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Q:Why Datareader is useful?
Answer :DataReaders are different–they provide forward-only, read-only, connected access to data sources, and they don't support data manipulation. So why would you want to use something that limits you so much? Performance, for starters: DataReaders are much faster. Another benefit is a smaller memory footprint–DataReaders allow you to work with data as you get it, a row at a time. So DataReaders are particularly well-suited for working with data that's too large to fit in memory comfortably. A DataReader is a read-only stream of data returned from the database as the query executes. It only contains one row of data in memory at a time and is restricted to navigating forward only in the results one record at a time
Submitted by:shabir@myfaithsolution.comDate Posted:3/24/2010 2:48:22 AM
Q:What is Viewstate?
Answer :View state provides state information for a specific ASP.NET page. If you need to use information on more than one page, or if you need the information to persist across visits to the Web site, you should use another method for maintaining state, such as application state, session state or personalization.
Submitted by:shabir@myfaithsolution.comDate Posted:3/24/2010 2:48:22 AM
Q:What is the difference between a site and a web?
Answer :The pages in a Web site generally cover one or more topics and are interconnected through hyperlinks. Most Web sites have a home page as their starting point. While a Web is simply a blank site with SharePoint functionality built in; meaning you have to create the site from the ground up.
Submitted by:shabir@myfaithsolution.comDate Posted:3/21/2010 4:25:00 PM
Q:What are the differences between web part page gallery, site gallery, virtual server gallery and online gallery?
Answer :Web Part Page Gallery is the default gallery that comes installed with SharePoint. Site Gallery is specific to one site. Virtual Server gallery is specific to that virtual server and online gallery are downloadable web parts from Microsoft.
Submitted by:shabir@myfaithsolution.comDate Posted:3/21/2010 4:25:32 PM
Q:What is the difference between a document library and a form library?
Answer :Document libraries consist of your core documents. An example would be a word document, excel, powerpoint, visio, pdf, etc… Form libraries consist of XML forms
Submitted by:shabir@myfaithsolution.comDate Posted:3/21/2010 4:26:01 PM
Q:How does SharePoint support MS Outlook integration?
Answer :Via Web Parts available at the Microsoft Web Component Directory. Oh yeah and Active X Controls
Submitted by:shabir@myfaithsolution.comDate Posted:3/21/2010 4:26:23 PM
Q:Explain how you would deploy SharePoint on an extranet
Answer :Usually servers that are accessible from external sources are housed in DMZ’s. Depending on the requirements and the workflow for publishing content you could go with Multiple Servers hosting the same information. One server would reside inside with the SQL Cluster while the external server resides in the DMZ simply calling data. Security would be handled by the same or different active directory domain clusters as well increasing security
Submitted by:shabir@myfaithsolution.comDate Posted:3/21/2010 4:26:55 PM
Q:Can you register alerts for users?
Answer :Not unless you are logged in as that user.
Submitted by:shabir@myfaithsolution.comDate Posted:3/21/2010 4:27:42 PM
Q:What is Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services? How is it related to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007?
Answer :Windows SharePoint Services is the solution that enables you to create Web sites for information sharing and document collaboration. Windows SharePoint Services -- a key piece of the information worker infrastructure delivered in Microsoft Windows Server 2003 -- provides additional functionality to the Microsoft Office system and other desktop applications, and it serves as a platform for application development. Office SharePoint Server 2007 builds on top of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 to provide additional capabilities including collaboration, portal, search, enterprise content management, business process and forms, and business intelligence.
Submitted by:Shabir@myfaithsolution.comDate Posted:3/21/2010 9:39:50 PM
Q:What is Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server?
Answer :SharePoint Portal Server is a portal server that connects people, teams, and knowledge across business processes. SharePoint Portal Server integrates information from various systems into one secure solution through single sign-on and enterprise application integration capabilities. It provides flexible deployment and management tools, and facilitates end-to-end collaboration through data aggregation, organization, and searching. SharePoint Portal Server also enables users to quickly find relevant information through customization and personalization of portal content and layout as well as through audience targeting.
