Sunday, January 22, 2006

Content Management to use SharePoint

The next version of MCMS (WCM) will be built on top of SharePoint. This makes a ton of sense, but it was interesting hearing some of the issues that the Content Management team went through, and some of their tradeoffs. More to follow...

http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2006/01/20/515564.aspx

SharePoint V3 Beta at Microsoft

The SharePoint development team has a blog, with some interesting information about their progress on V3.

http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2006/01/20/515423.aspx

Thursday, January 19, 2006

SharePoint 2003 with NET 2.0

Confirmed with Mike Fitzmaurice at Microsoft that SPS 2003 should work with NET 2.0 on the same box, and that SPS can index information stored in NET 2.0 web parts. Here is how:

- the IIS application running SPS must use NET 1.1 (ASP.NET tab)
- WSS SP2 is set up on a separate IIS application (virtual server) on the same machine, and configured to run NET 2.0
- Son of Smartpart is set up, and uses the WSS site
- Build webparts and controls in VS2005, and publish to WSS site

SPS should then be able to link to, and index the WSS site.

Wednesday, January 04, 2006

SharePoint Projects

Currently working on a project that integrates WSS 2.0 with NET 2.0, SPS 2003, SQL 2000 and SQL 2005, BizTalk 2004 and Content Management Server 2002. Wish me luck :-)