My company is rolling out Sharepoint 2007 Enterprise. I will not have admin access to the server. I will be given an account to use so I may make my departments website. Will I be able to use all of Sharepoint's features (workflow, searching, content management, developer level modifications) in the website I am building. Put another way, will I be able to develop any kind of dynamic website I want considering my department does not "own" the Sharepoint installation?
You have two approaches:
To install your application as a feature; you'll need to run some stsadm commands and potentially some administrator permissions to activate it. This is recommended approach.
To deploy your web application on a virtual directory, where you'll just need a file share permission to copy your files. This makes developer life easier.
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Umbraco CMS is free or paid? Please give me information i want to start work on project for my organization using Umbraco CMS
Umbraco is open source CMS so you can install it and host it yourself for free.
They have a cloud if you want to host the site on their servers and that is not free - more about it here
Umbraco is free open source however there are some packages/addons such as Umbraco Forms/Contour which you need to pay for, when using it in production. Forms allows you to manage HTTP form submissions within the CMS and configure what to do next such as send an email on submission etc.
Like Davor mentioned they have a cloud service which will handle upgrades and it include forms too. https://umbraco.com/pricing/
What's also a good thing to checkout is the https://our.umbraco.org/ site which has useful information on packages created by the community and tutorials.
I am initiating an App for Office project and I am trying to find out something critical.
Can I use my ASP.NET MVC built-in OAuth authentication to pair it with a Live account so my app logs-in the user into MS Office for Desktop apps.
This is needed so I can access OneDrive and use the share file editing there.
The architecture so far is:
Files stored in a single OneDrive or SharePoint server (TBD)
Desktop Office apps (Word and Excel) where the users work.
App for Office, installed in their Word and Excel. Users can authenticate on the back-end ASP.NET MVC server, using any 3rd party email address and a password.
I have used OAuth in ASP.NET MVC projects but not in integration with Office in an App for Office.
So, my question is if this idea is possible and HOW, or I have to give everyone an Office 365 account so they can connect via the integrate Office for desktop.
As we in our small company like to benefit from the OneDrive functionality, and also want to have selected shared and group folders offline available, we found a more or less perfect workaround.
We use the Goodsync software to synchronize. For this you create a sync job within Goodsync for the folders you want to have offline- available. Such a sync definition / call it folder pair / has a reference to the local folder, and on the other side a reference to the OneDrive folder. The reference to the OneDrive folder you describe like this: „sds://d.docs.live.net//“.
The OneDrive CID you can see for any shared OneDrive folder in OneDrive web whithin its web address (example: https://OneDrive.live.com/?cid=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) . Similarly it works for OneDrive group folders.
Our experience is very good with this workaround, only to be aware to have all rights for the shared One Drive folder, then Goodsync can even create or delete folders within shared OneDrives.
Good luck! Wolfgang from Salzburg
For everyone's benefit, I will explain what we have done.
We are using Azure Active Directory and manage all users there. We connected SharePoint site to it and it has a OneDrive behind. Now our App for Office connects to that using SharePointContext from here and it magically works.
I am working on a web application that will be used to securely share files between individuals. In terms of functionality what I deem important is easy file sharing, good ux, and secure storage. I want to integrate this functionality into my web application. I am working in the Ruby on Rails framework and have played around with carrierwave and Amazon S3 integration but I can't help but wonder if there is not a complete solution out there already.
My question thus is: Are there file sharing open source solutions or paid products out there which I can plug in to my web application that I should be investigating and not build the whole file sharing component from the start? I do not mind paying a fee for this software.
You could try https://github.com/mischa78/boxroom
Boxroom is a Rails application that aims to be a simple interface for
managing and sharing files in a web browser. It lets users create
folders and upload, download and share files. Admins can manage users,
groups and permissions.
Caplinked is a virtual data room provider that provides an API which will securely store and share your files / documents between individuals and groups. They also have a Ruby on Rails SDK which seems pretty easy to use. Check out their developer portal.
Just a sidenote: I'm not sure whether I should post this to serverfault as well, because some MOSS admin may have some info for me as well?
