My new book "Sams Teach Yourself SharePoint Foundation 2010 in 24 Hours" has just received the final tweaks from me and once the publisher has made those minor corrections, we're into the final stage of getting the thing printed and distributed.
I thought that I could use the fact that the final tweak is over to give you a feeling for the entire process.
First you either submit a proposal for a book (typically including a table of contents and some words describing what kind of a book you intend to write and why there is a market for it) or you are asked if you are interested in writing a book and you give the list of chapters only.
In my case I was asked - or rather this time around it seems to be assumed that I would write a follow-up for the 2010 product to my 2007 book. I still however had to give a list of the proposed chapter names.
That hurdle over with and the book accepted by the publisher you start writing it. You are given deadlines for when the chapters are to be submitted and part of the advance payment for the book becomes available once that batch of chapters are submitted.
In my case ca 40% of the advance payment was for chapters 1-12 and another ca 40% of the advance payment was for chapters 13-24 to be delivered at a later date.
[No one can become rich by writing one SharePoint book. You in effect dedicate all your free time to it for about six months and get paid less than you would make working normally for a month. While it's not a labour of love, it's not far from it.]
One thing you have to do to keep up with these deadlines is to set yourself individual targets. Some people no doubt set targets like 2 chapters a week; I tend to set targets like 2 hours a day working on the book in the evenings of week days and 4 hours a day at weekends. The main thing is to keep going and to keep churning out pages.
That's to a certain extent what it feels like. During the writing of both books I've often wondered why I let myself in for the job and wondered too if I was writing enough; and about the ratio of images to text; and about just about everything else (too complicated; too simple ...). In short you feel unworthy.
That however, while demanding a lot of time, is actually a fairly straightforward process.
The next phase of waiting isn't too difficult either.
But then comes the day when you have to review all the comments on the book. All the comments because my publisher at least waits until everybody who has anything to say has put in their 5 cents.
What that means is
- the technical reviewer
- the publisher's "let's put this into our standard look" guy
- the publisher's grammar guy
Singly, these people's comments would probably be easily swallowed but what you actually get back is a Word document for each chapter with comments from all three of them (and if you are really lucky from a fourth person too). Sometimes it seems there are more comments than original text!
The technical reviewer's comments are usually good suggestions and can usually be easily incorporated after which you sign them off.
The grammar guy's comments tend to be of the "you are wrong and I've changed it" kind and so again you just sign them off. (Unless they have changed my British English into an American English abomination - and I'm not talking about spelling here, that's compulsarily American English, but of things like "off of" (British English "of"))
This leaves the "let's put this in our standard look" guy and they can be difficult. Some things of course are OK. "Put in a short introduction para here" is quite easy to do and experience shows that the end result is better for having such an introduction para. But things like "make the previous steps (going back over several pages, maybe) into bullet points" can be a bit nasty - especially if there are other comments in those several pages that also need to be dealt with.
In short, this phase is the nasty one. It doesn't take so long as the writing phase but it needs complete concentration for say a couple of hours at a time.
Once it's over - with you wondering if you managed to delete key stuff towards the end of a particular two hour session - it's again time for a breather of (this time, only) a few weeks while your amendments are inserted and all the comments of those three people read through at the publishers to see if the author has marked them all as attended to.
(That process by the way is dealt with by a third publisher's person.)
Then you start getting the final PDFs or the chapters almost as they will look in the book itself. This is the stage at which you can only change the big mistakes (or the very small). In other words you can add in missing "s"s for plurals and missing "a"s and "the"s but also get mis-placed "By The way" notes put in the right place on the page.
[It's around this time that you finally become aware that your book isn't bad actually. You wondered a bit when doing the previous review process, when you were forced to juggle the comments of those three people, however now you are - in effect -reading the book itself as a book and in my case discovering that you actually managed to get more insights into it that you earlier realised.]
Then the author's job is finished and the final 20% of the advance (all these figures vary and in fact in my case I think it was 16.67% actually) is made free and wings its way to you.
Finally that poor third person has to make sense of your corrections to the PDFs (in most cases there were less than ten per chapter, often less than five) and then the book is ready and can be printed and distributed.
At this point the author gets sent a few copies of the book.
For a while having (say) ten copies on the bookshelf at home looks nice but then you decide that maybe you only really need a couple and you give away the rest. (My son is in computing so he gets one of them for instance; my mother who definately isn't in computing got a copy of my first book because it was dedicated to my father who had died while it was being written; the local library system got a copy which never made it onto the shelves!
So that's it. A rough (very rough) guide to the process behind the creation of a SharePoint book.
P.S. I should point out that the writer of the book does theoretically have the right to say "No" to something one of those three reviewers has suggested.
Needless to say it's wise not to say No too often because then the entire review process becomes a bit of a farce and in any cases most of the suggestions (however unlikely that may seem at the time!) do mean that the end product (i.e. the finished book) is better.
There was however one point during this process where the words came to mind. In the final chapter "Hour 24" I had earlier - and before writing it - requested and received permission to recommend books for further reading irrespective of which publisher they came from. It was no particular surprise to find, when reading the review comments of the publisher's let's put this into our standard look" guy, the anguished cry that I should mention books from Pearson Education (i.e. my publishers - they have Addison-Wesley; Sams and a few others). The evil grin came as I was writing a comment to that, namely "approval was obtained in advance to use the books from any publisher."
I think the chapter is better (much better) for it. Just as I hated the way IBM people in the early days of the PC always used to talk about the most obscure IBM-labelled products that virtually no-one in their audience was using and the way Microsoft people used (they seem to have got better) not to know of anything from outside Microsoft, so I would have hated being forced to link to a second or third book choice just because it came from Publisher A.
As you probably know for years I've been following which SharePoint book chapters have been made available to the public (usually in the form of downloadable PDF files) since the early days of the 2007 SP products.
Those chapters (or rather links to those chapters because I am vary wary of copyright issues) were made available as part of the WSS v3 FAQ.
Now that the 2010 SP books are starting to trickle out, so are downloadable chapters from them with Wiley starting us off.
Again I have part of the v4 FAQ site (I must change the name or actually write some FAQ there because at the moment it has got lots of other useful stuff (good list of books; links to KB articles and other articles; good set of links to web casts) but very few FAQ items) started to create a View which has those sample chapters.
The view is better than before in that it is grouped according to the type of book - using the same grouping criteria as the book list - but otherwise simply lists to the publisher's page for the book and to the downloadable chapter. All the three so far are for Chapter One. All of them have virtually the same title too - "Introduction to SharePoint 2010" (the difference being that one says Introduction to Microsoft SharePoint 2010!)
Anyway what about the sneaky way I mentioned in the Title, because using my links in order to download free chapters rather than going to the Manufacturers' web sites is hardly sneaky.
The sneaky thing is that you can go to the Amazon US site; see if there is a Kindle version of the book; and then look to the right of the screen to see if there is a free sample of the Kindle version available.
Note: It doesn't matter if you don't have a Kindle!
The amount of free sample you get varies with the book. (For one non-SP book I got the cover page only!!) But in some cases what you get as your sample is worth getting because although these free samples too always seem to start at the beginning of the book they sometimes give you more than just Chapter One.
My own 2007 book for instance gave chapters 1-3 which is quite a hefty chunk even if - true to the "in 24 hours" title - there were 24 chapters in the book.
By the way, I don't have a Kindle so how do I know?
Because I downloaded Kindle for the PC (and also Kindle for the Mac on the MacBook) and so I can specify that a samaple *of a book* can go to it and I can then read the sample on my PC.
Note: "of a book" because you can't download even paid for copies of magazines and newspapers if you don't have a Kindle device so Kindle for the PC (or Mac) is only of any use for free samples of Kindle Books (or indeed for paid for ones - I have one, because I clicked the wrong link and woosh the money vanished).
The sim card finally arrived, to it was time to put it into the internal 3G card.
I discovered by lots of web searches that you only needed to take the battery out and then the sim slot was available to you. This was naturally something that wasn't included in the Acer user guide on their support page from my portable; something that wasn't included in their FAQ and all the references I found to where it was were for models in the Aspire range not in the more expensive TravelMate range which mine was in.
Once the battery was taken out, there was the slot with a picture of a sim card next to it pointing at the slot. This picture clearly didn't give any indication of how to insert the card so it was a case of trial and error.
There are four possible ways to insert a sim card. I was close to the right way the first time, but upside down (no way to tell whether the connection was above or below the card) but then I of course went for turn the card round (left to right not up to down) and only after several false attempts got a card that was actually recognized by the Acer Connection Manager.
So the answer to the question in the Title (which my wife immediately guessed correctly when I asked her (just the question in the Title, nothing else) is FIVE.
Not four which would be logical because clearly I'd forgotten half way through what I'd tried and what not.
Anyway even then the Acer 3D Connection Manager didn't work (and although lots of different options were listed - with configuration details - on the Internet supplier's site include a HP Connection Manager, the Acer Connection Manager wasn't and looked completely different) and required quite a lot of adjustments (and a "let's start with a new definition, I've messed up the old one too much") and I finally got connection via 3G.
Not that I'll be using it again while at home because Wifi is considerably faster even though the theoretical limits are the same, and anyway it's it bit depressing when you see the connection shown as very poor (1 1/2 bars) whereas my own Wifi connection has all five bars lit up.
I while back I reported that I had bought a lightweight portable with an SSD drive. I don't remember if I mentioned that it also came with a built-in 3G card.
I didn't really see the need for this as the few times I might need 3G service I could always sign a contract for it and the Finnish company would give me a free small device to stick in my computer. (Theoretically these devices cost real money but there's always at least one of the companies offering you a free one for a 1 or 2 year contract).
But now however I had an internal one so naturally I forgot that I didn't actually need the service and went looking for an add-on to my existing phoneline-based Internet connection. It was then I realised I was being over charged for what I had as that company wanted even more money for 3G in addition to my normal service and another provided both for much less than my existing phoneline-only service cost.
So I switched and when they suggested the switchover date should be at the end of the following month so that they could arrange everything for that date, I agreed.
The deal included a free Internet connector which I didn't need; and a free device for 3G connection which I didn't need either so it didn't particularly matter when neither had arrived by the time the switchover day came.
Coupling in via Wifi (i.e. the phone-line) went fine so I connected a second computer to the Internet; turned off the Wifi connection in the portable with 3G and tried to get the 3G to work.
Several hours later I had read lots of documents and web pages and installed and uninstalled lots of relevant software and had two alternative ways installed in the portable to connect 3G one of which said that my 3G card wasn't active (it was) and the other one tried to connect but then failed.
In other words I'd done all I could so I decided to wait until the small external device for 3G arrived so I could see if that would work.
Maybe an hour later - and with no charging through the Internet in the meantime - it suddenly occurred to me that the reason that external device might work better would be that in the package along with the Internet connector and the external device there'd be a SIM card.
I didn't of course have a Sim card in the built-in 3G card ...
Oops and to think that once in one of those many documents I had glanced through looking for problems when connecting to 3G there'd been a mention of a Sim card. (In passing, you understand) and not as a reason for a connection failing, but still).
It seems that everyone in the world except me knows that you need a SIM card. Either that or the rest of them are too ashamed to admit it.
So there you have it the equivalent of "Is it plugged in" for people trying to access 3G is "Do you have a Sim card?" (and not, as was said many times in those forums/documents etc, "do you have a valid contract?"
P.S. A final thought. Perhaps in other countries they actually ship the Sim card to the customer so that it arrives by the time he needs it. Here in Finland they make you pay for a service to be switched on and it seems don't care much that you can't access it for several days. (Several posts said that the package was posted on the day of the switchover).
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P.P.S. There is of course a problem remaining. I have several portables. If I put the Sim car in the built-in 3G card then I can't just grab the external device every time I carry a different portable around with me. But if I don't put it in the in-built 3G card then there is no point at all in having an in-built 3G card. (How lucky I paid the extra for the SSD drive and not for the internal 3G card).
P.P.P.S. (and now that I actually have the sim card) How to I get at the internal 3G card to be able to insert the sim? The support site for that Model isn't saying.
(continued from previous post)
In order to be able to use the bootable USB stick, I needed to change the Boot order. F2 got me to the Setup function and I could move the (listed) USB drive up the order.
64-bit Windows setup started and I specified the replacement of the original operating system.
The usual process started (after specifying locale and keyboard) of files copying; files expanding etc. and so I left the computer alone and went off to do something else.
When I came back it had booted again - naturally from the USB drive - and was at the start of the installation again. Oops.
Promising this time to monitor the installation process better I kept on going only this time when the installation announced it was going to re-boot in 10 seconds I kept my finger hovering over the F2 button and so was able to move down the USB to position 2 in the boot order so that this time the boot was as intended and the Windows 7 installation continued to the end.
This was all straightforward and normal with the only odd thing being that I had tried to out-trick the installation routine by specifying United States; United States punctuation; and only Finnish keyboard because I am so fed up of - when I specify Finnish punctation (i.e. locale) - that things like msdn (etc.) always assume that I want to see Finnish language pages.
[Even worse being when a default software download - Firefox say - is the Finnish language version.I've been caught out by that many times.]
Earlier that trick worked fine and you could amend the punctation etc. with no bad effects, but this time the MSDN page that IE8 opens was in Finnish.
Clearly MS have been "helpful" again and now give you the page based on your keyboard. Sighs. Why can't they leave me to say what I want rather than decide for me.
However mutters aside, the installation went well and the machine is brutally fast when starting. Whether that is only because there is nothing much there yet is something I'll find out later.
(The next post will be about putting an end to the myths about the hardware needed to install SharePoint Server 2010).
P.S. I orginally forget another key feature of the installation.
If you have, as I did, two drives available for the installation of the operating system, even though one of them is hidden from Windows Explorer (etc.), it is not hidden from the Windows 7 installation routine and it is offered as an alternative to C:.
This means that you can delete it before going on the specify that you want the installation to use C:.
Once the installation of the OS has finished and you have re-booted, you can *then* use Partition Wizard to change that 12GB of space into the D: drive and format it.
Hence I got my space back after all.
(What I didn't do was to once again try to use that space as part of a big C:. I was afraid that Partition Wizard would't work again and anyway it is sometimes quite handy to have a separate drive (I'm putting the downloaded .exe and .iso files there).)
(continuing on from the previous post)
So, I had a portable running 32-bit Vista Business and because it had an SSD drive I wanted to upgrade it to 64-bit Windows 7 because even though the graphics card (typical for "Business" protables) was an on-board (Intel) one that used internal memory, I still wanted to have all the memory available in case I upgraded to 6 or even 8 GB (at present it has 2x2GB of course).
Because it was an SSD drive the Operating system needed to be Windows 7 because some basic "research" (= Google search) quickly showed me that Windows 7 unlike Vista was aware of SSD drives and so included various things for speeding them up.
One of these things (faster reads) came about by different partitioning so upgrading the operating system to 32-bit Windows 7 wasn't going to be enough and so I really did need to go to 64-bit (and completely replace the existing installation) to speed up the SSD drive as much as possible.
My first test however - purely out of curiousity - was to see if an upgrade from 32-bit Vista Business to 32-bit Windows 7 Ultimate would go smoothly, which it did.
The next test was to try to recover the 12GB recovery partition that the (sarcasm on) kind (sarcasm off) people at Acer had grabbed from my already meagre 160GB for their recovery data (and naturally hidden so that only partition tools could do anything with it).
Hence I needed some partition software. As this was the first time in years (I don't mind losing 12Gb in a 500GB drive) I'd needed any the one I had wouldn't work any more so I needed something newer that knew about Windows 7.
The usual search found me Partition Wizard ( http://www.mt-solution.ca) and an offer of a free license code (in return for registration) for a copy of the Business edition. So I used that instead of the free edition.
The problem however was that after I'd told it to cancel the recovery partition and enlarge C: it needed to do a re-boot and the re-boot then changed nothing.
This may or may not have something to do with the fact that I was running Partition Wizard from the USB port but for now I gave up that idea and started thinking about 64-bit Windows 7 installation.
What I first did was to find some software that expanded and iso file so that I could have a copy of 64-bit Windows 7 on a USB stick.
In fact I'd done this earlier in order to install the 32-bit version of Windows 7 on top of Windows Vista and everything had worked fine.
Unfortunately you can't just run a 64-bit setup routine when using a 32-bit OS, so I needed to find a way to create a bootable USB drive.
I found a Microsoft software called the Windows 7 USB/DVD Tool which not only creates a bootable USB stick but also does it (only) directly from a iso file (thus saving one step).
As this erases completely the USB drive I needed to find an empty 4GB one or in my case move the stuff off an existing one.
I then tried (in the 32-bit Windows 7 system) to use that utility and all went well until right at the end when it refused to create a boot drive. Checking the download page for the utility gave the information that this was caused by trying to create a 64-bit system while on a 32-bit system.
I tried the suggested fix of moving a file (bootsec.exe) to the same directory as the utility, but that too failed.
There was nothing for it but to go to my HP portable running 64-bit Windows 7 and to create the bootable USB version of 64-bit Windows 7 there.
There it was finally successful.
The next post will tell about the problems (and positive surprise) found while using it.
When Windows 7 came out and started being available in portables I kept my eye open for bargains in those portables that were still being delivered with Vista.
There weren't any. It seemed that the people buying these things were quite content to be told there would be a "free" upgrade to Windows 7 provided by the manufacturer even though that would mean paying a 29.95 Euro fee to the manufacturer in "processing fees"; waiting until such a version was available and then having the hassle of having to upgrade.
Maybe the word spread here in Finland that that really wasn't such a great idea because last week I did find - by chance - such a bargain.
It was a 13.3. 1.7 kg Acer with 4GB running a SL9400 processor and in the 320 GB version it cost two-thirds of the identical model running Windows 7 (with a 500GB hard disk but otherwise identical).
In very rough figures it cost 720 instead of 1080. (Euros but if you live in the US regard that as being in dollars because portable prices tend to have a 1:1 ratio even the dollar is 1:35 or so to the Euro).
I probably would have just noted this in passing as having finally proved my theory of bargains in Vista machines because I was really looking for something both small enough and cheap enough to leave in a hotel room (and this was the same size as my Mac Book at least in terms of screen size even though it was a quarter lighter) except that in addition to the hard disk model they also had one with an SSD drive.
What's more an Intel 160GB SSD drive - price sold alone in Finland ca 450 Euros - and that model also had built-in G3 support (less interesting because if you sign new contracts for G3 here you get a "free" USB thing to provide that).
Add to that the fact that the model supports 8GB of memory and that it was the better-built (Acer) TravelMate line rather than the Aspire line and I was severely tempted.
A few days later the price of both models went down yet again by 100 (to 825 in the case of the SSD model making the SSD drive more than half the value of the portable) and I jumped.
How I then upgraded the OS from 32-bit Vista (why do they almost always put 32-bit OSs on machines that can have much more memory than 3GB?) to 64-bit Windows 7 is the subject of the next post here.
P.S. Two weeks or so later and the price of that model at the same on-line store has shot up (by over 300 Euros - ca 450 dollars) and now costs as much as the Windows 7 model with a 500GB normal hard disk (and no 3G).
The window of opportunity was shorter than I thought, just not for the reason I thought [=buy before they sell out].
This is yet another post on why the (cheap HP portable) Windows 7 machine doesn't automatically connect to the Internet when I take it from home - where I use Wifi connections - to work where I use Ethernet.
I now have enough information to state that it has nothing to do with the quality or not of the cables or of the way I shoved the cable into the Ethernet port.
Instead it clearly has to do with the fact that the portable needs to be switched on for almost two hours. Until then a plugged-in Ethernet cable (any) isn't recognized as being plugged in. After then (without taking it out of the socket or fiddling with it) the cable IS recognized as being connected (and of course then the Internet connection works).
Just proves it was a poor investment to try to save several hundred Euros (even more dollars) but buying a fairly cheap model that had every thing I needed in terms of memory; hard disks size and processor to write my 2010 SharePoint book.
At the time I bought it I didn't have a contract so the money seemed more important than it does now having put up with this problem for long enough (and not being able to use the 1 year guarantee because I need the machine until the book is written!)
Meanwhile I have this odd thing that the VM keeps going to sleep and needs to be woken up by accessing SP site pages on the server before client systems can access the server.
And I also have the problem that if the Win 7 system has been connected to the Internet for a while and I start watching a TV program from the www.zdf.de or www.ard.de site you can bet that mid-way through the Internet connection will drop even though all the routers are connected Ok and running the Win 7 recovery routine brings Internet connection back again.
Actually I suspect this happens after the machine has been connected to the Internet for a long while even if I am not watching a film.
It's annoying in any case when it does happen. The MacBook (OsX) doesn't do this and nor does the HP desktop (XPPro)
P.S. Proof of sorts that this was the right theory came this morning. The office was even colder than it was yesterday (I still have a sweater and fleece on) and this morning the PC was on for almost 2 and a half hours before the Ethernet cable (plugged in all that time) was recognized as being connected.
I've been blaming something on Windows 7 that I probably shouldn't have.
At home I use wireless networking for all my portables with only the desktop connected via cable to the Internet.
Whenever I've taken my MacBook running (now) OsX Snow Leopard (and also when it was running Tiger - I hopped over Leopard) and connected it via cable to the Office internet, it's just taken that in its stride and connected via cable.
However when I've taken the HP running Win7 to work half the time it's connected immediately via cable and half the time I've had to run all sort of diagnostics before it will connect. Meanwhile it was trying and failing to connect via wireless.
So I blamed it on Windows 7.
Today however none of the diagnostics routines worked and so I had to go even deeper and discovered that it was saying that the Ethernet cable wasn't plugged in (which it was).
So I tried another cable. Same thing.
So I tried the cable I was using in the normal work PC. It was immediately recognized. So I tried yet another cable and that was immediately recognized too.
Doesn't look like a Windows 7 problem after all does it. More like a couple of cables that work some of the time but not all the time.
Shades of Jerry Pournelle formerly of Byte fame. Always check the cables first!
The only thing is that both the cables I tried haven't been giving problems when attached to an old work PC - at least as far as I can remember, I don't use that 5 year old PC that often.
Nor of course have they been giving problems with the Mac. Could it simply be that the ethernet port is better made (or that the Mac OS is more tolerant) ?
P.S. I'm beginning to think the problem is the portable rather than the cables.
Yesterday the cable that worked the day before didn't work and the one that didn't work the day before wasn't immediately recognized but was after I slightly moved it. It then worked all day.
However, I then took the machine home (where I used wireless) so I needed to connect it again this morning to Ethernet. Now, none of the cables work with it (even the one which is being used on my work machine and which definately is an OK cable.
So I guess we are back to a poorly designed port (and yes, no amount of slightly moving the cable at the portable end has got me a connection).
So you get what you pay for.
Pity. I thought I'd discovered the holy grail of cheap computing (buy a cheap machine with a poor keyboard but reasonable processor; reasonable graphics; lots of memory and lots of disk space and add an external keyboard and mouse). Obviously you do get somewhat more for your money when you buy a "business" model. Like working Ethernet ports perhaps.
(The problem is that as I am using this to write the book I can't do without it easily so any repair will have to wait. I use it wireless only in any case most of the time. The real problem is that it wouldn't surprise me if the entire set of ports on the left-hand side of the PC have problems soon. I've already had intermitent loss of keyboard functionality when one of those was connected to a left-hand side USB port.
Meanwhile the MacBook after almost three years is still going strong - as is the Acer Ferrari. Pity they only have 2GB max. Great pity. Pity too I was fairly broke when I bought the HP so didn't go for the "workbook" I had thought of going for.
It's far too long to spend the time editing it here (needs code in every spare line) so rather than post a copy of the first issue of the new SharePoint Foundation 2010 FAQ additions and changes Blog here, here instead is a link to it.
http://sharepoint.mindsharpblogs.com/MikeW/archive/2009/10/25/SharePoint-Foundation-2010-FAQ-additions-and-changes-[dash]-1-[dash]-18th-to-24th-October-2009.aspx
If there is public demand (and rather less additions than those I made in this week) I'll start posting duplicates of this new regular item here too.
In this case as this is the first post of additions, it is MUCH better to go to the web site to look at the articles as then at least you can use some of the Views to cut the numbers down and give you some more concentrated lists.
Although we still have no public beta for any 2010 SharePoint product, this hasn't put the main book publishers off from announcing 2010 books.
My list of 2010 SharePoint books which is at present located here
http://wssv3faq.mindsharp.com/Lists/SharePoint%202010%20Books/V%20Books.aspx
has now reached 20 with supposed Publish Dates of March 2010 and later.
Most are clearly 2010 versions of successful 2007 books but there is one there from Björn Furuknap who otherwise seems more interested in telling us just how useless SharePoint is. How in that case you can write a book on it is beyond me.
At the same time as attention goes more and more to 2010 (the SharePoint Conference which seems from the officially leaked information about sessions to be all about SharePoint 2010 is in 10 days time), there are still some 2007 books being released.
The latest addition is a Wrox book from John Holliday called
"Professional SharePoint 2007 Records Management Development: Managing Official Records with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007"
(Amazon US: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0470287624/heme0f
other Amazons listed here: http://wssv3faq.mindsharp.com/Lists/v3%20WSS%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=729 )
It immediately shot to something like 50,000 in the overall Books list at Amazon (and was in the top 100 in three different categories), but you have to wonder what kind of a life expectancy (at these levels of sales) it will have.
It's a shame. The best books are very often those that come out after many people have experience of the product in production and yet the ones that often sell the best are the ones that came out early.
My own feeling is that Andrew Connell got his timing (and content) just about right with his Wrox book
"Professional SharePoint 2007 Web Content Management Development: Building WCM Sites with Office SharePoint Server "
(Amazon US: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0470224754/heme0f )
but that John's book - which I would imagine is of similar quality - might well be too late for most of the market.
I've not been syncing a OneNote notebook using a USB stick for long so I can't be sure that the function I am now seeing is OneNote 2010 only (but I didn't see this when using the same (USB stick-based) OneNote Notebook in OneNote 2007).
It's one of those things that are easy to explain, which tends to mean that they are going to turn out to be not only logical but also very useful.
OK. The explanation.
I had amended the Notebook in another PC's OneNote 2007 and synced it there with the USB main copy and now had also opened the Notebook in this machines OneNote 2010 and then synced that copy from the USB copy.
What I then saw was that some of the sections of the Notebook were in Bold and some not.
Or very simply those sections contained items that hadn't been opened in this machine's copy of OneNote. (There was a similar indication when such a section was opened of which items had not been opened here.)
In other words they've made it possible to quickly shove new information into OneNote on some machines (maybe at work) and then have a single (home?) machine that can be used when you have more time to actually read (and test?) the information that you earlier saved.
Nice.
P.S. For those who on reading the above thought (just as I did when writing it) that maybe I want a quick way to remove the Bold markings on those PCs where I don't want to re-visit all the posts I've made elsewhere, then I can reassure you that the usual method of right-clicking on the Section name and then clicking on "Mark all as Read" works fine.
(As does right-clicking on the Notebook name to get rid of all the bold markings as you'll find the "Mark All as Read" option there too.)
It would be great if I could remember how I did this (and could say so here), but I added a Spanish Dictionary to Office 2010.
Now if I have an idle moment I can just move the cursor to a word in a document in OneNote 2010 (where the sync using a Notebook stored on a USB stick continues to work perfectly) and with no click or any other action a pop-up appears with my "Bilingual Dictionary" and a translation of that word in Spanish.
Well that's nice but what is really great is that for some words (such as "start") there's not only several optional translations (3) but also some sample English phrases (both with and without translations - mostly with) to explain the usage.
("deployment" on the other hand had just two straight translations - "deploy: verbo transitivo (use) utilizar; (position) despeglar")
Not much later: I found (in my OneNote 2010) a good link on how to create this "Mini Translator" - you'll find it here
http://blogs.technet.com/office_global_experience/archive/2009/07/31/using-the-new-mini-translator-in-office-2010.aspx.
The time has come to thank Bil Simser (a LOT!) for his hospitality over the past couple of years in first offering to host my blog using his server and also to let me hang around for so long.
The new blog is being hosted by the Mindsharp Blogs system and the URL is http://sharepoint.mindsharpblogs.com/MikeW
I'm moving the blogs across. So far I've moved the ones until (backwards) the beginning of February. The job is made more difficult by my also updating the links of WSS FAQ items to point to the present WSS FAQ site(s).
Later:
As Bil doesn't seem to have tired of me, I'll occasionally add here some duplicates of posts that go to the Mindsharp Blogs site.
All the WSS FAQ additions and contents posts will however go only there.
With WSS 2.0 and SPS 2003 lots of things didn't work if you weren't using IE as your browser. It was especially essential to use IE for administration.
With WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007 I've rarely found the need to use IE for Administration and most things just work in Chrome (and Safari for the Mac) which I use more than IE on one of my machines.
However, there's always a bit of nastiness hanging around waiting to hit the unwary.
This particular piece of nastiness was caused by my noticing that the number of items I had listed in my Books page had gone well over 200 and so page changing was necessary.
I solved that by making the limit 400 but now I had a very long page, so I decided to change Grouping to non-expanded.
That in turn led to me wanting to remove the Grouping: prefix which looked fine when the page was in expanded mode but looked ugly when you saw line after line of it.
So off to SPD 2007 and (thankfully after making a copy of Books.aspx) convert that section of the page to XSLT. Get rid of the "Grouping: " text before the Group name (and which for reasons that I can't really understand also gets rid of the (nn) after the group name!) and Save.
Go to Chrome and test. The page opens up fine and looks as it should. Luckily I then click on one of the "+"s to open one of the sections and nothing happens. Oops.
Go to IE (7 as it happens) and try that there. Yes, the "+" opens with no problems.
In SPD 2007 rename the new version and rename back the saved version. Phew, good thing I saved a copy ...
Now test again in Chrome. Now there is action when I click the "+" but not enough as all that happens is that it says "loading" and keeps on saying "loading".
Head over to IE again and refresh the page and do + there. No problems. "Loading" for a minute amount of time and then the listing for that section are there.
Back to Chrome and the section is still "loading".
So the only thing to do is either disfigure the web page with two links (one of which is marked IE only) or abandon the whole idea of having the web page non-expanded by default.
I do the latter.
It's interesting to note that when accessing v2 SharePoint in the old days in Firefox, if "non-expanded" was specified, that was ignored and the page opened in expanded mode. (Using IE it was non-expanded). Now it opens in non-expanded mode and doesn't work (in Chrome).
Which alternative design do you think is better?
The following is the entire text of a post to a SharePoint forum.
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Hi,
I am having the exact same issue. We are not using forms authentication.
Any further ideas?
Thanks.
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I've never really seen much point in writing posts saying that you are having the same problem, but a Microsoft contact thought such posts were very useful as they give an indication of the frequency of the problem. (If, that is, Microsoft read every forum thread, which I doubt).
However that's not the point here, the point is that the next poster marked the above post as a possible answer by marking it with "Propose as Answer".
How any post saying "we are having the same problem" can be regarded as a possible answer to the problem is completely beyond me, yet this is not the first time (and won't be the last, I'm sure) that such a post has been marked as "Propose as Answer".
So not only does the poor Moderator have to deal with the ever-present self-proposers (who propose that their own post is an answer) but also has to deal with "answers" which aren't - by any stretch of the imagination - answers.
Sometimes I wonder why I bother but then comes along a post with a very clear and solid answer and someone whose judgement I trust has proposed it as an answer. Then I can see the point again as I rush to mark it up to Answer status.
No doubt you are saying to yourself that this happens once every couple of weeks so why the fuss. Well the above was today and this next one is also one that was seen today.
Hi XXXX!
Were you able to figure out how to resolve the problem?
Thanks,
YYYY
...and that too was proposed (by the poster in this case - Mr YYYY) as an Answer.
Parallels 4.0 for the Mac came out in January claiming lots of advantages over 3.0 some of which blog posts said didn't affect most people (I don't for instance have an eight-way machine with 8GB memory and aren't likely to have one any day soon).
So I didn't bother with an upgrade.
I was in any way getting used to the fact that I these days actually had a company-paid copy of VM Workstation on my PC (along with the copy I already owned on my home PC) and I had also added VM Fusion to my Mac and finally - after using VMs in Parallel when writing my book - had started using it in a small way.
(Somehow I always seem to use the Mac for forums and e-mail (and watching German TV shows from www.zdf.de) and use the Desktop with the still-going-strong 20inch Pro HP screen for real work involving the VMs - if that is I can shift my wife off it)
Anyway the fact that I was using VM Fusion most of the time, didn't push me in the direction of upgrading the Parallels.
However I was still curious about 4.0 so when I was offered the upgrade for EUR 31.89, it was time to get out the credit card.
The install is naturally over the existing 3.0 version but it still required the new code just as you were thinking it wouldn't.
Then the upgrade was going on it required you to change the state of your 3.0 VMs from suspended to shut down, which of course meant opening them all in 3.0 and then shutting them all down. Having done all that, the installation seemed to be needed to be started again (as one of them was still listed and thus Next wasn't available) and this time it required that all the VMs that had already been shut down (not the ones that had just been shut down but all the other ones that had been shut down rather than suspended). So those all needed to be started again and then shut down.
There followed yet another new installation run and this time it actually installed 4.0.
Then you have to upgrade your existing Parallel VMs to 4.0. Here you are offered Backup and Convert or just Convert.
Lazy as always (and I had two USB drives with copies on in any case) I just did Convert and this was OK for the first couple (it's a two stage process - the first stage is automatic but then you have to run setup for the virtual CD drive to get the Parallel Tools 4.0 installed) but then the next one stuck with the bar on step 4 of 4 showing completed (graphically) but the Next button still not available.
So I waited and waited and started a second conversion and that stuck at exactly the same place.
Nothing for it. A forced shutdown of the entire MacBook and re-start. Needless to say, perhaps, both those converted VMs worked fine. They had completed but just not informed their little installation routine mate that they had completed.
Anyway there you have it. I now have both Parallels 4.0 and VMFusion VMs on the MacBook. However since I replaced the hard drive with a 500GB one I can afford to have two different versions.
The only pity is that as this is a MacBook with a 2GB memory limitation, I can't have two many of the VMs open at any one time.
P.S. When doing the final conversion (a 15GB MOSS VM) I had a new variation on the theme. It stopped registering any change in ho far it had gone about half way through the blue bar showing progress in step 3 (of 4). This time when I restarted the MacBook after the forced close down, it first didn't boot but gave me the hard disk symbol only. Clicking that, though, booted the machine and clicking the MOSS image then took me right back to the same screen I'd had before (showing halfway through the third step) only this time it kept going and very very quickly jumped to step 4 and ready. Perhaps if I'd waited a bit longer before turning it off it would have completed by itself, but most probably it wouldn't have shown this and I would have still been forced to do a forced shutdown.
So the conversion works but the routine controlling it could be better. It could for instance let you close it down when it is stuck instead of forcing you to crash the entire system.
This is a request for you clever developer types with STABLE SP products recently released.
I've finally got round to working through the daily RSS feeds I have that give me the Codeplex New Releases and I now realise that there's a limit on the number of feeds that are being kept so I can only see the latest 20.
With some of the feeds coming twice (don't ask me why) this means that I don't have any of the feeds from Febuary 24th to March 9th.
So, if you read this and know that your product was listed in CodePlex New releases during that period (or even if you have a feeling that it must have been around then), please let me know either as a comment here or to my hotmail address which is the Finnish word for Englishman or englantilainen. (I moved in fast!)
Please don't let me know if your product is still in beta. I only add stable codeplex products/projects to the WSS FAQ list of free products.
P.S. If you want to do me a real favor/favour please - before you send me e-mail - check this page
http://wssv3faq.mindsharp.com/Lists/v3%20WSS%20FAQ/X%20Free%20Products.aspx
to see if I already have your product listed.
In the autumn/fall of 2006 when WSS 3.0; MOSS 2007; and Project Server 2007 had been available as public beta versions for a long time and were close to final release, I had a meeting with a Finnish customer who said they were planning to implement Project Server 2003.
As I knew about all the problems involved with synchronizing (and keeping synchronized) Project Server 2003 with WSS 2.0 (which it used for web access), I - rather too clearly perhaps - indicated that I thought this was mad and that they should instead implement Project Server 2007 where there were no such problems.
It was obvious from the reply that they thought I was mad to propose implementing a product that hadn't been out for several years.
Maybe that's the reason when just as we are waiting for beta versions of the next versions of SharePoint (although Steve Ballmer is on record as saying that the next version of Office will not appear in 2009, that oughtn't to be a reason for the beta versions not to be out this year - it's certainly necessary if they are going for a 2010 release date), I'm hearing of a sudden increased interest in Finnish companies in implementing MOSS 2007.
(It's always MOSS 2007, but I bet most if not all of what most companies do with it in the first couple of years could equally well be done with WSS 3.0.)
It's about time. I've been envious of my colleagues in say Germany where SharePoint usage has been booming for a long time.
There's only one (major) fly in the ointment. Will the present economic climate (and Finnish export industries - which is most of them - are suffering just like everyone else) mean that such major investments are put off for a couple of years?
If they are what's the betting that they decide on implementing MOSS 2007 at a time when it is known that the next version of MOSS will be out in a couple of months?
Much later: no one spotted that it's WSS 2.0 that Project server 2003 used not WSS 3.0. Shame on you all. I'm claiming a typing error for the mistake (now corrected).
There are a couple of important things before I start the usual post.
The first is that I have been away for over three weeks and while I after 10 days couldn't stay away and started moderating the key SharePoint forums from expensive Internet Cafés, I didn't in that time do any updates to the WSS FAQ sites.
This post is the result of what I have managed to process since I got back a couple of days ago (mostly done early this morning). It's a lot of new and revised KB articles from that period along with three books that have moved to released status; one that has been announced and finally one that has been removed from the list as the publishers having earlier said they would publish a book with that title now won't.
I'll continue this weekend after posting this to work on adding more links and content to the WSS FAQ site, probably starting with the articles and downloads that became available during that time. So check the site and also watch out for a possible interim "additions and changes" post here during the week.
The second is that I came home to the news that Asaris who has long supported the German mirror site (that I - now it can be said - started so that *I* could have a second source when lines to the US were down [and it did happen]) will no longer support it from the first of April 2009 and that at the same time the site would disappear. I was offered the option of paying for it myself from the present hoster but that would be for a WSS 3.0 site with a completely different URL which means that none of the earlier links would work in any case (a key fact if you are hoping for Google ads to cover your costs). What's worse the cost wasn't per month fixed but was fixed plus additional costs over a certain amount of traffic (i.e. an open checkbook).
So from now on (and until the lines to the US start not working too often for comfort!) the WSS FAQ site will be the version run using WSS 3.0 that is hosted by the US training company Mindsharp. Many thanks here too to Todd Bleeker of Mindsharp for setting up those sites very quickly for me when the previous US host (Collutions) vanished from sight for over a week.
There are two sites http://wssv3faq.mindsharp.com for the v3 stuff and http://wssv2faq.mindsharp.com for the v2 stuff. V2 stuff is still coming through in drips and draps but it's usually only KB article revisions so most of my work nowadays goes on maintaining the v3 stuff. The v2 stuff is typically WSS 2.0 only not SPS 2003, but the v3 stuff is both WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007 and other associated products. (v4 to come probably if there ever is such a product and it's ever available as a public beta).
Finally: http://www.wssfaq.com will point to http://wssv3faq.mindsharp.com as soon as the DNS has been changed. (Not directly under my control)
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Note: All of the addresses of the KB / Articles - 2007 Products / MS / Non-MS Articles below were valid at the time I added them to the WSS FAQ site and to this file. I can't guarantee that they still are.
(Items are added to the WSS FAQ throughout the week so you will find new items more quickly by checking at http://wssv3faq.mindsharp.com daily.)
From 22nd February to 21st March 2009
NOTE: Amendments to KB articles are now only listed when a version is x.0. MS no longer change the dates of KB articles when version changes are minor.
I.1 2007 KB Articles (*now only one section for WSS and MOSS*)
New
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;967671
When you crawl file shares that are accessed through a domain-based Distributed File System (DFS) in SharePoint Server 2007, you experience poor performance
18th March 2009
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;967053
After you apply hotfix package 956056, a file that has the offline attribute set cannot be crawled by Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
13th March 2009
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;961756
Description of the SharePoint Server 2007 cumulative update package (MOSS server-package): February 24, 2009
13th March 2009
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;967577
If you search the text in the AboutMe managed property in a SharePoint Server 2007 site, no results are returned
13th March 2009
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;967612
You cannot limit the People Picker on the site-collection level to find only users in a specific organization unit (OU) in a trusted domain in a SharePoint site
13th March 2009
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;968094
The search service is unavailable in SharePoint Server 2007, and you receive a "Search service is currently offline" error message (ver 2.0)
13th March 2009
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;963028
Description of a time zone update for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
13th March 2009
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;961755
Description of the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 cumulative update package: February 24, 2009 (ver 2.0)
13th March 2009
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;967135
The Check Names function does not honor the Peoplepicker-onlysearchwithinsitecollection setting in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
12th March 2009
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;967568
If users update content on the site while you are backing up a SharePoint site collection, the backup file may become corrupted
12th March 2009
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;960487
A Windows SharePoint Service 3.0 site cannot be restored when the host header length for the site is greater than 56 characters
11th March 2009
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;967229
The Wssadmin service may leak memory when you have Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 installed
11th March 2009
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;967209
When you perform a crawl in a SharePoint Server 2007 site, the crawl runs indefinitely
11th March 2009
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;967733
When you include more than one search scope in a search on a SharePoint Server 2007 site, noise words are not filtered
11th March 2009
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;968474
stsadm can inadvertently delete a root site collection if erroneous URL path used (ver 2.0)
10th March 2009
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;967617
After you set the Enable RSS Feeds option to No on the Web Application General Settings page in SharePoint Portal Server Central Administration, the search result pages still show the RSS icon
9th March 2009
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;953399
The thesaurus feature does not function when the "Enable Search Term Stemming" option is enabled on a SharePoint site
3rd March 2009
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;968484
Clicking 'Connect To This Discussion board' in SharePoint alert email gives error (0x800401F3)
2nd March 2009
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;968483
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 unsupported scenarios using stsadm -o export /import of subsites
2nd March 2009
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;968476
'This List' scope not returning results on some lists, but returns when using 'This Site' scope
2nd March 2009
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;963654
Cumulative update packages for the 2007 Microsoft Office core suite applications and for 2007 Microsoft Office servers: February 24, 2009 (ver 1.2)
25th February 2009
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;961754
Description of the Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 hotfix package (Coreservermui.msp): February 24, 2009
24th February 2009
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;961749
Description of the Office SharePoint Server 2007 hotfix package (Coreserver.msp): February 24, 2009 (ver 1.2)
24th February 2009
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;960051
When you create the Office files by using Office 2003 for a document library of a SharePoint Services 3.0 site, the "Content Type" field position does not behave consistently in the "Web File Properties" window in Office 2003
24th February 2009
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;967703
Description of the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 hotfix package (Wssmui-en-us.msp): February 24, 2009 (ver 1.1)
24th February 2009
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;961750
Description of the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 hotfix package (Sts.msp): February 24, 2009 (ver 1.2)
24th February 2009
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;963023
Description of the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 hotfix package (Sts.msp): January 27, 2009
24th February 2009
Modifed
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;948725
Restoration of the configuration database is not supported in SharePoint Server 2007 and in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (ver 5.0)
10th March 2009
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;953130
How to configure SharePoint Server 2007 and Excel Services for Kerberos authentication (ver 2.0)
10th March 2009
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=943345
How to defragment Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 databases and SharePoint Server 2007 databases (ver 2.0)
10th March 2009
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;953471
Description of the SharePoint Server 2007 post-2007 Microsoft Office servers Service Pack 1 hotfix package: June 5, 2008 (ver 2.0)
4th March 2009
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;944267
How to troubleshoot common errors that occur when you run the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard on a computer that is running Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 or SharePoint Server 2007 (ver 4.0)
24th February 2009
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;946484
Search results are incomplete when you use a CAML query that uses the SPSiteDataQuery class to search content on a SharePoint Server site or on a Windows SharePoint Services site (ver 3.0)
20th February 2009
I.b Forefront KB Articles
New or Modified
None
I.c InfoPath 2007 KB Articles
New
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;968479
Infopath does not resolve some email names to addresses
2nd March 2009
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;961751
Description of the InfoPath 2007 hotfix package (Ipeditor.msp): February 24, 2009
24th February 2009
Modified
None
I.d SPD 2007 KB Articles
New
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;965492
When you take list elements and you group them by two levels in SharePoint Designer 2007, the totals of the subgroups are wrong
11th March 2009
Modified
None
II. Articles - 2007 Products
New
A. Office 2007 Server Products
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/dd458798.aspx
10 Best Practices For Building SharePoint Solutions(MSDN Mag, March 2009 - E. Wilansky, T. Stojecki, P. Olszewski and S. Kowalewski)
B. Other Office 2007 products
None
C. Other relevant products
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=08e52ac2-1d62-45f6-9a4a-4b76a8564a2b&displaylang=en&tm
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Management Studio Express (ver 10.00.1600.22)
20th February 2009
Modified
None
III WebCasts (+ PodCasts, On-Line courses) for 2007 Products
None
IV WSS v3 FAQ
New
http://wssv3faq.mindsharp.com/Lists/v3%20WSS%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1128
V.208 MCTS: Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Configuration Study Guide (70-631) (Wiley - Marilyn Miller-White)
Modified
http://wssv3faq.mindsharp.com/Lists/v3%20WSS%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=833
V.137 Professional Microsoft SharePoint 2007 Development Using Microsoft Silverlight 2 (Wrox - Steve Fox, Paul Stubbs) *released*
http://wssv3faq.mindsharp.com/Lists/v3%20WSS%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=811
V.140 Building Web Applications with Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 Step by Step (Microsoft Press - John Jansen) *released*
http://wssv3faq.mindsharp.com/Lists/v3%20WSS%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=831
V.153 MOSS Explained: An Information Workers Deep Dive into Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (Charles River Media - John Ross, Nicola Young) *released*
http://wssv3faq.mindsharp.com/Lists/v3%20WSS%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1129
VII.49 Professional Microsoft SharePoint 2007 Development Using Microsoft Silverlight 2 (Wrox - ISBN 978-0-470-43400-0) Chapter 1 - Introduction to Silverlight
Deleted (announced but later dropped by the Publisher)
V.14 SharePoint Server 2007 In Action (Manning Publications - Brad Smith, Todd Bleeker, Gary Bushey, Malcolm Hyson, Eugene Rosenfeld)
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V WSSv2 KB Articles (plus SPS 2003 Hot fixes)
New
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/828810/
How to enable an ASP.Net application to run on a SharePoint virtual server (ver 6.0)
25th February 2009 (not listed before?)
Modified
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/938793/
Issues that are fixed in Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 by Windows SharePoint Services Service Pack 3 (ver 2.0)
10th March 2009
VI WSSv2 FAQ
New or Modified
None
** The next post of this "weekly" item will be on or around the 21st of March 2009 - I won't have updated much until just before then anyway. **
Note: All of the addresses of the KB / Articles - 2007 Products / MS / Non-MS Articles below were valid at the time I added them to the WSS FAQ
site and to this file. I can't guarantee that they still are.
(Items are added to the WSS FAQ throughout the week so you will find new items more quickly by checking at wss.collutions.com or www.wssfaq.com daily.)
From 15th to 21st February 2009
NOTE: Amendment to KB articles: Microsoft are now not amending the date of a KB article if the change made is marked as a version point change (so from 2.2 to 2.3 for instance).
This ought to mean that the amendment made is cosmetic rather than important as important text changes ought to result in a major version change (such as from 2.2 to 3.0).
Because of this change and to avoid unnecessary effort I will in future not amend the listings in the WSS FAQ sites if only a minor version change has taken place.
I will continue to amend both the date and version numbers of major version changes and of course will continue to add all relevant new KB articles that my RSS feeds and other sources give me.
I.1 2007 KB Articles (*now only one section for WSS and MOSS*)
New
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;963022
Description of the SharePoint Server 2007 hotfix package (Coreserver.msp): January 27, 2009
19th February 2009
Modifed
None
I.b Forefront KB Articles
New or Modified
None
I.c InfoPath 2007 KB Articles
New or Modified
None
I.d SPD 2007 KB Articles
New or Modified
None
II. Articles - 2007 Products
New
A. Office 2007 Server Products
http://www.zimmergren.net/archive/2009/02/12/sharepoint-online-%E2%80%93-a-first-look.aspx
SharePoint Online – A first look (Blog - Tobias Zimmergren)
12th February 2009
B. Other Office 2007 products
None
C. Other relevant products
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=5c74880c-ced5-4a1b-9888-8cb027c628f5&displaylang=en&tm
Windows Server 2008 R2 Beta Evaluation Virtual Hard Drive Images (for Hyper-V)
19th February 2009
Modified
None
III WebCasts (+ PodCasts, On-Line courses) for 2007 Products
None
IV WSS v3 FAQ
New
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1757
III.02.13 Limits: Is there a limit in the number of views in the "Selected View" dropdown list?
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1755
V.204 InfoPath 2007 Essential Training (CD-ROM) (lynda.com, Inc - David Rivers) *released*
(above is in the Courses section)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1756
V.204A (Training: InfoPath 2007 Essential Training (CD-ROM) (lynda.com, Inc - David Rivers)) *released*
(above is in the InfoPath section)
Modified
None
V WSSv2 KB Articles (plus SPS 2003 Hot fixes)
New or Modified
None
VI WSSv2 FAQ
New or Modified
None
I bought a 2TB external USB drive system from Western Digital - the MyBook Mirror Edition - which is quite a large external box with USB 2.0 access to what are two 1TB drives which use RAID-1. You can also use the included WD RAID Manager software to set this as RAID-0 but I didn't need the space (or the speed increase) and prefered the security of a second copy so I left it as it was.
I was pretty happy at the price which for Finnish standards (don't convert this to dollars, folks!) was a very reasonable 235 Euros. When you consider that an "equivalent" 1TB device from Buffalo cost almost as much and that a special offer in the local shop for a single (of all things) Fujitsu-Siemens external 1TB was 100 Euros, 235 for a RAID-1 2x1TB device was pretty good.
Then it came to installing the included software. The user guide which I'd checked on the web before I bought the device said it included WD Anywhere Backup and "Google Software". The latter seemed both a waste of time installing and also was free software in any case, but I decided I might as well install the backup software so that backups were automatic.
So that's what I did. I installed only the "included" WD Anywhere software and didn't install two different pieces of WD software that were clearly labelled as 30-day trial (which WD Anywhere wasn't) and didn't install the Google software - which turned out to be Google Desktop Search; Google Toolbar (both of which I didn't want on this machine) and Picasa (which I already had installed on it).
I then connected up the MyBook Mirror (OK) and ran the "included" WD Anywhere software - which told me it was a 30-day trial edition !
Needless to say no code was included on the CD or where they usually are on a sticky at the back of the CD envelope, so I couldn't convert this to the full version.
So would I have to pay to use this "included software" past the 30 days? It certainly looked like it.
So I went looking for the Western Digital site (not of course at www.westerndigital.com that would be too easy but at www.wdc.com) to see where I could complain about this. I didn't find an e-mail address (all suppliers these days seem to make finding an e-mail address as difficult as possible) but I did find a download link for a copy of WD Anywhere Backup "free if you have registered your WD product".
So that's it. I'm forced to register my product (which as the product number on serial number is on the bottom I can't do until the initial backup has finished) and then I can download a (probably newer version) copy of the software that was supposedly included with my device in order to upgrade the supplied copy into a full version.
Now I wonder how many computer amateurs thought "Oh, they only supply a trial edition, I'll have to upgrade it on-line with my credit card."
Not a few, I'll bet. Sneaky, Western Digital.
P.S. The backup of almost the whole drive finally finished and I was able to turn the device upside down to get at the serial number.
First my normal glasses weren't enough to read it so I had to get out my reading glasses. With them I got a version of the serial number that was rejected. I tired a few likely variations. Rejected too.
So time for glasses plus a magnifying glass. A couple more "certain" letters now became uncertain and so I had to try a few more serial numbers before at approximately the tenth attempt all told I finally got one that was accepted.
It will perhaps not surprise you that the WD installation etc. didn't get a perfect score in their questionnaire that they force (yes, force - I left an answer out and wasn't allowed to proceed) you to fill in when you register. I also made good use of the space for additional comments on the documentation (which you'll remember said the box included a free version of the Backup software) and on the experience as a whole (too small serial number!!).
How a couple of things that have nothing at all to do with the quality of the product itself can screw up its ratings !
P.P.S. It didn't even end there. When I registered I didn't get a code for the software ! Instead I got a link to download the software - the same version of the software that I already had installed.
So I had to install software I already had installed and during this installation I wasn't asked for a code (thank goodness, as they hadn't given me one) but only for my E-mail address. This then they obviously match up with the e-mail address in the registration. Having done that the software "upgrade" went through and my copy of WD Anywhere Backup no longer stated that it was a trial version.
They then sent me an e-mail to confirm that I had installed the software and THAT (!!) included a code for the software ...
I've always assumed that they way I do things in my SharePoint sites (which gives *me* the control on who gets to be added and with what rights) is wrong and that in fact the correct way to do authentication is to pass the authentication of SP sites to the Active Directory people. After all they are responsible for authentication to the rest of the company's stuff, why not to the SharePoint sites as well?
In other words I've always assumed that any well-organised (and large) SharePoint installation would have an equally well-organised set of structured AD groups that would be used for SharePoint authentication.
It was just that I didn't fancy the hassle of setting that up so never did it or even make it particularly clear to other people in the company that it was even possible to use AD groups ...
(They don't read blogs. I hope.)
Anyway it turns out that I was right all along.
I dipped at the weekend into the (MS Press) "Best Practices book (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0735625387/heme0f) again and found a very good section on just this problem
The Best Practice is to use (SP) User Groups (something which I always call "SharePoint Groups" - presumably that was the name in v2) rather than AD Groups.
They have a very long section explaining why (roughly because it's alright to use AD groups when you start out but gets complicated - especially when some users have admin rights for part of the system and then they too start contacting the AD team - as you go along and the fact that the AD people don't know SharePoint specifics doesn't help.
There's also several pages with columns given the problem; the effects of doing this with AD groups; the effect of doing this with User groups (etc.) which to me just serve to emphasise that initial written section.
Yet another example of that book making you think.
I still think it's a pity the book isn't in several handy (=thinner, lighter) volumes though. You ought to be reading it in odd 10 minutes imo but because it's so darn heavy you don't carry it around with you so it's not available for those 10 minutes breaks (and when you open it, you feel duty bound to study it for a longer period (which means for me at least that it's not opened as often as it should be)).
It does come with the text on CD-ROM though so I suppose you *could* transfer it (licensing permitting) to a Netbook so you have it with you all the time. ("Licensing permitting" because Netbooks don't have DVD/CD drives).
It's possible to mark any forum post as "Propose as Answer". The idea is that this helps the Moderator by letting him/her quickly know which threads possibly contain a solution. He/She can then access the threads that include such a post and then decide whether the post is worthy of being changed from merely "Propose as Answer" to being marked as an Answer.
It's a good idea, but unfortunately there are many people who don't seem to get the idea behind it and who post a reply in a thread and then immediately mark their own reply as "Propose as Answer".
Well this post is to tell you that in all but one of the SharePoint forums, you are wasting your time if you do that because this is what I do when I do a sweep of the threads that include "Propose as Answer".
Firstly I of course find the "Propose as Answer" post.
a) If the person who has marked it is the person who posted it I remove the mark.
b) If the person who marked it is someone whose name I recognize (and can thus trust their judgement) I very very quickly scan the post and then 99% of the time Up it to Answer status.
c) If I don't recognize the name of the person who marked it, I spend more time looking at the post before deciding whether to "Up" it or not (in which case I remove the "Propose as Answer").
d) Posts which aren't answers at all (and it's always a surprise to see post marked "Propose as Answer" that include questions rather than answers - but it does happen) get the Propose as Answer removed of course.
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So you see, don't mark your own posts with "Propose as Answer" and you have a chance that they will - at some later date - be marked as an answer. Mark your own posts and they won't be.
Note too that I also on occasion move posts directly to Answer status. But only when I read them the first time. So this (usually) won't apply to a post that has in the meantime been marked "Propose as Answer" by the poster.
When I was preparing to write my book and writing down a list of chapters, I had a chapter called "Backup and Restore" pencilled in.
When it came to writing it, I realised that I didn't want the title of this chapter to scare off potential readers of the book and it became "Making Copies of your Data and Using them".
It was a good title because when I started writing the chapter I had realised that I wanted to write about what a normal user (and a user with a bit of additional rights) could do and didn't want to write at all about the sort of stuff done only by the company's backup expert.
So that chapter started with having an Off-line copy (using Colligio but mentioning using Outlook 2007 for that); using Save List as Template and using the Recycle Bin(s) and only when those sections were done did it mention backup and restore using both stsadm and SPD 2007.
Maybe the same sort of process went on in the brains of the people behind a newly released book which covers the same sort of things as my one - less than 20 page - chapter in their almost 400 page book.
They also didn't want to put people off with a title that included backup or Restore either, but in their case they went for a "finer" title rather than my simplistic one for my chapter and called it (as you'll all have no doubt realised by now) "SharePoint 2007 Disaster Recovery Guide".
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1584505990/heme0f
They start in fact with the same kind of thing as a chapter called "End User Resources" has Recycle Bins, Save List as Template and (which i didn't) Versions.
Up to about halfway in the book they also cover the same stsadm and SPD 2007 versions of Backup and Restore.
So why buy their book and not mine? (A stupid question as you should of course all buy my book and then look around for books that complement it. <grin>)
Well of course one reason is that they have a lot more room to go into more details about the various options available when backing up / restoring with SPD and stsadm. Another is that they have a chapter on Central Admin backup and restore tools - something that I'll obviously have to read because it never occured to me to use them. But perhaps the main reason as far as the first half of the book is concerned is a chapter on Tips and Tricks for SharePoint's Built-In Backup and restore Tools which are more chatty than the "what do you click" chapters but which helps you to avoid things like having your backups slow down the system to a crawl.
The other reason to buy the book is that it's a full offering that includes the kind of info that your company's Backup specialist needs to know. So there are chapters on both SQL Server 2005 Backup and Restore (plus one on SQL Server 2005 High Availability - I'm not sure how that made it in) and on Windows 2003 Backup and Restore (and again an odd one on Windows 2003 High Availability).
So there you have it. As I wrote in an earlier blog item, this is not a book that will get you a new job but may help you keep one.
I do think it's a worthwhile book to own, but I admit that, considering that it only just came out, I'm surprised on the space spent on Windows 2003 and the almost total lack of any mention at all of Windows 2008 (all I could find was a paragraph saying that it existed and wasn't covered in the book (!) - my own book came out over 3 months earlier and has a chapter on installing in Windows 2008 which only because I had written too *many* pages was moved to the web site for the book rather than being in the printed copy. It was in any case available from day one.).
I'm also a bit surprised by the space given to High Availability which seems to a certain extent to stretch the "Disaster Recovery" title quite a bit - for instance while using RAID-1 discs means that if one disk physically crashes you still have a copy of the data on the second disk (and if you notice you can slot in a new disk to go automatically back to Raid-1 status), and so actually you avoid the need to recover from a disaster as a disaster hasn't occured, it does seem pushing it in a SharePoint Disaster Recovery book to spend almost 3 pages explaining what all the different versions of Raid are for - especially when you see that the first 2 pages are very standard definitions of the different kinds of RAID systems with no reference to SharePoint at all.
In short there are places here where you get a strong impression that they had to stretch to reach the 400 pages they had been told to write. The book would have perhaps been better at 350.
However it has no competition except for individual chapters in some other books. So I'm going to read the chatty chapters to see when to use what method and then refer to the "how to do" chapters when I need to do things.
Oh, and I'd better add that there is a chapter on custom development and scripting to which my only objection is that it too has large chunks of text where - like the RAID section - there is standard information with several lots of consecutive pages where SharePoint isn't mentioned at all. Maybe this is just the fact that the book despite being from a normal publisher (Charles River) is also labelled as being "Course Technology - CENGAGE Learning". Perhaps being pedagogic demands such large amounts of basic knowledge. For me it goes just a little bit too far sometimes - surely its target audience knows what RAID is, for instance?
It's odd how the US and the UK share a common language but seemingly have a different outlook on everything else.
You would rarely (maybe never) see a blurb in a book written by a Brit that thanks God "for providing me with the skills to write this book", yet in technical books written by US authors you see it all the time. Similarly it seems to be par for the course for US authors to thank their "lovely wife XXX and our two wonderful children" (or even more excessive prose) whereas UK authors might just stretch themselves to a "thanks to my wife for putting up with me" in their blurbs.
In a similar way US computer magazines always seem to say that they like a product even if reading between the lines you realise they actually hated it, whereas UK computer magazines take delight in calling a spade a spade and saying that something is useless if that's what it is.
So (finally getting to the subject ...), it's not really suprising that the US and the UK have two different takes on the number of Windows 7 versions.
A US writer said in his piece that Microsoft have taken note of the complaints about the number of Vista versions and have announced both fewer versions and no overlaps (i.e. each version contains what the previous version did and a bit more). Theme: it's it wonderful ...
Meanwhile the UK PCPro magazine has a piece on its web site (http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/246562/windows-7-to-come-in-six-flavours.html) complaining that there are almost as many versions of Windows 7 as there were of Vista (and thus that Microsoft haven't learnt a thing).
I'm with the latter interpretation. But then I'm a Brit (despite being an exile) and my book didn't thank God or go on and on about my wife (let only my "kid") either.
Note: All of the addresses of the KB / Articles - 2007 Products / MS / Non-MS Articles below were valid at the time I added them to the WSS FAQ
site and to this file. I can't guarantee that they still are.
(Items are added to the WSS FAQ throughout the week so you will find new items more quickly by checking at wss.collutions.com or www.wssfaq.com daily.)
From 25th to 31st January 2009
NOTE: Amendment to KB articles: Microsoft are now not amending the date of a KB article if the change made is marked as a version point change (so from 2.2 to 2.3 for instance).
This ought to mean that the amendment made is cosmetic rather than important as important text changes ought to result in a major version change (such as from 2.2 to 3.0).
Because of this change and to avoid unnecessary effort I will in future not amend the listings in the WSS FAQ sites if only a minor version change has taken place.
I will continue to amend both the date and version numbers of major version changes and of course will continue to add all relevant new KB articles that my RSS feeds and other sources give me.
I.1 2007 KB Articles (*now only one section for WSS and MOSS*)
New
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;950074
Error message when you complete the upgrade from an earlier version of GroupBoard Workspace to GroupBoard Workspace 2007: "Upgrade completed with errors"
26th January 2009
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;962928
You cannot browse to an SSL-secured Office SharePoint Server 2007 site or to the Search Settings page for a Shared Services Provider
23rd January 2009
Modifed
None
I.b Forefront KB Articles
New or Modified
None
I.c InfoPath 2007 KB Articles
New or Modified
None
I.d SPD 2007 KB Articles
New or Modified
None
II. Articles - 2007 Products
New
A. Office 2007 Server Products
http://www.sharepointusecases.com/index.php/2009/01/use-case-integrating-microsoft-office-sharepoint-with-microsoft-dynamics-crm/
Integrating Microsoft Office SharePoint with Microsoft Dynamics CRM - Part 1 (Blog - Toni In)
28th January 2009
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=d5f7a3ac-b983-4065-9d29-1ad31029f154&displaylang=en&tm
Integrating SAP data by using the Business Data Catalog
28th January 2009
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=f159af68-c3a3-413c-a3f7-2e0be6d5532e&displaylang=en&tm
Analyzing Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Usage
23rd January 2009
******* SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services and SharePoint section ********
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb326288.aspx
Deploying Models and Shared Data Sources to a SharePoint Site (SQL Server 2008 version)
1st January 2009 (BooksOnline January 2009)
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb283155.aspx
How to: Publish a Report to a SharePoint Library (SQL Server 2008 version)
1st January 2009 (BooksOnline January 2009)
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb326285.aspx
How to: Publish a Shared Data Source to a SharePoint Library (SQL Server 2008 version)
1st January 2009 (BooksOnline January 2009)
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb326347.aspx
Viewing and Managing Report Server Items from a SharePoint Site (SQL Server 2008 version)
1st January 2009 (BooksOnline January 2009)
******* SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services and SharePoint section ********
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb326288(SQL.90).aspx
Deploying Reports, Models, and Shared Data Sources to a SharePoint Site (SQL Server 2005 version)
12th December 2006 (yes, the date is right - I just found this)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb283155(SQL.90).aspx
How to: Publish a Report to a SharePoint Library from Report Designer (SharePoint Integrated Mode) (SQL Server 2005 version)
12th December 2006 (yes, the date is right - I just found this)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb326285(SQL.90).aspx
How to: Publish a Shared Data Source to a SharePoint Library from Report Designer (SharePoint Integrated Mode) (SQL Server 2005 version)
12th December 2006 (yes, the date is right - I just found this)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb326347(SQL.90).aspx
Viewing and Managing Report Server Items from a SharePoint Site (SharePoint Integrated Mode) (SQL Server 2005 version)
12th December 2006 (yes, the date is right - I just found this)
B. Other Office 2007 products
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=e06453b8-b2dd-4177-969c-2f89aa841e11&displaylang=en&tm
Microsoft Forefront Security for SharePoint with Service Pack 2
23rd January 2009
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=f8b9301a-3175-4350-a554-3064ab9278c8&displaylang=en&tm
Planning Series I in Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007
23rd January 2009
C. Other relevant products
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=7c2b5317-a40f-4e86-8835-d37170c5923e&displaylang=en&tm
Internet Explorer Application Compatibility VPC Image (one - XPPro SP3 one - includes IE8 RC1)
28th January 2009 (not a "modified" as the URL for the previous version is different and still valid)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=13c7300e-935c-415a-a79c-538e933d5424&displaylang=en&tm
Windows Server 2008 Enterprise (Trial Version - valid 60 days + 3x60 days)
27th January 2009
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=e8a5aec0-de34-405e-9304-1c378f44077c&displaylang=en&tm
Windows Server 2008 Datacenter (Trial Version - valid 60 days + 3x60 days)
27th January 2009
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=b6e99d4c-a40e-4fd2-a0f7-32212b520f50&displaylang=en&tm
Windows Server 2008 Standard (Trial Version - valid 60 days + 3x60 days)
27th January 2009
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=6cf0f7b6-c0a7-48f8-977e-9bc76b97ff98&displaylang=en&tm
Microsoft Search Server 2008 Technical Library in Compiled Help format
23rd January 2009
Modified
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=e0fadab7-0620-481d-a8b6-070001727c56&displaylang=en&tm
Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 R2 VHD
25th January 2009
III WebCasts (+ PodCasts, On-Line courses) for 2007 Products
None
IV WSS v3 FAQ
New
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1738
V.205 Erfolgreiche Portalprojekte mit Microsoft SharePoint (in German) (Microsoft Press, Germany - Reiner Ganser, Christoph Müller)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1739
V.206 Konzepte und Lösungen für Microsoft-Netzwerke. Exchange, SharePoint, LCS, MOM, SMS, ISA, VMWare, Citrix, Storage, iSCSI, SAN, NAS, Backup, Veritas (in German) (Galileo Press - Ulrich B. Boddenberg)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1740
V.207 SharePoint 2007 - Coffret de 2 livres : de la création d'un site collaboratif au développement associé (in French - the two books listed here as items 59 and 110) (Editions ENI -Sandrine Schmitt, Antony Bidet) *released*
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1737
VI.162 CardioLog 2007 (commercial - CardioLog)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1733
X.289 SPOShowBirthdayWebPart (codeplex - "Erw1n")
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1734
X.290 Password Webpart (codeplex - Steve Robbins)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1735
X.291 SharePoint Property Bag Settings (codeplex - "havivi")
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1736
X.292 CardioLog Lite for SharePoint 2007 (free - CardioLog)
Modified
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1412
V.128 Social Computing with Microsoft SharePoint 2007 (Wiley - Brendon Schwartz, Matt Ranlett, Paul Galvin) *released*
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1588
V.129 SharePoint 2007 - Personnalisation, développement et déploiement (in French) (Editions ENI - Stéphane Eyskens, Ludovic Lefort) *released*
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1584
V.179 Praxisbuch Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (in German) (Hanser Fachbuchverlag - Dirk Larisch) *released*
V WSSv2 KB Articles (plus SPS 2003 Hot fixes)
New or Modified
None
When I first got the offer to write my book I wrote to the guy who proposed the book saying that wasn't it too late for a book on a SharePoint 2007 product. He replied (paraphrasing) that he thought there was time provided the book was out in 2008 and in fact we together finally got it out in early October of that year.
