Bill Baer /bɛːr/

People Picker works both cross-domain and cross-forest in one and two way trust environments. People Picker will issue queries to all two-way trusted domains and two-way trusted forests to search People & Groups out-of-the-box. *People Picker uses the Windows SharePoint Services Web Application logon identity to access the target domain/forest. If the Web Application pool does not have access to the target domain/forest, People Picker will need to be configured to use an account with access to the target domain/forest using the following STSADM operations:

One of the most common questions I receive is how to co-host traditional “team” and personal Site Collections (My Sites) within an individual Web Application in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. While possible, there are several important steps that you should be aware of. The public profile page is a document specific to the SPSMSITEHOST site template (My Site Host); unless a My Site Host is defined in the server farm, public profile pages will not be available to users.

The Microsoft Best Practices Analyzer for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and the 2007 Microsoft Office System is now available from the Microsoft Download Center! The Microsoft Best Practices Analyzer programmatically collects settings and values from data repositories including Microsoft SQL Server, Registry, and Performance Monitor. The data when collected is processed and a set of comprehensive best practice rules are applied to the topology. Server farm administrators benefit from a detailed report listing of recommendations that can be applied to the environment resulting in performance and scalability improvements in additon to optimizing uptime.

The following information is a reference guide to configuring Trusted File Locations for Excel Calculation Services in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. Your configuration may vary due to performance and hardware considerations; you should test configuration parameters for performance and scale before application to a production environment. Open your Shared Services Administration site and select Trusted file locations under Excel Services Settings. Click Add Trusted File Location to add a new Excel workbook file location considered trustworthy.

Two (2) new articles have been published centered on Excel Services programmability with accompanying sample solutions available in the Microsoft Download Center. The first article demonstrates how to extend List and query tables on Excel Services and includes content detailing external workbook references, SQL write-back and user-defined functions. The second article provides a more in-depth approach to developing UDF’s for Excel Services. Article: Extending the Excel Services Programmability Framework Accompanying Solution:

When preparing to deploy an Internet accessible Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 web farm security is the forefront of discussion and planning. To provide a brief insight into securing SharePoint Products and Technologies, I’ve decided to finally consolidate, compile and make available some of my notes. Hopefully this will be of benefit in helping others understand the method by which SharePoint Products and Technologies communicate and a high-level security overview. Internet Information Services (IIS) is the obvious first candidate for preparation and discussion –we’ve concluded IIS will be configured to use both basic and Integrated Windows authentication methods, basic allows credentials to be transmitted unencrypted and secured by SSL.

Estimated release timelines for both Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 language packs has been posted the SharePoint Team Blog.

I’ve recently been asked whether Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 can be upgraded to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007; while this is possible, there are several important constraints that should be taken into consideration. Foremost, you should not upgrade Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 bypassing the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 upgrade - by attempting to upgrading Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 you are combining two upgrade methodologies; version to version (WSS 2.

I was browsing for SharePoint add-ons and integration features this evening and came across this one from Dark Blue Duck; Scanning Enabler. The reason I decided to post on this particular add-on is that I could see the immediate value from the capacity to take desktop scanning to SharePoint Products and Technologies, seamlessly and transparently. The product specifications include key features, to include, integration will Doc and PicLibs, enabled at the Web Application level providing the functionality to all Site Collections and workspaces, supports custom metadata capture and workflow, and supports localization.

The Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Management Packs for Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 have been released and are available for download from Microsoft in 8 localizations, including English, French, Chinese (Traditional), Chinese (Simplified), German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, and Spanish. The Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Management Packs for Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 help to provide assistance resonding to critical events generated by Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and common configuration problems related to SSP provisioning problems, Site Directory scan job failures, Search and service failures such as Office Document Conversions Launcher and Office Document Conversions Load Balancer services.