SharePoint ShopTalk Highlights 5.12.11 - What happens when you enable Publishing Site features on a SP 2007 Team Site server?

SharePoint Shoptalk is a discussion held weekly amongst SharePoint Professionals. It is an excellent source for SharePoint users who need to discuss challenges or are looking for answers. All are welcome to take advantage of this forum that features leading experts in the field.

In this installment Panelist members Natalya Voskresenskaya, Laura Rogers, Chris Poteet, John White and Wes Preston discuss a question submitted on the SharePoint ShopTalk LinkedIn Community:

What happens when you enable Publishing Site features on a SP 2007 Team Site server?

If we enable the Office SharePoint Server Publishing features, will the page publishing toolbar appear at the top of every existing page that one has rights to edit? Will other undesirable event occur on existing team sites on the server?

We want to use Content Query Web Part on a project management site among our team sites. The Office SharePoint Server Publishing site features appear to be necessary to have CQWP. Join us on LinkedIn or follow us on Twitter to receive updates for the next ShopTalk.

Panelist Spotlight - InfoPath & SharePoint Designer 2010 Workflow

SharePoint Shoptalk is a discussion held weekly amongst SharePoint Professionals. It is an excellent source for SharePoint users who need to discuss challenges or are looking for answers. All are welcome to take advantage of this forum that features leading experts in the field.

This installment  features the SharePoint ShopTalk Panelist Spotlight - Tips and Tricks with SharePoint MVP Laura Rogers:

In your organization, forms are everywhere.  InfoPath is a program that lets you quickly and easily create forms for business users to fill out and submit.  InfoPath forms and SharePoint Designer workflows can be used in conjunction, in order to create a complete business process. In this session, Laura Rogers will discuss and compare different ways that forms can be submitted and streamlined, so that the life cycle of the form is efficient and logical.  This includes best practices around the form's data connections, buttons, rules, views, and workflow that sends the form through an approval process. All of this is done with no code needed, just making the most of the InfoPath and SharePoint Designer out-of-box functionalities.

See the prerequisite demo: InfoPath Keeping the Approval Process in the Form