Sharepoint Basics Questions 

Is it possible to configure the database as Oracle instead of SQL Server in the share point  portal

I'm using Sharepoint Designer '07. I made a website, but I want to know how to create user accounts. Only basic accounts, like this account goes to this page and this one to this other page.

Hello Yahoo
I am in need of some advice on how to change jobs/careers out of web site design/development. I have had various temp contract jobs over the past 3 yrs and I am tired of the job security.
It seems to me that in 2007-08, with all this cheesy myspace, youtube, and user generated content, web design is a very broad term, and amateur designers with no background are using the web for crap, and on the other side their is too many languages to learn, and each back-end web project is various(php or asp.net, or joomla, or vb or c# with ruby or j2ee with sharepoint);
And alot of jobs now are very basic, (like sending out a email newsletter ) 20hrs/part time, or designer/SEO, or back end asp.net programming on some stupid intranet that gets updated every 6 months, its not even worth being a full-time employee in my opinion.

All in all, I want to know, is this type of work worth a FULL_TIME DAY job, or is it worth part-time, contract, remote projects from home?

I am sick & tired of looking for web development day jobs (and every single one has a different technical skillset; huge headache, some have a small scope (like xhtml/css markup and posting pdfs),& some have a unrealistic scope,like 5 yrs AJAX/ and GIS mapping with SQL server and high end graphics)

And moreover, how can you transfer into another line of work, when all your skills are technical/web-related? I have had a nightmare time trying to go into other fields (like sales, or finance or even customer service??
I am going insane with this, am I the only one???

Need serious professional advice. Any thoughts

was wonder can you run Microsoft Office 2003 in Windows Vista or do you have to upgrade to Office 2007?? The main reason I ask is I use FrontPage where I built and maintain a website and Windows decided to stop building it and replaced it with SharePoint Designer and Expression Web. I'm not currently hooked up with SharePoint (have no desire to since I maintain my own website myself) so can't use SharePoint Designer and Expression Web is too basic for the likes of me... I have used Macromedia/Adobe Dreamweaver before but find FrontPage to be a better fit for my needs. Anyways has anyone seen the new Office 2007, their new design looks a bit stupid and more complexed especially with a ribbon replacing taskbars.

We have manuals for each of our departments (it's a large construction company) for how we do business. Estimating, Project Management, General Administration, IT, etc. etc. We are exploring Wiki's, Sharepoint, etc. And just need an efficient and effective way to:
1) Manage Change (i.e. making it super easy to update these documents);
2) ensuring QA/QC around the Changes;
3) Making it easy to search and find relevant information;
4) Making it easy to access, read (i.e. a global tree or index) and potentially print (although this is diminishing) the documents);

Right now all the documents are in separate word or PDF files in a basic sharepoint implementation.

Any assistance or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

If you have time, can you please also read below...

If you know, can you please tell additional info like pros and cons? =)

Because aside from basic email, calendar, address book features etc, we NEED to be able to do things such as:

a. create/program electronic forms
b. route documents among different people (for approval etc)
c. repository of documents (possibly limiting access to certain people) or company-wide reports
d. ...etc etc

These are possible in Lotus Notes, right? We're also looking for other alternatives. How about Microsoft Outlook? Can we do the things I listed above? Like create simple programs for e-forms and routing? Haven't actually tried Office 2007 but I heard it already has very good collaboration tools (Grove? SharePoint? Can these programs do the above?). How about any good open source solutions?

Your help would be greatly appreciated! =) Thank very much!!

Hi,

I'm working with few people and we are looking for good website to manage our project. Basic things, like sharepoint offers.

Any recommendations?

Thank you.

Our extranet is currently hosted by a 3rd Party and would we would like to move it in house. We are looking at options that can leverage our Visual Basic.Net Programmer base. Thanks!

how do i update our company intranet using microsoft sharepoint? I need to update our word documents in the master document (guide), post them into the shared library documents, then upload them. The links are not reading each other; one has a dot (.) in one and none in the other. for some reason my people in the company have no idea and find it really difficult to explain how this works. Who is a whiz on updating intranets?

The basic option of Export to Excel would just export the current view. But how to export the whole set of files/folders and subfolders LIST on to an excel?

I am a new developer of Sharepoint Product, and still don't know where is to learn the Sharepoint web part and it's architecture. All other website that I search only show a basic way. I need to learn from A to Z about sharepoint, especially to create webpart using C# programming language. Tq

why we need MOSS 2007 and how can we deal with content management in it?