What is AKS supposed to do?

Question

 

Hi everyone,

 

I'm at a total loss, does anyone know what the AKS is supposed to do, and how do we know that it does that? And does anyone have a "step by step" on how to make those control adapters work??

OR any informasjon on the AKS except from the AKS home site, and the AKS mailing list does it stil lives? I just can't register,

 

Thanks,

 

 

Answer 1

Hi there-

 

AKS has a complete set of documentation included within it. Once you download the kit you can read through the step by step instructions for using the various components. Each Control Adapter also has its own documentation that discusses where, when and in what circumstance you might use it. The kit is intended to provide an accelerator to produce accessible SharePoint Internet and Intranet sites. We have an AKS presentation scheduled for the Microsoft SharePoint User conference next week in Redmond. If you are not planning to attend that event, the presentation will also be presented via LiveMeeting on Monday March 10th. Information about that session is available through the AKS portal at: http://aks.hisoftware.com

 

I hope this is helpful.

-Dana

 

Answer 2

I downloaded AKS 1.1 from the hitsoftware web site, the "AKS install feature" does not seem to do anything!! the AKS feature that is referenced in the feature activation script does not even exist in the 12 folder!! i was hoping that AKS will use a WSP package to deploy its master pages and other controls rather than a daunting manual process to get the control installed!!!

i have spent mor than 6 hrs so far trying to get my head around the AKS toolkit, everyattempt to get this feature to install has failed, i cannot even find a reference to the feature manifest that i can use to reverse engineer what the feature is supposed to do!!!!!

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- mutaz

Answer 3

I have issues with AKS installation too. I managed to resolve it by doing the following,

http://digantakumar.wordpress.com/2009/05/05/how-to-resolve-access-denies-issue-when-tried-to-install-aks-features-in-moss-server/

Answer 4

Hi Everyone,

I have recently implemented AKS 2.0 beta, You can download it from http://aks.hisoftware.com as Dana mentioned it.

AKs only provide basic framework i.e adapters which pretty much do nothing, you need to provide your own implementation.

Once you installed AKS , browse to C:\Program Files\HiSoftware\AKS , you will find loads of .zip file for various Adapters.

You need to extract those zip file and follow the instructions available in word file.


In the end i must say that i was pretty disappointed with ASK as well.


Regards
Ashraf ul Islam
Sharepoint Consultant