MCMS Connector for SharePoint Technologies
What I originally thought and read about the MCMS connector for SharePoint technologies, wasn't actualy the same once I began to install and configure it....To configure SharePoint and MCMS on the same box (which is the recommendation), involves a good few changes.
Why would you do this you may think (well I did), the reason is that if you want to use the document library placeholder for editing purposes, then SharePoint will need to be installed on your MCMS authoring server, otherwise if the placeholder will be read only (say for your MCMS production server).
But that's not all, you can only point the webparts at local MCMS content, and similarly you can only point the SharePoint Document Library placeholder control at a local SharePoint site. So to me, this throws away any chances of having an integrated server farm of SharePoint and MCMS servers, connected using the connector. I hope I'm wrong in my understanding here, anyone out there know?
Firstly, the order in which the server applications are installed is important. Obviously standard OS configuration first then, pre-requisites for MCMS, MCMS 2002 Sp1a, SharePoint 2003, any SharePoint 2003 sp's and finally the MCMS connector for SharePoint itself.
Next, there is a requirement for the Connector, that MCMS and SharePoint both use the same IIS application pool and identity. OK fine, but what about the forms based authentication and login I wrote for my authoring server. Turns out, you cannot use Forms based authentication if you have SharePoint and CMS on the same box, only windows. Damn...
Now you have to tell SharePoint that it has some standard ASP.Net applications within it's website to render. The MCMS connector will automatically add existing (at time of install) ASP.Net apps as excluded paths within SharePoint, which is useful. But you should consider this for any future apps you may have to create.
Now to your existing web applications, you will have change the trust level setting within their web.config's, to full, again so that SharePoint can render them as safe.
All these changes had to be made before I even began to use any of the funtionality the connector would give me.
More about the SharePoint Document Library placeholder control... I originally thought that, similar to the Word Authoring Connector Client, when you use this placeholder to "link" to an existing SharePoint document, that if this document is changed in the future, it maintains a reference to this "link" and prompts the user to update. This turns out not to be the case, what it actually does is make a copy of this document in MCMS, and you use a command line utility called "WssDocumentUpdater" to synchronise updates, which would be a scheduled process.
My current thinking is not to use the MCMS connector for SharePoint at all, and just use the Word Authoring Connector Client (with documents stored in SharePoint) to publish to MCMS.
That's next, an I'll update you all as to what happens.
posted by Graham Quinn @ 2:20 PM
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Really tying these two technologies together is the hard part. I've found that generating listings in SPS for MCMS pages is useful, since you can use the portal's ability to audience target the listings and the GUID based url's to prevent dead links. Don't try to build out Area's for all your content, just stop after the first top level pages, and transparently tie into mcms content (with the same look and feel and the sharepoint header control embedded in your mcms templates).
Create custom xslts to render SharePointDocumentPlaceholder files in your MCMS templates to show size and dates of attached documents.
You can list channels and pages in MCMS by subclassing the listings web parts they give you and overriding the render. This let's you totally customize the output of the controls. Otherwise if you follow their documentation you will still have their toolbar across the top.
jaymeson.geo@yahoo.com
A point of note, SharePoint Portal Server is not required for the connector to work, in fact you can use Windows SharePoint Services only. In the deployment guide for the Connector, it indicates that WSS/SPS must be installed on the same physical server and virtual server for the "edit" functionality to work. Problem is, as soon as you do that with SPS, you run into KB835248.
Because of this, its hard to recommend SPS when you are faced with potential ISAPI filter conflicts especially if your MCMS allows the user to add channels through the authoring console.
The only reasonable implementation with the document placeholder control is MCMS and WSS on the authoring server. The Document Library can then be tagged as the "web documents" library and if you want, another SPS instance can incorporate it under its umbrella and indexing scheme. But that will never eliminate the copying of documents from WSS/SPS to the MCMS database.
One final note, the MCMS 2002 FAQ details a workaround to the Forms authentication issue.
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