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The latest version of AD Self Service web part empowers SharePoint users to modify their AD profiles on their own without compromising organizational security

BEIJING, CHINA – December 24, 2009 – SharePointBoost, a leading developer of Microsoft SharePoint enhancements, today releases new features for its product, the SharePoint AD Self Service. Besides its core strength of the empowerment of customer self service (CSS) on AD properties modification, the newly upgraded AD Self Service web part has diligently addressed the security issue that SharePoint administrators heavily concerned. Now, it is being equipped with the capability of allowing IT administrators and domain admin members to fully control users’ changing behaviors by enabling completely customizable configuration on the settings of the AD Self Service web part.

In the SharePoint Central Administration, IT Administrators are able to exclude certain users from viewing AD Self Service web part, which has largely decreased the possibility of confidential information leaking. In addition, the availability of AD properties in the web part is also able to be configured by administrators, which allows for effective restriction on Domain Adminis’ capacity in web part settings in a proper manner. Equally critical, IT administrators are provided with the options of receiving email notifications or enabling log files to track any AD property change or change attempt, which has streamlined the business process of protection-driven organizations.

Moreover, for members of Domain Admins, they are empowered to manage every single tab and property in the AD Self Service web part in editing mode. They are enabled to delete an existing tab or property, change the display name or add a new one in the web part according to specific requirements. Besides, Domain Admins are also allowed to configure an AD property as editable, read-only, or invisible to users. Furthermore, the appearance of AD properties is customizable as well. There are three types of appearance to choose from, that is “Text Box”, “Dropdown List” and “Lookup”. For the last two types, the values available in the dropdown list and the exact column to lookup will both be determined by Domain Admins for security concern. The last but not the least, the SharePoint AD Self Service web part supports Drag and Drop of items in the web part settings. Therefore, changes made to layout and setup of the tabs and properties can be easily achieved.

SharePointBoost’s AD Self Service is compatible with both MOSS 2007 and WSS 3.0, has cross-browser support and is available in several languages. For more information, please visit http://www.sharepointboost.com/ad-self-service.html.

About SharePointBoost

SharePointBoost is a leading software provider dedicated to development and distribution of SharePoint Web Parts, add-ons and feature enhancements. Thousands of companies from more than 50 countries/regions have already benefited from SharePointBoost products and services, enabling business executives and SharePoint professionals alike to use SharePoint to its fullest potential. For more information, visit http://www.sharepointboost.com/.

SharePoint List Item Ranking greatly simplifies the process of reordering the rank of list items by allowing for manual rearrangement in all types of SharePoint lists

BEIJING, CHINA-November 6, 2009-SharePointBoost, a leading developer of Microsoft SharePoint enhancements, today released a new product, SharePoint List Item Ranking. By utilizing this new SharePoint solution, users are able to force ranking list items which means they can move certain item to a specific position directly without having to re-rank every single item. Besides, users are also allowed to enable or disable the reorder feature for each view and rearrange the rank of list items in each view separately. Undoubtedly, SharePoint List Item Ranking can be considered as another powerful extension to SharePoint’s native capacity for it provides users the option to manually sort list items for all types of lists and hence, has considerably simplify the whole process.

Actually, by default, SharePoint allowed user to sort list items manually, but for link lists only. However, the new solution from SharePointBoost has made this feature available for all types of lists. Now, in any type of lists, SharePoint users are able to move an item up and down, as well as move it to the top and to the bottom easily by simply clicking the corresponding buttons. But when having to deal with a larger amount of items, it is still a time-consuming job for users to press “Move up” button hundreds of times. Therefore, users are offered the option to move an item to a specific position directly, which will speed up the process and increase the efficiency.

More than that, SharePoint List Item Ranking has delivered more benefits to users by allowing for rearranging the rank of list items in each view individually. Accordingly, for different views, items can be rearranged in different orders based on various requirements and preferences. Another invaluable feature offered by this new SharePoint solution lies in the availability of customizable configuration on which columns in a list to be showed in reorder page. Among all the existing columns, users enable to choose the most rearrangement-related ones to be displayed in the setting page.

SharePointBoost’s List Item Ranking is compatible with both MOSS 2007 and WSS 3.0, has cross-browser support and available in several languages. For more information, please visit http://www.sharepointboost.com/list-item-ranking.html.

About SharePointBoost

SharePointBoost is a leading software provider dedicated to development and distribution of SharePoint Web Parts, add-ons and feature enhancements. Thousands of companies from more than 50 countries/regions have already benefited from SharePointBoost products and services, enabling business executives and SharePoint professionals alike to use SharePoint to its fullest potential. For more information, visit http://www.sharepointboost.com/.

SharePoint Site User Directory Web Part enables enumeration of SharePoint users within AD groups and supports display of SharePoint user profiles

BEIJING, CHINA-October 22, 2009-SHAREPOINTBOOST, a leading developer of Microsoft SharePoint enhancements, today releases a new web part, SharePoint Site User Directory Web Part. By deploying the new web part in their SharePoint environment, SharePoint users are allowed to see all the users inside the chosen Active Directory groups in tree view structure, view user profiles and even print them out. With those powerful and easy-to-use functions, SharePoint Site User Directory Web Part has considerably improved SharePoint 2007 native functionality and ensures a better performance in the user directory services.