Submitted by:Shabir@myfaithsolution.comDate Posted:3/21/2010 9:40:19 PM
Q:What is Microsoft Windows Services?
Answer :Microsoft Windows Services is the engine that allows administrators to create Web sites for information sharing and document collaboration. Windows SharePoint Services provides additional functionality to the Microsoft Office System and other desktop applications, as well as serving as a plat form for application development. SharePoint sites provide communities for team collaboration, enabling users to work together on documents, tasks, and projects. The environment for easy and flexible deployment, administration, and application development.
Submitted by:Shabir@myfaithsolution.comDate Posted:3/21/2010 9:40:45 PM
Q:What is the relationship between Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server and Microsoft Windows Services?
Answer :Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies (including SharePoint Portal Server and Windows SharePoint Services) deliver highly scalable collaboration solutions with flexible deployment and management tools. Windows SharePoint Services provides sites for team collaboration, while Share Point Portal Server connects these sites, people, and business processes—facilitating knowledge sharing and smart organizations. SharePoint Portal Server also extends the capabilities of Windows SharePoint Services by providing organizational and management tools for SharePoint sites, and by enabling teams to publish information to the entire organization.
Submitted by:Shabir@myfaithsolution.comDate Posted:3/21/2010 9:41:05 PM
Q:Who is Office SharePoint Server 2007 designed for?
Answer :Office SharePoint Server 2007 can be used by information workers, IT administrators, and application developers. is designed
Submitted by:Shabir@myfaithsolution.comDate Posted:3/21/2010 9:41:33 PM
Q:What are the main benefits of Office SharePoint Server 2007?
Answer :Office SharePoint Server 2007 provides a single integrated platform to manage intranet, extranet, and Internet applications across the enterprise. Business users gain greater control over the storage, security, distribution, and management of their electronic content, with tools that are easy to use and tightly integrated into familiar, everyday applications. Organizations can accelerate shared business processes with customers and partners across organizational boundaries using InfoPath Forms Services–driven solutions. Information workers can find information and people efficiently and easily through the facilitated information-sharing functionality and simplified content publishing. In addition, access to back-end data is achieved easily through a browser, and views into this data can be personalized. Administrators have powerful tools at their fingertips that ease deployment, management, and system administration, so they can spend more time on strategic tasks. Developers have a rich platform to build a new class of applications, called Office Business Applications, that combine powerful developer functionality with the flexibility and ease of deployment of Office SharePoint Server 2007. Through the use of out-of-the-box application services, developers can build richer applications with less code.
Submitted by:Shabir@myfaithsolution.comDate Posted:3/21/2010 9:42:02 PM
Q:What is the difference between Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 for Internet sites and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007?
Answer :Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 for Internet sites and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 have identical feature functionality. While the feature functionality is similar, the usage rights are different. If you are creating an Internet, or Extranet, facing website, it is recommended that you use Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 for Internet sites which does not require the purchase client access licenses. Websites hosted using an “Internet sites” edition can only be used for Internet facing websites and all content, information, and applications must be accessible to non-employees. Websites hosted using an “Internet sites” edition cannot be accessed by employees creating, sharing, or collaborating on content which is solely for internal use only, such as an Intranet Portal scenario. See the previous section on licensing for more information on the usage scenarios.
Submitted by:Shabir@myfaithsolution.comDate Posted:3/21/2010 9:42:30 PM
Q:What suites of the 2007 Microsoft Office system work with Office SharePoint Server 2007?
Answer :Office Outlook 2007 provides bidirectional offline synchronization with SharePoint document libraries, discussion groups, contacts, calendars, and tasks. Microsoft Office Groove 2007, included as part of Microsoft Office Enterprise 2007, will enable bidirectional offline synchronization with SharePoint document libraries. Features such as the document panel and the ability to publish to Excel Services will only be enabled when using Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2007or Office Enterprise 2007. Excel Services will only work with documents saved in the new Office Excel 2007 file format (XLSX).