However I still remember that e-mail conversation when I see that SharePoint books are even now just being announced for publication in 2009 - some even for quite late in 2009.
The conclusion I've come to (based on not many statistics, but those available to me) is that general books no longer have much of a chance because the ones that came out early in the cycle are permanently placed at the top of the "Relevant Books" list that Amazon shows by default (based I would guess on their sales to date) when you do a search on SharePoint 2007.
The fact that I thought that one of those listed quite high up was useless doesn't seem to have had any effect on its sales!
The other thing though is that books on specific subjects still sell well. The book on content types that just came out (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1584506695/heme0f) is the first specifically on that subject so there's a market for it. Similarly the Woody Windischman book on SharePoint Designer seems to be going well. Again there's been a built-up demand for a more complicated SharePoint Designer book than the Penny Coventry Step-by-Step title and the Wrox book from Woody presumably satisfies that built-up demand. (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0470287616/heme0f)
One area which is still almost totally free of specific coverage is the question of combining SharePoint and Reporting Services so I was glad a few weeks ago to see a book on that listed at Amazon but much less glad to see the proposed Publication Date of the 29th of July 2009.
Anyway for those who want to see what's being promised for that date (and most books never seem to hit their original dates so maybe 1st September 2009 is a better guess) here's the Amazon link http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0470481897/heme0f but for those who can't wait, note that I've also collected both Reporting Services 2005 and Reporting Services 2008 books along with that book in Group W in my Books page
(http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/V%20Books.aspx or http://wssv3faq.mindsharp.com/Lists/v3%20WSS%20FAQ/V%20Books.aspx)
and all the 2005 and surprisingly many of the 2008 books are already out.
But for those who are in a book buying mood and don't want to struggle with trying to combine the knowledge gained from a general Reporting Services book with SharePoint, perhaps I can interest you in a book that is just out (i.e. available) on a subject that no-one else covers in such depth.
Yes, I've finally got to the promised part of this blog item on Disaster Recovery. I've not seen it yet, but I suspect that this could help you save your job, whereas the development books will only help you GET a job.
Here are the details
SharePoint 2007 Disaster Recovery Guide (Charles River, John L. Ferringer, Sean McDonough)
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1584505990/heme0f
P.S. Don't let the Publication Date on the item on my books page fool you. November 4th 2008 was the date they had listed at Amazon when I first saw a listing of the book in June 2008. By the time it came out that listed date had slipped to the end of January 2009 and it has beaten that date in fact by coming out in the past couple of days. Do you see now why I'm estimating the SharePoint and Reporting Services book at 1st September 2009?
P.P.S. I amended the title and authors of the Disaster Recovery book following the comment here received from John Ferringer.
P.P.P.S. I've just amended the prices of the Disaster Recovery book to reflect the present situation. If you live in Europe you need to be very careful where you order from. In July 2008 Amazon France was charging over 60 Euros whereas Amazon Germany was charging less than 30 - even the difference in postage costs doesn't make much difference to that massive price gap - however move on to January 2009 and the *German* price is almost 60 Euros and the French price 30 plus change. That's so good a price it's actually worth buying the book from there even if you live in the UK (which is usually cheaper than both France and Germany) where Amazon want £46 plus or getting on for 60 Euros.
Note: All of the addresses of the KB / Articles - 2007 Products / MS / Non-MS Articles below were valid at the time I added them to the WSS FAQ
site and to this file. I can't guarantee that they still are.
(Items are added to the WSS FAQ throughout the week so you will find new items more quickly by checking at wss.collutions.com or www.wssfaq.com daily.)
From 11th to 17th January 2009
NOTE: Amendment to KB articles: Microsoft are now not amending the date of a KB article if the change made is marked as a version point change (so from 2.2 to 2.3 for instance).
This ought to mean that the amendment made is cosmetic rather than important as important text changes ought to result in a major version change (such as from 2.2 to 3.0).
Because of this change and to avoid unnecessary effort I will in future not amend the listings in the WSS FAQ sites if only a minor version change has taken place.
I will continue to amend both the date and version numbers of major version changes and of course will continue to add all relevant new KB articles that my RSS feeds and other sources give me.
I.1 2007 KB Articles (*now only one section for WSS and MOSS*)
New
None
Modified
None
I.b Forefront KB Articles
New or Modified
None
I.c InfoPath 2007 KB Articles
New or Modified
None
I.d SPD 2007 KB Articles
New or Modified
None
II. Articles - 2007 Products
New
A. Office 2007 Server Products
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=139163
Administrator’s Guide of Topics to Consider before Deployment (Shane Young, Randy Drisgill, Larry Riemann, Jennifer Mason, Chris Caravajal - SharePoint 911)
8th January 2009
B. Other Office 2007 products
None
C. Other relevant products
None
Modified
None
III WebCasts (+ PodCasts, On-Line courses) for 2007 Products
None
IV WSS v3 FAQ
Newhttp://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1709VI.157 SharePoint Task Master (commercial - Bamboo Solutions) http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1710 VI.158 SharePoint User Registration Accelerator (commercial - Bamboo Solutions) http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1711 VI.159 SharePoint Custom Column Pack (commercial - Bamboo Solutions) http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1712 VI.160 Data-Viewer Web Part (commercial - Bamboo Solutions) http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1713 VI.161 SharePoint Team Calendar Web Part (commercial - Bamboo Solutions) http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1714 X.270 Bamboo SharePoint Video Library (free - Bamboo Solutions) http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1715 X.271 Bamboo SharePoint Analyzer (free - Bamboo Solutions) Modified
None
V WSSv2 KB Articles (plus SPS 2003 Hot fixes)
New or Modified
None
The sublime hard disk story is that I am now running a MacBook with a 500GB disk.
When I bought the MacBook eighteen months ago it was a risk, as although I had always wanted a Mac I wasn't sure whether I wanted to use anything other than Microsoft software. But the possibility of booting into a MS OS was there with the new intel chips and so I took the plunge. The choice was made less difficult by the fact that the 13.3" MacBook cost less than equivalent 12" PC portables at the time.
But still I went for the cheapest MacBook and immediately upgraded it's memory and it's hard disk. That was from 60GB to 160GB and cost something like 140 Euros at the time (for the hard disk upgrade - the memory upgrade cost about the same again).
As alway with hard disk space, it was used up (Virtual machines take up a lot of space and I had both Parallels VMs and also VM Fusion VMs) quickly and I had occasional minor problems caused by there not being enough spare disk space (typically a 50 minute streamed video would die halfway through) but nothing serious.
But I was for some reason glancing through the web site of the local best (= best selection by far and reasonably competitive prices) supplier of computers and related items and noticed, what I think was a 250GB drive, portable drive at a reasonable price.
Well there's no way I'm going to pay money and go through the upgrading hassle to go from 160GB to 250GB but it got me interested enough to check the site for more drives from the same company (Western Digital) and I found first 320GB drives and then a 500GB drive. The money was peanuts (ca 100 Euros) and going from 160GB to 500GB was a very attractive idea so I went for it (after having checked some Apple forum posts - found via Google - to see if it would work in my MacBook.)
Now a couple of evenings later (one backup off my small form-factor portable USB drive to a larger USB drive; one use of SuperDuper! to copy my MacBook's 160GB drive to the portable USB drive and make it bootable; and then on evening 2 changing the MacBook drive (took even me less than half an hour and most of that was finding the right screwdriver to transfer the hard drive cover); booting from the portable drive and running SuperDuper! to this time copy the portable drive's contents to the 500GB drive and make IT bootable), it's working and working well.
So now - for a no doubt brief moment - I have 340 GB free on my MacBook's hard disk. This by the way is 20GB more than the largest hard disk that Apple supply for the MacBook Pro (where changing hard disks is not for the faint-hearted and takes the portable out of warranty)!
(The SuperDuper! web page is here http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html It's free for what I did and costs i think 29.95 for advanced functions)
So much for sublime - what's the ridiculous ?
I was idly glancing through the December issue of Windows ITPro and there was a Review of the "Toshiba 320GB USB 2.0 Portable 2.5" External Hard Drive" (long name but that's the name they used at the top of the column).
What was ridiculous was that every hard disk manufacturer under the sun has their own completely equivalent 320GB USB 2.0 2.5 portable external drive (I have one from Buffalo for instance and the Western Digital one looks really nice too) and very probably the Toshiba one actually uses a drive from one of those manufactures.
Yet the article was written as if such a drive was kind of new and revolutionary and that you could only get one from Toshiba.
Now it's well known to people from England (where the magazines often say that they don't like the product they are testing) that US magazines always like to put a positive slant on things they are testing, but ignoring the fact here that there are many alternatives (in slightly different physical sizes and in a wide range of disk sizes) if you want a portable USB drive is just criminal - or to put it in another way to match the title of this piece, ridiculous.
If you have been waiting for a SPD 2007 book that doesn't come from MS Press or doesn't only cover site design, your wait is over because two new SPS 2007 books are just out and are in Stock at Amazon US.
First there's the Woody Windischman (+ a couple of other named authors)
"Professional Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007" from Wrox
Amazon US: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0470287616/heme0f
and secondly there's the SPD 2007 Bible,
Amazon US:
which they seem to have rushed into "the shops" (Amazon) once the Wrox title came out, because it wasn't due for a couple of weeks.
P.S. I thought that was it, but I see that "Using Content Types in SharePoint 2007 (Charles River Media) has just made it into stock too
Amazon US: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1584506695/heme0f
Note: All of the addresses of the KB / Articles - 2007 Products / MS / Non-MS Articles below were valid at the time I added them to the WSS FAQ
site and to this file. I can't guarantee that they still are.
(Items are added to the WSS FAQ throughout the week so you will find new items more quickly by checking at wss.collutions.com or www.wssfaq.com daily.)
From 21st - 27th December 2008
NOTE: Amendment to KB articles: Microsoft are now not amending the date of a KB article if the change made is marked as a version point change (so from 2.2 to 2.3 for instance).
This ought to mean that the amendment made is cosmetic rather than important as important text changes ought to result in a major version change (such as from 2.2 to 3.0).
Because of this change and to avoid unnecessary effort I will in future not amend the listings in the WSS FAQ sites if only a minor version change has taken place.
I will continue to amend both the date and version numbers of major version changes and of course will continue to add all relevant new KB articles that my RSS feeds and other sources give me.
I.1 2007 KB Articles (*now only one section for WSS and MOSS*)
New
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;960010
Description of the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 cumulative update package (WSS server-package): December 16, 2008
18th December 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;960011
Description of the SharePoint Server 2007 cumulative update package (MOSS server-package): December 16, 2008
18th December 2008
Modifed
None
I.b Forefront KB Articles
New or Modified
None
I.c InfoPath 2007 KB Articles
New
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;959638&sd=rss&spid=11303
Description of the InfoPath 2007 hotfix package (Infopath.msp, Ipeditor.msp): December 16, 2008
18th December 2008
Modified
None
I.d SPD 2007 KB Articles
New or Modified
None
II. Articles - 2007 Products (no longer with all links to articles for other Office 2007 and other 2007 Products)
New
A. Office 2007 Server Products
http://www.harbar.net/articles/spca.aspx
SharePoint Central Administration: High Availability, Load Balancing, Security & General Recommendations (Blog - Spencer Harbar)
26th December 2008
http://blogs.msdn.com/maximeb/archive/2008/12/23/fixing-absolute-urls-for-all-alternate-access-mappings-aam-of-content-editor-web-part-with-a-control-adapter.aspx
Fixing absolute URLs for all Alternate Access Mappings (AAM) of Content Editor Web Part with a Control Adapter (Blog - Maxime Bombardier)
23rd December 2008
http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/blogs/LKuhn/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?List=29310d0a%2D1eda%2D4834%2Dbb4c%2D06ee575a40c3&ID=76
People Search Content Editor Web Part (Blog - Larry Kühn)
13th December 2008
B. Other Office 2007 products
None
C. Other relevant products
None
Modified
None
III WebCasts (+ PodCasts, On-Line courses) for 2007 Products
http://www.microsoft.com/winme/0711/31250/Installation_and_Config/Default.html
Microsoft Search Server 2008 Express: Installation & Configuration (Video)
25th December 2008 (date added)
http://www.microsoft.com/winme/0711/31250/End_User_Experience/Default.html
Microsoft Search Server 2008 Express: User Experience (Video)
25th December 2008 (date added)
http://www.microsoft.com/winme/0711/31250/Federation/Default.html
Microsoft Search Server 2008 Express: Federation Feature (Video)
25th December 2008 (date added)
http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032396942&EventCategory=5&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US
MSDN Webcast: SharePoint Products and Technologies for Internet Site Development: Authentication (Level 300) (Todd Bleeker, Mindsharp)
11th December 2008
http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032395115&EventCategory=5&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US
TechNet Webcast: Rights Management Services in Windows Server 2008 (Level 400) (Yung Chou)
10th December 2008
http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032396675&EventCategory=5&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US
MSDN Webcast: BenkoTips Live and On Demand: SharePoint Server Features with Scot Hillier (Level 100) (Scot Hillier, Scot Hillier Technical Solutions, LLC and Mike Benkovich)
10th December 2008
http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032396672&EventCategory=5&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US
MSDN Webcast: SharePoint Products and Technologies for Internet Site Development: Custom Fields, Web Parts, and Lists (Level 200) (Todd Bleeker, Mindsharp)
9th December 2008
http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032396670&EventCategory=5&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US
MSDN Webcast: SharePoint Products and Technologies for Internet Site Development: .COM Branding (Level 200) (Doug Ware, Elumenotion, LLC)
4th December 2008
IV WSS v3 FAQ
New
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1647
V.187 (2008) Professional Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services (Wrox - Paul Turley, Thiago Silva, Bryan C. Smith, Ken Withee) *released*
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1648
V.188 (2008) Applied Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services (Prologika Press - Teo Lachev) *released*
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1649
V.189 (2008) Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services (McGraw-Hill Osborne - Brian Larson) *released*
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1650
V.190 (2008) Pro SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services (Apress - Rodney Landrum, Shawn McGehee, Walter J. Voytek II) *released*
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1651
V.191 (2008) Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services Unleashed (Sams - Michael Lisin, Jim Joseph, Amit Goyal)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1652
V.192 (2008) Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services Step by Step (MS Press - Stacia Misner)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1654
V.193 Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services 2005 (McGraw-Hill Osborne - Brian Larson) *released*
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1655
V.194 Professional SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services (Wrox - Paul Turley, Todd Bryant, James Counihan, Dave DuVarney) *released*
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1656
V.195 Pro SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services (Apress - Rodney Landrum, Walter J. Voytek II) *released*
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1657
V.196 Mastering SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services Infrastructure Design (Sybex - Joseph L. Jorden) *released*
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1658
V.197 Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services Step by Step (MS Press - Stacia Misner and Hitachi Consulting) *released*
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1659
V.198 Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services (Sams - Michael Lisin, Jim Joseph) *released
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1660
V.199 Developer's Guide to Reporting Services 2005 (PDSA, Inc. - John A. Kuhn, Paul D. Sheriff) *released*
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1661
V.200 SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services in Action (Manning Publications - Bret Updegraff) *released*
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1663
V.201 Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services (in German) (MS Press Deutschland - Martin B. Schultz; Jörg Knuth, Volker Pruß) *released*
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1662
V.201A Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services (in German) (MS Press Deutschland - Martin B. Schultz; Jörg Knuth, Volker Pruß) *released*
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1665
V.202 (2008) Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services - Das Praxisbuch (in German) (MS Press Deutschland - Martin B. Schultz; Jörg Knuth, Volker Pruß)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1664
V.202A (2008) Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services - Das Praxisbuch (in German) (MS Press Deutschland - Martin B. Schultz; Jörg Knuth, Volker Pruß)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1646
VII.41A Professional Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services (Wrox - ISBN: 978-0-470-24201-8)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1666
VII.42 Pro SharePoint 2007 Development Techniques (Apress - ISBN: 1-59059-913-6) - Chapter 1 - Incorporating ASP.NET 2.0 into Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1667
VII.43 SharePoint 2007 Development Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (Apress - ISBN: 1-4302-0961-5) Chapter 1 - Site Management
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1669
VII.44 Foundations of WF: an Introduction to Windows Workflow Foundation (Apress - ISBN: 1-59059-718-4) Chapter 1 - Introduction to Workflow and Windows Workflow Foundation
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1670
VII.45 Pro WF: Windows Workflow in .NET 3.0 (Apress - ISBN: 1-59059-778-8) Chapter 8 - Workflow Persistence)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1671
VII.46 Pro SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services (Apress - ISBN: 1-59059-992-6) Chapter 1 - Introducing the Reporting Services Architecture
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1672
VII.47 Pro PerformancePoint Server 2007: Building Business Intelligence Solutions (Apress - ISBN: 1-59059-961-6) Chapter 1 - Business Intelligence
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1653
X.297 WSS3 Workflow Tools (codeplex - Wouter van Vugt, Chris Predeek, Ted Pattison)
Modified
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1294
V.79 SharePoint 2007 Development Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (Apress - Mark Gerow) (prices updated/added)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1324
V.91 Developing Applications with SharePoint (Charles River - Brian Hochgurtel) *released*
Deleted
- duplicate of Item V.79 (one OUT / one not out)
- V.124 Pro ADO.NET Data Services: with ASP.NET 3.5, Sharepoint and BizTalk (Apress - John Shaw, Simon Evans) as the title has been revised and no longer includes SharePoint which is also not mentioned in the description of the book.
V WSSv2 KB Articles (plus SPS 2003 Hot fixes)
New or Modified
None
VI WSSv2 FAQ
New or Modified
None
VII. MS Articles
New or Modified
None
I thought I was pretty clever.
I created a new web part page which contained some Federation Search web parts which got me results that were restricted to (the new) MSDN Forums and (the new) TechNet Forums respectively and stored it in the "Shared Documents" document library (OK, it would have been better to store it in a document library caled "SearchPages" but I was testing...). I then amended the standard search box so that it had two different icons (instead of one) such that clicking on the second icon sent the search string to my new web part page that then used the search string to give me the hits from the forums. It worked too (eventually).
BUT (as always there is a but) between me clicking on my second icon and getting my search results I got a screen saying that "This Page has been modified since you opened it. You must open the page again." which provided me with a "Refresh page" button, which when clicked on did go to that page and did provide me with my results.
Also when I was already located at that page and I did a new search again, I didn't get that intermediate (and thoroughly annoying) error page.
So I wasn't so clever after all. It annoyed me and try as I could, I couldn't get rid of it.
Meanwhile clicking on the first icon went to my standard resultspage (located in _layouts) directly with no error page in between.
Today, after many days of fighting the error page problem, I took a different tack.
Here are the details.
- I made a copy of my Shared Documents search results page and gave it an appropriate name (MSDNandTechNetsearchresults.aspx) (using the Windows Explorer link when in the document library).
- I discovered that although the page still had all the zones I had defined, it had no longer had any web parts, so I needed to add the ones "MSDN Forums" and "TechNet Forums" back in.
- I then needed to create a new control in addition to the NewsearchInputBox that I had previous created (with Sequence=90) when following http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms470880.aspx which is to amend the normal control and which thus preserves the Control's name.
This new version of mine had a new control name and sequence (Id="MikeSearchInputBox" Sequence="80") in the MikeSearchArea.xml file.
Note: You'll understand where all these files are when you read the above MSDN web page
- Then I needed to amend the MikeSearchArea.ascx file so that instead of going to the standard searchpages file, it went to my new web part page
SPHttpUtility.UrlPathEncode(web.Url + "/Shared Documents/MSDNandTechNetForumsSearch.aspx", false, false)
Note: I thought I'd play safe here and use 'Shared%20Documents' rather than 'Shared Documents'. That only led me to losing an hour as the search insisted on trying to go to a /Shared%2520Documents/MSDNandTechNetForumsSearch.aspx">http://<servername>/Shared%2520Documents/MSDNandTechNetForumsSearch.aspx page. Just use 'Shared Documents' and all is well.
(Other amendments to the files created by following the above article were only to make sure the names were matching [= all had Mike as a prefix instead of New])
- Then you need to run the three command line statements listed in the MSDN article (first time around without the -force)
stsadm -o installfeature -filename MikeSearchBox\Feature.xml -force
stsadm -o activatefeature -filename MikeSearchBox\Feature.xml -url http://wss30sp1 -force
iisreset
- Then you need to go into your new Search results page (here MSDNandTechNetsearchresults.aspx) with SharePoint Designer 2007 and change the search control so that it uses MikeSearchInputBox instead of SmallSearchInputBox.
- The final step is to create a link to your new Search results page. I did this going to Quick Launch (Site Actions / Site settings) and adding first a new heading "Search Pages" (I'm going to have more of these with different scopes now I know how to do it) and then creating a new link (MSDN and TechNet Forums Search) in that part of Quick Launch.
So now, even though I still have to make an extra click to get to the Search page, at least this extra click isn't caused by an error page. It's also much more easily extensible to add links to new search pages to the Search Pages part of Quick Launch than the system of continually adding new icons to the standard search function I was using before.
It's not that long ago (this http://mikewalsh.bilsimser.com/PermaLink,guid,768c223a-4f27-479e-8f21-cbc822ae2250.aspx is the re-posted version of that post) that I posted about the strange situation that after installing Search Server 2008 Express on top of WSS 3.0, I had a set of search web parts available to me in both the Search Server site and in the (original) WSS 3.0 site but that they weren't able to be added (although listed) in the WSS 3.0 site.
I was documenting every change I made and then checking this and the situation was always the same. Yet I knew that in an identical installation (VM copy) something had "clicked" and suddenly I *could* add web parts in that VM copy's WSS 3.0 site. So I kept making a change and then trying but still nothing.
Well now I don't think I have made any change to the WSS 3.0 system but now I CAN add a search web part to my search results page that is stored in a document library in the WSS 3.0 site.
As far as I can see (and no guarantees on this because I've made such assumptions before and been proved wrong) the only change I have made since I last tried and failed to add a search web part to my search results page is the following.
On the home page (default.aspx) I added in the right-hand-column (above the WSS image) the Advanced Search box. To my surprise that worked.
I then immediately (and I mean that, I "ran") opened the search results page (in a document library in the WSS 3.0 site) and now I could add the Federation Search web part there.
I'm still in a state of shock and what's more important still somewhat disbelieving that that (adding the Advanced Search box) is the only change I've done. What I do remember is that I tried at one time to add the Federation Search web part to default.aspx and it failed and I even have a vague feeling that I've already tried to add just that Advanced Search box to default.aspx and it too failed.
So I'm wondering (and this is a sign of desperation because I don't want to have to do this entire installation again - I ran out of disk space and so I don't have yet another copy of the VM just after the installation of MSSX) whether the fact that my browser (IE7) crashed and I had to re-start it from zero had anything to do with this working now - i.e. some of my earlier server changes made the difference only IE wasn't letting me see them.
Anyway for now, I couldn't care less (which you Americans should note is the correct way to say this phrase :) ) because I'm going to start setting up my Foundation Search page !
As all of you will know one of the main advantages of WSS 3.0 (and MOSS 2007) over WSS 2.0 (or SPS 2003) was that users no longer saw things they couldn't do anything with.
This is officially known as "security trimming".
Now search has always had the problem that depending on the rights given to the indexing routine it could well be indexing stuff that you either don't want any non-Administrator to see or - more commonly - that you don't want a particular section of the user population to see.
That of course is where security trimming is supposed to come in. The user's search will filter out from the totality of hits all those documents (or areas of the site) that that particular user isn't allowed to see and will present to him/her only the ones he/she can look at.
That's the theory and in general it works.
But according to the search book's chapter (8) on "Securing your search results" there are some cases where that isn't the case.
One of those is if you have placed the Best Bets web part (which naturally isn't called the "Best Bets" web part - that would be too simple - it's actually called the "Search High Confidence Results" web part) on a page then the "results are not security trimmed".
The reason given is (and I don't understand it but you might) "SharePoint does not place ACLs on best bets, and best bets are shown in their own web part, separated from the search results. (That's a reason?)
Then there's the interesting suggestion that "The easiest way to secure your environment completely is to removed the Best Bets web part from your search page".
Great. Give us a web part; don't tell us that it's flawed and then in a book most people won't buy recommend not using it. Did I mention in an earlier post that you should buy this book ?
Another case that gets a brief mention in a paragraph in this chapter is the fact that if you have a page that displays a (secured) list through a web part, then if you allow crawling of the page, the contents of the List will be available in the search results even for people who are not allowed to see the list! This just gets worse and worse ...
OK. Let's assume you know not to use the Search High Confidence Results web part and you exclude all pages with web parts containing secure lists, one way of securing data that is totally secure is to use Information Rights Management (IRM), right?
Actually yes, but in Search terms what we want is that people who do have the IRM rights to access the document will see the document in the list of documents returned by their searches and there's a snag there too which again is hidden away in a short section on IRM.
The details taken from that (p191) are as follows.
Included in Search: You put a document into a SP Library and then make it IRM enabled ("by Sharepoint").
Not included in Search: You IRM enable a document locally and then upload it to a SP document library.
Now I don't know about you but I would have thought that IRM enabling the document before you add it to a SP library ought clearly to be the standard way of doing things as otherwise there is a time gap when the document is available on the SP site but not protected by IRM. Yet if you do that, that document isn't available to *anyone* (even people with rights to look at it) via the SP search routine.
[Later: a comment from Edgar Maucourant "About the IRM part, As far as I know when you enable IRM on a Document Library, all documents are stored unencrypted. When you request a document, SharePoint call the RMS server to encrypt the document and set the appropriate rights for you on the document based on the paramaters defined for the library and your rights. This way any documents are encrypted and secured on demand. I can't see any "time gap" but maybe I miss a point :) " cleared up this presumed problem which was caused by misreading (I prefer to call it poor wording) of the text in the chapter. That text said "the content must be IRM enabled by SharePoint after being put into a SharePoint library" which I took to mean that you upload a document ("content") and then "IRM enable" it (that single document).That to me is a reasonable interpretation of those words, but from Edgar's comment it seems that you first IRM enable the Document Library - and so when you add the document (="content") it's already covered. Maybe they could improve the text in the next printing (if that indeed is the case)!]
Anyway I haven't a clue how I can IRM enable a document that is in a SP library and they don't say so.
The point again is that you shouldn't need to buy a book to get this sort of information presented to you in a clear way (if visible only to people reading every single word of the book). But as it is in the book, again, it just adds to the reasons for buying it.
(However be warned that my usual method of buying a book; putting it on the shelf; and by magic knowing everything that is in it; won't work!)
There have often been questions in the forums about how to upgrade from SPS 2003 to WSS 3.0.
The snappy answer is that you can't, but that's not very helpful so the threads move on to the next level which is how you get the data from SPS 2003 to WSS 3.0.
There are two main routes
- move the data to WSS 2.0 and then upgrade the WSS 2.0 to WSS 3.0
- upgrade the SPS 2003 to MOSS 2007 and then move the data to WSS 3.0.
Both of these options have the same sort of problem, namely that SPS 2003 and MOSS 2007 both have more functionality than the equivalent WSS product so many methods of - in effect - "downgrading" won't work.
My preference is for moving the data to WSS 2.0 because in SPS 2003 there's a clear dividing line between the WSS 2.0 sites "layer" and the SPS "layer" and so the chances are that most "WSS" sites and lists will not contain any SPS functionality and so will be movable.
My next preference is to go right down to the lowest level of saving the data. By this I mean that I don't bother with backup/restores and smigrates but instead do a number of "Save List as Templates"s (with content) to save the data. It's quick, easy and as the lowest common denominator is the most likely in my view to not include any SPS functionality. Anyway, finding out if it does is simple - just try to create a WSS 2.0 list from such a template and if it works, fine. If it doesn't you'll have to use manual methods (typically involving Datasheet View) in order to transfer the *contents* of the List rather than the whole List.
Yesterday as part of the effort of moving content to the new (Mindsharp) hosted v3 WSS FAQ site, I needed to actually do that.
The (German) WSS FAQ site is actually a WSS 2.0 site in SPS 2003. It's a very simple one with nothing there that isn't in normal WSS 2.0 so I wasn't expecting any surprises when I created v2 templates from several of the lists there.
As I only have a v3 site in a VM, I then had to create a WSS 2.0 site from scratch which I haven't done for some time. This of course went into another VM.
The way I did this - and I'm sure the easiest way - was to get hold of the MSDN disk containing iso files for Windows Server 2003 R2. I first installed the product (Standard Edition) from the CD1 iso file and then was able to use the CD2 iso file to install WSS 2.0 (which required a bit of disconnecting/reassigning/connecting of an iso file to the CDROM "device" because that WSS 2.0 wanted access to CD1 but otherwise was straightforward).
Then I added the list templates to the List template gallery and created a list each from each template.
So that was the transfer from SPS 2003 to WSS 2.0 phase over.
The next step was to upgrade that to WSS 3.0.
The first step was to make sure I had done all the pre-requisites so I looked in the Installation view in my WSS FAQ site's "2007 Articles" list and found the TechNet web page starter page for upgrading to WSS 3.0
http://technet2.microsoft.com/windowsserver/WSS/en/library/91046a84-57a1-40cb-a32c-ff3395073dc91033.mspx?mfr=true
(There's also a downloadable version but I didn't want to read it in the bath and I knew that what I needed would be in a couple of web pages only)
I followed the various steps and only noticed a couple of things that didn't apply/work for me.
The first - didn't apply - was that I was told I needed to install WSS 2.0 SP2. I didn't need to because that was already installed when using the WSS 2.0 from Windows Server 2003 *R2* (as it told me after I *did* try to install it!)
The second - didn't work - was the preconfig.exe that I downloaded from the Internet to the VM's harddisk and ran from there as it said I should. Running that gave errors. However the technet web page said that you could also run pre-config after doing the installation of WSS 3.0 and before running the installation wizard (when you would be using a different preconfig.exe that was part of the WSS 3.0 installation). So that's what I did - installed WSS 3.0; exited; ran preconfig.exe from the BIN directory (it was successful) and then looked for and ran the Configuration wizard.
[I should at this stage point out that, before starting the WSS 3.0 installation phase for the upgrade in place, I shutdown the VM and made a copy of the directory. Upgrade-in-place runs are supposed to fail often, although mine never have, and you can't back out from them. Usually you would take a backup but that's stupid if you have a VM - just make either a snapshot before doing the WSS 3.0 installation or do as I did and make a complete copy of the files.]
It all really went like clockwork, though and i never did need that (VM) directory copy.
The final step for me - though not for people moving to a new WSS 3.0 server, who would use the new server for that operation - was to then Save (now v3) List as Template again and again save the result to the hard disk of my client.
So now those Lists which will not change until the new WSS FAQ site is ready for them (the three WSS 2.0 information only lists) are ready to go. I'll make new templates from the Lists with v3 information (WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007 information) at the very last minute before adding them to the new site.
The Collutions site has been down since last Wednesday and shows no signs at the moment of making it back. Certainly I've heard nothing.
So I'm very grateful to the US training (etc.) company Mindsharp (http://www.mindsharp.com/) for agreeing to provide a v3 (!) site for the WSS FAQ to replace the Collutions one. (i.e. this will be the site that I will be updating in future).
It looks at the moment as if this will be like the German mirror site - i.e. http://www.wssv3faq.com will be a way to get to the site, but the address when you get there will be a Mindsharp one.
As of today http://www.wssv3faq.com still points to the German site (just as http://www.wssfaq.com does) but I'll point it to the new Mindsharp site as soon as it's up and populated which will hopefully be by next weekend.
This needs a bit of an explanation.
A while ago after I discovered that the explanation in my book for how to amend the standard search box in WSS 3.0 (after you had installed Search Server 2008 Express (or MSSX) on top of it) which worked when I did it (in Windows Server 2003) didn't work in an identical installation working in Windows Server 2008, I started investigating how to get it to work in Windows Server 2008 too and eventually succeeded!
Like all good testers, before I made those tests, I took a copy of the VM.
So I now have two VMs which started out as being identical but where in one I've amended the Search locations etc. (which included creating a new search results page) and one where I haven't.
Today I decided to document the process.
There are two main activities.
One is to install a feature which amends the standard search box, but when you do that you need to already have a Search Results page to point the search box at and for that you can either chose to point it at the *MSSX site's* Search results page, or you can create a new one - typically by creating a web part page; storing it in a document library and then amending it by adding in one or more Search web parts.
So I decided to start with that and I created a new Web Parts Page; stored it in the standard "Shared Documents" document library (giving it lots of rows and columns) and then did Edit page so I could add at least one "Federated Search" web part. The set of Search web parts had been added to the installation when I installed MSSX on top of 'WSS 3.0 + SP1'.
At first everything looked fine, when I clicked on "Add a Web Part" I got three sets of Web Parts - "List and Libraries"; "All Web Parts" (both of these are standard WSS 3.0 web parts) and "Search".
The problem however was that when I tried to add any of the web parts in the Search group, I got an error message (usually - but not always - "unable to add selected web part." "Cannot Import this web part".
Now I remembered having exactly this problem the first time around with that other copy of the VM and what then happened was that suddenly (after I had been fiddling around) it cleared and I *could* add search web parts in the WSS 3.0 default site. (Now, too, it's possible to add these parts in the MSSX site).
This was in fact one of the reasons for repeating these actions - to try to see what exactly made the difference and "turned on the switch" allowing me to add Search web parts. Only this time I'd document what I was doing and try adding a search web part after every single action.
The present state of play is that despite all the things I've tried, I still can't add these web parts to the WSS 3.0 site. But there's a key there somewhere, it's just a question of trying to remember allthe things I did last time (which was - horrors - three weeks ago).
Interesting, though, I think you'll agree.
P.S. Just to make it quite clear. I have no problems in adding Search parts to the Search site. I can thus create Web Part Pages in the Search site that I can use for the Results from a search done in the default (WSS 3.0) site. The problem is only if I want that Web Part Page to be in the default (WSS 3.0) site. Then the Search parts are listed as available, but aren't.
You may remember that I had problems because at work on the keyboard there I had specified a password containing "*" in a server system that had first been installed (by no chopice of mine because this was Windows 2008 where the installation of the US version of the operating system will always install the US keyboard leaving you to amend that setting later) with the US keyboard and - guess what, the US keyboard is the one that is valid for the password because the password is asked for before the operating system gets its settings!
Anyway, the problem then was that the "*" on a Finnish keyboard is in a place where there is NO KEY at all in a US keyboard and so it was impossible to find the US keyboard equivalent, because there wasn't one.
Anyway, when I re-installed (I was forced to !) the Operating system I very carefully chose keys that were not on the far right of the keyboard, so there were US keybpard equivalents.
To make it easy for myself - because it didn't seem possible (= wasn't as easy as usual) to say that I wanted a permanent password - I decided to use my usual password but using a ! (shift-1) at the end instead of the * and then it was logical when a new password that I would move along and use Shift-2 (= ").
Then I transfered the VM back to my home machine for the weekend **and I couldn't login**. I naturally tried the old password; the new password; both with Caps On and nothing worked. So I presumed that the problem was in the transfer (which had just made it onto a 16GB USB stick) and I've have to wait until I got back to work.
However, today I had a brainwave (a very small one :) ) and I had a look at a US keyboard. Small Oops the US keyboard's Shift-2 isn't a " but it's a @ (which is my AltGr-2).
So I decided that I had two more possible attempts. To use the @ on my keyboard or to use the key (in fact Ä) on my keyboard that is where the " is located on a US keyboard.
I tried them in order. To no-one's surprise the second one I tried was the right one.
---------------------
So why ? I changed the password using the same kind of keyboard that I used to enter the password later. Why then didn't it work ?
It's obvious really. When I changed the password I was already logged in to the operating system and so the Finnish keyboard was in operation. I did therefore type in AAAA" and that is what the system changed the password to. When however I was asked to login, I was not logged in at that time (:)) and so the US keyboard was in operation hence it wanted me to type in the " on the US keyboard which of course wasn't in the same place.
Small quiz: If the system locks and you need to enter Name and Password to get back in, which password do you write "AAAA and Shift-2" or "AAAA and Ä" ?
(The answer is at the end)
--------------------
You may well call this - not letting you change the keyboard when installing an operating system but only afterwards - a bug.
I'd call it a MASSIVE design error.
Answer: You use "AAAA and Ä". If you had shut down the OS and re-started it you would have needed "AAAA and Shift-2"
... and for some reason when I added this last time the system flipped out completely ...
I recently received two recent Wrox books.
- Professional Microsoft Search - Sharepoint 2007 and Search Server 2008
(Amazon US: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0470279338/heme0f)
- Professional SharePoint 2007 Design
(Amazon US: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/047028580X/heme0f)
One major difference between them is that the first deals ONLY with Search. The second on the other hand extends the boundaries of what is "Design" way past anything I would consider to be design and is in fact for me more of a mixed bag of interesting but isolated chapters on a wide range of topics.
Let's start with the first book. It's the first one I have seen on Search (and there is also the MS Press book "Inside the Index and Search engines" which I haven't seen) so it's perhaps fooolhardy to say that if you are at all interested in Search you should buy this one, but I'll say it anyway because it covers everything and more that I could think of.
(Even though the single Search chapter in the Design book had lots of stuff that I couldn't find in the Search book - which I've read all of just over half the chapters but have scanned the rest to look for just that information)
There's really only one thing that jars when reading the book and that is that there were three different people involved in writing it - and it shows. Very roughly speaking there are parts of the book that are at helicopter level (written by Microsoft non-Search specialist is my guess); then there are the parts of the book that think that everything in the product is wonderful (written by Microsoft Search specialist ?) and then there are the chapters and parts of chapters that go into details of real use of the product and are not afraid to say that things don't work as you would expect (written by the one writer who doesn't work for Microsoft is my solid guess).
There's one lovely part where it tells you that there is a "slight complication" that you don't get any search results at all if your site isn't using Kerberos. I spent hours wondering whether this was the non-Microsoft guy being sarcastic or the MS Search guy trying to justify a poor design decision ...
There's also sometimes a curious order to some of the chapters which i imagine is caused by slotting in the work of two or more authors into the same chapter.
So, for instance, the chapter on Federation Search has towards the middle a section with very complicated stuff that is followed by the simplest of all things (clicking on Modify a (Search) Web Part and changing the default values). In any normal, logical order, that very easy section would surely have come very early on in the chapter not right at the end.
But these are minor flaws. I learnt a lot by reading the chapters I have read so far and although I wouldn't give it 5 stars at Amazon, it would be worth a clear 4 and a bit.
Now on to the Design book.
Here you have the impression that they (in this case the four authors) didn't really know half of the time what they were supposed to be writing about. The foreword for instance was written by Heather Solomon and she seemed to think that this was a book about SharePoint Designer.
Well there are a few chapters on SharePoint Designer that's true but there are also chapters on standard MOSS functionality; on Search (see above - that's a really good chapter btw) and on Accessibility for what Microsoft define as the "physically challenged".
There's also an early chapter on designing your SharePoint site by using a very expensive Adobe Product (Photoshop).
This seems completely mad if you want to sell a lot of copies of a book as most people will not have this Adobe product and will certainly not feel like buying it in order to do the design. Yet the use of this product is even listed on the back cover and although at the start of the chapter there's mention that you can also use other cheaper (or free) products to do the same kind of thing, all they seem to use is that expensive product.
At the moment therefore I'm at a loss as to who ought to buy this book. Should people who want the SPD content buy it instead of a book dedicated to SPD (Hardly)? Should people specialising in Search buy it for the one Search chapter (actually the answer is probably yes, but that answer applies only to serious search specialists)? Should people wanting to know about Accessibility for the physically challenged buy it for that single chapter (imo, No)? Should people wanting information on standard MOSS functionality buy it for those chapters when there are so many other MOSS books out there both for developers and non-developers (I doubt it) ?
In other words whereas the Search book is a slam dunk buy if you want lots of Search information, with this one you'd better look at the Design book closely in a bookshop and decide if enough of it is about things you are interested in. If I were buying, I'd only buy this as a third or fourth (or fifth or sixth or ...) to add to my other more specific books.
P.S. The Amazon web site shows at present four 5 star reviews and one three star one. So far without giving it enough time, I'm inclined to side with the three star reviewer who seems to have expected what Heather Solomon indicated in her foreword, but what she got was - as i've tried to indicate above - something else.
My own Amazon review will have to wait until I've given the book as a lot more time. The Photoshop chapter alone ensures that it won't be getting 5 stars but 4 is still possible if the quality of the other chapters matches the quality of the Search chapter - despite the lack of real focus of the book as a whole.
You may remember that I had problems because at work on the keyboard there I had specified a password containing "*" in a server system that had first been installed (by no chopice of mine because this was Windows 2008 where the installation of the US version of the operating system will always install the US keyboard leaving you to amend that setting later) with the US keyboard and - guess what, the US keyboard is the one that is valid for the password because the password is asked for before the operating system gets its settings!
Anyway, the problem then was that the "*" on a Finnish keyboard is in a place where there is NO KEY at all in a US keyboard and so it was impossible to find the US keyboard equivalent, because there wasn't one.
Anyway, when I re-installed (I was forced to !) the Operating system I very carefully chose keys that were not on the far right of the keyboard, so there were US keybpard equivalents.
To make it easy for myself - because it didn't seem possible (= wasn't as easy as usual) to say that I wanted a permanent password - I decided to use my usual password but using a ! (shift-1) at the end instead of the * and then it was logical when a new password that I would move along and use Shift-2 (= ").
Then I transfered the VM back to my home machine for the weekend **and I couldn't login**. I naturally tried the old password; the new password; both with Caps On and nothing worked. So I presumed that the problem was in the transfer (which had just made it onto a 16GB USB stick) and I've have to wait until I got back to work.
However, today I had a brainwave (a very small one :) ) and I had a look at a US keyboard. Small Oops the US keyboard's Shift-2 isn't a " but it's a @ (which is my AltGr-2).
So I decided that I had two more possible attempts. To use the @ on my keyboard or to use the key (in fact Ä) on my keyboard that is where the " is located on a US keyboard.
I tried them in order. To no-one's surprise the second one I tried was the right one.
---------------------
So why ? I changed the password using the same kind of keyboard that I used to enter the password later. Why then didn't it work ?
It's obvious really. When I changed the password I was already logged in to the operating system and so the Finnish keyboard was in operation. I did therefore type in AAAA" and that is what the system changed the password to. When however I was asked to login, I was not logged in at that time (:)) and so the US keyboard was in operation hence it wanted me to type in the " on the US keyboard which of course wasn't in the same place.
Small quiz: If the system locks and you need to enter Name and Password to get back in, which password do you write "AAAA and Shift-2" or "AAAA and Ä" ?
(The answer is at the end)
--------------------
You may well call this - not letting you change the keyboard when installing an operating system but only afterwards - a bug.
I'd call it a MASSIVE design error.
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Answer: "AAAA and Ä" because the operating system is running. If you however shut it down and re-start it, *then* you need "AAAA and Shift-2" !
P.S. The Amazon web site shows at present four 5 star reviews and one three star one. So far without giving it enough time, I'm inclined to side with the three star reviewer who seems to have expected what Heather Solomon indicated in her foreword, but what she got was - as i've tried to indicate above - something else.
My own Amazon review will have to wait until I've given the book as a lot more time. The Photoshop chapter alone ensures that it won't be getting 5 stars but 4 is still possible if the quality of the other chapters matches the quality of the Search chapter - despite the lack of real focus of the book as a whole.
Note: All of the addresses of the KB / Articles - 2007 Products / MS / Non-MS Articles below were valid at the time I added them to the WSS FAQ
site and to this file. I can't guarantee that they still are.
(Items are added to the WSS FAQ throughout the week so you will find new items more quickly by checking at wss.collutions.com or www.wssfaq.com daily.)
From 16th - 22nd November 2008
NOTE: Amendment to KB articles: Microsoft are now not amending the date of a KB article if the change made is marked as a version point change (so from 2.2 to 2.3 for instance). This ought to mean that the amendment made is cosmetic rather than important as important text changes ought to result in a major version change (such as from 2.2 to 3.0).
Because of this change and to avoid unnecessary effort I will in future not amend the listings in the WSS FAQ sites if only a minor version change has taken place. I will continue to amend both the date and version numbers of major version changes and of course will continue to add all relevant new KB articles that my RSS feeds and other sources give me.
I.1 2007 KB Articles (*now only one section for WSS and MOSS*)
New
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;958577
Error message when you visit a sub-folder under a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 list that contains more than 2,000 list items that have non-inheriting permissions: "#RENDER FAILED"
13th November 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;958579
Error message when you perform a content deployment of a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 site collection that has a custom site template: "Cannot import site"
13th November 2008
Modifed
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;953445
Error message when you edit an .aspx Web page in SharePoint Server 2007: "Value does not fall within the expected range" (ver 2.0)
17th November 2008
I.b Forefront KB Articles
New or Modified
None
I.c InfoPath 2007 KB Articles
New or Modified
None
I.d SPD 2007 KB Articles
New or Modified
None
II. Articles - 2007 Products (no longer with all links to articles for other Office 2007 and other 2007 Products)
New
A. Office 2007 Server Products
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/dd148643.aspx
Light Up SharePoint With Silverlight 2 Web Parts (MSDN Mag, Nov 2008 - Steve Fox, Paul Stubb)
21st November 2008 (date added - Magazine date November 2008)
http://redmondmag.com/features/article.asp?editorialsid=2581
The SharePoint Upgrade Trap (Nov 2008 Redmond Mag - Brien Posey)
15th November 2008 (date added)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263467.aspx
Deploy software updates for Office SharePoint Server 2007 (Updated 12th November 2008)
12th November 2008
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc288269.aspx
Deploy software updates for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (Updated 12th November 2008)
12th November 2008
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=752cb725-969b-4732-a383-ed5740f02e93&DisplayLang=en
Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 Training Kit - November Preview
12th November 2008
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd277865.aspx
Performance and capacity requirements for Hyper-V (Updated 6th November 2008)
6th November 2008
B. Other Office 2007 products
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=537ac5b3-9ac2-4667-916b-99928bca9f70&displaylang=en&tm
SharePoint Designer 2007: Non Technical Resources (Trials, Pricing, Purchasing, Activation, Licensing and Support) (ver 2.0)
13th November 2008
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd197636.aspx
Move all databases (Office Forms Server 2007) (updated 23rd October 2008)
23rd October 2008
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd197635.aspx
Recover your farm after a configuration database problem (Office Forms Server 2007) (updated 23rd October 2008)
23rd October 2008
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc197307.aspx
Plan for capturing and storing deleted objects (Office Forms Server) (updated 16th May 2008)
16th May 2008
C. Other relevant products
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=0a8e1a32-6524-4567-af65-633f0dbe033c&displaylang=en&tm
Windows Small Business Server 2008 Premium Trial Software Download
13th November 2008
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=0f513086-078b-47a8-a889-842dc93a69ab&displaylang=en&tm
Live Search SDK (ver 2.0)
13th November 2008 (added because it's an SDK)
Modified
None
III WebCasts (+ PodCasts, On-Line courses) for 2007 Products
http://www.microsoft.com/emea/teched2008/itpro/tv/default.aspx
TechEd EMEA session: Using MOSS 2007 to Create Rich Internet Facing Publishing Sites Using Web Content Management (Ryan Duguid)
7th November 2008
http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032391390&EventCategory=5&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US
TechNet Webcast: Building SQL Server Reporting Services 2008 Large-Scale Solutions (Level 400) (Denny Lee)
31st October 2008
http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032390947&EventCategory=3&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US
Sharepoint: Basics Tips & Tricks (Dominic Aguilar)
14th October 2008
IV WSS v3 FAQ
New
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1604
VI.136 TaskSync (commercial - MicroLink LLc)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1593
X.220 SharePoint User Change Password (codeplex - "Filip_CZE")
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1594
X.221 SharePoint User AD information Web Part (codeplex - "Filip_CZE")
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1595
X.222 SharePoint Search Bench v2.0 (codeplex - "kindohm")
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1596
X.223 ULS Viewer (codeplex - Keir Gordon)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1597
X.224 SharePoint PowerEventReceivers 1.0 (codeplex - cglessner)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1598
X.225 SharePoint SUSHI (codeplex - " josephflu")
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1599
X.226 SharePoint Farm Site Collection Backup (codeplex - fmuntean)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1600
X.227 Office SharePoint Server 2007 farm automated setup (codeplex - "emberger")
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1601
X.228 WSS and MOSS Home Drive 1.1 (codeplex - " gilesh")
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1602
X.229 Welcome Webpart for MOSS 2007 (codeplex - "cygoh")
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1603
X.230 InfoPath Forms Services 2007 Web Testing Toolkit for VS 2008 (codeplex - MS people)
Modified
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1364
V.114 Seamless Teamwork: Using Microsoft SharePoint Technologies to Collaborate, Innovate, and Drive Business in New Ways (MS Press - Michael Sampson) *released*
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1379
V.119 Inside SharePoint Administration (Charles River - Steve Caravajal, Shane Young, Todd O. Klindt) *released*
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1410
V.127 Using Content Types in SharePoint 2007 (Charles River Media - David Gerhardt, Kevin Martin)
(chapter titles added)
V WSSv2 KB Articles (plus SPS 2003 Hot fixes)
New or Modified
None
VI WSSv2 FAQ
New or Modified
None
VII. MS Articles
New or Modified
None
When I wrote my book I did it using Windows Server 2003 R2 and in order. In other words anyone following it chapter by chapter would see what the screen shots show. No more, no less.
Now I'm using a WSS 3.0+SP1 installation (the same version number I used in the book) that was installed on Windows Server 2008 and I've done exactly the same installation of MSSX (Search server 2008 Express) on top of it that I did when writing the book. Only, oddly, things are different.
To save me writing it all again here's the text of a message I wrote today to the Search Server 2008 Express forum.
---------------------------------
I earlier installed MSSX on top of WSS 3.0 + SP1 on Windows Server 2003.
At the end of that process I went to (WSS) Central Administration/Application Management/Manage Web Applications and needed to Activate Office Server Enterprise Search and Office Server Site Server.
I then went to the (WSS) Home Page and went to Site Actions / Site Settings and three new Search selections (Search settings; Search sources; Search keywords) were listed under the Site Collection Administration section.
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I later installed MSSX on top of WSS 3.0 + SP1 on Windows Server 2008. (same version number of WSS 3.0)
At the end of that process I went to (WSS) Central Administration/Application Management/Manage Web Applications and Office Server Enterprise Search and Office Server Site Server were already activated.
I then went to the (WSS) Home Page and went to Site Actions / Site Settings and NONE of the three new Search selections (Search settings; Search sources; Search keywords) were listed under the Site Collection Administration section.
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Now I see this as extremely odd to say the least - unless the Search Server team have amended their download exe since I downloaded it for the book (which would be odd because that was the RTM version - not the beta). Can it really make such a big difference which Operating system you are running your apps on ?
The more serious problem is that the reason I had these details (and screen shots - so I can prove they look differently now) was because I showed in the book how to amend the standard WSS search box once you had installed MSSX to give more options. Even going manually to the Search Settings page at the WSS (as opposed to the MSSX) site and entering the value of the MSSX default page for where to search seemingly has no effect any more.
P.S. There's another curiousity. The book version of the Advanced search results (for MSSX) included a column with Live Search results. This so-called "Federated Search" was something that I hadn't specified in that Windows Server 2003 version (mainly because at the time I had no idea what Federated Search meant (!)), yet it was there, as the screen shot clearly shows. I even commented on it being there by using "no such thing as a free lunch - Live Search" as the caption of the screen shot. Now, in the present (Win 2008) version, there's no Live Search column (unless you go in an manually specify one). How odd.
Just to let me know that searching Amazon Books for SharePoint (my standard search) isn't enough, I was pointed at three new (to me) SharePoint CD and DVD courses when I did a search for SharePoint but of the whole site.
It might be worth having a quick look at the three new ones (item numbers 174, 175 and 176) at the B. Courses section of the Books page
(http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/V%20Books.aspx)
After that search had shown that I was missing a few things, I thought it might be time to do a new search of the German and French Amazon sites as it had been a while.
That too was worthwhile. There are very few books on SharePoint in French and German that aren't translations of English language books, but the search on the French site found another one that will be out (like so many - do they know something I don't know, as it seems late to me?) in the first quarter of 2009
That one is "SharePoint 2007 - Personnalisation, développement et déploiement (in French) (Editions ENI - Stéphane Eyskens, Ludovic Lefort)" at
http://www.amazon.fr/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/2746046725/wssfaq0fe-21
and of course it's available for Pre-Order already.
Meanwhile the German site also managed to produce a couple of new original German language books (although I'm beginning to think a couple of the ones I've listed for years (!) will never arrive.)
"Access 2007 und SharePoint im Team (in German) (MS Press Germany - Dirk Grasekamp)"
(http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/3866456514/wssfaq0e-21)
is due in February 2009 (and for selfish reasons, as I have a chapter and a half on Access 2007 and WSS 3.0 in my own book, I hope it won't be earlier!) but the other
"Praxisbuch Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (in German) (Hanser Fachbuchverlag - Dirk Larisch)"
(http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/3446417079/wssfaq0e-21)
is due in December this year.
There were also a couple more books translated into German promised, including the very good
"Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 - Best Practices (in German) (MS Press - Ben Curry, Bill English, MS SharePoint Team)"
(http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/3866456506/wssfaq0e-21)
which should be out in December with a bit of luck, plus (out already) the translation of the Ed Hild, Susie Adams book called in German
"SharePoint-Lösungen entwickeln: Intelligente Office - Dokumente mit.NET und Share Point"
(http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/3772364896/wssfaq0e-21)
Enough for the German speakers to be getting on with for a while, I think.
Search Server 2008 Express is based on SharePoint v3 but to take that fact and draw the conclusion that you should use it when you are showing a company what it is possible to do with SharePoint is in my opinion taking things way too far.
The reason for me even mentioning this is that I saw a couple of days ago a blog item from someone who claimed that they had abandoned using WSS 3.0 for proof-of-concepts at prospective SharePoint users but nowadays always used Search Server 2008 Express.
In the case he was writing about, they had a prospect for whom even MOSS would be free so it seemed odd to me that you should do any proof-of-concept with anything less than MOSS - after all if a customer who doesn't need to pay for MOSS decides on using SharePoint they are hardly likely to choose WSS 3.0 (or Search Server 2008 express!) because it's free.
So there was an "he's mad" indication right there but what about the "we've given up using WSS 3.0 and nowadays only use Search Server 2008 Express"?
Well, if anyone has been looking at the Microsoft forums they'll see that Search Server 2008 Express ("MSSX" from here in this piece) is much worse supported than WSS 3.0 / MOSS 2007 so I suppose to get support they are going to have to lie and say they are using WSS 3.0 .... Strike 1.
But let's assume they are right and technically (for team sites etc.) MSSX is WSS 3.0 plus more, then is this still a valid approach?
Not in my view, because you can in this case have your cake and eat it too, because you can install WSS 3.0 and then install MSSX on top of that.
So now you have both.
But do you have any benefits in doing things this way? Well as I think the whole idea of just installing MSSX is mad, I'm not going to spend time on trying it out and thus won't be able to give you a list of what you miss out on, with one VERY BIG exception that I already know about - size of databases.
You see, if you install only MSSX you get *for all your databases* the 4GB size restriction that comes with the version of SQL Server 2005 Express that that product installs.
If, on the other hand, you install first WSS 3.0 and then MSSX, you have (WSS 3.0) the "Windows Internal Database" version of SQL Server 2005 Express for your default database (which to remind the world once again - unlike the MOSS version - does NOT have a database size limit) and only the search databases used by MSSX use it's (4GB restricted) version of SQL Server 2005 Express.
... and before you ask, after you have installed MSSX on top of WSS 3.0, the database system it will use for any new "WSS 3.0" databases will by default be the (4GB restricted) MSSX version of SQL Server 2005 Express. However, like most defaults, this too can be over-ruled and your system told to use the WSS 3.0 (not size restricted) database system for all new content databases.
So there you are. Why it is foolhardy to install only MSSX.
Having written the above comes the thought "So why do they do it the way they do?" After all it would have been just as easy to carry on using WSS 3.0 for their proof-of-concepts.
Could it be that this was hidden marketing - "we know so much about SharePoint that we are advising you to use MSSX rather than the WSS 3.0 less well-informed companies are telling you to use! I've seen stranger things.
I subscribe to a lot of RSS feeds of blogs. I also look at them (at newsgator) on a regular basis. So when there is suddenly a massive increase in the number of blogs I know by now exactly what is happening.
Microsoft has decided that the world once again needs to see historic posts from blogs that haven't been updated in over a year.
I don't know if this is their intention but that's the result of some process that obviously turns off whichever settings are there that say that this RSS feed has already been picked up.
And before you ask, although I am using Newsgator to see the RSS content, this only ever happens with blogs in Microsoft's own blogging system.
Anyway, now that I know, it's a fairly simple process. Open the feed; check date of the first (latest) post. If it's not this week then mark the entire section as read *and* (something I've added because they do this about once every two months and even marking all the feeds as read is a pain) decide whether to delete the feed completely.
The only really annoying thing left (once my hands have controlled themselves and stopped pointing small bits [of the hands] in the direction of Redmond) is that the Newsgator web interface which makes it easy to delete a lot of feeds at one time, doesn't make it easy to delete a single feed. So you have to try to remember (never my strong point) which feeds you want to remove and then remove them all at once.
P.S. I've actually discovered a good way to do the deletes.
Section by section go through all the blog feeds until the only ones still visible (in my case that means the ones that still have unread posts) are the feeds you want to remove from the list of feeds you have at Newsgator.
Then right-click on one of those feeds and select "unsubscribe". The left hand section of the page(containing the feeds you want to get rid of) will still be visible when in the right-hand section of the page you get a list of all feeds. So now you can - without using your memory - mark off the correct feeds for deletion.
I do this one section at a time, but there's nothing stopping you doing this for all feeds in all sections at once.
Special Note: This is the first post of this regular item that is only being posted in my blog. I received a single comment to my request in the .windowsservices newsgroup as to whether people there wanted me to keep posting it there(he was in favour) and that just wasn't enough. From now on therefore this will be posted only here.
Note: All of the addresses of the KB / Articles - 2007 Products / MS / Non-MS Articles below were valid at the time I added them to the WSS FAQ
site and to this file. I can't guarantee that they still are.
(Items are added to the WSS FAQ throughout the week so you will find new items more quickly by checking at wss.collutions.com or www.wssfaq.com daily.)
From 2nd - 8th November 2008
NOTE: Amendment to KB articles: Microsoft are now not amending the date of a KB article if the change made is marked as a version point change (so from 2.2 to 2.3 for instance).
This ought to mean that the amendment made is cosmetic rather than important as important text changes ought to result in a major version change (such as from 2.2 to 3.0).
Because of this change and to avoid unnecessary effort I will in future not amend the listings in the WSS FAQ sites if only a minor version change has taken place.
I will continue to amend both the date and version numbers of major version changes and of course will continue to add all relevant new KB articles that my RSS feeds and other sources give me.
I.1 2007 KB Articles (*now only one section for WSS and MOSS*)
New
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;958346
Http 400 error when you click a folder in the pending approval report in Office SharePoint Server 2007 site to manually approve or reject it
3rd November 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;958852
You cannot change the file properties for a Word document, Excel workbook, or PowerPoint presentation when the file in posted on a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 document library or on a Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 document library
31st October 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;958448
Error message when you try to create a new Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Web application: "Absolute path information is required"
31st October 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;957691
Description of the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 hotfix package (Sts.msp): October 28, 2008
29th October 2008
Modifed
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;955593
Description of the SharePoint Server 2007 post-2007 Microsoft Office servers Service Pack 1 hotfix package: July 21, 2008 (ver 2.0)
3rd November 2008
I.b Forefront KB Articles
New
None
Modified
None
I.c InfoPath 2007 KB Articles
New
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;957385
Error message when you try to open multiple instances of an InfoPath 2007 form at the same time by using different input parameters
3rd November 2008
Modified
None
II. Articles - 2007 Products (no longer with all links to articles for other Office 2007 and other 2007 Products)
New
A. Office 2007 Server Products
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=c3722dba-6ee7-4e0e-82b5-fdaf3c5ec927&displaylang=en&tm
SharePoint Guidance - November 2008
4th November 2008
http://www.sharepointjoel.com/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=123
Best Practices for Enterprise User Scalability in SharePoint (Blog - Joel Oleson)
31st October 2008
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=9fa34e43-1cc7-4af9-8e24-6252c8f0dde5&displaylang=en&tm
Integrating Line-of-Business Data into MOSS 2007 with the Business Data Catalog
30th October 2008
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd256003.aspx
Configure index and query server roles (Office SharePoint Server 2007) (updated 30th October 2008)
30th October 2008
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd256004.aspx
View the content index location for an index server (Office SharePoint Server 2007) (updated 30th October 2008)
30th October 2008
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd256002.aspx
View the content index location for a query server (Office SharePoint Server 2007) (updated 30th October 2008)
30th October 2008
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd255990.aspx
View or change content index locations (Office SharePoint Server 2007) (Office SharePoint Server 2007) (updated 30th October 2008)
30th October 2008
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd239178.aspx
Workflow Security in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (white paper) (updated 30th October 2008)
30th October 2008
B. Other Office 2007 products
None
C. Other relevant products
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=1ad953e6-2ca9-4d8b-95ff-d5242c4c627a&displaylang=en&tm
SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services Datasheet (ver 2.0)
4th November 2008
Modified
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=e4600fd9-f53d-4ded-88bf-6bb1932794f9&displaylang=en&tm
(note: changed URL as well)
Microsoft SharePoint Services 3.0 Management Pack for Operations Manager 2007 (ver 6.0.6447.0)
4th November 2008
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=105623&clcid=0x409
Planning and Monitoring SQL Server Storage for SharePoint: Performance Recommendations and Best Practices (updated 30th October 2008) (Bill Baer and the SharePoint team)
30th October 2008 (date in paper October 2008)
III WebCasts (+ PodCasts, On-Line courses) for 2007 Products
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/rampup/dd221355.aspx
RampUp: SharePoint for Developers Track – Part 1
6th November 2008 (date added)
IV WSS v3 FAQ
New
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1588
V.129 SharePoint 2007 - Personnalisation, développement et déploiement (in French) (Editions ENI - Stéphane Eyskens, Ludovic Lefort)
(uses an abandoned number - IS a new addition)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1579
V.174 Microsoft Sharepoint Designer 2007 Self-Study Video Training (3 CD value Pack) (Amazing eLearning LLc) *released*
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1579
V.175 Microsoft SharePoint Services 3.0 Computer Based Training DVD Rom (BrainStorm Inc.) *released*
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1580
V.176 Sharepoint 3.0 End User Instructor-based Video Training (Keystone Learning Systems) *released*
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1581
V.177 Access 2007 und SharePoint im Team (in German) (MS Press Germany - Dirk Grasekamp)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1582
V.178 Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 - Best Practices (in German) (MS Press - Ben Curry, Bill English, MS SharePoint Team)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1583
V.179 Praxisbuch Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (in German) (Hanser Fachbuchverlag - Dirk Larisch)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1584
V.180 SharePoint-Lösungen entwickeln: Intelligente Office - Dokumente mit.NET und Share Point (in German) (Franzis Verlag - Ed Hild, Susie Adams) *released*
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1575
X.214 Extended Document Library Webpart (codeplex - "edesigau")
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1576
X.215 Document Link Handler for MOSS 2007 Enterprise Search (codeplex - "cdog")
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1577
X.216 BlancoWorld Workflow Reporting (codeplex - "cwhite")
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1578
X.217 BlancoWorld Event Receivers Manager v1.1 (codeplex - "cwhite")
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1579
X.218 SharePoint 2007 stsadm customized extension - modify incorrect display names and e-mail (codeplex - huagang)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1589
X.219 MySite WebPart Property Changer (codeplex - Madhur Ahuja)
Modified
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=844
V.20 SharePoint Designer 2007 for Dummies (For Dummies - Dustin Miller, Heather Solomon)
(was once marked as released but never seems to have made it - latest guesses are February 2009)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1359
V.111 Asp.Net 2.0 and Sharepoint 2007 Webparts (Wiley - Matt Butler)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1412
V.128 Social Computing with Microsoft SharePoint 2007 (Wiley - Brendon Schwartz, Matt Ranlett, Paul Galvin)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=971
I.31.01 What issues are fixed in the hot fixes to WSS 3.0?
Deleted
V.129 Microsoft SharePoint-Technologien - Best Practices (MSPress Deutschland - Ben Curry, Bill English)
(Title changed so I didn't spot the duplicate ...)
V.130 SharePoint-Lösungen entwickeln: Net, SharePoint und Office 2007 (Franzis Verlag - Ed Child, Susie Adams) *released*
(another one I didn't spot)
V WSSv2 KB Articles (plus SPS 2003 Hot fixes)
New
None
Modified
None
VI WSSv2 FAQ
New
None
Modified
None
VII. MS Articles
New
None
Modified
None
I while ago I had to confess in a blog item here that I wasn't aware that what I had always described as being the "web part representation of a List" actually had a name - "List View Web Part"
From that it's not a very long step to confessing that only today I found out that in SharePoint Designer 2007 what I was still calling the "Data View Web Part" (as it was called in FrontPage 2003") was actually nowadays called the "Data Form Web Part".
This time however I have an excuse. Microsoft in their wisdom (?) when deciding "let's change the name!" also made the decision not to change the title of the thing in the SharePoint Designer 2007 User Interface.
So you still go to the menu item "Data" and still when there create a "Data View Web Part", only what you are actually doing is creating a "Data Form Web Part".
Those MS guys are (deliberately?) tricky people.
Why did they change the name, you ask? Because they now use ASP.Net 2.0 Data Source Controls for data access. Why that justifies changing the name, I'll never know - why not call it a Data View Web Part ver 2.0 if you really must make us aware that you've changed something ?
P.S. Many thanks to Steven van de Craen for helping me out with the different names.
P.P.S. He added that "the 'Form' part (of the name) is because of form writeback functionality". (He didn't tell me what that meant, so don't ask!)
Rather than going to Channel 9 and wading through several pages of their rather large images to see which PDC videos are available (see an earlier blog where I was impressed about all the different formats that were available), you can instead go to this page
http://coolthingoftheday.blogspot.com/2008/10/pdc2008-quick-video-link-list.html
and see the lot at one go. It's much more efficient than checking out the Channel 9 site.
If the format you want isn't linked on this list at the time you access it, that format might be a later addition to the Channel 9 site so access that site for the particular presentation you are interested in by clicking on the title of the presentation in the list linked above.
I had this vague feeling that Essential Business Server was the follow-up product to the larger version of Small Business Server 2003 (with the follow-up for the smaller version still being called Small Business Server).
Because of this I was somewhat perplexed to see a page that said you "could" install WSS 3.0 on it because WSS 2.0 was always installed as part of SBS 2003 - at least that's what I've always thought as without that there is no "companyweb" which seemed to be a key function of SBS 2003.
The other thing that perplexed me was the suggestion that people install the (WSS 3.0) Help-Desk template "to manage the process of handling service requests". So we have a template that was created to show what people *could* do with WSS 3.0 and has an level of support appropriate for a sample (i.e. none) and here's an official Microsoft product wanting you to use it to manage a key process. Are they mad?
But what really perplexed me was this "It is highly recommended that you use SQL Server to store the SharePoint data." Hello guys, WSS 3.0 can only store it's data in SQL Server. Oracle or UDB (or whatever IBM is calling DB2 these days) just won't do.
Anyway, all this didn't put me off looking a bit at Essential Business Server - it did however put me right off ever using it - so I went off to the Getting Started section for it in TechNet. That surely would be the place where it told me which products it contained.
The Product Overview section in Getting Started told me "Windows Essential Business Server combines several Microsoft technologies" and not much else. Yes - but which ones, do they consider that information unimportant ??
The next section of the Getting Started part was "Features and Benefits". That told me "Windows EBS combines several Microsoft products and technologies into a single, integrated server solution." and in a longer text than the Product Overview one doesn't tell me which ones either.
I'm screaming and tearing out what little hair I have left by now. I then find a section that tells me "Windows EBS consolidates all of the licenses that you need to install and manage the product components." Still nothing on what product components of course. Who wrote this thing ?
