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camaramanoel — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 01:14:19 GMT

Introduction

This section introduces the SharePoint Cross-site Configurator in the context of IT management challenges that have arisen with the rapid growth of SharePoint® deployments.

The Challenges of Consistency and Standardization

As SharePoint adoption increases across various departments and business units, the need for consistency and standardization increases. In response, Microsoft has designed a simple tool to support standards and consistency in managing and configuring SharePoint site collections.
The tool is sample code that you can use to deploy configuration changes across site collections as broadly as entire web applications or even entire farms. The SharePoint Cross-site Configurator eliminates the need to perform configuration tasks over and over again across thousands of sites for the purposes of applying standards and ensuring consistency. Instead, you can meet these goals using this tool and SharePoint’s built-in solutions deployment and features functionality. Even in environments where IT hosts the SharePoint infrastructure for the business, there are needs for standardization. The SharePoint Cross-site Configurator is designed to address these needs and at the same time, to provide a sample for addressing similar configuration needs.

The SharePoint Cross-site Configurator

The tool automates the process of deploying the MOSS site settings in all or selected sites in a server farm as shown in the following list:
Note The Tool also enables IT administrators to customize the site settings to be deployed.

Applying Master Pages across a SharePoint server farm.
Setting up Web Titles for all or selected site collections across the farm.
Applying audit control settings to all or selected sites.
Adding advanced settings such as “Allow content type management” to all types of lists.
Adding a new Expiration Policy at the site collection level.
Adding a new Expiration Policy to content types, lists, and documents.

In this table, O indicates the out-of-the-box configuration tasks that are easy to perform manually and C indicates the configuration tasks that the SharePoint Configurator can easily automate with a simple change to the manifest and stsadm command to deploy the solution..

	List	Site	Site Collection	Web Application	Farm
Master Pages	N/A	O	O	C	C
Audit Policy	O	O	O	C	C
Expiration Policy	O	O	O	C	C
Content Types	O	O	O	C	C

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007	O
SharePoint Cross-site Configurator	C

Detailed documentation on SharePoint Cross-site Configurator is available in the "Releases" tab.

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camaramanoel — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 01:10:31 GMT

Introduction

This section introduces the SharePoint Cross-site Configurator in the context of IT management challenges that have arisen with the rapid growth of SharePoint® deployments.

The Challenges of Consistency and Standardization

The SharePoint Cross-site Configurator

Applying Master Pages across a SharePoint server farm.
Setting up Web Titles for all or selected site collections across the farm.
Applying audit control settings to all or selected sites.
Adding advanced settings such as “Allow content type management” to all types of lists.
Adding a new Expiration Policy at the site collection level.
Adding a new Expiration Policy to content types, lists, and documents.

	List	Site	Site Collection	Web Application	Farm
Master Pages	N/A	O	O	C	C
Audit Policy	O	O	O	C	C
Expiration Policy	O	O	O	C	C
Content Types	O	O	O	C	C

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007	O
SharePoint Cross-site Configurator	C

Detailed documentation on SharePoint Cross-site Configurator is available in the "Releases" tab.

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camaramanoel — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 01:09:49 GMT

Introduction

This section introduces the SharePoint Cross-site Configurator in the context of IT management challenges that have arisen with the rapid growth of SharePoint® deployments.

The Challenges of Consistency and Standardization

The SharePoint Cross-site Configurator

The tool automates the process of deploying the MOSS site settings in all or selected sites in a server farm as shown in the following list:
Note The Tool also enables IT administrators to customize the site settings to be deployed.

Applying Master Pages across a SharePoint server farm.
Setting up Web Titles for all or selected site collections across the farm.
Applying audit control settings to all or selected sites.
Adding advanced settings such as “Allow content type management” to all types of lists.
Adding a new Expiration Policy at the site collection level.
Adding a new Expiration Policy to content types, lists, and documents.

	List	Site	Site Collection	Web Application	Farm
Master Pages	N/A	O	O	C	C
Audit Policy	O	O	O	C	C
Expiration Policy	O	O	O	C	C
Content Types	O	O	O	C	C

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007	O
SharePoint Cross-site Configurator	C

Detailed documentation on SharePoint Cross-site Configurator is available in the "Releases" tab.

