I'm looking at integrating Tibco with Sharepoint 2010 and need to get an understanding of how to go about this. I haven't been able to find anything on Google.
I don't see an adapter for Tibco for Sharepoint so I assume it would need to be manually wired up.
Many thanks!
What do you want to integrate?
As Pavel stated, you really need to clarify more. I don't believe there is a SharePoint adapter that is commercially sold by TIBCO at the moment. You could develop your own, but I don't see much of a point.
While SharePoint has become less of a traditional CMS and more of a RAD platform, I can see potential integration points, however I really don't think you would need to write your own adapter.
Fill us in on what exactly it is you're trying to accomplish and I'd be more than happy to provide some insight, as I've worked extensively on both platforms.
Thanks,
Zachary Carter
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I'm looking for a page that provides a good, fairly basic and brief, end-user targeted overview of the capabilities of Sharepoint 2010, and another that does the same for Sharepoint 2013. I searched microsoft.com and couldn't really find much. Most of what I found was based on the assumption that the reader was familiar with Sharepoint already and was upgrading from an older version. I was hoping to find something for folks new to Sharepoint, checking it out for the very first time. Something kind of like a product info sheet that you'd see in a trade show booth, maybe.
Any pointers to something along these lines would be appreciated.
Background:
I work for a large university, and we offer Google Apps, Box, and Sharepoint (2010 now, 2013 soon) as options to support collaborative projects. I'm trying to help our user community understand the different capabilities of and optimal use cases for each tool. I've found good overview material for Box and Google Apps, but I'm getting stuck finding this for Sharepoint. And -- as luck would have it -- our users tend to be the least familiar with Sharepoint.
It's often hard to find decent information about SharePoint on the internet.. ;)
Maybe some of these links will help, but most probably you have already seen them all:
http://www.slideshare.net/pointbeyond/comparison-webinar3
http://sharepointpromag.com/blog/sharepoint-2010-vs-sharepoint-2013-small-step-or-big-jump
http://www.rharbridge.com/?page_id=966 [from a technical point of view]
http://www.fpweb.net/sharepoint-server-2013/features/end-user/
http://www.cmswire.com/cms/social-business/sharepoint-2013-social-features-highlights-019624.php
http://office.microsoft.com/en-001/sharepoint/sharepoint-2013-overview-collaboration-software-features-FX103789323.aspx [collaboration feature overview - and it's official! ;)]
JFYI: there are also a couple of frameworks and platforms available which improve the social capabilities, for example MatchPoint Snow is one I have heard of.
Update:
Ok, if you're willing to actually convince people to use SharePoint, try following query - I think there are some good results there (but maybe there also too tech-targeted): https://www.google.ch/#q=why%20should%20i%20use%20sharepoint
For example:
http://www.rackspace.com/knowledge_center/whitepaper/6-things-every-manager-should-know-about-microsoft-sharepoint
http://www.degdigital.com/blog/why-sharepoint-2013-considerations-for-your-platform-selection/
http://newsletter.stc-carolina.org/How+to+Encourage+Good+Use+of+SharePoint
I know next to nothing about SharePoint, so maybe this isn't something you can/should do, or maybe it's something completely trivial, I don't know, but we have a custom in-house help desk application at work, and I'm wondering if it can be integrated into our help desk SharePoint site somehow?
I really don't know what's possible with SharePoint, so any ideas or thoughts on this matter would be appreciated.
The short answer is yes but the amount of time required to make this work will be directly related to your flexibility / needs. Would you be satisfied with default SharePoint lists / forms? Do you need to retrieve and update data hosted in an external source? Do you really need this integrated with SharePoint or simply hosted under the same URL?
I've found that SharePoint can do anything but the time required to make it meet the needs of a demanding/inflexible business user is sometimes significant.
There is also the issue of doing right or simply making it work. Making it work buys you some time initially but you can easily dig yourself a very deep hole that is difficult to escape. My suggestion is to keep the solution as simple and maintainable as possible.
Pretty much anything that can go on a webform can go in a webpart - with obvious complications, but yes it would work. Look into webpart development.
I would try to stick to the features that SharePoint is already offering you. You can achieve a lot by using them, and enriching them with a few simple workflows.
If you want to add some workflow logic to your solution, then try to avoid the designer workflows, since they have some issues when it comes to deployment(in short: you cant). So even if it looks easier to design them in Designer, you will pay a price later when you want to deploy them to production (You have a staging/development enviroment?)
