Joel Olesen has done some great posts on his blog about running SharePoint 3.0 on IIS 7.0.
Read his two posts about SharePoint and IIS 7.0 here:
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Joel Oleson has done some great posts on his blog about running SharePoint 3.0 on IIS 7.0.
Read his two posts about SharePoint and IIS 7.0 here:
Microsoft has released the presentation from the Microsoft Hosting Day. Here’s a complete overview of the released presentations.
Business Module Presentations
- Selling Hosted Messaging and Collaboration to Businesses (4.18 MB – .pdf file)
- The New Era of Software as a Service (SaaS) (10.1 MB – .pdf file)
- Windows-based Hosting (3.39 MB – .pdf file)
- Selling Customer Satisfaction to Businesses (2.32 MB – .pdf file)
- Partner with Microsoft for Success (2.64 MB – .pdf file)
- SPLA Licensing Class (4.05 KB – .pdf file)
- Marketing Best Practices (1.08 MB – .pdf file)
- Marketing Best Practices (1.08 MB – .pdf file)
Technical Presentations
- Hosting Services – Part 1 (2.58 MB – .pdf file)
- Hosting Services – Part 2 (2.70 MB – .pdf file)
- Virtual Server (790 KB – .pdf file)
- ASP, .NET 2.0, AJAX, and Expression (3.44 MB – .pdf file)
- Getting Started on Windows – Part 1 (1.43 MB – .pdf file)
- Getting Started on Windows – Part 2 (2.06 MB – .pdf file)
- Optimizing Windows-based Hosting (1.43 MB – .pdf file)
- IIS 7 Hosting (2.50 MB – .pdf file)
- Windows-based Hosting Core Infrastructure (3.70 MB – .pdf file)
- SharePoint Products And Technologies (3.52 MB – .pdf file)
- Microsoft.com Next Generation Platform (1.29 MB – .pdf file)
Download them at source.
Today at the Microsoft Hosting Summit, Microsoft announced updates to two
solutions for hosting service providers:
- Microsoft Solution for Hosted Messaging and Collaboration (HMC) Version 4.0
- Microsoft Solution for Windows-based Hosting (WBH) Version 4.5.
Following are key highlights:
The solutions take advantage of the enhancements to Microsoft Exchange
Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, improving communications
and information sharing, and work productivity for SMBs.
Utilizing Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, HMC 4.0 provides anywhere access
for users, built-in protection from spam and viruses, and operational
efficiency for IT administrators.
Windows-based Hosting Version 4.5 leverages SharePoint 3.0, which provides
40 customized templates designed to help address specific business needs,
such as time management, accounting, and project tracking, and new tools to
create Web-based content, such as blogs and wikis.
Read more about these solutions and MS Hosting Summit 2007 at:
This blog also contains video clips of the keynote presentations announcing the updates, real-time blogging from
inside the show, event photos, and much more.
Read more about the announcement in today’s Press release.
Microsoft has published a series af presentations and videos from the following conference sessions:
Enterprise Search Strategy and Opportunities
This session starts with an overview of Microsoft’s enterprise search strategy, reviews the various products that it affects, and outlines what is new in SharePoint Search for the 2007 Microsoft Office system. Lastly, it discusses opportunities for partners building on the platform.
SharePoint Search Extensibility
This session addresses the core extensibility scenarios in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS) search, such as customizing the user interface, custom search using client applications, and crawling new repositories, including line-of-business data. It also covers the administration object model.
Protocol Handlers and IFilters
Learn about the overall architecture of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS) search. Protocol Handlers and iFilter interfaces are described in detail with code examples.
Customizing and Extending Search in Office SharePoint Server 2007
Learn how to customize Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS) search user interface and build search based applications in this session. Branding, Web parts and extending search using the object model and Web services are discussed.
Business Data Search
The Business Data Catalog (BDC) enables search to reach into line-of-business repositories and provide integrated search results. Learn about the Business Data Catalog including the design motivations, scenarios, and the apis.
SharePoint Search Deployment Scenarios
This session reviews both Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and Office SharePoint Server 2007 search topologies, and various deployment scenarios such as a collaboration environment, enterprise portals, and internet facing portals.
Download the presentations packages at source.
Microsoft has published a whitepaper on Windows SharePoint Service v3 hosting solutions.
SharePoint v3 offers a lot of great features and functionality for hosters and this whitepaper talks about how to use these features to create a shared hosting solution. The whitepaper is built upon lessons learned from a dozen or so hosting partners conducted over the past several months. The guide includes things like ways to deploy SharePoint, how to use forms authentication with SharePoint, how to provision SharePoint sites, migration from WSS v2 to v3 and even a section about deployment issues in hosting scenarios.
Download the whitepaper: Creating Shared Hosting Solutions on Windows SharePoint Services 3.0.
Microsoft has released the final version of the Windows SharePoint Solution Accelerator. The solution contains toolkit, scripts and new upgraded application templates. The solution will provide guidance and tools needed to help upgrade customized sites or site templates from WSS 2.0 to WSS 3.0.
The Solution Accelerator Team (SAT) has created a solution accelerator that provides guidance and tools to enable IT Professionals to successfully upgrade their Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 custom sites and templates. The result: a set of custom sites and templates that will operate in a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 environment. This toolkit also includes a set of upgraded Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 application templates.
Read more and download at source.
Microsoft has released the SDKs of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS) and Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) v3 to RTM.
- SharePoint Server 2007 SDK
The Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Software Development Kit (SDK) contains conceptual overviews, programming tasks, code samples, references, and an Enterprise Content Management (ECM) starter kit to guide you in developing solutions based on Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.
- Windows SharePoint Services v3 SDK
The Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 software development kit (SDK) contains conceptual overviews, programming tasks, samples, and references to guide you in developing solutions based on Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0.
