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September 22nd, 2010 by Grace
What is a Data Connection Library in SharePoint Server 2010?
A Data Connection Library in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 is a library that can contain two kinds of data connections: an Office Data Connection (ODC) file or a Universal Data Connection (UDC) file. Microsoft InfoPath 2010 uses data connections that comply with the Universal Data Connection (UDC) file schema and typically have either a *.udcx or *.xml file name extension. Data sources described by these data connections are stored on the server and can be used in standard form templates and browser-enabled form templates.
How to create a SharePoint Server Data Connection Library?
1. Browse to a SharePoint Server 2010 site on which you have at least Design permissions. If you are on the root site, create a new site before you continue with the next step.
2. On the Site Actions menu, click More Options.
3. On the Create page, click Library under Filter By, and then click Data Connection Library.
4. On the right side of the Create page, type a name for the library, and then click the Create button.
5. Copy the URL of the new data connection library.
How to create a new data connection file in InfoPath?
1. Open InfoPath Designer 2010, click Blank Form, and then click Design Form.
2. On the Data tab, click Data Connections, and then click Add.
3. In the Data Connection Wizard, click Create a new connection to, click Receive data, and then click Next.
4. Click the kind of data source that you are connecting to, such as Database, Web service, or SharePoint library or list, and then click Next.
5. Complete the remaining steps in the Data Connection Wizard to configure your data connection, and then click Finish to return to the Data Connections dialog box.
6. In the Data Connections dialog box, click Convert to Connection File.
7. In the Convert Data Connection dialog box, enter the URL of the data connection library that you previously copied (delete “Forms/AllItems.aspx” and anything following it from the URL), enter a name for the data connection file at the end of the URL, and then click OK. It will take a few moments to convert and save the data connection file to the library.
8. Confirm that the data connection was converted successfully by examining the Details section of the Data Connections dialog box while the name of the converted data connection is selected.
9. Browse to the SharePoint data connection library, click the drop-down next to the name of the data connection, click Approve/Reject, click Approved, and then click OK.
Take advantage of SharePoint Data Connection Library and other useful features of SharePoint family of products that include, SharePoint Foundation 2010, MOSS 2007 and free SharePoint templates or web parts.
September 17th, 2010 by Grace
What is Federated Search in SharePoint Server 2010?
A Federated Search in SharePoint Server enables you to display search results for additional content that is not crawled by your search server. Using Federated Search, the query can be performed over the local content index, or it can be forwarded to an external content repository where it is processed by that repository’s search engine. The repository’s search engine then returns the results to the search server. The search server formats and renders the results from the external repository within the same search results page as the results from the search server’s own content index.
A federated location defines the federated search connection to the external content repository, and comprises Location types, Query and More Results link templates, Triggers, Display information, Restrictions, and Authentication and credentials information.
Benefits of Federated Search with SharePoint Enterprise Search
If you use Federated Search option to get search results, then:
• You require no additional capacity for the content index, as content is not crawled by SharePoint Enterprise Search
• You can take advantage of a repository’s existing search engine
• You can optimize the content repository’s search engine for the repository’s specific set of content, which might provide better search performance on the content set
• You can access repositories that are secured against crawls, but which can be accessed by search queries
All in all you can use SharePoint Server 2010 federated sources in core results, in a small preview of results, or in an instant answer format. Federated Results incorporate information from other sources, Related Searches, and People Results in the search experience.
Take advantage of SharePoint family of products that include SharePoint Server 2010, SharePoint Foundation 2010, MOSS 2007, and associated free SharePoint templates or web parts.
September 10th, 2010 by Grace
What is DHTML?
DHTML or Dynamic HTML is a set or a collection of innovative features and technologies that is utilized together to create animated and ineteractive web sites. With DHTML, authors are able to change content and rendering of a Web page as users interact with them. Said features were first introduced in Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0. Good as it may sound, DHTML has some sort of falling-out in the web publishing community as DHTML scripts are a little browser sensitive. Some even do not work on other browsers.
August 18th, 2010 by Grace
If your team has difficulty managing and maintain Excel workbooks developed over the years for your business, then it can benefit from the convenience provided by SharePoint Excel Services. SharePoints Excel Services, first introduced in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, is a service application that enables you to load, calculate, and display Microsoft Excel workbooks on Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010.
Excel Services help you to reuse and share Excel workbooks on SharePoint Server 2010 portals and dashboards. For instance, financial analysts, business planners, etc. can create content in Excel sheets and share it with others by using a SharePoint Server 2010 portal and dashboardwithout writing custom code. The data displayed can be controlled by you. You can maintain a single version of your Excel workbook.
Take advantage of SharePoint Excel Services and other useful features of SharePoint 2010 hosting, SharePoint Foundation hosting or SharePoint Server 2010 – with shared or dedicated hosting by a SharePoint 2010 hosting provider.
Excel Services is built on ASP.NET and SharePoint Foundation technologies and includes the following core components:
Excel Web Access: Excel Web Access is a viewer page and an Excel Services Web Part that you can add to any Web Parts page in SharePoint Server 2010. Excel Web Access renders (in other words, creates the HTML for) live Excel workbooks on a Web page, and enables the user to interact with those workbooks and explore them.
Excel Web Services: Excel Web Services is the Excel Services component that provides programmatic access to its Web service. You can develop applications that call Excel Web Services to calculate, set, and extract values from workbooks, and to refresh external data connections. By using Excel Web Services, you can incorporate server-side workbook logic into an application, automate the updating of Excel workbooks, and create application-specific user interfaces around server-side Excel calculation.
User-defined functions (UDFs): Excel Services UDFs enable you to use formulas in a cell to call custom functions that are written in managed code and deployed to SharePoint Server 2010.
