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• Yinon Is CSF Mature? Does it support other industries?

  We are a major media/content company, which offers content through cable, broadband, web, mobile device and print.   We are thinking about implementing CSF.   Is CSF ready for a non-telecom company Everything I read is telecom centric.   We do have many disparate systems that generate content that we need to merge into many different interfaces.   We currently do not have many media partners but this could change over the next year.   We currently do not have much of a BSS/OSS backend, or any clearinghouse operations.   We currently do not charge for our content.   We are   making limited use of web services, could we just continue doing our SOA that way. ...Show All

• Ken S licensing questions

  Is there a CAL needed for people to browse Sharepoint content Is there a CAL needed for people to add content to Sharepoint Is there a different CAL depending on whether someone adds "Enterprise Content" such as KPI's vs. standard content such as "Announcements" Thanks, Trey Ishai is right and only Microsoft specialists know the exact details of licensing for their products. However I can give you a basic indication of what is likely to be the CAL situation. CALs or Versions of the software that include enterprise-wide CALs are always required for the Server(s) on which you run a SharePoint product and for the database you use (if SQL Server 2K or 2005 full versions) ...Show All

• MortyLode Profile Manager - User Service Mapping

  Hi, I'm little bit of confusion about the usage of User Service Mapping in Profile Manager. Let me explain one scenario: I have user1 and service1. Session uses IDM to fetch secondary credentials of service1 in order to communicate with it. Working fine. But i don't have User Service Mapping(Profile Manager) between user1 and service1. Could you please explain the scenario where we need to use User Service Mapping Rgs Vasu User to Service mapping (USM) is used in scenarios where you need to know which are the services the user has subscribed to / provisioned to. Inside CSF, Profile Integrator uses that information. Let me explain this with a scenario. User X has been provisioned f ...Show All

• mumle Creating a form library template and instance with a InfoPath-template

  I want to create a form library in my feature. I did this like normal list definitions, but with some changes so that I have a document library. Now I want to achieve that automatically a form template is installed and assigned to this library when installing and activating the feature. How can I achieve that ...Show All

• swg O/R Mapping

  O/R mapping is quite interesting.  I would like to post this question for discussion. I have the following classes: Employee, FullTimeStaff, PartTimeStaff, etc.  FullTimeStaff and PartTimeStaff have many attributes and behaviors in common and also many other unique attributes and behaviors.  So, FullTimeStaff inherits from Employee and PartTimeStaff also inherits from Employee. Do you think it is good to map both FullTimeStaff and PartTimeStaff to a single table called Employee (the table contains an extra field to identity whether he is full time or part time) in the database a employee table with the attributes they have in common a table with employeeTypes and a table with employeeType specific attributes is ...Show All

• Soft-Landing Use serialized domain model entities as web service messages?

  I am wondering about the viability of using domain entity classes as the return types and method arguments in web services. The motivation is to avoid having to create a layer of data-transfer/message classes, and the mapping of domain objects to/from them. Technically it works - the IDE autogenerates the proxy classes and does all the serialization. But when you get into the particulars of the domain entity classes (their relationships with each other, aggratetions, exposed collectons, etc), I can see there being practical problems. This is done fairly commonly but it seriously compromises the principle of loose coupling because both the caller and the service must have the class definition to be able t ...Show All

• vijay1 Web Service vs. Component

  I'm looking for any recommended articles that discuss the pros/cons of building a web service vs. a component assembly. I'd like to find something that provides some guidelines for choosing one implementation method over another. Does anyone know where I can find an article like this Hi I had created a document for myself that I think it might be useful for you for that decision making: Web Services VS Shared Components Web Services Shared Components Client Application Can be any client application (.Net or not .Net) like: Other web services, web applications, windows application, Flex ...Show All

• bxs122 failover to backup web service

  We have a failover site to host our web service for a company mobile app if our main site goes down. To implement support for it, I coded something like this: Try ws.Login(username, pwd) Catch ws.Url = Config.GetSetting("backupUrl") ws.Login(username, pwd) End Try See any hazards Thanks. DRP solution is usually a multi-tiered effort - moving to a remote site is usually only done when you have a catastrophy - because of issues like data synchronization and freshness - Even though it depends on your particular business, you would probably find that you cannot synchronize the whole data between the two sites at the same level of synchronization You may still want to add NLB or other clustering solution on you ...Show All

