Hi, I’m Cern McAtee, a technical writer for Office SharePoint Server 2007. I’m pleased to announce that the Office SharePoint Server 2007 content team and the Global Readiness team have combined efforts to write and publish a new walkthrough guide for content deployment: End-to-End Content Deployment Walkthrough.

What’s covered

This downloadable guide is aimed at IT pros planning to use content deployment with their enterprise sites using Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. The guide takes you through the steps for setting up source and destination site collections, creating a deployment path and job, and then running the job to see how it populates the destination site collection with the content from the source site collection. One important thing to note when it comes to doing content deployment is that when you first set it up, the destination site collection must be empty. You can create the destination site collection using either the Blank site template, or by using the Stsadm createsite operation to create an empty site.

In addition to the walkthrough, we have also published a set of topics about Administering Web content management that cover publishing and content deployment operations. These topics are intended for IT pros who manage publishing and content deployment for their enterprise sites. More WCM topics that cover cache settings and profiles, document conversion, and variations will be published soon.

Send your feedback

We’re very excited about publishing this walkthrough guide and the new WCM content, and we’re especially interested in your feedback on this new content. There are three ways you can provide feedback on this content: First, in each topic you will find a “Click to Rate and Give Feedback” control with a text box for supplying feedback. Second, you can send us mail at o12ITdx at Microsoft.com. Third, you can use the “Leave a Comment” interface in this blog to provide comments, either about this blog entry or about the newly published content.

We look forward to hearing from you and to continuing to improve this content in partnership with you!

Thanks,

Cern McAtee
SharePoint Enterprise Solutions content team

Hi, my name is Claudia Lake. I am a technical writer on the SharePoint Enterprise Solutions content team. In response to feedback from users, we have created Administering Records Management, which is a new set of IT Pro documentation on TechNet about records management in Office SharePoint Server 2007.

What’s covered?

In addition to providing information about how to create a Records Center site, the new records management administration documentation covers the following areas:

·         Configuring an active document site for records management

·         Configuring an Exchange Server 2007 e-mail server to send records to a Records Center site

·         Managing holds

·         Monitoring the Records Center site

Our intention is to provide you with all of the information you need to successfully set up, configure, and administer a Records Center site in Office SharePoint Server 2007.

Feedback welcome!

Have you ever wished you could have a say in the way documentation is written here at Microsoft? Well, now’s your chance. We welcome your feedback on the new Administering Records Management documentation and will do our best to make the improvements you suggest. What would we like to know? We’d like to know things like:  Is this content useful? Is it detailed enough? Did we leave something out that you feel would be helpful? Did we include something that you feel has no value? We’re also interested in hearing what you like about this content so we can keep doing it. Anything you feel we should know about the Administering Records Management content is very important to us. Let us know what you think!

There are three ways that you can provide feedback about the Administering Records Management documentation:

1.       The upper-right corner of each page has a Click to Rate and Give Feedback section. Click a star to rate the page and optionally provide feedback.

2.       You can e-mail us at o12itdx at Microsoft.com.

3.       You can use the “Leave a Comment” feature in this blog to provide comments, either about this blog post or about the Administering Records Management content.

We look forward to hearing from you and to working with you to make our content the best it can be.

Sincerely,

Claudia Lake

SharePoint Enterprise Solutions content team