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Dean
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Tue Oct 18, 2005 8:51 pm Post subject:
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We currently maintain our corporate intranet using CMS and are developing
plans to replace an existing document storage system with SPS. We also have
many project collaboration sites created using WSS. I am looking for
articles/guidance/thought on how we should approach the integration of these
systems. Could anyone point me to some good resources and/or share their
experiences?
TIA
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Stefan [MSFT]
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Tue Oct 18, 2005 8:51 pm Post subject:
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Hi Dean,
please check if the connector for SharePoint and MCMS covers your needs:
http://www.microsoft.com/cmserver/default.aspx?url=/cmserver/downloads/sharepointconnector
Cheers,
Stefan
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This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights
New to MCMS?
Check out this book: Building Websites Using MCMS: http://tinyurl.com/6zj44
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"Dean" <deanl144@hotmail.com.nospam> wrote in message
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| Quote: | We currently maintain our corporate intranet using CMS and are developing
plans to replace an existing document storage system with SPS. We also
have many project collaboration sites created using WSS. I am looking for
articles/guidance/thought on how we should approach the integration of
these systems. Could anyone point me to some good resources and/or share
their experiences?
TIA
Dean
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AC [MVP MCMS]
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Tue Oct 18, 2005 8:51 pm Post subject:
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Dean-
Check out Stephen Huen's articles on CodeProject.com... he has a lot of info
about building Web Parts to display MCMS content in SharePoint as well as
custom placeholders to display SharePoint content in MCMS.
I started a 4 part series on this subject
(http://andrewconnell.com/blog/archive/2004/10/24/581.aspx) but haven't
finished it as a lot of the content has been moved into a book I'm working
(http://www.packtpub.com/more_mcms/book) on that includes a good bit of
SharePoint <-> MCMS content publishing.
At my organization, we've taken MCMS and SPS 2003 & merged the two to
provide a full featured portal, with all the features of MCMS (such as
publishing workflow), for our corporate intranet.
From a 10,000' view, consider anything in a Web Part "publish-able"
to/within MCMS and anything in MCMS "publish-able" within SharePoint.
As Stefan suggested, the Connector has some good OOTB controls (placeholders
& Web Parts) that will get you started with some basic stuff. You'll also
find great value in Stephen's articles in CodeProject.
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-AC [MVP MCMS]
www.andrewconnell.com
www.andrewconnell.com/mvp
"Dean" <deanl144@hotmail.com.nospam> wrote in message
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| Quote: | We currently maintain our corporate intranet using CMS and are developing
plans to replace an existing document storage system with SPS. We also
have many project collaboration sites created using WSS. I am looking for
articles/guidance/thought on how we should approach the integration of
these systems. Could anyone point me to some good resources and/or share
their experiences?
TIA
Dean
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James Mueller
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Tue Oct 18, 2005 8:51 pm Post subject:
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Well I haven't had much work except for tieing the 2 together with Web Parts.
In regards to a resource you may want to check out the link in my sig.
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Thanks,
James Mueller
http://www.sharepointcommunity.com
"Dean" wrote:
| Quote: | We currently maintain our corporate intranet using CMS and are developing
plans to replace an existing document storage system with SPS. We also have
many project collaboration sites created using WSS. I am looking for
articles/guidance/thought on how we should approach the integration of these
systems. Could anyone point me to some good resources and/or share their
experiences?
TIA
Dean
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AC [MVP MCMS]
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Wed Oct 19, 2005 12:50 am Post subject:
Re: CMS and SPS\WSS Integration |
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My intention (put across poorly) in my original post when I mentioned the
book & what we did at our org was only trying to say that the possibilities
for sharing content between the two applications is very feasible.
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-AC [MVP MCMS]
www.andrewconnell.com
www.andrewconnell.com/mvp
"AC [MVP MCMS]" <swamplander@gmail.com> wrote in message
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| Quote: | Dean-
Check out Stephen Huen's articles on CodeProject.com... he has a lot of
info about building Web Parts to display MCMS content in SharePoint as
well as custom placeholders to display SharePoint content in MCMS.
