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Infrastructure Update for Office Servers

Luis Du Solier G. — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 22:24:27 GMT

Ha sido liberado el Infrastructure Update o una actualización importante para los Servidores de Office. Podemos ver el detalle de estas nuevas actualizaciones, importantes y recomendadas para toda instalación (de WSS 3.0, MOSS 2007, Project...(read more)

Mas MVPs de SharePoint de habla hispana, que gusto!

Luis Du Solier G. — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 21:45:52 GMT

Y haciendo referencia a un comentario que dejó en un Blog el buen Carlos, de que hace algunos años nadie sabía lo que era SharePoint o como se comía, cada vez va creciendo el número de asíduos al tema, y prueba de ello es que el número de MVPs de SharePoint...(read more)

Un tip interesante en migración de SPS 2003 a MOSS 2007, content database migration mode

Luis Du Solier G. — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 18:34:20 GMT

En cuanto a migraciones de SharePoint 2003 a 2007 se refiere, hay distintos caminos a seguir dependiendo de varias cosas, pero las tres opciones más conocidas son: In-Place Upgrade, Gradual Upgrade y Content Dababase Upgrade (cada una con sus ventajas...(read more)

Decimo PodCast de la Comunidad de SharePoint, platica con el equipo del CIIN

Luis Du Solier G. — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 02:14:21 GMT

En esta ocasión tuvimos la oportunidad de tener una charla muy amena con el equipo de consultores del Centro de Innovacion e Integracion (CIIN) - http://www.ciin.es/web/Paginas/default.aspx - de Cantabria España. Pablo Sousa y Angel Acha nos...(read more)

La adopción de herramientas de colaboración como SharePoint hacia donde nos lleva...

Luis Du Solier G. — Fri, 09 May 2008 04:06:00 GMT

Algunos datos interesantes disponibles en internet: The CIO And SharePoint "...Why should CIOs pay close attention to this particular Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT ) product (as opposed to the myriad others you support in your organization)? Because it's...(read more)

Is Microsoft green...What do you think?

Luis Du Solier G. — Sat, 03 May 2008 22:07:00 GMT

I just found this page, with information about we could say Technology naturally efficient. Check it out! Innovating to Improve the Planet "...At Microsoft, we believe in the potential of software and technology innovation to help people and businesses...(read more)

Algunas recomendaciones de la semana...

Luis Du Solier G. — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 00:56:17 GMT

En esta ocasión me gustaría compartir 3 recomendaciones sobre funcionalidad desarrollada para SharePoint: Como validar en tener datos únicos en una columna por cada elemento de una lista. [ Unique Column Policy ]. Restringir el acceso a...(read more)

Use the People Picker feature to Search only for users with permissions whitin the site collection

Luis Du Solier G. — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 03:11:56 GMT

Some times we're looking for specific tips or how-tos for certain things, now I'ld like to share one from technet about how to delimit the scope por a people picker used within a site. For more info: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library...(read more)

Migrate WSS 2.0 Web sites to WSS 3.0 (some tips about SharePoint...)

Luis Du Solier G. — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 02:51:00 GMT

Recently I've been involved in a project about WSS 2.0 to WSS 3.0 migration. After doing some research and tests I realzed that there's plenty of info at thechnet, but I'll like to share some important thoughts with the community... Determine...(read more)

SharePoint and Kerberos...

Luis Du Solier G. — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 03:42:00 GMT

What about Kerberos in SharePoint 2007... From Steve Carvajal's Blog , some links to Martin Kearn's Blog (Microsoft UK Consultant). Configuring Kerberos for SharePoint 2007: Part 1 - Base Configuration for SharePoint Configuring Kerberos for SharePoint...(read more)

Some interesting Resources for SharePoint Planning...

Luis Du Solier G. — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 03:02:00 GMT

I would like to share with you some interesting links about SharePoint Planning...Most of them from Joel's Blog . SharePoint Disk Allocation and Disk I/O MOSS07 Search may not work after you dedicate a WFE for crawling! SharePoint Server Topology...(read more)

Personalice y aplique su propio diseño a Sitios hechos en SharePoint 2007

Luis Du Solier G. — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 02:46:00 GMT

Algunas preguntas relacionadas: ¿Cómo personalizo mi sitio de trabajo de SharePoint? ¿Cómo puedo personalizar SharePoint? ¿Personalización en SharePoint o con SharePoint? ¿Cómo puedo usar SharePoint Designer para personalizar o customizar Mis sitios de...(read more)

