Office 2007 Server whitepapers - Arabic edition

	related links
	http://www.microsoft.com/office/ projectserver/

• Microsoft Office Forms Server 2007 - Arabic edition
• Microsoft Office Project Server 2007 - Arabic edition
• Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 - Arabic edition
• Microsoft Office Servers 2007 Arabic Edition Word-Breaker

Table of contents

1. Introduction



2. What is the Arabic language support?
   
   
3. Adding Arabic support to the Environment
   
   3.1  Adding Arabic language support to Windows XP/2003 server
   
   3.2  Adding Arabic language support to Internet Explorer
   
   3.3  Adding Arabic support in SQL Server
   
   3.4  Office SharePoint Arabic language pack
   
   
4. Arabic support Level in Microsoft Office Project Server 2007
   
   4.1  Central Administration page "الادارة المركزية"
   
   4.2  Shared Services Administration page "ادارة الخدمات المشتركة"
   
   4.3  Project Web Access Site Administration page
   
   4.4  Microsoft Office Project Web Access Site Page
   
   4.5  The Site Settings page "اعدادات الموقع"
   
   4.6  Server Settings page "اعدادات الخادم"
   
   4.7  Personal Settings page "الاعدادات الشخصية"
   
   4.8  Create page "أنشاء"
   
   4.9  Create New Site page "أنشاء موقع جديد"
   
   4.10  Search Feature in Microsoft Office Project Server 2007
   
   4.11  Adding projects in Microsoft Office Project Server 2007
   
   4.12  System Requirements for Office Project Professional 2007
   
   4.13  System Requirements for Office Project Server 2007
   
   4.14  System Requirements for Project Web Access 2007
   
   
5. Q & A
   


6. Additional Resources
   

Introduction

What is Microsoft Office Project Server 2007 Arabic Edition?

Microsoft Project Server 2007 Arabic Edition is a Solution that helps you align people, investments, and work with business priorities; automate project management processes, manage portfolios, and create effective communication and collaboration across the organization; and manage work from ad-hoc projects to complex programs across the entire project lifecycle. Users access the solution functions through the Web interface.

What is the Arabic language support?

We mean by Arabic language support, the support added to the product to enable handling of Arabic data, and to ensure that Arabic data can be saved and retrieved successfully in Arabic SharePoint Server 2007 environment. In this document we will try to cover how to work with Arabic environment, and the level of Arabic support in SharePoint Server 2007.

Adding Arabic support to the Environment

Arabic Support for operating system either for server and client must be installed and configured correctly on windows, the following points should be followed:

Adding Arabic language support to Windows XP/2003 server:

If Arabic language support is not added during installation wizard, this can be done after the installation is complete, follow these steps to add the Arabic language support:

• Double click the Regional and Language Options from the Control Panel folder.


• From the Languages tab select the check box "Install files for complex script and right-to-left language".


• From the Regional Options tab select the required Arabic language local and location required then Press OK.

Adding Arabic language support to Internet Explorer

Arabic language must be set as default language in the IE language setting to enable search engine from indexing the data inside the plain text ".txt" files:

• Open Internet Explorer options


• Click on Language Button


• Be sure Arabic is on top in the languages box, if it’s not on top move it to the top.

Adding Arabic support in SQL Server

In addition to the standard SQL server installation instructions, the following points should be noted:

• Do not use an Arabic name for the SQL server, as SQL does not operate correctly with an Arabic machine name.


• The SQL server collation should be set to Arabic support.

Office SharePoint Arabic language pack

What's a language pack? Language pack enables the creation of SharePoint sites and site collections in multiple languages without requiring separate installations of another language of SharePoint Server 2007. Multiple language packs can be installed on the same server. Application of a Language Pack will not change the language of the installed Office server product SKU, or the language of the administrative features.

Notes

• You do not need to download a language pack for the language you installed, these language packs are to support creation of additional languages.
• SharePoint Server 2007 Language packs are available on the Download Center for trial purposes. If you use the language packs with a fully licensed copy of SharePoint Server 2007, please ensure that you do so within the terms of your Volume Licensing Agreement, as restrictions may apply
• The Arabic language pack can be installed over the installation of Office SharePoint Server of any other language available.