Finally at the bottom I find that "Exchange Server 2007 and Forefront Security for Exchange Server are installed with Windows EBS". That's an interesting way of putting it - they are installed *with* Windows EBS so should we assume that they too are not *part of* Windows EBS and thus aren't part of the "several" products that it "combines"?
I really can't be bothered any more and quite seriously I wonder if anyone who is trying to find out what Windows EBS is via the TechNet content, will get much further than I did.
That leaves the question of who wrote this stuff and was this their last job before they left to join a competitor?
Special Note: (to run 25th October and 1st November only).
I've been posting this weekly to first the .teamservices newsgroup and then to the .windowsservices newsgroup since early 2002.
I'm now moving more and more over to the forums where no longer need to read all the threads and also can move posts to more appropriate places without annoying people, so it's perhaps time to call it a day with this post here and just leave the weekly (and better looking) post to my blog at mikewalsh.bilsimser.com.
If you have strong feeling for or against this idea send me mail to my hotmail account (englantilainen = Englishman in Finnish))
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Note: All of the addresses of the KB / Articles - 2007 Products / MS / Non-MS Articles below were valid at the time I added them to the WSS FAQ
site and to this file. I can't guarantee that they still are.
(This is also posted to my blog at http://mikewalsh.bilsimser.com)
(This is also posted to the WSS newsgroup at microsoft.public.sharepoint.windowsservices - web access via http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/newsgroups/server/sharepoint.mspx)
(Items are added to the WSS FAQ throughout the week so you will find new items more quickly by checking at wss.collutions.com or www.wssfaq.com daily.)
From 26th - 1st November 2008
NOTE: Amendment to KB articles: Microsoft are now not amending the date of a KB article if the change made is marked as a version point change (so from 2.2 to 2.3 for instance).
This ought to mean that the amendment made is cosmetic rather than important as important text changes ought to result in a major version change (such as from 2.2 to 3.0).
Because of this change and to avoid unnecessary effort I will in future not amend the listings in the WSS FAQ sites if only a minor version change has taken place.
I will continue to amend both the date and version numbers of major version changes and of course will continue to add all relevant new KB articles that my RSS feeds and other sources give me.
I.1 2007 KB Articles (*now only one section for WSS and MOSS*)
New
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;958847
Cumulative update packages for the 2007 Microsoft Office core suite applications and for 2007 Microsoft Office servers: October 28, 2008
28th October 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;958569
Description of the SharePoint Server 2007 hotfix package (Dlc.msp): October 28, 2008
28th October 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;958567
Description of the SharePoint Server 2007 hotfix package (Coreservermui.msp): October 28, 2008
28th October 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;957693
Description of the SharePoint Server 2007 hotfix package (Coreserver.msp): October 28, 2008
28th October 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;958565
Description of the SharePoint Designer 2007 hotfix package (Spd.msp): October 28, 2008
28th October 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;958692
Description of the SharePoint Designer 2007 hotfix package (Spd.msp, Fpac.msp, Ewd.msp): October 28, 2008
28th October 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;959375
How to change the Default Web Site port on a Team Foundation Server 2008 Application Tier Machine
28th October 2008
Modifed
None
I.b Forefront KB Articles
New
None
Modified
None
I.c InfoPath 2007 KB Articles
New
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;957695
Description of the InfoPath 2007 hotfix package (Ipeditor.msp): October 28, 2008
28th October 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;958787
Description of the InfoPath 2007 hotfix package (Contactpicker.msp): October 28, 2008
28th October 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;958139
Description of the InfoPath 2007 hotfix package (Infopath.msp, Ipeditor.msp): October 28, 2008
28th October 2008
Modified
None
II. Articles - 2007 Products (no longer with all links to articles for other Office 2007 and other 2007 Products)
New
A. Office 2007 Server Products
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=34fd138a-f3e9-4ea0-ae60-dad4b8dab7ec&displaylang=en&tm
Windows SharePoint Services Add-in for Windows Essential Business Server (version 6.0)
29th October 2008
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=c523ac7a-5724-48be-b973-641e805588f4&displaylang=en
Whitepaper - Understanding and Troubleshooting the SharePoint Explorer View
26th October 2008
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc766807.aspx
Archive and retrieve content by using Stsadm import and export operations (Office SharePoint Server 2007) (updated 23rd October 2008)
23rd October 2008
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc706866.aspx
Archive and retrieve content by using Stsadm import and export operations (Windows SharePoint Server 3.0) (updated 23rd October 2008)
23rd October 2008
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc825328.aspx
Move site collections to a new database (split a content database) (Office SharePoint Server 2007) (updated 23rd October 2008)
23rd October 2008
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc825327.aspx
Move site collections to a new database (split a content database) (Windows SharePoint Services 3.0) (updated 23rd October 2008)
23rd October 2008
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc896556.aspx
Migrate an SSP to another farm (Office SharePoint Server 2007) (updated 9th October 2008)
9th October 2008
B. Other Office 2007 products
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=cd39607f-7bfb-4a07-844e-b00602ddeb38&displaylang=en&tm
Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 Technical Library in Compiled Help format
29th October 2008
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=019e280a-ac1c-4182-bda2-c32730aa230e&displaylang=en&tm
Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 Samples
22nd October 2008
C. Other relevant products
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=060f0c51-339a-4c4e-bb6e-716bb7401fd4&displaylang=en&tm
Windows Server 2008 Evaluation Virtual Hard Drive Images (for Hyper-V)
24th October 2008
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=5bbcc7fb-8ca0-43b3-86bd-0a42186e12ef&displaylang=en&tm
Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 Virtual PC
22nd October 2008
Modified
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=c1039e13-94da-4d7d-8cae-3b96fa5a4045&displaylang=en&tm
Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Application Template: Application Template Core (ver 2)
29th October 2008
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=aae4cb5a-91d2-4f1b-9a45-3bb894e218f8&displaylang=en&tm
Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Application Templates: All Server Admin Templates (v2)
29th October 2008
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=5807b5ef-57a1-47cb-8666-78c1363f127d&displaylang=en&tm
Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Application Templates: All Templates (v2)
29th October 2008
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=1e53f882-0c16-4847-b331-132274ae8c84&DisplayLang=en
Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services Add-in for Microsoft SharePoint Technologies (ver 9.00.3204)
26th October 2008
III WebCasts (+ PodCasts, On-Line courses) for 2007 Products
None
IV WSS v3 FAQ
New
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3 FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1556
III.47.05 E-Mails: Can you customise the Request Access E-mail?
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3 FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1557
III.104 Is it possible to export from MOSS 2007 to WSS 3.0?
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3 FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1552
V.168 Building the SharePoint User Experience: Understanding and Implementing SharePoint Design Principles (Apress - Björn Christoffer, Thorsmaehlum Furuknap)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3 FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1553
V.169 Professional SharePoint 2007 Web Content Management Development: Building Publishing Sites with Office SharePoint Server 2007 (Kindle Edition) (Wrox - Andrew Connell) *released*
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3 FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1554
V.170 Microsoft Office 2007 Business Intelligence (Kindle Edition) (McGraw-Osborne, Doug Harts) *released*
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3 FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1555
V.171 Microsoft Office 2007 Business Intelligence (McGraw-Osborne, Doug Harts) *released*
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3 FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1559
V.172 Workflow in the 2007 Microsoft Office System (Kindle Edition) (Apress - David Mann) *released*
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3 FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1560
V.173 Designing Forms for Microsoft Office InfoPath and Forms Services 2007 (Kindle Edition) (Addison-Wesley - Scott Roberts, Hagen Green) *released*
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3 FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1569
VI.129 Pointadmintoolset (commercial - Idera)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3 FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1570
VI.130 Site Administrator for SharePoint (commercial - Quest)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3 FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1571
VI.131 Capacity Manager for SQL Server-SharePoint Module (commercial - Quest)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3 FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1572
VI.132 FoxIt PDF IFilter (commercial - FoxIt)
(Yes, this has been available for years - I thought it was already in the list!)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3 FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1558
VII.39A Expert WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007 Programming (Wrox - ISBN: 978-0-470-38137-3) Chapter 1: The SharePoint 2007 Architecture
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3 FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1561
X.204 ARF (development environment) (free - Vincent Rothwell)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3 FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1562
X.205 CKS EBE – Comments Manager – Version 1.1.0.0 (free - Tobias Zimmergren)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3 FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1563
X.206 WSS and MOSS Google Directions 1.2 (codeplex - "gilesh")
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3 FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1564
X.207 Sharepoint Download Zipped List Items (codeplex - Mohamed Zaki)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3 FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1565
X.208 BKS (makes sites accessible to people with special needs) (codeplex - J. Weibel)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3 FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1566
X.209 SPAdvancedSearch v1.0 (codeplex - "emau")
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3 FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1567
X.210 SharePoint Workflow Library for ASP.NET Forms 2.0 (codeplex - "hauser")
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3 FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1568
X.211 SharePoint 2007 Web Part Zone Management Tools: Zone Hider (codeplex - "cdomino")
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3 FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1573
X.212 MSIT SharePoint Reporting Framework (codeplex - MS IT team)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3 FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1574
X.213 SharePoint Calculated Field: IconSet (codeplex - Stefan Costan)
Modified
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3 FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1372
V.115 SharePoint for Project Managers: How to Create a Project Management Information System (PMIS) with SharePoint (O'Reilly - Dux Sy) *released*
V WSSv2 KB Articles (plus SPS 2003 Hot fixes)
New
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;958706
Description of the SharePoint Portal Server 2003 post-Service Pack 3 and the Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 hotfix package (Sts.msp): October 28, 2008
28th October 2008
Modified
None
VI WSSv2 FAQ
New
None
Modified
None
VII. MS Articles
New
None
Modified
None
Can Channel 9 really be a Microsoft site ? If so it's the first one I've seen that has a download specifically for the IPod!
Look at this page for example
http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/PDCNews/First-Look-Office-14-for-Web/
It's a useful thing to watch anyway (being about Office 14 for the Web) but here I'd like you to look at the list of formats you can download the thing in.
IPod (mp4)
MP3
PSP (MP4)
WMA
WMV
WMV (High)
Zune
So that's (looking it from the viewpoint of Microsoft) a competing product to Zune AND a competing product (Sony's PSP) to the XBox and still they provide native downloads for them.
This is really great!
I only wish the more standard technical MSDN and TechNet web casts had this, because the first thing I have to do with them is to spend hours (almost literally) using Nero 8 to convert the WMV download to mp4.
I've been running for a long time with my OneNote 2007 files in a couple of Shared Notebooks that were stored in the WSS 3.0 VM of my MacBook. In that way I could synchronize the copies of OneNote 2007 that were in my work portable; my home portable and my home desktop (and were full of SharePoint stuff) with the MacBook (which meant that occasionally I had to bring it to work because most of my OneNote additions were made at home). But now I finally had a work portable with enough power and memory to use it for VMs and so I wanted to be able to at least get the present work copy of OneNote 2007 into the WSS 3.0 VM on that machine, yet without moving any of the files from the OneNote 2007 Notebooks that were shared with the MacBook. The first thought was to create a new couple of Shared Workbooks that were stored in the work VM. That failed when I found that mass copying (in the UI) was impossible. I could either drag and drop items one by one (which would be *moving* them which I didn't want) or open each item in turn and then copy the contents of each item into a section of the same name in the new Shared Workbook. Neither of these appealed. So I looked to see if I could synchronize what I already had to a second server in addition to synchronizing it with the MacBook. That wasn't possible either - not as such - but what was posssible was changing the location to which the OneNote 2007 copy on a particular client would synchronize to. So there was the solution. 1. Keep synchronizing the home portable and desktop with the MacBook. 2. Synchronize the office OneNote 2007 to the office VM. 3. At occasional intervals, bring the MacBook to work and make a temproary change to the office OneNote 2007 so that it synchronizes to that. Then once that two-way synchronization has updated both the office OneNote 2007 and the MacBook, change the synchronization on the office OneNote 2007 back so that it again synchronizes with the office VM (which will just update that copy with the changes made in the meantime at home). Nice and reasonably simple. The next step has already been taken. The new portable which also runs the VM also has OneNote 2007 on it. That has now been synchronized with its own VM and so has an up-to-date copy of my OneNote SharePoint stuff. So now that copy of OneNote 2007 can be removed from the now old portable as part of the process of removing everything and converting it into maybe a Server 2008 DC.
P.S. When I was doing the first sync on the office VM there was an error message saying that not everything had been synced. The same thing happened with both the OneNote 2007 notebooks.
What had happened is that in both cases a single section had not been synced. The reference to the section was still there but when I tried to open it I got the following message.
"Another One Note Program created it but it has not yet uploaded the content".
Obviously the way round that is to make a copy of the section's .one file (when connected to the Mac's VM version) and then somehow (simply replacing the .one file might not work but it's the first thing I'll try) get the information into the Office VM's version.
It's also curious that the first time I tried to open one of these two sections, it gave a different message (something about it not being copied because it wasn't in the cache).
I don't know about you, but I expect that the electronic version of a book is considerably less than the printed copy. After all just what are the costs involved to the publisher and even the distributor/seller? My book is a good example of the positive side of this. The printed copy costs $29.99 and via Amazon US this was for a long time just less than $20 (and is now just more than $20). Meanwhile the Kindle edition (US only still as far as i know) has been listed at Amazon US at $ 9.99 (a snip!) http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B001I8QVII/heme0fSo that's a good reduction on "the real thing". Even though I prefer real books, 10 dollars is the sort of price that would encourage even me to take a chance on a "book". But then I noticed that Andrew Connell's WCM book is also available in Kindle form. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B001CN4CN0/heme0fBut what's this ? List price $ 59.99 Amazon price: $ 47.99.... Now it's certainly a good book, but almost 50 dollars for an electronic version is way too much. Perhaps it's a good job they are still only selling the Kindle device (and the "books") in the US. These differing price levels make no sense to my European mind.
I have two (8GB) Zunes and for a long time I needed to take both of them with me because the battery always seemed to be either empty or near empty. I was fully charging them; using them for about 40 mins and then turning them off by the method in the brochure that came with them (hold down the pause button for a long time). But most of the time this seemed to just turn the screen off and put the music on pause, with the result that the battery was being used up when I thought the thing was off. i bought a (Universal) Zune wall adapter from Amazon US (the company - which wasn't Amazon but the makers themselves - delivered to non-US destinations at a reasonable price) so I no longer needed to spend hours with Zunes connected via USB to the portable just to charge them, but it still was extremely annoying. Finally I asked the group of SharePoint MVPs. You turn the Zune off by holding down both the back button (top left) and the bottom part of the ring.What you then see happen is the Zune's volume going way down and then the Zune switches itself off. Of course I didn't really believe it was doing anything more than go into screen display off mode, so I left that particular Zune alone for a couple of weeks. But when I then turned it on the battery was still showing Full. So, yes, that method really does work.
P.S. Another SharePoint MVP then said that a cold re-boot was holding down the same back button and the top part of the ring. I've never needed that, so it's not tested by me, but just in case you need it ....
After I'd installed WSS 3.0 on one VM, I naturally wanted to install MOSS 2007 on another. After the trials and tribulations of doing the OS part of this correctly, (see recent blogs) I had a VM setup that had all the pre-requisites for a Basic MOSS installation. I have a personal MSDN subscription so all I do is to download the latest version from the MSDN site and install. Right? Yes, BUT. The first day the link to the subscriber downloads refused to work. The second day, that link worked but when I tried to download MOSS 2007 + SP1 I got a mysterious message "The response from the web site is missing required information" and the download went to "Interrupted" state in the Download Manager. Later that day I finally managed to start the download. The next morning it was all downloaded except for the last 3.2MB and obviously didn't intend on downloading them. So I grabbed the only MSDN DVD I could find with MOSS 2007 on it. This was only the initial version not the one with SP1. In addition I couldn't make the VM realise that I had a DVD player with that file in it. So i was forced to use the DVD Player of the Host and copy enough directories across to the VM. Once I'd done that I started the installation and naturally - as I ought to have remembered, as I've said it often enough in the newgroups/forums - it refused to install as the OS I was using was Windows Server 2008 and that requires you to have the 'MOSS 2007 + SP1' distribution. Naturally I'm too lazy to create that from the distribution I have plus SP1, so I went back to the PC and decided to unload from the MSDN site again, only this time to the Host from where I'd copy it to the VM. Naturally this gave me a series of "The response from the web site is missing required information" messages and nothing happened. What's left is a) seeing if i really don't have a copy of 'MOSS 2007 + SP1' somewhere in my set of DVDs. (If I don't have one in English, maybe I have one in some other language). b) waiting for the MSDN upgrade that an e-mail yesterday told me is on its way. maybe that will have the right DVD. c) Trying at home on Vista (or even OSx) to do the download. Maybe then I won't get that message and the download will download 100% of the file and not 99.9%. d) Giving up and installing Virtual Server 2005 and the vhd of MOSS that will only run on Virtual Server 2005 and will only work for 30 days. e) Giving up and downloading the (public) evaluation version of MOSS. With luck that will be valid for a couple of months and maybe, just maybe, my MSDN license code will work on it too. Plenty of more fun and frustration ahead !
I've been reading (roughly on an open at a random page basis for the moment) the Ben Curry / Bill English Best Practices book (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0735625387/heme0f) and really like the way that it includes all kinds of different small but very useful facts. Here's one from today that I didn't know. When you take a (content) database off-line all that it means is that you can no longer add site collections to it. Otherwise it works just as before and you can read; update; amend; delete just as normal. In other words the point of doing it is when you want the site collection(s) it contains to be the only site collection(s) in that particular database. (and it's not really off-line in the sense most people would consider to be off-line)
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I wanted to change the name of the server in the "Provide Computer Name and Domain section of the Initial Configuration Tasks page. I made the mistake of starting to change the description (first screen) rather than the server name (second screen) so I removed the two characters I had typed in there and then went on to the second screen. Only to find that I could no longer remove the server name in that screen nor could I type in any characters to that field. I tried backing out with Cancel and then re-accessing "Provide Computer Name and Domain" and then going directly to the second screen and I still couldn't type in a new name for the server. I also tried this after adding a description in screen one - still no entry of characters in screen two was possible. In the end I was forced to re-boot the server. Then when I went to "Provide Computer Name and Domain" and didn't enter the Description field but went directly (with "Change") to the second screen, I could enter my new name (MOSSSP1).
The SharePoint newsgroups - and these days the forums - are full of messages from me saying that you should not mix Office 2003 apps with Office 2007 apps on the same client and also making it clear that that applies also to things like Visio and FP/SPD. So what do you think (almost!) happened when I needed to install SPD 2007 on a new portable I got at work ? Yes, I almost installed it on the portable. Probably, if in fact I hadn't had problems downloading it from MSDN late yesterday afternoon (when it was impossible in IE7 to even access subscriber downloads), I would have just installed it. I was certainly tired enough by then. As it was, I was still (relatively!) fresh when that same MSDN site worked fine in the identical Portable and identical IE7 copy this morning and so just as I'd burned a DVD for SPD 2007 and was about to install it, I said to myself "hang on a minute" and didn't. You see, even though that portable is the first one I have ever had at work that is at least as good as my home machines (well except for the new HP workstation desktop but that doesn't count) and does have 4GB unlike all the previous ones where I always seemed to get one with half the memory I wanted, that NEW (did I say that already) portable had been installed with XPPro (no problems with that) and Office *2003*. [Shakes head and decides not to write any more about that decision.] So installing SPD 2007 would not have been a good idea. That's for sure. My choices were the usual ones. Create a VM running a Client OS and install (just) SPD 2007 in that OR upgrade my Office 2003 to Office 2007 and then install SPD 2007. I chose the second option because at some stage this new PC is going to take over from portable-1 (almost 4 years old), which IS running Office 2007 (again after upgrading from the supplied Office 2003), as my main office machine. [At that point and when convinced I've not forgotten to move anything from portable-1 I'll probably install Windows Server 2008 on it and use it as a portable (SP 2007) server *without any Office client product installed*. I already am running Windows 2003 and WSS 2.0 (and Office 2003 and FP 2003) on portable-2 (7 years old) so that would match that idea which has been very useful when the occasional WSS 2.0 question comes up.] So now, finally, I have an Office PC capable of running even a MOSS VM and also where SPD is installed. Time for some further investigation of SPD 2007 I think. The book chapters (of my book) are fine but there's a lot more there I'm sure.
I've re-done the entire installation that leads to WSS 3.0 (using the Windows Internal Database) on Windows Server 2008 and now I think I know why it is more difficult to get things right than it was on Windows Server 2003. Cause 1: Administrator When you install Windows Server 2003 on a server you automatically use Administrator and give it a password. If you've done this before it will automatically be a strong password. You will then - equally automatically - use this "user" when you install the Application Server and Web Server roles AND when you then install WSS 3.0. When you install Windows Server 2008 it requires you to create a new user (walshmi in my case) and doesn't even require a password to be defined for that. So it's not as obvious as with Windows Server 2003 that you should use Administrator for the following installations. Cause 2: Choice of two users The way to be prompted to give Administrator a password is to re-boot. You will then see a screen with both Administrator and (say) walsmi. A 50% chance of getting this bit right! Later: Unfortunately if you have not bothered giving walshmi any password, the system re-boots (as walshmi) and doesn't show the option of Administrator or walshmi. Thus simply by not bothering to enter a password (and the installation routine says you don't need to!) all further installations you do (without accessing Control panel etc. and manually giving Administrator a password) are done under the insufficient authority of walshmi - something you only discover right at the end of the WSS 3.0 installation!
Best Practice therefore is to always to specify a password for the user you add when following the standard installation screens!
(After you use (Control Panel) / Administrative Tools / Computer Management / Local Users and groups (etc.) to specify password for both Administrator and walshmi, you still don't on re-boot get a screen offering you a choice of Administrator or walshmi. Instead the system assumes that you are logging in with walshmi and no password (which of course doesn't work).If you then go to the change users screen, you are offered TWO walshmi icons and one Administrator icon. I regard this as extremely messy, so I'm going to delete the VM I did when specifying walshmi with no password and start again from the beginning - this time with a password).
If you do select Administrator then you will be forced to give a password and if you have done this before it will be a strong one. There is however nothing at this stage demanding a strong password. Once you have specified Administrator, you'll probably keep doing so for the further installations. Cause 3: Small print warning of strong password Before you install the Applications server there's a few lines in very small print saying what the three requirements are (Administrator has a strong password; network address; something I can't remember). You still get this message if you already HAVE a strong password and a network address which is perhaps why it is in such small print. However that means that it's easy to miss if you don't. It also doesn't say (I think - this is from memory) that you should be running under Administrator (!!) just that the Administrator account has to have a strong password. Not much use that strong password requirement if you are running under walshmi. Cause 4: Poor Keyboard implementation In order to make things easier for US users no doubt, there is no longer a step in the normal installation where you can specify which keyboard you are using. At first sight it's odd that there still is a time-zone specification that is in your face when you do the installation, but then you realise that the US itself is in several time zones and you have your explanation. Having no step in the normal installation for keyboards means that the US keyboard is ALWAYS installed. It also means that in order to add a different keyboard, the installer has to go to Control Panel; select Regional and Language options and then Keyboards and Languages. None of that is necessary in a Windows Server 2003 installation where the equivalent of the screen you then get is part of the standard installation - you don't have to go off and find it. The annoying thing here is that it would have very simple for the Server guys to add a line to the "Provide Computer Information" section of the "Initial Configuration Tasks" screen through which amending the keyboard used would have been as simple (and "in your face") as amending the time zone. But, No, for some reason, the server guys decided to ignore that fact that a good number of all non-US installations of a Operating System would use the US English version and make it unnecessarily difficult for them. (Maybe they assumed that the people who knew enough to use the US English version of an OS would be able to work out how to change the keyboard, and they are probably right, but was it really necessary?) Anyway, once I was aware of the points above, once again the installation of WSS 3.0 + SP1 (using Basic Installation) on a Windows Server 2008 was straightforward and after it finished the default page opened OK.
One of the problems with trying to support people in the forums and newsgroups is that often in order to help you have to have experienced the same problems and got out of them. Mostly I've installed WSS 3.0 on Windows Server 2003 and apart from a problem with the Windows Firewall unexpectedly causing access problems when I used R2 (but never before with the initial version of Windows Server 2003) everything has gone smoothly and I could probably do it in my sleep. Installations on Windows 2008 I've only done (until recently) a couple of times. Twice maybe in the beta phase of that product and once for the Appendix of my book. All these three went fine but looking back after yesterday's experiences that was no doubt because I was doing those installations and nothing else. Yesterday, however, I was back in "I can do this in my sleep" mode and while doing something else on another machine I installed Windows Server 2008. The results of that in pass one was that I managed to specify that unknown password that I mentioned yesterday because I typed in my usual (Finnish keyboard) password in a system that thought I had a US keyboard. Oddly enough there I had (in my sleep!) managed to create an Administrator and give him a strong password (including that unknown character) so the installation completed with the WSS 3.0 default web site appearing as usual. The second pass however I concentrated a bit more (although obviously not enough) and this time changed the keyboard very quickly - noting however that this was by no means as straightforward and is no longer part of the main installation process of the Operating System as it is in Windows Server 2003. What I however didn't manage to do was create an Administrator with a strong password even though at one point during the installation there was a text (in minute letters!) saying the before you proceed make sure you have a strong password for Administrator. So Administrator hadn't got a password at all and when the WSS 3.0 default site was due to appear it refused to do so. (This may also have something to do with the fact that I was using the account (walshmi) the system had prompted me to create and not as usual the Adminstrator account - excuse: that didn't have a strong password!) Now this kind of problem is something that has been reported with Windows Server 2008 and I've always had the feeling "it's always worked for me" and just moved on. Now it seems that I might have a chance to, if not solve each problem, at least show some sympathy. The question however remains "how come it's worked every time before?". The answer to that is that on earlier runs I probably did at least one re-boot. If you do a re-boot and attempt to log-in as Administrator then it will demand that you specify a password. Once you've done that you (hopefully) have the strong password the system demands for the next phase AND you will not be tempted to use an other account than Administrator for the WSS 3.0 installation phase. It's all very simple really. But I'm still annoyed that a Windows Server 2008 is - in these respects at least - so much more difficult than a Windows Server 2003 installation ...
This is a follow-up to the previous post but indicates probably a much more serious problem than the one there which was due only to me using a particular key for my Administrator password.
The English-US Windows 2008 installation installs the US keyboard and doesn't give you during the installation the opportunity of selecting a different keyboard.
So you need to go to Regional Settings after the installation is complete in order to add a different keyboard - in this case the Finnish/Swedish keyboard.
When you do there is a "Keyboard Layout Preview" which shows which keys on the keyboard are what.
Now I have looked at the Finnish and the two different Swedish keyboard previews and ALL of them are incorrect.
I have at work old and new (IBM and Lenovo) ThinkPads with Finnish keyboards; a MacBook with a Finnish keyboard AND and desktop keyboard (Lenovo). At home I have various MS keyboards. ALL without exception have a middle keyboard row that has three keys to the right of the L.
That "Keyboard layout preview" shows a keyboard which while otherwise correct shows TWO keys to the right of the L.
It also shows three keys to the right of the P in the top row of (normal) keys whereas in all my keyboards there are only two keys there.
In other words the keyboard definition used by Windows 2008 for Finnish/Swedish is incorrect because the final key in the second row has been mapped to be beyond the final key in the top row.
I can't believe that no-one has seen this up to now.
Can it be that this error is only in the MSDN version (downloaded only a few days ago)? It seems unlikely.
I did an automatic installation of Windows Server 2008 in VM Workstation and was thus given a US keyboard automatically.
Although I use a Finnish keyboard, there have been enough cases in the past where early beta software only worked with a US keyboard so I know where most of the differences are.
This meant that I carried on first customizing the server and installing WSS 3.0 and only then decided I was fed up with having to use a US keyboard and specified a Finnish one and made sure that was the one being used.
The next time I tried to log-in as Administrator (or indeed as me as I had cleverly (!) used the same password for that) I couldn't.
The problem was that my standard password for test machines includes a (number and a) "*" to get over the need in some OS's for strong passwords.
I had typed this in as usual but as I was using a US keyboard (and as I did this automatically) I wasn't actually selecting a "*" (which on my Finnish keboard is Shift-8 or "(") but was selecting something else.
So I went to the Internet and searched for a layout of a US keyboard. Easy, I thought, find which character the one I pressed is in a US keyboard and then type that character in my Finnish keyboard.
Did I tell you that I used the "*" ..... that key on my Finnish keyboard is three keys (and shift) to the right of the L in the middle line starting A,S,D,F,G,H,J,K,L ?
Look at the US keyboard layout and what do you find ? That's right there are only TWO keys to the right of the L (despite the middle line also starting A,S,D,F,G,H,J,K,L).
In other words, there is no way of finding a Finnish keyboard equivalent to that key and all I can do to login as Administrator for the server is to - it seems - remove the Finnish keyaboard and only have the US keyboard left - then I can click on that key three to the right of the L.
(Attempts to just have the US keyboard selected (and retain the Finnish keyboard but not selected) led to masses of incorrect logins.)
For now I'm back to having only US keyboard specified. That isn't satisfactory for a proper test machine as I haven't even got a genuine US keyboard (and this is anyway a portable) so at some stage I'm going to have to do the whole thing again. This time specifying Custom installation!
Did I mention that all the client PCs have Finnish keyboards ...
Guess what! I can't log in to my WSS sites from any of them ...
Now where can I specify a US keyboard in XPPro ....
Before someone points out the obvious. The specification of the keyboard isn't done by VM Workstation (where Custom did allow me to specify the bridged networking I wanted) but by the Operating system installation. This time I'm going to go slower to see where I missed it. I've done this so many times I can't believe that I did miss it, though.
My new TV has an input for USB drives that you can use to play MP3 files and see JPG images via/on the TV. [But not .mp4 or divx files which would surely be more sensible for a TV set.]
Naturally I tried this out with all my USB sticks only to find that there were very few .mp3 files on them. But I have a mass of external, (some of which are powered), disks that contain backups of my CDs - typically in .wmv format (which it doesn't play either I suspect) or done for the Ipod, but surely I thought there are some .mp3 files there somewhere.
So I connected them one-by-one and found that although in each case the drive was recognized as being connected the TV wouldn't open it. Obviously a disk format problem I thought but it took some scouring of the TV manual to find the place where it said FAT16 or FAT32 only.
Well naturally I'd formatted all my hard disks (except those USB sticks) as NTFS (or for the Mac in a couple of cases, I discovered) so as I still wanted to see if a large powered drive could be connected to the TV and work, I set about moving everything off a 340 GB drive to the desktop and then planned to re-format that drive as FAT32 and move the stuff back.
Moving the stuff took quite a while of course and then I was ready to format the empty disk. The system (XPPro) gave me the opportunity of formatting it as NTFS. Nothing else.
So much for that idea.
(The next non-FAQ post here will be about dragging in a portable and a new keyboard in order to play music files from the same NTFS formatted via the TV. Completely pointless really but still.)
Note: All of the addresses of the KB / Articles - 2007 Products / MS / Non-MS Articles below were valid at the time I added them to the WSS FAQ
site and to this file. I can't guarantee that they still are.
(This is also posted to the WSS newsgroup at microsoft.public.sharepoint.windowsservices - web access via http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/newsgroups/server/sharepoint.mspx)
(Items are added to the WSS FAQ throughout the week so you will find new items more quickly by checking at wss.collutions.com or www.wssfaq.com daily.)
From 28th September - 4th October 2008
NOTE: Amendment to KB articles: Microsoft are now not amending the date of a KB article if the change made is marked as a version point change (so from 2.2 to 2.3 for instance). Because of this change and to avoid unnecessary effort I will in future not amend the listings in the WSS FAQ sites if only a minor version change has taken place. I will continue to amend both the date and version numbers of major version changes and of course will continue to add all relevant new KB articles that my RSS feeds and other sources give me.
I.1 2007 KB Articles (*now only one section for WSS and MOSS*)
New
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;956056
Description of the SharePoint Server 2007 hotfix package: August 26, 2008
26th September 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;956057
Description of the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 hotfix package: August 26, 2008
26th September 2008
Modifed
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;948725
Restoration of the configuration database by using the built-in backup and restore functionality is not supported in SharePoint Server 2007 or in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (ver 4.0)
26th September 2008
I.b Forefront KB Articles
New or Modified
None
I.c InfoPath 2007 KB Articles
New or Modified
None
II. Articles - 2007 Products (no longer with all links to articles for other Office 2007 and other 2007 Products)
New
A. Office 2007 Server Products
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc983683.aspx
Extending Office Applications with Web Services (TechNet Mag Nov 2008 - Pav Cherny)
2nd October 2008 (date added)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=333e8024-5feb-4272-832a-ac989256f961&displaylang=en&tm
Desired Configuration Monitoring for SharePoint Collaboration Services Datasheet
30th September 2008
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=b72ef7b3-0291-4c15-b669-e94c685b00ba&displaylang=en&tm
Risk and Health Assessment for MIcrosoft Office SharePoint Server Datasheet
30th September 2008
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc948982.aspx
Using Team Foundation Server to Develop Custom SharePoint Products and Technologies Applications
29th September 2008 (date added - article dated September 2008)
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc973103.aspx
Capitalizing On the Social Network Capabilities of SharePoint Server 2007 User Profiles (Antoine Atallah, Martin Gagné)
29th September 2008 (date added - article dated September 2008)
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc936628.aspx
Visual How To: Creating SharePoint Sequential Workflows with Visual Studio 2008 (Steve Hansen, Dakota Technology Group, Inc.)
29th September 2008 (date added - article dated September 2008)
http://www.sharepointblogs.com/tommysegoro/archive/2008/09/25/sharepoint-team-development-with-visual-studio-part-3.aspx
Sharepoint Team Development with Visual Studio 2005 2008 Part 3 (Blog - Tommy Segoro)
25th September 2008
B. Other Office 2007 products
None
C. Other relevant products
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=82e632a7-faf9-41e0-8ec1-a2662aae9dfb&displaylang=en&tm
Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Software Development Kit (SDK) (ver 4.0.7)
1st October 2008 (added to SDK section)
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb848116.aspx
PerformancePoint Monitoring SDK Documentation (on-line version)
29th September 2008 (date added - article dated September 2008)
Modified
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=5e94ad07-902c-422f-aadd-ff2bba9e540a&displaylang=en&tm
SharePoint Products and Technologies Protocol Documentation (ver 1008)
3rd October 2008
III WebCasts (+ PodCasts, On-Line courses) for 2007 Products
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/msdn/en-us/office/media/MOSS2007CreateSeqWFUsingVS2008.wvx
Visual How To: Creating SharePoint Sequential Workflows with Visual Studio 2008 (Video) (Steve Hansen, Dakota Technology Group, Inc.)
29th September 2008 (date added - article dated September 2008)
IV WSS v3 FAQ
New
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1527
V.158 SharePoint Server 2007 Survival Guide (Manning Publications - Penelope Coventry, et. al.)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1528
V.159 SharePoint 2007 Developer's Guide to Business Data Catalog (Manning Publications - Brett Lonsdale, Nick Swan)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1529
V.160 SharePoint 2007 Site Administrator's Handbook (Manning Publications - Yvonne M. Harryman)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1521
VI.119 Lightning Jump Web Part (commercial - Lightning Tools)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1522
VI.120 DeliverPoint 2008 (commercial - DeliverPoint (?))
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1524
VI.121 Document Import Kit for SharePoint 2007 (commercial - Vyapin)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1525
VI.122 Admin Report Kit for SharePoint 2007 (commercial - Vyapin)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1526
VI.123 SPList Export for SharePoint 2007 (commercial - Vyapin)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1530
VI.124 SharePoint Wiki Plus (commercial - KWizCom)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1531
VI.125 Lightning Storm Forums for SharePoint (commercial - Lightning Tools)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1532
VI.126 SharePoint Remote List Viewer (commercial - KWizCom)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1523
X.194 DeliverPoint 2008 "Registered version" (free - DeliverPoint)
Modified
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1321
I.31.10 What issues are fixed in the hot fixes to MOSS 2007 Service Pack 1?
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1337
V.101 Sams Teach Yourself SharePoint 2007 in 24 Hours: Using Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (SAMS - Mike Walsh) *released*
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1409
V.126 Programming Microsoft SharePoint Server 2007 (Charles River Media - Thom Robbins)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1152
VI.46 SharePoint List Filter Plus (commercial - KWizCom)
(Note: was Sharepoint List Filter - Multiple Dropdown and was much cheaper)
V WSSv2 KB Articles (plus SPS 2003 Hot fixes)
New or Modified
None
VI WSSv2 FAQ
New or Modified
None
VII. MS Articles
New or Modified
None
I've had a copy of my "Sams Teach Yourself SharePoint 2007: Windows SharePoint Services 3.0" book in my hands for about five days now (thanks to over 24 hours delivery time for the last 15 miles of the journey from the US) and in that time Amazon US have still been showing it as being at Pre-Order status. Today, finally, the Amazon US site is showing it as being in Stock http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0672330008/heme0fNow all it needs is someone to buy it. (Somehow the fact that that same Amazon site is showing it as the 550,732 "best-selling" book doesn't in my book indicate massive sales. Here's hoping that's a pre- "In Stock" figure).
It's very very rarely that I post anything in this blog that doesn't have anything to do with SharePoint. Typically they are then computer (and/or Zune/IPod) questions. This one can just about be described as a computer issue ... The British football club Newcastle United is up for sale. These days that means a foreign bidder. Manchester City has just gone to a Middle Eastern Sheikh so it was interesting to see a report of a Nigerian bidder for Newcastle United. I understand that they were offering $ 400 million and - rumour has it - requesting the Newcastle owner to send them $ 10,000 as an indication of his good faith.
People writing to forums are sometimes very odd.
I came today across a post where the poster felt compelled to tell us that it was his second post to that forum. How that is relevant to any question is beyond me.
That on the other hand is fairly rare.
What is more common are the people who write at the bottom of their posts "please help me!" or even the more strident "PLEASE HELP ME!!!!!!". Do they really think that this line makes the people who spend some of their free time answering other peoples questions more likely to answer just this one? If so, they are wrong.
Finally there are the relatively few people who write that their own question is "Urgent!" - usually in the subject and often also in the text. Well that is a real turn-off as when you look at the questions there is NEVER anything there that is any more urgent than any other forum question. (Even if there is, the forums are not the place to post urgent questions - instead they should take the risk of being forced to pay and call Microsoft Customer Support Services [if that's this week's name]) with their problem).
Luckily in the forums I can do something I can't do in the equivalent newsgroups and edit the subject lines. Usually I do this when someone posts a question in say the Workflow forum that has a Subject of "Workflow" which doesn't help people scanning that forum to see if there is something they can answer, so I change the subject to better reflect the question put, but I can also use that possibility to get rid of all "Urgent"s from the Subject.
Note: All of the addresses of the KB / Articles - 2007 Products / MS / Non-MS Articles below were valid at the time I added them to the WSS FAQ
site and to this file. I can't guarantee that they still are.
(This is also posted to the WSS newsgroup at microsoft.public.sharepoint.windowsservices - web access via http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/newsgroups/server/sharepoint.mspx)
(Items are added to the WSS FAQ throughout the week so you will find new items more quickly by checking at wss.collutions.com or www.wssfaq.com daily.)
From 21st - 27th September 2008
NOTE: Amendment to KB articles: Microsoft are now not amending the date of a KB article if the change made is marked as a version point change (so from 2.2 to 2.3 for instance). I will in future not amend the listings in the WSS FAQ sites if only a minor version change has taken place. I will continue to amend both the date and version numbers of major version changes and of course will continue to add all relevant new KB articles that my RSS feeds and other sources give me.
I.1 2007 KB Articles (*now only one section for WSS and MOSS*)
New
None
Modifed
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;957109
Description of the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 hotfix package (Wssmui.msp): August 26, 2008 (ver 1.1)
12th September 2008 (title changed)
I.b Forefront KB Articles
New or Modified
None
I.c InfoPath 2007 KB Articles
New or Modified
None
II. Articles - 2007 Products (no longer with all links to articles for other Office 2007 and other 2007 Products)
New
A. Office 2007 Server Products
http://www.sharepointblogs.com/joed/archive/2008/09/24/using-sharepoint-surveys-for-a-quiz-part-2.aspx
Using SharePoint Surveys for a Quiz - Part 2 (Blog - JoeD)
24th September 2008
http://blogs.technet.com/collaboration/archive/2008/09/24/integrate-ie7-instant-search-with-sharepoint-search.aspx
Integrate IE7 Instant Search with SharePoint Search (Blog - James Kemp)
24th September 2008
http://www.sharepointblogs.com/joed/archive/2008/09/22/Using-Sharepoint-Surveys-for-a-Quiz.aspx
Using SharePoint Surveys for a Quiz - Part 1 (Blog - JoeD)
22nd September 2008
http://www.zimmergren.net/archive/2008/09/22/how-to-get-up-and-running-with-net-3-5-in-your-sharepoint-environment.aspx
How to: Get up and running with .NET 3.5 in your SharePoint environment (Blog - Tobias Zimmergren)
22nd September 2008
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointdesigner/HA102448281033.aspx
Add a SharePoint list toolbar to a Data View
22nd September 2008 (date added)
http://tinyurl.com/4kddxv
An approach to solution architecture for SharePoint Products and Technologies
22nd September 2008 (date added - article dated September 2008)
http://tinyurl.com/444fnv
Options for customizing Microsoft Office SharePoint Server
22nd September 2008 (date added - article dated September 2008)
http://tinyurl.com/4rvx8b
Configuring the Business Data Catalog
22nd September 2008 (date added - article dated September 2008)
http://tinyurl.com/43sjbg
Configuring Forms Services and Excel Services
22nd September 2008 (date added - article dated September 2008)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=25f9cc59-4ea3-4381-8b37-9430f664eac6&displaylang=en&tm
PPTs and Demos for Introductory SharePoint Developer Modules (v3)
19th September 2008
http://blogs.technet.com/collaboration/archive/2008/09/19/taking-sharepoint-files-offline-when-to-use-outlook-2007-groove-2007-and-or-onenote-2007.aspx
Taking SharePoint Files Offline – When to use Outlook 2007, Groove 2007 and/or OneNote 2007 (Blog - James Kemp)
19th September 2008
B. Other Office 2007 products
None
C. Other relevant products
None
Modified
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=67f93dcb-ada8-4db5-a47b-df17e14b2c74&displaylang=en&tm
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 VHD (ver 1.0) [Note: second version of version 1.0!]
23rd September 2008
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=107358
Installation Guide for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 ("Downloadable Book") (Version July 2008)
22nd September 2008 (date specified - RSS feed 19th September)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=1beeac6f-2ea1-4769-9948-74a74bd604fa&displaylang=en&tm
Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 SP1 Developer Evaluation VPC Image (v2)
19th September 2008
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=b885dce8-c93f-48aa-b798-4422febcc200&displaylang=en&tm
Developing Applications on Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (v3)
19th September 2008
III WebCasts (+ PodCasts, On-Line courses) for 2007 Products
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=128174&clcid=0x409
Microsoft SharePoint Technologies Solution Architecture (Video) (Brett Geoffroy)
22nd September 2008 (date added)
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=128189&clcid=0x409
Customizing and Extending Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies (Video) (Brett Geoffroy)
22nd September 2008 (date added)
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=128188&clcid=0x409
Excel Services 2007 (Video) (Christian Stich [german accent], Pej Javahari)
22nd September 2008 (date added)
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=128187&clcid=0x409
Configuring the Business Data Catalog (Video) (Brett Geoffroy)
22nd September 2008 (date added)
http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032388624&EventCategory=3&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US
Document Management for Regulatory Environment with SharePoint and NextDocs (unknown)
8th September 2008
IV WSS v3 FAQ
New
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1505
III.55.05 Workflows: Strange characters in the generated e-mail.
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1516
V.157 Expert WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007 Programming (Wrox - Shahram Khosravi)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1520
VI.118 LiteChart (commercial - LiteSuite)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1502
VII.34A The SharePoint Shepherd's Guide for End Users (self-published - Robert Bogue) Chapter ?: Task: Connect Office to a SharePoint Site or Workspace
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1503
VII.35A Professional Microsoft Search: SharePoint 2007 and Search Server 2008 (Wrox - ISBN: 978-0-470-27933-5) Chapter 1: Introduction to Enterprise Search (Ed: just over 3 pages only)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1515
VII.36A Professional SharePoint 2007 Design (Wrox - ISBN: 978-0-470-28580-0) Chapter 1: Why Design?
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1517
VII.37A Professional Office Business Application Development: Using Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and VSTO (Wrox - ISBN: 978-0-470-37731-4) Chapter 1 - Anatomy of an Office Business Application
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1518
VII.38A Professional Microsoft SharePoint 2007 Workflow Programming (Wrox - ISBN: 978-0-470-40251-1) Chapter 1 - Workflow Programming Principles
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1506
X.146 Sharepoint list-sync. with Powershell script (codeplex - Jesper M Christensen) [Note: re-use of 146]
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1507
X.185 SPWakeUp - Wake up your Sharepoint and WSS Sites ver 2.2 (codeplex - A Kennell)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1508
X.186 SharePoint Quick Surveys v 1.0.3 (code gallery - "darrensj")
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1509
X.187 Creating a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Custom Field with the EntityPicker (code gallery - "MSODC")
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1510
X.188 ASPNetAjaxInstaller.wsp Release 1 (codeplex - "Dan_P")
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1511
X.189 SharePoint 2007 - Restrict access after an item addition (codeplex - "lefortludovic")
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1512
X.190 Visual Studio 2008 Sharepoint Solution Template v 1.1 (codeplex - Tommy Segoro)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1514
X.192 SharePoint TypeMock Wrapper (codeplex - Carlos Segura, Gustavo Velez)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1519
X.193 OneNote Web Exporter (codeplex - "davetse")
Modified
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1319
V.89 Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (in Spanish) (Anaya Multimedia - Patrick Tisseghem) *released*
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1376
V.118 Professional SharePoint Workflow Programming (Wiley - Shahram Khosravi) *released*
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1428
V.135 Projetos Reais Share Point 2007 (Portuguese translation of Real World SharePoint 2007) (Wrox, 16 MVPs: Alta, Brazil - translator unknown) *released*
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1429
V.136 SharePoint 2007 Guia Prático (Portuguese version of the SharePoint 2007 User's Guide, Apress) (Seth Bates,Tony Smith - translators Tibério Novais, Bianca Capitanio) *released*
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1513
X.191 Variation Labels - MOSS Custom fields v1.2 (codeplex - Gael Duhamel) (new version of 181 which has been deleted)
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V WSSv2 KB Articles (plus SPS 2003 Hot fixes)
New
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;909840
Hardware virtualization support for SharePoint products and technologies (ver 7.0) [but still new here, oops]
23rd September 2008
Modified
None
VI WSSv2 FAQ
New or Modified
None
The books page containing information about SharePoint 2007 books http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/V%20Books.aspxhas for the next month (and however long it is after that before I realise I need to remove it) an Amazon banner ad offering 2-day free delivery on orders placed as part of a 30-day "Amazon Premium" trial. The interesting thing in connection with this banner ad is that while it says you can sign up for a free 30 day trial period, when you click on it the offer is actually for a 3 month trial period. Now I don't know about you but I'm not likely to go through the hassle of signing up for something in order to save on postage for such a short period as 30 days, but three months is quite a different thing. If I was in the US, I'd have clicked that ad and signed up long ago. I buy enough books and DVDs from them to justify the effort. [Note carefully: "the effort" - I'm talking about the free trial here. I doubt if the Premium program would make any sense for me even if I did live in the US.] I'm assuming that the Amazon Premium system (free 2nd day delivery on all orders for $79 a year - "free" 1st day delivery for an extra $3.95 per shipment [on top of the $79 of course] ) is only for the US because shipment costs abroad are so much higher that they would need to charge much more even for free SLOW delivery. But of course as usual there's no mention of that in any clearly visible location. Some things never change. Let's hope that non-US visitors to my Books page are as clear on that as I am and don't waste their time clicking on the ad.
It's not everyday that someone says "I remember when you bought software, you got a manual" but it sometimes seems like that. I was going though my e-mail for the past couple of weeks and there in one newsletter it was again. So I thought I'd defy the fact that I have contributed to a book from a label (Wrox) of the Wiley group and have written a book for a label (SAMS) of Pearson Education and tell you what I use. You might have guessed from the above paragraph that - at least for the moment - the books I use for reference use don't come from either Wiley or Pearson. In fact for the client stuff, I use the Missing Manual series (of which there are two sub-series and I *don't* use the "for Starters" sub-series and nor should you). Only last weekend I needed to find out where they had hidden the Conditional logic function in Excel 2007 (having tried to find it via the UI in **extremely logical** places for about 30 minutes) and so I grabbed the Excel 2007 Missing Manual and had it in no time. (It's under the Home menu item - now how logical is that?) For the server and Operating Stuff I use the Technical Reference series. Both of these are from O'Reilly by the way. But note that these are reference manuals and I don't use them for anything else. O'Reilly have always been good at them starting with the In a Nutshell range. I probably wouldn't pick an O'Reilly book as a learning tool though. Then I WOULD go to a Wiley or a Pearson imprint. (and why not Microsoft Press ? Well their really technical books are fine but a bit too technical for me and their other books are just a bit too happy with the Microsoft products they are talking about and far too often make assumptions that all users have the latest Microsoft product versions on the client side).
I'm quite proud of my SharePoint 2007 Books page here http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/V%20Books.aspxand I spend quite a lot of time trying to keep it up-to-date both with new books and marking books released as soon as they are. Naturally even the best of Searches doesn't find everything if you use the wrong text for your search and so it was here. I've been using mostly "SharePoint" (but also "Workflow"; "Excel Services"; "InfoPath") in the various Amazon sites to find what's out there and it's worked pretty well especially when coupled with various RSS feeds and of course information direct from MVPs who are writing or who have written books. But, as i discovered today, there are SharePoint books out there (perhaps only one) that don't have "SharePoint" (or any other of those search criteria) in the title of the book. Here's the one I found. Luckily I found it just before (well probably a month before) it gets published so it's still Pre-Order status at Amazon. Expert WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007 Programming (Wrox - Shahram Khosravi) ( http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/047038137X/heme0f) Luckily I already listed Mr Khosravi's other book (Professional SharePoint Workflow Programming - http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0470402512/heme0f) so he can't be too mad at me. That other book, by the way IS out.
It's been a long wait but yesterday I got an e-mail from the publisher of "Sams Teach Yourself SharePoint 2007: Using Windows SharePoint Services 3.0" which contained a tracking number. In other words the copies of the book that I get myself are on their way! Amazon US ( http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0672330008/heme0f) is still listing the book as Pre-Order though so I guess *their* copies are also only on the way. Anyway I thought I'd take this chance to say something about what I hoped to achieve with the book. In hindsight, I had three main aims. 1. The book should be complete in itselfThis meant that I needed to persuade my Publishers that one of the 24 "Hours" (chapters) should be how to install WSS 3.0. I then had the problem of deciding whether to have this chapter based on Windows Server 2003 or Windows Server 2008. Windows Server 2003 was more commonly available to people but a Windows Server 2008 installation chapter would be a selling point as most books so far haven't been able to include Windows Server 2008 installation details (mostly of course because it wasn't out when those books were written). In the end I decided that I should go for the greater good rather than for sales figures and Chapter Two is installing WSS 3.0 on top of Windows Server 2003 R2. However I was loath to miss out completely on Windows Server 2008 installation so I wrote an Appendix on how to install WSS 3.0 on Windows Server 2008. While I was at it I also wrote Appendices for installing a Virtual Machine system and one with full details of a Windows 2003 installation (Chapter Two installs a default Windows Server 2003 installation and concentrates mainly on installing the requirements for WSS 3.0 and WSS 3.0 itself). The problem was that when the whole book had been written and reviewed it was far too long and something had to give, so those three appendices were moved to the web site for the book where they hopefully will be available when the book itself is available. Note: "complete" also means that all the major areas of WSS 3.0 are covered in the book, but not that every single option in every single menu is listed and described. There's already a book that does that and I found it boring. I certainly didn't want to write a boring book! 2. The book should offer additional information to the existing books.I didn't want to write a book that only covered the same ground as existing books but wanted something that better reflected the possibilities available at the time as was writing it (which was Post SP1). This will mean that even people who have already bought (say) the WSS 3.0 Step-by-step book or the "SharePoint 2007 For Dummies" book (and even people who have bought the 1000+ page Mastering WSS 3.0 book) will find things covered in my book which aren't in those earlier books. So there is content on Search Server 2008; on the Extended Blog Edition; on installing the Fantasic 40 templates; on third-party web parts etc. etc. There's also a whole chapter on creating reports on SharePoint lists by using Access 2007 which I haven't seen in any other books. There's more but that should give you the general idea. 3. The book should clearly show that WSS 3.0 plus additions can truely be an alternative to MOSS 2007.This, I'll admit, is a hobby horse of mine. I always squirm when I'm at a presentation and someone (typically from Microsoft) says that WSS 3.0 is for the use of a department. My conviction is not only that WSS 3.0 is easier to learn that MOSS 2007 but that people should if possible always do a trial installation of WSS 3.0 to see if they really need MOSS 2007. For instance, the "Office with WSS 3.0" chapters show that when working with Office 2003 and 2007, WSS 3.0 is just as good a storage location as MOSS 2007. The two workflow (WSS 3.0 workflow and SPD workflow) chapters show that you don't need to just look at the list of features and see that MOSS "must" be better because it has more built-in workflows than WSS 3.0. The chapter on the Data View function shows how you can - even in WSS 3.0 - have data from another list in a different site; from a database etc. visible in your SharePoint page. The part chapter on installing language packs shows how you can have sites in two or more languages on the same SharePoint installation even with WSS 3.0 (although admittedly without the more advanced options that only MOSS offers). I think that's enough to cover that idea. --------------- Of course, when I was asked if I was interested in writing a book, none of these three main ideas were in my head at all. But over the course of sketching out the book and then writing it, they became obvious. But in the end there's no point in providing new content if writing about it has not been done well. So I'm hoping that the final judgement on the book is that both quantity (areas covered) and quality (of writing) are good. Fingers Crossed! P.S. It took (only) 2 days and four hours from the time the parcel was picked up in Indianapolis to it being cleared at Helsinki airport (via Paris and Copenhagen) and placed "On FedEx vehicle for delivery". The airport is about 15 miles from me and the timing of it being placed on the vehicle for delivery was 12.27 so plenty of time to deliver it that day you'd have thought (and someone was in listening for the sound of the door bell all the time). You'd have thought so, but, no, it's now 20 hours later and there's still been no delivery. Luckily it's now Thursday and not Friday as the Finnish branches of the main international couriers seem to close down for the weekend midday Friday so if it were Friday I probably wouldn't see the book copies until next week. (I've had things arrive on Thursday in Helsinki that weren't delivered until Tuesday). P.P.S. The parcel finally arrived 26 hours after having been placed in a FedEx vehicle for delivery 15 miles away from my home. It contained a single copy of the book. The contract says more so I'm going to have to go through all this again. Sighs.
I've recently added a few more items to my page of extracts from SharePoint 2007 (and related) books here
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/VII%20Book%20Extracts.aspx
As usual these tend to be of full chapters in PDF form and invariably they are of chapter one.
Equally invariably the publishers - or some of them - seem to have a habit of removing (or moving) these on-line chapters whenever they feel like it so when I added the latest item, I also added a sentence saying when the links in it were verified. Not that anyone's complained (yet).
That final item was a major disappointment. Putting chapter one on-line is fine but when that chapter one has only just over three pages of text, you wonder why they bother. As this was the Wrox book on Search - only one of two specialist books out on Search - that was a real annoyance.
However Wrox did better with Andrew Connell's Content Management book where there are three chapters on-line (including, naturally, Chapter 1).
There's also been a recent novelty. I also have a link to an on-line chapter from a book that isn't in English (it's in Brazilian Portuguese). It's a translation of an English book and the on-line extract is only part of a Chapter, but still.
I planned for a long time to install IE8 Beta2 in a VM created specially for it, but of course I never got around to doing that (even though all I would have needed to do was make a copy of my existing VM with IE7).
I could also have taken a Snapshot of my VM before installing IE8 Beta 2 but I was out of my mind and didn't.
Instead I relied on a very careful look at the official MS page including the link to the download to make sure there was no "Warning: this installation will over-write your existing IE installation".
There wasn't such a message on that page so I went ahead and expected after the installation to have both IE7 and IE8 Beta 2.
Now I may be wrong but that doesn't seem to be what I have. All my old links to IE7 now load IE8.
Why do I bother telling you this and especially why today ? Because I've just posted my weekly blog item with the additions/changes to the WSS FAQ site and (using IE8) it was a complete mess with not a single line feed in place.
It seems that, in common with Firefox; etc. you can now no longer copy formatted text (empty lines; line feeds etc.) from NotePad into a multi-line entry box but just as with all those other browsers you need to write in your own HTML statements.
This, guys, was why despite using other browsers for many things, I always used IE 6 or 7 for adding or amending to the multi-line edit boxes in my SharePoint sites. And now you've sc**wed it up completely.
Another thing that's scr**ed up completely is logging in to the *Microsoft*(!) forums. Click login and you don't see the standard Passport login box until you by hand amend the URL so that it goes to (something like) www.login.com - i.e. you get rid of all the following stuff.
I suspect (hope) that I will somewhere find a "IE7 compatibilty" button, but for now I re-posted my blog entry in my wife's non-VM IE7 copy (and was grateful to VMWare for putting the text from a file in my VM into a place where the Ctrl-V in the main system could grab it).
P.S. For anyone facing this problem, use the menu item Tools / Compatibility View Settings to add the site that has multi-line fields. Then you are back to a working (!) system. (You can also decide to specify ALL sites as being in Compatibity View mode. I'm not that far, yet)
Note: All of the addresses of the KB / Articles - 2007 Products / MS / Non-MS Articles below were valid at the time I added them to the WSS FAQ
site and to this file. I can't guarantee that they still are.
(This is also posted to the WSS newsgroup at microsoft.public.sharepoint.windowsservices - web access via http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/newsgroups/server/sharepoint.mspx)
(Items are added to the WSS FAQ throughout the week so you will find new items more quickly by checking at wss.collutions.com or www.wssfaq.com daily.)
From 7th - 13th September 2008
NOTE: Amendment to KB articles: Microsoft are now not amending the date of a KB article if the change made is marked as a version point change (so from 2.2 to 2.3 for instance).
This ought to mean that the amendment made is cosmetic rather than important as important text changes ought to result in a major version change (such as from 2.2 to 3.0).
Because of this change and to avoid unnecessary effort I will in future not amend the listings in the WSS FAQ sites if only a minor version change has taken place.
I will continue to amend both the date and version numbers of major version changes and of course will continue to add all relevant new KB articles that my RSS feeds and other sources give me.
I.1 2007 KB Articles (*now only one section for WSS and MOSS*)
New or Modifed
None
I.b Forefront KB Articles
New or Modified
None
I.c InfoPath 2007 KB Articles
New
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;956314
Description of the InfoPath 2007 hotfix package: August 26, 2008
8th September 2008
Modified
None
II. Articles - 2007 Products (no longer with all links to articles for other Office 2007 and other 2007 Products)
New
A. Office 2007 Server Products
http://cycogeek.fiesta25.com/blogs/cycogeek/page/Create-Custom-Approval-Workflow-with-SharePoint-Designer.aspx
Create Custom Approval Workflow with SharePoint Designer (Blog - RDE Forest)
12th September 2008 (date added)
http://office.microsoft.com/training/training.aspx?AssetID=RC102854661033
Excel Services Training Course: I. The Basics
10th September 2008 (date added)
http://office.microsoft.com/training/training.aspx?AssetID=RC102856361033
Excel Services Training Course: II. Requirements, Recommendations, and Permissions
10th September 2008 (date added)
http://office.microsoft.com/training/training.aspx?AssetID=RC102856681033
Excel Services Training Course: III. Control What People See
10th September 2008 (date added)
http://office.microsoft.com/training/training.aspx?AssetID=RC102857011033
Excel Services Training Course: IV. Allow User Input
10th September 2008 (date added)
http://www.sharepointblogs.com/tommysegoro/archive/2008/09/08/sharepoint-team-development-with-visual-studio-part-2.aspx
Sharepoint Team Development with Visual Studio 2005 2008 Part 2 (Blog - Tommy Segoro)
8th September 2008 (date added)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=2c06b5a4-5fcc-4185-95e0-77263d793f20&displaylang=en&tm
Quest Software - Lotus Notes Transition to Microsoft Exchange and Sharepoint
8th September 2008
http://www.sharepointblogs.com/janeydoey/archive/2008/09/05/modifying-the-master-page-and-its-corresponding-css-file.aspx
Modifying the Master Page and its Corresponding CSS file (Blog - "janeydoey")
5th September 2008
http://www.sharepointblogs.com/tommysegoro/archive/2008/09/04/sharepoint-team-development-with-visual-studio-part-1.aspx
Sharepoint Team Development with Visual Studio 2005 2008 Part 1 (Blog - Tommy Segoro)
4th September 2008 (date added)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc298550.aspx
Tune Web server performance (Office SharePoint Server) (Updated 4th September 2008)
4th September 2008
http://sergeluca.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!E8A06D5F2F585013!1037.entry
Creating Workflows for Windows Sharepoint Services and MOSS2007 (part 9/20) Using ASXP forms in workflows (Blog - Serge Luca)
3rd August 2007
http://sergeluca.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!E8A06D5F2F585013!1256.entry
Creating Workflows for Windows Sharepoint Services and MOSS2007 (part 10/20) Reuse, Modify and Debug a Sharepoint Designer workflow in Visual Studio (Blog - Serge Luca)
20th November 2007
http://sergeluca.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!E8A06D5F2F585013!2005.entry
Creating Workflows for Windows Sharepoint Services and MOSS2007 (part 11/20) Modification Forms (Blog - Serge Luca)
7th May 2008
http://sergeluca.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!E8A06D5F2F585013!2080.entry
Creating Workflows for Windows Sharepoint Services and MOSS2007 (part 12/20) Managing several approvers/reviewers (Blog - Serge Luca)
8th May 2008
B. Other Office 2007 products
None
C. Other relevant products
None
Modified
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc298466.aspx
Caching in Office SharePoint Server 2007 (Updated 4th September 2008)
4th September 2008
III WebCasts (+ PodCasts, On-Line courses) for 2007 Products
http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032384037&EventCategory=5&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US
MSDN Webcast: geekSpeak: SharePoint Server 2007 Workflow with David Mann (Level 200)
27th August 2008
IV WSS v3 FAQ
New
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1495
X.178 Sharepoint Upload Document Web part 1.1.1.0 (codeplex - "aaclage")
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1496
X.179 Dynamic Connected Lookup For Sharepoint v 1.03 (codeplex - Rafet Cambaz)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1497
X.180 Moss Snippets - MOSS Export solutions (codeplex - "Scoutmanpt")
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1498
X.181 SharePoint Custom Field - Variation labels v 1.1 (codeplex - Gael Duhamel)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1499
X.182 Display Google Maps in a Sharepoint Web Part using a Sharepoint List (codeplex - Mike Birty)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1500
X.183 Imtech SharePoint SEO Slugs v1.0.0.0 (codeplex - Waldek Mastykarz, Imtech (NL))
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1501
X.184 Random Image Web Part for Smart Part (codeplex - A Kennel)
Modified
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1293
V.78 Professional SharePoint Search (Wiley - Richard Riley, Tom Rizzo, Shane Young) *released*
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1313
V.87 Professional SharePoint 2007 Design (Wrox - Jacob J. Sanford, Randy Drisgill, David Drinkwine, Coskun Cavusoglu) *released*
V WSSv2 KB Articles (plus SPS 2003 Hot fixes)
New or Modified
None
VI WSSv2 FAQ
New or Modified
None
VII. MS Articles
New or Modified
None
Note: All of the addresses of the KB / Articles - 2007 Products / MS / Non-MS Articles below were valid at the time I added them to the WSS FAQ
site and to this file. I can't guarantee that they still are.
(This is also posted to the WSS newsgroup at microsoft.public.sharepoint.windowsservices - web access via http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/newsgroups/server/sharepoint.mspx)
(Items are added to the WSS FAQ throughout the week so you will find new items more quickly by checking at wss.collutions.com or www.wssfaq.com daily.)
From 31st August - 6th September 2008
NOTE: Amendment to KB articles: Microsoft are now not amending the date of a KB article if the change made is marked as a version point change (so from 2.2 to 2.3 for instance).
This ought to mean that the amendment made is cosmetic rather than important as important text changes ought to result in a major version change (such as from 2.2 to 3.0).
Because of this change and to avoid unnecessary effort I will in future not amend the listings in the WSS FAQ sites if only a minor version change has taken place.
I will continue to amend both the date and version numbers of major version changes and of course will continue to add all relevant new KB articles that my RSS feeds and other sources give me.
