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How do we get to Explorer/Folder View of Everything?

1. Navigate to the client page you wish to view
2. Click on “Document Library” (or another document library)
3. Click on Actions
4. Click on “Open with Windows Explorer”
5. A new window will open that will be similar to the one below

Browser Support

About browser support
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 supports several Web browsers that are commonly used. However, there are certain browsers that might cause some Office SharePoint Server 2007 functionality to be downgraded, limited, or available only through alternative steps. In some cases, functionality might be unavailable for noncritical administrative tasks.

As part of planning your deployment of Office SharePoint Server 2007, we recommend that you review the browsers used in your organization to ensure optimal performance with Office SharePoint Server 2007.

Levels of browser support
Web browser support is divided into two levels: level 1 and level 2. Although administrative tasks on SharePoint sites are optimized for level 1 browsers, Office SharePoint Server 2007 also provides support for other browsers that are commonly used. To ensure that you have complete access to all the functionality, we recommend that you use a level 1 browser for administrative tasks.

Level 1 Web browsers
Level 1 Web browsers take advantage of advanced features provided by ActiveX controls and provide the most complete user experience. Level 1 browsers offer full functionality on all SharePoint sites, including the SharePoint Central Administration Web site. Level 1 browsers are:

• Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.x (32-bit)
• Windows Internet Explorer 7.x (32-bit)

Note: Level 1 browser support is only available for computers running the Windows operating system.

Level 2 Web browsers
Level 2 Web browsers provide basic functionality, so that users can both read and write in SharePoint sites and perform site administration. However, because ActiveX controls are supported only in level 1 browsers and due to the functionality differences within different browsers, a different user experience might be provided and there could be some variances from the user experience from the level 1 browsers. Level 2 browsers are listed in the following table.

If a browser is not listed in either level 1 or level 2, it is not supported. For example, older browsers — such as Internet Explorer 5.01, Internet Explorer 5.5x, Internet Explorer for Macintosh, and versions of third-party Web browsers that are earlier than the ones listed as level 2 browsers — are not supported.

Feature-specific compatibility listed by Web browser

The following table lists more specific feature compatibilities by browser. The compatibility is listed as either completely compatible (Y) or not compatible (N). Detailed notes for some entries are provided immediately following the table.

Table Key:

Y - Compatible. All or most aspects of the user experience are equivalent. See Numbered Notes for any differences in user experience.

N - Not compatible. Item either is not available from the menu or will not function. Unless otherwise noted, this feature requires ActiveX controls, which run only in Internet Explorer.

Numbered Notes:

(1) These browsers will use the Connect to Client menu item on the Actions menu. This will open a client application that is registered to handle the stssync:// protocol, such as Microsoft Outlook.

(2) Web Parts cannot be placed by using drag and drop. You must click edit on the Web Part, select Modify Web Part, and select the zone from the Layout section of the Web Part properties page.

(3) This functionality is not supported because of an issue with the browser.

(4) Although the New button will not work, you can use the Upload Document button.

(5) Does not convert DOMAIN\Username to display name. If the name is not recognized, an error will be displayed.

(6) The toolbar will not be displayed; however, you can use HTML tags to display styled text. A link to a Help topic that describes the HTML tags supported will be provided under the rich-text field.

(7) With these browsers, and with Internet Explorer without the Microsoft Office client application installed, files cannot be sent from one farm to another farm. For files sent from a server to another server in the same farm, ASPX pages will be used instead of Windows dialog boxes.

(8) The drop-down list menu (triangle on the side of the control) has a different user experience, but the functionality is similar.

(9) This feature might work properly in these browsers. It downloads a file that has the .iqy extension to the browser. If Microsoft Office Excel is not installed, and no other application is configured to open this file, this feature will not work.

(10) Users can still enter dates into the date fields.

(11) When you click for a new link, the pop-up dialog box is the wrong size and the OK and Cancel buttons are partially obscured.

(12) You cannot sort or filter Pivot Tables. There is no work around for this.

(13) The Navigator 8.1 browser must be configured to render in Internet Explorer mode. For more information about switching modes, see the browser documentation.

(14) You cannot sign documents, but you can view signatures.

(15) The rich text is read-only by default. If you try to edit the text, all rich-text formatting is lost.

CRM Rollup 2 to be released 06/25/2007

Microsoft CRM Sustained Engineering plans to release Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0 Update Rollup 2 Monday, June 25th.   Update Rollup 2 is a well tested, cumulative set of updates for Microsoft Dynamics CRM Server 3.0 and Microsoft Dynamics CRM client for Outlook 3.0, including performance enhancements, which are packaged together for easy deployment.  Sincere thanks to the many customers, partners, and ISVs who have helped us test this Rollup during our pre-release testing program.

