SharePoint Best Practices in London and SharePoint Conference 2009 in Las Vegas!

This year I hope to go to these two events and I am proud to announce that raona will be a platinum sponsor at SharePoint Best Practices in UK. I invite you to visit our booth and know us.

The SharePoint Conference 2009 was announced yesterday and it will be a great opportunity to know the new features of O14. By the way, was not this year the turn of Europe to organize this event (SPC2007 – Berlin, SPC2008 – Seattle)? Well, we have to wait until SPC2010 (I propose Barcelona… J).

What is the PID of my web application?

Update for Windows 2008: In IIS 7 this command is replaced by %windir%\system32\inetsrv\appcmd.exe list wp

Just a quick tip for developers. When you need to debug an assembly loaded by a web application (like SharePoint) you can attach the process to the project and debug. The problem is how to determine the correct process in the processes list if you have more than one web application. To select the correct process you can execute the IIS script iisapp. It will show you all the running web applications and the respective PID (Process Identifier).

This is my current output for 'iisapp':

W3WP.exe PID: 5120 AppPoolId: SharePoint
W3WP.exe PID: 5892 AppPoolId: SharePoint Central Administration v3
W3WP.exe PID: 360 AppPoolId: SharePoint - intranetalpha80
W3WP.exe PID: 5852 AppPoolId: SharePoint - DemoWeb80
W3WP.exe PID: 4604 AppPoolId: SharePoint - demowebPRO80
W3WP.exe PID: 5040 AppPoolId: SharePoint – 21503
W3WP.exe PID: 5416 AppPoolId: SharePoint – 11806
W3WP.exe PID: 2328 AppPoolId: SharePoint – 12345

SharePoint Licensing

In the new web page for SharePoint for MOSS there is couple of pages that explains it in detail. I recommend you to review the FAQ page that resolves the common doubts in MOSS licensing:

http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/how-to-buy/Pages/licensing-overview.aspx

http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/how-to-buy/Pages/faq.aspx

These tables represent the license model as I understand it. I recommend that you take it as guidance and check it with your license provider or Microsoft representative.

Products

Product	Public price	Features	CAL Requirements
WSS	Free. Included in W2K3 license.	Basic collaboration	Review the W2K3 CAL requirements. Needs the External Connector for non-employees.
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, Server License	$4,424	Full equip for users with enterprise CAL. Standard CAL does not include: BDC, Excel Services, Forms Services, Business Intelligence, Forms Server.	Only for employees. Each employee needs a Std. or Ent. CAL
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 for Internet sites	$40,943	Full equip	Non-employees don't need any CAL. Each employee needs a Std. or Ent. CAL
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 for Search (Enterprise Edition), Server License	$57,670	Full equip	Only for employees. No need any CAL. * Seems that this product is no longer available.
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 for Search (Standard Edition), Server License	$8,213	Not included: BDC, Excel Services, Forms Services, Business Intelligence, Forms Server. Index limited to 500.000 documents.	Only for employees. No need any CAL. Recommended for +40 standard CALs.
Microsoft Forms Server 2007, Server License	$4,424	Only forms	Only for employees. Each employee needs a Forms CAL
Microsoft Forms Server 2007 for Internet sites	$22,118	Only forms	Non-employees don't need any CAL. Each employee needs a Std. or Ent. CAL
Search Server Express	Free	All Enterprise Search features except BDC Search and limited to only one server. Not scalable.	No need any CAL.
Search Server	Not public?	All Enterprise Search features except BDC Search.	No need any CAL.

Update 05/06/2009: Seems that "Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 for Search (Enterprise Edition), Server License" is no longer available and then you need to purchase a CAL for each user inside the organization.

Client Access License (CAL)

Each SharePoint CAL needs a SQL Server CAL if SQL Server is not licensed per server. The same is applicable to Windows 2003 Server.

Product	Public price	Features
Office SharePoint Server 2007 Standard CAL	$94	Not included: BDC, Excel Services, Forms Services, Business Intelligence.
Office SharePoint Server 2007 Enterprise CAL	$75	Full Equip and needs an Office SharePoint Server 2007 Standard CAL ($94)
Office Forms Server 2007 CAL	$54	Only forms
Office SharePoint Designer 2007	Free (since April 2009)	The tool to customize SharePoint 2007.

All information has extracted from Office official page:

• Product comparison: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/help/HA101978031033.aspx
  
• Products and CALs: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/products/FX101865111033.aspx
  
• Prices: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointserver/FX102176831033.aspx
  

IV CEUS

Tomorrow I will be at Madrid during the fourth SharePoint Users Spanish Conference (CEUS). I will talk about SharePoint functionalities and my colleagues Marc Bàguena and Pablo Peris will talk about web 2.0 with SharePoint and Workflows with SharePoint Designer.

During the morning there will be seven sessions presenting five case studies and two sessions about SUGES (Spanish SharePoint User Group) and FAST.

Here you can find more info about the event: http://www.microsoft.com/spain/office/ceus2008/agenda.htm

Enable usage statistics in SharePoint

Following the procedure described here you can enable the usage statistics in a MOSS site collection. Basically you need to enable logging in the farm, in the SSP and in the site collection. After the usage data is being collected you can view it from:

• Browser: Only the last month through Site Actions à Usage Summary.
  
• SharePoint Designer: Open your site with SPD and go to Site à Reports à Site Summary. More info: Use reports to measure site performance and usage
  
• Using the object model: Through the API you can collect the information and make your own statistics.
  

Remember that you can use any other system based on javascript to collect information about the site usage like Google Analytics or WebTrends

SharePoint Day at San Luis

The last week I was in San Luis talking about SharePoint. You can view all sessions in the next links:

SharePoint Overview (Spanish)

SharePoint integration (Spanish)

Excel Services & Search Server Express demo (Spanish)

 

Microsoft SharePoint Day at Madrid

The next September, 24th Raona and Microsoft organize the Microsoft SharePoint Day at Madrid. I will be in Argentina and I will not be in the sessions, but is a perfect opportunity to know us and our work.