse çdo gjë). Not any more! According to the codeplex summary:

"This template also includes a new custom workflow action which enables the template to work without having to give all users contribute permissions to the courses list."

Kjo është e gjëra të mira dhe me vlerë checking out.

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SharePoint Designer Workflow, Receivers ngjarje dhe “Update list item” përballë “Field Set në pikën aktuale”

We have a set of SharePoint designer workflows that "communicate" with an event receiver on the list via changes to site column values. Për shembull, if a site column "SetDuedate" është e vendosur të vërtetë nga workflow, marrësi ngjarje zbulon se ndryshimi, llogarit një datë për shkak dhe i cakton atë datë për një kolonë faqen, "Due Date." We split things up like this because the event receiver can calculate a due date using complex business rules (marrjen e fundjavave dhe festave kompanisë parasysh) ndërsa SPD vërtetë nuk mund të.

Në një rast specifik, we ran into a problem with this trick. Debugging all this is pretty difficult, por kemi ardhur në përfundim definitiv se në një rast (të paktën), the event receiver was not running all the time. In one step of the workflow, we would change the value of a site column and the event receiver didn’t appear to run. Megjithatë, ajo ishte duke ecur vazhdimisht në një hap të ndryshme të workflow.

Pas shqyrtimit atë, I noticed that the happy workflow step used the "Update List Item" while the other step used "Set Field in Current Item." Update List Item was updating the "current item." I’m not sure why we picked one over the other since they would seem to be doing the same thing.

Kështu … the Update List Item action did cause the event to fire. On the other hand, the Set Field in Current Item action did not.

I used Update List Item in both places and viola! It worked. [[ Total aside, I played the violin for on a daily basis for almost 15 vjet ]]

From this, I tentatively believe that the "Set Field" action does not cause event receivers to fire, at least some of the time.

This issue bedeviled us for weeks.

This is one of those "observed behavior" posts. I observed this happen once in a specific environment and I’m making some guesses as to why things happened as they did. If you have any insight into this one, ju lutem ndani në komentet.

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