Submitted by:Shabir@myfaithsolution.comDate Posted:3/21/2010 9:42:49 PM
Q:Can I post any kind of document?
Answer :You can post documents in many formats, including .pdf, .htm and .doc. In addition, if you are using Microsoft Office XP, you can save documents directly to your Windows SharePoint Services site
Submitted by:Shabir@myfaithsolution.comDate Posted:3/21/2010 9:43:35 PM
Q:Can I download information directly from a SharePoint site to a personal digital assistant (PDA)?
Answer :No you cannot. However, you can exchange contact information lists with Microsoft Outlook.
Submitted by:Shabir@myfaithsolution.comDate Posted:3/21/2010 9:44:00 PM
Q:How long does it take to set up the initial team Web site?
Answer :It only takes a few minutes to create a complete Web site. Preformatted forms let you and your team members contribute to the site by filling out lists. Standard forms include announcements, events, contacts, tasks, surveys, discussions and links.
Submitted by:Shabir@myfaithsolution.comDate Posted:3/21/2010 9:44:24 PM
Q:How can I make my site public? By default, all sites are created private.
Answer :If you want your site to be a public Web site, enable anonymous access for the entire site. Then you can give out your URL to anybody in your business card, e-mail or any other marketing material. The URL for your Web site will be: http:// yoursitename.wss.bcentral.com Hence, please take special care to name your site. These Web sites are ideal for information and knowledge intensive sites and/or sites where you need to have shared Web workspace. Remember: Under each parent Web site, you can create up to 10 sub-sites each with unique permissions, settings and security rights.
Submitted by:Shabir@myfaithsolution.comDate Posted:3/21/2010 9:45:08 PM
Q:How do the sub sites work?
Answer :You can create a sub site for various categories. For example: Departments - finance, marketing, IT Products - electrical, mechanical, hydraulics Projects - Trey Research, Department of Transportation, FDA Team - Retention team, BPR team Clients - new clients, old clients Suppliers - Supplier 1, Supplier 2, Supplier 3 Customers - Customer A, Customer B, Customer C Real estate - property A, property B The URLs for each will be, for example: http://yoursitename.wss.bcentral.com/finance http://yoursitename.wss.bcentral.com/marketing You can keep track of permissions for each team separately so that access is restricted while maintaining global access to the parent site.
Submitted by:Shabir@myfaithsolution.comDate Posted:3/21/2010 9:45:45 PM
Q:How do I make my site non-restricted?
Answer :If you want your site to have anonymous access enabled (i.e., you want to treat it like any site on the Internet that does not ask you to provide a user name and password to see the content of the site), follow these simple steps: Login as an administrator Click on site settings Click on Go to Site Administration Click on Manage anonymous access Choose one of the three conditions on what Anonymous users can access: Entire Web site Lists and libraries Nothing Default condition is nothing; your site has restricted access. The default conditions allow you to create a secure site for your Web site
Submitted by:Shabir@myfaithsolution.comDate Posted:3/21/2010 9:46:13 PM
Q:What are the various Sharepoint 2003 and Exchange integration points?
Answer :This is a button on contacts or events lists that lets Outlook 2003 add a pst file named Sharepoint Folders and it links to the data on the site. It’s read-only, but you could make the home page for that PST be the Sharepoint site for easier viewing. The link to outlook feature seems more to be where some can public a calendar, but not want too much collaboration. For example, a holiday schedule, company meeting schedule, etc, can be made available for people to be able to view from Outlook without having to go to a web browser. Another nice thing about OL2K3 is that you can compare these calendars with others side by side.
Submitted by:Shabir@myfaithsolution.comDate Posted:3/21/2010 9:46:49 PM
Q:What does partial trust mean the Web Part developer?
Answer :If an assembly is installed into the BIN directory, the code must be ensured that provides error handling in the event that required permissions are not available. Otherwise, unhandled security exceptions may cause the Web Part to fail and may affect page rendering on the page where the Web Part appears.