I.1 2007 KB Articles (*now only one section for WSS and MOSS*)
New
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;956248
Description of the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 hotfix package: August 7, 2008
2nd September 2008
Modifed
None
I.b Forefront KB Articles
New or Modified
None
I.c InfoPath 2007 KB Articles
New or Modified
None
II. Articles - 2007 Products (no longer with all links to articles for other Office 2007 and other 2007 Products)
New
A. Office 2007 Server Products
http://blogs.catapultsystems.com/matthew/archive/2008/08/28/sharepoint-image-search-part-1.aspx
SharePoint Image Search (Part 1) (Blog - Matthew McDermott)
28th August 2008
http://blogs.catapultsystems.com/matthew/archive/2008/09/01/sharepoint-image-search-part-2.aspx
SharePoint Image Search (Part 2) (Blog - Matthew McDermott)
1st September 2008
http://blogs.catapultsystems.com/matthew/archive/2008/09/01/sharepoint-image-search-part-3.aspx
SharePoint Image Search (Part 3) (Blog - Matthew McDermott)
1st September 2008
http://blogs.catapultsystems.com/matthew/archive/2008/09/01/sharepoint-image-search-part-4.aspx
SharePoint Image Search (Part 4) (Blog - Matthew McDermott)
1st September 2008
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc439415.aspx
Visual How To: Referencing and Linking: Using Custom Fields to Display Relationships in SharePoint Server 2007 (Microsoft - unknown)
2nd September 2008 (date added - actual date March 2008)
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc438798.aspx
Visual How To: Referencing and Linking: Using Secondary Lists to Maintain Relationships in SharePoint Server 2007 (Microsoft - unknown)
2nd September 2008 (date added - actual date March 2008)
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc337907.aspx
Visual How To: Referencing and Linking: Using the Asset URL Selector in SharePoint Server 2007 (Microsoft - unknown)
2nd September 2008 (date added - actual date March 2008)
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc794261.aspx
Custom Auditing In SharePoint (MSDN Magazine, September 2008 - Ted Pattison)
2nd September 2008 (date added)
http://www.21apps.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/unit-testing-sharepoint-solutions-the-basics.pdf
Unit Test SharePoint Solutions - The Basics (Andrew Woodward)
1st September 2008 (date added)
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb862692.aspx
What's New in the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 SDK (August 2008 version - 1.4)
1st September 2008 (date added)
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb861863.aspx
What's New in the Office SharePoint Server 2007 SDK (August 2008 version - 1.4)
1st September 2008 (date added)
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc889345.aspx
Creating a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Custom Field by Using the EntityPicker (Wouter van Vugt, Code Counsel)
31st August 2008 (date added - article dated August 2008)
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc811589.aspx
Developing Sequential Workflows for SharePoint Server 2007 Using Visual Studio 2008 (Joel Krist, Akona Systems)
31st August 2008 (date added - article dated August 2008)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc850701.aspx
Tips for improving backup and recovery performance (Windows SharePoint Services) (Updated 28th August 2008)
28th August 2008
http://www.intranetjournal.com/articles/200808/ij_08_04_08a.html
How To Use Site Definitions in SharePoint (Intranet Journal - Robert Bogue)
4th August 2008
B. Other Office 2007 products
None
C. Other relevant products
None
Modified
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=6d94e307-67d9-41ac-b2d6-0074d6286fa9&displaylang=en&tm
SharePoint Server 2007 SDK: Software Development Kit (ver 1.4-Aug08)
31st August 2008 (date added - article dated August 2008)
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms441339.aspx
Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 SDK (web edition) (revised August 2008)
31st August 2008 (date added - article dated August 2008)
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms550992.aspx
SharePoint Server 2007: Software Development Kit (web edition) (revised August 2008)
31st August 2008 (date added - article dated August 2008)
III WebCasts (+ PodCasts, On-Line courses) for 2007 Products
http://wm.microsoft.com/ms/msdn/Office/2007OfficeVisualHowTos/MOSS2007ReferenceAndLinkUsingSecondaryList.wmv
Visual How To: Referencing and Linking: Using Secondary Lists to Maintain Relationships in SharePoint Server 2007 (Video) (Microsoft - unknown)
2nd September 2008 (date added - actual date March 2008)
http://wm.microsoft.com/ms/msdn/Office/2007OfficeVisualHowTos/MOSS2007ReferenceAndLinkDisplayingTheRelationship.wmv
Visual How To: Referencing and Linking: Using a custom field to display a relationship in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (Video) (Microsoft - unknown)
2nd September 2008 (date added - actual date March 2008)
http://wm.microsoft.com/ms/msdn/Office/2007OfficeVisualHowTos/MOSS2007ReferenceAndLinkUsingAssetPicker.wmv
Visual How To: Referencing and Linking: Using the Asset URL Selector in SharePoint Server 2007 (Video) (Microsoft - unknown)
2nd September 2008 (date added - actual date March 2008)
IV WSS v3 FAQ
New
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1467
V.153 MOSS Explained: An Information Workers Deep Dive into Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (Charles River Media - John Ross, Nicola Young)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1482
V.154 Sharepoint 2007 Collaboration Fd (Wiley, UK - Greg Harvey Phd)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1483
V.155 SharePoint Designer Tutorial: Working with SharePoint Websites (Packt Publishing Limited - Mike Poole *released*
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1494
V.156 Microsoft Sharepoint Products & Technologies (in Spanish) (Éride - Pepe Hevia) *released*
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1475
VI.110 CardioLog for SharePoint (commercial - Inflock)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1481
VI.111 SharePoint Cross-Site Lookup 2.1.0.0 (commercial - SharePointBoost)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1489
VI.112 SharePoint Alert Reminder Boost 1.2.1.0 (commercial - SharePointBoost)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1490
VI.113 SharePoint RichText Boost 1.2.1.0 (commercial - SharePointBoost)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1491
VI.114 SharePoint Permission Workflow 1.5.1.0 (commercial - SharePointBoost)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1492
VI.115 SharePoint Permission Batch Setting 1.5.1.0 (commercial - SharePointBoost)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1493
VI.116 SharePoint Column Permission 1.5.1.0 (commercial - SharePointBoost)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1468
VII.33A Professional SharePoint 2007 Web Content Management Development: Building Publishing Sites with Office SharePoint Server 2007 (Wrox: ISBN 978-0-470-22475-5 - Andrew Connell) (Chapter 1: Embarking on Web Content)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1469
VII.33B Professional SharePoint 2007 Web Content Management Development: Building Publishing Sites with Office SharePoint Server 2007 (Wrox: ISBN 978-0-470-22475-5 - Andrew Connell) (Chapter 14: Authoring Experience Extensibility)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1470
VII.33C Professional SharePoint 2007 Web Content Management Development: Building Publishing Sites with Office SharePoint Server 2007 (Wrox: ISBN 978-0-470-22475-5 - Andrew Connell) (Chapter 20: Incorporating ASP.NET 2.0 Applications)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1471
X.164 U2U List Properties Feature (free - U2U, Belgium)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1472
X.165 U2U Site Properties Feature (free - U2U, Belgium)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1473
X.166 U2U Job Definition Configurator Feature (free - U2U Belgium)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1474
X.167 CardioLog Lite for SharePoint 2007 (free - Inflock)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1476
X.168 List roll-up web part (free - Illustris systems, Doug Ortiz)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1477
X.169 SharePoint Designer PowerActivity V1.0 (codeplex - Christian Glessner)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1478
X.170 Unified Search with BDC Search for MOSS 2007 v 1.1 (codeplex - "hawkj")
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1479
X.171 SharePoint Account Provision (codeplex - "lzhang")
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1480
X.172 SPPortalConnection v1.0.0.0 (codeplex - "dan_p")
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1484
X.173 Full SharePoint backup with Powershell script ver 1.1 (codeplex - Jesper M Christensen)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1485
X.174 Technorati Blog Info Gadget v1.0.0.0 (codeplex - Waldek Mastykarz) [note: Vista not SharePoint]
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1486
X.175 MUI for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (codeplex - "hylee")
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1487
X.176 SPSite Storage Information 1.0 (codeplex - Jérôme Noirfalise)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1488
X.177 User Profile Update for MOSS 2007 (codeplex - " virtualserver")
Modified
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=971
I.31.01 What issues are fixed in the hot fixes to WSS 3.0?
(Most of these below are the addition and update of prices - some few have been released)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1319
V.89 Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (in Spanish) (Anaya Multimedia - Patrick Tisseghem) *released*
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1320
V.90 Professional Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 (Wrox - Woodrow W. Windischman, Asif Rehmani, Bryan Phillips)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1362
V.112 Professional Microsoft Office Business Application Development: Using SharePoint and VSTO to Automate Business Processes (Wrox - Steve Fox, Bill Sheldon)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1363
V.113 Professional Enterprise Content Management for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (Wrox - John Holliday)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1372
V.115 SharePoint for Project Managers: How to Create a Project Management Information System (PMIS) with SharePoint (O'Reilly - Dux Sy)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1374
V.116 Office SharePoint Server 2007-Programmierung. Anwendungsprogrammierung für SharePoint (Microsoft Press, Patrick Tisseghem) *released*
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1376
V.118 Professional SharePoint Workflow Programming (Wiley - Shahram Khosravi)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1390
V.121 Microsoft Sharepoint Designer 2007 Bible (Wiley UK - Vikram Kartik)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1394
V.124 Pro ADO.NET Data Services: with ASP.NET 3.5, Sharepoint and BizTalk (Apress - John Shaw, Simon Evans)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1409
V.126 Programming Microsoft SharePoint Server 2007 (Charles River Media - Thom Robbins)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1410
V.127 Using Content Types in SharePoint 2007 (Charles River Media - David Gerhardt, Kevin Martin)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1412
V.128 Social Computing with Microsoft SharePoint 2007 (Wiley - Brendon Schwartz, Matt Ranlett)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1445
V.137 Professional Microsoft SharePoint 2007 Development Using Microsoft Silverlight 2 (Wrox - Steve Fox, Paul Stubbs)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1446
V.138 Microsoft SharePoint 2007 Wrox Box: Professional SharePoint 2007 Development, Real World SharePoint 2007, Professional SharePoint 2007 Design & Professional ... 2007 Web Content Management Development (Wrox - various authors)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1447
V.139 Sams Teach Yourself SharePoint 2007 in 10 Minutes (Sams - Michael Noel, Colin Spence)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1448
V.140 Building Web Applications with Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 Step by Step (Microsoft Press - John Jansen)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1449
V.141 Pro PerformancePoint Server 2007: Building Business Intelligence Solutions (aPress - Philo Janus) *released*
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1461
V.147 Sams Teach Yourself Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) in 24 Hours (Sams - Robert Eisenberg)
(the following are a new version and a revised [clearer] title)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1202
X.72 Imtech Fields Explorer v 1.4.1.0 (codeplex - Waldek Mastykarz, Imtech ICT Business Solutions)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1440
X.155 Enhanced Rich Text for SharePoint Extended - Embed Flash videos, Iframes, etc (codeplex - Boris Gomiunik)
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V WSSv2 KB Articles (plus SPS 2003 Hot fixes)
New
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;957254
Error message when you install the .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 on a computer that is running Windows SharePoint Services 2.0: "A Web Part or Web Form Control on this Web Part Page cannot be displayed or imported"
29th August 2008
Modified
None
VI WSSv2 FAQ
New or Modified
None
VII. MS Articles
New or Modified
None
Note: All of the addresses of the KB / Articles - 2007 Products / MS / Non-MS Articles below were valid at the time I added them to the WSS FAQ
site and to this file. I can't guarantee that they still are.
(This is also posted to my blog at http://mikewalsh.bilsimser.com)
(This is also posted to the WSS newsgroup at microsoft.public.sharepoint.windowsservices - web access via http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/newsgroups/server/sharepoint.mspx)
(Items are added to the WSS FAQ throughout the week so you will find new items more quickly by checking at wss.collutions.com or www.wssfaq.com daily.)
From 10th - 30th August 2008 (I've been away - many links here; more to come in the next week's post)
NOTE: Amendment to KB articles: Microsoft are now not amending the date of a KB article if the change made is marked as a version point change (so from 2.2 to 2.3 for instance).
This ought to mean that the amendment made is cosmetic rather than important as important text changes ought to result in a major version change (such as from 2.2 to 3.0).
Because of this change and to avoid unnecessary effort I will in future not amend the listings in the WSS FAQ sites if only a minor version change has taken place.
I will continue to amend both the date and version numbers of major version changes and of course will continue to add all relevant new KB articles that my RSS feeds and other sources give me.
I.1 2007 KB Articles (*now only one section for WSS and MOSS*)
New
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;953445
Error message when you edit an .aspx Web page in SharePoint Server 2007: "Value does not fall within the expected range"
27th August 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;953397
MS08-043: Description of the security update for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007: August 12, 2008 (ver 3.0)
22nd August 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;953145
Error message when you try to create a Shared Services Provider (SSP) in Office SharePoint Server 2007: "An error occurred while translating user name "<Domain>@<Name>\User1" to a Windows account name - (DS_NAME_ERROR_NOT_FOUND)"
13th August 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;953473
Description of the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 hotfix package: June 5, 2008
11th August 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;953471
Description of the SharePoint Server 2007 post-2007 Microsoft Office servers Service Pack 1 hotfix package: June 5, 2008
11th August 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;955594
Description of the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 hotfix package: July 22, 2008
8th August 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;955586
Description of the SharePoint Server 2007 post-2007 Microsoft Office servers Service Pack 1 hotfix package: July 23, 2008
8th August 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;955593
Description of the SharePoint Server 2007 post-2007 Microsoft Office servers Service Pack 1 hotfix package: July 21, 2008
8th August 2008
I.b Forefront KB Articles
New or Modified
None
I.c InfoPath 2007 KB Articles
New or Modified
None
II. Articles - 2007 Products (no longer with all links to articles for other Office 2007 and other 2007 Products)
New
A. Office 2007 Server Products
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc901593.aspx
Tips for improving backup and recovery performance (Office SharePoint Server) (Updated 28th August 2008)
28th August 2008
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263064.aspx
Manage quotas and unused Web sites (Updated 28th August 2008)
28th August 2008
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc850692.aspx
Best practices for operational excellence (Updated 28th August 2008)
28th August 2008
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc850698.aspx
Best practices for publishing portals (Updated 28th August 2008)
28th August 2008
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc850694.aspx
Best practices for team collaboration sites (Updated 28th August 2008)
28th August 2008
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc850696.aspx
Best practices for Search in Office SharePoint Server (Updated 28th August 2008)
28th August 2008
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262706.aspx
Best practices for My Sites (Updated 28th August 2008)
28th August 2008
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc850697.aspx
Change the index file location on the index server (Office SharePoint Server 2007) (Updated 28th August 2008)
28th August 2008
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc298559.aspx
Configure Kerberos-authenticated sites for crawling (Updated 28th August 2008)
28th August 2008
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc508851.aspx
SharePoint Administration Toolkit [ Starter Page with only links] (Office SharePoint Server) (Updated 28th August 2008)
28th August 2008
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=125efb1e-7ff8-4cc8-934a-28fc7c7e59f0&displaylang=en&tm
Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Technical Library in Compiled Help format (ver 1)
22nd August 2008
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262831.aspx
Manage SSPs and shared services (Updated 21st August 2008)
21st August 2008
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262003.aspx
Manage SSPs in a farm (Office SharePoint Server) (Updated 21st August 2008)
21st August 2008
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262179.aspx
Manage shared services between farms (Office SharePoint Server) (Updated 21st August 2008)
21st August 2008
http://blogs.technet.com/tothesharepoint/archive/2008/08/21/3107508.aspx
Enabling Kerberos authentication for an Office SharePoint Server 2007 farm deployment (MS TeamBlog - Douglas Goodwin)
21st August 2008
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc816955.aspx
Using SharePoint Products and Technologies in a Hyper-V virtual environment (Updated 21st August 2008)
21st August 2008
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262207.aspx
Administering security for the Business Data Catalog (Updated 21st August 2008)
21st August 2008
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=8d3d3118-f639-4c55-92bc-1d187f12b4ba&displaylang=en&tm
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Deployment at MTV Networks Whitepaper
18th August 2008
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=8841fc88-913d-462b-a932-a1e11aea0c38&displaylang=en&tm
Office SharePoint Server 2007 (checklist for custom code)
15th August 2008
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc811600.aspx
Design logical architecture for collaboration sites (Windows SharePoint Services) (Updated 14th August 2008)
14th August 2008
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc835621.aspx
Logical architecture sample design: collaboration sites (Updated 14th August 2008)
14th August 2008
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=124861&clcid=0x409
Logical Architecture Sample Design: Windows SharePoint Services Collaboration
14th August 2008
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc811604.aspx
Back up logs (Office SharePoint Server 2007) (Updated 14th August 2008)
14th August 2008
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc811603.aspx
Increasing SharePoint Engagement (white paper) (Updated 14th August 2008)
14th August 2008
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc707802.aspx
Sample code acceptance checklist for IT organizations (Updated 14th August 2008)
14th August 2008
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262796.aspx
Configure authoritative pages (Office SharePoint Server) (Updated 14th August 2008)
14th August 2008
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc835625.aspx
Add keyword terms with Best Bets (Office SharePoint Server) (Updated 14th August 2008)
14th August 2008
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263104.aspx
Manage server name mappings (Office SharePoint Server) (Updated 14th August 2008)
14th August 2008
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262933.aspx
Manage metadata property mappings (Office SharePoint Server) (Updated 14th August 2008)
14th August 2008
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc261950.aspx
Manage services on each server in a farm [Starter Page with Links - MOSS 2007] (Updated 7th August 2008)
7th August 2008
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=200fd7b5-db7c-4b8c-a7dc-5efee6e19005&displaylang=en&tm
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services Add-in for Microsoft SharePoint Technologies (ver 10.00.1600.26)
6th August 2008
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc824906.aspx
Settings reference (Office SharePoint Server) [Starter Page with links only]
4th August 2008 (no date, released in week of August 4th)
http://www.devx.com/codemag/Article/38667
SharePoint Applied: CAML, Your New Pet (devx.com - Sahil Malik)
25th July 2008
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc752946.aspx
Install Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 by using the command line (updated 24th July 2008)
24th July 2008
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc752945.aspx
Install Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 with least privilege administration by using the command line (updated 24th July 2008)
24th July 2008
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc811601.aspx
Back up logs (Windows SharePoint Services 3.0) (updated 14th July 2008)
14th July 2008
B. Other Office 2007 products
None
C. Other relevant products
None
Modified
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=f8eea8f0-fa30-4c10-abc9-217eeacec9ce&displaylang=en&tm
Microsoft SharePoint Administration Toolkit v2.0 x64 (ver 2)
28th August 2008
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=263cd480-f6eb-4fa3-9f2e-2d47618505f2&displaylang=en&tm
Microsoft SharePoint Administration Toolkit v2.0 x86 (ver 2)
28th August 2008
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc508987(TechNet.10).aspx
Installing SharePoint Administration Toolkit (Windows SharePoint Services) (Updated 28th August 2008)
28th August 2008
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=125efb1e-7ff8-4cc8-934a-28fc7c7e59f0&displaylang=en&tm
Microsoft Forefront Security for SharePoint with SP1 Documentation
25th August 2008
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263199(TechNet.10).aspx
Technical diagrams and other supplemental documentation (Updated 21st August 2008)
21st August 2008
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=77f24c9d-b4b8-4f73-99e3-c66f80e415b6&displaylang=en&tm
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise Edition VHD (ver 1.1)
20th August 2008
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=5e94ad07-902c-422f-aadd-ff2bba9e540a&displaylang=en&tm
SharePoint Products and Technologies Protocol Documentation (ver 0808)
15th August 2008
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=92720
Downloadable book: Records Management Guide for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (updated 14th August 2008 - paper dated July 2008)
14th August 2008
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=110087
Downloadable book: Design and build sites for Office SharePoint Server 2007 (updated 14th August 2008 - paper dated July 2008)
14th August 2008
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=92330
Downloadable book: Web Publishing and Planning Guide with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (updated 14th August 2008 - paper dated July 2008)
14th August 2008
III WebCasts (+ PodCasts, On-Line courses) for 2007 Products
http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032383095&EventCategory=5&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US
MSDN Webcast: geekSpeak: Making SharePoint Not Look Like SharePoint with Paul Stork (Level 200)
6th August 2008
IV WSS v3 FAQ
New
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/EditForm.aspx?ID=1461
V.147 Sams Teach Yourself Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) in 24 Hours (Sams - Robert Eisenberg)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/EditForm.aspx?ID=1462
V.148 Essential Windows Workflow Foundation (Addison-Wesley - Dharma Shukla, Bob Schmidt) *released*
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/EditForm.aspx?ID=1463
V.149 Programming Windows Workflow Foundation: Practical WF Techniques and Examples using XAML and C# (Packt Publishing - K. Scott Allen) *released*
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/EditForm.aspx?ID=1464
V.150 Pro WF: Windows Workflow in .NET 3.0 (Apress - Bruce Bukovics) *released*
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/EditForm.aspx?ID=1465
V.151 Foundations of WF: an Introduction to Windows Workflow Foundation (Apress - Brian Myers) *released*
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/EditForm.aspx?ID=1466
V.152 Microsoft SharePoint Planning, Information Architecture and Design Bible (Wiley-Blackwell - David Sterling)
Modified
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=971
I.31.01 What issues are fixed in the hot fixes to WSS 3.0?
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1321
I.31.10 What issues are fixed in the hot fixes to MOSS 2007 Service Pack 1?
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1352
V.104 Integrating Microsoft Office Access 2007 and Microsoft SharePoint, Digital Shortcut (Kindle Edition) (Pearson Education - Alison Balter) *released*
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V WSSv2 KB Articles (plus SPS 2003 Hot fixes)
New
None
Modified
None
VI WSSv2 FAQ
New
None
Modified
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSS%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=352
I.12.2.6 Document Library - Alerts - Alerts from a https site have the address marked as http. How can I correct this?
VII. MS Articles
New or Modified
None
Special Note: The next post will be on the 31st of August.
Note: All of the addresses of the KB / Articles - 2007 Products / MS / Non-MS Articles below were valid at the time I added them to the WSS FAQ
site and to this file. I can't guarantee that they still are.
(This is also posted to my blog at http://mikewalsh.bilsimser.com)
(This is also posted to the WSS newsgroup at microsoft.public.sharepoint.windowsservices - web access via http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/newsgroups/server/sharepoint.mspx)
(Items are added to the WSS FAQ throughout the week so you will find new items more quickly by checking at wss.collutions.com or www.wssfaq.com daily.)
From 3rd - 9th August 2008
NOTE: Amendment to KB articles: Microsoft are now not amending the date of a KB article if the change made is marked as a version point change (so from 2.2 to 2.3 for instance).
This ought to mean that the amendment made is cosmetic rather than important as important text changes ought to result in a major version change (such as from 2.2 to 3.0).
Because of this change and to avoid unnecessary effort I will in future not amend the listings in the WSS FAQ sites if only a minor version change has taken place.
I will continue to amend both the date and version numbers of major version changes and of course will continue to add all relevant new KB articles that my RSS feeds and other sources give me.
I.1 2007 KB Articles (*now only one section for WSS and MOSS*)
New
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;953448
Error message when you try to access the search settings page in SharePoint Server 2007: "The search service is currently offline"
5th August 2008
I.b Forefront KB Articles
New or Modified
None
I.c InfoPath 2007 KB Articles
New or Modified
None
II. Articles - 2007 Products (no longer with all links to articles for other Office 2007 and other 2007 Products)
New
A. Office 2007 Server Products
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=BB18CD26-F7DB-4AA6-8FDA-F9101AA53C67&displaylang=en
Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Document: Tips and Tricks - Using Blogs in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
4th August 2008 (date added - actually 2007)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=ba4b9afb-c06e-4480-b816-26b7e009e35c&displaylang=en&tm
Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Document: Tips and Tricks - Using Wikis in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
4th August 2008 (date added - actually 2007)
http://thorprojects.com/blog/archive/2008/08/02/moss-single-sign-on-setup-step-by-step.aspx
MOSS Single Sign On Setup Step-By-Step (Blog - Robert Bogue)
2nd August 2008
http://blogs.technet.com/wbaer/archive/2008/08/01/database-mirroring-notes-and-considerations.aspx
Database Mirroring, Notes and Considerations (MS Blog - William Baer)
1st August 2008
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc288751.aspx
Determine hardware and software requirements (Windows SharePoint Services) (version 31st July 2008)
31st July 2008
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262485.aspx
Determine hardware and software requirements (Office SharePoint Server) (version 31st July 2008)
31st July 2008
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc788931.aspx
Change the Indexer Performance setting (Office SharePoint Server 2007)
31st July 2008
http://scothillier.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!8F5DEA8AEA9E6FBB!734.entry
Creating a Scope and Tab for MOSS Search Center (Blog - Scot Hillier)
30th July 2008
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=124087&clcid=0x409
Office SharePoint Server 2007 Data Protection and Recovery model (updated 28th July 2008)
28th July 2008
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262374.aspx
Create, delete, and view site collections and subsites
31st July 2008
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262981.aspx
Manage site collection ownership
31st July 2008
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263290.aspx
Manage site collection administrators (Office SharePoint Server 2007)
31st July 2008
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263250.aspx
Analyze site usage
31st July 2008
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262812.aspx
Configure settings for sites
31st July 2008
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/office/sharepointserver/bb736743.aspx
Web Content Management Resource Center for SharePoint Server 2007 (Starter Page)
4th August 2008 (date added)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/office/sharepointserver/bb736213.aspx
Records Management Resource Center for SharePoint Server 2007 (Starter Page)
4th August 2008 (date added)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc261834.aspx
Planning and architecture for Office SharePoint Server 2007 (Starter Page)
4th August 2008 (date added)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc742803.aspx
SharePoint Directory Integration (TechNet Mag Sept 2008 - Pav Cherny)
4th August 2008 (date added)
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/infopath/HA102776921033.aspx
Get started: Create a meeting note system with InfoPath and SharePoint
4th August 2008 (date added)
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/infopath/HA102636741033.aspx
Demo: Store InfoPath forms in a document library on a SharePoint site
4th August 2008 (date added)
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/infopath/HA102549121033.aspx
Demo: Populate a drop-down list box from a SharePoint list
4th August 2008 (date added)
Federated Search (MOSS 2007) section:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc788937.aspx
Working with Federation (Office SharePoint Server) (Overview page - text and links)
31st July 2008
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc788938.aspx
Federating search results from other locations (Office SharePoint Server)
31st July 2008
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc788935.aspx
Set up a federation connector (Office SharePoint Server)
31st July 2008
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb931080.aspx
Federated Search Overview
31st July 2008
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263089.aspx
Plan the end-user search experience (Office SharePoint Server)
31st July 2008
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc788936.aspx
Configure proxy settings for federated sources (Office SharePoint Server)
31st July 2008
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc788932.aspx
Repair federated locations (Office SharePoint Server)
31st July 2008
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc788933.aspx
Work with triggers and query templates (Office SharePoint Server)
4th August 2008 (date added)
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb896017.aspx
Federated Search SQL Server Connector Sample (Ed: MOSS or Search Server 2008)
4th August 2008 (date added)
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc299447.aspx
Federated Search HTML to RSS Connector Sample (Ed: MOSS or Search Server 2008)
4th August 2008 (date added)
http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/mss2008sdksamples
Microsoft Search Server 2008 SDK Samples
4th August 2008 (date added)
B. Other Office 2007 products
None
C. Other relevant products
None
Modified
None
III WebCasts (+ PodCasts, On-Line courses) for 2007 Products
None
IV WSS v3 FAQ
New
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/EditForm.aspx?ID=1447
V.139 Sams Teach Yourself SharePoint 2007 in 10 Minutes (Sams - Michael Noel, Colin Spence)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/EditForm.aspx?ID=1448
V.140 Building Web Applications with Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 Step by Step (Microsoft Press - unknown)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/EditForm.aspx?ID=1449
V.141 Pro PerformancePoint Server 2007: Building Business Intelligence Solutions (aPress - Philo Janus)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/EditForm.aspx?ID=1450
V.142 Business Intelligence with Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 (McGrawHill Osborne - Craig Utley) *released*
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/EditForm.aspx?ID=1451
V.143 Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 (Wiley - Elaine Andersen , Bruno Aziza, Joey Fitts, Steve Hoberecht, Tim Kashani, Bill Baker) *released*
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/EditForm.aspx?ID=1452
V.144 The Rational Guide To Planning with Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 (Rational Press - Adrian Downes, Nick Barclay) *released*
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/EditForm.aspx?ID=1453
V.145 The Rational Guide To Monitoring and Analyzing with Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 (Rational Press - Adrian Downes, Nick Barclay) *released* (available only from Amazon UK in Aug 2008)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/EditForm.aspx?ID=1454
V.146 Office and SharePoint 2007 User's Guide: Integrating SharePoint with Excel, Outlook, Access and Word (Kindle Edition) (Apress - Michael Antonovich) *released*
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/EditForm.aspx?ID=1455
X.158 Sharepoint upload Webpart (free - André Lage)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/EditForm.aspx?ID=1456
X.159 Employee Training Template (modified version) (codeplex - Sogeti consultants)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/EditForm.aspx?ID=1457
X.160 SharePoint Ninja Toolkit: SharePoint ULS Log Parser (codeplex - John Angelini)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/EditForm.aspx?ID=1458
X.161 Custom Time Only SharePoint Field Control (SPTimeOnly) (codeplex - "thiwanka")
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/EditForm.aspx?ID=1459
X.162 Office File Types for SharePoint (codeplex . Paul Liebrand)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/EditForm.aspx?ID=1460
X.163 Basic MOSS Publishing Site Definition (codeplex - Doug Ware)
Modified
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/EditForm.aspx?ID=617
V.74 Office and SharePoint 2007 User's Guide: Integrating SharePoint with Excel, Outlook, Access and Word (Apress - Michael Antonovich) *released*
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V WSSv2 KB Articles (plus SPS 2003 Hot fixes)
New or Modified
None
VI WSSv2 FAQ
New or Modified
None
VII. MS Articles
New or Modified
None
I must confess that I haven't heard much about PerformancePoint Server 2007 beyond the fact that it was one of the several "Office 2007 Servers" that were mentioned in one of the books I already had listed on the SP 2007 book page because another of the products IT talked about was MOSS 2007.
(http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0672329492/heme0f)
But one of my RSS feeds gave me a post from Philo Janus talking about his new PerformancePoint Server 2007 book and I wondered why I had subscribed to blogs from him so I went to look at the book.
Then I found that this product works with MOSS 2007, so I checked out a few more of the PerformancePoint Server 2007 books' descriptions and found that they too mentioned SharePoint.
So I made the conclusion that listing books on PerformancePoint Server 2007 might well be a useful thing to have on my SP 2007 books page
(http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/V%20Books.aspx)
and created a new Group for them, which now has five entries - three are out; one is out but available at the moment only from Amazon UK (which is unusual) and one (in fact, the Philo Janus one that started this whole thing off) is not yet out.
Note: All of the addresses of the KB / Articles - 2007 Products / MS / Non-MS Articles below were valid at the time I added them to the WSS FAQ
site and to this file. I can't guarantee that they still are.
(This is also posted to the WSS newsgroup at microsoft.public.sharepoint.windowsservices - web access via http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/newsgroups/server/sharepoint.mspx)
(Items are added to the WSS FAQ throughout the week so you will find new items more quickly by checking at wss.collutions.com or www.wssfaq.com daily.)
From 27th July - 2nd August 2008
NOTE: Amendment to KB articles: Microsoft are now not amending the date of a KB article if the change made is marked as a version point change (so from 2.2 to 2.3 for instance).
This ought to mean that the amendment made is cosmetic rather than important as important text changes ought to result in a major version change (such as from 2.2 to 3.0).
Because of this change and to avoid unnecessary effort I will in future not amend the listings in the WSS FAQ sites if only a minor version change has taken place.
I will continue to amend both the date and version numbers of major version changes and of course will continue to add all relevant new KB articles that my RSS feeds and other sources give me.
I.1 2007 KB Articles (*now only one section for WSS and MOSS*)
New
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;953451
By default, the "No Versioning" check box is not selected in the "Document Version History" section in SharePoint Server 2007
31st July 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;953443
Event ID 5326 and Event ID 4958 are logged in the Application log when you run a full content deployment job in SharePoint Server 2007
31st July 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;955144
Description of the Excel Services in SharePoint Server 2007 hotfix package: July 11, 2008
1st August 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;955653
You may experience poor performance when you use many SetCell calls in Excel Services
1st August 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;953456
Error message when you add a user who was previously a site owner to a WSS 3.0 site collection: "The file exists"
1st August 2008
I.b Forefront KB Articles
New or Modified
None
I.c InfoPath 2007 KB Articles
New
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;955140
Description of the InfoPath 2007 hotfix package: July 22, 2008
25th July 2008
Modified
None
II. Articles - 2007 Products (no longer with all links to articles for other Office 2007 and other 2007 Products)
New
A. Office 2007 Server Products
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=e4600fd9-f53d-4ded-88bf-6bb1932794f9&displaylang=en&tm
SharePoint Monitoring Toolkit (version 2)
30th July 2008
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc704269.aspx
Best Practices for Deploying InfoPath 2007 Form Templates to a Production Environment (David Gerhardt, 3Sharp)
29th July 2008 (date added - actually July 2008)
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc627285.aspx
Visual How To: Configuring and Deploying Workflows to SharePoint Server 2007 Using Solution Packages (Mike Rand, 3Sharp)
29th July 2008 (date added - actually June 2008)
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc627286.aspx
Visual How To: Creating a Custom Approval Workflow for SharePoint Server 2007 Using SharePoint Designer 2007 (David Gerhardt, 3Sharp)
28th July 2008 (date added - actually June 2008)
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc427067.aspx
Visual How To: Programmatically Inheriting Default Field Values in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (unknown, Microsoft)
28th July 2008 (date added - March 2008)
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc411726.aspx
Visual How To: Adding Code-Behind Files to Master Pages and Content Pages in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (Andrew Connell, Andrew Connell Inc.)
28th July 2008 (date added - March 2008)
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc337909.aspx
Visual How To: Putting Multiple Items on Hold in SharePoint Server 2007 (unknown, Microsoft)
28th July 2008 (date added - March 2008)
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc300164.aspx
Visual How To: Customizing List Views with XSLT Transformations in SharePoint Designer 2007 (Anup Kafle, 3Sharp)
28th July 2008 (date added - February 2008)
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc300163.aspx
Visual How To: Customizing SharePoint List Views with SharePoint Designer 2007 (Anup Kafle, 3Sharp)
28th July 2008 (date added - February 2008)
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc297199.aspx
Visual How To: Creating Workflow Association Pages for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (Patrick Tisseghem, U2U)
28th July 2008 (date added - February 2008)
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc441429.aspx
Visual How To: Configuring Multiple Authentication Mechanisms with Alternate Access Mappings in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (Andrew Connell, Andrew Connell Inc.)
28th July 2008 (date added - April 2008)
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc406686.aspx
Creating Custom Timer Jobs in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (Andrew Connell, Andrew Connell Inc.)
28th July 2008 (date added - April 2008)
http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/silverlightwebpart
Sample: Basic Silverlight Web Part for Office SharePoint Server 2007
27th July 2008 (date added)
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointdesigner/HA101191111033.aspx
Create a custom list form
27th July 2008 (date added)
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc713554.aspx
Visual How To: Preventing Record Modification but Allowing Metadata Modification by Overriding the Upload Page in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (unknown, Microsoft)
26th July 2008 (date added - article July 2008)
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc664707.aspx
Visual How To: Preventing Document Modification in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (unknown, Microsoft)
26th July 2008 (date added - article July 2008)
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc671183.aspx
Visual How To: Creating Workflows to Transfer Records Upon Expiration in SharePoint Server 2007 (unknown, Microsoft)
26th July 2008 (date added - article July 2008)
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc721591.aspx
How to Optimize SharePoint Server 2007 Web Content Management Sites for Search Engines (Avneesh Kaushik, Microsoft Global Services India)
26th July 2008 (date added - article July 2008)
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc751808.aspx
Using Enterprise Search Property Filters in SharePoint Server 2007 (Joel Krist, Akona Consulting)
26th July 2008 (date added - article July 2008)
http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/crawllogviewersample
Sample: Creating an Enterprise Search Crawl Log Viewer for SharePoint Server 2007 (Joel Krist, Akona Consulting)
26th July 2008 (date added - article July 2008)
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc751807.aspx
Creating an Enterprise Search Crawl Log Viewer for SharePoint Server 2007 (Joel Krist, Akona Consulting)
26th July 2008 (date added - article July 2008)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc261797(TechNet.10).aspx
Administer cache settings and profiles
24th July 2008
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc770241(TechNet.10).aspx
Administer variations (Note: Overview and further links)
24th July 2008
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc770227(TechNet.10).aspx
Administer document conversions (Note: Overview and further links)
24th July 2008
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262839(TechNet.10).aspx
Install Office SharePoint Server 2007 by using the command line (version 24th July 2008)
24th July 2008
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc298465(TechNet.10).aspx
Install Office SharePoint Server 2007 with least privilege administration by using the command line (version 24th July 2008)
24th July 2008
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc770225(TechNet.10).aspx
Move all databases (Search Server 2008) (version 24th July 2008)
24th July 2008
http://blogs.technet.com/tothesharepoint/archive/2008/07/17/3090292.aspx?CommentPosted=true#commentmessage
Which Microsoft search product is for you? (MS Team Blog)
22nd July 2008
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc288019(TechNet.10).aspx
Back up and restore the entire farm (Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 technology)
21st July 2008
http://blogs.technet.com/tothesharepoint/archive/2008/07/18/3090988.aspx
Using Federated Search in Geographic Environments (MS Team Blog - Brenda Carter)
18th July 2008
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262582(TechNet.10).aspx
Example Solution Architecture: Twynham School Learning Gateway
24th July 2008
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=122997&clcid=0x409
Model: Architecture Design Example Twynham School (Visio Poster)
24th July 2008
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=122999&clcid=0x409
Model: MOSS Architecture Example Single Server and Single School (Visio Poster)
24th July 2008
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc512723(TechNet.10).aspx
Move all databases (Windows SharePoint Services) (version 21st July 2008)
21st July 2008
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc288507(TechNet.10).aspx
Spsearch: Stsadm operation (Windows SharePoint Services)
15th July 2008
http://blogs.msdn.com/dwinter/archive/2008/06/28/migrating-wiki-pages-remotely-part-09.aspx
Migrating Wiki Pages Remotely – Part 09 (MS Blog - Dan Winter)
28th June 2008
http://blogs.msdn.com/dwinter/archive/2008/06/28/migrating-wiki-pages-remotely-part-08.aspx
Migrating Wiki Pages Remotely – Part 08 (MS Blog - Dan Winter)
28th June 2008
http://blogs.msdn.com/dwinter/archive/2008/06/28/migrating-wiki-pages-remotely-part-07.aspx
Migrating Wiki Pages Remotely – Part 07 (MS Blog - Dan Winter)
28th June 2008
http://blogs.msdn.com/dwinter/archive/2008/06/28/migrating-wiki-pages-remotely-part-06.aspx
Migrating Wiki Pages Remotely – Part 06 (MS Blog - Dan Winter)
28th June 2008
http://blogs.msdn.com/dwinter/archive/2008/06/28/migrating-wiki-pages-remotely-part-05.aspx
Migrating Wiki Pages Remotely – Part 05 (MS Blog - Dan Winter)
28th June 2008
http://blogs.msdn.com/dwinter/archive/2008/06/28/migrating-wiki-pages-remotely-part-04.aspx
Migrating Wiki Pages Remotely – Part 04 (MS Blog - Dan Winter)
28th June 2008
http://blogs.msdn.com/dwinter/archive/2008/06/28/migrating-wiki-pages-remotely-part-03.aspx
Migrating Wiki Pages Remotely – Part 03 (MS Blog - Dan Winter)
28th June 2008
http://blogs.msdn.com/dwinter/archive/2008/06/28/migrating-wiki-pages-remotely-part-02.aspx
Migrating Wiki Pages Remotely – Part 02 (MS Blog - Dan Winter)
28th June 2008
http://blogs.msdn.com/dwinter/archive/2008/06/28/migrating-wiki-pages-remotely-part-01.aspx
Migrating Wiki Pages Remotely – Part 01 (MS Blog - Dan Winter)
28th June 2008
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262838(TechNet.10).aspx
Administering records management (Starter page to links) (updated 1st May 2008)
1st May 2008
B. Other Office 2007 products
None
C. Other relevant products
None
Modified
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc512725.aspx
Move all databases (Office SharePoint Server) (version 24th July 2008)
24th July 2008
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262412.aspx
Back up and restore the entire farm (Office SharePoint Server 2007) (updated 24th July 2008)
24th July 2008
http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/f484f5f2-35bb-4d70-bf56-dd1c4c287c721033.mspx
Deploy software updates for Office SharePoint Server 2007 (updated 21st July 2008)
21st July 2008
http://technet2.microsoft.com/windowsserver/WSS/en/library/91649a7e-6b5a-4e5a-9ee5-51951f4b857f1033.mspx?mfr=true
Deploy software updates for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (updated 21st July 2008)
21st July 2008
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc288019.aspx
Administering backup and recovery for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 technology (updated 21st July 2008)
21st July 2008
http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/6aa16d9a-812a-4bbc-b421-1b45894525031033.mspx
Move content databases between SQL Server instances (Office SharePoint Server) (updated 15th July 2008)
15th July 2008
http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/1e87c675-f953-4ae9-9cef-559a5b4ac5ea1033.mspx
Move content databases from Windows Internal Database to a SQL Server instance (Office SharePoint Server) (updated 15th July 2008)
15th July 2008
http://technet2.microsoft.com/windowsserver/WSS/en/library/c8ccffce-5162-46af-a3ef-1d7914e8efee1033.mspx?mfr=true
Plan alternate access mappings (Windows SharePoint Services) (updated 15th July 2008)
15th July 2008
III WebCasts (+ PodCasts, On-Line courses) for 2007 Products
http://wm.microsoft.com/ms/msdn/office/2007OfficeVisualHowTos/MOSS2007CreatingApprovalWorkflowUsingSharePointDesigner.wmv
Visual How To: Creating a Custom Approval Workflow for SharePoint Server 2007 Using SharePoint Designer 2007 (Video) (David Gerhardt, 3Sharp)
28th July 2008 (date added - actually June 2008)
http://wm.microsoft.com/ms/msdn/Office/2007OfficeVisualHowTos/WSS3MultipleAuthMechanisms.wmv
Visual How To: Configuring Multiple Authentication Mechanisms with Alternate Access Mappings in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (Video) (Andrew Connell, Andrew Connell Inc.)
28th July 2008 (date added - April 2008)
http://wm.microsoft.com/ms/msdn/Office/2007OfficeVisualHowTos/WSS3AddingCodeBehind.wmv
Visual How To: Adding Code-Behind Files to Master Pages and Content Pages in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (Video) (Andrew Connell, Andrew Connell Inc.)
28th July 2008 (date added - March 2008)
http://wm.microsoft.com/ms/msdn/office/2007OfficeVisualHowTos/MOSS2007PutMultipleItemsOnHold.wmv
Visual How To: Putting Multiple Items on Hold in SharePoint Server 2007 (Video) (unknown, Microsoft)
28th July 2008 (date added - March 2008)
http://wm.microsoft.com/ms/msdn/office/2007OfficeVisualHowTos/WSSCustomizingListViewswithXSLTTransformations.wmv
Visual How To: Customizing List Views with XSLT Transformations in SharePoint Designer 2007 (Video) (Anup Kafle, 3Sharp)
28th July 2008 (date added - February 2008)
http://wm.microsoft.com/ms/msdn/office/2007OfficeVisualHowTos/SPD2007CustomizingSharePointListViews.wmv
Visual How To: Customizing SharePoint List Views with SharePoint Designer 2007 (Video) (Anup Kafle, 3Sharp)
28th July 2008 (date added - February 2008)
http://wm.microsoft.com/ms/msdn/office/2007officevisualhowtos/WSS3CreatingWorkflowAssociationPages.wmv
Visual How To: Creating Workflow Association Pages for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (Video) (Patrick Tisseghem, U2U)
28th July 2008 (date added - February 2008)
http://wm.microsoft.com/ms/msdn/office/2007officevisualhowtos/MOSS2007CreateWorkflowTransferRecords.wmv
Visual How To: Creating Workflows to Transfer Records Upon Expiration in SharePoint Server 2007 (Video) (unknown, Microsoft)
26th July 2008 (date added - article July 2008)
http://wm.microsoft.com/ms/msdn/Office/2007OfficeVisualHowTosWSS30MetadataModificationUploadPage.wmv
Visual How To: Preventing Record Modification but Allowing Metadata Modification by Overriding the Upload Page in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (Video) (unknown, Microsoft)
26th July 2008 (date added - article July 2008)
http://wm.microsoft.com/ms/msdn/Office/2007OfficeVisualHowTos/WSS30PreventDocumentModification.wmv
Visual How To: Preventing Document Modification in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (Video) (unknown, Microsoft)
26th July 2008 (date added - article July 2008)
http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032381675&EventCategory=5&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US
MSDN Webcast: Bringing Enterprise Data to Life with SharePoint Server and Windows Communication Foundation (Level 300) (Joe Klug, Tellago, Inc.)
18th July 2008
IV WSS v3 FAQ
New
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/EditForm.aspx?ID=1445
V.137 Professional Microsoft SharePoint 2007 Development Using Microsoft Silverlight 2 (Wrox - Steve Fox, Paul Stubbs)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/EditForm.aspx?ID=1446
V.138 Microsoft SharePoint 2007 Wrox Box: Professional SharePoint 2007 Development, Real World SharePoint 2007, Professional SharePoint 2007 Design & Professional ... 2007 Web Content Management Development (Wrox - various authors)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/EditForm.aspx?ID=1443
VII.17D Beginning Excel Services (Wrox - ISBN 978-0-470-10489-7) (Chapter 14: Building Custom Solutions - Part 1 of 2 [MS site: looks complete]
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/EditForm.aspx?ID=1444
VII.17E Beginning Excel Services (Wrox - ISBN 978-0-470-10489-7) (Chapter 14: Building Custom Solutions - Part 2 of 2 [MS site: looks complete]
Modified
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/EditForm.aspx?ID=1337
V.101 Teach Yourself SharePoint 2007 in 24 Hours (SAMS - Mike Walsh) (Ed.: The book concentrates on WSS 3.0)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/EditForm.aspx?ID=1379
V.119 Inside SharePoint Administration (Charles River - Steve Caravajal, Shane Young, Todd O. Klindt)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/EditForm.aspx?ID=1390
V.121 Microsoft Sharepoint Designer 2007 Bible (Wiley UK - Vikram Kartik)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/EditForm.aspx?ID=1392
V.122 Microsoft Office SharePoint Server Disaster Recovery Reference Guide (Charles River - John L. Ferringer, Becky Isserman)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/EditForm.aspx?ID=1394
V.124 Pro ADO.NET Data Services: with ASP.NET 3.5, Sharepoint and BizTalk (Apress - John Shaw, Simon Evans)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/EditForm.aspx?ID=1412
V.128 Social Computing with Microsoft SharePoint 2007 (Wiley - Brendon Schwartz, Matt Ranlett)
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V WSSv2 KB Articles (plus SPS 2003 Hot fixes)
New or Modified
None
VI WSSv2 FAQ
New or Modified
None
VII. MS Articles
New or Modified
None
There was recently a forum message giving the address of a Microsoft article on connecting web parts which I checked out before marking that reply as an Answer. While I was checking it (http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointserver/HA100241051033.aspx) out, I noticed a link to an article on List View web part. Now I've always assumed that this must be something that comes with MOSS only as I mainly use WSS 3.0 and I've never seen a link there to Create a "List View Web Part". Because of this, if there's been a message in a newsgroup/forum that mentions List View Web Part, I've always moved quickly on. So I checked that article (http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointserver/HA100240521033.aspx) and discovered the following starting sentence. "There is no Web Part called List View." which of course makes you wonder why they have written a long article on something that doesn't exist (and why people keep saying they have one). It turns out that this List View web part that doesn't exist is just the official name for what I usually think of as the "web part version of a List". (Something that often confuses people so that I make sure in my book (by spending a lot of time on it, with examples) that people are aware that this is (unless filtered) the same content as the list itself. So if you create two such web parts on a page from the same list you get the same thing twice (unless the web parts are differently filtered).) In other words the only problem is that I never knew the official term for this Web Part that doesn't exist (but does). Now I do know the official term, maybe just maybe I'll start reading those newsgroup/forums postings that include that term.
I have several RSS feeds of new SharePoint/Office MSDN / TechNet documents which I use to keep me informed about new documents that I need to add to the WSS FAQ sites. This is fine so long as they only give me the latest documents and come at regular intervals. However sometimes there's suddenly a flurry of "new" RSS feeds some of which go back for several months and I need to check through them all to see if I have the article already (which in the case of the 1 month old (and older) ones I probably do). Add to that the fact that there are several different feeds some of which overlap (but I need all of them because sometimes only one has a link to an article I need) and I needed a way to print them out. So there was the usual problem that a feed in my browser had only a few items visible and printing the whole page anyway produced a confusing picture. In comes SnagIt. It of course creates images from sections of your screen. At first look that wouldn't help either because the section of my screen I can see on screen has only a few of the links. But then I saw that there's an option in SnagIt that I hadn't seen before - "Scrolling Window (web page)". This is perfect for this. You set it going; click the centre of the window you can see; and it generates an image of just the links and descriptions of all the links on the (full) page. What's more, you can print that image direct from SnagIt thus saving a couple more clicks. Very nice.
Note: All of the addresses of the KB / Articles - 2007 Products / MS / Non-MS Articles below were valid at the time I added them to the WSS FAQ
site and to this file. I can't guarantee that they still are.
(This is also posted to the WSS newsgroup at microsoft.public.sharepoint.windowsservices - web access via http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/newsgroups/server/sharepoint.mspx)
(Items are added to the WSS FAQ throughout the week so you will find new items more quickly by checking at wss.collutions.com or www.wssfaq.com daily.)
From 13th - 19th July 2008
NOTE: Amendment to KB articles: Microsoft are not not amending the date of a KB article if the change made is marked as a version point change (so from 2.2 to 2.3 for instance).
This ought to mean that the amendment made is cosmetic rather than important as important text changes ought to result in a major version change (such as from 2.2 to 3.0).
Because of this change and to avoid unnecessary effort I will in future not amend the listings in the WSS FAQ sites if only a minor version change has taken place.
I will continue to amend both the date and version numbers of major version changes and of course will continue to add all relevant new KB articles that my RSS feeds and other sources give me.
I.1 2007 KB Articles (*now only one section for WSS and MOSS*)
New
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;953453
The Business Data Catalog does not support client certificates for authentication in SharePoint Server 2007
17th July 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;953454
Error message when you subscribe to RSS feeds in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and in SharePoint Server 2007: “Page cannot be displayed”
17th July 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;953135
Description of the Excel Services in SharePoint Server 2007 hotfix package: June 26, 2008
17th July 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;953289
A declarative workflow that is configured to start automatically when e-mail enabled items are created does not start automatically after you install Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Service Pack 1
15th July 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;953630
A workflow does not resume automatically when a delay activity is triggered in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
15th July 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;951297
Description of the Microsoft Office Servers Infrastructure Update: July 15, 2008
15th July 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;953750
Issues that are fixed in Microsoft Office Servers by the Microsoft Office Servers Infrastructure Update
15th July 2008
Modified
None
I.b Forefront KB Articles
New or Modified
None
I.c InfoPath 2007 KB Articles
New or Modified
None
II. Articles - 2007 Products (no longer with all links to articles for other Office 2007 and other 2007 Products)
New
A. Office 2007 Server Products
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263269(TechNet.10).aspx
Supported global solutions for Office SharePoint Server
18th July 2008 (date added)
http://sharepointmagazine.net/technical/development/a-tribute-to-the-humble-leave-form
A tribute to the humble “leave form” (Part 1) (SharePoint Magazine, Issue 1 - Paul Culmsee)
18th July 2008 (date added)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263242(TechNet.10).aspx
Determine when to crawl your content (Office SharePoint Server 2007)
18th July 2008 (date added)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262412(TechNet.10).aspx
Back up and restore your entire farm (Office SharePoint Server 2007)
18th July 2008 (date added)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262920(TechNet.10).aspx
Osearch: Stsadm operation (Office SharePoint Server)
18th July 2008 (date added)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262087(TechNet.10).aspx
Restore: Stsadm operation (Office SharePoint Server)
18th July 2008 (date added)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262449(TechNet.10).aspx
Deletecontentdb: Stsadm operation (Office SharePoint Server)
18th July 2008 (date added)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263422(TechNet.10).aspx
Addcontentdb: Stsadm operation (Office SharePoint Server)
18th July 2008 (date added)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc288173(TechNet.10).aspx
Configure alternate access mapping (Windows SharePoint Services)
18th July 2008 (date added)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262350(TechNet.10).aspx
Plan authentication methods (Office SharePoint Server)
18th July 2008 (date added)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262205(TechNet.10).aspx
Plan for global enterprise search
18th July 2008 (date added)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262948(TechNet.10).aspx
Install language template packs
18th July 2008 (date added)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263130(TechNet.10).aspx
Remove a server from the farm
18th July 2008 (date added)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263263(TechNet.10).aspx
Configure existing servers in the farm
18th July 2008 (date added)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262781(TechNet.10).aspx
Add a database server to the farm
18th July 2008 (date added)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc748823(TechNet.10).aspx
Add an index server to the farm
18th July 2008 (date added)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263144(TechNet.10).aspx
Add a dedicated query server to the farm
18th July 2008 (date added)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263018(TechNet.10).aspx
Add an application server to the farm
18th July 2008 (date added)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc261752(TechNet.10).aspx
Add a Web server to the farm
18th July 2008 (date added)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263383(TechNet.10).aspx
Manage servers in the farm
18th July 2008 (date added)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc748835(TechNet.10).aspx
Web site and SQL Server events (Office SharePoint Server)
18th July 2008 (date added)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc748837(TechNet.10).aspx
Virus scanner events (Office SharePoint Server)
18th July 2008 (date added)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc721585(TechNet.10).aspx
Services events used in Office SharePoint Server 2007
18th July 2008 (date added)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc748828(TechNet.10).aspx
Setup and post-setup configuration errors (Office SharePoint Server)
18th July 2008 (date added)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc748833(TechNet.10).aspx
Excel Services error messages (Office SharePoint Server)
18th July 2008 (date added)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc748827(TechNet.10).aspx
Converter log errors (Office SharePoint Server)
18th July 2008 (date added)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc748829(TechNet.10).aspx
Baseline server events (Office SharePoint Server)
18th July 2008 (date added)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc748836(TechNet.10).aspx
Active Directory events (Office SharePoint Server)
18th July 2008 (date added)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc721639(TechNet.10).aspx
Authentication clients (Office SharePoint Server)
17th July 2008 (date added)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc721633(TechNet.10).aspx
Default authentication settings (Office SharePoint Server)
17th July 2008 (date added)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc721632(TechNet.10).aspx
Installation directories included in Office SharePoint Server 2007 that are not included in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
17th July 2008 (date added)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc721635(TechNet.10).aspx
Special directories and storage locations (Office SharePoint Server)
17th July 2008 (date added)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc721638(TechNet.10).aspx
Database permissions (Office SharePoint Server)
17th July 2008 (date added)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc721637(TechNet.10).aspx
Files and permissions for Office SharePoint Server 2007
17th July 2008 (date added)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc721640(TechNet.10).aspx
User permissions and permission levels (Office SharePoint Server)
17th July 2008 (date added)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc721636(TechNet.10).aspx
List of rights (Office SharePoint Server)
17th July 2008 (date added)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc748831(TechNet.10).aspx
Services events used in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
17th July 2008 (date added)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc721631(TechNet.10).aspx
Special directories and storage locations (Windows SharePoint Services)
17th July 2008 (date added)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc721631(TechNet.10).aspx
Files and permissions for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
17th July 2008 (date added)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc748834(TechNet.10).aspx
Internet Protocol Support in SharePoint Products and Technologies (Note: WSS 3.0 *and* MOSS 2007)
17th July 2008 (date added)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc748832(TechNet.10).aspx
Plan for availability (Windows SharePoint Services) [Note: paper is for MOSS 2007 too]
17th July 2008 (date added)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc706879(TechNet.10).aspx
Trimauditlog: Stsadm operation (Office SharePoint Server)
17th July 2008 (date added)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsserver/sharepoint/bb848080.aspx
GroupBoard 2007 application template
12th July 2008 (date added)
http://www.endusersharepoint.com/?p=544
In Defense of SharePoint Designer - Designing High-Quality Workflow Solutions (EndUserSharePoint.com, Paul Galvin)
12th July 2008 (date added)
http://sharepointsolutions.blogspot.com/2008/07/how-do-i-make-our-sharepoint-site-stop.html
How do I make our SharePoint site stop asking me to login? – Part III (SharePoint Solutions, Eric Eaton)
11th July 2008
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Infrastructure Upgrade section:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc718729(TechNet.10).aspx
Install the Infrastructure Update for Microsoft Office Servers (Office SharePoint Server 2007)
16th July 2008 (date added)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc706857(TechNet.10).aspx
Install the Infrastructure Update for Microsoft Office Servers (Search Server 2008)
16th July 2008 (date added)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=3811c371-0e83-47c8-976b-0b7f26a3b3c4&displaylang=en&tm
Infrastructure Update for Microsoft Office Servers (KB951297)
15th July 2008
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=6e4f31ab-af25-47df-9bf1-423e248fa6fc&displaylang=en&tm
Infrastructure Update for Microsoft Office Servers (KB951297), 64-bit edition
15th July 2008
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=256ce3c3-6a42-4953-8e1b-e0bf27fd465b&displaylang=en&tm
Infrastructure Update for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (KB951695)
15th July 2008
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=3a74e566-cb4a-4db9-851c-e3fbbe5e6d6e&displaylang=en&tm
Infrastructure Update for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (KB951695), 64-bit edition
15th July 2008
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Search Server section:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc671410(TechNet.10).aspx
Upgrade from Search Server 2008 (full and Express) to Office SharePoint Server 2007 by performing a slipstream installation
17th July 2008 (date added)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc671412(TechNet.10).aspx
Upgrade from Search Server 2008 (full and Express) to Office SharePoint Server 2007 by installing each component separately
17th July 2008 (date added)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb905378(TechNet.10).aspx
Change the contact e-mail address (Search Server 2008)
17th July 2008 (date added)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc297193(TechNet.10).aspx
Upgrade to Search Server 2008 from Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
17th July 2008 (date added)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc297196(TechNet.10).aspx
Upgrade to Search Server 2008 from Search Server 2008 Express
17th July 2008 (date added)
B. Other Office 2007 products
None
C. Other relevant products
None
Modified
None
Deleted
None
III WebCasts (+ PodCasts, On-Line courses) for 2007 Products
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=31816cd7-340c-42f9-898e-a07d904871c3&displaylang=en&tm
.NET Rocks! - Sahil Malik Shares the Point
16th July 2008
IV WSS v3 FAQ
New
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/EditForm.aspx?ID=1412
V.128 Social Computing with Microsoft SharePoint 2007 (Wiley - Brendon Schwartz, Matt Ranlett)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/EditForm.aspx?ID=1420
V.129 Microsoft SharePoint-Technologien (MSPress Deutschland - Ben Curry, Bill English)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/EditForm.aspx?ID=1421
V.130 SharePoint-Lösungen entwickeln: Net, SharePoint und Office 2007 (Franzis Verlag - Ed Child, Susie Adams)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/EditForm.aspx?ID=1422
V.131 Real World SharePoint 2007: Indispensable Experiences From 16 MOSS and WSS MVPs (Kindle Edition) (Wrox - Editor: Scot Hillier. Authors: 16 MVPs) *released*
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/EditForm.aspx?ID=1423
V.132 Microsoft SharePoint 2007 For Dummies (Kindle Edition) (For Dummies - Venessa Williams) *released*
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/EditForm.aspx?ID=1424
V.133 Pro SharePoint 2007 Development Techniques (Kindle Edition) (APress - Margriet and Nikander Bruggeman) *released*
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/EditForm.aspx?ID=1425
V.134 Microsoft SharePoint: Building Office 2007 Solutions in C# 2005 (Kindle Edition) (Apress - Scot Hillier)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/EditForm.aspx?ID=1428
V.135 Projetos Reais Share Point 2007 (Portuguese translation of Real World SharePoint 2007) (Wrox, 16 MVPs: Alta, Brazil - translators Tibério Novais, Bianca Capitanio)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/EditForm.aspx?ID=1429
V.136 SharePoint 2007 Guia Prático (Portuguese version of the SharePoint 2007 User's Guide, Apress) (Seth Bates,Tony Smith - translator unknown) *released*
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/EditForm.aspx?ID=1411
VI.108 FarPoint Spread for SharePoint (commercial, FarPoint)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/EditForm.aspx?ID=1413
VI.109 conceptClassifier for SharePoint (commercial - Concept Searching Limited)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/EditForm.aspx?ID=1430
VII.32 SharePoint 2007 - Guia Prático (Authorized translation from SharePoint 2007 User’s Guide, by Seth Bates and Tony Smith) Chapter 11: Soluções para Colaboração de Projetos (beginning only)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/EditForm.aspx?ID=1414
X.138 MSIT Site Life Cycle Management v1.1 (codeplex - Microsoft)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/EditForm.aspx?ID=1415
X.139 SharePoint - Monthly folder structure (codeplex - Ivan Wilson)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/EditForm.aspx?ID=1416
X.140 SharePointUrlChanger (codeplex - Scott Helm)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/EditForm.aspx?ID=1417
X.141 WSS / MOSS Log File Reader (codenet - starznet ltd)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/EditForm.aspx?ID=1418
X.142 Sharepoint Access Checker Web Part (codeplex - Tom Shirley)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/EditForm.aspx?ID=1419
X.143 SharePoint Of View (codeplex - Gaétan Bouveret; Julien Chomarat; Sébastien Picamelot; Philippe Sentenac; Adrien Siffermann)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/EditForm.aspx?ID=1426
X.144 SharePoint Document Rating System v3 (codeplex - Stephane Eyskens)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/EditForm.aspx?ID=1427
X.145 MOSS 2007 Open Calais Integration (codeplex - Eran Steinmetz)
Modified
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/EditForm.aspx?ID=971
I.31.01 What issues are fixed in the fix packs to WSS 3.0?
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/EditForm.aspx?ID=958
I.31.02 What issues are fixed in the hot fixes to MOSS 2007?
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/EditForm.aspx?ID=1321
I.31.10 What issues are fixed in the hot fixes to MOSS 2007 Service Pack 1?
V WSSv2 KB Articles (plus SPS 2003 Hot fixes)
New or Modified
None
VI WSSv2 FAQ
New or Modified
None
VII. MS Articles
New or Modified
None
One of the things that I'm especially pleased about with my SharePoint 2007 book page ( http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/V%20Books.aspx) is that I haven't just taken the easy way out and stuck to English language books, but that I also try to have all the French, German etc. books listed there as well - both original and translations.
The French and German books aren't too much of a problem as there are Amazon sites for both France and Germany that naturally list books in those languages, but Spanish ones have been a problem that I've only solved by the occasional Google search or visits to bookshops when on holiday in the Canary Islands. (The visits to bookshops produced a single SharePoint 2007 in translation).
I have been sure that there must be at least translations into many other languages but how to find them? In the WSS 2.0 timeframe someone told me of a book that he had written in Turkish but nothing similar has happened for the 2007 products.
However recently I got a royalty statement for my share of the Real World SharePoint 2007 (the "MVP book") book and I noticed that there was a (very small) amount of money there for a Portuguese translation of that book.
So I contacted someone at that publishers from some info on that book and was able to add an entry in the (new) "Portuguese Translated" section of the above book page. That entry included the URL of the Brazilian publisher's web site and searching THAT produced another SharePoint 2007 book that they have been selling for a while (Real World is expected out next month).
Now, therefore, there are two books in the Portuguese section.
But what about Dutch, Polish, Italian etc. Surely there are some other language versions of SP 2007 books out there ? Please let me know if you see (or know of) any!
P.S. Yes I know there are plenty of books in Japanese. I can access the Amazon Japan site and some of them clearly give both the Japanese (unreadable for me) and the English title. But there's no point in just having the ones where they also give information in English, so unless someone from Japan wants to help me out, they are going to stay unlisted.
Just a brief note to all the people who having seen Dustin Miller's SPD 2007 presentations have been waiting for his book.
It (SharePoint Designer 2007 for Dummies - Dustin Miller, Heather Solomon) is finally - about a year after the first promised released date (when someone else was supposed to write it) out.
Get it from Amazon US - I'm not sure if it's yet available anywhere else - using this URL
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0470096012/heme0f
P.S. Note that, in the comments, Dustin himself says that Amazon are wrong and it isn't out! Yet.
Note: All of the addresses of the KB / Articles - 2007 Products / MS / Non-MS Articles below were valid at the time I added them to the WSS FAQ
site and to this file. I can't guarantee that they still are.
(This is also posted to the WSS newsgroup at microsoft.public.sharepoint.windowsservices - web access via http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/newsgroups/server/sharepoint.mspx)
(Items are added to the WSS FAQ throughout the week so you will find new items more quickly by checking at wss.collutions.com or www.wssfaq.com daily.)
From 22nd - 28th June 2008
NOTE: Amendment to KB articles: Microsoft are not not amending the date of a KB article if the change made is marked as a version point change (so from 2.2 to 2.3 for instance).
This ought to mean that the amendment made is cosmetic rather than important as important text changes ought to result in a major version change (such as from 2.2 to 3.0).
Because of this change and to avoid unnecessary effort I will in future not amend the listings in the WSS FAQ sites if only a minor version change has taken place.
I will continue to amend both the date and version numbers of major version changes and of course will continue to add all relevant new KB articles that my RSS feeds and other sources give me.
I.1 2007 KB Articles (*now only one section for WSS and MOSS*)
New
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;953452
When you try to open an item that was added to a discussion board by using the list Web part in SharePoint Server 2007, the item does not open
25th June 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;953133
Error message when you try to create an audit report for the workflow events of a SharePoint Server 2007 site collection: "Report contains no data"
23rd June 2008
Modified
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;952170
How to implement Forms-based authentication for Office SharePoint Server 2007 by using SQL Server (ver 2.0)
25th June 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/940958/en-us
How to prevent SharePoint Designer 2007 users from changing a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 site or a SharePoint Server 2007 site (ver 4.0)
23rd June 2008
I.b Forefront KB Articles
New or Modified
None
I.c InfoPath 2007 KB Articles
New or Modified
None
II. Articles - 2007 Products (no longer with all links to articles for other Office 2007 and other 2007 Products)
New
A. Office 2007 Server Products
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/magazine/cc565180(TechNet.10).aspx
Integrating Office Applications (TechNet Mag July 2008 - Pat Cherny)
27th June 2008 (date added - Magazine July 2008)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/magazine/cc645014(TechNet.10).aspx
Create Powerful Connections with Groove and SharePoint(TechNet Mag July 2008 - Alan Maddison)
27th June 2008 (date added - Magazine July 2008)
http://searchexchange.techtarget.com/tip/0,289483,sid43_gci1318679,00.html?track=sy520&asrc=RSS_RSS-11_520
How to access SharePoint sites through Microsoft Outlook (SearchExchange.com - Brian Posey)
24th June 2008
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc299037(TechNet.10).aspx
Check workflow status
22nd June 2008 (date added - probably added ca 16th June 2008)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc713515(TechNet.10).aspx
View workflow reports
22nd June 2008 (date added - probably added ca 16th June 2008)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc298927(TechNet.10).aspx
Troubleshoot workflow errors
22nd June 2008 (date added - probably added ca 16th June 2008)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc713516(TechNet.10).aspx
Back up and restore My Sites
22nd June 2008 (date added - probably added ca 16th June 2008)
B. Other Office 2007 products
None
C. Other relevant products
None
Modified
None
Deleted
None
III WebCasts (+ PodCasts, On-Line courses) for 2007 Products
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=387cdef6-a807-4cf8-ae2c-16f0afccaf3c&DisplayLang=en
Office SharePoint Server 2007 video: Understanding and Deploying Hotfixes, Public Updates, and Service Packs (unknown Microsoft escalation engineer)
25th June 2008
http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032378825&EventCategory=5&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US
MSDN Webcast: Introduction to SharePoint Products and Technologies for .NET Developers: Custom Content Types (Level 200) (Robert L. Bogue, Thor Projects LLC)
18th June 2008
http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032381421&EventCategory=5&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US
Information Protection - Protecting Sensitive Data with Active Directory Rights Management Services in Windows Server 2008 (unknown)
18th June 2008
http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032378846&EventCategory=5&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US
MSDN Webcast: Introduction to SharePoint Products and Technologies for .NET Developers: User Management (Level 200) (Robert L. Bogue, Thor Projects LLC)
17th June 2008
IV WSS v3 FAQ
New
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1402
V.125 Integrating Microsoft CRM 4.0 with Windows SharePoint Services (Wrox Blox - Rituraj Singh ) *released*
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1398
X.128 User Profile Sharepoint Designer Activities 0.1.0 (free - Edin Kapic)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1399
X.129 SharePoint Google Map (free - codeplex, lefortludovic)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1400
X.130 Sharepoint lookup with picker (free - codeplex, whtiger)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1401
X.131 SharePoint Audience To Group tool (free - Codeplex, Stephane Eyskens)
Modified
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/EditForm.aspx?ID=1314
V.88 Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Best Practices (MS Press - Ben Curry, Bill English) *released*
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/EditForm.aspx?ID=1319
V.89 Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (in Spanish) (Anaya Multimedia - Patrick Tisseghem) *released*
(released long ago - by error not marked as such in -only - the Collutions site)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1333
X.110 SharePoint Content Deployment Wizard (free, Codeplex - Chris O'Brien)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1386
X.126 SharePoint List columns manager (free - Codeplex, Stephane Eyskens)
V WSSv2 KB Articles (plus SPS 2003 Hot fixes)
New or Modified
None
VI WSSv2 FAQ
New or Modified
None
VII. MS Articles
New or Modified
None
Note: All of the addresses of the KB / Articles - 2007 Products / MS / Non-MS Articles below were valid at the time I added them to the WSS FAQ
site and to this file. I can't guarantee that they still are.
(This is also posted to the WSS newsgroup at microsoft.public.sharepoint.windowsservices - web access via http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/newsgroups/server/sharepoint.mspx)
(Items are added to the WSS FAQ throughout the week so you will find new items more quickly by checking at wss.collutions.com or www.wssfaq.com daily.)
From 15th - 21st June 2008
NOTE: Amendment to KB articles: Microsoft are not not amending the date of a KB article if the change made is marked as a version point change (so from 2.2 to 2.3 for instance).
This ought to mean that the amendment made is cosmetic rather than important as important text changes ought to result in a major version change (such as from 2.2 to 3.0).
Because of this change and to avoid unnecessary effort I will in future not amend the listings in the WSS FAQ sites if only a minor version change has taken place.
I will continue to amend both the date and version numbers of major version changes and of course will continue to add all relevant new KB articles that my RSS feeds and other sources give me.