Comprehensive information about this release will be available via the Microsoft Knowledge Base article 927751, which will be simultaneously published with the Rollup packages on the Microsoft Download Center.  When published, the Update Rollup 2 packages will be available via http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=81674DA5-FFEF-492A-A7B1-7E1F1951B05F

This update rollup includes packages for Microsoft Dynamics CRM Server and Microsoft Dynamics CRM client for Outlook 3.0 to maintain parity between the client and server components of Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0.

How to Attach a Document in SharePoint Services (Outside of the Company)

1.  Navigate to the client page you wish to view
2. Click on “Client Library” (or another document library)
3. Click on Actions
4. Click on “Open with Windows Explorer”
5. A new window will open that will be similar to the one below
6. Right mouse click on the file (Image to the right)
7. Left mouse click on “Send To”
8. Left mouse click on “Mail Recipient”

Microsoft Dynamics CRM, x64 Processors and Virtual Servers

One tip of advice with the recent surge in selling x64 (64-bit) based systems you need to be aware that you can't utilize x64 for your CRM webserver. It's not supported.

Now having your webserver running in 32-bit mode you might be wondering about performance. Being that most of the processing is done on the data tier (SQL Server) you will greatly benefit having your SQL Server as an x64 based system.

 With all the above being said there is a blog entry that covers 32-bit IIS on x64. This article isn't really for the faint at heart. It

• http://blogs.msdn.com/joshwil/archive/2004/03/11/88280.aspx

Although this article can help you get the CRM web server components running on x64 it is NOT supported by Microsoft and isn't recommended at this time.

With the above having two x64 based servers (SQL and Web) this is what we opted to do. Windows 2003 Server R2 (x64) and SQL Server 2005 (x64) SP2 for the data tier. For the web tier I went with Windows 2003 Server R2 (x64; yes 64-bit). The reason I stuck with x64 was due to the growth and continued acceptance of Virtual Servers. The web server is also hosting SharePoint Servers 2007 (x64) as well. For the "virtual server" piece I used Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 SP1 (x64 [64-bit]) and purchased another version of Windows 2003 Server (x86 [32-bit]), called the machine CRM and installed the virtual server to auto-start, installed CRM and connected it to the x64 based SQL Server. This did add to the cost having to buy an additional copy of Windows 2003 R2 but allowed to take advantage of the x64 hardware that was purchased. The end result was a very fast and reliable solution utilizing the x64 capabilities and also the virtual server capabilities available to me.

The key to all of this is choose the proper platform for the proper application. Choose a 32-bit version for the webserver and a 64-bit version for SQL Server.

SharePoint 2003/2007 Feature Comparison

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 feature comparison


Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 is an integrated suite of server capabilities that can help improve organizational effectiveness by providing comprehensive content management and enterprise search, accelerating shared business processes, and facilitating information-sharing across boundaries for better business insight. Office SharePoint Server 2007 supports all intranet, extranet, and Web applications across an enterprise within one integrated platform, instead of relying on separate fragmented systems. Additionally, this collaboration and content management server provides IT professionals and developers with the platform and tools they need for server administration, application extensibility, and interoperability.


In this article




1. Collaboration
2. Enterprise portals
3. Enterprise search
4. Enterprise content management
5. Forms-driven business processes
6. Business intelligence
7. Management
8. Platform capabilities




The Office SharePoint Servers can be broken down into 6 functional areas:

• Collaboration: Help keep teams connected and productive by providing easy access to the people, documents, and information users need to make more well-informed decisions within their jobs. Windows SharePoint products and technologies include collaboration and community, document life cycle capabilities, alters, task notifications, Really Simple Syndication (RSS), the basic Web-based user interface, and navigation.
• Portal: The portal components of Office SharePoint Server 2007 include features that are especially useful for designing, deploying, and managing enterprise intranet portals, corporate Internet presence Web sites, and divisional portal sites.
• Search: The search component has been significantly enhanced in this release. The new features provide a consistent and familiar search experience, increased relevance of search results, new functions to search for people and expertise, ability to index and search data in line-of-business applications, and improved manageability and extensibility.
• Enterprise Content Management: Windows SharePoint Services provides core document management functionality: major and minor versioning, check-in/check-out document locking, rich descriptive metadata, workflow, content type–based policies, auditing, and role-based-access controls at the document library, folder, and individual document levels. Office SharePoint Server 2007 builds on these capabilities to deliver enhanced authoring, business document processing, Web content management and publishing, records management, policy management, and support for multilingual publishing.
• Forms Driven Business Process: Streamline forms-driven business processes with easy-to-use, intelligent, XML-based electronic forms that integrate smoothly with existing systems. This security-enhanced, client/server platform provides rapid solution creation and deployment, centralizes form management and maintenance, and helps to extend business processes to customers, partners, and suppliers.
• Business Intelligence: Provide business intelligence (BI) capabilities to every employee, so they can share, control, and reuse business information in order to make better business decisions. The BI features of Office SharePoint Server 2007 provide Web and programmatic access to published Microsoft Office Excel spreadsheets, programmatic reuse of critical line-fo-business data, and easy development of Web-based BI dashboards that can incorporate rich, data-bound key performance indicators (KPIs), Web Parts, and published spreadsheets.