How to create a Meeting Manager, using Meeting Workspaces in SharePoint (2003 or 2007)

Luis Du Solier G. — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 01:17:00 GMT

Hi there, it's been a long time since I wrote my last post. I've been so busy with a lot of projects, and without time to share some thoughts and tips with you...But I'm back. This time I'd like to share a simple way to have many Meeting...(read more)

Use BDC to connect to Oracle Databases. You can use the BDC feature of MOSS 2007 to interact with information stored in external data sources, for example SQL Server and Oracle data bases - The BDC Part 2

Luis Du Solier G. — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 10:36:00 GMT

Using the BDC feature of MOSS 2007 to interact with information stored in external data sources, for example SQL Server and Oracle data bases - Part 2

Many enterprises manage a lot of information stored in data bases that are distinct that the ones used by SharePoint (SQL Server), for example internal applications like CRM’s, ERP’s or any other application developed by themselves, we could say “in house”. Now, we know that all the documents we upload to SharePoint Sites are stored in SQL Server. So, we have SharePoint data from one hand, and external information stored in other data sources on the other hand.Is there any chance to provide final users the possibility to have only one web site to work with SharePoint data and also to interact with information stored in external data sources, through the same SharePoint Site? Guess What!!, we have now the power of the Business Data Catalog, that allow us to interact with information stored in distinct sources and not necessarily need to be in SharePoint data bases. What’s the beauty of this, we can provide to our users the possibility to have one site (site collection) working with SharePoint data, from document libraries, lists and everything you know from SharePoint, but also with other kind of data…external data.This could help us:· Reducing time developing custom applications to access data and interact with (this functionality it’s also to view the info stored in other sources, not to update or delete the info).· Users could have only one point of access to interact with their info.· Having the possibility to relate info stored in other sources with the data contained in our SharePoint Sites, how about that!·

……What else can you think the BDC could help in your company?

Imagine that you have already your SharePoint Site created (using MOSS 2007). You can add a BDC Web Part (to know how to do this you can check my previous post about BDC) and connect it to your Business Data Definition Application previously created on the SharePoint Administration Central Web Page (The Business Data Definition Application was explained in my previous post).For this sample I used MOSS 2007 B2TR in Spanish (which the purpose to show SharePoint with Oracle capabilities to a client in Mexico City), but it works just great in English to. If I make a mistake in some Web Part name or something else at the moment of my translation I apologize…To take advantage of this post I’ll include some topics also related to BDC functionality:

1. Connecting two BDC Web Parts to show SQL Server Information.

2. The power of adding actions to BDC Application Definitions.3. Connect BDC Web Part to show Oracle Information.4. Integrate your SharePoint data with Information from external sources with your BDC Application Definitions5. Searching data from External Sources through BDC Application Definitions.

1. Connecting two BDC Web Parts to show SQL Server Information.

Once you’ve added the first BDC Web Part (BDC Web Part List), you can add another BDC (from many others), as the BDC Web Part Element, and connect them, so when you select one element from the BDC Web Part List, this will send the properties of it to the BDC Web Part Element Details to show for example its profile, or the details corresponding to that element.First, you’ll to need to connect both BDC Web Parts to the same BDC Application Definition.I have previously created two XML Application Definitions:

1. The first one called “AdventureWorksSample”; this one connects to the AdventureWorks SQL Server database sample. You can find more inform about it here: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms519241.aspx)2. The second one called “Oracle-BDC”; this one connects to an Oracle database: OracleDb.We can verify the Application Definition Section from the MOSS 2007 Shared Services Provider at the Central Administration Web Page. Well, we can continue…You can specify which fields from the XML Application definition will be showing the BDC Web Part Element as the details for the product specified.After that, you’ll only need to connect the BDC Web Part Element to the BDC Web Part List.In the next image you’ll see the Web Parts already added and connected. After this, I can select a Product from the List of the Web Part from the Left and automatically I’ll see the details (Profile) from that Product on the other Web Part, The BDC Web Part Element.This has been made with SQL Server 2000 but work exactly the same for SQL Server 2005.Ok, so far we’ve added two BDC Web Parts and connect them each other…No, I’m going to explain how to add interactivity with third applications, for example, email, CRM, ERP, etc… We can achieve this creating what is known as “Actions” for an XML Application Definition.But, how can we do that?