In general I would also agree with mayos answer
Anything is possible...but check out the MSDN reference for integrating with SharePoint:
Integration with Office SharePoint Server
Can anyone point to any good 'beginners walkthroughs' for the Business Data Catalog in MOSS 2007 Enterprise? It seems to be very powerful, but all the official guides assume preexisting knowledge.
Have a look at SharePoint 2007 Developer's Guide to Business Data Catalog. The authors (Brett Lonsdale and Nick Swan) have been developing tools and working with the BDC for 'ages' and really know their stuff.
There is an early access available now with the final due to be published in September 2009.
This has a great overview on the BDC, some examples on what it can do, and how to configure it:
http://sharepointmagazine.net/technical/administration/everything-you-need-to-know-about-bdc-part-1-of-8
It's a really great starting place that will help you get better footing when proceeding on to the more technical sites & how-tos. It's the best "starter" resource I've found yet.
Take a look at BDC Metaman, this tool will support you connecting to a BDC.
I played around with it a few months ago, and was able to display data from a db. Do you have a problem you're trying to solve, or are you just trying to get an understanding of what you can do with it?
By "preexisting knowledge", do you mean of Sharepoint, or the BDC itself?
Check out these links, as a start:
http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/In+the+Office/Introducing-the-Business-Data-Catalog-BDC/
http://blah.winsmarts.com/2007-4-SharePoint_2007__BDC_-_The_Business_Data_Catalog.aspx
...what are the essential components(files required) for a "Feature"..
and can anyone point to any best practice tutorials on creating features (using the "12 hive")...
sharepoint dev is new to me, and im just looking for best practice development.
tutorial/screencasts will be a bonus
thanks
A major headache, grounds for divorce, plausible excuse for murder, etc...
But actually the answer is a lot more complicated. The quick answer is it's a unit of deployment that generally includes content such as .aspx application pages, list schemas, customizations expressed in CAML (potentially huge XML files without much documentation.)
JD's suggestion for Ted Pattison's book is a good one but I suggest picking up a few books because you'll usually find something in one that you don't find in another and it will help you to see what is required by convention and what is just a particular author's preference.
You will really need to comb a lot of different sources and plan on spending a considerable amount of time with SharePoint before becoming comfortable with these concepts.
Check out the SharePoint Patterns and Practices information here and here
I also highly recommend picking up a copy of Ted Pattisons book Inside SharePoint Windows Services 3.0
These should be required reading for noob SharePoint developers. Good luck on your SharePoint journey.
This webcast about how to add social networking features to Sharepoint might be helpful.
And there's lots of videos here, some free and some not.
The minimum you need is feature.xml, and elements.xml if you want the feature to actually do something. I recommend the templates from WSPBuilder as a starting point.
Is there any sort of "out of the box" system within SharePoint (i.e. MOSS 2007) that is useful for tracking/managing permissions. We've got a relatively small installation, but I can easily see special permissions for special users/sites getting out of hand. I'm hoping there's something pre-baked into SharePoint that will help with this, but if there is, I don't know where.
If this isn't available from SharePoint, are there any 3rd party tools people would recommend?
If anyone is curious, I ended up using SharePoint SUSHI for this. It has some useful "security reports" that met my needs. There's a few other goodies included as well. The best part of it all is that it's FREE. :-)
Unfortunately, I haven't found anything that great out of the box in SharePoint for managing or tracking user permissions. You always have an opportunity for customizations. There are some third party tools, however. The best tool I've found for simple management of SharePoint is the Universal SharePoint Manager v2007.
This app has some stellar tools for analyzing security and information about permissions.
Here's a link directly to the feature that might interest you the most: http://www.idevfactory.com/products/uspm2007/features/sharepoint%20user%20site%20security%20analyzer.aspx
I haven't used the USPM myself. I have used the SWAT tool which has a subset of features. iDevFactory does do a good job with their apps and I've found that it's fairly decent ant getting what you want.
Good luck!
Here is a free option that is getting good reviews http://www.codeplex.com/AccessChecker
The SharePoint Administration Toolkit contains a permission tool that shows the effective permissions for a user or group. Becky Bertram has a blog post about this.
See information for downloading it on the SharePoint Team Blog.