Steve Sofian

My blog has been moved to http://www.stevesofian.net

Apologize for the very late update….actually totally forgotten about it….Too much work.

Cheers,

Steve Sofian

SharePoint only protect your content by controlling who could access the documents, however, it will not be able to protect the documents outside its environment.  This is where you would need Windows Rights Management Services (RMS).  

This is a great walkthrough published by Russell Wright from SharePoint Solutions if you are looking at protecting your SharePoint content using Windows Rights Management Services (RMS). 

http://sharepointsolutions.blogspot.com/2008/01/single-server-rms-and-moss-2007_06.html

For more information on Windows Rights Management Services, here is the link to the product home page:

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/technologies/rightsmgmt/default.mspx

Just came across this article on MSDN on using Community Server accounts with SharePoint sites.  So if you would to leverage on your Community Server 2007 membership database and would like these users to access your SharePoint sites, check out the article to walk through how to integrate them together.

View the article on MSDN.

Microsoft has just released the RC for Search Server 2008 Express.  I can say that it is almost similar or totally the same as SharePoint Search Server, guess the only caveat is that it can only be installed on application server.  But it is free, not a big drawback I would say.  And it can be upgraded to MOSS 2007.

Just like WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007, it can be installed using SQL Server Express 2005 with Basic installation or using your existing SQL Server 2005….

It has almost all of the features if not all the features of MOSS 2007….hhmmm, now WSS 3.0 seems more attractive isnt it and we can have a search engine in our own application

Here are some the features if you are not familar with MOSS 2007: 

• Search Center interface
• Customizable search experience
• Best Bets
• Hit Highlighting
• Terms Definition or Keywords in MOSS 2007
• Index propagation to search server
• Support IFilter
• Search Connector or Protocol Handler in MOSS 2007
• Federated Search Connector using Open Search standard (hhmm….dun think it is even in MOSS 2007)

If you are interested to find out more and download it, here is the link:

http://www.microsoft.com/enterprisesearch/serverproducts/searchserverexpress/default.aspx

Adam Buenz of SharePointSecuity.com has published a set of comprehensive Mastering InfoPath Development Series.  So if you are getting started to pick up InfoPath or working on InfoPath now, this is definitely worth your time to get a good understanding of InfoPath development.

Back from TechEd SEA 2007 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.  This has been a great event, with more than 2400+ attendees and more than 7 tracks.  And it is definitely a good place to network and kinda get away from work and relax a bit.   Particularly the GeekOut2 nite, where everybody seems to let go and dance the nite away at Zouk (dance club)

There were a few BPM or Workflow solutions company present there:

• K2
• Skelta
• Nintex

And I was able to get in touch with what they have to offer, and I must all looks pretty impressive.

Last but not least,  I have a great time meeting the following people:

• Joel Oleson
• Mark Dunn of .NET Rocks
• Chad Hower (a.k.a Kudzu)
• Milan Gross
• Siva Phimister (from Scotland)

And now the chapter is closed…..Hope to see ya guys next year…

Cheers

This is a great looking and cool search application….and useful too.  You can save your searches as long as you have Windows Live ID and check out the tree view, it works just like a mindmap…

So what is Tafiti?

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Tafiti, which means "do research" in Swahili, is an experimental search front-end from Microsoft, designed to help people use the Web for research projects that span multiple search queries and sessions by helping visualize, store, and share research results. Tafiti uses both Microsoft Silverlight and Live Search to explore the intersection of richer experiences on the Web and the increasing specialization of search.

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Check it out here…http://www.tafiti.com

Microsoft has released a major update for he MOSS 2007 and WSS v3 SDK.

It includes some new tools and samples:

• Business Data Catalog Editor
• HelloWorld Web Service sample
• Excel Services User Defined Function sample
• WSOrder Custom Proxy sample
• SAP Sample
• Sample Protocol Handler
• Custom Content Source
• IRM Document Protector

Get it now.

MOSS SDK

WSS SDK

Download at MSDN here

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