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The Web CMS Report 2008 looks at... Microsoft Office SharePoint Services 2007

"But for Web publishing, the key issue is Word conversion, and here MOSS 2007 still strikes us as a tad immature. Upon conversion, the entire text of the Word document goes into a single field in the CMS. If you want more granular conversion, you have to write a converter routine to do so. To convert a Word document, you find in SharePoint and right-click. The SharePoint folder must be mapped to a particular locale in your website. Seems a git clumsy. "

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Real training for WCM in MOSS 2007

19-Nov-2007

As readers of the SharePoint chapters of our Web CMS Report and Enterprise Search Report know, there are many good online and book-length resources about MOSS 2007 in general, but almost all of them treat the platform's WCM and Search services in a fairly cursory fashion. That's too bad, because those parts of MOSS are brand new and -- customers tell us -- frequently quite puzzling, even after wading through all the Microsoft documentation and webinars.

So I was pleased when Alan pointed me to this 4-day training course exclusively about Web Publishing in MOSS. "Publishing sites" in MOSS look and behave quite differently from your typical SharePoint team sites. This kind of training is, I think, long overdue in the marketplace...

- Submitted by: Tony Byrne, Analyst

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