2. The power of adding actions to BDC Application Definitions.We can add interaction with other applications and our BDC, how? When we create the XML Application definition we can add by code or by the UI in the Central SharePoint Administration a specific action.For example, let’s review our XML Application Definition for SQL Server.There’s a section called Actions when we view the view the entity defined (Product). This image means that if the user clicks on some product it will load a little menu with two options:

1. to search on MSN the info provided of that Product previously selected (the Product name), and
2. The default action for every XML Application Definition, to see the profile details of the selected Product.Lest try on the web site… And if we click on the “Search on MSN” option, what we’ll see…And so on. You can add any interaction with in house web applications, all you need to do is specify in the Actions section from the XML Application definition section. For example we can add another action…and send Product ID and List Price to some application of the company so we could validate me other info…And after create a new Action, If you return to the SharePoint site when the BDC of that XML Application Definition is been used, you’ll see something like this…

3. Connect BDC Web Part to show Oracle Information.I’m going to add another pair of BDC Web Parts but know connected to an Oracle database. I previously install Oracle on the same server (for testing purpose), and create a database for this sample called “OracleDB”, I’ve also create an ODBC with the Oracle utilities and created a new XML Application definition added to the BDC XML applications directory (already mentioned in the article).You can see that we have a database with some info for this test…And our ODBC created with the Oracle utilities…Ok so once we have tested a successfully connection and everything work fine…We can construct our XML App def to connect and interact with Oracle. Finally upload that XML To have this working properly you’ll have to configure Single Sign-On on your MOSS Server (and in any server running Excel Services with other data sources not SQL, and in your index server in case you have more than one boxes), to do that you could go to the properly TechNet documentation (http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/841080ca-3e3b-4dbc-a081-43c29c76b3551033.mspx?mfr=true).And check this out to…http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa673236.aspx Information about Oracle and BDC in MSDN. You can also check other interesting Blogs about this:http://planetmoss.blogspot.com/2006/11/using-single-signon-with-database.htmlhttp://www.xmilk.com/Default.aspx?tabid=36&EntryID=15Well, we’ll continue…If we review the properties of our Depto entity defined in the XML App Def (we’ve another one for the BDC Web Parts that use SQL Server connection).We can see that we have and action already defined (see profile) and some fields or entities to interact with like DeptNo, DName and LOC as location…Ok, well next step, we should add the BDC web Parts to connect to Oracle data base…Once added to the WebPage on design Mode, we can specify the Application to use; in this case we will use OracleDb. And now, we can configure with a specific query… Finally we can interact with Oracle info though a SharePoint Site. We can add another Web Part and link it to the first added and see details to the item selected. Finally have something like this…4. Integrate your SharePoint data with Information from external sources with your BDC Application Definitions Ok, until know we’ve added Oracle interaction through your SharePoint 2007 Site (using a XML Application Definition that specifies the parameters needed for an Oracle connection). Know let see how we can add value relation the data source info with info from our portal into a document library. If we want to add relation with info stored in the data sources, we need to add “Business Data columns”. What should we do if we need to add some information related to the customer?When creating the new column based on Business Data Catalog, we’ll select know the Customer entity (also defined in the XML Application Definition that has the SQL Server connection). And you could specify the name of that column (formed by the distinct fields of the databases specified to interact with users). You finally will have a doc library with rows as info with SharePoint sites and info stored physically in external data sources, but for users will be transparent. And as you can see in the previous image, I add an action (like for example sending an email to some customer). And this can be done with any XML App definition configured in SharePoint 2007, no matter what data source you use, SQL, Oracle… 5. Searching data from External Sources through BDC Application Definitions.How can I search not only SharePoint content but also data stored in external data sources, like SQL Server or Oracle?Well, we need to add to our XML App Definition some kind of Method called “IdEnumerators”, this kind of data tells SharePoint what info to index and to be ready for search…In this post I’m not going to show how to do that, for that you can check this web page from TechNet http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms577629.aspxTo add an IdEnumerator Method is not the only thing you can do with your XML Application Definition, and for construct your XMl you can use certain cool tools that some MVPs and SharePoint Lovers have been working on…(I apologize If I forget someone, please ping me If I’m letting someone out, so I can add him here).