I.1 2007 KB Articles (*now only one section for WSS and MOSS*)
New
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;953131
When user account information is changed in Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS), the User name and Account name information is not synchronized correctly after you import a profile in SharePoint Server 2007
18th June 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;953444
Error message when you try to create an .aspx Web page in a Web application in SharePoint Server 2007: "Access denied"
18th June 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;953459
How to use the "batch" attribute of the Web.config file compilation element in SharePoint Server 2007 and in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
18th June 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;952170
How to implement Forms-based authentication for Office SharePoint Server 2007 by using SQL Server
17th June 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;953128
Error message when you try to access an RSS feed that points to a resource that requires authentication in SharePoint Server 2007: "The RSS webpart does not support authenticated feeds"
17th June 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;953458
The Lookup field value is empty when you select the None value after you upload a document in SharePoint Server 2007
17th June 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;953129
Error message when you try to browse the SharePoint Web site after you perform an in-place upgrade from SharePoint Portal Server 2003 to SharePoint Server 2007: "Unable to get global configuration data"
16th June 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;953457
The URL of a subsite may appear in uppercase even though you used lowercase when you created the subsite in SharePoint Server 2007
13th June 2008
Modified
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=841057
Support for changes to the databases that are used by Office server products and by Windows SharePoint Services (ver 8.0)
18th June 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;925189
Error message when you try to use an existing site template to create a new SharePoint Server 2007 site: "Failed to apply template" (ver 3.0)
17th June 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;941329
How to point to a custom 404 error Web page in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 or in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (ver 2.0)
16th June 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;941330
How to automate the deletion of backups in SharePoint Server 2007 and in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 by using a Visual Basic script (ver 2.1)
16th June 2008
I.b Forefront KB Articles
New
None
Modified
None
I.c InfoPath 2007 KB Articles
New or Modified
None
II. Articles - 2007 Products (no longer with all links to articles for other Office 2007 and other 2007 Products)
New
A. Office 2007 Server Products
http://sharepointsolutions.blogspot.com/2008/06/how-do-i-make-our-sharepoint-site-stop_17.html
How do I make our SharePoint site stop asking me to login? – Part II (Blog - SharePoint Solutions, Eric Eaton)
18th June 2008
http://sharepointsolutions.blogspot.com/2008/06/how-do-i-make-our-sharepoint-site-stop.html
How do I make our SharePoint site stop asking me to login? – Part I (Blog - SharePoint Solutions, Eric Eaton)
17th June 2008
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=25f9cc59-4ea3-4381-8b37-9430f664eac6&displaylang=en&tm
PPTs and Demos for Introductory SharePoint Developer Modules (ver 2)
17th June 2008
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc700334.aspx
Building State Machine Document Approval Workflows for SharePoint Server 2007 Using Visual Studio 2008 (Mike Rand, 3Sharp)
17th June 2008 (date added - date of article June 2008)
http://blogs.technet.com/wbaer/archive/2008/06/16/renaming-content-databases.aspx
Renaming Content Databases (MS Blog - William Baer)
16th June 2008
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc678866(TechNet.10).aspx
Features included in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
15th June 2008 (date added)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc678865(TechNet.10).aspx
Installation points for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
15th June 2008 (date added)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc297193(TechNet.10).aspx
Upgrade to Search Server 2008 from Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
15th June 2008 (date added)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc627257(TechNet.10).aspx
Enable publishing features
15th June 2008 (date added)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263103(TechNet.10).aspx
Manage permissions for publishing
15th June 2008 (date added)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263090(TechNet.10).aspx
Configure content deployment settings
15th June 2008 (date added)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262075(TechNet.10).aspx
Administer content deployment paths and jobs (starter page - links)
15th June 2008 (date added)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262560(TechNet.10).aspx
Administer Quick Deploy jobs (starter page - links)
15th June 2008 (date added)
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=120537&clcid=0x409
End-to-End Content Deployment Walkthrough
15th June 2008 (date added) (article date June 2008)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc678859(TechNet.10).aspx
Modify a workflow association
15th June 2008 (date added)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262779(TechNet.10).aspx
Remove a workflow association
15th June 2008 (date added)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc298693(TechNet.10).aspx
Cancel a workflow instance
15th June 2008 (date added)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc678871(TechNet.10).aspx
Uninstall a workflow
15th June 2008 (date added)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc678864(TechNet.10).aspx
Delete a SharePoint Designer workflow
15th June 2008 (date added)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc678863(TechNet.10).aspx
Plan account permissions and security settings (Office SharePoint Server)
15th June 2008 (date added)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc678861(TechNet.10).aspx
Technologies used by Office SharePoint Server 2007
15th June 2008 (date added)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc678862(TechNet.10).aspx
Features included in Office SharePoint Server 2007
15th June 2008 (date added)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc678860(TechNet.10).aspx
Enable Enterprise features and features on existing sites (Office SharePoint Server)
15th June 2008 (date added)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc678863(TechNet.10).aspx
Database types and descriptions (Office SharePoint Server)
15th June 2008 (date added)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc678869(TechNet.10).aspx
Installation points for Office SharePoint Server 2007
15th June 2008 (date added)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc678870(TechNet.10).aspx
SharePoint Timer job reference (Office SharePoint Server)
15th June 2008 (date added)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc678867(TechNet.10).aspx
Temporary files created during backup, import/export, and upgrade (Office SharePoint Server)
15th June 2008 (date added)
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=120881&clcid=0x409
Case Study: Using Microsoft Office SharePoint® Server to implement a large-scale content storage scenario with rapid search availability (Paul J. Learning, Russ Houberg – KnowledgeLake, Andy Hopkins)
15th June 2008 (date added - paper dated June 2008)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263199(TechNet.10).aspx
Technical diagrams and other supplemental documentation
15th June 2008 (date added)
http://www.intranetjournal.com/articles/200806/ij_06_11_08a.html
Drawing a Target on Your Users with SharePoint (Intranet Journal - Robert Bogue)
11th June 2008
http://www.intranetjournal.com/articles/200806/ij_06_09_08a.html
Managing the Code When Customizing SharePoint (Intranet Journal - Robert Bogue)
9th June 2008
** Special Workflow section **
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc298653(TechNet.10).aspx
Workflow deployment process
15th June 2008 (date added)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc531335(TechNet.10).aspx
Compare workflow types
15th June 2008 (date added)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262411(TechNet.10).aspx
Enable SharePoint Designer workflows
15th June 2008 (date added)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc261937(TechNet.10).aspx
Allow non-authenticated users to participate in workflows
15th June 2008 (date added)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc298800(TechNet.10).aspx
Disable automatic cleanup of workflow history
15th June 2008 (date added)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc298802(TechNet.10).aspx
Install Visual Studio custom workflows
15th June 2008 (date added)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262348(TechNet.10).aspx
Activate workflows
15th June 2008 (date added)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc298934(TechNet.10).aspx
Add a workflow to a list or document library
15th June 2008 (date added)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc514190(TechNet.10).aspx
Add a workflow to a content type
15th June 2008 (date added)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc514192(TechNet.10).aspx
Start a workflow
15th June 2008 (date added)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc514193(TechNet.10).aspx
Create SharePoint Designer workflows
15th June 2008 (date added)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc678859(TechNet.10).aspx
Modify a workflow association
15th June 2008 (date added)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262779(TechNet.10).aspx
Remove a workflow association
15th June 2008 (date added)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc298693(TechNet.10).aspx
Cancel a workflow instance
15th June 2008 (date added)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc678871(TechNet.10).aspx
Uninstall a workflow
15th June 2008 (date added)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc678864(TechNet.10).aspx
Delete a SharePoint Designer workflow
15th June 2008 (date added)
B. Other Office 2007 products
None
C. Other relevant products
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=d4c3410f-11f0-42b8-9da7-b826d243536b&displaylang=en&tm
Microsoft Forefront Codename "Stirling" VHD (ver 1.0)
17th June 2008
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=4664e8b7-5eca-4ea1-ae69-898f9d6503bc&displaylang=en&tm
IT Showcase: How Microsoft Deployed and Manages Microsoft Forefront Client Security
17th June 2008
Modified
http://office.microsoft.com/download/afile.aspx?AssetID=AM102447701033
Data protection and recovery for Office SharePoint Server in small to medium deployments (Bruno Lanceleaux) (revised June 2008)
15th June 2008 (date modified here)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263384.aspx
Index for Stsadm operations and properties (Office SharePoint Server) (updated June 2008)
2nd June 2008 (date modified)
Deleted
None
III WebCasts (+ PodCasts, On-Line courses) for 2007 Products
http://wm.microsoft.com/ms/msdn/office/2007OfficeVisualHowTos/MOSS2007BuildingStateMachineApprovalWorkflows.wmv
Building State Machine Document Approval Workflows for SharePoint Server 2007 Using Visual Studio 2008 (Video) (Mike Rand, 3Sharp)
17th June 2008 (date added - date of article June 2008)
http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032378844&EventCategory=5&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US
MSDN Webcast: Introduction to SharePoint Products and Technologies for .NET Developers: Page Navigation (Level 200) (Andrew Connell, Independent Consultant)
11th June 2008
http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032378842&EventCategory=5&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US
MSDN Webcast: Introduction to SharePoint Products and Technologies for .NET Developers: Web Services (Level 200) (Andrew Connell, Independent Consultant)
10th June 2008
IV WSS v3 FAQ
New
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1397
X.127 SharePoint Solution Installer V1.2 (free - Codeplex, Lars Fastrup, Kirk Liehmon)
Modified
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/EditForm.aspx?ID=1136
V.60 Professional SharePoint 2007 Web Content Management Development: Building WCM Sites with Office SharePoint Server (Wrox - Andrew Connell) *released
V WSSv2 KB Articles (plus SPS 2003 Hot fixes)
New or Modified
None
VI WSSv2 FAQ
New or Modified
None
VII. MS Articles
New or Modified
None
Yes, folks. My upcoming book is already an Amazon US bestseller. At the time I looked today, there were only a mere 1 million, four hundred and twenty-five thousand, nine hundred and ninety-eight books selling better. (My suspicion is that they have sold a grand total of two pre-sales copies because I've twice noticed how the book shot up the table to a place in the first 500 thousand [very low down in the first 500,000] before gradually sinking to the depths of the above. How much better does it have to do to make the New York List of Books ?) Meanwhile final author reviews on it are still proceeding. I sent the first batch of chapters back well before the deadline, so the deadline was halved for the next batch! It reminds me of the old truism about always using up your (say, training) budget because otherwise you'll get less next year.
Note: All of the addresses of the KB / Articles - 2007 Products / MS / Non-MS Articles below were valid at the time I added them to the WSS FAQ
site and to this file. I can't guarantee that they still are.
(This is also posted to the WSS newsgroup at microsoft.public.sharepoint.windowsservices - web access via http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/newsgroups/server/sharepoint.mspx)
(Items are added to the WSS FAQ throughout the week so you will find new items more quickly by checking at wss.collutions.com or www.wssfaq.com daily.)
From 8th - 14th June 2008
NOTE: Amendment to KB articles: Microsoft are not not amending the date of a KB article if the change made is marked as a version point change (so from 2.2 to 2.3 for instance).
This ought to mean that the amendment made is cosmetic rather than important as important text changes ought to result in a major version change (such as from 2.2 to 3.0).
Because of this change and to avoid unnecessary effort I will in future not amend the listings in the WSS FAQ sites if only a minor version change has taken place.
I will continue to amend both the date and version numbers of major version changes and of course will continue to add all relevant new KB articles that my RSS feeds and other sources give me.
I.1 2007 KB Articles (*now only one section for WSS and MOSS*)
New
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;953455
You cannot create subsites that can inherit permissions when you do not have “Manage Web Site” permissions in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
13th June 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;923280
SharePoint Services may not function as expected in the Turkish locale
5th June 2008
Modified
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/951654/en-us
Duplicate workflows are displayed after you create a SharePoint Server 2007 site from a site template (ver 2.0)
10th June 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;941653
Description of the SharePoint Server 2007 hotfix package: January 31, 2008 (ver 2.0) (3rd one with same name)
30th May 2008
I.b Forefront KB Articles
New or Modified
None
I.c InfoPath 2007 KB Articles
New or Modified
None
II. Articles - 2007 Products (no longer with all links to articles for other Office 2007 and other 2007 Products)
New
A. Office 2007 Server Products
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc546557.aspx
Delivering Modular SharePoint Workflow Functionality (Part 1 of 2) (David Mann, Mann Software, LLC)
13th June 2008 (date added - article dated June 2008)
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc546558.aspx
Delivering Modular SharePoint Workflow Functionality (Part 2 of 2) (David Mann, Mann Software, LLC)
13th June 2008 (date added - article dated June 2008)
http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/modularworkflow
Sample Code: Delivering Modular Workflow Functionality in SharePoint Server 2007
13th June 2008 (to match the articles)
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc627341.aspx
How to Create a Silverlight Web Part in ASP.NET for Use in SharePoint Server 2007 (Avneesh Kaushik)
13th June 2008 (date added - article dated June 2008)
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc627283.aspx
Visual How To: Building an Expense Report Approval Workflow for SharePoint Server 2007 Using Visual Studio 2008 (Mike Rand, 3Sharp)
13th June 2008 (date added - article dated June 2008)
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc627285.aspx
Visual How To: Configuring and Deploying Workflows to SharePoint Server 2007 Using Solution Packages (Mike Rand, 3Sharp)
13th June 2008 (date added - article dated June 2008)
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc627284.aspx
Visual How To: Creating Custom Workflow Activities for SharePoint Server 2007 Using Visual Studio 2008 (Mike Rand, 3Sharp)
13th June 2008 (date added - article dated June 2008)
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb852170.aspx
Editing Business Data Using Business Data Catalog Actions and InfoPath Forms Services (Jason Masterman, Collaboration Experts)
13th June 2008 (date added - article dated June 2008)
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc537498.aspx
Introduction to SharePoint Products and Technologies for the Professional .NET Developer (Erika Ehrli Cabral, Paul Andrew)
13th June 2008 (date added - article dated June 2008)
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc511934.aspx
Building and Distributing Workflows in SharePoint Products and Technologies for Use in Customer and Partner Environments (David Mann, MVP)
13th June 2008 (date added - article dated June 2008)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=c67a9276-bc20-444c-b60d-8500f4b8d713&displaylang=en&tm
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services Add-in for Microsoft SharePoint Technologies (ver 10.00.1442.32)
11th June 2008
B. Other Office 2007 products
None
C. Other relevant products
None
Modified
None
Deleted
None
III WebCasts (+ PodCasts, On-Line courses) for 2007 Products
http://wm.microsoft.com/ms/msdn/office/2007OfficeVisualHowTos/MOSS2007BuildingExpenseReportApprovalWorkflow.wmv
Visual How To: Building an Expense Report Approval Workflow for SharePoint Server 2007 Using Visual Studio 2008 (Video) (Mike Rand, 3Sharp)
13th June 2008 (date added - article dated June 2008)
http://wm.microsoft.com/ms/msdn/office/2007OfficeVisualHowTos/MOSS2007ConfiguringDeployingWorkflowUsingSolutionPackage.wmv
Visual How To: Configuring and Deploying Workflows to SharePoint Server 2007 Using Solution Packages (Video) (Mike Rand, 3Sharp)
13th June 2008 (date added - article dated June 2008)
http://wm.microsoft.com/ms/msdn/office/2007OfficeVisualHowTos/MOSSCreatingCustomWorkflowActivityUsingVS.wmv
Visual How To: Creating Custom Workflow Activities for SharePoint Server 2007 Using Visual Studio 2008 (Video) (Mike Rand, 3Sharp)
13th June 2008 (date added - article dated June 2008)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=e2ec5bd7-5766-4d40-a2e1-12056bcb7760&displaylang=en&tm
Building Web Parts with User Controls and AJAX (Ted Pattison)
10th June 2008
IV WSS v3 FAQ
New
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1392
V.122 Microsoft Office SharePoint Server Disaster Recovery Reference Guide (Charles River, John L. Ferringer, Becky Isserman)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1393
V.123 Programming Microsoft Office Business Applications (MS Press - Steve Fox, Rob Barker, Joanna Bichsel, Erika Ehrli Cabral, Paul Stubbs)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1394
V.124 Pro ADO.NET Data Services: with ASP.NET 3.5, Sharepoint and BizTalk (Apress - John Shaw, Simon Evans)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1396
VII.31A Programming Microsoft Office Business Applications (MS Press - ISBN 9780735625365) - Chapter 4: Integrating Web Services into Your Office Business Applications
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1395
VII.31B Programming Microsoft Office Business Applications (MS Press - ISBN 9780735625365) - Chapter 7: Managing Complex Business Processes with Custom SharePoint Workflow
Modified
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1379
V.119 Inside SharePoint Administration (Charles River - Steve Caravajal, Shane Young, Todd O. Klindt)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1390
V.121 Microsoft Sharepoint Designer 2007 Bible (Wiley UK - Vikram Kartik)
V WSSv2 KB Articles (plus SPS 2003 Hot fixes)
New or Modified
None
VI WSSv2 FAQ
New or Modified
None
VII. MS Articles
New or Modified
None
I've just been on a three day IT course which was probably the first course in my life where I had to just hope for time to go by and hope i could last the course without going completely mad or walking out midway through.
There were on reflection four reasons for this sorry state of affairs
- me
- the language of the course
- the subject
- the trainer
The problem with me was that although my Finnish is perfectly fine for normal living and even normal work situations, it isn't that great when it comes to seminars and it seems some courses because new words are used (and in Finnish if you don't know a word, you can't guess it) and by the time you worked out what the word might have meant (based on the rest of the sentence) the speaker has moved on and you're struggling.
In fact I long ago gave up the idea of going to the free seminars Microsoft Finland organise unless either there were some people giving their talks in English or because I was desperate for a day off work and was prepared to sit in the back row most of the time with my eyes closed letting the Finnish roll over me.
This time however I had no choice. The project I've been assigned to for the next 9 months wanted me to go on this course and it was in Finnish (and I suspect no-one even thought that would be a problem for me - a compliment of sorts I suppose).
The language of the course (the second reason) has been adequately mentioned already. This became particularly important because the subject was new to me. I can follow (say) SharePoint presentations because I know the subject and can thus more easily guess those words that are new to me.
That of course covers the third problem. Given a new subject there's not only the problem that it's more difficult to (mentally) "translate" the Finnish, but having done that even the "translation" needs to be understood which isn't easy for a new IT subject even without the earlier mental strain of trying to grasp what the Finnish meant.
However the final nail in the coffin was the instructor who was very much a typical Finnish IT male without (at least it seemed to me) any teaching skills. (He obviously knew the subject but that's a completely different matter).
So what we had was a monotonous voice saying sentence after complicate sentence in a half-mumbled Finnish with no stresses to make the points clearer (because Finns and especially Finnish men don't speak that way).
So half the time I hadn't a clue what he was saying because I had to concentrate to hear him; concentrate to try to pick out the individual Finnish words; and concentrate to try to understand the IT stuff that was the result of all that.
Then there were the demos. They were OK but half the time when he showed how to do something he was only showing how to do it and then suddenly (with no warning) he wasn't and was already about four steps into a process that we were supposed to do on our PCs before anyone had a clue that this was something we were supposed to do.
Then there were sessions of maybe 90 minutes each unbroken by any demo with just that monotonous voice going on and on.
I feel tired just thinking of it.
(and if I want to feel even more tired I only need to think of that annoying way most Finns have of pronouncing English computing words as if they were Finnish words which he too was very "good" at doing).
So REGSEARCH became Regg-Sé-Axe; Create = Cre-Aah-Té - you name it almost every single English word was pronounced in such a way that even if I knew the word I hadn't a hope of realising that that English word was what he was saying.
I came across this when I was setting up a VM of XP Pro SP2 that was supposed to be an exact copy of what a customer company was running. So I set it up to be Finnish for settings and location and keyboard. (Usually I set all the settings to UK English (or leave at US English) except for the Keyboard and then go in and amend by hand the decimal points; commas etc. which are all wrong.) Anyway it as usual warned me that I didn't have virus-checking software installed and I asked for its list as usual. To my amazement instead of the 8 or so companies that are usually listed, only three (F-Secure - which is a Finnish company; Panda and something else) were listed. So watch out for this. If you are not installing your Operating System with US English settings you may well be missing out on the number of different virus-checker systems that you are told you could use. In my case I've learned that I can just go to http://www.avg.com; select Trial and just download the file (with no registration needed) and I'm good for a month. (and that of course works even with Finnish settings)
I have a (work) PC that long ago was running Office 2003 and I put OneNote 2007 beta on it. That was the end of Datasheet View and upload multiple files. So I quickly learned that if I wanted to use either I had to go back to my by now over six years old reserve office PC (where there have only ever been Office 2003 applications installed). About six months ago my work machine was so sc***d up that it was necessary to put a new image on it. That image included the (work standard) Office *2003* (unbelieveable but true) which I then upgraded to Office 2007 myself. I kept on assuming that Datasheet View and upload multiple files wouldn't work. However yesterday there was a message in a forum about someone's upload mutiple files not showing PDF files, so without thinking I checked it on my work machine today. Yes, I could see PDF files OK. But hang on, upload multiple files shouldn't work on this machine .... So I tried Edit in Datasheet View and that worked too. Motto: Even if these once don't work, check them now and again as something you have done in the meantime might get rid of the remnants of that mixed (Office 2003 level / Office 2007 level) environment that was causing these things to fail.
Note: All of the addresses of the KB / Articles - 2007 Products / MS / Non-MS Articles below were valid at the time I added them to the WSS FAQ
site and to this file. I can't guarantee that they still are.
(This is also posted to the WSS newsgroup at microsoft.public.sharepoint.windowsservices - web access via http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/newsgroups/server/sharepoint.mspx)
(Items are added to the WSS FAQ throughout the week so you will find new items more quickly by checking at wss.collutions.com or www.wssfaq.com daily.)
From 25th - 31st May 2008
NOTE: Amendment to KB articles: Microsoft are not not amending the date of a KB article if the change made is marked as a version point change (so from 2.2 to 2.3 for instance).
This ought to mean that the amendment made is cosmetic rather than important as important text changes ought to result in a major version change (such as from 2.2 to 3.0).
Because of this change and to avoid unnecessary effort I will in future not amend the listings in the WSS FAQ sites if only a minor version change has taken place.
I will continue to amend both the date and version numbers of major version changes and of course will continue to add all relevant new KB articles that my RSS feeds and other sources give me.
I.1 2007 KB Articles (*now only one section for WSS and MOSS*)
New
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/952172/en-us
Event ID 2436 is logged in the Application log when you search for a URL in SharePoint Server 2007
30th May 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/953127/en-us
How to integrate SharePoint Server 2007 or Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 with SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services by using the Reporting Services Add-in
30th May 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/951654/en-us
Duplicate workflows are displayed after you create a SharePoint Server 2007 site from a site template
29th May 2008
Modified
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/952167/en-us
Folders may have to be excluded from antivirus scanning when you use a file-level antivirus program in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 or in SharePoint Server 2007 (ver 4.0)
28th May 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=950947
Support information for using Forefront Security for SharePoint on a Windows Server 2008-based computer or on a Windows Vista-based computer (ver 2.0)
22nd May 2008
I.b Forefront KB Articles
New
None
Modified
None
I.c InfoPath 2007 KB Articles
New or Modified
None
II. Articles - 2007 Products (no longer with all links to articles for other Office 2007 and other 2007 Products)
New
A. Office 2007 Server Products
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=d41140ab-0ea3-47c7-be56-f42424166608&displaylang=en&tm
SharePoint IT Pro and Developer Training Resources Sheet
30th May 2008
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=5474a014-0298-4c45-a8f4-f3e38abfc424&displaylang=en&tm
SharePoint Products and Technologies Document: Developing Custom Applications with SharePoint Server 2007 (ver May08)
30th May 2008
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=3bfa11be-815a-414d-b69f-c2add07d8733&displaylang=en&tm
SharePoint: A Platform for Enterprise Mashups
30th May 2008
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=6231f77e-a8d5-43b2-a8d8-a9bb60304505&displaylang=en&tm
SharePoint Server 2007 Internal Buzz Kit
30th May 2008
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=25f9cc59-4ea3-4381-8b37-9430f664eac6&displaylang=en&tm
PPTs and Demos for Introductory SharePoint Developer Modules (an msi file to install these)
29th May 2008
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=b47a2590-3f3c-42e8-b9f1-334d65a88c4a&displaylang=en&tm
SharePoint Deployment Planning Services Overview Brochure
27th May 2008
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=2BE66504-21FB-4130-844C-0F89DA54515F&displaylang=en
Enterprise Search Indexing Connector 2008 for EMC Documentum (works with "Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, Microsoft Search Server 2008, or Microsoft Search Server 2008 Express installed and configured")
23rd May 2008
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=150004F9-FA15-41C6-902B-202AD2FC16D2&displaylang=en
Enterprise Search Indexing Connector 2008 for IBM FileNet (works with "Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, Microsoft Search Server 2008, or Microsoft Search Server 2008 Express installed and configured")
23rd May 2008
B. Other Office 2007 products (selected few only since 1.1.2007)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=5c4e9dea-ab34-40f6-8c73-bd94051331b4&displaylang=en&tm
Windows Small Business Server 2008 (RC0 = Release Candidate 0)
(includes WSS 3.0 so included here despite being only a release candidate)
28th May 2008
C. Other New 2006/2007/2008 Products (selected few only since 1.1.2007)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=82e632a7-faf9-41e0-8ec1-a2662aae9dfb&displaylang=en&tm
Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Software Development Kit (ver 4.0.5)
30th May 2008 (relevant to SP and an SDK)
Modified
None
III WebCasts (+ PodCasts, On-Line courses) for 2007 Products
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=b885dce8-c93f-48aa-b798-4422febcc200&displaylang=en&tm
Hands on Labs for Developing Applications on Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
30th May 2008
http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032378833&Culture=en-US
MSDN Webcast: Introduction to SharePoint Products and Technologies for .NET Developers: Using Event Handlers (Level 200) (Andrew Connell, Independent Consultant)
27th May 2008
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=dd1fac2c-2d6b-449c-8d28-2e28ee96b6e1&displaylang=en&tm
Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Demo: Boost teamwork with a wiki
27th May 2008
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=b300ccfd-5fb1-4e77-a6c4-2639248642b0&displaylang=en&tm
Outlook 2007 Demo: Work with SharePoint calendars
27th May 2008
http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032378831&Culture=en-US
MSDN Webcast: Introduction to SharePoint for .NET Developers: Silverlight and SharePoint Server (Level 200) (Andrew Connell, Independent Consultant)
27th May 2008
http://www.microsoft.com/winme/0804/32391/ConnectorTraining_EMCDocumentum/index.html
Installing and Configuring Enterprise Search Indexing Connector 2008 for EMC Documentum (Video) (requires Siverlight)
25th May 2008 (date added)
http://www.microsoft.com/winme/0804/32391/ConnectorTraining_IBMFilenet/index.html
Installing and Configuring Enterprise Search Indexing Connector 2008 for IBM FileNet (video) (requires Siverlight)
25th May 2008 (date added)
http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?culture=en-US&EventID=1032378829&CountryCode=US
MSDN Webcast: Introduction to SharePoint for .NET Developers: Data Lists (Level 200) (Robert L. Bogue, Thor Projects LLC)
21st May 2008
IV WSS v3 FAQ
New
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1385
VI.105 blueKiwi SharePoint connector (commercial - blueKiwi)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1382
X.123 SharePoint autocomplete lookup field with AJAX (free - Stephane Eyskens, Codeplex)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1383
X.124 SharePoint Custom Field - Variation labels (free - Codeplex, Gael Duhamel)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1384
X.125 Application Pool Manager (free - Spencer Harbar)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1386
X.126 SharePoint List columns manager (free - Codeplex, StephaneEyskens)
Modified
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1363
V.113 Professional Workflow Design Patterns for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (Wrox - John Holliday)
(new and much later date of issue)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1379
V.119 Inside SharePoint Administration (Charles River - Steve Caravajal, Shane Young, Todd O. Klindt)
(Has suddenly acquired two new authors who actually do know a lot about SP *Administration*!)
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V WSSv2 KB Articles (plus SPS 2003 Hot fixes)
New or Modified
None
VI WSSv2 FAQ
New or Modified
None
VII. MS Articles
New
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=3c6c7a37-82cb-46c4-a300-902d184c9d96&displaylang=en&tm
Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 (2003) Management Pack for OpsMgr 2007 (ver 6.0.6278.0)
27th May 2008
This is what I wrote on the twelve of May
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"A new book on SharePoint administration has just made it to Amazon (which means it will be out in the fall/autumn).
You can with that massive introduction perhaps guess that it was written by someone from Microsoft.
Here's the blurb.
"Steve Caravajal is a principal architect with the Microsoft Corporation. He has been architecting, deploying and customizing SharePoint solutions for over 7 years."
Ah, yes, but has he actually been administering them ?
It would seem not.
Wouldn't you think that they could find a Microsoft guy (from internal Microsoft computing perhaps) with Administration experience if they really insist on having someone from Microsoft.
I'd have picked Todd Klindt (MVP, not Microsoft) myself.
Other info on that upcoming book here:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1584506016/heme0f "
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The full quote on Steve Caravajal that I referred to above is still there
"Steve Caravajal is a principal architect with the Microsoft Corporation. He has been architecting, deploying and customizing SharePoint solutions for over 7 years. Steve has 25+ years experience in technology and product development, consulting and training. He holds a B.S. degree in chemistry and mathematics and a doctoral degree in chemistry and computer science. Steve is a developer at heart, having written and managed the development of numerous enterprise software applications in C++, Java and .NET. He currently lives in Cincinnati, OH, with his wife Rosemary."
Note the "developer at heart" and remember this is an Admin book !!!
But the main thing of interest considering what I wrote above is that two more authors have been added to that Amazon page (and to the book). Both are SharePoint MVPs; both are very good at SharePoint Administration AND one of them is Todd Klindt !!!
Now my main thrust in that 12th May 2008 blog was that I would hardly rush out and buy a book if it were written by someone from Microsoft and the Microsoft guy (Steve Caravajal) is still presumably the lead writer for this one, but I still find it perhaps more than a coincidence that I blogged on him being the wrong guy for this book and just over two weeks later it turns out he no longer is the sole author.
Wouldn't it be interesting if we actually knew just when those guys were added.
This blog started off with being a short report on OneNote 2007 synchronizing with WSS 3.0 and why couldn't we have a List in one WSS 3.0 site synchronizing with an identical List in a different WSS 3.0 site in a different server.
Which (the latter) of course is impossible.
But thinking about that got me thinking (yes, it happens occasionally) and I realized that a solution to my particular WSS 3.0 synchronization problem had been staring me in the face for a long time.
But I'm getting ahead of myself. Let's start at the beginning.
I now have three different Windows PCs all of which are running OneNote 2007 and all of which have loaded the same two notebooks that were created as shared OneNote notebooks and stored in WSS 3.0.
The WSS 3.0 containing these notebooks is in a VM on my MacBook.
So now when using any of those three PCs (even the work one), if I ever see anything I want to keep, I just take a quick Copy-C and paste it into that PC's OneNote 2007 copy of one of those 2 notebooks and rely on the fact that whenever I have the MacBook and that PC in the same place I can synchronize the two.
This of course - as it's a two-way sync - will also get amendments/additions made in PC1 into PC2 and PC3 (in time).
That worked so nicely I thought wouldn't it be nice if I could synchronize two copies of WSS 3.0 in the same way. Then I could have my personal WSS 3.0 system (with those OneNote 2007 notebooks but also other things) stored in different machines without being forced to do this on a semi-regular basis via Save Site/List as Template and/or Backup/Restore methods.
A dream of course, but while thinking about that I realised that there was a solution of sorts for my problems in getting my non-OneNote data into that WSS 3.0 site when the MacBook wasn't available.
What's more I already had that solution both available to me; working (on one machine) and I also had several licenses. It was just that I'd always used it with my public web sites (because they were there) and they were always available so there never was any point in using an off-line product to update them.
Yes, I'm talking about Colligo Contributor.
Once I realized that it was simple to work out how to set up a similar thing to the OneNote solution. I would need to install Colligo Contributor on those same three Windows-based PCs at a time when the MacBook and it's WSS 3.0 VM were available. I'd then be able to connect each in turn (maybe days apart) to the VM and download the contents of the same Lists in every case.
Now whenever I wanted to add something non-OneNote to the WSS 3.0 site and I didn't have the MacBook around (or open in the wrong VM) I could just add that something to the Colligo Contributor copy and next time the MacBook and the VM were around/open I could do a sync.
I only came up with this earlier today when I was washing the dishes (!) and thinking about this blog and the whole synchronization issue, but I've no doubt that it'll work and work well. (I just need to check that the program will cope with being in three different PCs and still synchronize - I know it works from one perfectly.
It's just really annoying to realize I could have solved this problem a long time ago if I'd just had the MacBook on-line when I installed that test copy of Colligo Contributor.
I was reading through Ed Bott's long and interesting tale of woe about Vista Business on a Vaio portable (and how the Sony people made a complete hash of it) and reached page 3 (http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?p=429&page=3) where he describes getting a better installed version of Visio in a more recent model but where he still had a lot of unnecessary pre-installed software to get rid of. It just reminded me that one of the benefits with not buying a "home" model for my wife was just that - that the model I did get came with a straight installation of XPPro and the few additional HP bits of software installed along with that all seem to have the aim of making getting support for the machine easier. There's no pre-installed garbage at all - unless you include WinDVD which I'm rather happy to have as usually DVDs will run better in such a program (I usually use PowerDVD) than in either Windows Media Viewer or QuickTime. So thanks to the neighbour for pointing out the awful build quality of her Fujitsu-Siemens "home" computer because otherwise I would probably not have started looking around for an alternative.
Most of the solutions to questions that are put about SharePoint v3 and allied products can be found in documentation somewhere.
The problem is where is that somewhere is.
Microsoft don't make things easy by having seemingly competing groups providing information so you never know for instance whether the information you are looking for is in a Knowledge Base article; in TechNet or in MSDN.
Whereas the Knowledge Base articles mostly (I shudder when I remember those KB Articles that tell you about web casts especially when they are updated several months after the event has taken place, which clearly shows that some people don't actually read what they are updating) come after the Microsoft Customer Support Services people have had many reports of problems with X or just simply many questions about Y and so tend to be about solving problems or answering common questions, the split between what's in TechNet and MSDN never seems to be clear.
Sometimes in fact I wonder if they know themselves. The only clear line I have been able to draw is that MSDN information is in the form of papers (some as Word documents; some as web pages) which can therefore include screen prints and other images and TechNet is in the form of words only.
The other difference is that TechNet often seems to subscribe to the Russian doll syndrome so that you click on something and it says the answer to that is in the following two pages; so you click on one of those links and it says the answer to that is in the following three pages; and you click on one of those and sometimes the answer is one line of text! This, guys, is taking re-use too far!
OK. Back to the reason for this particular blog.
One of the common questions for Search Server 2008 Express installed on top of WSS 3.0 is "why can I search my own WSS 3.0 sites and get results but when I try to search WSS 3.0 sites on another server, I get nothing?".
So when I, while trying (and failing) to find a "Newly published content for Search Server 2008" page, came across the standard TechNet Search Server 2008 starter page here http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb871550.aspx I had a look to see if I could find anything on this issue.
It wasn't easy. There's no link there in the left-hand-column with the words "Look here for searching non-local WSS 3.0 sites" in bright red and flashing, but finally I found one (at the *third* level below that top page - not much for a Russian doll perhaps but enough for me) that said the following.
"identify the authentication method that is used by the server that hosts the content that you are crawling. By default, Search Server 2008 uses NTLM authentication"
which is something that a reply in a Search server 2008 forum said without though saying whether he was talking about the server on which Search Server 2008 is installed or the (other) server that you are trying to search.
Now, therefore it's clear that if you are (as you probably are) using default values on the WSS 3.0 / Search Server 2008 Express server you will need to make sure that the WSS 3.0 server you are trying to search is set to use NTLM authentication.
The other thing that seems to be necessary (I have no idea - I do know it's linked to from the page that said you need NTLM authentication) is to change the default content access account on the WSS 3.0 / Search Server 2008 Express server which was on a page on the *fourth level*
"Change the default content access account
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On the Search Administration page, in the Crawling section, click Default content access account.
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On the Default Content Access Account page, in the Account box, type the domain and user name for the account in the form DomainName\UserName.
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In the Password and Confirm Password boxes, type the password for the account.
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Click OK.
"
Hopefully this still works when WSS 3.0 is not in a domain otherwise there's yet another reason for searching other servers not to work.
But for now I'm blogging this to make sure the necessity for NTLM authentication is out there. The content access account stuff is something to be tried if that doesn't work.
I suspect I'll find new bits of information on this throughout that entire TechNet section. I'm certainly going to look.
But, wouldn't it be great if they could combine with the MSDN guys and write a *single* paper (with screen shots) on how to set-up Search Server 2008 Express so that it can search non-local WSS 3.0 sites instead of making us search throughout all those short bits and make us piece together (probably wrongly) the full story.
One of the ways I keep in touch with the latest books (to add them to my Books page) is to search Amazon.com / Books with "SharePoint" and then specify "By Publication Date"
This is good way to quickly become aware of books that aren't published yet and also to see which books have been delayed.
What rarely happens is that the date of a book moves up. I submitted mine before the original deadline for submission and a few weeks later this was reflected in the Availability date that Amazon US was quoting (up from November 7th to October 20th).
Another book that I see today has been moved up (easy to see because the original date was later than that of my book) was one of the two Workflow books that are due out in the Fall.
The thing though that struck me was that the new date of that book (Professional SharePoint Workflow Programming (Wiley - Shahram Khosravi)) is now identical to that of the other book (Professional Workflow Design Patterns for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (Wrox - John Holliday)) due on October the 6th.
Coincidence ? Somehow I doubt it!
Note: All of the addresses of the KB / Articles - 2007 Products / MS / Non-MS Articles below were valid at the time I added them to the WSS FAQ
site and to this file. I can't guarantee that they still are.
(This is also posted to the WSS newsgroup at microsoft.public.sharepoint.windowsservices - web access via http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/newsgroups/server/sharepoint.mspx)
(Items are added to the WSS FAQ throughout the week so you will find new items more quickly by checking at wss.collutions.com or www.wssfaq.com daily.)
From 18th - 24th May 2008
NOTE: Amendment to KB articles: Microsoft are not not amending the date of a KB article if the change made is marked as a version point change (so from 2.2 to 2.3 for instance).
This ought to mean that the amendment made is cosmetic rather than important as important text changes ought to result in a major version change (such as from 2.2 to 3.0).
Because of this change and to avoid unnecessary effort I will in future not amend the listings in the WSS FAQ sites if only a minor version change has taken place.
I will continue to amend both the date and version numbers of major version changes and of course will continue to add all relevant new KB articles that my RSS feeds and other sources give me.
I.1 2007 KB Articles (*now only one section for WSS and MOSS*)
New
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;952292
Description of the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 hotfix package: May 12, 2008
19th May 2008
Modified
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/952167/en-us
Folders may have to be excluded from antivirus scanning when you use a file-level antivirus program in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 or in SharePoint Server 2007 (ver 2.0)
19th May 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;942390
Description of the SharePoint Server 2007 issues that are fixed by the 2007 Microsoft Office servers Service Pack 1 (ver 4.1)
4th April 2008
I.b Forefront KB Articles
New
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/950547/en-us
How to manually update the antivirus scan engines in Microsoft Forefront server security products and how to redistribute antivirus engine updates from a computer that does not have Forefront server security installed (ver 1.1)
5th May 2008
Modified
None
I.c InfoPath 2007 KB Articles
New or Modified
None
II. Articles - 2007 Products (no longer with all links to articles for other Office 2007 and other 2007 Products)
New
A. Office 2007 Server Products
http://sharepointsolutions.blogspot.com/2008/05/powershell-for-flexible-iterative.html
PowerShell for Flexible Iterative SharePoint-based Development (Blog - Tony Bierman, SharePoint Solutions)
20th May 2008
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc510330.aspx
Decentralizing Site Administration (TechNet Mag June 2008, Pav Cherny)
19th May 2008 (date added)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc287790.aspx
Plan for software boundaries (Windows SharePoint Services)
18th May 2008 (date added)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262787.aspx
Plan for software boundaries (Office SharePoint Server)
18th May 2008 (date added)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc287757.aspx
Plan for backup and recovery (Windows SharePoint Services)
18th May 2008 (date added)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc288019.aspx
Administering backup and recovery for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 technology
18th May 2008 (date added)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262287.aspx
Governance features in Office SharePoint Server 2007
18th May 2008 (date added)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263356.aspx
What is governance?
18th May 2008 (date added)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262883.aspx
Establishing and governing a SharePoint service
18th May 2008 (date added)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262900.aspx
Implementing and governing information architecture
18th May 2008 (date added)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc512725.aspx
Move all databases (Office SharePoint Server)
18th May 2008 (date added)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc512096.aspx
Back up and restore single sign-on
18th May 2008 (date added)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc512095.aspx
Back up and restore Shared Services Providers
18th May 2008 (date added)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262412.aspx
Administering backup and recovery for Office SharePoint Server 2007
18th May 2008 (date added)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc261687.aspx
Plan for backup and recovery (Office SharePoint Server)
18th May 2008 (date added)
B. Other Office 2007 products (selected few only since 1.1.2007)
None
C. Other New 2006/2007/2008 Products (selected few only since 1.1.2007)
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/products/cc149003.aspx
Visual Studio 2008 Product Comparison (ver 1.08)
18th May 2008 (date added)
Modified
None
III WebCasts (+ PodCasts, On-Line courses) for 2007 Products
**** Section for Labs ****
https://www.microsoft.com/resources/virtuallabs/step3-technet.aspx?LabId=c8a0b19b-e557-40ac-b469-48d57fadb706&BToken=reg
TechNet Labcast On-Demand: Administering Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (180 mins)
20th May 2008 (date added)
https://www.microsoft.com/resources/virtuallabs/step1-technet.aspx?LabId=046cc968-160b-4f3d-b7a5-c5225954f8ac&BToken=reg
TechNet Labcast On-Demand: Deploying Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
20th May 2008 (date added)
https://www.microsoft.com/resources/virtuallabs/step1-technet.aspx?LabId=7efc1053-cf4b-4c1d-961f-162cfef38f78&BToken=reg
TechNet Virtual Lab: What's New in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
20th May 2008 (date added)
https://www.microsoft.com/resources/virtuallabs/step1-technet.aspx?LabId=38b11cac-4525-487d-8aaf-347b684f8a8b&BToken=reg
TechNet Virtual Lab: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Records Management Deployment and Configuration
20th May 2008 (date added)
https://www.microsoft.com/resources/virtuallabs/step1-technet.aspx?LabId=bba8edd2-0a43-43c1-98f7-d89a2f1b271e&BToken=reg
TechNet Virtual Lab: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Installation and Configuration
20th May 2008 (date added)
https://www.microsoft.com/resources/virtuallabs/step1-technet.aspx?LabId=7fd2352c-12e6-4140-abd6-c3e584b5a7ae&BToken=reg
TechNet Virtual Lab: Getting Started with the Business Data Catalog in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (90 mins)
20th May 2008 (date added)
**** End of Labs section ****
https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/Register.aspx?culture=en-US&EventID=1032377109&CountryCode=US&IsRedirect=false
TechNet Webcast: Managing Exchange Server and SharePoint Protection with Forefront Server Security Management Console (Level 300) (Darryl Tenzie)
22nd May 2008
https://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/Register.aspx?culture=en-US&EventID=1032378036&CountryCode=US&IsRedirect=false
Best Practices for Managing and Securing SharePoint 2007 (Rand Morimoto, Convergent Computing)
21st May 2008
https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/Register.aspx?culture=en-US&EventID=1032374287&CountryCode=US&IsRedirect=false
Momentum Webcast: Enterprise Content Management and Workflows in SharePoint Server 2007 (Level 100) (Bob Clancy)
21st May 2008
https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/Register.aspx?culture=en-US&EventID=1032378827&CountryCode=US&IsRedirect=false
MSDN Webcast: Introduction to SharePoint for .NET Developers: Web Parts (Level 100) (Robert L. Bogue, Thor Projects LLC)
20th May 2008
https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/Register.aspx?culture=en-US&EventID=1032377097&CountryCode=US&IsRedirect=false
TechNet Webcast: Forefront Security for SharePoint Content Filtering Drill-Down (Level 300) (Noelle Mendez-Villamil)
19th May 2008
http://tinyurl.com/6a3vrr
Momentum Webcast: The Enterprise Search Platform in SharePoint Server 2007 (Level 100) (Justin Chandoo)
15th May 2008
http://tinyurl.com/6ckxv3
TechNet Webcast: Securing SharePoint End-to-End with Microsoft Forefront (Level 300) (Noelle Mendez-Villamil, Senior Product Manager, Uri Lichtenfeld)
14th May 2008
IV WSS v3 FAQ
New
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/EditForm.aspx?ID=1380
III.103 What do I need to do to get Kerberos to work when a SharePoint v3 product is installed on Windows Server 2008?
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/EditForm.aspx?ID=1381
V.120 Effective Knowledge Management with Microsoft SharePoint Content Types (Wrox Blox - Henry Ong) *released*
Modified
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=971
I.31.01 What issues are fixed in the hot fixes to WSS 3.0?
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1364
V.114 Seamless Teamwork: Using Microsoft SharePoint Technologies to Collaborate, Innovate, and Drive Business in New Ways (MS Press - Michael Sampson)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1378
X.122 SharePoint config store (free - codeplex, Chris O'Brien)
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V WSSv2 KB Articles (plus SPS 2003 Hot fixes)
New
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;952903
Description of the Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 hotfix package: May 12, 2008
20th May 2008
Modified
None
VI WSSv2 FAQ
New or Modified
None
It was a really good idea to set up VMs for myself in the HP workstation and leave all the main OS and its apps to my wife.
Not only can she never again blame me for causing problems to *her* system by me adding codecs and odd apps (even though she mostly was right!) but I also get the chance to really experience virtualization as a full-time way of working rather than to use it only in addition to the host computer for the occasional test systems.
So far I have set up a VM with Vista and I've just completed setting up a VM with Windows Server 2008 (Full); Applications Server and (what else?!) WSS 3.0. I've even tried accessing that WSS 3.0 from the Vista VM and it works like a dream.
For now the only snag (and it's a minor one) is that I first need to boot my wife's XPPro before I can start VM Workstation and boot my Vista. I.e. it's a time problem. But oh, the joys of having only my own stuff there and everything where I left it.
If you have enough memory and a fast enough processor (and disk space) it's definately better than all other methods of dividing your machine (imo).
OK, "havoc" is a big word which isn't really justified.
I'm at present working through the Admin Studio Evaluation Guide (don't ask what this has to do with SharePoint [because the answer is "nothing at all"]!) which means I have installed the trial version of Admin Studio (a product that includes InstallShield) and which used to come from MacroVision (although I'm fairly sure it didn't start there) but now since the 1st of April comes from some other (new?) oddly-named company (begins with an "A" - accerta or something, nothing I've ever heard of). That change of ownership is so new that all the sites point to MacroVision pages and the documents still come from MacroVision.
All was going well. I set up (for a change) a VM using VM Fusion (roughly the Mac equivalent of VM Workstation) that had Windows 2003 Server installed and then installed the trial version of Admin Studio and was working through the examples in the Evaluation Guide.
I was about halfway through so I suspended the machine with Admin Studio open and at the page I was going to continue at this morning.
I restarted it this morning and started reading my e-mail on my work machine (I was using Admin Studio on my own Mac while waiting for a better work machine capable of running VM systems).
So, on the MacBook in that VM, the automatic upgrade of security fixes went into action and so I had to re-open my Admin Studio and find my place in the Evaluation Guide again.
Not too much of a problem you might think except that now there was a built-in "Start; wait a couple of seconds; delete" process going on caused it seemed later to be by DEP no longer liking that app.
So I tried getting rid of the two security fixes added today and re-booted. Now without me even trying to run Admin Studio, I was getting messages saying that Admin Studio wasn't being allowed to start !
I seem to have fixed it by re-running the Admin Studio installation; writing over the files but then saying Repair, but I've removed that Automatic Upgrades function (that I *never* use on my PCs so why did I set it in this VM?) and will try to remember to take at least a snapshot before adding any more security fixes to this VM. (I had of course taken a copy of the VM but that was before Admin Studio was installed with only the OS and security fixes [but not the yesterday ones!!].)
I knew that the HP workstation didn't come with a graphics card not even an imbedded (useless) one.
That made sense - if you pay that kind of money you are likely to want to pay several hundred dollars for a graphics card too so why (as Apple do with the MacPro) supply you with a good but not great graphics card that you might then throw out.
So that wasn't the negative.
Nor at the time did it seem that it not being supplied with a keyboard would be a problem as the usual junk ones just get dumped virtually immediately. (Although the same logic could apply to a mouse and they included one of those).
But as it happened this *was* a problem thanks to the very first (actually second) step in their long and almost automatic software installation routine.
Typically the problem was caused by the completely pointless "Are you Sure?" step !
What happens when you first switch on the machine (after installing the graphics card of course - which went smoothly enough, once I'd worked out how to take the "lid" off the slots at the side of the machine for the metal edge of the card to be able to fit it) is that it first (for this Nordic model) asks you to select which language version you want (use mouse to go down to English which isn't default which is very odd) and then the next screen is the infamous "are you sure" step.
To say that you are sure, you need to press F10. Now most keys (Enter say) would have given me no problem, but my keyboard is a Microsoft keyboard with Fingerprint reader where the F10 key has two uses (Search or something is the other one) and as of course the special driver for that keyboard hadn't been loaded so early in the procedure so although the keyboard basically worked, pressing F10 simply had no effect at all.
My alternative keyboard is a Microsoft wireless keyboard so that no doubt wouldn't even be recognized as a keyboard until much later in the startup process.
So within seconds of switching on the machine I was competely stuck and all because the HP setup guys had insisted on confirmation via a(n) F key. (Yes the dual meaning WAS intentional!)
I do have a simple keyboard but that is at work because it's better than the rubbish keyboard that came with the office portable. So I either had to go to work (20 mins drive away) or wait until the next day OR ring the next door neighbour's bell.
So that's what I did and luckily she was in and wasn't using her computer and could lend me her keyboard right away (a keyboard that I would hate to use normally but with single role F keys) and I could get past that man-made stumbling block and install the OS using the built-in routine.
Anyway that was one of the two temporary negatives.
The other was that this is the first computer that came without a power cord. Luckily I had a couple that I had saved in my computer storage location (=dump) but I remember thinking at the time that I hardly needed to keep them because if I buy a new computer it will come with one. Well this one didn't (and of course I needed to have both the old and the new computer on at the same time in order to see which software to install on the new one; which parameters etc. - I had dual video and ethernet cables handy of course).
So no keyboard; no power cord; no graphics card and actually no metal protector thing opposite the x16 slot that I was going to be using to install the graphics card into. No how much do they save by not including that ? 0.001 cents ??
Enough of that. On to the three permanent positives. All were unexpected.
The detailed documentation on the web made it clear that although there was a firewire outlet at the front of the machine, it was only active if a Firewire card (part number supplied) was installed in the first PCI slot and connected to this outlet.
The inference was that the card wasn't installed and you'd have to buy it and install it yourself. I only didn't order the card because I had a Firewire card somewhere in my store.
But, as you'll have guessed by now, that card was already installed so firewire worked both from the front (1) and the back (2).
The second thing that wasn't mentioned as being included was a multi media reader card. Again, HP had a suitable one and they included assembly instructions for it but again there was no mention of one being included as standard.
It was, and it also oddly included a single USB port - not that there was a shortage of them with several on the front already and a few more at the back.
So that's two of the permanent positives.
The third was that the box includes not just a sound card but also loudspeaker(s) so there is no longer any need for any speakers taking up useful space on the desk.
OK it's not stereo and the quality probably could be improved with some decent (desk) speakers, but it's sound that's not terrible to listen to and it works, so for now I'm moving my speakers (and woofer which is even bigger) off the desk and going for the Nordic uncluttered (sterile?) look. [At some time to be replaced no doubt by piles of SharePoint books]
As I wrote, the positives are permenant positives and the negatives very much short term, but why, oh why, did those HP guys insist on F10 being pressed before you could install the software? Do they all have those really awful standard HP keyboards I wouldn't be seen dead with (except that is when I'm looking for a(n) F key that works!)?
Well it's arrived and it's much more solid (and heavier) than the Fujitsu-Siemens virtually home user model it replaces. More on how it opens when I've opened it. (I got it home at about 8:30 PM yesterday and I've learned by experience to add graphics cards and the like when I'm not already tired). The information on it on the HP site looks pretty good although there a few pointless PDF files (Accessibility.pdf was a single paper which consisted of about two lines which said in effect "this workstation model follows standard accessibilty principles" or some such rubbish. I didn't actually bother to read it properly when I saw what roughly it was saying) and there's a later (?) driver to my graphics card just proving which it was a good idea to switch that to one that model of desktop officially supported. (There are other relevant drivers too) But that wasn't the "interesting thing". No the interesting thing is that the model I got is supplied with Vista Business DVDs BUT H-P have actually installed XPPro on it. Yes, it's one of the "pay for a Vista license and then use that license to be allowed to install XPPro" models that I've read about earlier than HP and Dell both have "in response to customer demand". Hence the Vista DVDs (Nordic languages + English) as that's what you've paid for. But when you on startup create a Recovery disk, it's going to be a recovery disk of XPPro. Probably I'd guess with SP2 although SP3 shouldn't (as this isn't an AMD processor) cause Blue Screens at least. As I already have a portable running Vista Ultimate and as this is anyway my wife's PC (and this time I'll be putting my assorted junk in a VM to keep it away from messing with her applications in any way), it's probably a good idea to leave it at XPPro anyway. The only real question is Office 2007 or Office 2003 ? For the book I wrote it was very useful to have Office 2007 on one machine and Office 2003 on another so if Office 2007 gets put on this one I have a good argument for keeping the old one ... (Actually not so good once the "VM for my junk" idea gets known)
P.S. My wife decided on Office 2007. (Her main argument for that seemed to be the fact that we had O'Reilly "Missing Manuals" for all the Office 2007 products). So now I'm going to have to set up a VM with Office 2003 for test purposes. I suppose it will be logical to have that as XPPro-based....
Microsoft have just made available a time-limited vhd version of "WSS 3.0 with Visual Studio 2005" at
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=1beeac6f-2ea1-4769-9948-74a74bd604fa&displaylang=en&tm
There are a couple of things with this.
Firstly, why on earth don't they tell us on the download page how many days/months/years this time-limited version works for. I would have thought that was pretty important information. Is anyone for instance going to bother trying to develop for SharePoint using Visual Studio if they are only given 30 days to do so ?
Note: I have no idea if it is 30 days or not, because the web page doesn't tell me either. See P.P.S. I now know
The other thing of course is why bother at all. WSS 3.0 is a free download anyway (actually two because there's a copy of the original WSS 3.0 and also a copy that includes SP1), and that is time-unlimited, so why bother with a time-limited version at all?
The answer to that obviously lies in the addition of Visual Studio in that vhd so you can develop (or rather try out development) using the Visual Studio WSS additions which can only be installed on the same server as WSS 3.0 itself.
But in order for that sort of testing to be worthwhile the time period needs to be at least 3 months. is It ?
Another question they don't bother answering on that download page is whether this is the WSS 3.0 version with or without SP1.
Sighs. Sometimes you get the impression that the people who are responsible for these download pages just can't be bothered to put themselves in the mindset of the people who will be using them.
P.S. The other method (if you just want WSS 3.0) is to install the Windows Server 2003 VHD from here
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=77F24C9D-B4B8-4F73-99E3-C66F80E415B6&displaylang=en
and then to download the normal WSS 3.0 (incl SP1 version); follow the usual pre-requisites on the server and then install 'WSS 3.0+SP1'.
Of course they don't tell you on *that* download how long the trial period is either. Sighs again.
P.P.S. You'll now see that the download page does say that this is the version of WSS 3.0 that includes SP1. (It also includes the "3.0" that it didn't before).
There must be a policy against saying how time-limited a download is because that part doesn't seem to have changed on the download page. What I can probably say without dire consequences (for me) is that what "time-limited" means here is not the number of days used but a fixed date at which this expires.
*** I should learn to look through the whole article. The fact that it's valid to 30th Sept. 2008 has been added as an "Additional Information" section so low down I didn't see it. Thanks to the guy who let me know that he'd added it there in response to my comments (yes, really) ... ***
I encourage you to start using this vhd as soon as possible if you want to try out SharePoint development using it as you will then get the maximum amount of usage time possible.
In the blog a few days ago I reported that the desktop "workstations" from Dell and HP were far too expensive and so I had gone for a "business" PC instead.
The PC was available immediately but as it only had built-in graphics I ordered a graphics card too so as I only ever want to do the pick-up run once (it being all of 10 miles away ...) the order was waiting for the graphics card to arrive as well.
Then, and I have no idea how I got to that page on their site, I noticed that they had a HP "workstation" tower with a Intel 4-core processor chip no less that was selling for a mere 400 Euros more than the box I had on order. Not only that but it already included 3 years next day warranty and 4GB of memory (which on the business model I was paying extra for in both cases) so the price difference sunk to just over 300 (yes, I was lying about the 400, it was more like 470 ...). So I switched the order to that (they have a good delete order policy).
So I ordered the graphics card they recommended for this model and started waiting. Once again the computer was ready but the graphics card would take a few days (and this time I couldn't use the computer without it as there was no (useless) graphics card included at all.
So I checked out the HP site to see if there was another graphics card recommended for this model that maybe had a shorter delivery time and found that the one they (the sales company not HP) had recommended wasn't on the list at HP for this model of workstation.
So back to the Internet. None of the lower price-level cards specified by HP for this model were at my seller's site but they were at another seller's site in Finland. So HP Finland have them and can deliver them.
Back therefore to my supplier. Can I change - surely you can get hold of these cards too? Yes, they could; yes they would change the order; yes, I'm still waiting for the graphics card to arrive.
But at least - and this seems important given that this seems to be a well-supported machine rather than just a box you can shove any graphics card you like into (although no doubt you could and it would work) - I now have the complete package that is HP-supported.
Leaves the Hard disk. That workstation has built-in RAID and it seems a pity not to use it for RAID-1 so I need a second 500GB drive. Do I pay 70+ for a Seagate with 5 years guarantee or 130+ for possibly the same drive with an HP label and 1 years guarantee. As I can insert the drive by screwing in the four guiding screws HP provide in the (workstation) box and slotting the drive in, the only question is where the holes for the screws are in the drives and does it matter. I think not so I'll buy the Seagate and swap it later if it doesn't fit (which seems very unlikely).
Finally. Of course the better processor; better model has put the price up by a bit but nowhere near the MacPro level and that is to a large extent (but not only) caused by the 3-year warranty extension for the MacPro costing an extra 350 Euros rather than nothing. In effect I'll get my HP workstation MacPro equivalent for 1400 instead of 2400.
Interestingly the HP Finland site is still showing the typical street price for the box I bought at from 1700+ and that was for a more normal dual core chip too. That of course was the sort of price level I rejected earlier when doing my first sweep as then I *would* have been up to MacPro levels for the similar kind of thing (but without several MacPro benefits like *four* front-accessible hard drive locations and eight memory slots not four (and each memory slot capable of 8GB not 2).
Time will tell if I got a bargain or not. But saving money wasn't the aim. Getting a solid machine with solid support at a reasonable rather than cheap price was.
These days with the world it seems having moved to portables it's becoming more and more difficult to find desktops from standard manufacturers.
The problem is compounded if you want to buy a desktop with a build quality that means it will last more than a year or so as the trend seems to be towards cheaply made units that cram in all the latest fast processor chips; big disks and latest graphic cards into boxes/Power supplies etc. that ca nothing has been spent on.
There's a price point for people who just want a low-level box (ca 500 Euros) and a price point for game players who presumably don't care about long life as they will be replacing the box in a year's time to get an even faster box (ca 1000 Euros).
The problem was that I was looking for a replacement machine for my wife whose main usage is doing all kinds of photo overlays (so she needs a reasonably fast processor and lots of disk space) and she had been warned by her neighbour about the quality these days of one of those 1000 Euros boxes. (From Fujitsu-Siemens as it happens) So that solution was out.
Instead I needed to try to find something that was better built than those even at the cost of less pure performance.
At first I didn't think this would be a problem. Money wasn't particularly the problem as I could add a few hundred Euros (to the 1000) and get a better-built box surely.
A few looks at the "workstation" models of Dell (always crazily expensive in Finland compared to anywhere else in the known world) and H-P disabused me of that idea. If you move to what hopefully are boxes that aren't built down to a price you double the price. So you're talking roughly 2000 Euros which was a bit much to replace an early 64-bit box that didn't cost much more than 1000 almost four years ago.
However at 2000 Euros there was also the Mac alternative. The MacPro.
First I had a look in a Mac magazine at "buying a Mac" and they recommended buying an iMac rather than a MacPro (as being enough performance even if not quite as much)) and I must admit I was tempted by the idea of an iMac with a built-in 24-inch screen. However that idea was shot down in flames when I suggested it because we already have a (professional level) 20-inch HP screen and "that's too big on that desk already". (Why is it we men don't think in such practical terms :) ?)
So the Mac Pro then. Well for me there would have been probably no contest and for a while I was seriously attracted to the idea until I started seeing some of the snags - which turned out in the end to mean serious amounts of money.
The first problem is that the standard MacPro model (and supposedly the cheapest model you can buy in the shops) costs 2500 Euros and although it has dual 4 core processors still only has 2GB memory so you need to add memory to that (and probably a hard disk because it comes with a 320 GB one). Now you can add non-Apple memory and disks so the price isn't the excessive Apple one, but ever little adds on and you're maybe up to at least 2800 anyway.
At that price you need more than 1 year's warranty. I've had a Dell portable at that price level crash and burn after less than 3 years careful (portable within the house only) usage. So an extension to 3 years which Apple kindly (?) provide for ca 330 Euros.
So now we're at more than 3100 Euros. It's getting a bit much. (Especially when you think that one of the attractions was 8 memory slots and four accessible disk drive locations, so 3100 wasn't where it would all end).
The next try is the Apple Shop. There you can configure your machine so for just over 2000 you can get a model with only 1 processor not two and for an extra 40 you can get a 500GB disk not a 320GB one. But you still have to buy more memory (and not from Apple) and at over 2000 there's still a case to be made for that 330 Euros extension to 3 years support. But do you have to ship it back to them yourself to get the support? Certainly there doesn't seem to be any pickup support even at that price point.
So buy a cheap and nasty but fast model anyway ?
For me maybe, but my wife wants things to work hassle-free so it's time for another look around.
What I in the end bought was a HP business model which has a reasonably fast Intel dual core processor; a 500GB disk and 2GB memory and the typical (for business models) really useless graphics (non-)card.
As it's not a commercial model it doesn't have as much of the junk installed on it (that I would need to remove) at birth and it has Vista Business which I might leave on it.
I'm also hoping that the build quality is at least somewhat better than the equivalently priced "gamer" models.
I've of course then also spent money on
- extending the warranty to 3 years (oddly, most business models - with slower processors - did include three years warranty, ought I to wonder about this model?) which cost less than 70 Euros and so was worth having, especially because I have good experience of HP support for hardware when under a next-day pickup warranty.
- adding 2GB to make 4. I think my wife will be happier with a 32-bit OS so there wasn't much point in adding more.
- adding a reasonable graphics card
- adding a second hard disk to double capactity
and as it turned out having to find a Firewire card I have kept somewhere from an earlier PC because as it's a business model it has *eight* USB ports but no Firewire port. What on earth do business users want 8 USB ports for ?
The main question it turned out that I got after announcing that I had ordered one of these things had nothing to do with processor speed; disk space; or the graphics card but "does it have a multi-reader for my digital camera cards?". It did. Why a business model needs one of those I don't know. But there it is and that it seems is the key selling point for this "customer".
I'm always very hesitant (i.e. it is NOT a sales point) when I see that a book has been written by someone who works for Microsoft.
Somehow I don't see them knocking something in a Microsoft product for not working or not working well.
Add to that that Microsoft employees often (but not always) tend to be a long way from people who actually use the product and I start thinking that maybe (well to be truthful I rarely reach even the maybe stage) I won't bother with this book.
There are exceptions of course. There are certain areas (a recent book about the internals of the search system comes to mind) where all that inside knowledge can be very useful.
But to the matter in hand. A new book on SharePoint administration has just made it to Amazon (which means it will be out in the fall/autumn).
You can with that massive introduction perhaps guess that it was written by someone from Microsoft.
Here's the blurb.
"Steve Caravajal is a principal architect with the Microsoft Corporation. He has been architecting, deploying and customizing SharePoint solutions for over 7 years."
Ah, yes, but has he actually been administering them ?
It would seem not.
Wouldn't you think that they could find a Microsoft guy (from internal Microsoft computing perhaps) with Administration experience if they really insist on having someone from Microsoft.
I'd have picked Todd Klindt (MVP, not Microsoft) myself.
Other info on that upcoming book here:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1584506016/heme0f
The other interesting quote - considering this is a book on administration - is
"Steve is a developer at heart, having written and managed the development of numerous enterprise software applications in C++, Java and .NET."
So why didn't he write a book on SharePoint development? Surely not because there are a lot more development books out there than pure admin books?
One of the great things about writing a book is that you are forced to look more deeply into things that you know about but apart perhaps from a quick test during the beta phase haven't really used. Typically because there's so much else going on ... Anyway there I was with a section of a chapter where I'd decided that I would write about how OneNote 2007 interacts with WSS 3.0. I already had chapters or part chapters on Word/Excel/PowerPoint (both 2003 and 2007) and how they interacted and also quite a lot on Access 2007 and WSS 3.0 so OneNote 2007 seemed to be the logical thing to complement it with. Well the book gives all the details about how to set this up and so on, and obviously it would be fairly stupid of me to repeat that here, but suppose you have already set up a link between OneNote 2007 and WSS 3.0, does it work the way it should? I hadn't used my standard WSS 3.0 site for my 'OneNote 2007 in WSS 3.0. screenprints so I later used the same techniques to make (a copy of) my 'SharePoint Bloggers' notebook shareable. So I now have OneNote 2007 on my (Vista) portable and a notebook that is shared between it and the WSS 3.0 site (stored in a VM on my Mac). Now this notebook contains *private* extracts from SharePoint blogs and other documents that I think are interesting for future reference (typically via searching) so I'm continuingly updating the OneNote 2007 notebook's sections whenever I use the Vista portable. But there's always been a problem that when I've been using the Mac, I couldn't add those items but instead used to use the Newsgator "Clippings" possibility to save away the blog items I was getting via RSS feeds for later addition to the Vista portable. By the end of a normal week I probably had about 50 such things to add and it was a painful way to spend a couple of hours at the weekend. The first phase of me doing better by using the WSS 3.0 version of that notebook was to add OneNote 2007 to that Mac VM (Windows 2003 Server R2 running WSS 3.0) and then access the Shared Documents doc lib where the notebook was contained in a folder using the Mac VM's own copy of IE 6. After that, the particular section opened in OneNote 2007 inside the VM and I could amend it. The next phase came when I realised I could specify that the VM also had access to Mac files. So now I can open the Shared Documents doc lib (and that folder) in the Mac's own browser (Safari) and then open the .one file for the section I want to update. This will then seemlessly open the OneNote 2007 from that VM so that I can amend the OneNote 2007 notebook section. So I can now use the Mac as if it was running OneNote 2007 containing notebooks stored on the Mac. As for the synchronization. It seems to work so that amendments to the web version are synchronized automatically to the version stored on the files of the Vista portable but that amendments to that Vista portable copy need to be manually synchronized (because that's the setting I have specified there) to get them to the WSS 3.0 copy. But it works and that, as I think you'll agree, is the main thing.
P.S. There is one thing to watch out for. If you have set the non-Web copy to be only synchronized when you actually say "synchronize now!", there's a little red mark next to the name of the notebook. I don't know about you but little red marks make me think something is wrong. Well, actually there isn't. All that little red mark means is that *at the moment* the notebook copy in the VM (or other PC running OneNote 2007) isn't connected. Right-Clicking and selecting "Sync now" will turn it to green and it will start synchronizing.
P.P.S. You may be wondering why I don't change the setting to "sync automatically whenever there are changes". Well the answer is obvious when you know (if you know!) that I have lots of VMs and because of the amount of RAM on that MAC (2GB) and the amount of RAM dedicated to the VMs (at least 1GB) I can't have more than one running at a time. So the VM containing my OneNote 2007 notebook shareable version isn't always available when I am running a PC (or even the Mac) that I want to access that shareable version (and I don't want it trying to attach all the time to look for new stuff, do I?).
I have a problem that my Black Zune thinks that if I delete a CD I've ripped to the portable (in order to transfer it to the Zune) from the portable, I also want it to disappear from the Zune.