UPDATED WIKI: Home

camaramanoel — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 23:39:13 GMT

Introduction

This section introduces the SharePoint Cross-site Configurator in the context of IT management challenges that have arisen with the rapid growth of SharePoint® deployments.

The Challenges of Consistency and Standardization

As SharePoint Adoption increases across various departments and business units, the need for consistency and standardization increases. In response to the need to provide standards and consistency of management and configuration we have designed a simple tool which itself is sample code to deploy configuration changes across site collections as broadly as entire web applications or even entire farms. Thus configuration management and consistency need not be something that has to be performed over and over again across thousands of sites, but managed using the built in solutions deployment and features functionality. Even in environments where IT hosts the SharePoint infrastructure for the business, there are needs for standardization and the SharePoint Cross-site Configurator is designed to address this need and provide a sample for performing similar configuration needs.

Specifically, the Configurator facilitates the process of:

Applying Master Pages across a SharePoint server farm.
Setting up Web Titles for all or selected site collections across the farm.
Applying audit control settings to all or selected sites.
Adding advanced settings such as “Allow content type management” to all types of lists.
Adding a new Expiration Policy at the site collection level.
Adding a new Expiration Policy to content types, lists, and documents.

The table below illustrates how the SharePoint Configurator extends the ease of deploying configuration changes to MOSS 2007 deployments. In the following table, O indicates the out of the box configuration tasks that are easy to perform manually and C indicates the configuration tasks that the SharePoint Configurator can easily automate with a simple change to the manifest and stsadm command to deploy the solution.

	List	Site	Site Collection	Web Application	Farm
Master Pages	N/A	O	O	C	C
Audit Policy	O	O	O	C	C
Expiration Policy	O	O	O	C	C
Content Types	O	O	O	C	C

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007	O
SharePoint Cross-site Configurator	C

Detailed documentation on SharePoint Cross-site Configurator is available in the "Releases" tab.

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camaramanoel — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 23:32:07 GMT

Introduction

This section introduces the SharePoint Cross-site Configurator in the context of IT management challenges that have arisen with the rapid growth of SharePoint® deployments.

The Challenges of SharePoint Growth and Governance

The broad proliferation of SharePoint deployments in enterprise environments has presented IT professionals with a new set of management challenges. While in the past, Web farm growth and configuration was a centralized IT function, SharePoint’s departmental growth can cause IT organizations to lose the ability to quickly interact with and configure their SharePoint servers. This challenge is particularly real to IT administrators who need to make changes to a large number of SharePoint servers at once. In a typical scenario, administrators must push configuration settings such as audit and expiration policies across the entire enterprise.

The SharePoint Cross-site Configurator

To assist IT pros in meeting this challenge, Microsoft® has developed a set of code samples designed to significantly reduce the time and effort required to configure large SharePoint deployments. This set of code samples is the SharePoint Cross-Site Configurator. It provides assistance in configuring your Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 environment by automating the process of deploying MOSS site settings across all or selected sites in a server farm. It also enables IT administrators to customize the site settings to be deployed.

Specifically, the Configurator facilitates the process of:

Applying Master Pages across a SharePoint server farm.
Setting up Web Titles for all or selected site collections across the farm.
Applying audit control settings to all or selected sites.
Adding advanced settings such as “Allow content type management” to all types of lists.
Adding a new Expiration Policy at the site collection level.
Adding a new Expiration Policy to content types, lists, and documents.

	List	Site	Site Collection	Web Application	Farm
Master Pages	N/A	O	O	C	C
Audit Policy	O	O	O	C	C
Expiration Policy	O	O	O	C	C
Content Types	O	O	O	C	C

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007	O
SharePoint Cross-site Configurator	C

Detailed documentation on SharePoint Cross-site Configurator is available in the "Releases" tab.

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camaramanoel — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 01:56:06 GMT

Introduction

This section introduces the SharePoint Cross-site Configurator in the context of IT management challenges that have arisen with the rapid growth of SharePoint® deployments.

The Challenges of SharePoint Growth and Governance

The SharePoint Cross-site Configurator

Applying Master Pages across a SharePoint server farm.
Setting up Web Titles for all or selected site collections across the farm.
Applying audit control settings to all or selected sites.
Adding advanced settings such as “Allow content type management” to all types of lists.
Adding a new Expiration Policy at the site collection level.
Adding a new Expiration Policy to content types, lists, and documents.