The BDC Meta Data Manager by Todd Bagisnki and Nick Swan

So If we would like to search from a SharePoint Site, to a specific information in SQL Server (to have the possibility to search through a BDC some other steps you need to do, not specify in this article, but you can also check this web reference in TechNet http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms495033.aspx).For this example I have only specify to crawl the Product Name and the Product Number. So If I want to look for certain Product let say, Lock Nut. And click on Search button or enter I’ll have the search results from that query, and as I previously defined in my XML Application Definition, I can search in this sample by Product Number, let’s say I want to search for LN-1224 that corresponds to the Product Name: Lock Nut 7 Specifying the query…and execute it And we’ll have the information we need to interact with…This Search Sample was made creating a new Site Collection with the Portal Corporate Site (Intranet), and using the Search Page of that Site Definition Template. Know it’s your turn to imagine the possibilities of this…Have a great SharePointing with the Business Data Catalog Feature!!!Thanks to Todd Baginski [a fellow SharePoint MVP] for the tips…

For more information also visit SharePoint 2007: BDC - The Business Data Catalog and SharePoint 2007 Shared Services Provider User Profile Importer

Finally, If you'ld like to download the complete post with images included you can do it click the link bellow and save the document.

Enjoy!

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The Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh

Luis Du Solier G. — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 19:18:00 GMT

The Technical Refresh is like a Service Pack for the Office 2007 Beta 2. As any other Beta, this one has some issues, so its planning to be one important update to the last SharePoint version.

This will be available to download at www.microsoft.com/office/preview or you can go here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/results.aspx?pocId=4289AE77-4CBA-4A75-86F3-9FF96F68E491&freetext=2007officebeta2tr&displaylang=en and http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=e1e51280-71f0-4d60-b2b9-3c49df916bc2&DisplayLang=en

You can install it the same way as if were a Service Pack, like doble clicking an EXE file (Update.EXE). Its really important that you double check this steps before anything.

SharePoint Server 2007 B2TR Update Guide – This includes all of the update steps, known issues, workarounds and planning guidance.
- http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/f49862ab-e067-4723-bb90-7eb1182c65ce1033.mspx?mfr=true
SharePoint Server 2007 B2TR Readme – This includes workarounds and fixes for less common issues for specific configurations.
- http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=72604&clcid=0x409

There are also a few known issues that could affect many B2TR update attempts:

When updating a B2 installation to B2TR all language packs and SKUs (e.g. Project Server) should be installed on B2 BEFORE B2TR is installed – you will not be able to add or remove language packs or SKUs after the update is applied. This limitation will not apply at RTM for B2TR -> RTM installations.
Before starting to update a B2 installation you must shut down the Search service – it is possible to corrupt your search index if an indexer is online and writing to the index during the update.
If you originally installed SharePoint Server Standard Edition there is a mandatory extra step required before the update can be started which is detailed in the Readme.
When installing a clean installation of B2TR you must create a web application and install any language packs or SKUs on B2 then apply the B2TR update.
If you are planning to upgrade an existing SPS2003 installation please read and follow the upgrade instructions very carefully.

Additional information:

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

WINDOWS SHAREPOINT SERVICES 3.0 UPDATE DOCUMENTATION

If you are running Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and do not have SharePoint Server 2007 installed you should follow the instructions in the WSS 3.0 Update guide and accompanying Readme.

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 B2TR Update Guide
- http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/b3e52231-16bf-4a46-a7e8-cb31b814627a1033.mspx?mfr=true
Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 B2TR Readme
- http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=72605&clcid=0x409

MICROSOFT OFFICE FORMS SERVER 2007 UPDATE DOCUMENTATION

If you are running Office Forms Server 2007 you should follow the instructions in the Update guide below and accompanying Readme.

Office Forms Server 2007 B2TR Update Guide
- http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/2042cbb3-312a-461b-825a-9d72648bdeea1033.mspx?mfr=true
Office Forms Server 2007 B2TR Readme
- http://download.microsoft.com/download/A/9/1/A91590BA-8E5E-4A3B-8C7B-C819393512D1/Server%20Readme.doc

MICROSOFT OFFICE PROJECT SERVER 2007 UPDATE DOCUMENTATION

If you are running Office Project Server 2007 you should follow the instructions in the Update guide below.

Office Forms Server 2007 B2TR Readme
- http://download.microsoft.com/download/A/9/1/A91590BA-8E5E-4A3B-8C7B-C819393512D1/Server%20Readme.doc

For more detail you should go to the SharePoint Team's Blog

Dustin Miller has done a great Demo to show us how to make the process more quickly, take a look at http://www.sharepointblogs.com/dustin/archive/2006/09/15/12213.aspx

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How Microsoft Outlook 2007 and SharePoint 2007 can work together...