Not so. I want them to stay on the Zune and I don't want them taking up space I can ill afford on the portable (where other things are beginning so suffer because of the lack of space).
Now the interesting thing is that I also have a Red Zune and when I connect that to the portable, that can be connected as a guest and then none of this made to and from deletes happens.
So I've been looking for the setting that converts my Black Zune to a guest too and of course it's not there.
I've also been looking at other ways of cutting the connection but it seems from the wording that if I cut the connection between a CD on the portable and the copy of the CD on the Zune, the copy on the Zune is deleted (at least that's what the software seems to be warning me will happen).
So for the moment all I have is the following "solution".
Fill up the Zune as far as possible (until the portable runs out of space) with CDs from the portable. Then remove the Zune; delete all the files on the portable and - most impoortant - *never* attach the Zune to the portable again (because the first thing that would happen is that it would delete all my music on the Zune). Add any later CDs I acquire to the Black Zune only via the desktop where it is (will be) hopefully a guest and synchronization won't take place but I'll still be able to add stuff.
Meanwhile the situation with the Red Zune is probably the opposite!
Thank goodness they were out of Black ones when I ordered the Red one. The black one came later as a present and I'd have to start labelling them to know which Zune to attach to with PC.
Now if anyone has a real solution to this problem - please write a comment. I'm holding off on deleting all those files on the portable for a couple of days just in case. (So I have the possibility to test any solution with the Black Zune without the files on it disappearing ...
P.S. Well that was clever of me. Leaving the question mark off the subject so everyone would think I was presenting a solution. As it is I'm still in the same semi mess. So what I'm going to do is move the Zune folder to a USB drive and then if I really really do need to connect the Black Zune to the portable (or I forget the problem!) I can at least get the files back quickly and won't need to rip them from my CDs again.
STOP PRESS.
It was nice while it lasted but I suspect it lasted for only a week. I've checked four of the books listed below today (10th May) and all are back to their usual 34% off - my upcoming one wasn't 60% off so is still at the same price as last week.
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I'm just doing a massive check through of the books in my books page to update the prices to May 2008 prices (and reverse the order of the links) and I've so far found three books that are all at 60% off at Amazon US.
Grab them while the price stays this low.
Beginning SharePoint 2007 Administration: Windows SharePoint Services 3 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (Wrox - Göran Husman)
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0470125292/heme0f
$ 15.99
MCTS: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Configuration Study Guide (70-630) (Sybex - James Pyles)
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0470226633/heme0f
$ 19.99
Professional SharePoint 2007 Development (Wrox - John Holliday, John Alexander, Jeff Julian, Eli Robillard, Brendon Schwartz, Matt Ranlett, Dan Attis, Tom Rizzo)
$ 19.99
There are probably more but those are the ones I've noticed so far.
P.S. Another 60% one - this one I might even buy myself (to be fair to the other three I already have two of them).
Mastering Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (Sybex - C. A. Callahan)
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0470127287/heme0f
$ 19.99
P.P.S. I'm still (this is about 2 hours later than the P.S.) working my way through the books and I've come to the RealWorld one I wrote a chapter for AND they are selling that at 60% off as well. I don't know whether to be offended or not :) ?
Real World SharePoint 2007: Indispensable Experiences From 16 MOSS and WSS MVPs (Wrox - Editor: Scot Hillier. Authors: 16 MVPs
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0470168358/heme0f
$ 19.99
P.P.P.S. I did order the Mastering SharePoint book. I thought I'd need to order some more books to make an order from the US to Finland worthwhile but as I'd just ordered a few books a few days earlier (typical!), I decided to see how much they'd charge for just one book. For $27 and change I will get it here in about 2-3 weeks. Not bad.
(I've also amended the price of Göran's book. I vaguely wondered at the time how that could be the same price as the other ones if it too was 60% off. It turns out it wasn't $19.99 at all but a mere $15.99).
.... and a massive thanks to the first person to order *my* book (via my links that is, but it's still the only pre-order I know about). What a feeling especially as I have just handed in the final chapters!
Note: All of the addresses of the KB / Articles - 2007 Products / MS / Non-MS Articles below were valid at the time I added them to the WSS FAQ
site and to this file. I can't guarantee that they still are.
(This is also posted to the WSS newsgroup at microsoft.public.sharepoint.windowsservices - web access via http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/newsgroups/server/sharepoint.mspx)
(Items are added to the WSS FAQ throughout the week so you will find new items more quickly by checking at wss.collutions.com or www.wssfaq.com daily.)
From 27th April to 3rd May 2008
NOTE: Amendment to KB articles: Microsoft are not not amending the date of a KB article if the change made is marked as a version point change (so from 2.2 to 2.3 for instance).
This ought to mean that the amendment made is cosmetic rather than important as important text changes ought to result in a major version change (such as from 2.2 to 3.0).
Because of this change and to avoid unnecessary effort I will in future usually not amend the listings in the WSS FAQ sites if only a minor version change has taken place.
I will continue to amend both the date and version numbers of major version changes and of course will continue to add all relevant new KB articles that my RSS feeds and other sources give me.
I.1 2007 KB Articles (*now only one section for WSS and MOSS*)
New
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=950483
Description of the Forms Server 2007 hotfix package: March 27, 2008
3rd April 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=928729
When you open an Excel 2007 workbook by using Excel Web Access, you are presented with a Security Information dialog box (ver 1.4)
May 14th 2007 (new here)
Modified
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;936759
E-mail notifications for alerts are not sent when content in a migrated list or in a migrated document library changes after you perform a database migration to upgrade to Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (ver 2.1)
1st May 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=948725
Restoration of the configuration database is not supported in SharePoint Server 2007 and in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (ver 3.0)
30th April 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/940958/en-us
How to prevent SharePoint Designer 2007 users from changing a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 site or a SharePoint Server 2007 site (ver 2.0)
29th April 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;938663
One-time timer jobs in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 or in SharePoint Server 2007 are delayed by at least one hour when the jobs are scheduled to occur during daylight saving time (DST) (ver 1.5)
(23rd October 2007) i.e. not the date of this amendment
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/928738
How to configure the Excel Services Unattended Service account in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (ver 1.1)
(6th July 2007) i.e. not the date of this amendment
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;928754
Excel Services does not support asynchronous queries (ver 1.2)
(May 14th 2007) i.e. not the date of this amendment
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;928737
A hyperlink does not work in an Excel 2007 client workbook that is published to Excel Services in SharePoint Server 2007 (ver 1.3)
(May 14th 2007) i.e. not the date of this amendment
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;928730
You may expose internal server names or path names when you post an Excel 2007 file to a SharePoint Server 2007 Web site if the file uses a CELL(<address>) function (ver 1.5)
(May 14th 2007) i.e. not the date of this amendment
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;928726
Error message when a user tries to view a chart in Excel Web Access: "Failed to download Excel Services Chart" (ver 1.2)
(May 14th 2007) i.e. not the date of this amendment
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;928728
You receive an error message when you use Excel Web Access to refresh the data connections for an Excel 2007 workbook (ver 1.4)
(May 14th 2007) i.e. not the date of this amendment
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;928739
The "Get Filter Values From" command is not displayed in the Connections menu when you try to edit an Excel Web Access Web Part in Excel Services (ver 1.2)
(May 14th 2007) i.e. not the date of this amendment
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;928731
Data appears in a way that is incorrect when you click Filter in the drop-down menu for a PivotTable report in Excel 2007 (ver 1.2)
(May 14th 2007) i.e. not the date of this amendment
I.b Forefront KB Articles
New
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=951384
Software fixes and features that are included in Forefront Security for SharePoint Service Pack 2 (ver 2.0)
21st April 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=951545
You cannot install Forefront Security for SharePoint on a computer that is running both Exchange 2007 and Office SharePoint 2007
15th April 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=951507
The Performance Monitor does not show the statistics for Forefront Security for SharePoint
15th April 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=951480
The start date and the end date are not set correctly when you try to use the Forefront Server Security for SharePoint console to schedule a Manual Scan job
15th April 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=951471
The Filter Set Template section displays non-filter set templates in addition to filter set templates in Microsoft Forefront Security for SharePoint
15th April 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=951506
You may encounter problems when you try to use the Forefront Server Security for SharePoint Administrative console to connect to an Office SharePoint 2007 server (ver 1.1)
15th April 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=950949
Error message when you upload a document to a SharePoint Web site that has Forefront Security for SharePoint installed: "Virus Found DocumentName contains the following virus: VirusName"
15th April 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=951466
Scan engines may not load correctly after an engine update is not completed successfully in Microsoft Forefront Security for SharePoint
15th April 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=951479
The FSCController service may not log a Stopping event during a system shutdown in Forefront Security for SharePoint
15th April 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=951478
Forefront Security for SharePoint may incorrectly apply keyword filters to all the text of an e-mail message
15th April 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=950943
Some scan engine update settings do not reflect the new settings after you apply a new scan engine update template in Forefront Server Security for SharePoint
14th April 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=950945
Viruses may not be correctly removed by Forefront Security for SharePoint when you select the "Require documents to be checked out before they can be edited" option
11th April 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=950939
Keyword filters in Forefront Security for SharePoint are not applied to text files
10th April 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=950947
Support information for using Forefront Security for SharePoint on a Windows Server 2008-based computer or on a Windows Vista-based computer
10th April 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=950942
When a proxy server tries to redirect the engine update path, the scan engine updates fail in Forefront Security for SharePoint
9th April 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=950941
The files that are deleted during a manual scan are not renamed in Forefront Security for SharePoint
2nd April 2008
Modified
None
I.c InfoPath 2007 KB Articles
New or Modified
None
II. Articles - 2007 Products (no longer with all links to articles for other Office 2007 and other 2007 Products)
New
A. Office 2007 Server Products
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=105623&clcid=0x409
White Paper: Planning and Monitoring SQL Server Storage for SharePoint: Performance Recommendations and Best Practices
2nd May (date added, date of paper May 2008)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc531334.aspx
Administering workflows (Annoying Starter Page including links to pages which consist of links to pages)
2nd May (date added)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263021.aspx
Monitoring the Records Center site (Somewhat Annoying Starter Page including links to pages which consist of links to pages)
2nd May (date added)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc560988.aspx
Plan SSP architecture
2nd May (date added)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc424952.aspx
Plan for host-named site collections
2nd May (date added)
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=116395&clcid=0x409
White paper: Advantages of Deploying SharePoint Products and Technologies with Windows Server 2008
2nd May (Article dated April 2008)
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=117905&clcid=0x409
Case Study: Creating a Highly Available Microsoft Office SharePoint Server Environment by using Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Database Mirroring (Ralf Günther, Microsoft Gmbh and Bernd Kemmler, Alegri International Service Gmbh)
2nd May (Article dated April 2008)
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=117212&clcid=0x409
White Paper: Microsoft SharePoint Administration Toolkit (Kirk Stark)
2nd May (Article dated April 2008)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=f8eea8f0-fa30-4c10-abc9-217eeacec9ce&displaylang=en&tm
SharePoint Administration Toolkit x64
30th April 2008
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=263cd480-f6eb-4fa3-9f2e-2d47618505f2&displaylang=en&tm
SharePoint Administration Toolkit x86
30th April 2008
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=a438a9b9-9f15-42ec-866f-2ea58e10db36&displaylang=en&tm
Windows Workflow Foundation Web Workflow Approvals Starter Kit
30th April 2008
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc539928.aspx
Building Excel 2007 and Excel Services Dashboards by Consuming Two-Dimensional Data from Web Services (Bhushan Nene, Microsoft and Scot Hillier, MVP)
28th April 2008 (date added - date of article April 2008)
http://www.sharepointblogs.com/benrobb/archive/2008/04/25/using-msbuild-to-manage-deployments-in-sharepoint-part-3.aspx
Using MSBuild to manage deployments in SharePoint - Part 3 (Blog - Ben Robb)
25th April 2008
http://www.devx.com/enterprise/Article/37675
Upgrading SharePoint from SPS2003 to MOSS 2007 (devx.com - Vikram Srivatsa)
11th April 2008
B. Other Office 2007 products (selected few only since 1.1.2007)
None
C. Other New 2006/2007 Products (selected few only since 1.1.2007)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=AD0B72FB-4A1D-4C52-BDB5-7DD7E816D046&displaylang=en
Open XML Format SDK (Apr08) (added the the SDK section)
17th April 2008
Modified
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=83725&clcid=0x409
Using SQL Server Database Mirroring with Office SharePoint Server and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
2nd May (Article dated November 2007 and updated February 2008 and April 2008)
Deleted
None
III WebCasts (+ PodCasts, On-Line courses) for 2007 Products
New
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=115635&clcid=0x409
MOSS 2007 Enterprise Search - Training Videos: Workshop Overview
26th April 2008 (date added)
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=115636&clcid=0x409
MOSS 2007 Enterprise Search - Training Videos: Enterprise Search Overview
26th April 2008 (date added)
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=115637&clcid=0x409
MOSS 2007 Enterprise Search - Training Videos: SharePoint Search 2007 Walkthrough
26th April 2008 (date added)
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=115638&clcid=0x409
MOSS 2007 Enterprise Search - Training Videos: Search Architecture and Deployment Scenarios
26th April 2008 (date added)
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=115639&clcid=0x409
MOSS 2007 Enterprise Search - Training Videos: Crawl and Query Processes
26th April 2008 (date added)
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=115640&clcid=0x409
MOSS 2007 Enterprise Search - Training Videos: Relevance Ranking
26th April 2008 (date added)
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=115641&clcid=0x409
MOSS 2007 Enterprise Search - Training Videos: Customizing the End-User Experience
26th April 2008 (date added)
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=115642&clcid=0x409
MOSS 2007 Enterprise Search - Training Videos: Developing Search Solutions
26th April 2008 (date added)
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=115643&clcid=0x409
MOSS 2007 Enterprise Search - Training Videos: Business Data Catalog Search
26th April 2008 (date added)
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=115644&clcid=0x409
MOSS 2007 Enterprise Search - Training Videos: Extensibility and Integration for Search
26th April 2008 (date added)
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=115646&clcid=0x409
MOSS 2007 Enterprise Search - Training Videos: Search Administration
26th April 2008 (date added)
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=115647&clcid=0x409
MOSS 2007 Enterprise Search - Training Videos: Security for Search
26th April 2008 (date added)
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=115648&clcid=0x409
MOSS 2007 Enterprise Search - Training Videos: Performance Scalability and Capacity Planning for Search
26th April 2008 (date added)
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=115649&clcid=0x409
MOSS 2007 Enterprise Search - Training Videos: Search Operations
26th April 2008 (date added)
IV WSS v3 FAQ
New
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1374
V.116 Office SharePoint Server 2007-Programmierung. Anwendungsprogrammierung für SharePoint (Microsoft Press, Patrick Tisseghem)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1375
V.117 Extending the MOSS Publishing HTML Editor Field Control (Wrox, Andrew Connell) *released* (Note: a 23 page Wrox Brox downloadable pdf file at $6.99)
Modified
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1283
V.76 Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 - Das Handbuch (in German) (MSPress Deutschland - Erin O'Connor) *released*
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V WSSv2 KB Articles (plus SPS 2003 Hot fixes)
New
None
Modified
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=827926
Considerations That Apply When You Use Multiple Log Files for Usage Analysis Processing in Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 (ver 3.3)
(2nd October 2007) i.e. not the date of this amendment
VI WSSv2 FAQ
New or Modified
None
I have no intention in joining the number of people keen to inform you in their blogs that Microsoft have just issued a "SharePoint Administration Kit" (for both x86 and x64 with also a white paper) as I presume you've already seen the links to them in the WSS FAQ sites.
But what I think might get hidden is the fact that that Kit sneaks in a new stsadm command which you might well think ought to have been included in SP1 or as a hot fix rather than being included in a semi-official "Kit" many people probably won't bother to download.
This is a solution for a common enough problem where e-mail alerts weren't sent out if a WSS 2.0 installation had been upgraded to WSS 3.0 by the third standard upgrade method (using the 2.0 database to move the WSS 2.0 installation to another server).
This is nicely described in KB 936759 (http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;936759) which has just been updated.
"E-mail notifications for alerts are not sent when content in a migrated list or in a migrated document library changes after you perform a database migration to upgrade to Windows SharePoint Services 3.0" (ver 2.1)
After spending the past four months living and breathing the book, it's now almost written and I can soon relax for a bit until the technical reviewer's comments come back and I see how much the text needs to be changed (or not) as a result of the comments. Then, I would guess there's the final run through after the publisher's people have made a book out of it (although I've tried as much as possible to follow their rules on length; content (style) and formatting).
But for now, with 23 out of 24 chapters written and with the final chapter already planned and probably ready by the end of this week, all I have left to do is to read printouts of the final half of the book; correct them off-line (using a pen!) and then enter the corrections into the Word 2003 text (and naturally then hand them all in to the publishers for the technical reviewer to have a go at).
With the short Finnish summer rapidly approaching I won't be short of things to do in my suddenly available spare time.
Meanwhile though, a comment on other SharePoint 2007 books. No, not what you think, no reviews but merely the strange fact that despite me having a vast collection of SharePoint 2007 books, I've during this whole book-writing process done my best to keep them shut. I haven't wanted the text of those books and the way they treat the subjects - which naturally tend to come up in my book too - to affect what I write.
In fact, when I look back, the only subject where I really expected (and looked for) guidance from existing books was workflow but after I searched the indexes of a few and didn't find much (and this was for the basic three stage workflow in WSS 3.0 - one of the specialist SPD 2007 had a good chapter on workflow in that which I did my very best to ignore; while the other SPD 2007 book had nothing at all on workflow [hint the first was the MS Press one]) I just went ahead and spent the time to run through and document the whole process myself. This turned out to be a different approach to the one taken in the one book where I later actually did see something on workflow in WSS 3.0, so it'll be interesting to hear a comparison later.
It's actually not too difficult a process and most of the several days I spent on the chapter were caused by my local (to my server) SMTP server not working as it should and so the e-mails that are part of the 3-stage process weren't going to the people who were supposed to get them. In the end after going back and back and back to working VM snaphots of the WSS 3.0 site, I came to the conclusion that my ISP was only letting my SMTP server work correctly in the first couple of hours of any session because my contract with them doesn't include being allowed to connect a server to the Internet. So they had some routine that dropped me, making the e-mails work and then not work irrespective of my settings for either the workflow or the SMTP server (which is what I was spending far too many hours trying to get correct!).
So now the big question is do I wait to open any other SharePoint books until I've finished that last chapter or until all the review phases are past and there's nothing more I can add or amend?
At the moment I'm thinking the latter although I've just opened a book with a chapter on how to install Forms Server 2007 as that product only rates a very brief mention in my book and the book doesn't have anything (and never will) on how to install it.
Meanwhile I'm still waiting for the price of the book to go down at Amazon and in fact for the other Amazons (apart from Amazon US) to list it. Maybe then there'll be the first pre-order of it via the link in SP 2007 Books page (http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/V%20Books.aspx)
P.S. I saw yesterday that Patrick Tisseghem's Inside SharePoint 2007 book is now listed in a (Pre-Order still) German translation at Amazon Germany and only last week one of the two books specialising on Search reached released status (with the second one due soon).
Meanwhile on Search, the WSS FAQ now lists 14 web casts on Enterprise Search in MOSS 2007. So maybe you should watch those first and see if you still need a book :)
Note: All of the addresses of the KB / Articles - 2007 Products / MS / Non-MS Articles below were valid at the time I added them to the WSS FAQ
site and to this file. I can't guarantee that they still are.
(This is also posted to the WSS newsgroup at microsoft.public.sharepoint.windowsservices - web access via http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/newsgroups/server/sharepoint.mspx)
(Items are added to the WSS FAQ throughout the week so you will find new items more quickly by checking at wss.collutions.com or www.wssfaq.com daily.)
From 20th to 26th April 2008
NOTE: Amendment to KB articles: Microsoft are not not amending the date of a KB article if the change made is marked as a version point change (so from 2.2 to 2.3 for instance).
This ought to mean that the amendment made is cosmetic rather than important as important text changes ought to result in a major version change (such as from 2.2 to 3.0).
Because of this change and to avoid unnecessary effort I will in future not amend the listings in the WSS FAQ sites if only a minor version change has taken place.
I will continue to amend both the date and version numbers of major version changes and of course will continue to add all relevant new KB articles that my RSS feeds and other sources give me.
I.1 2007 KB Articles (*now only one section for WSS and MOSS*)
New
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;950442
Error message when a user clicks the hyperlink in the invitation e-mail that is generated when you add the user to a group in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 or in SharePoint Portal Server 2007
21st April 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;950901
Error message when you try to expand an entry in a Grouped By view in Windows SharePoint Services, in SharePoint Server 2007, or in SharePoint Portal Server 2003: "<!-- #RENDER FAILED# -->"
21st April 2008
Modified
None
I.b Forefront KB Articles
New or Modified
None
I.c InfoPath 2007 KB Articles
New or Modified
None
II. Articles - 2007 Products (no longer with all links to articles for other Office 2007 and other 2007 Products)
New
A. Office 2007 Server Products
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc441431.aspx
Visual How To: Automating Solution Package Creation for Windows SharePoint Services by Using MSBuild (Andrew Connell, Andrew Connell Inc.)
23rd April 2008 (date added - dated April 2008)
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc441429.aspx
Visual How To: Configuring Multiple Authentication Mechanisms with Alternate Access Mappings in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (Andrew Connell, Andrew Connell Inc.)
23rd April 2008 (date added - dated April 2008)
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc453774.aspx
Visual How To: Creating a Custom Expiration Formula Based on Metadata in SharePoint Server 2007 (Part 1 of 2) (unknown, Microsoft)
23rd April 2008 (date added - dated April 2008)
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc453773.aspx
Visual How To: Creating a Custom Expiration Formula Based on Metadata in SharePoint Server 2007 (Part 2 of 2) (unknown, Microsoft)
23rd April 2008 (date added - dated April 2008)
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc461987.aspx
Visual How To: Creating Custom Routers in SharePoint Server 2007 (unknown, Microsoft)
23rd April 2008 (date added - dated April 2008)
http://blogs.technet.com/collaboration/archive/2008/04/18/how-to-copy-items-from-a-populated-outlook-2007-calendar-to-a-sharepoint-calendar.aspx
How to copy entries from a populated Outlook 2007 calendar to a MOSS 2007 Calendar (Blog - James Kemp)
18th April 2008
http://www.sharepointblogs.com/jscott/archive/2008/04/15/integrating-asp-net-2-0-web-pages-into-sharepoint-2007.aspx
Integrating ASP.NET 2.0 Web Pages into SharePoint 2007 (Blog - J Scott)
16th April 2008
http://searchexchange.techtarget.com/tip/0,289483,sid43_gci1308762,00.html
Enable incoming and outgoing email in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2007 (SearchExchange - Bob Fox)
8th April 2008
B. Other Office 2007 products (selected few only since 1.1.2007)
None
C. Other New 2006/2007 Products (selected few only since 1.1.2007)
None
Modified
None
III WebCasts (+ PodCasts, On-Line courses) for 2007 Products
New
https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastRegistrationConfirmation.aspx?culture=en-US&RegistrationID=1296655837
Momentum Webcast: Introduction to Templates in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and SharePoint Server (Level 100) (Bob Sutton)
23rd April 2008
http://wm.microsoft.com/ms/msdn/Office/2007OfficeVisualHowTos/MOSS2007CustomExpirationPart1.wmv
Visual How To: Creating a Custom Expiration Formula Based on Metadata in SharePoint Server 2007 (Part 1 of 2) (Video) (unknown, Microsoft)
23rd April 2008 (date added - dated April 2008)
http://wm.microsoft.com/ms/msdn/Office/2007OfficeVisualHowTos/MOSS2007CustomExpirationPart2.wmv
Visual How To: Creating a Custom Expiration Formula Based on Metadata in SharePoint Server 2007 (Part 2 of 2) (Video) (unknown, Microsoft)
23rd April 2008 (date added - dated April 2008)
http://wm.microsoft.com/ms/msdn/Office/2007OfficeVisualHowTos/MOSS2007CreateCustomRouter.wmv
Visual How To: Creating Custom Routers in SharePoint Server 2007 (Video) (unknown, Microsoft)
23rd April 2008 (date added - dated April 2008)
http://wm.microsoft.com/ms/msdn/Office/2007OfficeVisualHowTos/WSS3AutomatingSolutionPackageCreation.wmv
Visual How To: Automating Solution Package Creation for Windows SharePoint Services by Using MSBuild (Video) (Andrew Connell, Andrew Connell Inc.)
23rd April 2008 (date added - dated April 2008)
http://wm.microsoft.com/ms/msdn/Office/2007OfficeVisualHowTos/WSS3MultipleAuthMechanisms.wmv
Visual How To: Configuring Multiple Authentication Mechanisms with Alternate Access Mappings in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (Video) (Andrew Connell, Andrew Connell Inc.)
23rd April 2008 (date added - dated April 2008)
https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastRegistrationConfirmation.aspx?culture=en-US&RegistrationID=1296656044
Momentum Webcast: Creating Information Workplaces to Find, Share, and Communicate (Level 100) (Justin Chandoo, Microsoft and Leslie Owens, Forrester Research)
16th April 2008
IV WSS v3 FAQ
New
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1373
X.121 RSS Reader Web Part (free - Codeplex, Phil Wicklund)
Modified
None
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V WSSv2 KB Articles (plus SPS 2003 Hot fixes)
New or Modified
None
VI WSSv2 FAQ
New or Modified
None
Note: All of the addresses of the KB / Articles - 2007 Products / MS / Non-MS Articles below were valid at the time I added them to the WSS FAQ
site and to this file. I can't guarantee that they still are.
(This is also posted to the WSS newsgroup at microsoft.public.sharepoint.windowsservices - web access via http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/newsgroups/server/sharepoint.mspx)
(Items are added to the WSS FAQ throughout the week so you will find new items more quickly by checking at wss.collutions.com or www.wssfaq.com daily.)
From 13th to 18th April 2008
NOTE: Amendment to KB articles: Microsoft are not not amending the date of a KB article if the change made is marked as a version point change (so from 2.2 to 2.3 for instance).
This ought to mean that the amendment made is cosmetic rather than important as important text changes ought to result in a major version change (such as from 2.2 to 3.0).
Because of this change and to avoid unnecessary effort I will in future not amend the listings in the WSS FAQ sites if only a minor version change has taken place.
I will continue to amend both the date and version numbers of major version changes and of course will continue to add all relevant new KB articles that my RSS feeds and other sources give me.
I.1 2007 KB Articles (*now only one section for WSS and MOSS*)
New
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;948319
A Web service call fails when you create a .NET Framework 1.1 application to use the QueryEx operation in SharePoint Server 2007 and in SharePoint Portal Server 2003
14th April 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;950438
Error message when you try to manage a site collection in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 or in SharePoint Server 2007: "User cannot be found" (ver 1.1)
10th April 2008
Modified
None
I.b Forefront KB Articles
New or Modified
None
I.c InfoPath 2007 KB Articles
New or Modified
None
II. Articles - 2007 Products (no longer with all links to articles for other Office 2007 and other 2007 Products)
New
A. Office 2007 Server Products
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc462809.aspx
Inside Sharepoint Building Your SharePoint Infrastructure (TechNet Mag, May 2008 - Pav Cherny)
17th April 2008 (date added)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc434695.aspx
Integrating Access Databases with SharePoint (TechNet Mag, Mar 2008 - Peter Serzo)
17th April 2008 (date added)
http://download.microsoft.com/download/4/3/d/43de0f43-df6a-4cf2-8c91-2c9001df5945/cb_027_integration_of_sap_bsp_into_sharepoint_server_2007.pdf
Integration of SAP Business Server Pages (SAP BSP) in Share Point 2007
17th April 2008 (date added was May 2007)
http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/obapsftsak
OBA Sample Application Kit for PeopleSoft (MSDN Code Gallery)
17th April 2008 (date added)
http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/obasapsak
OBA Sample Application Kit for SAP ver 2.0 (MSDN Code Gallery)
17th April 2008 (date added)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc462808.aspx
Utility Spotlight: SharePoint Capacity Planning (TechNet Mag, May 2008 - Peter Skjøtt Larsen, Satish Mathew)
17th April 2008 (date added)
http://paulgalvin.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!1CC1EDB3DAA9B8AA!970.entry
Fix for the Employee Training Template Available Seats Unregister Bug (Blog - Paul Galvin)
16th April 2008
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc406685.aspx
Understanding and Creating Customized and Uncustomized Files in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (Andrew Connell, Andrew Connell Inc.)
16th April 2008 (date added - date of article April 2008)
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc438798.aspx
Visual How To: Referencing and Linking: Using Secondary Lists to Maintain Relationships in SharePoint Server 2007 (unknown, Microsoft)
16th April 2008 (date added - date of article March 2008)
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc404818.aspx
Visual How To: Batch Updating List Items in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (unknown, Microsoft)
16th April 2008 (date added - date of article March 2008)
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc441430.aspx
Visual How To: Creating Document Libraries from List Items in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (unknown, Microsoft)
16th April 2008 (date added - date of article March 2008)
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc439415.aspx
Visual How To: Referencing and Linking: Using Custom Fields to Display Relationships in SharePoint Server 2007 (unknown, Microsoft)
16th April 2008 (date added - date of article March 2008)
http://blogs.technet.com/stefan_gossner/archive/2008/04/11/deep-dive-into-the-sharepoint-content-deployment-and-migration-api-part-6.aspx
Deep Dive into the SharePoint Content Deployment and Migration API - Part 6 (MS Blog - Stefan Gossner)
11th April 2008
http://www.houberg.net/blogcontent/Scaling%20SharePoint%202007%20-%20Storage%20Architecture.pdf
Scaling SharePoint 2007: Storage Architecture (Knowledge Lake - Russ Houberg)
11th April 2008
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=673dc932-626a-4e59-9dca-16d685600a51&displaylang=en&tm
Office SharePoint Server 2007 Training
11th April 2008
http://searchexchange.techtarget.com/tip/0,289483,sid43_gci1308762,00.html
Enable incoming and outgoing email in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2007 (SearchExchange - Bob Fox)
8th April 2008
B. Other Office 2007 products (selected few only since 1.1.2007)
None
C. Other New 2006/2007 Products (selected few only since 1.1.2007)
None
Modified
None
III WebCasts (+ PodCasts, On-Line courses) for 2007 Products
New
http://wm.microsoft.com/ms/msdn/office/2007OfficeVisualHowTos/WSS30DocLibraryListItem.wmv
Visual How To: Creating Document Libraries from List Items in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (Video) (unknown, Microsoft)
16th April 2008 (date added - date of article March 2008)
http://wm.microsoft.com/ms/msdn/office/2007OfficeVisualHowTos/WSS30UseProcessBatchData.wmv
Visual How To: Batch Updating List Items in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (Video) (unknown, Microsoft)
16th April 2008 (date added - date of article March 2008)
IV WSS v3 FAQ
New
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1372
V.115 SharePoint for Project Managers: How to Create a Project Management Information System (PMIS) with SharePoint (O'Reilly - Dux Sy)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1371
X.120 WssAnalyzeFeatures (free - Stefan Gossner)
Modified
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1210
V.63 Inside the Index and Search Engines: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MS Press - Patrick Tissgehem, Lars Forstrup) *released*
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1293
V.76 Professional SharePoint Search (Wiley - Richard Riley, Tom Rizzo)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1337
V.101 Teach Yourself SharePoint 2007 in 24 Hours (SAMS - Mike Walsh) (Ed.: The book concentrates on WSS 3.0)
None
V WSSv2 KB Articles (plus SPS 2003 Hot fixes)
New or Modified
None
VI WSSv2 FAQ
New or Modified
None
Note: All of the addresses of the KB / Articles - 2007 Products / MS / Non-MS Articles below were valid at the time I added them to the WSS FAQ
site and to this file. I can't guarantee that they still are.
(This is also posted to the WSS newsgroup at microsoft.public.sharepoint.windowsservices - web access via http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/newsgroups/server/sharepoint.mspx)
(Items are added to the WSS FAQ throughout the week so you will find new items more quickly by checking at wss.collutions.com or www.wssfaq.com daily.)
From 6th - 12th April 2008
NOTE: Amendment to KB articles: Microsoft are now not amending the date of a KB article if the change made is marked as a version point change (so from 2.2 to 2.3 for instance).
This ought to mean that the amendment made is cosmetic rather than important as important text changes ought to result in a major version change (such as from 2.2 to 3.0).
Because of this change and to avoid unnecessary effort I will in future not amend the listings in the WSS FAQ sites if only a minor version change has taken place.
I will continue to amend both the date and version numbers of major version changes and of course will continue to add all relevant new KB articles that my RSS feeds and other sources give me.
I.1 2007 KB Articles (*now only one section for WSS and MOSS*)
New
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;950437
Expensive Transact-SQL queries are generated in the back-end instance of SQL Server when you perform a search in SharePoint Server 2007
10th April 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;950439
No results are returned when you search for German compound words or for German compound names in SharePoint Server 2007
10th April 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;950280
Description of the SharePoint Server 2007 hotfix package: March 21, 2008 (2nd with same name)
10th April 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;950438
Error message when you try to manage a site collection in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 or in SharePoint Server 2007: "User cannot be found"
10th April 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;950279
Description of the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 hotfix package: March 21, 2008
10th April 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;948322
The Stsadm.exe command-line tool does not back up or restore user profile information in Office SharePoint Server 2007 and SharePoint Portal Server 2003
10th April 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;950484
Description of the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 hotfix package: March 27, 2008
7th April 2008
Modified
None
I.b Forefront KB Articles
New
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=949238
You cannot access certain files because Forefront Security for SharePoint incorrectly blocks those files
27th March 2008
Modified
None
I.c InfoPath 2007 KB Articles
New
None
Modified
None
II. Articles - 2007 Products (no longer with all links to articles for other Office 2007 and other 2007 Products)
New
A. Office 2007 Server Products
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=e06453b8-b2dd-4177-969c-2f89aa841e11&displaylang=en&tm
Microsoft Forefront Security for SharePoint Service Pack 2
10th April 2008
http://www.sharepointblogs.com/usecases/archive/2008/04/09/advanced-scenario-for-sharepoint-blog-site-template.aspx
Advanced scenario for SharePoint Blog site template (blog - Toni)
9th April 2008
http://www.cjvandyk.com/blog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?List=744536f4%2D127e%2D4c4a%2Dbcff%2Db85408e7e7e5&ID=158
How do I – Define a new Best Bet Keyword in SharePoint 2007? (Blog - Cornelius J. van Dyk)
9th April 2008
http://stsadm.blogspot.com/2008/04/fun-with-variations.html
Fun with Variations (Blog - Gary Lapointe)
8th April 2008
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=0150d17d-9f28-4ef6-8dc8-8fbb5fed5cfc&displaylang=en&tm
WhitePaper: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Search Backup for DPM 2007
8th April 2008
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc427068.aspx
Visual How To: Creating, Deploying, and Debugging Custom Timer Jobs in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (Andrew Connell, Andrew Connell Inc.)
8th April 2008 (date added) (dated March 2008)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=5e94ad07-902c-422f-aadd-ff2bba9e540a&displaylang=en&tm
SharePoint Products and Technologies Protocol Documentation (ver Apr08d)
7th April 2008
http://www.intranetjournal.com/articles/200804/ij_04_07_08a.html
SharePoint Site Collection Governance (Intranet Journal - Robert Bogue)
7th April 2008
http://www.sharepointblogs.com/ajp/archive/2008/04/07/sharepoint-learning-kit-installing-on-single-server-farm.aspx?CommentPosted=true#commentmessage
SharePoint Learning Kit: Installing on Single Server Farm (Blog - Alex Pearce)
7th April 2008
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262485.aspx
Determine hardware and software requirements (Office SharePoint Server)
7th April 2008 (date added)
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=83060&clcid=0x409
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Evaluation guide April 2008
7th April 2008 (date added)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262696.aspx
Configure Web SSO authentication by using ADFS (Office SharePoint Server)
7th April 2008 (date added)
B. Other Office 2007 products (selected few only since 1.1.2007)
None
C. Other New 2006/2007 Products (selected few only since 1.1.2007)
None
Modified
None
III WebCasts (+ PodCasts, On-Line courses) for 2007 Products
New
http://wm.microsoft.com/ms/msdn/office/2007OfficeVisualHowTos/WSS3CustomTimerJobs.wmv
Visual How To: Creating, Deploying, and Debugging Custom Timer Jobs in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (Video) (Andrew Connell, Andrew Connell Inc.)
8th April 2008 (date added) (dated March 2008)
IV WSS v3 FAQ
New
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1367
VII.17B Beginning Excel Services (Wrox - ISBN 978-0-470-10489-7) (Chapter 3 - Architecture)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1368
VII.18B Professional Excel Services (Wrox - ISBN 978-0-470-10486-6) (Chapter 20: Excel Services Workflows)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1369
VII.23D Real World SharePoint 2007: Indispensable Experiences from 16 MOSS and WSS MVPs (Wrox - ISBN 978-0-470-17402-9) Chapter 12: Securing SharePoint Communication)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1370
X.119 SharePoint Backup Utility (free - Jerry Rasmussen)
Modified
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/EditForm.aspx?ID=971
I.31.01 What issues are fixed in the hot fixes to WSS 3.0?
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1337
V.101 Teach Yourself SharePoint 2007 in 24 Hours (SAMS - Mike Walsh) (Ed.: The book concentrates on WSS 3.0)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/EditForm.aspx?ID=1348
V.102 The Microsoft SharePoint Step by Step Kit: Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Step by Step and Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 (MS Press - unknown) *released*
V WSSv2 KB Articles (plus SPS 2003 Hot fixes)
New or Modified
None
VI WSSv2 FAQ
New or Modified
None
I've been writing a book for Sams ("Teach Yourself SharePoint 2007 in 24 Hours") which has an ISBN number (and a listing in my own list of SharePoint 2007 books here
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/V%20Books.aspx)
but which is not listed yet (even pre-Order) at Amazon US.
Writing a book and attempting to keep updating the WSS FAQ sites and not being a stranger to the SharePoint newsgroups and forums is taking up most of my time these days which is one good reason for keeping the number of blogs down.
The other reason you may think is not a good reason.
While testing for and writing book sections I often come across things that it would make suitable content for a blog. But at the same time a lot of these things are things which may only be in *my* book and with so many other SharePoint books out there already I need those "only in my book" sections to have any chance of people chosing to buy it.
So sorry, no technical blogs at least until I've finished; handed it over; and the book is on the verge of becoming available to buy.
What I decided, however, that I could do is a quick outline about how this process went and how it's affecting my life.
I was approached to do the book so hadn't done any of the usual things such as preparing an outline of the book and a justification for it which is what you need to do if *you* approach a publisher.
(I've seen that sort of thing several times in the past when I've been asked to comment on them by a publisher)
Not having done that meant I had no outline for the book on hand so the first thing the publisher wanted from me was a proposed list of chapters.
This seemed like putting the cart before the horse as I didn't think I'd be able to write a Table of Contents until I'd written a good bit of the book, but they insisted and so I managed to find 24 chapter titles. (The "24 Hours" series is actually 24 separate chapters with each one containing (theoretically) an Hour of instruction/information).
Well let me tell you that these publishers knew what they were doing because, even though some Hours have become 2 or even 3 Hours and some have vanished or been merged, having that table of contents has become a blessing when actually writing the book.
The other thing to tell you is that all the dedications you read that say something like "thanks to my wife and kids for putting up with me for the six months it took me to write this book" are truly justified.
Maybe it's because it's my first book (the single chapter for the RealWorld SharePoint 2007 book doesn't count) but it's never far from my thoughts and I'm working in my head through what to say in the next chapter almost all the time it would otherwise be empty (bus journeys to work for instance) or what's worse when sitting at the lunch table with my wife.
I'm also completely aware when I am not writing it that I am "taking time off" although the obligatory walk in the woods to get needed exercise between testing/writing sessions doesn't qualify for that quite as much as sitting down and reading a (non-Computer) book does.
So the book is progressing well even though I always thinking that the next but one chapter (the one that hasn't been processed by my bus-travelling brain yet) will be a struggle and will be impossible to fill 20 pages with. So far, in fact, the problem has been more that of keeping the chapters/hours down to 20 pages.
(Luckily I don't have the kids problem - he's 34 and naturally lives elsewhere - and my wife has been nice enough to give me priority for the desktop computer (which is the only place that has a suitable chair and desk and keyboard to write a book at and space for the portable running the VM of WSS 3.0), but only for the time of writing the book, after that I'll be back to the portable(s)) on the sofa.
Anyway that's it for quite a while. Back to the grindstone.
Meanwhile just a couple of hints.
The book will be almost entirely for WSS 3.0 users/administrators/designers even though it occasionally may note if MOSS 2007 does something differently.
It will also be a book that covers a wider spectrum than most of its size and will thus save space for that extra content by going into the parameters that I find most useful rather than like some books that are already out there going painstakingly through every single option.
In other words it's (so far at least - there's still quite a bit to go) a book I'd like to read.
Pity there are no good jokes.
P.S. Now (2 days later) it IS listed at Amazon US - none of the others yet and for the moment the listing at Amazon US is still full price (29.95) rather than the 19.95 or 24.95 I expect to see there soon). Don't forget the 5% discount on the lowest price between now and the date of availability if ordered early. Mind you November 2008 IS a long time to wait - I hope something can be done to improve that.)
(Apologies for the delay)
Note: All of the addresses of the KB / Articles - 2007 Products / MS / Non-MS Articles below were valid at the time I added them to the WSS FAQ
site and to this file. I can't guarantee that they still are.
(This is also posted to the WSS newsgroup at microsoft.public.sharepoint.windowsservices - web access via http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/newsgroups/server/sharepoint.mspx)
(Items are added to the WSS FAQ throughout the week so you will find new items more quickly by checking at wss.collutions.com or www.wssfaq.com daily.)
From 16th - 24th March 2008
NOTE: Amendment to KB articles: Microsoft are now not amending the date of a KB article if the change made is marked as a version point change (so from 2.2 to 2.3 for instance).
This ought to mean that the amendment made is cosmetic rather than important as important text changes ought to result in a major version change (such as from 2.2 to 3.0).
Because of this change and to avoid unnecessary effort I will in future not amend the listings in the WSS FAQ sites if only a minor version change has taken place.
I will continue to amend both the date and version numbers of major version changes and of course will continue to add all relevant new KB articles that my RSS feeds and other sources give me.
I.1 2007 KB Articles (*now only one section for WSS and MOSS*)
New
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;949399
Description of the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 hotfix package: February 27, 2008
21st March 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;949582
How to obtain the latest service pack for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
20th March 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;949008
SQL Server experiences a high load, and blocking problems may occur when you check a page in in SharePoint Server 2007
18th March 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;949058
When you try to filter Web pages whose dates are after the twelfth of any particular month in SharePoint Server 2007, no Web pages are displayed even though there are Web pages that meet this condition
18th March 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;949402
Description of the SharePoint Server 2007 post-Service Pack 1 hotfix package: February 27, 2008
18th March 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;949003
You are directed to an English Web site even though you created the Web site in a different language in SharePoint Server 2007
18th March 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;948947
Description of the SharePoint Server 2007 hotfix package: February 21, 2008
18th March 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;948945
Description of the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 hotfix package: February 21, 2008
18th March 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;949749
Description of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 hotfix package: March 4, 2008
18th March 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;948726
Error message when you use the Content Deployment feature in SharePoint Server 2007: "Failed to compare two elements in the array"
17th March 2008
Modified
None
I.b Forefront KB Articles
New
None
Modified
None
I.c InfoPath 2007 KB Articles
New
None
Modified
None
II. Articles - 2007 Products (no longer with all links to articles for other Office 2007 and other 2007 Products)
New
A. Office 2007 Server Products
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc298466.aspx
Caching in Office SharePoint Server 2007
24th March 2008
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc298801.aspx
Physical storage recommendations (Office SharePoint Server)
24th March 2008
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc298578.aspx
Physical topology recommendations (Office SharePoint Server)
24th March 2008
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc298550.aspx
Planning recommendations for Web servers (Office SharePoint Server)
24th March 2008
http://searchexchange.techtarget.com/tip/0,289483,sid43_gci1303082,00.html
Improve SharePoint 2007 design and navigation with managed paths (SearchExchange - Bob Fox)
22nd March 2008
http://www.sharepointblogs.com/smuller/archive/2008/03/21/our-initial-use-of-email-enabled-libraries.aspx
Setting Up Email Enabled Libraries (Blog - ScottM)
21st March 2008
http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/sharepoint/SPC20081/SPC2008%20-%20Accessibility%20Kit%20for%20SharePoint%20-%20Building%20Accessible%20Websites%20on%20MOSS%202007.ppt
SharePoint Conference Slide Deck: Accessibility Kit for SharePoint - Building Accessible Websites on MOSS 2007
20th March 2008 (date added)
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb530303.aspx
Selective Content Migration in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (Nick Gattuccio, Patrick Simek, Stefan Gossner)
20th March 2008 (date added - published March 2008)
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc337908.aspx
Visual How To: Displaying Search Results in a Grid View in SharePoint Server 2007 (Microsoft, no name specified)
20th March 2008 (date added - published March 2008)
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc374980.aspx
Visual How To: Using Metadata Tags to Route Documents to Libraries in SharePoint Server 2007 (Microsoft, no name specified)
20th March 2008 (date added - published March 2008)
http://www.microsoft.com/enterprisesearch/serverproducts/searchserverexpress/download.aspx
Microsoft Search Server Express (RTM version - links to x86 and x64 versions)
20th March 2008 (date added but roughly the release date)
http://www.zimmergren.net/archive/2008/03/19/how-to-get-up-and-running-with-the-silverlight-2-0-blueprints-for-sharepoint-2007.aspx
How To: Get up and running with the Silverlight 2.0 Blueprints for SharePoint 2007 (Blog - Tobias Zimmergren)
19th March 2008
http://sharepointnutsandbolts.blogspot.com/2008/03/great-controls-to-be-aware-of-when.html
Great controls to be aware of when building SharePoint sites (Chris O'Brien)
16th March 2008
http://blogs.technet.com/josebda/archive/2008/03/15/complete-reference-of-all-stsadm-operations-with-parameters-in-moss-2007-sp1.aspx
Complete reference of all STSADM operations (with parameters) in MOSS 2007 SP1 (MS Blog - Jose Baretto)
15th March 2008
B. Other Office 2007 products (selected few only since 1.1.2007)
None
C. Other New 2006/2007 Products (selected few only since 1.1.2007)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=064a995f-ef13-4200-81ad-e3af6218edcc&displaylang=en&tm
System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Software Development Kit (SDK) v4.0 (version 2007)
17th March 2008
(added to include in SDK View)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=c271309b-02de-42a7-b23e-e19f68667197&displaylang=en&tm
Live Search SDK (ver 1.1b)
15th March 2008
(added to include in SDK View)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=c271309b-02de-42a7-b23e-e19f68667197&displaylang=en&tm
MSN Search SDK Beta (ver 1.1b)
15th March 2008
(added to include in SDK View)
Modified
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;946336
How to register Microsoft Filter Pack with SharePoint Server 2007 and with Search Server 2008 (ver 2.0)
17th March 2008
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=333325fd-ae52-4e35-b531-508d977d32a6&displaylang=en&tm
Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5
17th March 2008 (seems to be same version as Jan 2008 but re-released ...)
Deleted
None
III WebCasts (+ PodCasts, On-Line courses) for 2007 Products
New
https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastRegistrationConfirmation.aspx?culture=en-US&RegistrationID=1296066694
IT Manager Webcast: Deploying SharePoint Server with Project Server 2007 (Level 200) (Christophe Fiessinger)
20th March 2008
https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastRegistrationConfirmation.aspx?culture=en-US&RegistrationID=1296066770
MSDN Webcast: SharePoint Server 2007 and AJAX (Level 100) (Mike Benkovich)
20th March 2008
http://wm.microsoft.com/ms/msdn/Office/2007OfficeVisualHowTos/MOSS2007DisplaySearchResultsInGridView.wmv
Visual How To: Displaying Search Results in a Grid View in SharePoint Server 2007 (Video) (Microsoft, no name specified)
20th March 2008 (date added - published March 2008)
http://wm.microsoft.com/ms/msdn/Office/2007OfficeVisualHowTos/MOSS2007CreateMetadataTagRouter.wmv
Visual How To: Using Metadata Tags to Route Documents to Libraries in SharePoint Server 2007 (Video) (Microsoft, no name specified)
20th March 2008 (date added - published March 2008)
https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastRegistrationConfirmation.aspx?culture=en-US&RegistrationID=1295959242
MSDN Webcast: SharePoint Server 2007 and Authentication (Level 100) (Mike Benkovich)
13th March 2008
https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastRegistrationConfirmation.aspx?culture=en-US&RegistrationID=1295959403
TechNet Webcast: Assure the Availability and Performance of Your SharePoint Environments (Level 300) (Sacha Dawes)
10th March 2008
https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastRegistrationConfirmation.aspx?culture=en-US&RegistrationID=1295959489
MSDN Webcast: Office Development in Visual Studio: Windows SharePoint Services Workflow (Level 200) (Robert Green, MCW Technology)
6th March 2008
IV WSS v3 FAQ
New
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/EditForm.aspx?ID=1351
V.103 SharePoint 2007 and Office Development Expert Solutions (Kindle Edition) (Wrox - Randy Holloway, Andrej Kyselica, Steve Caravajal) *released*
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/EditForm.aspx?ID=1352
V.104 Integrating Microsoft Office Access 2007 and Microsoft SharePoint, Digital Shortcut (Kindle Edition) (Pearson Education - Alison Balter)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/EditForm.aspx?ID=1353
V.105 SharePoint 2007 User's Guide: Learning Microsoft's Collaboration and Productivity Platform (Kindle Edition) (Apress - Seth Bates) *released*
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/EditForm.aspx?ID=1354
V.106 Microsoft Sharepoint Interview Questions: Share Point Certification Review (Equity Press - Terry Sanchez-Clark) *released*
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/EditForm.aspx?ID=1355
V.107 Microsoft InfoPath 2007 Quick Reference on Filling & Design (Cheat Sheet of Instructions, Tips & Shortcuts - Laminated) (Beezix Inc) *released*
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/EditForm.aspx?ID=1356
V.108 Beginning Excel Services (Kindle Edition) (Wrox - Liviu Asnash, Eran Megiddo, Craig Thomas)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/EditForm.aspx?ID=1357
V.109 Sharepoint Server 2007 : Tome 2, Mise en oeuvre de solutions et gestion des informations (in French) (Dunod - Bill English and others) *released*
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/EditForm.aspx?ID=1358
V.110 SharePoint 2007 - Créez votre site collaboratif étape par étape (in French) (Editions ENI - Sandrine Schmitt) *released*
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/EditForm.aspx?ID=1359
V.111 Asp.Net 2.0 and Sharepoint 2007 Webparts (Wiley - Matt Butler)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1350
X.115 OBA Sample Application Kit for SAP (free - Microsoft)
Modified
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/EditForm.aspx?ID=1136
V.60 Professional SharePoint 2007 Web Content Management Development: Building WCM Sites with Office SharePoint Server (Wrox - Andrew Connell)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/EditForm.aspx?ID=1216
V.64 MCTS: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Configuration Study Guide (70-630) (Sybex - James Pyles) *released*
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/EditForm.aspx?ID=1242
V.70 Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 - Das Handbuch (in German) (MSPress Deutschland - Dirk Grasekamp) *released*
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1261
V.74 Office and SharePoint 2007 User's Guide: Integrating SharePoint with Excel, Outlook, Access and Word (Apress - Michael Antonovich)
(new title and new prices)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1300
V.80 SharePoint 2007 - Der schnelle Einstieg (In German - Translation of User's Guide) (Addison Wesley Verlag - Seth Bates, Tony Smith) *released*
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1302
V.82 Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Development: 10 Solutions Every Sharepoint Developer Should Know How to Create (Video Livelessons) (Sams - Scot Hillier)
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V WSSv2 KB Articles (plus SPS 2003 Hot fixes)
New
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;941204
Description of the SharePoint Portal Server 2003 post-Service Pack 3 hotfix package: February 26, 2008 (ver 2.0)
14th March 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;943167
Description of the SharePoint Portal Server 2003 post-Service Pack 3 hotfix package: February 27, 2008
13th March 2008
Modified
None
VI WSSv2 FAQ
New
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSS%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=653
I.28.4 What is fixed in the post-SPS 2003 Service Pack 3 hotfixes?
Modified
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSS%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=193
III.59 How can I make the link between Web Part Connections a dropdown list rather than the standard radio buttons?
I did my usual sweep through the Amazon sites to see if any new SharePoint books had were listed or if any of the books I had listed were now being delivered.
I wasn't expecting much actually but I was quite surprised by several things.
The first was that my search threw up a SharePoint book in English that had come out in the beginning of 2007. I've been doing these searches for books on a regular basis so I can't imagine how I could have missed it in all the searches throughout that time.
Perhaps the most pleasant news was that there is at last a third French language original book on SharePoint. I'm pleased at expanding that part of the total list (http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/V%20Books.aspx) with this.
So pleased in fact I'm going to give you the title and the link so you can order it ...
SharePoint 2007 - Créez votre site collaboratif étape par étape (in French) (Editions ENI - Sandrine Schmitt) from http://www.amazon.fr/exec/obidos/ASIN/2746041693/wssfaq0fe-21. I wonder about the "etape par etape" (stage by stage) though as that sounds very much like Microsoft Press's "step-by-step.
The next book that makes me happy is that finally the only German language original on SharePoint Designer 2007 (and only the third overall) is finally out.
Again that gets a boost here with the title and the link (to Amazon Germany in this case). Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 - Das Handbuch (in German) (MSPress Deutschland - Dirk Grasekamp) from http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/3866451083/wssfaq0e-21
It's a good job I checked out the link as it seems two more authors (Michael Greth and Bernhard Straub to be exact) have been added. Must go off to add them. More here later (there are some more new "books" worth mentioning).
OK that's the advert break over. Now what else is interesting?
Well, I've posted before about Amazon US's Kindle device for reading books. Their range of SharePoint books is now up to 10.
What IS interesting is that one of them appears to be one that was written specially for the Kindle format. There seem to be two indications of this a) I can't find it listed anywhere as a book and b) it's much shorter than any of the other SP books.
For those of you in the US (we poor people outside the US can't buy Kindle devices or download content for them), here are the details of just that one.
"Integrating Microsoft Office Access 2007 and Microsoft SharePoint, Digital Shortcut (Kindle Edition) (Pearson Education - Alison Balter)" from http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000P28WQ2/heme0f
They don't actually say how many pages it is, but the topic is one that's hardly covered anywhere else (although I'm planning to cover it in the book I'm writing at the moment) and the price (at 7,99) is more like the sort of price I expect these Kindle "books" to be at.
Oh, yes, and by the way if you are wondering if I'm only plugging that one because it's from Pearson (the company behind the Teach Yourself series), it's just a coincidence. Honest!
P.S. Andrew Connell revealed in his blog this week that his important book on Content Management with MOSS 2007 has been handed over to the publishers and that he is hoping for it to be out in a couple of months. We'll see how that estimate holds up. Meanwhile if you want to pre-order it, here's the Amazon US link. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0470224754/heme0f (You know I hope about the extra 5% deduction on pre-orders? I have myself a Kasparov chess book I would buy anyway on pre-order for delivery in June - what with 5% off because it was in my gold chest offers and 5% off for pre-order, I think they are paying me! ..)
(Oops, more work to do. My price info for that book in the WSS FAQ sites is non-existent. Must do a bit of updating.)
P.P.S. In a sadder note, I saw this week that the date for the Dustin Miller, Heather Solomon book on SPD 2007 had been put back yet again and now was due out, in was it September 2008 (?) Pity, that's about 7 months after the first announced date.
Just over a year ago MVPs were offered a free subscription to the NOD virus-checker application.
The aim of this was no doubt the usual one of getting a product in use by MVPs so that that fact (visibility at demos; "which virus checker are you using") would influence other people to install it too.
There are plenty of free offers open to everyone for limited periods of virus-checker support and so many MVPs including myself thought that this *special* offer might need the MVP in a year to once again prove that he/she still was an MVP, but otherwise the virus checker offer would continue to be in operation.
Well it wasn't. After a year the name/password received no longer worked and no updates came for the software. In the case of normal software that wouldn't matter over-much but in the case of virus software it does, so off I went to look for one of the other free offers - this time the ones for the general public.
Microsoft have a link to a page with all companies providing such a thing and the first snag is that they have "improved" that page so that it no longer says "XXX offers a 3 month free subscription" so you can see at a glance which company offers the longest free subscription but now only has company logos.
Anyway I hadn't used Panda before so I set up a new hotmail address for it and applied and got the free subscription and installed it (and it works). It's for three months.
Only evey day I now get a a message telling me that I still haven't configured the updates (and that it will "shortly cease to update itself").
This is like a Russian doll because if you try to configure the updates, it says you need to register first and if you try to register it won't let you saying that you have specified the wrong application code.
So you check the registration page and there is no place where you can enter an activation code ! So you click on "what is an application code" and it tells you (at the end) that it's something you don't get with a trial version of the product.
So Panda are daily telling me to configure my updates even though they know full well that this is a trial product which I thus can't register and which I thus can't specify updates for.
The next question is what this "will shortly cease to update" means.
Is this a free 3 month trial or not? If it stops updating after a month say, it's a one month's trial in my book.
Time therefore to hate Panda and start checking through the possibilities on the MS page to see which offers the longest free protection. Luckily provided I don't use the same company again, I already have a hotmail address lined up just for it.
P.S. I've now dropped Panda. A week of having pop-ups arriving on an *hourly* basis (yes, even when you said later and got rid of the pop-up it still came back (often) in the same computer session) telling me to specify my upgrade settings (which they ten - see above - wouldn't let me do) was enough. No doubt this is supposed to "encourage" you to pay - me it just made completely MAD at Panda and never want to have anything to do with them again. We'll see how Kapersky Labs are. There was a good start. They only wanted my e-mail address. Panda wanted full and valid postal address ... The snag is that Kapersky Labs like more of the rest of the free trials is for 30 days only. I'll have to dig out the offer for company employees' home machines even though it is McAfee ....
Note: All of the addresses of the KB / Articles - 2007 Products / MS / Non-MS Articles below were valid at the time I added them to the WSS FAQ
site and to this file. I can't guarantee that they still are.
(This is also posted to the WSS newsgroup at microsoft.public.sharepoint.windowsservices - web access via http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/newsgroups/server/sharepoint.mspx)
(Items are added to the WSS FAQ throughout the week so you will find new items more quickly by checking at wss.collutions.com or www.wssfaq.com daily.)
From 2nd to 8th March 2008
NOTE: Amendment to KB articles: Microsoft are not not amending the date of a KB article if the change made is marked as a version point change (so from 2.2 to 2.3 for instance).
This ought to mean that the amendment made is cosmetic rather than important as important text changes ought to result in a major version change (such as from 2.2 to 3.0).
Because of this change and to avoid unnecessary effort I will in future not amend the listings in the WSS FAQ sites if only a minor version change has taken place.
I will continue to amend both the date and version numbers of major version changes and of course will continue to add all relevant new KB articles that my RSS feeds and other sources give me.
I.1 2007 KB Articles (*now only one section for WSS and MOSS*)
New
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;945089
Description of the SharePoint Server 2007 post-Service Pack 1 hotfix package: January 31, 2008
4th March 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;942819
Description of the SharePoint Server 2007 post-Service Pack 1 hotfix package: January 31, 2008 (2nd one with the same name and date)
4th March 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;941653
Description of the SharePoint Server 2007 post-Service Pack 1 hotfix package: January 31, 2008 (3rd one with the same name)
3rd March 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;944710
Description of the SharePoint Server 2007 hotfix package: January 31, 2008
3rd March 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;948728
A workflow is canceled when you try to upload an item to a picture library in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
3rd March 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;948957
Description of the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 hotfix package: February 22, 2008
29th February 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;948681
Some members of a SharePoint group target audience cannot access a Web Part in SharePoint Server 2007
28th February 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;948780
Description of the sequences and actions that occur when you upgrade SharePoint Products and Technologies
28th February 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;948318
Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 cannot monitor performance data on a 64-bit computer that is running SharePoint Server 2007 or Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
27th February 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;948320
How to enable the "Use Predefined Table Format" setting when you use a Windows SharePoint Services template in SharePoint Server 2007
27th February 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;948729
Anonymous access to a BDC data source fails in SharePoint Server 2007
27th February 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;948323
You receive an Event ID 6875 error message when you publish a page in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 or in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
27th February 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;948909
Disk space is reduced significantly when you perform regular search crawls in SharePoint Server 2007
26th February 2008
Modified
None
I.b Forefront KB Articles
New
None
Modified
None
I.c InfoPath 2007 KB Articles
New
None
Modified
None
II. Articles - 2007 Products (no longer with all links to articles for other Office 2007 and other 2007 Products)
New
A. Office 2007 Server Products
http://webborg.blogspot.com/2008/03/how-sharepoint-stores-field-names.html
How SharePoint stores field names (Blog - Boris Gomiunik)
3rd March 2008
http://blogs.msdn.com/ecm/archive/2008/03/03/building-a-news-workbench-on-moss-2007-part-2.aspx
Building a news workbench on MOSS 2007 -- Part 2 (MS Team Blog)
3rd March 2008
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/cc303301.aspx
Silverlight Blueprint for SharePoint
3rd March 2008 (date added)
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc303696.aspx
Visual How To: Generating Unique IDs in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (unknown - Microsoft)
3rd March 2008 (date added - article dated March 2008)
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc296355.aspx
Visual How To: Customizing Page Editing Toolbar Components in SharePoint Server 2007 (Joel Krist - Akona Systems)
3rd March 2008 (date added - article dated February 2008)
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc296356.aspx
Visual How To: Using Smart Clients to Communicate with Workflows in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (Patrik Tisseghem, U2U)
3rd March 2008 (date added - article dated February 2008)
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc297200.aspx
Visual How To: Deploying ASP.NET Web Applications in the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 _layouts Folder (Joel Krist - Akona Systems)
3rd March 2008 (date added - article dated February 2008)
http://blogs.technet.com/wbaer/archive/2008/03/01/bill-s-5-min-sharepoint-performance-recommendations.aspx
Bill's 5-min. SharePoint Performance Recommendations (MS Blog - William Baer)
1st March 2008
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc268155.aspx
External Collaboration Toolkit for SharePoint (entry page)
28th February 2008
http://www.sharepointblogs.com/alfred/archive/2008/02/28/generate-a-list-template-feature-with-the-moss-feature-generator.aspx
Automatically generating a List Template feature with the MOSS Feature Generator (Blog - Alfred de Weerd)
28th February 2007
http://scothillier.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!8F5DEA8AEA9E6FBB!280.entry
Hiding Individual Menu Items on SharePoint Toolbars (Blog - Scot Hillier)
27th February 2008
http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/2d445751-b948-40a6-b0aa-da74cc1b63c41033.mspx
Perform a stand-alone installation of Office SharePoint Server 2007 on Windows Server 2008
21st February 2008
http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/3f6ce2ac-3242-4d1e-ab76-b360a73ba2401033.mspx
Upgrade examples: Upgrading three common customizations (Ed. SPS2003->MOSS2007 gradual upgrade)
21st February 2008
http://technet2.microsoft.com/WindowsServer/WSS/en/library/80d71679-ca55-4008-8bb5-11cc8437f77f1033.mspx
Update a Web application URL and IIS bindings (Windows SharePoint Services)
21st February 2008
http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/9f3cfe3f-01b5-406e-8615-04735ae422861033.mspx
Additional performance and capacity planning factors (Office SharePoint Server)
14th February 2008
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=110087
Design and build sites for Office SharePoint Server 2007(Downloadable Book version [Ed.= single document])
14th February 2008 ("published date" of upgrade - document itself says January 2008)
http://technet2.microsoft.com/WindowsServer/WSS/en/library/b292f3ad-e2f5-4be7-b0fa-0235f4750b7d1033.mspx
Manage farm administration settings (Windows SharePoint Services)
7th February 2008
http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/93caa879-c50c-4298-bfb6-9319e429e2651033.mspx
Manage farm administration settings (Ed. for MOSS 2007, a couple more things than in the WSS 3.0 equivalent)
7th February 2008
http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/1e87c675-f953-4ae9-9cef-559a5b4ac5ea1033.mspx
Move content databases from Windows Internal Database to a SQL Server instance (Office SharePoint Server)
7th February 2008
http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/6aa16d9a-812a-4bbc-b421-1b45894525031033.mspx
Move content databases between SQL Server instances (Office SharePoint Server)
7th February 2008
http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/136838c8-e85a-497a-848b-bed91c7298811033.mspx
Create an installation source that includes software updates (Office SharePoint Server 2007)
7th February 2008
http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/3f8fc632-4493-430b-baca-49f60e5508cd1033.mspx?mfr=true
Upgrade from Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
23rd March 2007 (yes, don't know how I missed this one)
B. Other Office 2007 products (selected few only since 1.1.2007)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=5de047e1-0289-4e8e-81de-56bf74ecc89e&displaylang=en&tm
Search Server 2008 Trial (x86)
4th March 2008
C. Other New 2006/2007 Products (selected few only since 1.1.2007)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=518d870c-fa3e-4f6a-97f5-acaf31de6dce&displaylang=en&tm
Windows Server 2008 Step-by-Step Guides
4th March 2008
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=32c54c37-7530-4fc0-bd20-177a3e5330b7&displaylang=en&tm
Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.0 Manager
4th March 2008
Modified
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=83725&clcid=0x409
Using SQL Server Database Mirroring with Office SharePoint Server and Windows SharePoint Services (revised February 2008)
4th March 2008 (date added)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=21eabb90-958f-4b64-b5f1-73d0a413c8ef&displaylang=en&tm
Internet Explorer Application Compatibility VPC Image (ver 2.2)
2nd March 2008 (date changed but version number the same)
Deleted
None
III WebCasts (+ PodCasts, On-Line courses) for 2007 Products
New
http://wm.microsoft.com/ms/msdn/office/2007OfficeVisualHowTos/WSS30GenerateUniqueID.wmv
Visual How To: Generating Unique IDs in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (Video) (unknown - Microsoft)
3rd March 2008 (date added - article dated March 2008)
http://wm.microsoft.com/ms/msdn/office/2007OfficeVisualHowTos/MOSS2007CustomizingthePageEditingToolbarComponents.wmv
Visual How To: Customizing Page Editing Toolbar Components in SharePoint Server 2007 (Video) (Joel Krist - Akona Systems)
3rd March 2008 (date added - article dated February 2008)
http://wm.microsoft.com/ms/msdn/office/2007OfficeVisualHowTos/WSS3UsingSmartClientsToCommunicateWithWSSWorkflows.wmv
Visual How To: Using Smart Clients to Communicate with Workflows in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (Video) (Patrik Tisseghem, U2U)
3rd March 2008 (date added - article dated February 2008)
http://wm.microsoft.com/ms/msdn/office/2007OfficeVisualHowTos/WSS3DeployingASPNETWebApplications.wmv
Visual How To: Deploying ASP.NET Web Applications in the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 _layouts Folder (Video) (Joel Krist - Akona Systems)
3rd March 2008 (date added - article dated February 2008)
IV WSS v3 FAQ
New
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1347
III.102 When running Windows Server 2008 as a client, how do you start the "Web Client" service to enable WebDAV?
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1336
V.101 Teach Yourself SharePoint 2007 in 24 Hours (SAMS - Mike Walsh) (Ed.: The book concentrates on WSS 3.0)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/EditForm.aspx?ID=1340
VI.98 TMCore SharePoint Module (commercial - NetworkedPlanet)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/EditForm.aspx?ID=1341
VI.99 SharePoint Tagging Feature (commercial - Kwizcom)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/EditForm.aspx?ID=1342
VI.100 SharePoint Image Rotator Web Part (commercial - KWizCom)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/EditForm.aspx?ID=1343
VI.101 SharePoint URL Field with File Picker (commercial - KWizCom)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/EditForm.aspx?ID=1344
VI.102 SharePoint Rating Solution (commercial - KWizCom)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/EditForm.aspx?ID=1345
VI.103 SharePoint Dual Lookup Field Type (commercial - KWizCom)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1337
X.111 Search Community Toolkit – Search Center Branding Removal Tool (free- Codeplex, Tony Sloggett)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1337
X.112 Search Community Toolkit - ASP.NET Search Controls (free- Codeplex, Tony Sloggett)
Modified
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/EditForm.aspx?ID=958
I.31.02 What issues are fixed in fix packs to MOSS 2007?