By default, SharePoint only support displaying the names of AD groups in the Site User Web Part, which means the users or user groups within those AD groups could not be enumerated. However, SharePoint Site User Directory has overcome the limitation. And, to further extend the capacity, the new web part enables presenting SharePoint user profiles, as well as supports fully customizable configuration on the Site User Directory properties. Moreover, because of the new web part, SharePoint users are able to send e-mail message, schedule a meeting, make a phone call or send an instant message to the others with less effort spending.

Except for the above capabilities, SharePoint Site User Directory Web Part is expected to deliver more value to an organization through displaying the users in an easily accessible tree view structure. “And also, the availability of several different views will provide viewers with much more information about SharePoint users than ever before,” the Chief Technology Officer, Jonathan Ma at SharePointBoost commented. For example, under “status” view, users and user groups can be viewed according to their online status in the current site collection, which will definitely help optimize the communication and management within an organization. Similarly, allowing for searching for users within the web part can bring the same benefits as well.

SharePointBoost’s Site User Directory Web Part is compatible with both MOSS 2007 and WSS 3.0, has cross-browser support and available in several languages. For more information, please visit http://www.sharepointboost.com/site-user-directory.html.

About SharePointBoost

SharePointBoost is a leading software provider dedicated to development and distribution of SharePoint Web Parts, add-ons and feature enhancements. Thousands of companies from more than 50 countries/regions have already benefited from SharePointBoost products and services, enabling business executives and SharePoint professionals alike to use SharePoint to its fullest potential. For more information, visit http://www.sharepointboost.com/.

EntropySoft, specialist of the ECI market (Enterprise Content Integration) and unstructured-data integration, announces the release of a new Microsoft SharePoint connector. By making available yet another connector, EntropySoft is increasing again its unrivalled interoperability capacities and the attractiveness of its product offer.

EntropySoft’s Microsoft SharePoint 2007 connector enables read and write access to content stored in the Microsoft SharePoint repository.

“The new version of our Microsoft SharePoint 2007 connector includes some of the more complex albeit popular features of SharePoint. We are now able to integrate all types of lists (Calendar, Tasks, Issues, Discussion boards, Contacts, etc.) and offer a read/write feature for them. This comes on top of all the already available features such as supporting all SharePoint sites objects, folders, documents and document libraries, the folder structure, security, copy, lifecycle, lock / unlock, move, versioning.

The EntropySoft connector is fully compatible with Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (WSS 3.0) and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS 2007). Moreover, installing the connector is easier than ever with its new step-by-step “installation wizard” for SharePoint sites.” says Nicolas Maquaire, EntropySoft CEO. “This new connector, together with our 30 + connectors portfolio, is helping customers to achieve fast, smooth and complete content transfers between SharePoint repositories and other collaboration applications repositories. We are also giving our technological partners the opportunity to interact more closely with this very popular platform.”

EntropySoft is a connectors’ factory. The Microsoft SharePoint connector is part of EntropySoft’s connectors’ portfolio, which consists of more than 30 connectors, the biggest offering of connectors on the market. Recently developed connectors include EMC Documentum, HP TRIM, Oracle UCM, IBM WebSphere Portal Document Manager and Interwoven WorkSite. The plug-and-play EntropySoft connectors list includes major applications such as FileNET P8, Open Text LiveLink, Interwoven TeamSite etc…

Thanks to the sheer number of connectors in the portfolio, interoperability is already a reality for EntropySoft partners. By using a single API, which is the same for all EntropySoft connectors, software vendors and large companies have found the answer to their interoperability requests. Customers no longer need to learn specific programming technologies for each content-centric application, they can access, modify and interact with content through a single technology. EntropySoft therefore becomes a one-stop shopping facility for easy interoperability. Moreover, EntropySoft technology is now available on all platforms (Java, .NET, web services).

On top of the read / write connectors, EntropySoft has two technological layers (Content ETL and Content Federation) that can also be OEM’ed to facilitate integration and interoperability.

For the past four years, EntropySoft has acquired valuable practical knowledge on all popular content-centric systems. This mix of knowledge and experience is put to work on a daily basis in critical business conditions. EntropySoft connectors, Content Federation Server and Content ETL are the first truly interoperable products to be on the market that have been market-tested for years.

EntropySoft’s OEM clients have specific requests for their specific markets. This means that the connectors have to support the widest range of functionalities. The state-of-the-art connectors therefore help customers focus on their differentiators, allowing them to concentrate on their core business while EntropySoft takes care of the connectivity.

EntropySoft’s strategy is to work on the completeness of features supported by each connector as well as developing multiple connectors for the same application in order to best satisfy customers’ functional and technical constraints.

Today, EntropySoft is the content-centric applications interoperability leader.

About EntropySoft

EntropySoft is focused on the integration of unstructured data and is a pure-player in the ECI global market (Enterprise Content Integration). An information-access expert, EntropySoft’s mission is to facilitate content access and make content interoperability easy.

EntropySoft technology is used by software vendors to simplify the integration between their solution and all content management solutions. Applications fields are numerous (BPM, Enterprise Search, e-Discovery, Records Management, Collaboration,..).

EntropySoft has the most extensive read/write connectors’ portfolio in the market and promotes a disruptive innovation with its Content ETL product.

The following leading global organizations integrate EntropySoft connectors: Attivio, Endeca, Coveo, Exalead, Kazeon, IDS Scheer, Image Integration Systems.

For more information, visit www.entropysoft.net.