Alfresco and Sharepoint.

[chungley]

Hi,

We liked to develop a new system using Alfresco as our CMS; however, due to business and other technial reasons, the source of some of the documents will be in sharepoint; and these contents in sharepoint will be updated/changed by the users.

I understand that there are people who have gone that route before (setting up some sort of integration between Alfresco and Sharepoint); I was wondering if you can share some of the experience and my options:
1. Should I setup a job to push the content from Sharepoint to Alfresco?
2. Should I setup Alfresco to "pull" the data from Sharepoint?  Is read time access feasibile in terms of performance?
3. Does the scenario changes if I also need to update the data in Alfresco and need to "sync" back the data?

Thanks….

–Chung

[norgan]

Hmm … retrieving content from MOSS into Alfresco is a bit "strange" and something, Microsoft does not like at all. Ask a MS consultant, how to get content integrated into MOSS, they will talk for days. Ask them how to retrieve content FROM Moss and you will here …… (not a lot, positively speaking) *g

One way would be to keep using sharepoint as community portal and integrate alfresco as content repository (e.g. via CMIS, a POC is presented on microsoft technet)

Another would be to make people use Office 2007 or networkshares to edit/update the documents only, not using the website. Once they do that, simply redirect them to the Alfresco URL. They wont even notice the difference, if they dont start searching.

Norgan

[deepakb]

Well you could do either way

Alfresco exposes it content through CIFS, where as SharePoint Doc Library content can be accessed through File system (Through the Open with Window Explorer option in Doc Library)

Hence you can write jobs to sync the content either way through these files systems.

[norgan]

Hi, deepakb,

doing this, won't you loose all kinds of metadata and version control ? I think so,
Norgan