Luis Du Solier G. — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 08:20:00 GMT

Since version 2003, SharePoint and Microsoft Outlook can work togheter very well, and know, with 2007 version we can see some great new add-ins. Like for example, when we are writing an email we could access to any of the email recicpients MySite anytime...

And What would happend If I clic on the View MySite link displayed on the Quick Menu...

I'll be on the Users's Personal Site

And If I would like to go mine...

I'll see something like this

Ahother cool stuff is the posibility to work with offline documents, and we can do it with Outlook 2007. We could access to some document library in MOSS 2007 and select the acction Connect to Outlook.

And It will be automatically syncronized, so If you add a new document it will be visible from Outlook in a few seconds, and If you edit an existing document and you open it from Outlook from editing, it will update its content with the one syncronized with the SharePoint document library, automatically.

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How to create a Portal Site in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Beta 2 step by step...

Luis Du Solier G. — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 08:05:00 GMT

For those who want to know in true detail how to create a Portal Site in MOSS 2007 Beta 2 and in Spanish, you could check my Post on My Spanish Blog here http://sharepointmx.mvps.org/blogs/ldusolier/archive/2006/08/22/62.aspx

You will have finally something that looks like this...

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How to customize/personalize your Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003 in true detail!!!

Luis Du Solier G. — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 05:52:00 GMT

This post its dedicated to all you people, looking for the magic path to customize in detail your institutional SharePoint Portal Server 2003.

Talking about this topic, we have to talk about Heather Solomon, and her great Blog dedicated specially to publish and share great tips, know-how's, and best practices for customize SPS 2003.

Also there are other interesting blogs about customization like GraphicalWonder from Shane Perran, and Microsoft Resources, like SharePointCustomization.com

But well, even do this brilliant SharePoint MVPs and Bloggers have done an amazyng work untill know, I haven't found a guide step by step, in detail telling exactly wich part or section from the style sheet to edit. Well, I have made some screenshots that could help us all, to know a little bit more what to change and where...So here we go...

After begin, I would like to comment an important tip, thanks Shane for your email. As he said on an email received from him, Microsoft does not recommend change the default style sheets used by SharePoint, I mean is not supported, but instead we can do a few steps before editing the style sheet, making a copy from the original file, make the necesary changes there and finally specify SharePoint to load this new css file, finally a customized copy from the original one, so to do this few steps you should check Shane's Post (And for that Im going to change the following lines where I explain wich style sheet use).

So, after review the comments from Shane's Post, you will be ready for make changes to your copy of sps.css stylesheet located here:

C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\60\TEMPLATE\LAYOUTS\1033\STYLES

To customize the color of the frame up the navegation bar, you should open your new stylesheet file

And change the line that says border-top. You'll see something like this...

If you want to move the links from right to center or left...like MySite or Help?

Search for .ms-banner on the same file and change the value from text-align.

You'll have something like this.

An important tip, how to change the logo from the Portal Site:

You should go to c:\program files\common files\microsoft shared\web server extensions\60\Templates\Images and find the image with the name: SiteLogo.gif, you could replace your corporate Logo with the same name and rename the original one, and thats it, or you can also, change the original specified Logo from this URL:

http://<servername>/_layouts/1033/PortalProperties.aspx and find the text box where you can specify the new image from your own.

Now, If you want to change the color of the Navigation Top Grad Menu, you should change this image for the one with the colors of your preference.

Once you have change that image...you'll see something like this...

Check also this line of code and edit your own image to change WebPart Header Color...partgradp.gif

You should also check this lines of code to change the lines between the TopGrad Image at the Navigation Barr...

Border-top

And border-bottom

Before the changes...

After that...

Now, to change the style of the borders from each of the links from the Portal Areas, that corresponds to each link as Home, Topics, News and Sites, check this lines of code from the same file that we are working on (your copy of the original sps.css)

Before made changes you should see this.

After changing this lines of code...

You will see it like this...

Now, obviously you can see the border colors from the Topics Area that is selected on the previous image, well to change the color you should change this lines of code...

And after that you will see something like this...

Ok, so far we have finish changes to the TopGrad Menu Bar, know on we will see some other details...

To change the color of the search box...

You should change this line of code...

And you'll have something like this...

Ok, now to change the color of the watermark text from the left side you should change this line of code...

