Imort documents from file share into mysite personal documents

I am deploying SPS 2003 in at my school. Currently faculty and students have
their document in file shares. Is there a utility to import peoples documents
into their mysite private document library?

Thanks in advance.

Jtyc
Wed May 17 14:03:41 CDT 2006

>I am deploying SPS 2003 in at my school. Currently faculty and students
>have
> their document in file shares. Is there a utility to import peoples
> documents
> into their mysite private document library?

You can copy the files in Explorer and paste them into the document library.
Either access the document library through the site using Explorer View or
set the site up as a network place and copy/paste that way.

David
Wed May 17 15:00:01 CDT 2006

Thanks for the reply. I was hoping as an admin, there is a way to script
something, so people would see their files in a library without me
instructiing them to do it themselves.

"Jtyc" wrote:

> >I am deploying SPS 2003 in at my school. Currently faculty and students
> >have
> > their document in file shares. Is there a utility to import peoples
> > documents
> > into their mysite private document library?
>
> You can copy the files in Explorer and paste them into the document library.
> Either access the document library through the site using Explorer View or
> set the site up as a network place and copy/paste that way.
>
>
>
>

SteveGoodyear
Wed May 17 23:24:02 CDT 2006

Yes, there are several ways to script this. The best was might be to consume
SharePoint's web services. Here's an article that gives an overview:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/odc_sp2003_ta/html/odc_writingcustomwebservicesforsppt.asp

You can also search the SharePoint SDK for more details on the object model.

I've also been successful just using RoboCopy.

- Steve

"David" wrote:

> Thanks for the reply. I was hoping as an admin, there is a way to script
> something, so people would see their files in a library without me
> instructiing them to do it themselves.
>
> "Jtyc" wrote:
>
> > >I am deploying SPS 2003 in at my school. Currently faculty and students
> > >have
> > > their document in file shares. Is there a utility to import peoples
> > > documents
> > > into their mysite private document library?
> >
> > You can copy the files in Explorer and paste them into the document library.
> > Either access the document library through the site using Explorer View or
> > set the site up as a network place and copy/paste that way.
> >
> >
> >
> >

David
Thu May 18 07:47:02 CDT 2006

Steve: Thanks for pointing this out. Would this also help me in pre-creating
a users mysite files, since that happens the 1st time they log into the
portal?

David

"Steve Goodyear" wrote:

> Yes, there are several ways to script this. The best was might be to consume
> SharePoint's web services. Here's an article that gives an overview:
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/odc_sp2003_ta/html/odc_writingcustomwebservicesforsppt.asp
>
> You can also search the SharePoint SDK for more details on the object model.
>
> I've also been successful just using RoboCopy.
>
> - Steve
>
> "David" wrote:
>
> > Thanks for the reply. I was hoping as an admin, there is a way to script
> > something, so people would see their files in a library without me
> > instructiing them to do it themselves.
> >
> > "Jtyc" wrote:
> >
> > > >I am deploying SPS 2003 in at my school. Currently faculty and students
> > > >have
> > > > their document in file shares. Is there a utility to import peoples
> > > > documents
> > > > into their mysite private document library?
> > >
> > > You can copy the files in Explorer and paste them into the document library.
> > > Either access the document library through the site using Explorer View or
> > > set the site up as a network place and copy/paste that way.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >

David
Thu May 18 07:51:01 CDT 2006

PS on my last message. Where would I robocopy the files to? I thought that
all the files were imbedded as part of the sql database and there is no
"directory" for my site?

David

"Steve Goodyear" wrote:

> Yes, there are several ways to script this. The best was might be to consume
> SharePoint's web services. Here's an article that gives an overview:
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/odc_sp2003_ta/html/odc_writingcustomwebservicesforsppt.asp
>
> You can also search the SharePoint SDK for more details on the object model.
>
> I've also been successful just using RoboCopy.
>
> - Steve
>
> "David" wrote:
>
> > Thanks for the reply. I was hoping as an admin, there is a way to script
> > something, so people would see their files in a library without me
> > instructiing them to do it themselves.
> >
> > "Jtyc" wrote:
> >
> > > >I am deploying SPS 2003 in at my school. Currently faculty and students
> > > >have
> > > > their document in file shares. Is there a utility to import peoples
> > > > documents
> > > > into their mysite private document library?
> > >
> > > You can copy the files in Explorer and paste them into the document library.
> > > Either access the document library through the site using Explorer View or
> > > set the site up as a network place and copy/paste that way.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >

Kevin
Mon May 22 09:10:12 CDT 2006

You can map any site to a file share assuming you are running on Windows
XP...

Re pre-creating My Sites - check out the SDK there is a sample of how to do
that in there...

"David" <David@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:6BB23391-C6C4-4578-B57B-7506771AEF4A@microsoft.com...
> PS on my last message. Where would I robocopy the files to? I thought that
> all the files were imbedded as part of the sql database and there is no
> "directory" for my site?
>
> David
>
> "Steve Goodyear" wrote:
>
>> Yes, there are several ways to script this. The best was might be to
>> consume
>> SharePoint's web services. Here's an article that gives an overview:
>> http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/odc_sp2003_ta/html/odc_writingcustomwebservicesforsppt.asp
>>
>> You can also search the SharePoint SDK for more details on the object
>> model.
>>
>> I've also been successful just using RoboCopy.
>>
>> - Steve
>>
>> "David" wrote:
>>
>> > Thanks for the reply. I was hoping as an admin, there is a way to
>> > script
>> > something, so people would see their files in a library without me
>> > instructiing them to do it themselves.
>> >
>> > "Jtyc" wrote:
>> >
>> > > >I am deploying SPS 2003 in at my school. Currently faculty and
>> > > >students
>> > > >have
>> > > > their document in file shares. Is there a utility to import peoples
>> > > > documents
>> > > > into their mysite private document library?
>> > >
>> > > You can copy the files in Explorer and paste them into the document
>> > > library.
>> > > Either access the document library through the site using Explorer
>> > > View or
>> > > set the site up as a network place and copy/paste that way.
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >