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Announcing three CodePlex projects for community WCM code samples

2007-06-19T07:04:00.000+01:00

Cross posted on Andrew Connell.

We (Spencer Harbar & Andrew Connell) would like to announce three new CodePlex projects created to enable the community to share examples of useful Publishing site elements built using the Web Content Management features of Office SharePoint Server 2007. Initially these projects contain a number of commonly used MCMS 2002 Placeholder controls converted for use within MOSS Publishing sites which have been graciously donated by Microsoft. Over time these samples will be augmented and enhanced. Future plans include the consolidation and alignment of deployment mechanisms of all code samples in all projects.

All the CodePlex projects listed below are released under the most permissive Microsoft license (Ms-PL) which means that you can do virtually anything you want with these code samples.

Many of the code samples include a MS Word document explaining the process of developing the code sample as well as deployment instructions.

The projects (and the included code samples) are broken down as follows:

SharePoint 2007 WCM Field Controls
A collection of sample Field Controls for use within Publishing Sites built using Office SharePoint Server 2007's Web Content Management features.

MultimediaFieldControl: Custom field type and control allowing content authors to specify a URL, width and height of a media file (SWF, PDF, WMV, MPEG, AVI, MPG, MOV) and renders the display of the control with the appropriate ActiveX control markup.

SharePoint 2007 WCM Web Parts
A collection of sample Web Parts for use within Publishing Sites built using Office SharePoint Server 2007's Web Content Management features.

FAQWebPart: Web Part that allows business users to contribute to a frequently asked questions list which is rendered with DHTML allowing users to expand/collapse each FAQ item.
RandomFlashMovieWebPart: Web Part that allows a content author to select one or more Flash movies from a SharePoint library. The Web Part will then display one of the Flash movies, at random, in display mode.
ThumbnailWebPart: Content authors can specify a SharePoint library containing images that the Web Part will generate thumbnails for. It allows content authors to specify the size, sort order and the number of thumbnails to be displayed in one row.

SharePoint 2007 WCM Utilities
A collection of useful utilities for Publishing Sites built using Office SharePoint Server 2007's Web Content Management features.

METATagsGenerator: This ASP.NET 2.0 server control renders HTML <META> tags for each field in the current page�s content type.
PropertyBagFeature: Allows content authors to modify values within the property bag of pages� similar to the custom properties provided in MCMS 2002.
SharePointSSLHttpModule: Makes it easy for developers to SSL enable certain parts of a MOSS 2007 WCM Publishing site.

Please use the CodePlex Discussions capability to provide any comments and feedback.

Again� we plan to update these code samples to make the deployment story more consistent in the future as well as add additional samples to each of these projects. Got a cool sample to share� let us know!

Microsoft Security Bulletin MS07-018: Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Content Management Server Could Allow Remote Code Execution (925939)

2007-04-11T16:53:00.000+01:00

Get this essential fix for the Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability reported by Netcraft's Martyn Tovey.

Microsoft Content Management Server 2001 Service Pack 1 � Download the update (KB924430)

Microsoft Content Management Server 2002 Service Pack 2 � Download the update (KB924429)

Bizarrely enough, this patch resulted in MCMS being mentioned for the first time on the BBC's news site!

Link to Microsoft Security Bulletin MS07-018: Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Content Management Server Could Allow Remote Code Execution (925939)

Some cool new MCMS sites

2007-03-25T16:12:00.000+01:00

Mahdi Abdulhamid, from Interactive Saudi Arabia Ltd dropped me a line regarding some recently launched MCMS sites, check them out:

http://www.sfda.gov.sa (Saudi Food and Drug Authority)
http://www.mawhiba.org.sa (King Abdulaziz and His Companions Foundation for the Gifted)
http://stcex.gotevot.edu.sa (Fourth Saudi Technical Conference & Exhibition)
http://www.elm.com.sa (AL-ELM Information Security Co.)

Letter to Content Management Server Customers

2006-10-04T12:48:00.000+01:00

Hear from Jeff Teper, Corporate Vice President of the Office Servers Group, about why the Content Management Server product has been incorporated the new Office SharePoint Server 2007.

Building HedKandi.com in MOSS 2007

2006-10-01T04:33:00.000+01:00

Ben Robb from cScape is over on the ECM Team Blog, talking about the development of the HedKandi for Ministry of Sound using Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.

TechEd US 2006 Slide Decks

2006-09-04T01:38:00.000+01:00

TechEd in Boston earlier this year featured some great content on Office SharePoint Server, and it's WCM features. To build great web content solutions with MOSS it is paramount to understand the broad spectrum of services offered. The following sessions are of particular interest to Content Management Server developers interested in what the near future holds.

TechEd US 2006

OFC202 - Windows SharePoint Services (version 3): Overview and What's New
This session covers technical fundamentals of the next generation of Microsoft's Web workspace technology - what's new, what's changed, how it works, and why you should deploy it and develop on it. This session is a prerequisite for "Office SharePoint Server 2007: Overview and What's New".

OFC207 - Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007: Overview and What's New
Office SharePoint Server 2007 is much more than an upgrade to SharePoint Portal Server 2003 and Content Management Server 2002. This session covers technical fundamentals, feature overviews, new sets of server functionality, and implications for developers and IT professionals alike. NOTE: Since Office SharePoint Server 2007 is built on Windows SharePoint Service 3.0, this session requires that you attend "Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 - Overview and What's New" first.

OFC210 - Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007: Create and Customize SharePoint Web Sites and Build Workflow-Enabled Applications
Come and learn about Office SharePoint Designer 2007. This is the powerful and easy-to-use tool for information workers to automate business processes and build efficient applications on top of the SharePoint platform, and tailor their SharePoint site to their needs in an IT-managed environment.

OFC216 - Using the Web Content Management Features of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 to Build Great Looking Sites
This action-packed session covers a technical drilldown of the new Web content management features in Office SharePoint Server 2007. Learn how to build a rich publishing site with a consistent, customized look and feel. Understand how authors can create Web pages in-context and using applications such as Microsoft Office Word that stay in synch with your Web site's look and feel. See how site managers can control what content gets published using features like workflow and scheduling. Finally, hear a discussion on how the authoring interface and experience can be customized.

OFC323 - Dot-Com Meets SharePoint: Building an Internet-Facing Web Site Using Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
This session discusses how to build, deploy and manage Internet-facing Web sites using Office SharePoint Server 2007. Learn how to enable caching and anonymous access to make your site support millions of users, setup content deployment to copy content to your production environment across a firewall, and use the variations feature to provide Web pages in multiple languages or for multiple devices.

OFC329 - Migrating Your Content Management Server 2002 Web Sites to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
This session discusses how to migrate your Content Management Server (CMS) 2002 sites to Office SharePoint Server 2007. Learn how to assess your CMS 2002 application, the different migration scenarios possible and how to plan for migration. It includes a discussion on the out-of-the-box data migration tool and best practices for preparing your application for migration.

FIX: Error message when you try to use Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server to check in files on a computer that is running CMS

2006-08-31T11:13:00.000+01:00

On a computer that is running Microsoft Content Management Server (MCMS) 2002 Service Pack 2 (SP2), you try to use the source control feature in Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server to check in files. However, you receive the following error message:

[Microsoft Visual Studio]Unable to cast object of type 'Microsoft.ContentManagement.DeveloperTools.VisualStudio.Documents.TemplateExplorerDocument' to type 'Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell.Interop.IVsHierarchy'.

This problem also occurs if the following conditions are true:
�An MCMS 2002 project is opened in Microsoft Visual Studio 2005.
�You perform a unit test in Visual Studio 2005.

MCMS ASP.NET 2.0 Book Sample Chapter

2006-08-29T14:30:00.000+01:00

Packt have put up a sample chapter of our new MCMS and ASP.NET 2.0 book!

You cannot access Content Management Server 2002 when you use a user from a universal group that belongs to a domain and the domain differs from the d

2006-08-29T14:24:00.000+01:00

You cannot access Content Management Server 2002 when you use a user from a universal group that belongs to a domain and the domain differs from the domain of the universal group.

Consider the following scenario. You use a user from a universal group membership that belongs to a domain, and the domain differs from the domain of the universal group. You try to access Microsoft Content Management Server (MCMS) 2002. In this scenario, you cannot access MCMS 2002.

New MCMS KBs

2006-07-27T12:42:00.000+01:00

FIX: Authors may receive authoring error messages when they perform any authoring action after an author deletes a page that stored on a large Content Management Server 2001 database

FIX: The import may fail when you try to import certain SDO package files in MCMS 2002 Service Pack 1a

FIX: Error message when you render a placeholder in edit mode and when you change the focus from an Internet Explorer browser window to any other open window in MCMS 2002: "Object Expected"

FIX: The attachment is stored as an unmanaged link when the file name contains a letter that has a grave accent in MCMS 2002 Service Pack 2 and in MCMS 2002 Service Pack 1a

FIX: You may not see parts of a Web site after you import an .sdo file that contains updates to connected postings in MCMS 2002 Service Pack 2

Coming Soon - Enhancing Microsoft Content Management Server with ASP.NET 2.0

2006-06-28T19:21:00.000+01:00

Lim Mei Ying, Stefan Gosser and I are putting the finishing touches to our new MCMS development book, coming soon from Packt.

The release of Microsoft Content Management Server (MCMS) Service Pack 2 opens up the world of ASP.NET 2.0 to MCMS developers. Written by the masters of MCMS, this book shows you how to use the new features of ASP.NET 2.0 that everyone is talking about in your MCMS development.

You will first learn how to install and configure MCMS SP2. There are two approaches to setting up a development environment for SP2: an upgrade from a previous SP1a installation or starting from scratch and building a fresh installation including SP2. Of course, both approaches are covered.

You will become familiar with the MCMS Service Pack 2 development environment, and create custom Visual Studio 2005 templates to overcome some of the issues which are present with the templates shipped with MCMS SP2.

After that, its time to look at some of the most exciting features of ASP.NET 2.0, and how you can make use of them in MCMS: master pages, site navigation, themes, and the membership provider model.

One of the coolest features introduced with ASP.NET 2.0 is master pages, which allow developers to enforce common layout and behaviour across pages within an application. You will learn about the benefits of using master pages and see a step-by-step guide for implementing them in your MCMS applications, where they become master templates!

ASP.NET 2.0 introduces a whole new way of implementing site navigation, driven by site maps. By programmatically adding channels and postings to a site map you will see how to smoothly integrate these controls to any MCMS site.

To customize the look of your site, we will see how a common look and feel can be applied efficiently to a MCMS site by using ASP.NET 2.0 themes. An essential customization required for themes to work correctly in an MCMS site is a must-read feature of this chapter.

MCMS has its own role based authorization and user management system which cannot be extended. However, the new ASP.NET 2.0 Membership Provider Model and the shipped controls can be used within MCMS applications to improve the implementation of Forms Authentication and provide a more elegant solution for authenticating against an external store.

A collection of tips and tricks round off the book, including using the Provider Model design pattern to ease migration to Office SharePoint Portal Server

MCMS Manager 6.2

2006-06-28T19:31:00.000+01:00

Chester has released a new update to his excellent MCMS Manager Utility Suite. Version 6.2 now targets the .NET Framework 2.0 and also includes the following new features from 6.1:

Adding Resources
Windows Authentication
Web Service Authentication

http://mcmsmanager.sourceforge.net/

Tech Ed 2006 Boston

2006-06-11T16:38:00.000+01:00

I am at Tech Ed Boston this week. If you want to catch up and talk about Web Content Management in Office SharePoint Server 2007, or indeed MCMS(!) then get in touch. spence@harbar.net

Web Content Management in Office SharePoint Server 2007

2006-06-07T01:49:00.000+01:00

The WCM in Office SharePoint Server 2007 area is now available. Watch out for more updates and orginal content soon.

MCMS 2002 SP2 with ASP.NET Web Parts

2006-06-06T15:27:00.000+01:00

Stefan has a nice entry on using Web Parts with MCMS templates.

Proper Forms in your MCMS apps

2006-06-02T22:09:00.000+01:00

Business Web have released AFLite 2.1. Get some.

MCMS and the ActiveX activation behavior change in Internet Explorer

2006-05-31T22:12:00.000+01:00

Stefan provides a nice solution for the new "behaviour" of ActiveX controls - of which the HtmlPlaceholder is one.

Solution also up on GotDotNet.

Content Management Server 2002 Developer Portal

2006-05-24T23:27:00.000+01:00

MCMS 2002 and SharePoint Portal Server 2003 are truly integrated into a common architecture in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. In SharePoint Server 2007, many tasks such as navigation, summary links, and scheduled deployment that an MCMS 2002 developer would perform can now be performed by users or IT professionals.SharePoint Server 2007 is built upon Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services (version 3), which includes many features previously provided by MCMS 2002, such as workflow and authentication. In addition, because SharePoint Server 2007 is based upon Windows SharePoint Services V3, which is based upon Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0, you can use functionality such as master pages, authentication providers, and navigation providers in SharePoint Server 2007.

MCMS 2002: CMS Assessment Tool

2006-05-24T14:18:00.000+01:00

Assess and analyze your Microsoft� Content Management Server (MCMS) 2002 site to determine the level of work needed to migrate it to Microsoft� Office SharePoint� Server 2007.

MSDN SharePoint Migration Center

2006-05-24T04:16:00.000+01:00

The migration center includes the following information for MCMS developers:

Mapping MCMS 2002 APIs to SharePoint Server 2007: Understand the changes, differences, and benefits of the MCMS APIs as implemented in SharePoint Server.
Planning MCMS 2002 Application Migration to SharePoint Server 2007: Use this guide in planning your migration to SharePoint 2007.
SharePoint Server 2007 for MCMS 2002 Developers: See how SharePoint Server 2007 merges the functionality of MCMS 2002 and SharePoint Portal Server 2003 with new functionality to create one integrated set of technologies built on Windows SharePoint Services.

Tools for MCMS

2006-05-23T16:54:00.000+01:00

Steve Walker has posted some MCMS utilities up on a GDN Workspace. Included is the excellent standalone Template Manager, along with a Postings Author and Batch Author.

SharePoint Conference 2006

2006-05-16T17:10:00.000+01:00

I'm in Bellevue this week attending the SharePoint Conference.

If you'd like to catch up and talk about ECM in Office SharePoint Server 2007, or SharePoint in general, drop me an email.

ECM Team Blog

2006-05-16T17:05:00.000+01:00

Launched today - the ECM team blog. Check it out!

Description of Content Management Server 2002 post-Service Pack 2 hotfix package.

2006-05-09T10:11:00.000+01:00

This hotfix package fixes the following issue that was not previously documented in a Microsoft Knowledge Base article:The German and French versions of Microsoft Content Management Server 2002 Service Pack 2 (SP2) include the incorrect Nrdhtml.cab file. The Nrdhtml.cab file that is included is the English version of the file

Tyler Butler on Content Deployment

2006-05-08T13:51:00.000+01:00

Tyler, a PM on the WCM team talks about the Content Deployment features in Office SharePoint Server 2007.