A tabular view of this information illustrates how the SharePoint Configurator extends the configuration capabilities of MOSS 2007. In the following table, S indicates the configuration tasks that are easy to perform manually and C indicates the configuration tasks that the SharePoint Configurator can easily automate.

	List	Site	Site Collection	Web Application	Farm
Master Pages	N/A	S	C	S	C
Audit Policy	N/A	S	C	S	C
Expiration Policy	C	S	C	S	C
Content Types	C	C	C	C	C

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007	S
SharePoint Cross-site Configurator	C

Detailed documentation on SharePoint Cross-site Configurator is available in the "Releases" tab.

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camaramanoel — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 01:55:42 GMT

Introduction

This section introduces the SharePoint Cross-site Configurator in the context of IT management challenges that have arisen with the rapid growth of SharePoint® deployments.

The Challenges of SharePoint Growth and Governance

The SharePoint Cross-site Configurator

Applying Master Pages across a SharePoint server farm.
Setting up Web Titles for all or selected site collections across the farm.
Applying audit control settings to all or selected sites.
Adding advanced settings such as “Allow content type management” to all types of lists.
Adding a new Expiration Policy at the site collection level.
Adding a new Expiration Policy to content types, lists, and documents.

	List	Site	Site Collection	Web Application	Farm
Master Pages	N/A	S	C	S	C
Audit Policy	N/A	S	C	S	C
Expiration Policy	C	S	C	S	C
Content Types	C	C	C	C	C

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007	S
SharePoint Cross-site Configurator	C

Detailed documentation on SharePoint Cross-site Configurator is available in the "Releases" tab.

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camaramanoel — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 01:48:00 GMT

Introduction

This section introduces the SharePoint Cross-site Configurator in the context of IT management challenges that have arisen with the rapid growth of SharePoint® deployments.

The Challenges of SharePoint Growth and Governance

The SharePoint Cross-site Configurator

Applying Master Pages across a SharePoint server farm.
Setting up Web Titles for all or selected site collections across the farm.
Applying audit control settings to all or selected sites.
Adding advanced settings such as “Allow content type management” to all types of lists.
Adding a new Expiration Policy at the site collection level.
Adding a new Expiration Policy to content types, lists, and documents.

	List	Site	Site Collection	Web Application	Farm
Master Pages	N/A	S	C	S	C
Audit Policy	N/A	S	C	S	C
Expiration Policy	C	S	C	S	C
Content Types	C	C	C	C	C

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007	S
SharePoint Cross-site Configurator	C

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camaramanoel — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 22:23:53 GMT

Introduction

This section introduces the SharePoint Cross-site Configurator in the context of IT management challenges that have arisen with the rapid growth of SharePoint deployments.

The Challenges of SharePoint Growth and Governance

The SharePoint Cross-site Configurator

To assist IT pros in meeting this challenge, Microsoft has developed a set of code samples designed to significantly reduce the time and effort required to configure large, cross-site SharePoint deployments. This set of code samples is the SharePoint Cross-Site Configurator. It provides assistance in configuring your Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 environment by automating the process of deploying MOSS site settings across all or selected sites in a server farm. It also enables IT administrators to customize the site settings to be deployed.
Specifically, the Configurator facilitates the process of:

Applying Master Pages across a SharePoint server farm.
Setting up Web Titles for all or selected site collections across the farm.
Applying audit control settings to all or selected sites.
Adding advanced settings such as “Allow content type management” to all types of lists.
Adding a new Expiration Policy at the site collection level.
Adding a new Expiration Policy to content types, lists, and documents.

	List	Site	Site Collection	Web Application	Farm
Master Pages	N/A	S	C	S	C
Audit Policy	N/A	S	C	S	C
Expiration Policy	C	S	C	S	C
Content Types	C	C	C	C	C

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007	S
SharePoint Cross-site Configurator	C

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camaramanoel — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 22:21:08 GMT

SharePoint Cross-site Configurator

Introduction

This section introduces the SharePoint Cross-site Configurator in the context of IT management challenges that have arisen with the rapid growth of SharePoint deployments.

