Form and windows Authentication

An extended application need to be created for extranet giving authentication by SQL database.
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb975135.aspx

SharePoint Silverlight Browser

TrippleWood : A SharePoint Silverlight Web Part which displays SharePoint Documents and Pictures in a rich Silverlight flow control.
http://www.triplewood.com/triplewood/html/SharePoint2007.aspx

DoD 5015.2 Certified

:) MOSS is now DoD 5015.2 Certified.
http://blogs.msdn.com/ecm/archive/2007/05/30/microsoft-office-sharepoint-server-2007-is-dod-5015-2-certified.aspx

Performance Measurement for SharePoint

One of the critical information needed to speed up the MOss is finding out the slow subsets. Its very tough to get the granular performance metrics. here is one tool which helps.

http://www.binarywave.com/blogs/eshupps/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=93

21 feb 2007

Top Sharepoint commercial products

Why third party sharepoint
component?

Component development is fiercly competative area where not all provider understand the myraid ways a requirement is translated in application. Check out very carefully before finalizing one perticular supplier.

• Quicker development time.
• enterpise standard are enforced
• ease of use.
• features of component
• track record of the provider company in terms of continuity of the company
• user interface provided by the component
• lower maintainance cost
• low margin of error
• Cross browser support is very important
• support provided by the compnay in terms of sample code etc.
• XML output that is rendered using developer-defined XSLT and CSS
• provide sophisticated sets of personalised and contextual properties.
• integrated menus
• support to integrate with other enterprise tagging tools
• extensiblity
• flexiblity
• web service interface
• inteface to integrate with other webpart
• Web service interface
• interaction with users of other site
  

Dungas chart for sharepoint

if you are looking for charts, Dungas are best. Some of the graphs type included are
Renko,
Kagi,
Point and Figure,
3 Line Break,
Radar,
Range Column,
Spline Range,
Gantt,
Box,
Error Bar Chart,
Fast Line Charts,
Polar Charts,
Pyramid Charts and Funnel Charts
The charts have over 508 Accessibility Compliance.
Dungas application are known for the smooth user inteface, lower margin of error, quicker development time.
http://www.dundas.com/Products/Chart/SharePoint/index.aspx

KWizCom Tagging feature

Buyer can avail this in both bundels wss and moss. Autocomplete is one feature which helps end user a lot. The tag cloud can be viewd in index view too along with regular clould view. New tags are added to list automatically. This works with IE and firefox so is cross browser compatible. if allowed ananymous user can also tag item and we can tag from word too. The repository of the tag is one centralised for whole organization. Last but not the least you can recieve email notification based on tags too.
http://www.kwizcom.com/ProductPage.asp?ProductId=517&ProductsubnodeId=518

Integrity Webpart Bamboosolutions

List will not longer be contrainst in terms of primary foreign key. Do you want to implement realtionship in list. Some of the feature provided by bamboosolutions are..

• establish primary foreign key ralationships
• cascading delete on master item

http://store.bamboosolutions.com/ps-5-5-list-integrity-web-part-release-20.aspx

Digital time-stamping of sharepoint Data

Imagine a digital time-stamping of the data with long-lasting, objective proof of the time, date and content integrity of their electronic records. If this altered at any stage in the business process, if the data is changed, they are identified ensuring the regulatory and legal defensibility of electronic records within the SharePoint platform.. read more here

Work flow (K2) K2.com

If you need a serate server for workflow i.e. I mean the requirement to extend workflow is significant K2 blackpoint is one of the solution. http://www.k2workflow.com/solutions/collaboration/sharepoint.aspx
It comes with built in report. Yes The process between sites and sever can also be managed by same. k2 Black perl is enterprise version with more rich feature.