ECMAScript (JavaScript, JScript): The ECMAScript object model in Excel Services enable developers to customize, automate, and drive the Excel Web Access Web Part control on a page. By using the ECMAScript object model, you can build mashups and other integrated solutions that interact with one or more Excel Web Access Web Part controls on a page or an iframe with script on the page. It also enables you to add more capabilities to your workbooks and code around them.
Representational State Transfer (REST) service: The REST API in Excel Services enables you to access workbook parts or elements directly through a URL. The URL contains a marker path, which is the entry point to an .aspx page, to the workbook file location, and to the path to the requested element inside the workbook.
Excel Calculation Services: The role of Excel Calculation Services is to load workbooks, calculate workbooks, call custom code (UDFs), and refresh external data. It also maintains the session state for interactivity. Excel Calculation Services maintains a session for the duration of interactions with the same workbook by a user or caller.
Excel Services supports many features and scenarios which include the following:
o Business Intelligence Portal and Workbook Analysis: A business intelligence portal displays scorecards and reports, and enables users to explore data by using only a browser. Excel Services participates in the BI Center by providing the ability to calculate and expose Excel-based content on integrated BI dashboards.
o Workbooks Management: The workbook management capability of the Excel services maintain only one copy of a workbook created and changed by a trusted author in a central, secure place. It secures and protects workbook models and back-end data. Excel services also helps create snapshots of a workbook.
o Custom Applications: Excel Services help create custom applicationsfor example, ASP.NET applicationsthat
1. Call Excel Web Services to access, parameterize, and calculate workbooks.
2. Open, refresh external data, set cells or ranges, recalculate, participate in collaborative editing sessions with other applications or people, save, and save as.
3. Use custom workflows to schedule calculation operations or send e-mail notifications.
Above all this, in multiple server configurations, Excel Services load-balances requests across multiple Excel Calculation Services occurrences in a farm configuration. If your installation includes multiple application servers, Excel Services will balance the load in an attempt to help ensure that no single application server is overloaded by requests.
August 10th, 2010 by Grace
Remember that Watchfire was acquired by IBM early this year? Well, they sure aren�t wasting time as they will now officially release IBM Rational AppScan 7.7. This new improved Web application security tool is based on Watchfire’s AppScan. This product basically identifies, validates and reports on gaps in Web applications. However, the latest version has new features (i.e. Scan Expert and State Inducer) designed to make the product more user-friendly for those who have not much background in application testing. It also includes recorded Web-based training (now that one is useful to me) to instruct users on application security and industry standard compliance.
Source: Eweek
July 10th, 2010 by sayuri
Family members and businessmen shouldn’t be worried that they can’t reach their loved ones and associates in the Middle East and India. It’s not because of some political censorship or terrorist activity, but rather the reason is they’re no longer connected to the internet. They’re having a small problem: they have been disconnected because of two damaged undersea cables in the Mediterranean.
There was disruption to 70% of the nationwide network in Egypt, and India suffered up to 60% disruption.
UK firms such as British Airways have told the BBC that call centres have been affected by the outage.
Industry experts said it could take up to one week to repair the damaged cables and resume full service.
International telephone calls, which have also been affected, are being rerouted to work around the problem.
Repairs are on going as you read this. Hopefully full or partial services will be up within the week.
Source
June 10th, 2010 by Grace
A Web Services Description Language (WSDL) document defines services as collections of network endpoints, or ports. In WSDL, its abstract endpoints and messages is separated from its concrete network deployment and data format bindings. Their concrete protocol and data format specification for a particular port type constitutes a reusable binding.
May 10th, 2010 by sayuri
If you thought that reading off RSS through your mobile phone was text-heavy, very little images, slow, and cumbersome, you’re not alone. This was more likely due to both your smartphone’s old hardware and likewise integrated web browser. With the introduction of better and more technologically capable smartphones, you may be expecting some improvements with the browser as well. Well, here comes Skyfire to make your mobile web viewing so much better.
The new mobile browser brings the true internet (like you’d experience from your desktop or laptop computer) to Windows Mobile smartphones. Flash-advertisements, YouTube, MySpace, Facebook – any and all web-pages load in speedy fashion thanks to Skyfire’s behind-the-scenes server-magic. With integrated Flash support, animated/interactive advertisements come to life, embedded videos play in the browser, and Flash-based web-pages are finally viewable.
Available for Windows Mobile 5 and 6. It can be integrated whether your smartphone is touch or non-touchscreen. It is currently still under beta testing.
More info on this site.
April 10th, 2010 by Grace
Ooh� and who said the internet isn�t exciting? RBN (Russian Business Network), a notorious Russian online gang which has recently closed their St. Petersburg IP address (but has apparently established themselves elsewhere in cyberspace, yet continuously moving to avoid detection), is said to be linked to a November iFrame injection attack of Monster.com an online employment service company. The attack, caused by a NeoSplit or a malware tool, inserted code into pages that then caused systems to download a virus. Monster.com has reported that they�ve already cleaned all the affected Web pages and is now working with law enforcement on the matter.
Source: eweek.com
March 10th, 2010 by Grace
The information search engine, Ask.com has released AskEraser, a new tool that can be considered as the first step (of many) in handing over the rightful control of privacy to its users. According to EPIC’s Marc Rotenberg, this cool tool prevents from storing any search data. It can completely delete search queries and any other associated information from the site�s servers. This includes complete texts of queries, IP addresses, user ID�s, and session ID�s. Users can find the link for the AskEraser tool on the upper right corner of the search engine’s homepage and search results pages and can be turned off anytime. AskEraser is available now in the U.S. and in the UK — and will be deployed globally in 2008.
Source: Newsfactor