Additionally, all servers inherit a set of shared platform and management capabilities from Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. The following tables are broken down into functional areas and provide a comparison of features previously available in SharePoint Portal Server 2003 and Office SharePoint Server 2007 when used with an Enterprise Client Access License (CAL).

Collaboration

KEY:

= Feature Included

= Improved in Office SharePoint Server 2007

 = New in Office SharePoint Server 2007

Features	SharePoint Portal Server 2003	Office SharePoint Server 2007 Enterprise CAL
Real-time presence and communication The enhanced real-time presence smart tag icon, displayed virtually everywhere a person’s name appears in the system, tells users whether a person is online and available for a telephone or audio conference call, instant messaging, or two-way video conversation.
Social Networking Web Part Include Social Networking Web Parts that use information about your organization, communities, and electronic communications in Public My Site pages to help establish connections between colleagues with common interests.
Standard site templates Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 includes the following standard collaboration site templates: Team site Document workspace Blank site Blog Wiki Meeting workspaces (five workspace types)
Wikis A wiki is a new site template in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 that makes it easy to create, edit, link, and restore an individual Web page. Wikis can be used as creative forums to brainstorm ideas, manage knowledge bases, create designs as well as instruction guides or simply gather information in an easy-to-edit format. Wikis are easy to create, modify, and annotate; in addition to tracking contributions and changes.   Key features include: Fast and easy page creation Easy and automatic linking Version differences What you see is what you get (WYSIWYG) Web page editing Wikis leverage existing SharePoint functionality including search, navigation, alerts, and custom fields.
Blogs Blogs provide a publishing-oriented experience for a single user or a team. Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 includes a site template that supports: Article posting Reader comments Archive views RSS feed generation
People and Groups lists People and Groups offer a unified place to find, communicate with, and manage people and their permissions, including support for custom fields such as Department, “Office #” and Area of Focus; in addition to the new Person field type. The Person field type creates rich displays of lists of people including support for a People Picker for browsing a list of users. Member Group provides: Re-use of groups across sites Distribution list for the members of the site
Calendars Calendars have been enhanced with richer calendar views, expanded support for recurring events, and all-day events.
E-mail integration Document libraries, discussion boards, calendars, and announcements can be enabled to receive new postings via e-mail. In addition, extensible support is provided for custom e-mail handlers in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. Similar to the functionality provided by public folders in Microsoft Exchange Server, e-mail enabled discussion boards support: A highly scalable, topic-based architecture New “super rich-text” field type Unified experience for both e-mail and Web-based discussions One-step creation of Active Directory distribution lists as part of the site creation process Unified SharePoint group and Active Directory directory service management functions
Task coordination The new Project Tasks list template provides lightweight task management functionality including Gantt charts for visualization of task relationships and status.
Surveys Surveys now include conditional branching as well as support for inserting page breaks in long surveys such as annual employee satisfaction or and customer surveys.
Document collaboration Improvements to SharePoint document libraries include: Checking out documents locally Offline document library support in Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 Major and minor version numbering and tracking Support for multiple content types Policy, auditing, and workflow Tree view support
Issue Tracking The Issue Tracking list template has been updated to use the enhanced versioning and version-history storage features of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0.

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Enterprise portals

KEY:

= Feature Included

= Improved in Office SharePoint Server 2007

 = New in Office SharePoint Server 2007

Features	SharePoint Portal Server 2003	Office SharePoint Server 2007 Enterprise CAL
My Site personal site The My Site personal site gives users an opportunity to aggregate information “for me,” “by me,” and “about me.” Significant enhancements include social networking, privacy controls, SharePoint Sites and Documents Roll-Up Web Parts, and Colleagues and Memberships Web Parts.
Content syndication Use Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feeds to syndicate content managed in a portal site.
Privacy and security Use authorizations to control visibility of information in a My Site public view.
Site Directory The Site Directory automatically creates a site map and presents it in an easy-to-use format. The enhanced directory now includes the option to scan for changed or deleted links to external content.