Configuring Corporate Policies for Jive

Content from SharePoint can be configured to be "surfaced" (or shown) in Jive by configuring socialization Activity Streams. An Activity Stream is an RSS-style feed that can be established as a link between SharePoint and Jive. The Activity Stream provides awareness to the consumer (in this case the Jive application) of new or modified content. This content is generally in the form of documents from SharePoint that can be previewed, reviewed, and rated by an established (or new) Jive community.

Note: Corporate policies only apply for streams from SharePoint to Jive. Content requested through the widgets, or the list macro are not subject to the corporate policies.

There are four layers of control regarding socialization of content between SharePoint and Jive. This section will describe the top-most Administrative layer. The others layers are represented by the following bullet points and referenced document sections.

Administrative Level. See information about corporate policies for Jive below.
Site Level. For more information, see Jive Socialization Settings
List Item Level. For more, see Using the Document Menu Items
"Copy To Jive" Workflow. For more, see Using the Copy To Jive Workflow

The Administrative Level allows a SharePoint administrator the ability to turn on/off socialization and to control how Activity Streams can be used (or not used).

Note: People will be able to perform a Copy To Jive action -- regardless of the Corporate Policy settings -- as long as they have write access in the Jive place they're choosing as the destination. In other words, read access in SharePoint is all that's needed to perform a Copy To.

To Configure Corporate Policies for Jive

Open SharePoint Central Administration.
Locate the Jive Administration section:
In SharePoint 2007
- Central Administration > Operations > Jive Administration.
In SharePoint 2010
- Central Administration > Application Management > Jive Administration.
Under Jive Administration, click Corporate Policies for Jive.

The following table outlines fields in the Corporate Policies for Jive page, including more about the available policy options.

Corporate Policy for Jive Fields
Field Name	Field Description
Allow Jive Activity Streams from SharePoint?	Primary checkbox "toggle" used to turn Activity Streams On or Off at a global level.
Ignore SSL Certificate Warnings	Ignores the warnings generated when SharePoint does not accept as valid the SSL certificate used by Jive. This setting should not be used in a production environment, and is only intended for testing environment because Disabling the SSL/TLS validation steps exposes your environment to man-in-the-middle and DNS spoofing attacks. For example, if the certificate used by Jive is signed for jive.mycompany.com, but for testing, you configure Jive's DNS name as jivetest.mycompany.com, you will receive SSL/TLS validation errors. This setting allows you to disable the SSL validation steps.
Jive Places	Specific types of Jive places that can be targeted for socialization of SharePoint content.
Activities	Specify whether to "surface" new SharePoint items, updated SharePoint items, or both in Jive.
SharePoint Sites	Filter for SharePoint sites that can (or cannot) be used to stream or "surface" content to Jive.
File Extensions	Filter for document file extensions that can (or cannot) be used to stream or "surface" content to Jive.
Content Types	Filter for SharePoint "content types" that can (or cannot) be used to stream or "surface" content to Jive (see image below).
User Settings	Filter for specific SharePoint users that cannot stream or "surface" content to Jive.
Allowed Security Modes	Define the allowed security modes for the connector to either be Jive security or SharePoint. If both are selected then site owners will be able to choose which socialization to use at the moment socialization. For more on security modes, see Access Control in Socialize a SharePoint Site.
Socialization Account	Optionally a service account can be used for socialization activity stream queries. If configured, allow site owners to override the service account and use the site owner's account for socialization.

Note: Site Content Types are a powerful concept in SharePoint for organizing metadata/content. The following screen is an example of a custom Jive content type. The screen below "Site Content Type Gallery" shows the effect of applying the Corporate Policy with the "SOX" Site Content Type.

Example of a SharePoint document library in a SharePoint site configured for socialization with Jive.

Note: Notice the initial icons to the left of each document.

The green Jive icon represents that the Activity Stream is active and enabled for the item.
The grayed out Jive icon represents that the Activity Stream has been disabled for the item (changed via the drop down menu for each item).
The Jive icon with the red line crossed through it represents that the Activity Stream has been blocked for the item. This is facilitated through the Administrative level as a Corporate Policy. For the "blocked" items above, the documents were created with a SOX SharePoint content type. Policy has been configured to "block" all documents based on this content type.

Click OK.