Well First Let me explain what does it mean by Promotion and Demotion Promotion    -    It means that you capture the value present in the document (*.xml or wordML or you can   write your own document parser) and expose it to the SharePoint document library as a Column. What you get out of it is that you have a synchronization of the Data between the document and Column of the doc library. (When you update the document it gets automatically reflected in the document library and vise versa.)  Demotion        -    It means...

A week back couple of my friends was asking is there a proper way to deploy the InfoPath forms to the server, Way other than File -> Publish - > SharePoint server with or without forms server. I did a quick search and was not lucky, came to a lackadaisical conclusion that there is no other way. But whenever I deploy workflows with InfoPath form I see a new solution that adds itself to the Solution Store. By this I know for sure there is some other way to deploy InfoPath forms. First thing want I wanted was to get...