Part 4 - Shared Service Providers- May 21, 2008 The next Sharepoint topic I would like to cover is Shared Service Providers. A Shared Service Provider (SSP) is responsible for handling: Profiles My Sites Business Data Catalogue (BDC) Excel Services Office Sharepoint Search The idea is that the SSP handles all the above information in one place and your web applications can share the SSP. A web application can be associated to one SSP. Planning SSP's is fairly easy, if you follow the Planning SSP's article you will notice the...http://httpcode.com/blogs/PermaLink,guid,984192c4-3bf0-45be-bc50-f88df2b2bcff.aspx stsadm Command Line Posters- May 13, 2008 Just a heads up to point out that you can download the stsadm command line parameter posters from here. You can print them out and put them on the wall next to the sample reference diagram.http://httpcode.com/blogs/PermaLink,guid,27e2df12-9d13-49c6-b733-7530c218ad01.aspx Part 3 - Site Collections- May 12, 2008 Continuing on from Part 1 and Part 2 where I discussed Zones, Authentication providers and Policy, this time I would like to discuss Site Collections. A site collection is a container, it forms the basis of an information architecture where you can create sub sites to build out your information architecture. Windows Sharepoint Services (WSS) allows the user to create one site collection, that is all of your content will be housed in a single site collection. MOSS takes a different...http://httpcode.com/blogs/PermaLink,guid,5ff67ea1-99ba-4a3c-96c1-7f7c7e9a5b4d.aspx Screencast - Zones and Authentication Providers- May 9, 2008 I've recorded a screencast that is a complement to Part 1 - Zones and Authentication Providers, in this screencast I show how to setup a custom zone to use forms based authentication by extending the existing web application onto a new zone and configuring that zone to use forms based authentication.http://httpcode.com/blogs/PermaLink,guid,ad84095f-2729-4506-b345-206c624713dd.aspx MOSS 2007 Logical Architecture - Part 2 - Web Applications and Zone Policy- May 6, 2008 In my last post I covered a little bit about Zones and Authentication providers, the next chunk of knowledge that I would like to instill is Web Applications and Web Application Policy (or Zone Policy). &160; A Web Application is an IIS website with a unique domain name, looking at our all encompassing diagram from Part 1 the web applications are the shaded grey areas (which are labeled as Application Pools). A Web Application can and should be given different application pool accounts..http://httpcode.com/blogs/PermaLink,guid,3bc2b1aa-a04c-4763-9127-6a945b9f857b.aspx Tip - Stop IE from requesting your Login Details- May 5, 2008 I thought I might create a screen cast for a bit of fun, so this screen cast shows how you can stop IE from prompting you to enter your windows login credentials: &160; &160; Basically you need to ensure that your site is in the Local Intranet zone, IE will automatically forward your current login credentials on to sites in this zone.&160;http://httpcode.com/blogs/PermaLink,guid,91372290-ace8-4dac-a34f-f674f768858d.aspx MOSS 2007 Logical Architecture - Zones and Authentication- May 5, 2008 I've been working on a large MOSS project for the past few months, I've learned a lot about designing and building the logical architecture of a MOSS instance. I thought that I might try to put some of my findings into words. Firstly I'd like to set the scene to some hypothetical scenario: You have just walked into the offices of Golf Corp, they are a national company that manages the golf handicap and scoring system of 150 golf courses. They have chosen to implement Microsoft Office...http://httpcode.com/blogs/PermaLink,guid,1e3cdc4f-c889-4600-97ce-47bd03c9f80a.aspx New Blog and Web Site Design- May 5, 2008 Well I've started to get serious about blogging again, I'm now doing some interesting work that will give me the opportunity to post some useful content. In preparation for this, I've redesigned this web site and blog to reflect the new changes ahead. &160; Also I've started using Twitter more and more, you can follow me at: http:twitter.comDanielPollardhttp://httpcode.com/blogs/PermaLink,guid,7f403cc2-54f1-489d-830c-fe8ce5eea50e.aspx |