And you'll see something like this...

Now on, to change the color from the Topics Area

You should see something like this...

Now, to change the color of the Topic Subdivision area...change the line selected from the image

And you'll see something like this...

Know, what if we want to change also the color from the onmouseover links from that same section, the subdivision links from Topics...

We should change this line of code...

And when you do a onmouseover to some of these links, you'll se something like this...

To change the color to the Title Portal, we should change this line of code...

And then you'll se something like this...

And, to be sure that the title from other areas like for example Sites will have the color that you want, we should check this section of code...

And we'll have something like this...

Well I really hope this few tips to customize in detail a SharePoint Portal Server 2003 help you...Remember that at the endyou must specify to SharePoint the new stylesheet allready customized...for this you can check Shane's Post

Please, feel free to comment about this to know what else you would like to know about SharePoint....and would really help you...

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Some Interesting links about MOSS 2007

Luis Du Solier G. — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 02:41:00 GMT

Some links about Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 whcih I would recommend you to check...

Windows SharePoint Services V3: Software Development Kit

How Do I... in Office SharePoint Server 2007

What's New for Developers in Office SharePoint Server 2007

Searching in Office SharePoint Server 2007

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Showing the File Menu bar in IE 7 – Posting with Images from Word 2007 Beta2

Luis Du Solier G. — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 03:22:00 GMT

This is a test to post not only test, but also images too…

Let me tell you about IE 7, and how you can see the File menu bar from that IE version.

One you had an IE window opened; it will look like this…

So, what you can do to see the File, Edit etc menu options like If you were using an IE lower version.

You can click at the same time the “Alt” key and the one that is exactly on the left side from the key with the number “1” on it.

And If you want to hide the menu bar again you can click the “Esc” key.

Well, it seems that automatically images uploading is not working at 100% so Im going to copy an image about what I was writing in Word 2007, so you can understand the text I just wrote on this post.

Im not sure If there's a way to do it automatically, but this was just a try...

Now, I tryed to post some other text with an image on it, but it didn't published succesfully, I think its related to this configuration.

But unfortunately I haven't configure it yet...Does anyone?

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Posting from Microsoft Office Word 2007 Beta 2 to your Blog!!!

Luis Du Solier G. — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 03:53:00 GMT

Hi everyone, I’m typing right know this text on my Microsoft Office 2007 beta 2 installation. I’m going to publish it on my SharePoint Blog to see how it looks like.

Cheers!

Luis Du Solier G

Mexico City

June 7, 2006 8:49 PM

This was finally posted to my Blog, but what did I need to do this, well let me show you step by step...

Another way to publish a post from Word 2007 Beta 2, instead using the file->Publish-To Blog option. I mean, adding a shortcut to your File Menu...

First of all, you should enter into your Microsoft Office Word 2007 beta 2, and you will notice the menu looks like this.

By default is not enable the Blog publish option, so you should add to the ribbon doing right clic n it at the right side and select Customize Quick Access Toolbar, you should see something like this.

After choosing that option, it will show show a quick window when you can choose what to add to your ribbon.

You should choose TBD and add it to the right column that contain the menu options available for you.

Then you will see the new button added to your file menu options.

What shall we do after that?, yeah, you're right...We can clic on it, and after that we will have a new Word document ready for write a post. But we will need to configure an account to say Word what kind or type of Blog provider you will use to publish your post, so we need to register it. A small window will appears in front of us...

Ok, we're doing well?, lets continue...

We should specify the Blog provider, (in my case I will select Comunity Server).

After selecting the Provider (If you're not sure about the provider you are working with, you can verify this in the link that this window shows you).

Now we need to specify the URL and the username and password...In my case I will write my own username and password, so you should write yours...and the same for yours Blog Post URL.

Remember that there are some Blog providers still not supported for the Office 2007 Beta 2, this ones appear if you clic on the Help me fill out this section link.

So, we'll see a confirmation window.

Ok, so we are allready connected to the Blog provider, and also our text in Word.

At this step as you can see, I decided not to finally publish the post, but to make a Draft, to see first what was going to happend, so, I would need to accept this Drafts directly from my SharePoint Blog, so the post will be public for everyone, but If you choose to publish directly, you won't need to aprove any draft, It will be posted automatically.

Ok, then well need to type our username and password (If we don't want Word remember it).

Ok, well after this steps, the post will be published...

Finally you will see your text published on your Blog, as you can see the begining of this post.

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