The Challenges of SharePoint Growth and Governance

The SharePoint Cross-site Configurator

Applying Master Pages across a SharePoint server farm.
Setting up Web Titles for all or selected site collections across the farm.
Applying audit control settings to all or selected sites.
Adding advanced settings such as “Allow content type management” to all types of lists.
Adding a new Expiration Policy at the site collection level.
Adding a new Expiration Policy to content types, lists, and documents.

	List	Site	Site Collection	Web Application	Farm
Master Pages	N/A	S	C	S	C
Audit Policy	N/A	S	C	S	C
Expiration Policy	C	S	C	S	C
Content Types	C	C	C	C	C

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007	S
SharePoint Cross-site Configurator	C

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camaramanoel — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 22:19:46 GMT

Project Description
SharePoint Cross-site Configurator
The SharePoint Cross-site Configurator is a set of code samples designed to assist IT pros reduce the time and effort required to configure large, cross-site SharePoint deployments. It provides assistance in configuring your Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 environment by automating the process of deploying MOSS site settings across all or selected sites in a server farm. It also enables IT administrators to customize the site settings to be deployed.

Specifically, the Configurator facilitates the process of:

Applying Master Pages across a SharePoint server farm.
Setting up Web Titles for all or selected site collections across the farm.
Applying audit control settings to all or selected sites.
Adding advanced settings such as “Allow content type management” to all types of lists.
Adding a new Expiration Policy at the site collection level.
Adding a new Expiration Policy to content types, lists, and documents.

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camaramanoel — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 04:55:58 GMT

SharePoint Cross-site Configurator

Introduction

This section introduces the SharePoint Cross-site Configurator in the context of IT management challenges that have arisen with the rapid growth of SharePoint deployments.

The Challenges of SharePoint Growth and Governance

The SharePoint Cross-site Configurator

Applying Master Pages across a SharePoint server farm.
Setting up Web Titles for all or selected site collections across the farm.
Applying audit control settings to all or selected sites.
Adding advanced settings such as “Allow content type management” to all types of lists.
Adding a new Expiration Policy at the site collection level.
Adding a new Expiration Policy to content types, lists, and documents.

	List	Site	Site Collection	Web Application	Farm
Master Pages	N/A	S	C	S	C
Audit Policy	N/A	S	C	S	C
Expiration Policy	C	S	C	S	C
Content Types	C	C	C	C	C

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007	S
SharePoint Cross-site Configurator	C

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camaramanoel — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 04:13:06 GMT

SharePoint Cross-site Configurator

Introduction

This section introduces the SharePoint Cross-site Configurator in the context of IT management challenges that have arisen with the rapid growth of SharePoint deployments.

The Challenges of SharePoint Growth and Governance

The SharePoint Cross-site Configurator

Applying Master Pages across a SharePoint server farm.
Setting up Web Titles for all or selected site collections across the farm.
Applying audit control settings to all or selected sites.
Adding advanced settings such as “Allow content type management” to all types of lists.
Adding a new Expiration Policy at the site collection level.
Adding a new Expiration Policy to content types, lists, and documents.

The table below shows to what level SharePoint Cross-site Configurator can help you deploy configuration parameters (from list to Farm), in the five configuration areas this tool addresses, (Master Pages, Audit Policy, Expiration Policy, and Content Types), as compared to MOSS 2007 current capabilities.

	List	Site	Site Collection	Web Application	Farm
Master Pages	S	S	S	S	C
Audit Policy	S	S	S	C	C
Expiration Policy	C	S	S	S	C
Content Types	S	S	S	C	C

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007	S
SharePoint Cross-site Configurator	C

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camaramanoel — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 02:55:26 GMT

SharePoint Cross-site Configurator

Introduction

This section introduces the SharePoint Cross-site Configurator in the context of IT management challenges that have arisen with the rapid growth of SharePoint deployments.

The Challenges of SharePoint Growth and Governance

The SharePoint Cross-site Configurator

Applying Master Pages across a SharePoint server farm.
Setting up Web Titles for all or selected site collections across the farm.
Applying audit control settings to all or selected sites.
Adding advanced settings such as “Allow content type management” to all types of lists.
Adding a new Expiration Policy at the site collection level.
Adding a new Expiration Policy to content types, lists, and documents.

	List	Site	Site Collection	Web Application	Farm
Master Pages	M	M	M	M	C
Audit Policy	M	M	M	C	C
Expiration Policy	C	M	M	M	C
Content Types	M	M	M	C	C

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007	M
SharePoint Cross-site Configurator	C

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camaramanoel — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 02:50:35 GMT

SharePoint Cross-site Configurator

Introduction

This section introduces the SharePoint Cross-site Configurator in the context of IT management challenges that have arisen with the rapid growth of SharePoint deployments.

The Challenges of SharePoint Growth and Governance

The SharePoint Cross-site Configurator

Applying Master Pages across a SharePoint server farm.
Setting up Web Titles for all or selected site collections across the farm.
Applying audit control settings to all or selected sites.
Adding advanced settings such as “Allow content type management” to all types of lists.
Adding a new Expiration Policy at the site collection level.
Adding a new Expiration Policy to content types, lists, and documents.

	List	Site	Site Collection	Web Application	Farm
Master Pages	M	M	M	M	C
Audit Policy	M	M	M	C	C
Expiration Policy	C	M	M	M	C
Content Types	M	M	M	C	C

MOSS2007	M
Configurator	C

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camaramanoel — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 02:14:52 GMT

SharePoint Cross-site Configurator

Introduction to the SharePoint Cross-Site Configurator

The SharePoint Cross-Site Configurator provides assistance in configuring your Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 environment by automating the process of deploying MOSS site settings across all or selected sites in a server farm. It also enables IT administrators to customize the site settings to be deployed.

Specifically, the package facilitates the process of:

Applying Master Pages across a SharePoint server farm.
Setting up Web Titles for all or selected site collections across the farm.
Applying audit control settings to all or selected sites.
Adding advanced settings such as “Allow content type management” to all types of lists.
Adding a new Expiration Policy at the site collection level.
Adding a new Expiration Policy to content types, lists, and documents.

In this deployment package, the settings are installed both as a feature and as an extension of SharePoint Object Model. This package thus illustrates an approach for defining MOSS site settings automatically.

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camaramanoel — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 02:14:41 GMT

SharePoint Cross-site Configurator

!!Introduction to the SharePoint Cross-Site Configurator
The SharePoint Cross-Site Configurator provides assistance in configuring your Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 environment by automating the process of deploying MOSS site settings across all or selected sites in a server farm. It also enables IT administrators to customize the site settings to be deployed.

Specifically, the package facilitates the process of:

Applying Master Pages across a SharePoint server farm.
Setting up Web Titles for all or selected site collections across the farm.
Applying audit control settings to all or selected sites.
Adding advanced settings such as “Allow content type management” to all types of lists.
Adding a new Expiration Policy at the site collection level.
Adding a new Expiration Policy to content types, lists, and documents.

UPDATED WIKI: Home

camaramanoel — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 02:14:26 GMT

SharePoint Cross-site Configurator

Heading 2

Introduction to the SharePoint Cross-Site Configurator
The SharePoint Cross-Site Configurator provides assistance in configuring your Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 environment by automating the process of deploying MOSS site settings across all or selected sites in a server farm. It also enables IT administrators to customize the site settings to be deployed.

Specifically, the package facilitates the process of:

Applying Master Pages across a SharePoint server farm.
Setting up Web Titles for all or selected site collections across the farm.
Applying audit control settings to all or selected sites.
Adding advanced settings such as “Allow content type management” to all types of lists.
Adding a new Expiration Policy at the site collection level.
Adding a new Expiration Policy to content types, lists, and documents.

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camaramanoel — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 02:13:57 GMT

SharePoint Cross-site Configurator

Heading 1 Introduction to the SharePoint Cross-Site Configurator

Applying Master Pages across a SharePoint server farm.
Setting up Web Titles for all or selected site collections across the farm.
Applying audit control settings to all or selected sites.
Adding advanced settings such as “Allow content type management” to all types of lists.
Adding a new Expiration Policy at the site collection level.
Adding a new Expiration Policy to content types, lists, and documents.

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vijaybr — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 02:07:37 GMT

SharePoint Cross-site Configurator

Applying Master Pages across a SharePoint server farm.
Setting up Web Titles for all or selected site collections across the farm.
Applying audit control settings to all or selected sites.
Adding advanced settings such as “Allow content type management” to all types of lists.
Adding a new Expiration Policy at the site collection level.
Adding a new Expiration Policy to content types, lists, and documents.