12+ killer freebie SharePoint add-ons

SharePoint's popularity as a collaboration tool has exploded. So the time was right to look at add-on products for expanding its usability, management and customization. It was surprised, but happy, to find that many add-on tools for SharePoint is free. A good article I found which also talks about the area which I have decided to target. Click this or this to read more.

For a quick reference I am listing down all 12 free add-ons here as well.
AJAX Control Toolkt
Silverlight Control Toolkit
Podcasting Kit for SharePoint
Community Kit for SharePoint
30 Extra Features for SharePoint-2007
SharePoint Learning Kit
SharePoint Tool Basket
SmartTools for SharePoint
Role-Based Templates for MySite
SharePoint Branding Tool
Imtech Mobile SharePoint
Colligo Reader

The SharePoint Manager 2007 is a SharePoint object model explorer. It enables you to browse every site on the local farm and view every property. It also enables you to change the properties (at your own risk). This is a very powerfull tool for developers that like to know what the SharePoint holds of secrets.

SharePoint and Documentum integration

Documentum is a well know enterprise class document and records management solution. It seems no matter where I go, clients have it, want it or want to get rid of it.
Most of my customers keep there enterprise class document and records management toolset and use SharePoint for work in progress. You might be saying 'I thought SharePoint is enterprise class?'. There are several reasons why clients would keep their existing toolset but that is beyond the scope of this blog. So why Documentum? Here are a few points:

• Leader in ECM space (Gartner)
• Leader in compliance and regulatory platform
• Unified global platform allowing federation
• End to end content lifecycle management
• Proven scalability
• Robust security

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Coloring Calendar in MOSS

SharePointEndUser strikes again, but this time without any coding.
You can have a coloring calendar using OOB features. Click here to read more...

Leveraging the SharePoint Platform

After reading this six part series hopefully you’ll have a clearer understanding of what the SharePoint Platform can offer to you and your organization. It will also provide some direction in using the SharePoint Platform. I have broken the series down as follows:
Part 1 - What is the SharePoint Platform
Part 2 - What capabilities to start with
Part 3 - How to start with the SharePoint Platform
Part 4 - Levels of leveraging the SharePoint Platform
Part 5 - Why use SharePoint as a Development Platform
Part 6 - Lessons learnt from Leveraging the SharePoint Platform

How to remove(HIDE) the "title" column from a Sharepoint list

Have you asked yourself the question: How do I remove the 'title column' from a Sharepoint list? It can be annoying trying to figure out how to remove this column from default lists. Often, site admins want their audiences to click on "New Item" in a Sharepoint list and not have to fill out the default 'Title' column content type. Here is the way how to remove this from the view.

Embedding the SharePoint Version number into the Word Document

We've recently received a couple of requests from customers about how to embed the SharePoint document version number and other versioning information into the document itself. This solution does require some custom coding and that information can be found here:

http://blogs.msdn.com/joerg_sinemus/archive/2007/01/26/wss-version-number-in-the-word-2003-document.aspx

Accessing Infopath fields, a simpler way

Today I am working with my team on Migration of Lotus Note application to MOSS.
The form is so huge which kills the performance of InfoPath form.
And again we are at the edge of google :).

I have find one good article which help us, we have converted our "myschema.xsd" file to "myscehma.cs" file using "XSD.EXE" file.

Read this ,this & this for more information.

Best Practices For Building SharePoint Solutions

The challenges facing developers who work with Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (WSS) and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS) are as deep and wide as the SharePoint platform itself. If you're new to this platform, the practices Microsoft has explored in this article will lead you in the right direction. If you're an experienced SharePoint developer, these tips should help reinforce your knowledge, encourage discussion, and ultimately lead to building great SharePoint applications.

Audience Targeting with WSS 3.0

If you're like me and are fairly new to SharePoint you tend to rely on the Visual Studio extensions for Windows SharePoint Services. A lot of the examples out there assume you have a certain knowledge level or experience with SharePoint and therefore they can be confusing. I’ll discuss step-by-step how to set the Target Audience while using VSeWSS.
All-in-all though, this blog entry will cover multiple topics.

SharePoint Best Bets Search

One of the things that people are not aware of is that you can customize the search results coming from the SharePoint search engine. The results, which is XML, given by the engine are styled using XSLT. If you create your own XSLT you can customize/restyle your results page.
There is a 'Visual How To' by Patrick Tisseghem explaining the steps you need to do to customize the search page.
You can do the same trick with the Best Bets meaning, you can customize them by applying your own XSLT. Before we are going to customize the Best Bets, Kevin explains what they do an how you can use them.
Best Bets are used to promote some results depending on your search keywords. If you look at the screenshot below you see that when I type SharePoint in the search box, U2U and Microsoft are pushed forward as results where you definitely can find something about SharePoint. So if you think about it, Best Bets is a way for an administrator to earn some extra money, the one who pays the most gets on top of the list.

Configuring and Deploying Anonymous Publishing Sites for SharePoint Server 2007

Andrew comes with the article for Exploring and learning how to address security and performance issues of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 publishing sites before launching them as Internet-facing publishing sites. Read whole article

Print (Any) Web Part(s) Plugin

Print any WebParts from Paul again :)

Create a Pivot Table from a SharePoint List and Display it in SharePoint

Pivot Tables are a powerful capability of Excel, however MOSS now provides the capability to create a pivot table from data in a SharePoint list. This example will show you how to use a SharePoint list to create a pivot table and then display it back in SharePoint using the Excel Web Access web part.