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/EditForm.aspx?ID=1321
I.31.09 What issues are fixed in the hot fixes to MOSS 2007 Service Pack 1?
V WSSv2 KB Articles (plus SPS 2003 Hot fixes)
New
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;949174
Description of the SharePoint Portal Server 2003 post-Service Pack 3 hotfix package: February 14, 2008
3rd March 2008
Modified
None
VI WSSv2 FAQ
New
None
Modified
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSS%20FAQ/EditForm.aspx?ID=67
III.05.2 Forbidden characters
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSS%20FAQ/EditForm.aspx?ID=336
III.49.2 How do I create a View showing only documents added in the previous week?
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSS%20FAQ/EditForm.aspx?ID=650
III.122 How do you migrate SharePoint 2003 databases from a separate SQL Server 2000 box to a new SQL Server 2005 box (directly applies to SPS 2003; probably to WSS 2.0 as well in essence)
It's perhaps a bit of a stretch to imagine that everyone knows what a Kindle is so here's a brief explanation.
It's a handheld wireless reader device for books. It's made by Amazon, sold only - as far as I know - in the US, and it's gimmic is that you no longer need to connect the reader to a PC to add content to it, but can receive content wirelessly.
How that fits with the fact that you can buy Kindle editions of books on-line at the Amazon.com site is beyond me and it's even more beyond me why anyone would want to pay the prices (= standard Amazon real book prices) that Amazon wants for them, but there we are.
This note is naturally to say that I've now discovered a bunch of six Kindle editions of SharePoint (2007) books, so I've added a Kindle group (at the bottom) to the books list here
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/V%20Books.aspx
where I list the ones that are already out (another is listed but not yet out and has no pricing, so I'll keep checking for newly released ones on a regular basis).
So if you want to see which books publishers thought were worth putting out in a Kindle edition, look there. Also be warned. I don't list one SharePoint book that is out in a Kindle edition because it is the *2003* version of an almost identical-looking 2007 book (Wrox - Beginning SharePoint 2007 Administration)
Note: All of the addresses of the KB / Articles - 2007 Products / MS / Non-MS Articles below were valid at the time I added them to the WSS FAQ
site and to this file. I can't guarantee that they still are.
(This is also posted to the WSS newsgroup at microsoft.public.sharepoint.windowsservices - web access via http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/newsgroups/server/sharepoint.mspx)
(Items are added to the WSS FAQ throughout the week so you will find new items more quickly by checking at wss.collutions.com or www.wssfaq.com daily.)
From 17th - 25th February 2008
NOTE: Amendment to KB articles: Microsoft are now not amending the date of a KB article if the change made is marked as a version point change (so from 2.2 to 2.3 for instance).
This ought to mean that the amendment made is cosmetic rather than important as important text changes ought to result in a major version change (such as from 2.2 to 3.0).
Because of this change and to avoid unnecessary effort I will in future not amend the listings in the WSS FAQ sites if only a minor version change has taken place.
I will continue to amend both the date and version numbers of major version changes and of course will continue to add all relevant new KB articles that my RSS feeds and other sources give me.
Special Note: I was away between 20th and 24th of February and was unexpectedly without a computer and time to use anyone elses. So KB and other articles from that period will be added to the WSS FAQ sites during the week and will be included in the next posting here on Saturday. I felt there was too much here to wait another 5 days for ...
I.1 2007 KB Articles (*now only one section for WSS and MOSS*)
New
None
Modified
None
I.b Forefront KB Articles
New
None
Modified
None
I.c InfoPath 2007 KB Articles
New
None
Modified
None
II. Articles - 2007 Products (no longer with all links to articles for other Office 2007 and other 2007 Products)
New
A. Office 2007 Server Products
http://blogs.msdn.com/ecm/archive/2008/02/19/building-a-news-workbench-on-moss-2007-part-1.aspx
Building a news workbench on MOSS 2007 -- Part 1 (MS Team Blog)
19th February 2008
http://andrewconnell.com/blog/archive/2008/02/18/Subclassing-the-Content-Query-Web-Part-Adding-Dynamic-Filtering.aspx
Subclassing the Content Query Web Part: Adding Dynamic Filtering (Blog - Andrew Connell)
18th February 2008
http://www.sharepointblogs.com/llowevad/archive/2008/02/18/workaround-for-creating-timer-jobs-after-a-restore-in-sharepoint.aspx
Workaround for creating timer jobs after a restore in SharePoint (Blog - Dave Wollermann)
18th February 2008
http://andrewconnell.com/blog/archive/2008/02/18/Understanding-how-Web-Parts-are-rendered-why-to-never-use.aspx
Understanding how Web Parts are rendered, why to never use Render() and a bit on accessibility (Blog - Andrew Connell)
18th February 2008
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc162745.aspx
Submitting Data from InfoPath 2007 to a SharePoint List (Mark Roberts)
17th February 2008 (date added) (date is February 2008)
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263911.aspx
Creating a Custom Feature in Office SharePoint Server 2007 (Frank Rice)
17th February 2008 (date added) (date is February 2008)
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc185134.aspx
Office Business Application for Customer Support Management (Joel Krist, Akona Systems and Karthik Ravindran)
17th February 2008 (date added) (date is February 2008)
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc160835.aspx
Accessing Data from Workflow Association and Initiation Forms in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (Joel Krist, Akona Systems Inc.)
16th February 2008 (date added) (date is January 2008)
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc161067.aspx
Visual How To: Building Custom Content Types in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (Joel Krist, Akona Systems Inc.)
16th February 2008 (date added) (date is January 2008)
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc161068.aspx
Visual How To: Building Custom Workflow Conditions for SharePoint Designer (Joel Krist, Akona Systems Inc.)
16th February 2008 (date added) (date is January 2008)
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc158722.aspx
Visual How To: Building Site Definitions with Visual Studio 2005 Extensions for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and SharePoint Designer 2007 (Joel Krist, Akona Systems Inc.)
16th February 2008 (date added) (date is January 2008)
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb985502.aspx
Checklist for Creating SharePoint Web Parts (Dallas Tester, Lana Fly, Susan Harney)
16th February 2008 (date added) (date is January 2008)
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb986729.aspx
Visual How To: Adding Code-Behind Files to Master Pages and Page Layouts in SharePoint Server 2007 (Andrew Connell, Andrew Connell Inc.)
16th February 2008 (date added) (date is January 2008)
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb986730.aspx
Visual How To: Adding Custom Quick Access Buttons to the Page Editing Toolbar in SharePoint Server 2007 (Andrew Connell, Andrew Connell Inc.)
16th February 2008 (date added) (date is January 2008)
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/technetmag/issues/2008/02/ContentTypes/?loc=en
Standardize Data Management with Custom Content Types (TechNet, February 2008 - Pav Cherny)
16th February 2008 (date added)
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/technetmag/issues/2008/02/Surveys/?loc=en
Building a Powerful Survey Infrastructure ( (TechNet, February 2008 - Jim Bradley)
16th February 2008 (date added)
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/technetmag/issues/2008/02/DataGathering/?loc=en
A Smart Approach to Gathering Data in the Enterprise (TechNet, February 2008 - Keith Deshaies)
16th February 2008 (date added)
http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/Project/Download/FileDownload.aspx?ProjectName=PermissionMatrix&DownloadId=490
SharePoint out-of-box Permissions mapped to Site Settings - in Excel matrix (Mark Arend)
14th February 2008
http://blogs.msdn.com/rogerla/archive/2008/02/12/sharepoint-2007-and-wss-3-0-dispose-patterns-by-example.aspx
SharePoint 2007 and WSS 3.0 Dispose Patterns by Example (Blog - Roger Lamb)
11th February 2008
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=a8a4e775-074d-4451-be39-459921f79787&displaylang=en
Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Tools: Visual Studio 2005 Extensions User Guide, Version 1.1
11th February 2008
http://blogs.inetium.com/blogs/rmitchell/archive/2008/02/11/composite-apps-custom-pages-4-of-4.aspx
Composite Apps - Custom Pages (4 of 4) (Blog - Raymond Mitchell)
11th February 2008
http://www.sharepointblogs.com/andynoon/archive/2008/02/11/collecting-data-in-custom-sharepoint-workflows.aspx
Collecting data from users in SharePoint workflow's created in Visual Studio 2008 (Blog - Andrew Noon)
11th February 2008
http://blogs.inetium.com/blogs/rmitchell/archive/2008/02/08/composite-apps-custom-pages-3-of-4.aspx
Composite Apps - Custom Pages (3 of 4) (Blog - Raymond Mitchell)
8th February 2008
http://blogs.msdn.com/jamesway/archive/2008/02/08/content-types-part-2-creation-and-association-of-workflows-and-document-templates.aspx
Content Types: Part 2 - Creation and Association of Workflows and Document Templates (Blog James Way)
8th February 2008
http://blogs.inetium.com/blogs/rmitchell/archive/2008/02/07/composite-apps-custom-pages-2-of-4.aspx
Composite Apps - Custom Pages (2 of 4) (Blog - Raymond Mitchell)
7th February 2008
http://blogs.msdn.com/joelo/archive/2008/02/07/verbose-list-of-sharepoint-server-2007-events.aspx
Verbose List of SharePoint Server 2007 Events (MS Blog - Joel Oleson)
7th February 2008
http://blogs.msdn.com/joelo/archive/2008/02/07/verbose-list-of-wss-3-0-events.aspx
Verbose List of WSS 3.0 Events (MS Blog - Joel Oleson)
7th February 2008
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=108955&clcid=0x409
Advanced lectures (white paper): SharePoint Server server farm architecture
7th February 2008
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=108957&clcid=0x409
Advanced lectures (white paper): Overview: Configuring server farms
7th February 2008
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=108958&clcid=0x409
Advanced lectures (white paper): Securing server farms
7th February 2008
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=108961&clcid=0x409
Advanced lectures (white paper): Backing up and restoring Office SharePoint Server server farms
7th February 2008
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=108962&clcid=0x409
Advanced lectures (white paper): Operations and management
7th February 2008
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=108959&clcid=0x409
Advanced lectures (white paper): Capacity planning
7th February 2008
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=108963&clcid=0x409
Advanced lectures (white paper): Search architecture and configuration
7th February 2008
http://technet2.microsoft.com/windowsserver/WSS/en/library/8a9690e4-6917-4aab-82ce-cdbe989a20531033.mspx?mfr=true
Create an installation source that includes software updates (Windows SharePoint Services 3.0)
7th February 2008
http://technet2.microsoft.com/WindowsServer/WSS/en/library/4a766656-f3cf-4c05-bb03-da61b555ce921033.mspx
Rename a stand-alone server (Windows SharePoint Services)
7th February 2008
http://technet2.microsoft.com/WindowsServer/WSS/en/library/4a766656-f3cf-4c05-bb03-da61b555ce921033.mspx
Move content databases (Windows SharePoint Services)
7th February 2008
http://technet2.microsoft.com/WindowsServer/WSS/en/library/91570494-09ba-4537-904b-c61a6268d6bc1033.mspx
Email: Stsadm operation (Windows SharePoint Services)
7th February 2008
http://blogs.inetium.com/blogs/rmitchell/archive/2008/02/06/composite-apps-custom-pages-1-of-4.aspx
Composite Apps - Custom Pages (1 of 4) (Blog - Raymond Mitchell)
6th February 2008
http://www.sharepointblogs.com/andynoon/archive/2008/02/06/sharepoint-2007-workflow-with-visual-studio-2008.aspx
SharePoint 2007 workflow with Visual Studio 2008 (Blog - Andrew Noon)
6th February 2008
http://blogs.inetium.com/blogs/rmitchell/archive/2008/02/05/composite-apps-spd-workflow-basics.aspx
Composite Apps - SPD Workflow Basics (Blog - Raymond Mitchell)
5th February 2008
http://blogs.inetium.com/blogs/rmitchell/archive/2008/02/04/composite-apps-spd-and-content-pages.aspx
Composite Apps - SPD and Content Pages (Blog - Raymond Mitchell)
4th February 2008
http://blogs.inetium.com/blogs/rmitchell/archive/2008/02/04/composite-apps-spd-and-master-pages.aspx
Composite Apps - SPD and Master Pages (Blog - Raymond Mitchell)
4th February 2008
http://www.sharepointblogs.com/joed/archive/2008/02/03/display-a-quot-new-quot-indicator-in-the-content-query-web-part.aspx
Display a "New!" indicator in the Content Query Web Part (Blog - JoeD)
3rd February 2008
http://blogs.msdn.com/joelo/archive/2008/01/31/gathering-reporting-data-remotely-using-the-web-services.aspx
Gathering Reporting Data Remotely Using the Web Services (MS Blog - Joel Oleson)
31st January 2008
http://blogs.technet.com/wbaer/archive/2008/01/30/http-compression-internet-information-services-6-0-and-sharepoint-products-and-technologies.aspx
HTTP Compression, Internet Information Services 6.0, and SharePoint Products and Technologies (MS Blog - William Baer)
30th January 2008
http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2008/01/30/open-source-faceted-search-for-moss-2007-and-microsoft-search-server-2008-part-1-of-2.aspx
Open Source Faceted Search for MOSS 2007 and Microsoft Search Server 2008 - Part 1 of 2 (MS Team Blog - Neil Hodgkinson)
30th January 2008
http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/30587057-b4df-4708-a4a7-905f37878eae1033.mspx
Plan to deploy Office SharePoint Server globally (starter page)
28th January
http://www.intranetjournal.com/articles/200801/pij_01_02_08a.html
Managing the SharePoint Learning Curve (Intranet Journal, Robert Bogue)
2nd January 2008
B. Other Office 2007 products (selected few only since 1.1.2007)
None
C. Other New 2006/2007 Products (selected few only since 1.1.2007)
None
Modified
None
Deleted
None
III WebCasts (+ PodCasts, On-Line courses) for 2007 Products
New
http://wm.microsoft.com/ms/msdn/office/2007OfficeVisualHowTos/WSSBuildingCustomContentTypes.wmv
Visual How To: Building Custom Content Types in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (Video) (Joel Krist, Akona Systems Inc.)
16th February 2008 (date added) (date is January 2008)
http://wm.microsoft.com/ms/msdn/office/2007OfficeVisualHowTos/WSSBuildingCustomWorkflowConditions.wmv
Visual How To: Building Custom Workflow Conditions for SharePoint Designer (Video) (Joel Krist, Akona Systems Inc.)
16th February 2008 (date added) (date is January 2008)
http://wm.microsoft.com/ms/msdn/office/2007OfficeVisualHowTos/WSSBuildingSiteDefinitionswithVSandSPD.wmv
Visual How To: Building Site Definitions with Visual Studio 2005 Extensions for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and SharePoint Designer 2007 (Video) (Joel Krist, Akona Systems Inc.)
16th February 2008 (date added) (date is January 2008)
http://wm.microsoft.com/ms/msdn/office/2007OfficeVisualHowTos/MOSS2007CodeBehindPublishing.wmv
Visual How To: Adding Code-Behind Files to Master Pages and Page Layouts in SharePoint Server 2007 (Video) (Andrew Connell, Andrew Connell Inc.)
16th February 2008 (date added) (date is January 2008)
http://wm.microsoft.com/ms/msdn/office/2007OfficeVisualHowTos/MOSS2007CustomWcmQuickAccessButtons.wmv
Visual How To: Adding Custom Quick Access Buttons to the Page Editing Toolbar in SharePoint Server 2007 (Video) (Andrew Connell, Andrew Connell Inc.)
16th February 2008 (date added) (date is January 2008)
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=108964&clcid=0x409
Advanced lectures (videos): Overview: Configuring server farms
7th February 2008
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=108958&clcid=0x409
Advanced lectures (videos): Securing server farms
7th February 2008
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=108961&clcid=0x409
Advanced lectures (videos): Configuring performance options
7th February 2008
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=108968&clcid=0x409
Advanced lectures (videos): Backing up and restoring Office SharePoint Server server farms
7th February 2008
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=108969&clcid=0x409
Advanced lectures (videos): Operations and management
7th February 2008
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=108966&clcid=0x409
Advanced lectures (videos): Capacity planning
7th February 2008
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=108970&clcid=0x409
Advanced lectures (videos): Search architecture and configuration
7th February 2008
https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastRegistrationConfirmation.aspx?culture=en-US&RegistrationID=1295280662
TechNet Webcast: SharePoint Server 2007 (Part 6 of 6): Keeping Control of Your SharePoint Sites with IT Governance (Level 200) (Kevin Remde)
31st January 2008
https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastRegistrationConfirmation.aspx?culture=en-US&RegistrationID=1295280650
TechNet Webcast: SharePoint Server 2007 (Part 5 of 6): SharePoint Server 2007 Security, from Service Accounts to Item-Level Access (Level 200) (Kevin Remde)
28th January 2008
https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastRegistrationConfirmation.aspx?culture=en-US&RegistrationID=1295280626
TechNet Webcast: SharePoint Server 2007 (Part 4 of 6): Compliance and Records Management (Level 200) (Kevin Remde)
25th January 2008
IV WSS v3 FAQ
New
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/EditForm.aspx?ID=1323
X.108 Sonar Lite - Performance Measurement for SharePoint (free "for a limited time" - Binary Lite)
Modified
V WSSv2 KB Articles (plus SPS 2003 Hot fixes)
New
None
Modified
None
VI WSSv2 FAQ
New or Modified
None
Note: All of the addresses of the KB / Articles - 2007 Products / MS / Non-MS Articles below were valid at the time I added them to the WSS FAQ
site and to this file. I can't guarantee that they still are.
(This is also posted to the WSS newsgroup at microsoft.public.sharepoint.windowsservices - web access via http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/newsgroups/server/sharepoint.mspx)
(Items are added to the WSS FAQ throughout the week so you will find new items more quickly by checking at wss.collutions.com or www.wssfaq.com daily.)
From 27th January - 16th February 2008
NOTE: Amendment to KB articles: Microsoft are not not amending the date of a KB article if the change made is marked as a version point change (so from 2.2 to 2.3 for instance).
This ought to mean that the amendment made is cosmetic rather than important as important text changes ought to result in a major version change (such as from 2.2 to 3.0).
Because of this change and to avoid unnecessary effort I will in future not amend the listings in the WSS FAQ sites if only a minor version change has taken place.
I will continue to amend both the date and version numbers of major version changes and of course will continue to add all relevant new KB articles that my RSS feeds and other sources give me.
I.1 2007 KB Articles (*now only one section for WSS and MOSS*)
New
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;948614
New pages that are created in a subfolder of a Pages library of SharePoint Server 2007 are saved in the root of the Pages library (ver 2.0)
15th February 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;941274
Description of the SharePoint Server 2007 and SharePoint Server 2007 for Search post-2007 Office servers Service Pack 1 hotfix package: January 31, 2008
14th February 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;941861
You may see duplicate entries in the View Reports feature after you import or export a site collection in SharePoint Server 2007
14th February 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;941604
A Content Query Web Part or Web Query Web Part for an RSS feed in SharePoint Server 2007 content displays unexpected results
14th February 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;943036
Error message when you try to restore the content that you deleted in a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 document library: "Access Denied"
12th February 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;943727
A custom column is reordered incorrectly if you add a new item to the list after you upgrade to Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
12th February 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;945168
The SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration wizard does not finish successfully after you apply security update 934525 in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
12th February 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;943548
Only the first three levels of items can be grouped in a custom data view in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 content
12th February 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;942369
The standard Web Parts are not available in a custom .stp template file in a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 site collection
12th February 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;944299
You receive unexpected search results when lots of groups and users access a SharePoint Server 2007 or Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 site by using Forms-Based Authentication (ver 1.3)
11th February 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;940308
A new rule is not applied as expected when you run the Microsoft Best Practices Analyzer for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 tool
11th February 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;942271
Description of the update for the Microsoft Best Practices Analyzer for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and the 2007 Microsoft Office System: January 22, 2008
11th February 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=947285
How to use System.NET tracing to troubleshoot content deployment issues and search issues in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and in SharePoint Server 2007
4th February 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;947284
A declarative workflow does not start automatically after you install Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Service Pack 1
1st February 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=947287
Error message when you install Windows SharePoint Services or SharePoint Server 2007: "This product requires ASP.NET v2.0 to be set to 'Allow' in the list of Internet Information Services (IIS) Web Server Extensions"
30th January 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=940973
How to combine elements from the bug tracking application template with an existing site definition to create a new custom site definition in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
30th January 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;943102
How to enable the indexing of .xlsb files and of .zip files in SharePoint Server 2007 Service Pack 1 (ver 2.0)
29th January 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;947198
The "Search Center with Tabs" template is not available when you create a source variation label in SharePoint Server 2007
25th January 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;947286&
The search results are sorted inconsistently when you perform a "people search" that uses the "Refine by Job Title" feature in SharePoint Server 2007
24th January 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;946791
You cannot install SharePoint Server 2007 or SharePoint Portal Server 2003 when you are running SQL Server in a geographically dispersed cluster environment (ver 1.1)
17th January 2008
Modified
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;938535
Description of the SharePoint Server 2007 hotfix package: June 11, 2007 (ver 2.0)
29th January 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;939654
Description of the SharePoint Server 2007 hotfix package: June 29, 2007 (2nd of the same date) (ver 2.0)
29th January 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=929360
You cannot create a new document or check out an existing document in a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 document library when you have multiple versions of Office installed (ver 4.0)
28th January 2008
I.b Forefront KB Articles
New
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=947517
The manual scan in Forefront Security for SharePoint cannot remove all versions of infected files if versioning is enabled in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 or in SharePoint Server 2007
4th February 2008
Modified
None
I.c InfoPath 2007 KB Articles
New
None
Modified
None
II. Articles - 2007 Products (no longer with all links to articles for other Office 2007 and other 2007 Products)
New
A. Office 2007 Server Products
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=8a3f0bd8-8c15-4193-a0c8-42fa28196789&displaylang=en&tm
SharePoint Templates: Preformatted document libraries for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and SharePoint Server 2007
12th February 2008
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=3e1dcccd-1cca-433a-bb4d-97b96bf7ab63&displaylang=en&tm
Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Tools: Visual Studio 2005 Extensions, Version 1.1
11th February 2008
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=6f3440e8-1ad1-4063-8f14-2d633c12cd21&displaylang=en&tm
IT Showcase: Creating Effective Enterprise Portals by Using SharePoint Server 2007 (ver 1.2)
6th February 2008
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=125efb1e-7ff8-4cc8-934a-28fc7c7e59f0&displaylang=en&tm
Microsoft Forefront Security for SharePoint with SP1 Documentation
6th February 2008
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=dbee0227-d4f7-48f8-85f0-e71493b2fd87&displaylang=en&tm
SharePoint Capacity Planning Tool
4th February 2008
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=b12528d7-84d6-4842-a8ec-e62a000685bd&displaylang=en&tm
Forms Server 2007 Demo: Deploy an Administrator-Approved Form Template
30th January 2008
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=7ea93b92-07c1-4de6-9c74-be48df443a0f&displaylang=en&tm
SharePoint Server 2007 Demo: Add a Library to a Records Center Site
30th January 2008
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=b2da1095-faba-44b0-9935-a00dceeca0f3&displaylang=en&tm
Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Demo: Tour a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Site
30th January 2008
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=0ab396e0-4333-4621-95fa-313230dcd946&displaylang=en&tm
Security Configuration Wizard Manifest for Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
28th January 2008
http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/10341d3d-3285-4698-a1da-f212c7beb81c1033.mspx?mfr=true
Design and build sites for Office SharePoint Server 2007 (Starter Page)
28th January 2008 (date added)
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=108286&clcid=0x409
White paper: Office SharePoint Server 2007 deployment guide and checklists
28th January 2008 (date added)
http://www.sharepointblogs.com/ssa/archive/2008/01/27/sharepoint-and-mysql.aspx
Integrating SharePoint with MySQL using Business Data Catalog (Blog - S.S. Ahmed)
27th January 2008
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=14c8ae74-4953-4e5b-9243-3687515a4437&displaylang=en&tm
Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Application Template: Product and Marketing Requirements Planning
25th January 2008
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=e67b8d7b-ec3a-46b8-8460-c8a34f0b2287&displaylang=en&tm
Microsoft SharePoint Server 2007 Configuration Pack for Configuration Manager 2007
25th January 2008
http://www.sharepointblogs.com/dortiz/archive/2008/01/24/leveraging-the-use-of-site-columns-part-i.aspx
Leveraging the use of Site Columns – Part I (Blog - Doug Ortiz)
24th January 2008
http://www.sharepointblogs.com/jessefitz/archive/2008/01/24/integrating-an-asp-net-application-into-our-sharepoint-portal.aspx
Integrating an Asp.Net Application into our SharePoint Portal (Blog - Jesse)
24th January 2008
http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/logredir.aspx?MODE=CT&CTT=InContent&target=%2FOffice%2Fen-us%2Flibrary%2Fe0ff8a0d-1b9f-4733-87c9-a7a47bbd13521033.mspx&referrer=http%3A%2F%2Ftechnet2.microsoft.com%2FOffice%2Fen-us%2Flibrary%2F21dcf8aa-8a6e-4325-aa17-0188e491361c1033.mspx%23january14&reldir=en-us%2Flibrary
Records management roadmap
24th January 2008
http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/e9089c24-dbdd-489f-8d58-8b72b420fa641033.mspx
Add a workflow to a content type for records
24th January 2008
http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/26e527c9-009a-4cc0-86fe-be24a89ff9101033.mspx
Add an expiration policy feature to a content type
24th January 2008
http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/140ccf12-0c9f-44d4-826f-02dcdb24ea0b1033.mspx
Prepare a server farm to send records to a Records Center site
24th January 2008
http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/aa897ffc-b7e6-47e3-b357-18d71515303c1033.mspx
Create a new content type for active documents
24th January 2008
http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/7fed60ed-e60c-4dbd-a009-5e4627e769181033.mspx
Create a site column for records
http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/7eeafa14-4996-44ff-a9c9-93b79469cbbb1033.mspx
Create a Records Center site
24th January 2008
http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/78163b62-cfc7-41bf-a9a3-9e59e777bc411033.mspx
Add a column to a content type for records
24th January 2008
http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/f62e5f3f-6aff-4331-8292-8a33e02764b11033.mspx
Associate a content type with a document library
24th January 2008
http://technet2.microsoft.com/WindowsServer/WSS/en/library/d55003f9-79e1-47c2-a2b8-f84b70dd72df1033.mspx?pf=true
Upgrading to Windows Server 2008 for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 with SP1
21st January 2008
http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/2b89c996-358e-4fb6-94ba-69169854219b1033.mspx
Restoressp: Stsadm operation (Office SharePoint Server)
21st January 2008
http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/138f2df1-417f-4a88-9116-413b82261a8a1033.mspx
Choose what to protect (Office SharePoint Server)
21st January 2008
http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/138f2df1-417f-4a88-9116-413b82261a8a1033.mspx
Choose backup and recovery tools (Office SharePoint Server)
21st January 2008
http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/8e8b3198-e682-4b22-80b2-e093da3633f71033.mspx
Plan for capturing and storing deleted objects (Office SharePoint Server)
21st Janaury 2008
http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/a59c348d-08be-43fe-a300-ce84563309701033.mspx
Protecting and recovering data stored in a Records Center
21st January 2008
http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/21d80ace-8ca6-4cb0-acea-c0c59fa777941033.mspx
Deploying authored site element customizations
17th January 2008
http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/91ed5a1b-76cf-45c9-a91f-45a6f902f1db1033.mspx
17th January 2008
http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/cf3a7093-6c08-423d-9c3e-5e19b84caa6b1033.mspx
Solution package components
17th January 2008
http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/be4ca20f-520e-4fd7-9c42-140af800cbc81033.mspx?mfr=true
Deploy customizations
17th January 2008
http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/1ad49d4e-598d-446c-aabd-de4a8f6ad3911033.mspx
Manage Web applications (Links to other pages)
17th January 2008
http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/4d5aea77-cba4-4350-bf5a-ff2fa1e70d201033.mspx
Enablessc: Stsadm operation (Office SharePoint Server)
17th January 2008
http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/1c432a61-1e94-4268-80b7-81b13e649a4e1033.mspx
Disablessc: Stsadm operation (Office SharePoint Server)
17th January 2008
B. Other Office 2007 products (selected few only since 1.1.2007)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=821c81df-ffcf-4116-ac35-288a177a0a60&displaylang=en&tm
InfoPath 2007 Demo: View the Business Logic in an InfoPath 2007 Form Template
30th January 2008
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=4c6bb634-c93f-4e6c-b9d7-234b3f5bd55f&displaylang=en&tm
InfoPath 2007 Demo: Create reusable template parts
25th January 2008
C. Other New 2006/2007 Products (selected few only since 1.1.2007)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=518d870c-fa3e-4f6a-97f5-acaf31de6dce&displaylang=en&tm
Windows Server 2008 Step-by-Step Guides (ver 22.0)
8th February 2008
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=e6e1c3df-a74f-4207-8586-711ebe331cdc&displaylang=en&tm
Windows SDK for Windows Server 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 (ver 6.1)
5th February 2008
Modified
http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/5465aa2b-aec3-4b87-bce0-8601ff20615e1033.mspx?mfr=true
Estimate performance and capacity requirements for search environments (updated version)
24th January 2008
Deleted
None
III WebCasts (+ PodCasts, On-Line courses) for 2007 Products
New
https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastRegistrationConfirmation.aspx?culture=en-US&RegistrationID=1294969411&Validate=false
TechNet Webcast: SharePoint Server 2007 (Part 5 of 6): SharePoint Server 2007 Security, from Service Accounts to Item-Level Access (Level 200) (Kevin Remde)
28th January 2008
https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastRegistrationConfirmation.aspx?culture=en-US&RegistrationID=1294936345&Validate=false
TechNet Webcast: SharePoint Server 2007 (Part 4 of 6): Compliance and Records Management (Level 200) (Kevin Remde)
25th January 2008
http://hwatermann.sharepointspace.com/blog/Helpful%20Documents/FormatDateTime%20Video/FormatDateVideo.html
How to Format the DateTime in a SharePoint data view (Video - Heather Waterman)
2nd January 2008
IV WSS v3 FAQ
New
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/EditForm.aspx?ID=1321
I.31.09 What issues are fixed in the hot fixes to MOSS 2007 Service Pack 1?
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/EditForm.aspx?ID=1322
I.31.10 What issues are fixed in the hot fixes to WSS 3.0 Service Pack 1?
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/EditForm.aspx?ID=1319
V.89 Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (in Spanish) (Anaya Multimedia - Patrick Tisseghem)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/EditForm.aspx?ID=1320
V.90 Professional Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 (Wrox - Woodrow W. Windischman)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1317
X.106 STSDEV (free - Codeplex, Ted Pattison)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1318
X.107 SharePoint Cross-site Configurator (free - Codeplex, unofficial Microsoft people)
Modified
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1137
V.61 Exploring Microsoft SharePoint Designer 2007 (Prentice Hall - Robert Grauer, Daniela Marghitu) *released*
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1313
V.87 Professional SharePoint 2007 Design (Wiley - Jacob J. Sanford, Randy Drisgill, David Drinkwine, Coskun Cavusoglu)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1314
V.88 Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Best Practices (MS Press - Ben Curry, Bill English)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/EditForm.aspx?ID=1272
VIII.05F Microsoft Office Project Server 2007: The Complete Reference (McGraw-Hill - Dave Gochberg, Rob Stewart) *released*
V WSSv2 KB Articles (plus SPS 2003 Hot fixes)
New
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;936909
SharePoint Portal Server 2003 and Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 do not support the 2007 Office file types (ver 3.1)
31st January 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=941412
Description of the Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 post-Service Pack 3 hotfix package: January 25, 2008 (ver 3.0)
30th January 2008
Modified
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;840024
You cannot edit an existing document or create a new document in a document library in your Windows SharePoint Services Web site or in your SharePoint Team Services Web site (ver 1.9)
26th September 2007
VI WSSv2 FAQ
New or Modified
None
It looks very likely that my last day at work before going on a long (and highly deserved!) holiday will not be the tidying up loose ends that I thought it would be. Instead it's going to be filled with activities designed to give me a working PC when I start work again after the holiday.
The powers-that-be decided quite reasonably that we should move to a common domain for the entire company rather than the one we had which was for our old pre-buyout company. So internal IT decided to make this change as easy as possible for its users and automated the process.
It works well I suppose if the only software you have on your computer is the standard company software and it's located in the place that the internal IT specified. But - well you can probably guess what's coming - I don't exactly only have company standard software installed on my work PC so the method they chose to do this "automatic" change didn't exactly (to say the least) work for me.
My guess is that what they have done is to wipe out entire swathes of the registry and replace them with their standard values for their standard software.
I can't think of any other reason why every single piece of non-standard software that I have on that PC, seems to think it's being started for the first time.
.... and I have a lot.
So Thunderbird which I use for newsgroups needs once again to be defined with a sig file; and replies above the quote and the sig file below the reply (which oddly are not the defaults). Plus of course that I need to subscribe to all the newsgroups again including those private ones that need a password.
Firefox doesn't remember any Tags and doesn't remember any favourites.
Even Internet Explorer - where I'm still using the company standard IE6 on this machine - doesn't remember Favourites.
Zinio no longer is licensed to read the digital magazines I've already downloaded - so PC Magazine goes. (Yes you can fix it but the usual fix relies on looking in the registry ...)
Colligio contributor needs a license code again.
and so it goes on.
One Note 2007 doesn't have any of my Notebooks opened so they all need to be found and opened again.
Even Outlook 2007 didn't work at first because the system was writing in the wrong Exchange Server for me and what was worse was giving the wrong form of my name (but one "Walsh, Michael" that looked reasonable). So I found the correct Exchange Server name and it still didn't work until I realised that it was actually saying that Walsh, Michael didn't exist and so I needed to search on just Walsh (and select me and not my son!) for the correct form. (I discovered at the same time that the company standard is still Office 2003, oops)
I'm sure there are more things ahead but those are the ones so far.
However, can I really blame the internal IT ? Probably not, after all as a colleague pointed out "it's their PC, Mike".
Yet another reason for keeping the important stuff like my SharePoint server VMs on my own PCs. (The other reason being the prosaic one that the work machine is too small [memory *and* disk space] and too slow)
The only thing that really annoys me is that at home when I wiped my entire system prior to installing 32-bit Vista, I had a lot of work to do re-installing software and re-specifying software, but at least at the end of it I had a non-cluttered machine that was lightning fast compared to before.
Now with the same amount of work (apart from the need to re-install the software) I have the same cluttered; slow machine that I had before. Now that's just not fair.
P.S. Now I suppose I'd better do some backups of my home machines. Lightning does strike twice.
I have a confession to make.
A long, long (very long) time ago before I had even heard the word SharePoint I had set up a WebSphere server for a customer.
This was so long ago that that was the only IBM product called "WebSphere" and it was quite a few years later that IBM decided they liked the name so much they would rename a lot of totally unrelated products "WebSphere" and thus make a family of products.
(Something IBM do often. The last invitational golf tournament I attended at IBM Finland's invitation was the last one because in the sauna afterwards I made a comment about the DB2 family not being a real family because the various DB2 products for different platforms were (at the time?) built on different code bases. My supply of free golf balls - at invitational tournaments they aways supplied you with half a dozen free golf balls at the start and more halfway through if you claimed you had lost most of the first six - dried up immediately afterwards.)
(Microsoft is not immune either. Remember SharePoint Team Services ? It had nothing to do with SharePoint Portal Server 2001 except for the "SharePoint" in the name ...)
Anyway, WebSphere, yes.
Occasionally it pops up as either a competitor to SharePoint or as something that a customer that also has a SharePoint product installed also has installed. (In one case I know of because the package solution to something that that company was using was built on top of WebSphere.).
Hence the occasional need for the two to work together.
and at this point we have the old problem of the chicken and the egg - Microsoft (except it seems if it is SAP) don't want to ease their product's working with an IBM competitor product and IBM think exactly the same in reverse.
So it's up to a third-party to grab the niche and in this case that third party is MainSoft.
I've added their "SharePoint Federator for WebSphere Portal" product to the WSS FAQ's list of commercial v3 products here
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1316
so go there if you have a dominant WebSphere Portal product with lots of department level SharePoint sites.
(Because unfortunately that's the niche Mainsoft chose. Now I would have liked to see a product that integrated that unimportant WebSphere stuff into a dominant SharePoint system ....)
If you ignore the SPD 2007 book that Amazon once said was out only for it to first be rapidly marked as out of stock and then later as Pre-Order, then the first (real?) SharePoint Designer 2007 book of the few expected in the next few months is now out and can be ordered at both the Amazon US
Price (Jan 2008): $ 16.49
and the Amazon UK
Price (Jan 2008): £ 10.55
sites
heck, even the Amazon Germany site has it as available
Price (Jan 2008): € 18,99
even though Amazon Canada thinks it's still not out.
But anyway there's plenty of different places to find it.
and the title ..... ?
Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 Step by Step (MSPress - Penelope Coventry)
It (and the one coming in a few months from Dustin Miller and Heather Solomon) is on my list for sure.
I've just installed Windows Server 2008 RC1 on a VM in order to see what I need to do to get "WSS 3.0+SP1" to work on it. I first installed Windows Server 2008 months ago and I don't remember thinking that it was any different (or in typical MS words "a different installation experience") to installing Windows Server 2003 and then adding WSS 3.0. Maybe my memory is going but I certainly think I would remember some of the decisions I needed to make this time. This post by the way is only going to be an "as I remember" post. I can see that I'm going to have to install this thing many many times with different parameters before I can get a real grasp of what is really needed before you install WSS 3.0. The first choice is that you can decide between Core functions only and Full. Now I don't know about you, but I had no idea whether installing Core functions only would mean that WSS 3.0 would install or run or not, so I installed Full. That in turn just lies there (at first not accepting that I have network connection until I re-boot it but that's maybe because it was installed in a VM) and you need to specify the Applications Server role. Now that was all you needed to do with Windows Server 2003 before running the .Net Framework install and installing WSS 3.0, but now with 2008 it *appears* that this doesn't include IIS support and so you are - shall we say - "encouraged" to install "Web Services (IIS)" (some such name) as well. Around this point you are presented with sub-menus for those two main things and, yes, I did click a few things almost at random (well they looked as if I might need them). Also at some point around here (maybe one of those sub-menus in fact) you could X for the installation of .NET Framework 3.0, so that's no longer a seperate install but is part of Windows Server 2008. Anyway all that lot was set to churn around for a while and eventually was done and (with or without a re-boot ? I must really learn to write these things down) then I could run the standard "WSS 3.0+SP1" installation after which I had of course the configuration wizard phase and after that (perhaps not "of course") a working WSS 3.0 default site. I'm ashamed to say that although I "could" run the standard '"WSS 3.0+SP1" installation' what I actually first tried to run (and twice too) was the WSS 3.0 SP1 download which not surprisingly didn't find a product it could update and posted a message to that effect. My excuse is that this installation was working on a Mac behind my back while I was also doing work on my work machine and thus I was distracted, but TWICE ?? So there you have it. Obviously I'm going to have to do this install again and write down exactly what I installed. Then once more missing one thing out and seeing if the installation still went through (and so on). I'll also need to do this for both the core and the full version - although I think I'll go to hunt for some documentation on the core version first, I'm not that mad. So lot's of "fun" ahead and by the time I've finished I'll have to do it all again for the RTM version.
P.S. I first tried to install this on VMWare Fusion (which is the Mac equivalent of VMWare workstation) and it complained about missing drivers and wouldn't install. So I installed it in Parallels and there at the same point in the install it just went straight to the screen that asked for the MSDN code. Thus proving that sometimes it is good to have two completely different sets of Virtual Machine software available even though the machine has fits if one VM from each system is running at the same time (but that might well be caused by memory shortages as it doesn't exactly crash).
P.P.S. Later: (much later) A fellow MVP confirmed that WSS 3.0 would install on the core system. Something about not being able to install .Net Framework on the core version. So what *can* you do with the core version I wonder ?
I have a lot of admiration for the SBS 2003 MVPs as this requires knowledge of a vast quantity of Microsoft products combined with how they work together in the SBS 2003 environment.
I don't however have much time for some of the people who post questions about WSS 2.0 or WSS 3.0 *running on SBS 2003* in a SharePoint newsgroup as at least half the time their problems derive from the fact that they are running either WSS product in a SBS 2003 environment (and some of them arise just from an SBS 2003 environment and have nothing really to do with WSS at all - think network connections)
But I still have to read their questions and decide for myself whether the answer is a universal one that would also apply to WSS 2.0/3.0 in a Windows 2003 Server environment or not, which needs at least a minimal amount of knowledge about what you get in SBS 2003.
So (preamble over) I was interested to see a Redmond Channel Partner article (Jan 2008 edition) about what the next "SBS" product will include.
The Standard edition has:
Windows Server 2008; Exchange Server 2007 and System Center Essentials for Management with ISA Server (version not specified) and Forefront Security for Exchange
The Enterprise edition is the Standard edition plus SQL Server 2008.
So it's based on Windows Server 2008, which is one reason why it's still in beta.
But where's Windows SharePoint Services ? I presume it isn't "missing in action" and all this means is that just as with Windows Server 2008 itself, WSS will no longer be bundled with "SBS xxxx" but you will just use the standard download the rest of us use.
This will be a "Good Thing" as hopefully this means that running WSS xxxx (to start with no doubt WSS 3.0) or even MOSS 2007 on SBS xxxx will be identical to running it on Windows server 2008. **** But see below - Late News ***
I certainly hope so as then I can just ignore whether someone has SBS xxxx or (directly) Windows Server 2008 as their platform and just get on with answering the question if I can.
P.S. The other news from that article is that from being a single server solution for a maximum of 75 users (SBS 2003), SBS xxxx can be run on up to three servers to divide the load. Oddly enough though there is no mention of any new maximum number of users, nor is there any mention that 64-bit machines will be needed. At least I presume so (64-bit machines that is) because doesn't Exchange 2007 require them *and* a 64-bit OS ?
P.P.S. The new name is said to be "Windows Essential Business Server". We'll see if it makes it to RTM with that name. Somehow WEBS is a bit off. *** But see below "slightly later news" ***
Late news: Wayne in the first comment here said that the Beta of SBS 2008 does include WSS 3.0. So it's just the guy who wrote that RCP article who didn't think it worthwhile mentioning ... Shame on you !
Slightly later news (note to myself: don't ever write anything on SBS ....): Handy Andy's comment is that
The "EBS or EBS Essential Busness Server (was code named Centro)"mentioned above "is not the next version of SBS, it is a new Mid Market Multi-Server product for folks getting too big for SBS, it will have a limit in the range of 250-300 seats (still not set in stone from my understanding)"
He adds
"For more on EBS http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/presskits/ServerSolutions/businessserver.mspx"
There was an earlier thread about trying to save copies of streaming videos from zdf.de for viewing in weeks where I had more time. There the thread was mainly about why paying to upgrade QuickTime to QuickTime Pro to get a Save Video function didn't help. Later I discovered that the basic (old) methods work - but only in one case, which is odd. What follows below started out as a comment to that earlier blog but simply became too long. ------------ What's even odder is that in one XPPro system (Murphy's Law means it's the slowest machine in the house) I can find the .mov file in the Internet Explorer cache and can copy it across to another place in the file system and play it. In Vista and in the dual-booted XPPro on that machine, the .mov file (theoretically created in the same way by running the video in Quick Time to the end) doesn't appear. (and, Yes, I have checked the locations - the only difference is that where it IS working I've changed the default location in IE; where it isn't working I haven't). Thinks: could it be that the old IEPro is IE6 and the new IE7 ??
P.S. Of course my Mac knowledge is such that I haven't a clue where to look for the Safari cache !
P.P.S. Yesterday my Internet access was down so I decided that this was a perfect opportunity to go to that IE6 machine and play back the .mov file. Guess what !? It didn't work. It turned out that was a stub too ... Ah well, back to the drawing board.
I've been exchanging e-mails with a fellow SharePoint MVP who works for Newsgator muttering about the Newsgator Online service having abandoned its "Classic" look and gone completely with their "faster" (= not for me) Beta version. A couple of days ago he advised me to go to http://www.newsgator.com/Individuals/Default.aspx and sign up for both Feed Demon for my Vista portable and NetNewsWire for my Mac, both of which had become free to use (as Newsgator Online always was).
My counter for that was that the reason I was using Newsgator Online was because I could switch machines (including work machines) when using that because things I'd read on the Vista machine (or work machine) were no longer visible on the Mac (and vice versa). He assured me that there would be synchronization between Feed Demon and NetNewsWire so I thought I'd give them a try.
Having first thought I was on the Mac (which shows how Tiger and Vista can have a similar feel to them - but probably more likely just shows I wasn't properly awake [I had both the Mac and the Vista switched on as the Mac was running my WSS 3.0 site but was actually using the Vista machine]) I finally stopped wondering why NetNewsWire didn't want to install and instead installed Feed Demon.
I had of course the standard "do you want us a) to give you some sample feeds b) no feeds c) import some feeds and I decided to import my many existing feeds from Newsgator Online by doing an Export to OPML and using that file to import into Feed Demon. I then spent a good 15 mins going through all the options in Newsgator Online only to find that in this beta look (now the only one you have) you CAN'T export your feeds to an OPML file. You can Import but that was of no use to me.
So I was left with the choice of no feeds or give me some sample feeds. A toss-up really, but I went for "some sample feeds" and was somewhat amazed to find that the sample feeds it had generated were in fact my Newsgator On-line feeds. Unfortunately with a lot of additional rubbish as well, but still.
So I was happy - or was I ?
I was until I went back to Newsgator On-line and found that it too had miraculously acquired all those other rubbish feeds from Feed Demon.
So as a result and rather sooner than expected I'm going to have to spend the next hour or so removing all those rubbishy feeds from Feed Demon (or Online?) so that I can use one of these things without that baggage.
In fact, on second thoughts (isn't it a good thing I decided to write this blog article as otherwise I wouldn't have thought about it) I'm going to install the Mac NetNewsWire first and then remove the rubbishy feeds - otherwise no doubt I'm going to have to do that all over again.
In the long run of course this synchronization among the three products is a real boom - I'll probably only use Newsgator On-line in future when in Internet Cafés (= never or rather hardly ever)
P.S. The NetNewsWire implementation was awful. (Looked nice but was a pig to use sensibly) so I was forced to remove it from the machine completely (as even URLs to forum messages entered into Safari were being opened there rather than in Safari so I could only read them and not reply to them).
I recently got hold of the Vista Annoyances book from O'Reilly. Flipped it open at a random page and found lots of good tips on how to Save a video that was running in a browser.
None of the free tips worked on the video I wanted to save so I finally decided that I'd wasted enough time on the free solutions and went for the guaranteed method of upgrading my free QuickTime to QuickTime Pro because then I'd be able to (according to the book) Right-click in the centre of the QuickTime screen and select Save Movie.
(I'd checked of course that this option was there)
So I signed up for QuickTime Pro. Paid the excessive 30 *Euros* for Finland (US users pay 30 dollars or 20 Euros but I don't have a US address for my credit card) and after a problem registering it (a valid code isn't enough you also have to enter the exact name - so Mike Walsh wasn't good enough, it had to be Michael Walsh) was finally able to Save the Video.
Or so it seemed.
After waiting for a while all I had was a file of 4KB. Could that be really the size ?? Clicking that opened the video in QuickTime OK but only when I was connected to the Internet. Pull the cable out and it was showing Bad Address.
So I ran the entire video to the end while saving a second copy. Still only 4KB; still only worked when connected.
Those German programmers are ********, they've obviously gone through hoops to make sure you can't save their videos (which are from the ZDF "Videothek" and are not the Live Stream videos) using either free or commercial tools.
I suppose I should have known when the free tools didn't work but, No, I had to add money to the time I'd wasted.
I don't blame the O'Reilly book by the way. Obviously the tips would work if it weren't for some sneaky programming by those German guys which mean that the video (from their storage system) is still played as if it were being streamed.
Still the idea of saving a few of the week's Krimis until a week when I have more time to watch them vanished into smoke. If only they were consistent and you knew which ones you could watch several weeks later and which not. (The same applies to their Live Streams - some of those programs appear later in the "Videothek" so you can watch them later in the week; but some don't - and there's no way you know which as there is no logic such as Program X Live Streams never are in the Videothek; Program Y Live Streams always are in the Videothek.)
Sometimes it's useful to have actually read the documentation before you do things. Sometimes even that doesn't help if you don't have your wits about you. I knew that in order to upgrade a MOSS 2007 installation to SP1 you need first of all to install the WSS 3.0 SP1 *files* - that is you do NOT run the SharePoint configuration wizard. So I ran the WSS 3.0 SP1 installation .exe and prepared to get the page that has a cross at the bottom left hand corner which selects "run the SharePoint confiugration wizard" and when that page arrived I was prepared to un-select it before ending the installation. Needless to say that page didn't come. Instead I got a page that said "This wizard will upgrade ...."; Next to continue or Cancel. This left me in a bit of a quandry. Would Next just go to a Page where I had the check box I was expecting, or would it immediately run the wizard ? Would Cancel back-out the "installation" of all those files or would it leave them in the system ? The page didn't help me decide what would happen so I went for the safe option and pressed Cancel. After all I could re-do the (file) installation if it did back it out. As it happens, it doesn't. Cancel just means "Don't run the configuration wizard". Isn't it a pity they don't say so instead of writing "cancel to exit the wizard" which leaves you in some doubts as to which wizard they mean and at what stage you are exiting. That done and with the WSS 3.0 SP1 installation files on the server, I set off to run the MOSS 2007 SP1 installation. Now I know I should have known better but when - as usual - I went to the Download section of the Articles - 2007 Products part of the WSS FAQ site looking for this, I looked for all combinations of MOSS 2007 SP1. It doesn't exist of course. MS in their wisdom have a common Service Pack 1 for "Office Servers" (MOSS, Project; Groove) and eventually I remembered this and couldn't find it under that name either ! So a search of the page for SP1 and there it was "The 2007 Microsoft Office Servers Service Pack 1 (SP1)". Somehow looking under "The 2007" in the view that was sorted by Name wasn't obvious. Anyway there it was. I set it going knowing that if the WSS 3.0 SP1 files weren't already there there'd be an error message. There wasn't. The Office Servers SP1 installed *its* files on the server and now again there was the Next = run wizard page. This time I wanted to run it and (crossing my fingers) set it going. After all the above (and naturally the earlier copy of a working MOSS 2007 VM just in case the upgrade crashed in flames), it's perhaps a disappointment to you all to hear that the upgrade worked successfully. So, sorry, once again I can't help people whose upgrades have gone wrong at some stage in the wizard routine.
P.S. But, once again, not that sad :)
Note: All of the addresses of the KB / Articles - 2007 Products / MS / Non-MS Articles below were valid at the time I added them to the WSS FAQ
site and to this file. I can't guarantee that they still are.
Special Note: No, I've not been lazy. It's just been a very slow week.
(Items are added to the WSS FAQ throughout the week so you will find new items more quickly by checking at wss.collutions.com or www.wssfaq.com daily.)
From 30th December 2007 - 5th January 2008
I.1 2007 KB Articles (*now only one section for WSS and MOSS*)
New
None
Modified
None
I.b Forefront KB Articles
New
None
Modified
None
I.c InfoPath 2007 KB Articles
New
None
Modified
None
II. Articles - 2007 Products (no longer with all links to articles for other Office 2007 and other 2007 Products) New A. Office 2007 Server Products
http://www.sharepointblogs.com/llowevad/archive/2008/01/02/moving-to-a-new-database-server-or-instance.aspx Moving to a new database server (or instance) (Blog - Dave Wollerman) 2nd January 2008 http://projectserver201.blogspot.com/2008/01/issues-fixed-in-project-server-2007.html Issues fixed in Project Server 2007 with SP1 (Blog - Scott M. Wagner) 1st January 2008 http://blogs.technet.com/wbaer/archive/2008/01/01/microsoft-office-sharepoint-server-2007-to-windows-sharepoint-services-3-0-site-level-migration.aspx Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 to Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Site-Level Migration (Blog - William Baer) 1st January 2008 http://www.sharepointblogs.com/ssa/archive/2007/12/30/using-business-data-catalog-definition-editor.aspx Using Business Data Catalog Definition Editor (Blog - S.S.Ahmed) 30th December 2007 B. Other Office 2007 products (selected few only since 1.1.2007) None C. Other New 2006/2007 Products (selected few only since 1.1.2007) http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=74dd6e2d-89c6-4e1e-af00-fc7d70f15439&displaylang=en&tm Microsoft Windows Software Development Kit (SDK) for Windows Server 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 (ver 6.1) 2nd January 2008 Modified None
III WebCasts (+ PodCasts, On-Line courses) for 2007 Products New None IV WSS v3 FAQ
New Note: I've moved the InfoPath 2007 books from the "Non-SP Books" section for better visibility (and to line them up with the existing Forms Services book). (For the moment I've also left them in the Non-SP Books section, but this may change) I'm always grateful for information about books - especially non-English language books - that I don't include in the list. http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1306 I.31.07 What issues are fixed in Project Server 2007 SP1? http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1303 V.83 InfoPath 2007 (in French) (Editions ENI - Jean-François Fustec) *released* http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1304 V.84 Microsoft Office InfoPath 2007 - Das Handbuch (mit Sonderteil Forms Server) (in German) (MS Press Deutschland - Egbert Jeschke, Helmut Reinke, Sven Maier) *released* http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1305 V.85 Pro InfoPath 2007 (apress - Philo Janus) *released* http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1308 V.86 MOSS for Engineers and Architects Resource Kit (MS Press - unknown) http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1307 VI.96 Epok Edition for Microsoft SharePoint (Epok) Modified http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1224 III.100 Why are some top link tabs not highlighted? http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=816 V.10 Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services Version 3.0 Inside Out (MS Press - Errin O'Connor) *released* http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1240 V.68 Administrator's Guide to Microsoft Office 2007 Servers: Forms Server 2007, Groove Server 2007, Live Communications Server 2007, PerformancePoint Server, SharePoint Server 2007 for Search (Unleashed) (SAMS - J. Peter Bruzzese, Ronald Barrett) *released* --------------------------------------------------------------------------- V WSSv2 KB Articles (plus SPS 2003 Hot fixes) New None Modified
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=827926 Considerations That Apply When You Use Multiple Log Files for Usage Analysis Processing in Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 (ver 3.2) 2nd October 2007 VI WSSv2 FAQ New None Modified None Deleted (site no longer exists; can't find any other reference to this control) VII.10.58 Free WSS-relevant Programs - Drop-down menu control (Dan Marth) (SPS 2003 - WSS too?)
Note: All of the addresses of the KB / Articles - 2007 Products / MS / Non-MS Articles below were valid at the time I added them to the WSS FAQ
site and to this file. I can't guarantee that they still are.
(This is also posted to the WSS newsgroup at microsoft.public.sharepoint.windowsservices - web access via http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/newsgroups/server/sharepoint.mspx)
(Items are added to the WSS FAQ throughout the week so you will find new items more quickly by checking at wss.collutions.com or www.wssfaq.com daily.)
From 23rd - 29th December 2007
I.1 2007 KB Articles (*now only one section for WSS and MOSS*)
New
None
Modified
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;838109
"The email address '<EmailAddress>' is unknown" error message when you add a user to a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 or Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 Web site (ver 2.3)
20th November 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=827751
The menu that displays online presence settings and commands is not displayed in Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 or in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (ver 3.3)
10th October 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=825488
How to add members of a distribution list to your Windows SharePoint Services Web site (ver 3.2)
9th October 2007
I.b Forefront KB Articles
New
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb%3Ben-us%3B943442
Forefront Security for SharePoint removes offensive words from a document, but then it displays those offensive words in a user message (ver 1.1)
26th December 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb%3Ben-us%3B946462
An error is logged in the ProgramLog.txt file after you relocate the Forefront Security for SharePoint database files: "Unable to create SharePoint Notifications database"
20th December 2007
Modified
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb%3Ben-us%3B943221
Security for SharePoint Service Pack 1 Rollup 1 package (ver 1.1)
20th December 2007
I.c InfoPath 2007 KB Articles
New
None
Modified
None
II. Articles - 2007 Products (no longer with all links to articles for other Office 2007 and other 2007 Products)
New
A. Office 2007 Server Products
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb802976.aspx
External Storing of Binary Large Objects (BLOBs) in Windows SharePoint Services (Starter Page)
27th December 2007 (date added)
http://www.sharepointblogs.com/tbaginski/archive/2007/12/26/how-to-programmatically-customize-site-navigation-in-wss-3-0-and-moss-2007.aspx
HOW TO: Programmatically customize site navigation in WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007 (Blog - Todd Baginski)
26th December 2007
http://www.sharepointblogs.com/ssa/archive/2007/12/25/enabling-anonymous-access-in-surveys.aspx
Enabling Anonymous access in surveys (Blog - S. S. Ahmed)
25th December 2007
http://paulgalvin.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!1CC1EDB3DAA9B8AA!550.entry
Implementing Master / Detail Relationships Using Custom Lists (Blog - Paul Galvin)
24th December 2007
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=8c0f970e-c653-4c15-9e51-6a6cadfca363&displaylang=en&tm
Microsoft SQL Server 2000/2005 Management Pack (ver 6.0.6247.5)
22nd December 2007
http://www.sharepointblogs.com/aaronrh/archive/2007/12/21/free-sharepoint-business-data-catalog-column.aspx
Free SharePoint Business Data Catalog Column (Blog - Aaron Robertson-Hodders)
21st December 2007
http://download.microsoft.com/download/b/6/7/b67b78c3-13b3-4567-9065-0c06f04f9e45/MS_Studio_Module_1_Farm_Architecture.pdf
31729 SharePoint Modules: Module 1 - Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Server Farm Architecture
19th December 2007
http://download.microsoft.com/download/b/6/7/b67b78c3-13b3-4567-9065-0c06f04f9e45/MS_Studio_Module_2_Configuring_Farms.pdf
31729 SharePoint Modules: Module 2 - Configuring Microsoft SharePoint Technologies Farms
19th December 2007
http://download.microsoft.com/download/b/6/7/b67b78c3-13b3-4567-9065-0c06f04f9e45/MOSSAdvITPro_03.pdf
31729 SharePoint Modules: Module 3 - Securing Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Server Farms
19th December 2007
http://download.microsoft.com/download/b/6/7/b67b78c3-13b3-4567-9065-0c06f04f9e45/Module_4_Capacity_Planning.pdf
31729 SharePoint Modules: Module 4 - Capacity Planning for Microsoft SharePoint Technologies
19th December 2007
http://download.microsoft.com/download/b/6/7/b67b78c3-13b3-4567-9065-0c06f04f9e45/Module_5_Caching_and_Compression.pdf
31729 SharePoint Modules: Module 5 - Configuring and Testing Caching and Other Performance Options in Microsoft SharePoint Technologies
19th December 2007
http://download.microsoft.com/download/b/6/7/b67b78c3-13b3-4567-9065-0c06f04f9e45/Module_6_Disaster_Recovery.pdf
31729 SharePoint Modules: Module 6 - Backup, Restore, High Availability, and Disaster Recovery for Microsoft SharePoint Technologies
19th December 2007
http://download.microsoft.com/download/b/6/7/b67b78c3-13b3-4567-9065-0c06f04f9e45/Module_7_Operations.pdf
31729 SharePoint Modules: Module 7 - Microsoft SharePoint Technologies Operations
19th December 2007
http://download.microsoft.com/download/b/6/7/b67b78c3-13b3-4567-9065-0c06f04f9e45/Updated_MOSSAdvITPro_08.pdf
31729 SharePoint Modules: Module 8 - Search and Indexing
19th December 2007
B. Other Office 2007 products (selected few only since 1.1.2007)
None
C. Other New 2006/2007 Products (selected few only since 1.1.2007)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=72262ead-e49d-43d4-aa45-1da2a27d9a65&displaylang=en&tm
Visual Studio® Team System 2008 Team Foundation Server VPC Image (Trial) [Expires April 1 2008]
21st December 2007
Modified
None
III WebCasts (+ PodCasts, On-Line courses) for 2007 Products
New
None
IV WSS v3 FAQ
New
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1300
V.80 SharePoint 2007 - Der schnelle Einstieg (Addison Wesley Verlag - Seth Bates, Tony Smith) (Translation of User's Guide)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1301
V.81 Pratique de Sharepoint 2007 (in French - translation of Essential SharePoint 2007) (O'Reilly France - Jeff Webb)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1302
V.82 Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Development: 10 Solutions Every Sharepoint Developer Should Know How to Create (Video Livelessons) (Sams - Scot Hillier)
Modified
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/EditForm.aspx?ID=1121
V.58 Windows Workflow Foundation (.NET WF). Workflowprogrammierung mit .NET (Hanser Fachbuchverlag - Matthias Markl, Holger Schwichtenberg)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/EditForm.aspx?ID=1210
V.63 Inside the Index and Search Engines: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MS Press - Patrick Tissgehem, Lars Forstrup)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/EditForm.aspx?ID=1218
V.65 Microsoft Office SharePoint 2007 Introduction Quick Reference Guide (Cheat Sheet of Instructions, Tips & Shortcuts - Laminated) *released*
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/EditForm.aspx?ID=1243
V.71 Microsoft SharePoint-Technologien (in German) (MSPress Deutschland - Ben Curry) *released* (available *via* Amazon.de)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/EditForm.aspx?ID=1293
V.78 Professional SharePoint Search (Wiley - Richard Riley, Tom Rizzo)
V WSSv2 KB Articles (plus SPS 2003 Hot fixes)
New
None
Modified
None
VI WSSv2 FAQ
New
None
Modified
None
Sometimes Microsoft works in strange ways.
This paper http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/logredir.aspx?MODE=CT&CTT=ToExternal&target=%2FOffice%2Flogredir.aspx%3FMODE%3DCT%26CTT%3DToExternal%26target%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fgo.microsoft.com%252Ffwlink%252F%253FLinkId%253D105704%2526clcid%253D0x409%26referrer%3 is an example of this.
Theoretically it's a white paper about the recent Service Pack Ones for WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007.
Now I don't know about you, but my understanding of White papers are that they are much longer than the 3 whole (actually more like 2 and a bit) pages taken up by this "white paper".
They also tend not to be a place to announce things. But I'm getting ahead of myself ...
The paper has five sections.
"About Service Pack 1" isn't. It's a very brief list of what's in it and a few links to more information.
"Installation on Windows Server 2008" is also short but does include essential information both about which version of WSS 3.0 you have to use in order to install on the latest (RC1) version of Windows Server 2008 at all and about needing to upgrade to the Windows Internal Database SP2 if you are running the version of WSS 3.0 that uses the included "Windows Internal Database" - something (WID SP2) which, as they point out, isn't out yet!! (Which makes you wonder why they include this confusing piece of information in this version of this "white paper" - at less than 3 full pages it wouldn't be too much effort to write a new version when Windows Internal Database SP2 is out, would it?
"ASP.NET AJAX compatibility and support" just says that you can now use AJAX to create Web parts and where to get the control kit from. The "support" part of the heading is the totally useless "you can get help from Microsoft customer support". Where; How ??
"New Stsadm operations and properties" just gives links (which it repeats for WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007 - to make it past the end of page 2?) to the couple (three in the case of MOSS 2007) of new stsadm functions.
"Recommendations for 64-bit hardware" is even shorter than any of the above sections and yet it includes the important statement that WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007 are the last SharePoint versions able to run on 32-bit hardware and operating systems.
It's a mystery to me why the announcement of this has been hidden away in what is virtually a footnote to a white paper that isn't, but there you are, as I started this piece, Microsoft sometimes works in strange ways.
I got one of the these days fairly rare comments to the Collutions site (wss.collutions.com) and this time it was asking if I could I do anything about the amount of stuff that is being accessed when the "Articles - 2007 Products" default page is being loaded.
My first reaction was to think that I'd in effect already solved this in the mirror site (wss.wssfaq.com) by splitting off the Web Casts (and similar) from the Articles - 2007 Products list into their own list (thus reducing the total number of items in the list) and that - because the Collutions site was about to have a re-vamp anyway (including a long overdue move to being based on WSS 3.0) - any change could wait.
However today, I thought "why don't I give him something in the meantime?" and made a "Latest 20" View which is restricted (entirely) to 20 items and made that the default view.
At first sight it didn't seem to make that much difference. A bit snappier maybe but not excessively so. But then I started adding New items to the list (which of course meant that every time an item was added the default page was opened) and suddenly that snappiness started to really mean something.
Now, despite having had sites that use the SharePoint products since early 2002, I've never really seen the point of that final option for Item Limit when creating a View ("Limit the total number of items returned to the specified amount") because I always so far have wanted to be able to click on Next and see some more. Well now I do. Snappiness!
I noticed that one of the Google ads on the WSS FAQ posting here said
Get Ready for SPS 2007
Migrate your website and documents to MOSS 2007 with Metalogix
Given that there is no "SPS 2007", it's hard to have much confidence in Metalogix's expereince with Sharepoint. If they can't even get the name right ....
Later: The title of the Metalogix Google add has been changed to "Migrate to MOSS 2007" .... Coincidence ?
(Here's copy and paste at its best - or worst) Microsoft give you a KB article with a list of issues that have been
fixed in MOSS 2007 SP1, however about 30% of those fixes are not actually
listed in the article ! Instead Microsoft just give you a list
of all the KB articles and titles which earlier contained the hot-fixes
which are now included in SP1. As these KB articles have Titles like
"Description of the SharePoint Server 2007 hotfix package -
June 29 2007" they aren't much use. So to avoid everyone having
to go in to each of those (16) earlier "Description of .." articles,
I've expanded them all and added them to the list of new fixes from the
MS Issues that are fixed .. paper to give a complete list of all the
problems that the MOSS 2007 SP1 contains fixes for. It's here http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1298
P.S. I suspect that in order to have everything that has been fixed in MOSS 2007 SP1, you also - in addition to this FAQ item - also need to look at the equivalent item for WSS 3.0 SP1 ( http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1297)
After all in order to upgrade MOSS 2007 to SP1 level you need to install both the WSS 3.0 SP1 upgrade *and* the MOSS 2007 SP1 upgrade.
In a perfect world, I'd combine those two lists into one, but for now (and maybe for ever) you're going to have to search both of them.
First to wrap up my review of the User's Guide book. Yes, it's clear that it's target audience is Users who have had a site set up for them (as one correspondent mentioned). Yes, too, it is very bland and hardly makes any "do this", "don't do this" recommendations (as another correspondent mentioned). Despite occasional glimpses of user level guidance (for instance in the workflow section there are a couple of "how do I do this" examples), the book does not to my mind cover the "Learning ..." which is one of the three key "check items" included in the title. It does more than justify the "comprehensive guidebook" second "check item" however. That this wasn't a source of joy for me doesn't remove my respect for the time taken by the writers to catalog everything in sight. As for a User's Guide (third check item - and probably the buzz word which is selling this book), I am by no means sure. I would want my users to have a feel for what they should use a SharePoint site for in real life. I personally don't think this is achieved by giving them a complete list of all template types; list types etc. with full details as to which fields etc. are available/listed. It takes a special kind of user to want to wade through this amount of detail and an even more special kind of user to be able to feel anything less than overwhelmed (and very likely that "I don't want to have anything to do with this monster"). Anyway the book now has to go back to the library as time is almost up and it can't be renewed because someone else is waiting for it. Hopefully they gain more out of it than I did. After that it's a pleasure to report that the third chapter of RealWorld SharePoint 2007 - which is Todd Klindt on SharePoint v3 Administration - is very good and immediately useful. I especially liked the part on using stsadm which was full of practical hints. (Something sadly lacking in the User's Guide book. Or did I say that already :) )
Microsoft give you a KB article with a list of issues that have been fixed in WSS 3.0 SP1, however about 35% of those fixes are not actually listed in the article !
Instead Microsoft just give you a list of all the KB articles and titles which earlier contained the hot-fixes which are now included in SP1. As these KB articles have Titles like "Description of the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 hotfix package - June 29 2007" that isn't much use.
So to avoid everyone having to go in to each of those (15 - of which one is actually a duplicate as it's embedded in another one) earlier "Description of .." articles, I've expanded them all and added them to the list of new fixes from the MS Issues that are fixed .. paper to give a complete list of all the problems that the WSS 3.0 SP1 contains fixes for.
