MS Office 2010 Beta Development Training KIT

Microsoft Office 2010 Beta is a broadly extensible platform for building information worker productivity solutions and developing for Office with Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 makes this easy. The Office 2010 Developer Training Kit content is designed to help developers get started building solutions, from add-ins to full featured Office Business Applications (OBAs), using Visual Studio 2010 with Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 as the core platform.

Therefore, just click on the Office Learning Center kit. This training kit is an offline complement to the Office Learning Center and provides links to the videos but the hands-on labs (HOLs), source code and presentations will be conveniently available on the local machine. This is the same content that we developed for the Metro early adoption program, which we are now making broadly available to Office developers everywhere! So, whether an ISV developing a product on top Office, an enterprise developer looking for ways to enable process efficiencies through Office customization and SharePoint integration, or a developer that wants to just build cool add-ins for Office, encourage them to download the training kit and get started. The possibilities and scenarios that are now available with Office 2010 and Office coupled with SharePoint 2010 are very exciting.

Microsoft Unified Communication's User Group -MUC-UG

Exchange Server MVPs from India – Nitin Gupta and Amit Tank – have founded Microsoft Unified Communication User Group – India, an independent group focused on encouraging communication between IT Professionals motivated by self-interest in Microsoft Unified Communication products like Exchange Server, Office Communication Server (OCS), and SharePoint Server.

The user group is designed as an information resource where Unified Communication professionals can find articles, how-tos, videos, industry News, forums, and new product features. Though this User Group is based out of India, there will be no regional boundaries as the group plans to host virtual monthly meetings and occasional in-person events.

Join the group at http://muc-ug.org.in, and spread the word around.

.NET Nuke Vs SharePoint

Dotnet Nuke --Open source. It’s a website creation tool that makes our job easy .This is developed using ASP.NET .NET nuke is recommended for small applications like personal website, for the applications where we can minimize the cost .Developer’s develope .Net Nuke Module .

A Person with little or no IT experience means a novice can work directly on it.

Share Point-- Need to have to buy license from Microsoft
It’s collaboration tool. Portal .MOSS 2007 also ASP.NET application that runs on top of ASP.NET 2.0. It uses HTTP Modules and HTTP Handlers as the application. Sql Server stores all ASPX Pages.You can extend Share Point or create workflow related applications or WSPs using Visual Studio IDE. Using Share Point you can extend an existing application to another web application so that information can be shared. Each application can have its own authentication mechanism. Share point applications are good for enterprise applications .Enterprises can create central application framework using Share Point Developers Develop Web Parts .An hands on experienced guy is required. If you need tight integration with MS Office, document library with version control or work flow enabled application, share point is the only choice.
At a Glance

.NET Nuke	SharePoint
Open Source	Need License
Need IIS ,Vistual Studio to develop and .Net nuke installation	Need Windows Server 2003/2008, Visual Studio, .NETramework, WSS ,SPS and Sharepoint Server
WebSite Creation Tool	Colloboration Portal
Used for developing .NET Nuke Modules	Used for Developing Webparts
A smart guy with no IT experience can work on it	Experience is required to develope or work on sharepoint
Good for Content based  or static or personal web applications (Can manage the content)	Good for enterprize applications where we can collborate the team in the portal
We can have anonymous access or forms authentication	We can have windows or Forms authentication
Workflow application developement  is not  possible	Workflow application developement  is possible
Document Management, Check in ,Check out, Version control is a limitation	Document Management, Check in ,Check out, Version control is in built
DNN Skins make the user to design layout of the page , can get good look and feel, easy to customize a skin	Uses themes in WSS /Custom CSS Files in SPS
No Singlesign on ,Enterprize search	Sinlge sign on and Enterprize Search

Finally to choose, it depends on our requirement, if your application needs tight integration to MS Office, that should allow version control, uses Excel Services and Business Intelligence, Collaborate your team at single place then Share Point would be right choice. If you cannot afford so much cost and application is related to content or SEO, like static, personal websites then you can go for .NET Nuke

Ps: the Term “Share Point “here refer to SPS and WSS

Activating Publishing sites features in MOSS 2007

While creating a site many a times you get an message that
Publishing sites and features cannot be activated in the Central Administration Web Application.

This message is due to :

You are not activated the site publishing features before you create a site. This needs to be done. This can be done by

Solution:

Go to SiteSettings --> SiteFeatures -->
Activate site publishing features

If you want to publish enterprize site then activate the features accordingly in the services.

If you get a message like Cann't activate publishing features.One or more services needs to be started before activating this service.

Got o Sharepoint Central Administration-->Site Collection Features-->Activate Required Services.
You can have enterprize site in the team site too.

Register for the free Event on MOSS 2007

Community-Launch 2007

Yesterday we have conducted Community Launch at MS Campus, Hyderabad.
It's Hot Summer, Marriges Season,World Cup Final..Even then we have got enough number of Attendees. This Launch we are planning from past one month and finally its launched and the feedback we have got is simply superb.
This time as Speaker as well as Organizer for the Event. I have presented Session on MOSS 2007 (Beginer Level Session). It's good that people stayed till 7:30 and listened the Session. Thanks for their patience. My sincere thanks to all those who have attended and made the event launch a grand success