Submitted by:Shabir@myfaithsolution.comDate Posted:3/21/2010 9:53:55 PM
Q:Does SharePoint work with NFS?
Answer :Yes and no. It can crawl documents on an NFS volume, but the sharepoint database or logs cannot be stored there.
Submitted by:Shabir@myfaithsolution.comDate Posted:3/21/2010 9:54:22 PM
Q:What are the actual advantages of SharePoint Portal Services (SPS) over SharePoint Team Services (STS)?
Answer :SharePoint Portal Services (SPS) has MUCH better document management. It has check-in, check-out, versioning, approval, publishing, subscriptions, categories, etc. STS does not have these features, or they are very scaled back. SharePoint team Services (SPS) has a better search engine, and can crawl multiple content sources. STS cannot. STS is easier to manage and much better for a team environment where there is not much Document Management going on. SPS is better for an organization, or where Document Management is crucial.
Submitted by:Shabir@myfaithsolution.comDate Posted:3/21/2010 9:54:53 PM
Q:How Does SharePoint work?
Answer :The browser sends a DAV packet to IIS asking to perform a document check in. PKMDASL.DLL, an ISAPI DLL, parses the packet and sees that it has the proprietary INVOKE command. Because of the existence of this command, the packet is passed off to msdmserv.exe, who in turn processes the packet and uses EXOLEDB to access the WSS, perform the operation and send the results back to the user in the form of XML.
Submitted by:Shabir@myfaithsolution.comDate Posted:3/21/2010 9:55:20 PM
Q:How do I open an older version of a document?
Answer :Normally, all previous versions are located in the shadow, so if you right click a published document from within the web folders, go to properties and then the third tab, versions you can view older versions. If you want to do this in code: strURL = "url of the last published version" Set oVersion = New PKMCDO.KnowledgeVersion Set prmRs = oVersion.VersionHistory(strURL) Set oVersion = Nothing prmRS will contain a recordset, which contains the url to the old versions in the shadow.
Submitted by:Shabir@myfaithsolution.comDate Posted:3/21/2010 9:55:41 PM
Q:Why do the workspace virtual directories show the error “stop sign” symbol in the IIS snap-in?
Answer :If World Wide Web Publishing Service (W3SVC) starts before Microsoft Exchange Information Store (MSExchangeIS), “stop sign” symbols appear under the Default Web Site folder of the Internet Information Services console in Microsoft Management Console (MMC). There is a dependency between the local paths of the SharePoint Portal Server virtual directories and the MSExchangeIS. You must start MSExchangeIS first, followed by W3SVC. Complete the following steps to prevent the stop signs from appearing each time you restart: Change the Startup type for W3SVC to Manual. Restart the server. The MSExchangeIS service starts automatically. Start W3SVC.
Submitted by:Shabir@myfaithsolution.comDate Posted:3/21/2010 9:56:05 PM
Q:What is SharePoint from a Technical Perspective?
Answer :Technically SharePoint illustrates neatly what Microsoft .net strategy is all about integrating Windows with the Web. Microsoft has previously made accessing stuff on a PC easier then on a network and now on the web with NET. SharePoint is an application written to let a user access a web accessible directory tree called the Web Storage System. SharePoint was written with a set of technologies that allow the programmer to pass data, functions, parameters over HTTP, the web medium. These are XML, XSL and SOAP, to name a few I understand the basics of.To the user it looks easy, like Hotmail, but every time they click a button or a link, a lot has to happen behind the scenes to do what they want to do quickly and powerfully. Not as easy as you might think, but SharePoint does it for you. Accessing this Web storage system and the server itself is also done using technologies like ADO, CDO, PKMCDO, LDAP, DDSC, ADSC. More on these later. SharePoint is a great example of how the Internet Platform can be extended and integrated into an existing well adopted technology, Windows.
Submitted by:Shabir@myfaithsolution.comDate Posted:3/21/2010 10:04:35 PM