Arabic support Level in Microsoft Office Project Server 2007

The Arabic version of Microsoft Office Project Server 2007 is fully Arabic localized including the interface, Menus, portals, and help. And in the following pages we will see a quick overview of this Arabic support in the Project Server

Central Administration page "الادارة المركزية"

The Arabic version of Microsoft Office Project Server 2007 is fully localized. The main page displayed after installing the product is called the “الادارة المركزية”. This page displays information about the tasks assigned to the administrator, to complete the setup process, the servers in the farm, and each server running services. (Figure 1)

Figure 1: Central Administration Page of Microsoft Office Project Server 2007

Shared Services Administration page "ادارة الخدمات المشتركة"

After configuring the SharePoint server components such as Mail accounts, Servers Farm, Shared Services, Excel Services …, we come to "ادارة الخدمات المشتركة" page. This page is used for administrating the shared services of the server. (Figure 2)

Figure 2: Shared Services Administration Page of Microsoft Office Project Server 2007

Now we will start and small scenario that displays how we can use Arabic data in the Microsoft Office Project Server 2007.

Project Web Access Site Administration page

Start creates a new site for the project web access by following next steps:

1. Click on "ادارة الخدمات المشتركة"
2. Click on "project" (Figure 2)
3. Click on "Project Web Access انشاء موقع". (Figure 3)

Figure 3: Project web access sites administration

The created Project Web Access site appears in the list of sites. (Figure 4)

Figure 4: created web access site

Microsoft Office Project Web Access Site Page

Click on the displayed link in (Figure 4) http://domain/PWA, to get transferred to the new created Microsoft Office Project Web Access Site (Figure 5)

Figure 5: New Created Project Web Access site

The Site Settings page "اعدادات الموقع"

In the "اعدادات الموقع" page you will be able to change all the site settings, and to do this follow the next steps:

• Click on the site operations button in the top left corner.
• Choose from the drop box "اعدادات الموقع". (Figure 6)

Figure 6: site choice

All the settings you can do to change or customized in the site are listed in this page, such as: Define Users, Tools, Change Site Title, Symbol, and Add Pages. (Figure 7)

Figure 7: site settings

Server Settings page "اعدادات الخادم"

In "اعدادات الخادم" page you will be able to change all the server settings, to do this click on the server settings button in the navigation bar, and the server setting page will show up, and you will be able to modify all the server settings. (Figure 8)

Figure 8: Server Settings

Personal Settings page "الاعدادات الشخصية"

In "الاعدادات الشخصية" page any user will be able to change all his personal settings, click on the "الاعدادات الشخصية" button in the navigation bar to get the "الاعدادات الشخصية" page. (Figure 9)

Figure 9: Personal Settings

Create page "أنشاء"

For creating a new site follow these steps:

• Click on "اجراءات الموقع"
• Click on "إنشاء" (figure 10)
• Click on "مواقع ومساحات عمل"

Figure 10: Create site

Create New Site page "أنشاء موقع جديد"

While creating the new site, you can use Arabic names and details to fill the fields displayed in the form "انشاء موقع جديد" (site name, description, and URL). (Figure 11)

Figure 11: Create Site page

The Hijri calendar displayed by default in the new created site as a result of the Arabic support embedded in the Microsoft Office Project Server 2007. In this site the team can discuss and share their work in the project. (Figure 12)

Figure 12: Created new Site

You can add many things to the new created site such as: documents and pictures library, problems, risks, calendar of the project events, tasks and many more. (Figure 13)

Figure 13: Created new Site

Search Feature in Microsoft Office Project Server 2007

The search feature is one of the most important features in the product. In this section we will talk about this feature, and how to use it to gain more control and benefits from the Arabic search engine. The Arabic search engine in the Microsoft Office Project Server 2007 supports search for Arabic data in many file formats including Excel, Word, and plain text files. The Arabic contents which been uploaded to the site, are been indexed by the SharePoint server every 5 mints (this is the default setting unless you changed this), to enable the search engine from locate your data.

