SUBJECT
Integrating External Document Repositories with MOSS 2007
SPEAKER
Scot Hillier, MVP
Scot Hillier is an independent consultant and Microsoft Most Valuable Professional focused on creating solutions for Information Workers with SharePoint, Office, and related .NET technologies. He is the author of 10 books on Microsoft technologies including “Microsoft SharePoint: Building Office 2007 Solutions in C# 2005”. Scot splits his time between consulting on SharePoint projects and training for Critical Path Training (a joint venture of Ted Pattison and Andrew Connell). Scot is a former U. S. Navy submarine officer and graduate of the Virginia Military Institute. Scot can be reached at scot@shillier.com.
In the enterprise, documents are stored in many different repositories including enterprise content management applications, enterprise resource planning systems, customer relationship management systems, product life-cycle management systems, custom LOB applications, and file shares. It can be difficult for information workers who want to use the data contained within these documents to locate the documents and integrate them within their daily work. This session presents a complete architecture and sample code for integrating an external repository with Office SharePoint Server 2007. The solution enables you to view and manage documents in an external repository through the Office SharePoint Server 2007 user interface (UI). While some repository vendors provide Web parts that enable document browsing and viewing, this solution goes far beyond these basic capabilities to provide a complete integration of the repository. Using this architecture, end users can create libraries in Office SharePoint Server 2007 that include documents from an external repository without copying those documents into Office SharePoint Server 2007. Users are also able to maintain the documents by using Office SharePoint Server 2007 capabilities such as check-in, check-out, edit properties, version history, and document upload and download. The solution also enables complete integration of external documents with SharePoint workflows, list columns, task lists, and other libraries.| 5:30 PM | Eat & Greet: Networking, Food & Drink |
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CONFIGURE UPLOADING BIG FILES IN SHAREPOINT WITH IIS 7
by Kathryn Birstein
I recently migrated several content databases to a new Windows 2008 server farm with IIS 7 and was suprised to find out that I couldn't upload a 40 meg file (it started to upload and then suddenly I would get a 404 error in the browser), even though I had set the "Maximum Upload Size" to 100 megs in the "Web Application General Settings" in Central Administration. Upon researching this situation, I discovered that IIS 7 by default limits file upload size to 28 megs and that I had to add a "request filtering" tag to the C:\Windows\System32\inetsrv\config\ApplicationHost.config file to increase the IIS 7 upload size to match the Central Administration setting.
The various request filtering tags in IIS7 are covered at the http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/143/how-to-use-request-filtering/ web page. Basically, all you have to do is use the "maxAllowedContentLength" attribute of the <RequestLimits> tag, setting it to the same value you have set the "Maximum Upload Size" to, expressed in bytes. What the web page does not explain very well is exactly where you need to place this tag.
For each web application you wish to set an upload size for, look for the "location path=" tag, for example <location path="SharePoint - 80">. Place the <requestFiltering> tag in the <security> section right below the </handlers> closing tag:
<location path="SharePoint - 80">
<handlers>
. . .
</handlers>
<security>
<authentication>
. . . .
</authentication>
<requestFiltering>
<requestLimits MaxAllowedContentLength="104857600" />
</requestFiltering>
</security>
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