ADFS Step-by-Step Guide

This guide provides instructions for setting up Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) in a small test lab environment and should take approximately 3 hours to complete. It walks you through how to set up a claims-aware application and a Windows NT token–based application on an ADFS-enabled Web server. It also explains how to configure two federation servers that authenticate and authorize federated access to both types of application. No additional downloads are required, you can simply use the code in the document to create the claims-aware application.

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Windows SharePoint Services and SharePoint Portal Server 2003 Support boundaries for Active Directory Federation Services

The purpose of this article is to describe supported configurations, known limitations, and recommendations for improving the user experience when you deploy Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services and Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003 with ADFS.

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Deliver SQL Server Reports To SharePoint To Enhance Team Collaboration

This article discusses:

• The architecture of a report collaboration solution
• Creating a SharePoint Web service to save reports
• Building a report delivery extension
• Deploying the solution to a SharePoint site

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Chapter 5: Searching MCMS with SharePoint

Chapter 5, Part 1: Search options for MCMS sites, preparing an MCMS site for indexing by a search engine, and configuring SharePoint Portal Server Search for searching MCMS.

Chapter 5, Part 2: How to implement search using the MCMS Connector for SharePoint Technologies, an out-of-the-box solution, as well as how to build your own solution using the SharePoint Portal Server Query Service Web service and custom full-text T-SQL queries to provide search filters and customized results.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/odc_MCMS2002_bk/html/CMSCh5SearchingWithSharePoint_Land.asp

Melbourne SharePoint User Group – 23rd February

The Melbourne SharePoint User Group will hold its first meeting for 2006 on Thursday 23rd February, from 6.00pm at Microsoft (Level 9, Como Office Tower, 644 Chapel St South Yarra).


This month, Steve Iatropoulos, Information Worker Technology Specialist for Microsoft will present on Groove Technology.

Groove is a technology which Microsoft acquired in 2004 to help with ad-hoc team collaboration. Groove offers an excellent set of capabilities for sharing documents, contacts, tasks and forms in an online and offline mode. Does that sound similar to Sharepoint? Yes! However the two sets of technologies are increasingly being merged to complement each other. In this session, Steve will demonstrate the latest version of Groove (currently called Groove ‘12’) and discuss how this technology complements as well as overlaps Sharepoint

As always, the beer and pizzas are on us and we look forward to seeing everyone there!
Please let us know if you have any feedback on how we can improve the user group. Also, if you would like to present to the group on your experiences with SharePoint, just let us know. We can be contacted at spsusergroup@uniqueworld.net or by visiting http://sps.uniqueworld.net/melbourne

Planning and Designing SharePoint Products and Technology Solutions for Geographically Dispersed Sites

This white paper describes three supported deployment solutions for accommodating geographically dispersed sites with SharePoint Products and Technologies. Included in this paper are recommendations for deploying SharePoint Products and Technologies across multiple geographic sites (based on the three supported solutions), statistics for estimating SharePoint Products and Technologies bandwidth utilization and the resulting user experience across a WAN, and information on configuring settings such as search crawls to optimize bandwidth utilization and the user experience. Finally, this paper describes the test environment and methodology that was used to develop these recommendations.

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Live Communications Server 2005 Demo

See how Live Communications Server 2005 improves business efficiencies by enabling information workers to find and communicate with people in real time, through a security enhanced, enterprise-grade environment that is integrated with the Microsoft Office System and Microsoft Windows Server System.

Watch the demos to see highlights of key Live Communications Server 2005 features, benefits, and technical details.

Document Library Browser 1.2 (treeview)

I was always having problems around navigation with larger document libraries that contain 1000 of documents and 100 of folders. It is very hard to find the appropriate document unless it’s properly tag with metadata and can be sort using different filters and views, Or depend on search.

How about if you can get a tree view like in windows explore. So you can get an idea about how much content under each folder….
Have a look at Document Library Browser 1.2

Canberra SharePoint User Group Meeting - 15th February
The Canberra SharePoint User Group will hold its first meeting for 2006 on Wednesday 15th February, from 5.30pm at Microsoft (Level 2, 44 Sydney Ave Barton).

This month, Rainer Wittmann from CorasWorks will conduct a Web demo for us on their SharePoint solution CorasWorks!

Agenda is as follows:

1. Overview of CorasWorks.
2. Solutions Showroom.
3. Discussion and demo of the 5 Key Foundations/Capabilities.
4. Dashboards.
5. Roll-Ups.
6. Navigation.7. Email Notification.8. Rapid Deployment Tools.9. Q&A


As always, the beer and pizzas are on us and we look forward to seeing everyone there!

Please note that due to security reasons at Microsoft Canberra, attendees arriving after 6pm will not be able to get into the building.
Please let us know if you have any feedback on how we can improve the user group. Also, if you would like to present to the group on your experiences with SharePoint, just let us know. We can be contacted at spsusergroup@uniqueworld.net or by visiting http://sps.uniqueworld.net/canberra

Applications for Windows SharePoint Services

These application templates are tailored to address the needs and requirements for specific business processes or sets of tasks for organizations of any size. The applications are the first out-of-box custom scenarios for the Windows SharePoint Services platform, though they also provide a starting point for partners and developers looking to build deeper Windows SharePoint Services solutions.

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