I started a 4 part series on this subject
(http://andrewconnell.com/blog/archive/2004/10/24/581.aspx) but haven't
finished it as a lot of the content has been moved into a book I'm working
(http://www.packtpub.com/more_mcms/book) on that includes a good bit of
SharePoint <-> MCMS content publishing.
At my organization, we've taken MCMS and SPS 2003 & merged the two to
provide a full featured portal, with all the features of MCMS (such as
publishing workflow), for our corporate intranet.
From a 10,000' view, consider anything in a Web Part "publish-able"
to/within MCMS and anything in MCMS "publish-able" within SharePoint.
As Stefan suggested, the Connector has some good OOTB controls
(placeholders & Web Parts) that will get you started with some basic
stuff. You'll also find great value in Stephen's articles in CodeProject.
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-AC [MVP MCMS]
www.andrewconnell.com
www.andrewconnell.com/mvp
"Dean" <deanl144@hotmail.com.nospam> wrote in message
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We currently maintain our corporate intranet using CMS and are developing
plans to replace an existing document storage system with SPS. We also
have many project collaboration sites created using WSS. I am looking for
articles/guidance/thought on how we should approach the integration of
these systems. Could anyone point me to some good resources and/or share
their experiences?
TIA
Dean
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Spencer Harbar [MVP]
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Dean
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Fri Oct 21, 2005 4:51 pm Post subject:
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Thanks for all of the great info, I have reviewed it and learned a lot but I
still have some confusion about how to proceed. It is not clear to me which
system should be used to provide the main navigational structure. I
currently have an intranet using CMS Channels and menus. After we role out
SPS, I'll have Areas/Topics, Sites, etc to use as navigation. How should
these 2 different techniques be used?
"Spencer Harbar [MVP]" <spence@harbar.net> wrote in message
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AC [MVP MCMS]
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Mon Oct 24, 2005 4:51 pm Post subject:
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~GREAT~ question, it's really going to depend upon your requirements. What
you need to decide on is what will be the primary experience of your end
user... SPS or MCMS? I personally think you'll have an easier time making
SPS your primary and integrate MCMS into the solution. One challenge you'll
hit is that you can't customize the SharePoint navigation... it will always
show you the areas and nothing else. For us, this was an issue so what we
did was use SPS as our primary experience and then hook up a service that
created a MCMS channel for each SPS area. Then we linked the two up [areas
& channels] (too much detail to go into here), ripped out the SPS vertical
navigation from the site def., replaced it with a custom navigation we
built, and poof: we had a navigation we could customize and ever SPS area
had it's own MCMS channel so we could provide the best of both worlds: a
SharePoint experience with all the features of MCMS if it was so warranted.
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-AC [MVP MCMS]
http://www.andrewconnell.com
http://www.andrewconnell.com/mvp
"Dean" <deanl144@hotmail.com.nospam> wrote in message
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| Quote: | Thanks for all of the great info, I have reviewed it and learned a lot but
I still have some confusion about how to proceed. It is not clear to me
which system should be used to provide the main navigational structure. I
currently have an intranet using CMS Channels and menus. After we role out
SPS, I'll have Areas/Topics, Sites, etc to use as navigation. How should
these 2 different techniques be used?
"Spencer Harbar [MVP]" <spence@harbar.net> wrote in message
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CHeck out
http://www.mcmsfaq.com/sharepoint/articles.asp
http://www.mcmsfaq.com/sharepoint/samples.asp
http://www.mcmsfaq.com/sharepoint/downloads.asp
http://www.mcmsfaq.com/sharepoint/training.asp
http://www.mcmsfaq.com/sharepoint/faqkb.asp
hth
Spence
"Dean" <deanl144@hotmail.com.nospam> wrote in message
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We currently maintain our corporate intranet using CMS and are
developing plans to replace an existing document storage system with
SPS. We also have many project collaboration sites created using WSS. I
am looking for articles/guidance/thought on how we should approach the
integration of these systems. Could anyone point me to some good
resources and/or share their experiences?
TIA
Dean
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