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8/6/2008You may have heard about the Community Kit for SharePoint (aka "CKS") – it's a set of templates, Web Parts, tools and source code that allows you to create community driven web sites and content on top of SharePoint Products and Technologies. One of the most popular components of the CKS is the CKS:EBE or Enhanced Blog Edition. You have seen many different SharePoint blogs using this template.
Another great add-on is the CKS User Group Edition. This is a SharePoint site template (.stp) that allows you to create a site already tuned to help with common tasks and themes related to technology User Groups. User Groups are a really positive force in the community and SharePoint is here to help. You can download the .stp file here: http://www.codeplex.com/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ProjectName=CKS&ReleaseId=1926.
Once you have downloaded the .stp file you need to upload it to your Site Templates Gallery. Follow the simple set of instructions below to get it running for yourself on a sub-site of your existing SharePoint site collection.
1. After downloading the SharePoint site template to your computer you need to add the .stp file to your Site Templates Gallery in the Site Settings area of your SharePoint Site under the Galleries heading. Navigate to Site Actions > Site Settings > Site templates.
2. Next you need to select the Upload Document link of your Site Template Gallery.
3. A new screen will appear which will allow you to browse and upload a template. Click the Browse button then locate the file you downloaded in step Next click Open and then OK. This will upload your file. Click through and save all the description and additional meta data about the file.
4. Now navigate to Site Actions > Create > Sites and Workspaces > type a title, description and path to your site and then click on the Custom tab for the template selection. Select your security options and then click Create. This will take several moments and then your new CKSUGE site will be displayed!
5. Success! Click the image below to see the template live and in action.
11/19/2007
Problem: Shared SharePoint hosting is in general not compatible with third party software. There are a variety of reasons but the two biggest concerns our customers have had over the years relate to (1) ability to migrate content and custom functionality between SharePoint versions (2) developer availability to keep current with the Microsoft patch cycle. With WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007 the SharePoint SDK and your ability to use SharePoint as a Platform for launching other services and software, in fact Microsoft support of this model is implicit.
Our solution: Separate shared hosting environments for 3rd party application hosting. While we offer economical shared hosting for OTB (out of the box) functionality of WSS 3.0, we can now offer shared hosting for customers who have requirements for third party SharePoint add-in software. By separating the hosting environments we can tune security and availability to meet the requirements for non-standard SharePoint add-ins.
Affordability: Since we have to maintain a separate solution stack (think hardware, firewall, SQL databases, software licensing, support) keeping this service affordable for our customers is very important to us. In many circumstances we are able to keep the service affordable by keeping the additional per month hosting cost under $100 USD. It is important to keep in mind that 3rd party software has additional licensing and support costs beyond what we license through Microsoft's SPLA program.
Demo of a solution we are currently providing: We are happy to support many companies who are choosing to go paperless with SharePoint (the amount of money you can save with a SharePoint implementation on printing and postage is huge). One of the third party solutions we are currently providing is a product that enables direct communication between your hosted SharePoint sites and document scanners in your offices. This allows you to scan documents directly into SharePoint document libraries and build the contents of those documents on the fly to a final product as a TIF, PDF or MDI file format. The product is called Scanner Enabler 2007 Windows SharePoint Services Edition by Dark Blue Duck.
Click here to watch the demo, or click the image below.
How to get in touch with us about this software or any other: You can contact us through our website (http://www.sharepointhosting.com/contact_us.asp) - make sure to mention that you are looking for hosting for third party SharePoint add-ins.
6/4/2007
Do you like the tutorials on this blog and on SharePointHosting.com? Now you can add them to your own SharePoint site to support your users! Now you can try out our custom SharePoint tutorial list, here are the instructions –
SharePointHosting.com Tutorials List Instructions:
1. Download and unzip the tutorials.zip beta package into a directory of your choice.
2. Visit your list template gallery on your WSS 3.0 site, upload the tutorials.stp file into the list.
3. Create a new list using the SharePointHosting.com's Tutorials - Beta list template
4. Name the list Tutorials
5. Add the web part associated with the list to any web part zone on your site.
6. Modify the shared web part and change the view to screencast tutorials for the collapsed view.
7. Enjoy.
This beta is available for NON-Commercial use only - any resale, repacking or other use is prohibited.
Questions/Comments/Suggestions? Send an e-mail to supportteam at sharepointhosting dot com 4/15/2007Many businesses use SharePoint sites to allow teams to better manage their documents, project Gantt charts, issue lists and client deliverables. In our day and age of "always on" connectivity we still can experience some downtime, offline line, where our Internet access is down on a plane, on the road, or wherever. While you can take a significant amount of your SharePoint data offline today with the Microsoft Office 2007 suite of products, there are some limitations. A company named Colligo Networks has stepped in to address the needs of Offline SharePoint users with a great free product that allows you to take your SharePoint sites, lists, libraries and information offline and access it all with nearly the identical browser interface you already know how to use.