• Tufelix DataSet Performance issue

  HI We are using a oracle stored procedure which returns a refcursor. For queries with like search which returns large number records the dataadapter.fill() is really takes time. For a case whcih returns 14000 records it took 3000 ms to perform the fill method, eventhou gh we are filtering by 99 recodrs using fill(ds, start, maxrecords). As the number of records increasing the time varies even if the filtering happens only for 99 records. Any idea how we can improve the performance. Or any other we can call the SP which gives any improvement We cannot modify the SP. And the DAL used by many diffrerent componenets. Thanks in advance Sharmila Sharmila I'm just curious. The ...Show All

• Gert Jan Veenstra wss v3: how to : same group name across different sites in site collection

  Hi, Whenever I create a group, its scope seems to be global (across the entire site collection). (Even if I do not 'inherit' the permissions from parent).. Is there a way I can have all the sub-sites (these sub sites are created from a template) have a group with same name but the members of that group be different that is, i want to have something as follows (alternative to this is by creating 'permission' and adding users to that permission for a particular subsite): ParentSite +SubSite1 + Group +Member1 +Member2 +SubSite2 + Group +Member3 +Member4 Thanks Sriram The scope for groups is 'site collection' (TLS and all its subweb(s)). scope for 'Permission' is a ...Show All

• Mowali Persistent Sharepoint Server Error Events

  Hi - I'm running Sharepoint Services 3.0 and am seeing 3 different errors logged every single minute - IDs 6398, 7076, and 6482. Searches on these IDs have shown that other users are seeing them for different reasons. They all have to do with a "lack of storage" somewhere. Below are the pasted contents of 1 of each of these errors: Event Type: Error Event Source: Windows SharePoint Services 3 Event Category: Timer Event ID: 6398 Date: 1/22/2007 Time: 3:41:17 PM User: N/A Computer: SPNACDEV06 Description: The Execute method of job definition Microsoft.Office.Server.Administration.ApplicationServerAdministrationServiceJob (ID 929b1b3b-ef23-4379-915f-33e61709a2d3) threw an exception. More information is included below. Not ...Show All

• Nuno_Salvado How to call HelloWorld service with parameters ?

  Hi, we are trying to extend the HelloWorld sample. The webservice currently has one function HelloWorld, which returns back a string value. But, what if we modify this HelloWorld service, to accept some parameters also, as below: [WebMethod] public string HelloWorld ( string parameter ) { return parameter; } while making a call, we would write < Route > < Criteria > (ACTION EQ 'http://tempuri.org/HelloWorld') </ Criteria > < Destination > HelloWorldParticipant[http://tempuri.org/HelloWorld parameter="Hello World"] </ Destination > </ Route > But this does not work. Any idea on how to call webservice from ...Show All

• Proxima SPItemEventReceiver do not work properly when i use the wss object model API.

  Hi everyone. I got a problem unsolved almost 2 weeks. Please somebody tell me a clue. I customized the SPItemEventReceiver and associated the customized SPItemEventReceiver with a content type was inherited from the Document Library content type and deployed this content type to a server as a Feature. When I uploaded a file from Word 2007, Events associated with the ListItem fired. but on uploading using the Wss Object model ,  events did not fire at all. I have a same experience when I using not only a document library type and SPFileCollection.Add method but also a list type and SPListItemCollection.Add method. I have found the following from the WSS3.0 sdk document. SP ...Show All

• BFlynn Where can one find any WebServiceInputActivity Samples?

  Hi, I'm trying to add a WebServiceInputActivity to a WSS Stat Machine SharePoint Workflow project. But I cant find any samples or walkthru's or anything. What I'm trying to do is to have the WebServiceInput as the first event in a given state. If anyone knows of such a thing or has any documentation or anything please can you add to this post. Thanks Hi, Thanks for the response but I'm looking for one that is specifically within a sharepoint workflow... and further down the line in the workflow so it wont necessarilly have to start the workflow. Thanks Yeah, bit of a lack of documentation on this one. I followed through an MSDN webcast doing this last year - arou ...Show All

• Dmitry N. Oleshko Should we care about session timeout?

  Someone in my team requesting that we extend session timeout for SharePoint to 4 hours so when he had to go to the washroom or take his lunch he should be worry about his session to be killed. I couldn't give answer to what is the importance of session time out feature -if I can call it feature- Can someone educate me if there is any harm of expanding session time out from 30 minutes to 4 hours (besides that someone else can use your computer in your absence to access areas using your profile) Thanks! Mohamed Mohamed, I am not an expert on these issues, but guessing from what I know I would say this is also a resources problem. The more you expand timeouts, the more chance you have of people leaving o ...Show All