When we discuss search and indexing in Arabic language, we must discuss Word-Breaker. The Arabic Word-Breaker is the component that determines where the Arabic word boundaries are in the stream of characters, in the search query, or in the document being indexed or searched. Using this, the word-breaker tries to locate the root for the word been searched for, and give you its alternatives, for example if you search for "سيارة", the word-breaker should locate for you 2 items from the documents searched "سيارة و سيارات", because both of them have same root.

To search for a word, type the word you like to search for in the top left search box of the page, and click on the search icon. (Figure 14)

Figure 14: Search Box

The search results (Figure 15).

Figure 15: Search result

Adding projects in Microsoft Office Project Server 2007

Adding new projects to your site is simple task, please follow these steps:

• Click on "المشاريع"
• Click "جديد"
• Click "مشروع"
• Microsoft Project Client will be launched to create the new project
• Save the project
• Return to the site
• The new project will be listed. (Figure 16)

Figure 16: New Project Created

Note:
Project Server will only support Gregorian calendar for the projects created. Even when the user manually changes the Calendar options in Server Settings within PWA, for Microsoft Project professional 2007 will only support Gregorian.

System Requirements

An installation of Office Project Server 2007 consists of Office Project Server 2007, Office Project Professional 2007, and Office Project Web Access. Each of these products has its own system requirements.

System Requirements for Office Project Professional 2007

To use Project Professional 2007, you need:

System Requirements for Office Project Server 2007

Office Project Server 2007 processor, RAM, and hard disk requirements are highly dependent on the number of services installed on the computer and the load on the server.

Minimum requirements assume one server where all Project Server components and supporting technologies (such as Microsoft SQL Server or Microsoft Windows Server System) are installed.

System Requirements for Project Web Access 2007

Microsoft Office Project Web Access is a Web portal used to access the information stored in Microsoft Office Project Server 2007. Using Project Web Access requires a Project Server 2007 Client Access License (CAL).

Q & A

In this section we will provide questions and answers to help in gain better understanding for the Arabic support in Microsoft Office Project Server 2007.

Q. What is the level of support for BIDI editing?
A. There is a complete support for BIDI in the rich text editor available in the Arabic Microsoft Office Project Server 2007

Q. Is there Ability to change the reading order of custom lists?
A. Yes, the user is able to change the reading order of custom lists, and it exists only in the Arabic version of Microsoft Office Project Server 2007

Q. Is Arabic supported in Search?
A. Yes, Arabic is supported in search, using the word-breaker which provides the ability to search by root terms.

Q. I’m facing lay out break when using zoom, what can be causing this?
A. This is a known issue in using Internet Explorer 7 and zoom. Zoom in Internet Explorer 7 can cause some functionality and layouts to break

Q. Why I can’t see search results in plain text files?
A. Internet Explorer default language should be set to Arabic, this will allow the Search to use Arabic word breaker within plain text files.

Q. Why I can’t login when I use Arabic user names?
A. Internet Explorer does not support Arabic user names in authentication.

Q. Why I have problems converting documents to web page?
A. In some cases in CMS, converting a document to a web page does not preserve the layout of the source document

Q. why when creating a site with Arabic name it get displayed with codes?
A. That’s a known issue. Any characters in the URL that require encoding are displayed in an encoded fashion just like what Internet Explorer is showing.

For more information about the Microsoft Office Project Server 2007 please refer to the product guide.

Additional Resources

To learn more about Microsoft Office Project Server 2007, please refer to the following list of related links for additional resources and information.

• Project Home Page
  http://www.microsoft.com/office/project/



• MPA, the official industry association for Microsoft Office Project
  http://www.mympa.org



• Microsoft Office Project Communities
  http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/en-us/project/default.mspx



• Microsoft Office Project Developer Center
  http://msdn.microsoft.com/office/program/project/



• Microsoft Office Project TechNet
  http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/project/default.mspx



• Microsoft Office Project Support Information
  http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx

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