Microsoft Productivity Hub Installation in MOSS 2010

Microsoft Productivity Hub


* Microsoft has developed the Productivity Hub to help support your ongoing end user training efforts.

* The Hub is a SharePoint Server 2007 site collection that serves as a learning community and is fully customizable. It

provides a central place for your training efforts, and includes training content from Microsoft’s core products. Microsoft

also provides ongoing and updated content packs.

* What the Productivity Hub is:

> Format: Pre-loaded SharePoint site collection, optimized for Web 2.0 functionality and easily deployed within

SharePoint Server 2007 environment.

> Content: Convenient end user productivity training in a variety of formats (documents, videos, podcasts, etc.).

Receive free quarterly updates of content that you will learn about through the Productivity blog.

> Blog: The Productivity blog offers tips and tricks for end user productivity. Use it as is, or your training staff

can use the posts as their own to help them get started in running an internal blog.

* What gets excited is that the hub is:

* Built on SharePoint
* Uses almost entirely out-of-the-box features
* Can be easily extended, customized, tweaked, branded
* Is easy to get setup and rolled out
* Incorporates social networking elements and pushes the concept of an internal user group

* Its like an alternative to the Learning Management System(LMS) from Microsoft that is having constamizations.

* Installation Procedure in MOSS 2007

* Download and Unzip/prepare

* Creating a site colletion in New/Existing Web Application.

* Under the directory where the Productivity Hub installation files exist, run the following command from the

command prompt:
Install [sitecollectionURL]
After the operation is completed go for IISRESET

* Configure SSP and Crawl Jobs for the site collection.

* Under the directory where the installation files exist, run the following command to create the correct search

property mappings:PostInstall [siteCollectionURL]

* Configure SSP and Crawl Jobs for the site collection again.

* Installation is now complete. You can now navigate to the Productivity Hub site in Internet Explorer and set

permissions for your end users, coaches, and managers who will need access to the Productivity Hub.