Additional note 1: I've found this document (Asp.net MVC 2 & Sharepoint integration) if anybody with sufficient expirience is willing to comment on its content whether this can be used in my described scenario or not.
Additional note 2: I've discovered (later) that Silverlight is supported in Sharepoint 2010 so I'm considering it as well. So if anyone would comment on silverlight integration as well.
A bit of explanation first (without Asp.net MVC/Silverlight)
Is it possible to integrate the two? Is it possible to write an application that would share at least credential information with MOSS?
I have to write a MOSS application that has to do with these technologies:
MOSS 2010
Personal client certificates authentication (most probably on USB keys)
Active Directory Federation Services
Separate SQL DB that would serve application specific data (separate as not being part of MOSS DB)
How should it work?
Users should authenticate using personal certificates into MOSS 2010
There would be a certain part of MOSS that would be related to my custom application
This application should only authorize certain users via AD FS - I guess these users should have a certain security claim attached to them
This application should manage users (that have access to this app) with additional (app specific) security claims related to this application (as additional application level authorization rights for individual application parts)
This application should use custom SQL 2008 DB heavily with its own data
This application should have the possibility to integrate with external systems as well (Exchange for instance to inject calendar entries, ERP systems etc)
This application should be able to export its data (from its DB) to files. I don't know if it's possible, but it would be nice if the app could add these files to MOSS and attach authorization info to them so only users with sufficient rights would be able to view/open these files.
Why Asp.net MVC/Silverlight then?
I'm very well versed in Asp.net MVC (also with the latest version) and I haven't done anything on Sharepoint since version 2003 (which doesn't do me no good or prepare me for the latest version in any way shape or form). This project will most probably be a death march project so I would rather write my application as a UI rich Asp.net MVC application and somehow integrate it into MOSS. But not only via a link, because I would like to at least share credentials, so users wouldn't need to re-login when accessing my app. Using Asp.net MVC I would at least have the possibility to finish on time or be less death marching. Is this at all possible?
I haven't done any serious project using SIlverlight, but I will sooner or later have to. So I'm also considering a jump into it at this moment, because it still might make this application development easier than strict Sharepoint 2010.
Questions
Is it possible to integrate Asp.net MVC/Silverlight into MOSS as described above?
If integration is not possible, would it be possible to create a completely MOSS based application that would work as described?
Which parts of MOSS 2010 should I use to accomplish what I need?
The Patterns and Practices Sharepoint Guidance release on CodePlex has a model-view-presenter equivalent to MVC but targeted at SharePoint development.
I don't know squat about TFS, other than as a user who has performed simple check in/outs.
I just installed it locally and would like to do joint development with a friend.
I was having trouble making my TFS web site on port 8080 visible (the whole scoop is here if your interested) and I wonder if it could be related to the fact that TFS is probably using Windows Authentication to identify the user.
Can TFS be set up to use forms authentication?
We probably need to set up a VPN, though that's a learning curve too.
To use TFS, do our machines have to belong to a domain?
We're not admin types, though he is better than me, though I would be interested in any feedback or advice on which path is likely to pan out the best. I already got AxoSoft OneTime working in this type of an environment and it suits us well, but I am tempted at all the bells & whistles with TFS and the ability to tie tracked bug items to code changes.
As far as finding a good way to share code, do sites like SourceForge allow one to keep code secure among members only?
It does not need to be installed in a domain. I'm running TFS at home within a workgroup on a virtual machine.
Create a user on the machine that hosts TFS. Let's assume this machine is named TFS-MACHINE. Grant that user appropriate Team and Project rights.
When connecting to TFS from the remote machine, the user should be prompted for a user ID and password. They should use a User ID of TFS-MACHINE\username and the appropriate password.
Regarding external spots to host code. If you're looking for cheap/free, you can look at something like Unfuddle, which supports SVN and Git.
If you're looking for hosted TFS, the only place I've been able to find thus far is SaaS Made Easy, but they can start getting a bit expensive, depending on the number of users you have.
Keep in mind if you're going to host locally that you'll still need to do things like periodic backups, etc.