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How to display list of MOSS Document Library, MOSS Surveys etc on your page

It seems quite obvious that one will have the requirements for displaying list of content collections like Document Libraries in current site or Surveys presents on current site. I find that though it is very general requirement but there is no straight forward out of box solution in MOSS for displaying this simple information. I first investigate Content Query Webpart but found that content query webpart is designed to fetch data related to contents within content collections rather then content collection itself. In simple word you can fetch documents from multiple document library using content query webpart but it is not possible to get list of document libraries avialable. I found one simple solution for it but obviously not acceptable as it doesnt display list on standard page or at an specific location on page. Solution is to add a menu item and set it URL to / /_layouts/viewlsts.aspx?BaseType=1 and it will display all document libraries with in site. Now this has several limita

MOSS Form based authentication Implementation

MOSS 2007 provides intranet and intranet sites development using its out of box zones and SSO (Single sign on) security model. User can easily configure form based authentication and extranet zone on MOSS 2007 website to provide accessability to users belong to organization active directory as well as users registered using website. Following explains how to configure secity on sharepoint http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb975136.aspx