Next Meeting

23 January 2008 at 5:30pm (for 6pm start)
Microsoft Innovation Centre
Level 5, 4 Freshwater Place, Southbank

MOSSIG January Newsletter

MELBOURNE


January Meeting-23rd January 2008 at 5:30pm

To register for this meeting please email register@mossig.net
<mailto:register@mossig.net?subject=mossig%20meeti ng> by COB Tuesday 22
January 2008 (better yet.. do it now!).

Show and Tell Session
Outlook Form Regions in 10 minutes (Ed Richard
<http://edonoffice.blogspot.com/> )
Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 and Visual Studio 2008

VSTO 3.0 really rocks! This show and tell session will show you the
power of VSTO in Visual Studio 2008 and demonstrate how easy it now is
to extend Outlook 2007 using Form regions.

Business Session
Introduction to Rights Management Services (Kamol Sagwan
<http://ksagwan.blogspot.com/> ) Microsoft Windows Rights Management
Services (see below), Exchange, SharePoint

Kamol will give us an overview of Rights Management Services covering
the following topics;

.. What is Rights Management Service?
. Situation
.. Solution
.. Benefits
.. Demo ~ Integration with Exchange & SharePoint

Kamol Sagwan is an Active Directory & Messaging specialist working for
Avanade in Melbourne and a certified technology specialist in Exchange
2007 and MOSS.

Technical Session
Social Networking in the Enterprise (Rai Umair
<http://raiumair.wordpress.com/> )
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007

The buzz these days within corporate circles seems to be social
networking - a technology about connecting people. With the technologies
today, you can deliver a new and improved social networking experience-
Rai Umair will talk about SharePoint My Sites, Web Parts, Search,
Profiles, Blogs and Wikis and discuss how MOSS can be used for social
networking within the enterprise."

Rai Umair is a senior consultant with the Information Management
practice at UniqueWorld in Melbourne, Australia. Since joining in 2005
Rai has technically lead or participated in more than 50 SharePoint
projects, focusing on ECM, Forms and Workflow.

In this edition

In this edition:
- Next Meeting
- Editorial

Featured article:
- Excel Services Reporting
- Docx Html previewer

Featured MVP:
- Wouter van Vugt

Links, news and events

Details of the Recently released MS Filter Pack
<http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2007/12/20/ms-filter-pack-released.aspx>

Some interesting hot fixes for SharePoint posted by Lawrence
<http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2008/01/10/known-issue-office-2007-on-windows-vista-prompts-for-user-credentials-when-opening-documents-in-a-sharepoint-2007-site.aspx>

Fancy a trip to the US?, take your pick, two great conferences coming
up.

MIcrosoft Office SharePoint Conference 2008, Seattle
<http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=7520956>

Microsoft Office Developer Conference 2008, San Jose
<https://microsoft.crgevents.com/odc2008/content/default.aspx?p=uc3hyf>


Editorial


Ed Richard
Software Objectives

Happy New Year Mossig members, we have finally recovered from all the
parties and fireworks and its back to business for our monthly meetings.
We've got some great people and presentations lined up for you for 2008.
If our meetings aren't enough, remember you can get your full doses of
presentations and hands-on at the SharePoint Conference in Seattle and
the Office System Developer Conference in San Jose (btw, did you know
you can get to San Jose very cheap by booking a return flight to Hawaii
and hopping over to mainland US for a few days?). We're obviously also
getting ready for the Visual Studio 208 launch which include heaps of
good news for Office Developers using VSTO. A great opportunity for a
quick intro and overview is presented on the 22nd of January
<http://www.victoriadotnet.com.au/vic-victorianet-dev-sig-formed/vic-victorianet-dev-sig-events.aspx>
by the Victoria.net Dev SIG.
Feel free to pass this newsletter on to your clients and colleagues who
might be interested in joining our group.


Replacing OWC Reporting with Excel Services
FEATURED ARTICLE

John Campbell, a program manager who works on the Excel Services teams.

As a Program Manager on the Excel Services team, I often field emails
from people who have a thin reporting solution that is based on Office
Web Components (OWC). They would like to migrate that solution to Excel
Services, but aren't sure how or what the pitfalls are. In this entry I
will talk about what OWC functionality Excel Services can be used to
replace, some common pitfalls, and step by step instructions for putting
together a sample report that overcomes the most common OWC conversion
pitfall .

http://blogs.msdn.com/excel/archive/...-services.aspx
<http://blogs.msdn.com/excel/archive/2008/01/09/replacing-owc-reporting-with-excel-services.aspx>


Creating a Docx Html preview Handler
FEATURED ARTICLE

Vincent Rothwell AKA TheKid.me.uk
<http://blog.thekid.me.uk/default.aspx>

The next version of .Net contains a new DLL called WindowsBase. This DLL
contains a new namespace called System.IO.Packaging which contains lots
of useful classes for manipulating Word documents in the docx format.
Essentially a .docx document is just a zip file containing a bunch of
files, mostly XML. The System.IO.Packaging namespace allows you to open
and manipulate these files. I thought I would try and use these classes
to create a HttpHandler which would allow you to preview a word document
in the docx format. This would not only need to convert the text stored
in the document, but also the images contained in the document.

http://blog.thekid.me.uk/archive/200...harepoint.aspx


MVP in the Spotlight: Wouter van Vugt
FEATURED MVP

Don't forget to check this out Wouter's blog. Wouter has a reputation
for being and OpenXML expert contributing to Openxml.org and for his
book <http://openxmldeveloper.org/articles/1970.aspx> of which we
handed out lots of copies last year. He has recently been very active on
the tools front
<http://blogs.code-counsel.net/wouter/lists/posts/post.aspx?id=30>
coming up with a handy XML-mapper for content controls in Word and a
Viewer for WordML from inside Word. (
http://blogs.code-counsel.net/Wouter/default.aspx
<http://blogs.code-counsel.net/wouter/default.aspx> )


Advertorial

For people interested in Advanced SharePoint Programming, a boot camp
style 5 day training course (Feb 11 - 15) will be held at New Horizons,
Melbourne. MOSSIG members have can avail 15% discount. More details
are available on the course website:
http://www.nhaustralia.com.au/course...16140809239327
<http://www.nhaustralia.com.au/course.aspx?id=cour2007101616140809239327>


Microsoft Windows Rights Management Services (RMS) for Windows Server
2003 is information protection technology that works with RMS-enabled
applications to help safeguard digital information from unauthorized
use-both online and offline, inside and outside of the firewall.

RMS augments an organization's security strategy by protecting
information through persistent usage policies, which remain with the
information, no matter where it goes. Organizations can use RMS to help
prevent sensitive information-such as financial reports, product
specifications, customer data, and confidential e-mail messages-from
intentionally or accidentally getting into the wrong hands. Read more
about Rights Management here
<http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/evaluation/overview/technologies/rmenterprise.mspx>
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