While the site sync is one way with their free product they do have a paid product where off-line changes to your SharePoint site information is seamlessly uploaded to your sites when you reconnect to the Internet. Take a look at the Colligo products if you are a laptop SharePoint user or require access to key SharePoint information offline.
Colligo Reader
Colligo Contributor 2/1/200720 new English only Site Administrator installed Templates are now available for download from Microsoft. You should definitely check out this easy to install templates (SharePoint Designer 2007 is not needed) and create sub sites with them once you have installed them into your WSS 3.0 site template gallery. We have also made the download available here on our site - click here to download a zipped package. The templates included in the download package are:
- Board of Directors
- Employee Training Scheduling and Materials
- Equity Research
- Case Management for Government Agencies
- Integrated Marketing Campaign Tracking
- Classroom Management
- Manufacturing Process Management
- Clinical Trial Initiation and Management
- New Store Openings
- Competitive Analysis Site
- Product and Marketing Requirements Planning
- Discussion Database
- Request for Proposal
- Disputed Invoice Management
- Sports League
- Employee Activities Site
- Team Work Site
- Employee Self-Service Benefits
- Timecard Management
Once you download the templates individual or as a pack, the installation instructions are easy:
Instructions To install this download:
Note: To complete the following installation, you must have Administrator rights to the Windows SharePoint Services site on which it is to be installed.
- Download the file by clicking the Download button (above) and saving the file to your server.
- Pull the template file, <template_name>.stp, from the extracted distribution for the application template you wish to install.
- Log into your SharePoint site as the site Administrator.
- From the Site Actions drop-down menu in the top right, select Site Settings.
- Under the Galleries section, select Site templates.
- Select Upload to load an application template into this SharePoint site.
- Browse to the <template_name>.stp file from the distribution and select Open. If you have several application templates to load into your site, you can use the Upload Multiple Files… option to load them all at once.
- Click Ok to complete the upload of the application template to your SharePoint site.
Instructions for use:
- Log into your SharePoint site as the site Administrator.
- From the Site Actions drop-down menu in the top right, select Site Settings.
- Under the Site Administration section, select Sites and Workspaces.
- Select Create to create a new site using a site template.
- Complete the new SharePoint site information. In the Template Selection section, select the Custom tab. Any application templates that have been uploaded will be listed here.
- Select the template to use for this site and click Create.
- A site has now been created using the application template.
To remove this download:
Note: To complete the following removal, you must have Administrator rights to the Windows SharePoint Services site on which it is installed. This process will not remove the templates from any sites that were already created using this template. It will only prevent users from creating new sites based on the template.
- Log into your SharePoint site as the site Administrator.
- From the Site Actions drop-down menu in the top right, select Site Settings.
- Under the Galleries section, select Site templates.
- In the list of site templates, find the application template you wish to remove and click the Edit link.
- Confirm that this is the application template you wish to remove. If so, select Delete Item.
- Click Ok to confirm the deletion.
- The application template is now unavailable to SharePoint sites and has been removed from your SharePoint site template gallery.
1/23/2007
We are all familiar with the Application Templates for Windows SharePoint Services –now we are in for a treat as Microsoft has dedicated to release "Role-Based Templates for SharePoint My Sites"– this means Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 specific application templates to be used on My Sites. With the Role-Based templates for My Sites managers within organizations that leverage the MOSS platform will be able to use the included dash boards to better understand trends with up to date business data.
According to the SharePoint Products and Technologies Team blog the first two templates will be able available by the end of January, 2007. These first two templates will provide samples targeted for Sales Managers and Controllers/Finance Analytics. Check out this blog post for more details, screenshots and a video - Role Based Templates for SharePoint My Sites. 1/22/2007You are probably thinking to yourself, "Great another SharePoint tutorial resource!" – but not so fast, this time we have something different as announced here on Mike Gannotti's blog. The SharePoint Learning Kit is a SCORM 2004-conformant e-learning delivery and tracking application built as a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 solution. That means that if you are running a WSS 3.0 or MOSS 2007 server you can deploy the SharePoint Learning Kit on that server so be sure to check it out if you are in the education or e-learning space.
SharePointHosting.com is currently reviewing making the SharePoint Learning kit available for all customers and will have a determination in the next week or two of the feasibility of deployment to our Shared hosting and dedicated environments. Stay tuned! |
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