It's here
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1297
(The MOSS equivalent will be on its way when my fingers stop hurting....)
Like anyone else I'm happy when an application update goes smoothly. But in my case with WSS 3.0 SP1 this happiness is tempered *a bit* by the fact that because it went smoothly I am unable to give any assistance in the newsgroups to people whose upgrade to SP1 did not go smoothly. (I think, though, on balance that I prefer it to work for me ....) Anyway here is the sum total of what I did. 1. Took my slightly out-of-date (as far as the information in the Lists/Libs go) copy of a WSS 3.0 VM (running with 1GB of memory) and installed WSS 3.0 SP1. It worked. (At this point I checked the version number in Site Settings and updated my FAQ item with version numbers) 2. I turned that VM off and started the original WSS 3.0 VM (with up-to-date lists/libs = WSS 3.0 versions of the V3-related lists from the WSS FAQ site, which is still v2-based). First I did the poor man's backup (but fast) by just Saving all four Lists as Template (with content) - so I could recover to my copied VM that I'd already updated. Then I updated the original WSS 3.0 VM. That worked too. (Note: I always do this kind of upgrade by accessing www.wssfaq.com to get at the download link. It saves time compared to going to the MS download site and searching) So there you are. It IS possible to upgrade WSS 3.0 to WSS 3.0 SP1 with no grief.
P.S. A semi-related warning. If you are upgrading MOSS 2007 to SP1 level, you need to run both the WSS 3.0 SP1 and then the MOSS 2007 SP1. That's I suspect common knowledge and you probably don't need to be warned about it.
What however you may need warning about is that that installation means that you run the WSS 3.0 SP1 but then uncheck the "run the configuration wizard" box. You then run the MOSS 2007 SP1 and only then (with both SP1s "installed" on your server) do you run the configuration wizard.
It says it somewhere in the documentation, but it's easy to miss so perhaps it's worth the warning here. Even if it only saves one person's grief it'll be worth my spending the extra time needed to mention it.
Note: All of the addresses of the KB / Articles - 2007 Products / MS / Non-MS Articles below were valid at the time I added them to the WSS FAQ
site and to this file. I can't guarantee that they still are.
(This is also posted to the WSS newsgroup at microsoft.public.sharepoint.windowsservices - web access via http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/newsgroups/server/sharepoint.mspx)
(Items are added to the WSS FAQ throughout the week so you will find new items more quickly by checking at wss.collutions.com or www.wssfaq.com daily.)
From 9th - 15th December 2007
I.1 2007 KB Articles (*now only one section for WSS and MOSS*)
New
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;937961
Description of Office 2003 Web Components Service Pack 1 for the 2007 Office system (ver 2.1)
12th December 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;937162
Description of SharePoint Designer 2007 Service Pack 1 (ver 2.1)
12th December 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;943589
Error message when you try to upgrade 2007 Office programs, Expression Web or Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 to the Service Pack 1 level if the Windows system drive has insufficient free disk space: "The installation of this package failed" (ver 1.1)
11th December 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;871149
How to force an upgrade in Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 and in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (ver 2.0) (previously a WSS 2.0 article with a different name [about version number])
11th December 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/942388/
Issues that are fixed in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 by Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Service Pack 1
11th December 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;936984
Description of the 2007 Microsoft Office servers Service Pack 1 and the 2007 Microsoft Office servers Language Pack Service Pack 1
11th December 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;945967
You receive an error message when you try to install a slipstream installation of SharePoint Server 2007 on a server that is running Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
11th December 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;942390
Description of the SharePoint Server 2007 issues that are fixed by the 2007 Microsoft Office servers Service Pack 1
11th December 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;936988
Description of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Service Pack 1 and of Windows SharePoint Services Language Pack 3.0 Service Pack 1 (ver 2.0)
11th December 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;944531
How to preserve Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 content when you upgrade Windows Server 2008 RC0 to Windows Server 2008 RC1
10th December 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;945013
How to deploy 2007 Microsoft Office System Servers Service Pack 1 and Microsoft Office Server Language Pack 2007 Service Pack 1 (ver 1.1)
8th December 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;943663
How to manually update the time zone definition in Windows SharePoint Services for the Venezuela time zone change
7th December 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;942995
You are prompted unexpectedly to restart the computer after you install a 2007 Office service pack or a 2007 Office update (ver 1.1)
6th December 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;944447
After you install the 2007 Office System Servers SP1 or Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 SP1 on a server that has the Foxit PDF IFilter installed, .pdf document types are not indexed (ver 1.1)
19th November 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;944446
Error message when you try to install 2007 Office System Servers Service Pack 1 (SP1) on a computer that also has Project Server 2007 installed (ver 1.2)
15th November 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;943100
How to set restrictions on a site collection to allow only users in a particular organizational unit on a computer that is running SharePoint Server 2007 Service Pack 1 (ver 1.1)
14th November 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;943105
After you install SharePoint Server 2007 Service Pack 1, the maximum disk space that is used on a query server or on an index server increases to 2.85 times the physical size of the index (ver 1.2)
7th November 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;943102
How to enable the indexing of .xlsb files and of .zip files in SharePoint Server 2007 Service Pack 1 (ver 1.1)
5th November 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;942620
You receive an error message when you try to install 2007 Office System Servers Service Pack 1 on a computer that does not have Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Service Pack 1 installed (ver 1.2)
18th October 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;942621
The SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard unexpectedly runs when you use quiet mode to install 2007 Microsoft Office System Servers or Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and you apply a service pack, an update, or a hotfix (ver 1.3)
17th October 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;942619
After you apply Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 SP1, an event is logged in the Application log on the server: "User, group, or role 'WSS_Content_Application_Pools' already exists in the current database" (ver 1.1)
21st September 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;942618
The /log command-line switch and the /passive command-line switch do not function as expected when you run the installation package that contains Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Service Pack 1 (ver 1.1)
20th September 2007
Modiifed
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=832809
Icons are not displayed for Adobe PDF documents that are listed in the search results when you search your portal site in SharePoint Portal Server 2003 and in SharePoint Server 2007 (ver 4.0)
11th December 2007
I.b Forefront KB Articles
New
None
Modified
None
I.c InfoPath 2007 KB Articles
New
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;942381
Issues that are fixed in InfoPath 2007 by the 2007 Microsoft Office suites Service Pack 1
11th December 2007
Modified
None
II. Articles - 2007 Products (no longer with all links to articles for other Office 2007 and other 2007 Products)
New
A. Office 2007 Server Products
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/office/sharepointserver/bb735839.aspx
SharePoint Products and Technologies Service Pack 1 Resource Center (Note: web page)
12th December 2007 (date added)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=EF93E453-75F1-45DF-8C6F-4565E8549C2A&displaylang=en
Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 with Service Pack 1
11th December 2007
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=9FB41E51-CB03-4B47-B89A-396786492CBA&displaylang=en
Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 x64 with Service Pack 1
11th December 2007
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=4191A531-A2E9-45E4-B71E-5B0B17108BD2&displaylang=en
Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Service Pack 1 (SP1)
11th December 2007
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=05046B1D-DD7B-456A-8838-8D978C5F3579%20&displaylang=en
Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Language Pack Service Pack 1 (SP1)
11th December 2007
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=C7CF102B-5DD8-4D86-BE5A-D56F63EF37A4&displaylang=en
Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Language Pack Service Pack 1 (SP1), 64-Bit Edition
11th December 2007
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=AD59175C-AD6A-4027-8C2F-DB25322F791B&displaylang=en
The 2007 Microsoft Office Servers Service Pack 1 (SP1)
11th December 2007
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=B57C805D-2821-4625-A6F1-80725267F887&displayLang=en
Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 Service Pack 1 (SP1)
11th December 2007
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=8D72B284-24F7-4CFB-9D22-D2A2651D4734&displaylang=en
Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer Language Pack 2007 Service Pack 1 (SP1)
11th December 2007
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointtechnology/HA101736671033.aspx?
Manage lists and libraries with many items
11th December 2007 (date added)
http://h71019.www7.hp.com/ERC/downloads/4AA1-6598ENW.pdf
Deploying F5 Networks BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager with WebAccelerator for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (HP)
11th December 2007 (date added)
http://www.sharepointblogs.com/tmt/archive/2007/12/09/extending-the-sharepoint-fieldvalue-webcontrol.aspx
Extending the SharePoint:FieldValue WebControl (Blog - Waldek Mastykarz)
9th December 2007
http://paulgalvin.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!1CC1EDB3DAA9B8AA!491.entry
Display Content Query Web Part Results in a Grid / Table (Blog - Paul Galvin)
9th December 2007
http://www.sharepointblogs.com/erickraus/archive/2007/12/09/enable-session-state-in-sharepoint-2007.aspx
Enable Session State in SharePoint 2007 (Blog - Eric Kraus)
9th December 2007
http://www.sharepointblogs.com/sam/archive/2007/12/08/test.aspx
Developing a reusable SQL Data viewer WebPart for Sharepoint -Part 3 (Blog - Sam)
8th December 2007
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=C815DFFA-D5F3-4B71-BF46-13721BD44682&displaylang=en
Microsoft Office 2003 Web Components Service Pack 1 (SP1) for the 2007 Microsoft Office System
8th December 2007
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb896018.aspx
Visual How To: Customizing Search Results with Custom XSLTs in SharePoint Server 2007 (Patrick Tisseghem, U2U)
8th December 2007 (date added - date of documentation/video December 2007)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=e4600fd9-f53d-4ded-88bf-6bb1932794f9&displaylang=en&tm
SharePoint Monitoring Toolkit (ver 1)
7th December 2007
http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepointdeveloperdocs/archive/2007/12/07/customizing-alert-notifications-and-alert-templates-in-windows-sharepoint-services-3-0.aspx
Customizing Alert Notifications and Alert Templates in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (MS TeamBlog - Albert Meerscheidt)
7th December 2007
http://www.sharepointblogs.com/george/archive/2007/12/07/draft-sharepoint-best-practices.aspx
SharePoint Best Practices (Blog - George Bonney)
7th December 2007
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=105624&clcid=0x409
Performance Recommendations for Storage Planning and Monitoring
7th December 2007 (date added - date of white paper December 2007)
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/help/HA100214341033.aspx
View, restore, or delete items in the Recycle Bin
7th December 2007 (date added)
http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/829cfa96-89b1-4a7b-b980-6d5d3e2a3ee11033.mspx?mfr=true
Mergecontentdbs: Stsadm operation (Office SharePoint Server) (new option after SP1 installation)
6th December 2007
http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/f577614d-e3ff-4e91-affc-6fdf7e94a9a31033.mspx?mfr=true
Tzmove: Stsadm operation (Office SharePoint Server) (new option after SP1 installation)
6th December 2007
http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/9b626a78-2b65-445c-b159-a9aa1dd48b3a1033.mspx
Renamesite: Stsadm operation (Office SharePoint Server)
6th December 2007
http://www.liveside.net/blogs/developer/archive/2007/12/05/add-silverlight-to-sharepoint-2007.aspx
Add Silverlight to Sharepoint 2007 (Blog - "Hackersoft")
5th December 2007
http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/blogs/GetThePoint/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?List=8d9e2a99%2Df288%2D47c2%2D916b%2D2f32864f7b82&ID=34
When to Create a New Library (Blog - Janis Hall)
4th December 2007
http://technet2.microsoft.com/windowsserver/WSS/en/library/91e1ed5d-d35e-4eb6-8013-7e323af5f4e61033.mspx?mfr=true
Enable and configure versioning (Windows SharePoint Services 3.0)
3rd December 2007
http://technet2.microsoft.com/windowsserver/WSS/en/library/5e32c8ec-0831-491a-8b3f-09fbbfc5a78a1033.mspx?mfr=true
Configure the Recycle Bin (Windows SharePoint Services 3.0)
3rd December 2007
http://www.sharepointblogs.com/dez/archive/2007/11/30/moving-copying-documents-between-libraries-with-metadata-including-version-history.aspx
Copying documents between libraries with metadata - including version history (Blog - dink)
30th November 2007
B. Other Office 2007 products (selected few only since 1.1.2007)
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb952744.aspx
Visual How To: Adding User Information from Active Directory Domain Services to InfoPath 2007 Forms (Mark Roberts)
8th December 2007 (date added - date of documentation/video November 2007)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=7f4ce9c5-9e02-4b99-aa09-360d920d3ee0&displaylang=en&tm
Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 SDK (ver 3.0.6362.35)
7th December 2007 (added for inclusion in the SDK View)
C. Other New 2006/2007 Products (selected few only since 1.1.2007)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=cb119c51-0171-4108-91db-4bd708c28f0d&displaylang=en&tm
Visual Studio 2008 Rhythm Training Virtual PC (Windows Server 2003) (expires March 2008)
13th December 2007
Modified
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=2672f6f9-7028-4b30-99a2-18cb1eed1abe&DisplayLang=en
Project 2007: Software Development Kit (version 1.3-Dec07)
12th December 2007
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=27342759-e9d6-4073-918c-e9dff77d0206&displaylang=en&tm
Microsoft System Center Essentials 2007 VHD (ver 1.1)
7th December 2007 (added for inclusion in the VHD View)
http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/f484f5f2-35bb-4d70-bf56-dd1c4c287c721033.mspx
Deploy software updates for Office SharePoint Server 2007
6th December 2007
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=43621a8f-12fb-4e7c-bb38-1cbb6ef272c5&DisplayLang=en
Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 SP1 VHD - 32-bit version (ver 1.0)
4th December 2007 (added for inclusion in the VHD View)
http://technet2.microsoft.com/windowsserver/WSS/en/library/91649a7e-6b5a-4e5a-9ee5-51951f4b857f1033.mspx?mfr=true
Deploy software updates for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
3rd December 2007
III WebCasts (+ PodCasts, On-Line courses) for 2007 Products
New
http://wm.microsoft.com/ms/msdn/office/2007officevisualhowtos/MOSS2007CustomizingSearchResultsWithCustomXSLTs.wmv
Visual How To: Customizing Search Results with Custom XSLTs in SharePoint Server 2007 (Video) (Patrick Tisseghem, U2U)
8th December 2007 (date added - date of documentation/video December 2007)
http://wm.microsoft.com/ms/msdn/office/2007officevisualhowtos/ip2007GettingUserInformationActiveDirectory.wmv
Visual How To: Adding User Information from Active Directory Domain Services to InfoPath 2007 Forms (Video) (Mark Roberts)
8th December 2007 (date added - date of documentation/video November 2007)
IV WSS v3 FAQ
New
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1291
III.54.08 Templates: Why do I not see "Save Site as Template" for certain sites?
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1293
V.78 Professional SharePoint Search (Wiley - Richard Riley, Tom Rizzo)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1294
V.79 SharePoint 2007 Development Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (Apress - Mark Gerow)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1295
VI.93 MOSS BDC Design Studio (commercial - Simego)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1296
VI.94 ARK for SharePoint 2007 (ARKSP) (commercial - Vyapin)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1290
X.10 MOSS 2007 and WSS v3 Backup Script (free - Jerry Rasmussen) (previously at wwss.collutions.com only by mistake)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1289
X.100 Imtech Test Content Generator v1.3.0.0 (free - Codetech, Waldek Mastykarz)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1292
X.101 WPGalleryGroupChanger (free - Steven Van de Craen)
Modified
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=813
V.07 Microsoft SharePoint 2007 Technologies: Planning, Design and Implementation (Digital Press - Kevin Laahs, Emer McKenna, Veli-Matti Vanamo) *released*
V WSSv2 KB Articles (plus SPS 2003 Hot fixes)
New
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;826789
How to Configure SQL Full-Text Search to Search for MHT Files (ver 1.3)
30th November 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;821512
Only Operations That Are Performed by Administrators Are Logged to the W3wp<ApplicationPoolName>.log File (ver 2.4)
30th November 2007
Modified
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=823379
You receive a "Server Error in '/' Application. Access to the path <path> is denied" error message when you log on to Windows SharePoint Services (ver 9.1)
11th December 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=891983
Supported scenario to restore a backup of data from the original release version of SharePoint Portal Server 2003 to SharePoint Portal Server 2003 Service Pack 1 (ver 3.5)
4th December 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=827701
How to perform a disaster recovery operation of SharePoint Services Companyweb and SharePoint Services Databases (ver 5.5)
3rd December 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=829112
How to back up and restore http://companyweb data in Windows Small Business Server 2003 (ver 8.4)
3rd December 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=829114
How to remove and how to install the Windows Small Business Server 2003 SharePoint Services Companyweb Web site (ver 6.2) (Applies only to the WSS in SBS 2003)
3rd December 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=829113
How to restore a Windows SharePoint Services CompanyWeb database after the intranet component and SQL Server or MSDE 2000 have been removed on Windows Small Business Server (ver 8.1)
3rd December 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=886618
"HTTP 500 - Internal Server Error" error message when you try to open the Companyweb Web site after you perform a disaster recovery in Windows Small Business Server 2003 (ver 2.3)
3rd December 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=829036
The Microsoft SharePoint Administrator option on the Administrative Tools menu does not open the Windows SharePoint Services administration Web page in Windows Small Business Server 2003 (ver 2.3) [Only in an SBS 2003 environment]
3rd December 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=833019
You receive an "Error code: 2779" error message when you install Windows SharePoint Services, create a new content database, or provision a new virtual server (ver 10.5)
3rd December 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;841216
"0x80040E14" or "HTTP 500" error message when you connect to your Windows SharePoint Services Web site after you install a Windows SharePoint Services service pack or a security update (ver 8.1)
3rd December 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;821501
Considerations That Apply When You Install Class Server and You Install Windows SharePoint Services on the Same Server (ver 1.2)
30th November 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;837849
How to add an icon to Windows SharePoint Services to represent Adobe PDF documents that are stored in document libraries (ver 2.3)
30th November 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=823208
There Is No Option in the Shared Workspace Task Pane of an Office 2003 Program to Edit the "Location for New Workspace" List (ver 2.4)
30th November 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=827395
You Receive an "Error Occurred While Processing Data For This Request..." Error Message When Try to Access a Page on Your Windows SharePoint Services Web Site (ver 2.4)
30th November 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;875339
"No Updates Were Installed" error message when you try to install Windows SharePoint Services Service Pack 1 from the Windows Update Web site (ver 4.7)
26th September 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=823547
You receive an "Exception of type System.OutOfMemoryException was thrown" error message when you access a Web page on the portal site in SharePoint Portal Server 2003 and in Windows SharePoint Services (ver 3.6)
31st May 2007
VI WSSv2 FAQ
New and Modified
None
I skimmed through Chapters 5 (List) and 6 (Libraries) of the User's Guide yesterday. They were more of the same. Detailed descriptions of List and Library templates as supplied. Not much more. This book is really hard to recommend even for its presumed audience. The only questions it really answers (if we ignore the Note:, Info:, and Caution: bits I mentioned last time) are things like "I see xxx template listed, if I click on this what kind of a site/list does it create for me and what are the default fields it uses?" So why not just click on it and see for yourself ? That's it. I'm not even going to add any Google ads ...
Note: All of the addresses of the KB / Articles - 2007 Products / MS / Non-MS Articles below were valid at the time I added them to the WSS FAQ
site and to this file. I can't guarantee that they still are.
(This is also posted to the WSS newsgroup at microsoft.public.sharepoint.windowsservices - web access via http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/newsgroups/server/sharepoint.mspx)
(Items are added to the WSS FAQ throughout the week so you will find new items more quickly by checking at wss.collutions.com or www.wssfaq.com daily.)
From 2nd - 8th December 2007
I.1 2007 KB Articles (*now only one section for WSS and MOSS*)
New
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;945396
Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 services that were previously removed are restored after you restore the system state on a Windows Server 2008-based computer
30th November 2007
Modified
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;924739
Error message when you try to add an existing Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 list to an Access 2007 database: "You do not have the necessary permissions to use the '<ListName>' object"
4th December 2007
I.b Forefront KB Articles
New
None
Modified
None
I.c InfoPath 2007 KB Articles
New
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;867443
Description of security considerations and privacy considerations for forms that you create in Office InfoPath (ver 2.1)
4th December 2007
Modified
None
II. Articles - 2007 Products (no longer with all links to articles for other Office 2007 and other 2007 Products)
New
A. Office 2007 Server Products
http://www.moss2007.be/blogs/vandest/archive/2007/12/06/splist-some-things-worth-mentioning.aspx
SPList: Some things worth mentioning (Blog - Steven Van de Craen)
6th December 2007
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=21eabb90-958f-4b64-b5f1-73d0a413c8ef&displaylang=en&tm
Internet Explorer Application Compatibility VPC Image (ver 2.2)
6th December 2007
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=673dc932-626a-4e59-9dca-16d685600a51&displaylang=en&tm
Office SharePoint Server 2007 Training (ver 1) (version for installing on MOSS 2007)
6th December 2007
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=7BB3A2A3-6A9F-49F4-84E8-FF3FB71046DF&displaylang=en
Office SharePoint Server 2007 Training (ver 1) (Standalone Edition)
5th December 2007
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb897399.aspx#MOSS2007CustomizingContentQueryWebPartsbyUsingCustomProperties_ExploreIt
Visual How To: Customizing Content Query Web Parts by Using Custom Properties in Office SharePoint Server 2007 (Joel Krist, Akona Systems)
6th December 2007 (date added - date of article December 2007)
http://blogs.msdn.com/joelo/archive/2007/12/05/10-things-to-optimize-your-sharepoint-server-indexing.aspx
10 Things To Optimize your SharePoint Server Indexing (MS Blog - Joel Oleson)
5th December 2007
http://www.sharepointblogs.com/bobbyhabib/archive/2007/12/05/create-a-google-map-web-part-for-free.aspx
Create a Google Map Web Part for Free (Blog - Bobby Habib)
5th December 2007
http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepointdeveloperdocs/archive/2007/12/05/content-migration-in-sharepoint-post-2.aspx
Content Migration in SharePoint (Post 2) (MS Blog - NickG, SP Developer Dcoumentation Team Blog)
5th December 2007
http://blogs.msdn.com/joelo/archive/2007/12/04/default-web-application-policies-and-determining-number-of-service-accounts.aspx
Default Web Application Policies and Determining Number of Service Accounts (MS Blog - Joel Oleson)
4th December 2007
http://blogs.msdn.com/joelo/archive/2007/12/03/sharepoint-server-topology-server-roles-and-services-on-server.aspx
SharePoint Server Topology - Server Roles and Services on Server (MS Blog - Joel Oleson)
3rd December 2007
http://blogs.technet.com/wbaer/archive/2007/12/03/managing-master-merge-in-microsoft-office-sharepoint-server-2007.aspx
Managing Master Merge in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MS Blog - William Baer)
3rd December 2007
http://paulgalvin.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!1CC1EDB3DAA9B8AA!447.entry
Create Bar Graphs in SharePoint (Blog - Paul Galvin)
2nd December 2007
http://www.sharepointblogs.com/sam/archive/2007/12/02/developing-a-reusable-sql-data-viewer-webpart-for-sharepoint-part-ii.aspx
Developing a reusable SQL Data viewer WebPart for Sharepoint - Part II (Blog - Samdup Surkhang)
2nd December 2007
http://www.sharepointblogs.com/sam/archive/2007/11/30/developing-a-reusable-sql-data-viewer-webpart-for-sharepoint.aspx
Developing a reusable SQL Data viewer Web Part for Sharepoint (Blog - Samdup Surkhang)
30th November 2007
http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepointdeveloperdocs/archive/2007/11/30/content-migration-in-sharepoint.aspx
Content Migration in SharePoint (MS Blog - NickG, SP Developer Dcoumentation Team Blog)
30th November 2007
http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepointdeveloperdocs/archive/2007/11/30/creating-new-actions-files-for-code-free-workflow-editors.aspx
Creating new .ACTIONS files for code-free workflow editors (MS Blog - Rodney Farris, SP Developer Dcoumentation Team Blog)
30th November 2007
http://www.mtelligent.com/journal/2007/9/30/using-a-custom-list-to-store-configuration-data.html
Using a Custom List to Store Configuration Data (Blog - David San Filippo)
30th November 2007
http://www.mtelligent.com/journal/2007/9/29/sharepoint-2007-custom-date-time-field-to-default-the-time-t.html
SharePoint 2007 Custom Date Time Field to default the time to the current time (Blog - David San Filippo)
29th November 2007
http://tinyurl.com/2dgbsf
MSDN Webcast: Building SharePoint Server 2007 Document Workflows with Visual Studio 2008 (Level 300) (Robert Shelton)
28th November 2007
http://tinyurl.com/2d77vp
TechNet Webcast: Protecting Microsoft SharePoint with Data Protection Manager (Level 200) (Jason Buffington)
27th November 2007
http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepointdeveloperdocs/archive/2007/11/15/extending-workflow-actions-for-sharepoint-designer.aspx
Extending Workflow Actions for SharePoint Designer (MS Blog - Rodney Farris, SP Developer Dcoumentation Team Blog)
15th November 2007
http://www.mtelligent.com/journal/2007/10/17/the-insanity-of-getting-versions-of-a-multilinetext-box-set-.html
The Insanity of getting Versions of a MultiLineText box set to Append Changes (Blog - David San Filippo)
17th October 2007
http://www.mtelligent.com/journal/2007/10/14/adding-back-lookup-columns-in-the-provisioning-handler.html
Adding Back Lookup Columns in the Provisioning Handler (Blog - David San Filippo)
14th October 2007
http://www.mtelligent.com/journal/2007/10/13/overcoming-the-limitations-of-the-sharepoint-solution-genera.html
Overcoming the limitations of the SharePoint Solution Generator (Blog - David San Filippo)
13th October 2007
http://www.mtelligent.com/journal/2007/10/9/maping-from-splist-field-types-to-net-types.html
Mapping from SPList Field Types to .Net Types (Blog - David San Filippo)
9th October 2007
http://www.mtelligent.com/journal/2007/10/7/customizing-the-quick-launch-menu-with-spnavigationnode-spna.html
Customizing the Quick Launch menu with SPNavigationNode, SPNavigationNodeCollection and Audiences (Blog - David San Filippo)
7th October 2007
http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/798aa915-7025-4adc-a210-4f6ff14c43fc1033.mspx
Deploy using DBA-created databases (Office SharePoint Server)
14th June 2007
http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/88317397-e0cb-47c7-9093-7872bc6852131033.mspx?mfr=true
Configure incoming e-mail settings (Office SharePoint Server)
29th March 2007
http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/bd99c3a9-0333-4c1c-9793-a145769e48e61033.mspx?mfr=true
Install Office SharePoint Server 2007 on a stand-alone computer
16th November 2006
B. Other Office 2007 products (selected few only since 1.1.2007)
http://www.sharepointblogs.com/andynoon/archive/2007/12/06/infopath-forms-server-data-sources-and-authentication.aspx
InfoPath Forms Server, Data Sources and Authentication (Blog - Andrew Noon)
6th December 2007
C. Other New 2006/2007 Products (selected few only since 1.1.2007)
None
Modified
None
III WebCasts (+ PodCasts, On-Line courses) for 2007 Products
New
http://wm.microsoft.com/ms/msdn/office/2007OfficeVisualHowTos/MOSS2007CustomizingCQWPsbyUsingCustomProperties.wmv
Visual How To: Customizing Content Query Web Parts by Using Custom Properties in Office SharePoint Server 2007 (Video) (Joel Krist, Akona Systems)
6th December 2007 (date added - date of article December 2007)
IV WSS v3 FAQ
New
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1283
V.76 Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 - Das Handbuch (in German) (MSPress Deutschland - Erin O'Connor)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1284
V.77 Unternehmensprozesse optimieren mit SharePoint - Das 'Prozesshaus'-Modell (in German) (MSPress Deutschland - Helmut Reinke , Andrea Monadjemi, Dagmar Herzog)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1282
VI.88 Universal SharePoint Manager 2007 (commercial - iDevFactory)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1285
VI.89 Flash Image Rotator Web Part for SharePoint 2007 (commercial - Data Springs Inc.)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1286
VI.90 Flash News Ticker for Sharepoint 2007 (commercial - Data Springs Inc.)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1287
VI.91 Stock Quote Web Part for SharePoint 2007 (commercial - Data Springs Inc.)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1288
VI.92 Random Image Web Part for Sharepoint 2007 (commercial - Data Springs Inc.)
Modified
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1075
V.51 Office SharePoint Server 2007 und Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. Das Lösungsbuch für Administratoren und Entwickler(in German) (Galileo Computing - Ulrich B. Boddenberg) *released*
V WSSv2 KB Articles (plus SPS 2003 Hot fixes)
New
None
Modified
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=823379
You receive a "Server Error in '/' Application. Access to the path <path> is denied" error message when you log on to Windows SharePoint Services (ver 8.2)
3rd December 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;871149
The version number that is in Site Settings is not updated to 6.0.2.6361 after you install Windows SharePoint Services Service Pack 1 (ver 1.4)
26th September 2007
VI WSSv2 FAQ
New
None
Modified
None
Chapter 4 is List concepts and so it's reasonably something I should know well.
So it didn't take long to review it and see that it was "more of the same" or in other words an incredible amount of detail with only the Ocassional "Note"; "Tip"; or (very occasional) "Caution" to prove that the writers do actually know quite a lot about SharePoint rather than being only people who have painstakingly gone through every function (and screen) in a SharePoint system and catalogued every detail. (That, unfortunately, is the abiding impression as there is just too much detail and not enough insights).
One of the things I was glad to see was the advice (in a "Tip") to perhaps not use folders - in fact Folders were given just over a page, which in a book like this is unusually little.
There were only two things I didn't like about this Tip. Firstly it wasn't a clear "Don't Use Folders, Use Views" Tip and Secondly the tip didn't mention Views at all.
Here's the text of the Tip. What do you think of it?
"Instead of using folders to organize a list, have the manager of the list create custom columns you can use to categorize the list items. This is generally seen as the more appropriate way to organize information in SharePoint and supports more robust display options and searching."
Bit wishy-washy isn't it ("generally seen as the most appropriate way") and what do you usually do when you have create one or more custom columns ? That's right, you create Views that use them. So why not say so?
Another Note (in this case), that I was glad to see there, was one that mentioned that with Excel 2007, you can't (as you could with the SharePoint 2003 products and Excel 2003) synchronize modifications back to a SharePoint List (when you have a list linked to Excel). It's useful to have this clearly stated.
In summary though, more a detailed list of what the SharePoint 2007 Lists contain than the learning book at least part of the Title of the book promised.
A quick check of the Amazon.de site expecting to find no changes and certainly no new books brought both.
This: Office SharePoint Server 2007 und Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. Das Lösungsbuch für Administratoren und Entwickler(in German) (Galileo Computing - Ulrich B. Boddenberg) http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1074 is now released and in stock at Amazon.de
There's also a new translation announced from English. Interesting because I far as I can remember the English version isn't available on the streets yet.
That's this one: Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 - Das Handbuch (in German) (MSPress Deutschland - Erin O'Connor) http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1283
Finally there's a new German language original book: Unternehmensprozesse optimieren mit SharePoint - Das 'Prozesshaus'-Modell (in German) (MSPress Deutschland - Helmut Reinke , Andrea Monadjemi, Dagmar Herzog) which if my interpretation of the title (Optimising Company processes with SharePoint - the "Process House" model) is correct is likely to be a very worthy and totally unreadable book that will however sell to that section of the book-buying community who like having worthy sounding books in their bookshelf at the office.
That at least is what my experience of working in Germany is screaming at me when I see that title. If you want to send me a copy when it's out (!) it's here. http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1284
But even with that excluded, German speakers are doing well for German language books and there are more to come in the next few months
Despite all my intentions of skipping to chapter 7, I thought I'd better at least glance through chapter 3 which is the MOSS 2007 equivalent of the chapter two I really hated.
It just shows how much previous experience counts for when you make comments on the quality (or not) of books.
In this case I know WSS 3.0 well so the listing with a picture of every single different template type did not go down well.
I don't however know MOSS 2007 half so well and so the identical listing of every single template type with screen shot in Chapter 3 gave me a very quick overview of what is included in MOSS 2007.
However the main point from chapter 2 remains. I'm not a User so even if Chapter 3 was OK for me, it was still OK only because of my experience of using WSS 3.0 a lot as an Administrator (and user). I still don't think that the typical new user is well served by what in effect is a List of all templates even if it includes a screen shot of each one. Even I found the list per template of exactly which Lists it contains to be no more than a page-filler and far too much detail.
So in conclusion, despite me gaining something from chapter 3, this book continues to be a long list of what is in WSS 3.0 or MOSS 2007 and not a learning tool. It is however selling well but how much that is down to it being the only book out there that says it is for "Users" and how much it's due to the content is another question.
The Amazon US link is here: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1590598296/heme0f
Most of the time I go around thinking how much of the v3 SharePoint products I don't know enough about so it's good sometimes to be faced with a book like the User's Guide that at least so far is so basic that I actually have a feeling that "Wow, I know more about this product than I thought".
The second chapter is about sites and if you want to be told very briefly about every single site template that comes with WSS 3.0 (together with it seems a screen print of each) then this is the chapter for you. I found it unnecessary to say the least to spend quite so many pages on listing and picturing all the variants.
Finally we got past the listing of the site templates and onto Site Navigation and Creating Sites.
This latter was odd. Earlier in the chapter we'd been told that additional types of sites that were available in MOSS 2007 as opposed to WSS 3.0 would come in Chapter Three - from which I assumed that Chapter Two was WSS 3.0 only.
This was however not the case because in Creating Sites there were two sub-sections - Creating Sub-Sites in MOSS sites and Creating Sub-sites in WSS 3.0 (actually Creating "subsites" but I think that's the wrong way to write it - certainly my spelling checker agrees with me as it flags subsites but doesn't flag sub-sites).
OK it's fair enough to divide them up even if mainly it gives a great opportunity for Copy/Paste as almost all the text is identical, BUT having divided them up, how come the WSS 3.0 section includes the words "If MOSS is in place" ? It's beyond me.
The rest of the chapter emphasises what I'd already worked out - namely that this book is designed for people who have never used any earlier SharePoint product. While they don't actually say this in the Title (SharePoint 2007 User's Guide) the next part of the front cover does say "Learning Microsoft's Collaboration and Productivity Platform" so I suppose that's warning enough.
The final part of the cover page (in minute print) is "A comprehensive guidebook for users of Microsoft SharePoint 2007". This actually comes closest to the truth I've seen so far (ignoring chapter one which in four pages has not hopes of being comprehensive), chapter two is indeed comprehensive if that means including all the details, but whether that makes a good Learning Book depends to a large extend on your learning style. So far at least the detail has been numbingly boring.
Finally just let me mutter a bit.
There's a section called "Editing Site Templates". This includes the (true) information "Even though you cannot edit existing site template files you can edit the properties of these files". Precisely. You can't edit the site templates themselves, so why have a section header saying you can ?
Finally the section of WSS Site Search shows some of the shortcomings of this book which however are clearly because of the audience envisaged for it. It doesn't say how to set up search (which can be surprisingly non-obvious) just as it didn't give any guidance on how to install even the simple (to install) WSS 3.0. So readers of the book need to have a site which someone else has setup for them. Whereas I can accept the amount of detail in this book in a book for Administrators (as they need to cover everything), I would much prefer a book for users to concentrate more on a few key features (in more depth and with guidance as to when to use them) rather than covering everything (and rather skimming over them).
We'll see if I keep up writing a blog item on a chapter at a time. At the moment - and following wading through chapter 2 - I feel rather like skimming myself until I get to something I don't already know rather a lot about. (Which is likely to be chapter 7 - I don't think 60 pages on document libraries (Ch 6) is going to teach me much despite the number of pages. At least I hope not :)
I have quite a few v3 SharePoint books but I don't own a copy of the Apress "SharePoint 2007 User's Guide" which according to Amazon is selling well.
One of those copies went to the Helsinki Public Library system and so it was the only v3 SP book that popped up when I searched the whole system with "SharePoint".
So as I had to reserve it and probably someone else will have reserved it after me, I have exactly four weeks to check it out before it must go back.
So I'm looking at that book rather than one of the others.
I started at Chapter One (!) which is a very short (4 pages) overview, yet even in those four pages I found one thing I really hated from the point-of-view of someone who answers questions in newsgroups and forums and one thing that is just completely wrong.
I thing I hated was this
"Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (WSS)"
We already have a problem in the newsgroups of continually having to ask people which product they are using - now all the ones who are using Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and who have read this book will say "I have WSS".
Help. Don't the two guys who wrote this book know that there are in fact two versions of WSS (2.0 and 3.0) and that thus saying that WSS is the short form of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 isn't helpful.
In fact they do know because a few lines further down on the same page there is "In 2003, Microsoft ... released Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 and .." So why do they think that saying WSS is enough. It's beyond me.
Another thing that is beyond me is how they could come up with this sentence.
"SharePoint 2007 includes all the capabilities previous provided in SharePoint 2003 and the content management capabilities previously provided by Microsoft Content Management Server 2002"
Note by the way that they have already defined SharePoint 2007 as meaning BOTH Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.
This statement that SharePoint 2007 contains the capabilities early provided by CMS 2002 is complete rubbish. You try looking for CMS 2002 capabilities in WSS 3.0 - you won't find them.
No, these capabilities are only in MOSS 2007 and some of them in fact are only in one of the two versions of MOSS 2007.
As I wrote in the subject line, such crass errors in only 4 pages of introduction doesn't bode well for the rest of the book. But maybe they'll surprise me - we'll see as I get to the chapters that follow.
The other problem with getting the readers of this book to think that "WSS" is the abbreviation for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 is that in some older Microsoft papers "Windows SharePoint Services" (and occasionally "WSS") is used for Windows SharePoint Services 2.0, because at the time those papers were written Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 was the only Windows SharePoint Services product out there (as there never was a version 1.0 - that was called SharePoint Team Services) and so there seemed to be no need to write the name Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 in full (and they were perhaps rather embarassed about it too given the lack of a 1.0) so they contented themselves with just Windows SharePoint Services. Today of course that decision is coming back to haunt them and Microsoft recently have made a major effort to add 2.0 to each listing of Windows SharePoint Services at least as far as KB Articles are concerned.
A few blogs here have mentioned my efforts to get the mp4 files I have (created as .avi files) to play on the Mac with proper sound. To recap Quick Time played the video part OK but the sound was very jumpy, incomprehensible, and also out-of-sync so useless. So I tried - still on the Mac - within VMs running Windows XPPro/Server with Windows Media 10 or 11 and had no picture (but good sound!) until I added the free divx codec whereupon I had good sound and a good picture but that picture was both reversed and upside down.
Meanwhile on the pure Mac side paying 19.95 for a QuickTime codec was just a waste of money.
So finally I did what I should have done in the beginning and went searching and found a free QuickTime plug-in called Perian. I printed out the description of it in a site called Version Tracker where the download was available and it said 'support for these formats when they are inside an AVI: mpeg4 etc.'.
I then naturally lost that print out under a pile of paper on my desk and it was only when I did a clean-out that I found it and finally got round to installing Perian.
After that I started my test .avi file and the results were just as before, so no improvement.
Normally that would have been that, but this is the Mac and I'm still never really sure if things like plug-ins really are running so I clicked on the Perian icon just to see. Once there I saw that sound was set to its default which was Dolby something. OK, it doesn't work now so changing that default isn't going to stop something that is working from not working, so I amended the setting to Stereo and tried my file again.
Success! Perfect sound. Perfect picture.
I only wonder why Stereo isn't the default ....
P.S. I hope this is not connected to adding this plug-in and only congested networks but I now have very jumpy pictures when accessing the videos at www.zdf.de Videothek where I regularly watch the "Krimis". I'm not sure if I've watched anything there (there's only news and politics at weekends) since I added this plug-in. At the moment it's the typical great picture / images messed up / sound coming and going that you get with bad digital lines - but maybe it's that plug-in slowing things down.
I really hope not because as this is the Mac I haven't a clue as to how to turn it off when watching these things and back on again when playing my .avi / .mp4 files.
Meanwhile I'm going to see how the Vista machine copes with those German Krimis - usually the picture isn't quite as good or a large there ...
Problem solved. It was Perian causing the jumpiness. To turn it off (it actually says uninstall) you can go to the Perian.PrefPane and Uninstall. Once you've done that the Perian PrefPane has an Install button for when you want it back for those .avi files. Nice.
Note: All of the addresses of the KB / Articles - 2007 Products / MS / Non-MS Articles below were valid at the time I added them to the WSS FAQ
site and to this file. I can't guarantee that they still are.
(This is also posted to my blog at http://mikewalsh.bilsimser.com)
(This is also posted to the WSS newsgroup at microsoft.public.sharepoint.windowsservices - web access via http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/newsgroups/server/sharepoint.mspx)
(Items are added to the WSS FAQ throughout the week so you will find new items more quickly by checking at wss.collutions.com or www.wssfaq.com daily.)
From 18th - 25th November 2007
I.1 2007 KB Articles (*now only one section for WSS and MOSS*)
New
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;944267
How to troubleshoot common errors that occur when you run the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard on a computer that is running Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 or SharePoint Server 2007 (ver 2.3)
20th November 2007
http://www.sharepointblogs.com/tbone/archive/2007/11/20/re-using-sharepoint-designer-workflows-in-multiple-lists.aspx
Re-using SharePoint Designer workflows in multiple lists (Blog -TBone)
20th November 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;937208
Description of the SharePoint Server 2007 hotfix package: May 15, 2007 (2nd with this date) (ver 1.1)
15th November 2007
Modified
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;943076
Description of the Excel Services in Office SharePoint Server 2007 hotfix package: October 9, 2007 (ver 1.3)
23th November 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=920785
Attachments that are allowed by Outlook 2007 may be blocked by Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (ver 4.0)
20th November 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;932919
Description of the SharePoint Server 2007 hotfix package: February 26, 2007 (ver 1.2)
15th November 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=934793
Description of the SharePoint Server 2007 hotfix package: April 12, 2007 (ver 3.1)
15th November 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;936877Description of the SharePoint Server 2007 hotfix package for SharePoint Server 2007 and for SharePoint Server 2007 for Search: May 8, 2007 (ver 1.3)
15th November 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;937207
Description of the SharePoint Server 2007 hotfix package: May 15, 2007 (ver 1.1)
15th November 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;937906
Description of the SharePoint Server 2007 hotfix package: May 25, 2007 (ver 1.2)
15th November 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;937904
Description of the SharePoint Server 2007 hotfix package: May 25, 2007 (2nd one from May 25) (ver 1.2)
15th November 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;938535
Description of the SharePoint Server 2007 hotfix package: June 11, 2007 (ver 1.1)
15th November 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;938537
Description of the SharePoint Server 2007 hotfix package: June 12, 2007 (ver 1.1)
15th November 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;939077
Description of the SharePoint Server 2007 hotfix package for SharePoint Server 2007 and for SharePoint Server 2007 for Search: June 24, 2007 (ver 1.2)
15th November 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb%3Ben-us%3B939599
Description of the SharePoint Server 2007 hotfix package: June 29, 2007 (ver 1.2)
15th November 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;939654
Description of the SharePoint Server 2007 hotfix package: June 29, 2007 (2nd of the same date) (ver 1.3)
15th November 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;938241
Description of the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 for the Multilingual User Interface pack hotfix package: May 31, 2007 (ver 2.3)
15th November 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=934790
Description of the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 hotfix package: April 12, 2007 (ver 1.6)
15th November 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=931636
Description of the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 hotfix package: February 6, 2007 (ver 2.3)
15th November 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;931637
Description of the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 hotfix package: January 25, 2007 (ver 1.2)
15th November 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;938536
Description of the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 hotfix package: June 11, 2007 (ver 1.1)
15th November 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;939188
Description of the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 hotfix package: June 24, 2007 (ver 1.1)
15th November 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb%3Ben-us%3B939592
Description of the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 hotfix package: June 29, 2007 (ver 1.3)
15th November 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;937203
Description of the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 hotfix package: May 15, 2007 (ver 2.2)
15th November 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;937901
Description of the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 hotfix package: May 25, 2007 (ver 1.3)
15th November 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;938183
Description of the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 hotfix package: May 31, 2007 (ver 1.2)
15th November 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;936867
Description of the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 hotfix package: May 8, 2007 (ver 1.3)
15th November 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb%3Ben-us%3B941422
Description of the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 hotfix package: August 24, 2007 (ver 4.0)
31st October 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;934525
Description of the security update for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: October 9, 2007 (ver 5.0)
30th October 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;937832
Description of the security update for SharePoint Server 2007: October 9, 2007 (ver 3.1)
17th October 2007
I.b Forefront KB Articles
New
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/943621/en-us
The SharePoint Central Administration page is unavailable and Event IDs 2268 and 2214 are logged after you uninstall Forefront Security for SharePoint
20th November 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/943628/en-us
Error message is logged in ProgramLog.txt file after you relocate the database in Forefront Security for SharePoint: "ERROR: Unable to create SharePoint Notifications database."
20th November 2007
Modified
None
I.c InfoPath 2007 KB Articles
New
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/891162/en-us
BUG: The results of the calculations in an InfoPath form are incorrect (ver 2.1)
16th November 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/891165/en-us
An ActiveX control does not appear as you expect it to when you add the control to a form in InfoPath(ver 2.1)
16th November 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;938182
Description of the SharePoint Server 2007 hotfix package for SharePoint Server 2007 and for SharePoint Server 2007 for Search: May 31, 2007 (ver 1.3)
15th November 2007
Modified
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/938540/en-us
Description of the InfoPath 2007 hotfix package: June 11, 2007 (ver 1.2)
15th November 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/938894/en-us
Description of the InfoPath 2007 hotfix package: June 17, 2007 (ver 1.2)
15th November 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/939187/en-us
Description of the InfoPath 2007 hotfix package: June 24, 2007 (ver 1.2)
15th November 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/939593/en-us
Description of the InfoPath 2007 hotfix package: June 29, 2007 (1st of same date) (ver 1.2)
15th November 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/939605/en-us
Description of the InfoPath 2007 hotfix package: June 29, 2007 (2nd of same date) (ver 1.2)
15th November 2007
II. Articles - 2007 Products (no longer with all links to articles for other Office 2007 and other 2007 Products)
New
A. Office 2007 Server Products
http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/PDF_iFilter_8_-_64-bit_Support
PDF iFilter 8 - 64-bit Support (Adobe - how to get the 32-bit IFilter included in Adobe 8 to work in a 64-bit MOSS 2007 system)
21st November 2007 (date added)
http://blogs.msdn.com/jingmeili/archive/2007/11/20/how-to-sign-an-infopath-form-template-with-verisign-certificate.aspx
How to sign an InfoPath form template with VeriSign certificate? (Blog - Jingmei Li)
20th November 2007
http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/b18c35f6-2107-40b8-8102-7540d35d0de91033.mspx
Sites and subsites roadmap (Note: MOSS 2007)
20th November 2007 (date added - was 12th November)
http://www.sharepointblogs.com/mdlotter/archive/2007/11/19/why-the-text-on-my-infopath-form-is-so-large.aspx
Why the text on my InfoPath form is so large (Blog - Michael Lotter)
19th November 2007
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb944807.aspx
Downloading InfoPath 2007 Forms in a Specific File Format from a SharePoint Form Library (S.Y.M Wong-A-Ton)
18th November 2007 (date added - actually dated November 2007)
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb892784.aspx
Integrating SharePoint Server 2007 with Community Server Membership Databases (Hans Hugli)
18th November 2007 (date added - actually dated November 2007)
http://www.elumenotion.com/Blog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=23
You Don't Need to Copy PDB Files to Debug in the GAC! (Blog - Doug Ware)
12th November 2007
http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/fc47c930-cab9-4dee-b829-b5fb6fc9512d1033.mspx
Recycle Bin: Stsadm properties (Office SharePoint Server)
8th November 2007
B. Other Office 2007 products (selected few only since 1.1.2007)
None
C. Other New 2006/2007 Products (selected few only since 1.1.2007)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=b273269c-97e0-411d-8849-5a8070698e4a&displaylang=en&tm
BizTalk Server 2006 Installation and Upgrade Guides (ver 1.1)
20th November 2007
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=30402623-93ca-479a-867c-04dc45164f5b&displaylang=en&tm
Visual Studio 2008 SDK Version 1.0
20th November 2007 (added here to get in SDK list)
Modified
None
III WebCasts (+ PodCasts, On-Line courses) for 2007 Products
New
http://wm.microsoft.com/ms/msdn/office/2007OfficeVisualHowTos/Wd2007ConsumingQueryServicesUsingVSTOSE.wmv
Visual How To: Consuming SharePoint Server 2007 Query Services from Word 2007 Using Visual Studio Tools for Office SE (Video) (Joel Krist, Akona Systems)
20th November 2007 (date added - actually 30th October 2007)
IV WSS v3 FAQ
New
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1266
III.101 I get 'System error 67 has occurred' when I map a path to a WSS document library. What's the solution?
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1264
VII.29 Inside Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (MS Press - ISBN 9780735623200) (Chapter 2 - SharePoint Architecture)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1265
X.89 SharePointUpload (free - Gluegood Software)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1267
X.90 Content By Type webpart (free - Ton Stegeman)
Modified
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1085
V.55 Pro SharePoint 2007 Development Techniques (Apress - Margriet Bruggeman, Nikander Bruggeman) *released*
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1241
V.69 Windows SharePoint Services 3.0-Programmierung (in German) (MSPress Deutschland - Ted Pattison, Daniel Larson) *released*
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V WSSv2 KB Articles (plus SPS 2003 Hot fixes)
New
None
Modified
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=934000
Description of the Windows SharePoint Services post-Service Pack 2 hotfix package: March 9, 2007 (ver 2.2)
15th November 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;924931
Description of the SharePoint Portal Server 2003 post-Service Pack 2 hotfix package: August 31, 2006 (ver 4.1)
15th November 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;933853
Note: It seems that every single SPS 2003 post-service pack 1 and 2 was updated on November 15th 2007. I'm not going to list them here and I'm not going to amend the dates in the site. (I imagine they have added a code at the end and there are no other changes)
Note: The same applies to every Windows SharePoint Servic!es 2.0 post-Service Pack 2 hotfix package
VI WSSv2 FAQ
New
None
Modified
None
Finally, 10 days after I posted a series of messages to the support address for the Nero range from Ahead, I got a reply.
It asked me in some detail (included how to do an image of a screen) to supply some screen print images of what I was seeing and also to send them some more information.
I couldn't send them any of this information (which is why I didn't bother to note down what exactly they wanted apart from the screen prints) because as I wrote earlier this week I'd already given up after EIGHT bad installations and had re-formatted my entire Vista 64-bit partition; installed Vista 32-bit and then the Nero 8 installation worked perfectly.
However, you have to wonder about a support address that takes 10 days to respond with what is probably a fairly standard response for more information. I know I do.
Most computer Pros prefer getting their information in English and if their users/customers allow them will also if possible install Operating Systems and Server products in their English language versions.
For one they are tested better and the bug fixes come out faster and also because having English language error messages makes finding a Knowledge Base article (if one exists) much easier.
The same to a large extent happens with computer books in English. There are more of them; they come out quicker and their screen prints reflect the software versions that most Pros are using.
There is however still a market for computer books (and from now on this piece will be about SharePoint books) in other languages and this is reflected in the books I have listed in my SP v3 Books page (http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/V%20Books.aspx) where I try to be language-neutral and give as much space to non-English books as to English books.
The books available are either books originally written for the "local" market and books originally written and published in English but then translated into one or more other languages. The above-mentioned page has examples of both.
What has been a striking feature of the SharePoint v3 books is that - with the very honourable exception of the French language Sharepoint 2007 book written by several French experts but steered by Erol Giraudy (http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=968) - all the early books were translations of English language originals.
Microsoft Press has had a very active role, in especially the German but also the French market, in quickly making translations available of some of their key books but also the For Dummies series has a SharePoint book out in German so it's not just a Microsoft effort. (O'Reilly had a German translation of the v2 book Essential SharePoint but so far hasn't brought out a translation of either of their two v3 books).
As for other languages, I don't have as good sources of information there, although I try to snap up references in people's blogs. Suffice it to say that I don't know of many books in any other languages and that those are few (two in Spanish ...)
Anyway, to save you doing your own search, here is a summary of the numbers for each foreign langauge
German:
Released: 6 (Translations 5 / Originals 1) - One of the translations is WWF
Not Released: 5 (Translations 1 / Originals 4)
The sole German language original that is released is this one
Microsoft SharePoint - Technik und Einsatz (Microsoft Press, Deutschland - Egbert Jeschke) - http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/3866456158/wssfaq0e-21 € 39.90.
French:
Released 4 (Translations 2 / Originals 2) - One of the translations is WWF
Not Released: 0
The second released French language original (the first is linked to above) is this
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS 2007) - Personnalisation et Développement (in French) (Editions ENI - Antony Bidet) - http://www.amazon.fr/exec/obidos/ASIN/2746038153/wssfaq0fe-21 at a fraction of the price of the Giraudy book at ca € 25.78
Spanish:
Released 2 (Originals 2) - One of the books is WWF
The released books are
Modelando procesos de negocio con Workflow Foundation (Editorial Krasis Press - Unai Zorrilla Castro) - http://www.campusmvp.com/CampusMVP/Modelando_procesos_de_negocio_con_Workflow_Foundation.htm (€ 32)
and
Programación con SharePoint 2007 (in Spanish) (dotNetMania - Gustavo Vélez) - orders via www.dotnetmania.com for ca € 24.50.
I'm not happy with the lack of information on that web page on non-released books in French and Spanish and surely there is or will be something in Italian soon, so please let me know about such things at englantilainen@hotmail.com
P.S. One interesting question is whether those native books provide anything which the vast quantity of English languages books don't.
It may be a cliché but Germans do tend to be more rigorous than Anglo-Saxons and so it could well be that one of the reason for the delays in availability of most of the German language books could lie in that they are better researched. It may well also be that German readers (and Swiss-German, Austrian and even Luxemburgers and Liechensteiners [and even a small Belgian minority]) prefer a drier style than that found in many of the English language books.
Here too I'd like to know for myself, so if any of the German writers of SP books is asked by his publishers who should receive a copy, my e-mail address is above.
The book "Pro SharePoint 2007 Development Techniques" (Apress) from Margriet and Nikander Bruggeman (Amazon US: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1590599136/heme0f $ 32.99) seems to have started off the next phase of SharePoint 2007 books with also the release of the long-awaited "Digital" book "Microsoft SharePoint 2007 Technologies: Planning, Design and Implementation" (Digital Press) by Kevin Laahs, Emer McKenna and Veli-Matti Vanamo (Amazon US: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0123736161/heme0f which was earlier $ 44.07 but now Amazon US list at the list price of $ 69.95 so look instead at Amazon UK: http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0123736161/heme where it is £26.39 if you are in Europe until Amazon US has regained its senses) expected to be released in mid December. There's also a heavily researched book by C. A. Callahan (Mastering Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (Sybex) (Amazon US: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0470127287/heme0f $ 31.49) which is due out a few days before the Laahs etc. book Then in February 2008 we might finally see the release of mainstream SharePoint Designer 2007 books including what might well be my favourite "SharePoint Designer X for Dummies" (For Dummies) by Dustin Miller and Heather Solomon (Amazon US: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0470096012/heme0f $16.49) although the rival book from Penny Coventry might also be worth an only slightly less cheap look ("Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 Step by Step (MSPress) : Amazon US: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0735625336/heme0f $19.59) Why most (all?) of the SharePoint Designer 2007 books are out so late in the cycle is a separate discussion and I can only guess the causes of that delay. SPD 2007 was certainly too difficult for me to even consider writing a book about unless all it consisted of were chapters on Data View Web Parts. But it seems this was the case for all the authors originally signed up - if indeed many were signed up. I remember being shown a proposal before RTM for yet another standard SharePoint book and of suggesting to the publisher that what we really needed was ONE SharePoint Designer 2007 book. If only they'd followed my advice ... As for the new wave of standard SharePoint books mentioned above, it's clear to me that these only have a chance of success if they provide in-depth information obtained by extensive working with the released product. The first phase was books based entirely or almost entirely on the Beta versions. The second phase (summer?) was books sketched out in the beta phases and with the text adjusted after checks were made using the released version(s). Finally this third (and possibly final) phase could and ought to be the same again but with a greater amount of detail. I haven't seen any of the books from this third phase unlike the books from earlier phases where I have seen quite a large number and so that's my assumption only. All the three writers/sets of writers mentioned above have it in them to do extensive research so we'll soon see whether they have included the fruits of their research in these new books and whether by doing so they have made them unreadable :)
P.S. I'm not sure whether to assign the two O'Reilly books to Phase 2 (for which they were late) or to Phase 3 (for which they were early). Certainly from my quick look at the Definitive Guide, that is not heavily researched so I won't be generous and allocate it to Phase 3 but Jeff Webb usually does a lot of research for his books so maybe his Essential SharePoint (Amazon US: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0596514077/heme0f $ 26.39) might just sneak in.
P.P.S. The total book list (which of course includes the very worthwhile (!) "Real World SharePoint 2007" book!) is still here http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/V%20Books.aspx It includes several foreign language books which I hope to take a closer look at tomorrow.
Installations 6, 7, and 8 of Nero 8 (caused by my seeing a suggestion on the Nero web site's upgrade section to use a new tool they have for completely removing old versions) still didn't work and in fact it took until the 8th installation before I was back to where I was after the 5th installation. During these installations there were increasing signs that the Registry was in a mess and once again - and despite having Location and Settings set to English(UK) I once again got Finnish language installation menus (6, 7). Meanwhile the laughably-named support department of the Ahead people (makers of the Nero product) still hadn't got round to replying to any of my e-mails (even the 100% nice one) of a week ago (and still haven't). So I finally got so fed up with all of this that I decided that Vista 64-bit (which I perhaps unwisely was blaming for most of my installation problems) was just too much hassle (I was already using only 32-bit IE within it because various things wouldn't work in 64-bit IE) and that it was time to wipe it. I couldn't of course use the 32-bit DVD Vista version I had bought a year ago because that being corrupt was the only reason I had installed 64-bit Vista in the first place, but I still have MSDN and this is a development machine (for SharePoint web sites) so I used the MSDN DVD instead. (Actually as I have a legal copy of this version of Vista that's not in use anywhere else, it would have been legal to use the MSDN copy even if it wasn't a development machine). But first I moved off a couple of things (probably on reflection not enough) from the drive to an external USB disk; re-booted into the still present original OS (XP-Pro) and then re-formatted the entire drive used by the 64-bit Vista. I then shoved in the MSDN DVD and installed 32-bit Vista Ultimate - naturally as a new installation - and for the first time ever just left the settings as English (US) hoping in that way that the problems caused by over-intelligent software installations deciding that I would just love to have my installation screens in Finnish would vanish. I did however say that I wanted a Finnish keyboard. This combination doesn't by the way work as you would expect. I was later using my Finnish keyboard and had to type a " ' " and I got a " \ ". So I looked in the keyboard settings expecting to see that it was in fact still specifying a US keyboard. No, it was saying Finnish but it was an odd Finnish - what it seems to have defined was a "US English - Finnish" keyboard as a sub-set of the US English keyboard rather than as a separately listed Finnish keyboard. Very, very odd. It was solved easily enough by adding a new Finnish keyboard and selecting that rather than the odd hybrid "US English - Finnish" and now a check showed that " ' " was indeed showing up as " ' ". Most of the rest of the installations (Office 2007; Adobe Reader 2007; Thunderbird; VMWare Workstation 6.x) went fine with not a hint of Finnish in either the products selected or in the installation screens and then it was time for the big test - would Nero 8 install correctly ? Naturally it did (it needed a re-boot partway through which made me slightly nervous) and all the Nero products are listed correctly in Start / Programs / Nero8 and SmartStart tabs no longer ask me to upgrade. Meanwhile I have, for the first time in months, a fast, lean, system again. I wonder how long that will last ?
P.S. The mottos of the story. 1. Every cloud has a silver lining. 2. Vista 64-bit is a big black cloud. 3. Intelligent installation routines aren't.
Note: All of the addresses of the KB / Articles - 2007 Products / MS / Non-MS Articles below were valid at the time I added them to the WSS FAQ
site and to this file. I can't guarantee that they still are.
(This is also posted to the WSS newsgroup at microsoft.public.sharepoint.windowsservices - web access via http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/newsgroups/server/sharepoint.mspx)
(Items are added to the WSS FAQ throughout the week so you will find new items more quickly by checking at wss.collutions.com or www.wssfaq.com daily.)
From 11th - 17th November 2007
I.1 2007 KB Articles (*now only one section for WSS and MOSS*)
New
None
Modified
None
I.b Forefront KB Articles
New
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;943608
The Forefront Security for SharePoint keyword filter blocks Shockwave Flash Extensions (.swf) files
9th November 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;941005
An error message may be logged in the STSADM export log file after you install Forefront Security for SharePoint on a computer that is running Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: "Access Denied" (ver 2.0)
7th November 2007
Modified
None
I.c InfoPath 2007 KB Articles
New
None
Modified
None
II. Articles - 2007 Products (no longer with all links to articles for other Office 2007 and other 2007 Products)
New
A. Office 2007 Server Products
http://blogs.technet.com/stefan_gossner/archive/2007/11/15/some-comments-on-common-variation-problems.aspx
Some comments on common Variation problems (MS Blog - Stefan Gossner)
15th November 2007
http://unitedsupplyco.sharepointsite.net/publicfacing/bensblog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=48
Use Conditional Formatting in Data Views based on User Security Permissions (Blog - Ben McCormack)
13th November 2007
http://unitedsupplyco.sharepointsite.net/publicfacing/bensblog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=49
Create Custom E-mail Alert Templates for SharePoint Workflows (Blog - Ben McCormack)
13th November 2007
http://www.sharepointforum.com/en-US/Blog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?List=f0104928%2D1beb%2D4409%2Db7f3%2Df577171376fd&ID=6
How to build an optimal developer VPC for SharePoint Development
12th November 2007
http://sharepointnutsandbolts.blogspot.com/2007/11/change-sharepoint-site-url.html
Change a SharePoint site's URL (Blog - Chris O'Brien)
11th November 2007
http://www.sharepointblogs.com/mirjam/archive/2007/11/11/setting-item-level-security-in-an-eventhandler.aspx
Setting item level security in an eventhandler (Blog - Mirjam)
11th November 2007
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointdesigner/HA101191181033.aspx
Add another SharePoint site to the Data Source Library
11th November 2007 (date added)
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb931107.aspx
Welcome to Microsoft Search Server 2008 (pre-release documentation)
11th November 2007 (date added)
http://www.crackerbelly.com/?p=4
Recover a document if the SharePoint Recycle Bin is not in use (Crackerbelly - Mark Shea)
11th November 2007 (date added)
http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/07/11/OfficeSpace/default.aspx
Events in SharePoint 2007 (MSDN Magazine, November 2007 - Ted Pattison)
11th November 2007 (date added)
http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/07/08/Excel/default.aspx
Excel Services: Develop A Calculation Engine For Your Apps (MSDN Magazine, August 2007 - Vishwas Lele, Pyush Kumar)
11th November 2007 (date added)
http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/07/08/OfficeSpace/default.aspx
Solution Deployment with SharePoint 2007 (MSDN Magazine, August 2007 - Ted Pattison)
11th November 2007 (date added)
http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/07/05/OfficeSpace/default.aspx
Features for SharePoint (MSDN Magazine, May 2007 - Ted Pattison)
11th November 2007 (date added)
http://www.tonstegeman.com/Blog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=47
Querying SharePoint for content - using SPSiteDataQuery and CrossListQueryInfo (Blog - Ton Stegeman)
10th November 2007
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb870301.aspx
Visual How To: Creating a Custom Task Pane to Consume SharePoint Server 2007 Query Services in Word 2007 (Joel Krist, Akona Systems)
10th November 2007 (date added - date of article is October 2007)
http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepointdesigner/archive/2007/11/09/an-introduction-to-conditional-formatting.aspx
An Introduction to Conditional Formatting (MS Team Blog - "Jon")
9th Novmber 2007
http://blogs.msdn.com/markarend/archive/2007/11/08/scripting-stsadm-commands.aspx
Scripting STSADM commands (MS Blog - Mark Arend)
8th Novmber 2007
http://blogs.msdn.com/joelo/archive/2007/11/08/what-not-to-store-in-sharepoint.aspx
What Not to Store in SharePoint (MS Blog - Joel Oleson)
8th Novmber 2007
http://blogs.msdn.com/joelo/archive/2007/11/07/is-the-hotfix-or-service-pack-going-to-break-my-sharepoint-pages-or-deployment.aspx
Is the hotfix or service pack going to break my SharePoint pages or deployment? (MS Blog - Joel Oleson)
7th November 2007
http://blogs.msdn.com/joelo/archive/2007/11/06/web-usage-reporting-tools.aspx
Web Usage Reporting Tools (MS Blog - Joel Oleson)
6th November 2007
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=a2f225fd-dfb8-4e2a-b0b5-2facd681541f&displaylang=en
2007 Office System Sample: Setting Up a Development Environment (ver 1007)
23rd October 2007
B. Other Office 2007 products (selected few only since 1.1.2007)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=e5e6d7dc-e0b0-4387-9c28-c49b1ffe34d7&displaylang=en&tm
Microsoft Forefront Server Security Management Console Log Purge Tool
14th November 2007 (relevant to Forefront for SharePoint)
C. Other New 2006/2007 Products (selected few only since 1.1.2007)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=bc381af4-9bd0-49dd-be1a-0c6ee49cd2bc&displaylang=en&tm
Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 SP1 Beta 2 VHD - 32-bit version
14th November 2007 (added because it's a semi-relevant VHD)
http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/07/05/BizTalk/default.aspx
8 Tips And Tricks For Better BizTalk Programming (MSDN Magazine, May 2007 - Marty Wasznicky, Scott Zimmerman)
11th November 2007 (date added)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=6662c7be-d79b-475a-863c-f976239ac0af&displaylang=en&tm
Microsoft Search Server 2008 Express VHD (Note: NOT with WSS 3.0)
9th November 2007 (added because VHD)
Modified
None
III WebCasts (+ PodCasts, On-Line courses) for 2007 Products
http://wm.microsoft.com/ms/msdn/office/2007officevisualhowtos/wd2007consumingqueryservicesusingvstose.wmv
Visual How To: Creating a Custom Task Pane to Consume SharePoint Server 2007 Query Services in Word 2007 (Video) (Joel Krist, Akona Systems)
10th November 2007 (date added - date of video is October 2007)
https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastRegistrationConfirmation.aspx?culture=en-US&RegistrationID=1293635296
TechNet Webcast: SAP Enterprise Portal and SharePoint Server 2007 Interoperability (Level 200) (Tilo Boettcher, Anu Chawla, Thomas Reimer)
8th November 2007
https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastRegistrationConfirmation.aspx?culture=en-US&RegistrationID=1293635406
Microsoft Office System Webcast: More Tips and Tricks for Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies (Level 300) (Evan Archilla)
6th November 2007
IV WSS v3 FAQ
New
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1262
I.41 How do I quickly check if I am running WSS 3.0 or MOSS 2007?
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1258
III.49.17 Search: How do I change the scope of a search in MS Search Server 2008?
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1259
III.49.18 Search: Are there any issues I need to know about when using PDF IFilters with MS Search Server 2008 ?
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1261
V.74 Microsoft Office User's Guide to SharePoint 2007 (Apress - Michael Antonovich)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1260
VI.86 Longitude for SharePoint (Ed: Search) (commercial - BA-Insight)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1263
X.88 Visio Stencils for Sharepoint 2007 Site Structures documentation. Version 0.2. (Blog - Maxime)
Modified
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=813
V.07 Microsoft SharePoint 2007 Technologies: Planning, Design and Implementation (Digital Press - Kevin Laahs, Emer McKenna, Veli-Matti Vanamo)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=967
V.40 Microsoft SharePoint - Technik und Einsatz (in German) (Microsoft Press, Deutschland - Egbert Jeschke) *released*
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1046
V.45 6 Microsoft Office Business Applications for Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MS Press - Microsoft [no author given]) *released* (out of stock Nov 11th)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=997
X.19 Ontolica Wildcard for MOSS 2007 (free limited version - Ontolica)
V WSSv2 KB Articles (plus SPS 2003 Hot fixes)
New
None
Modified
None
VI WSS v2 FAQ
New
None
Modified
None
The day after I no longer am an MVP (all good things come to an end) it will be very tempting to send messages with a certain text to all the newsgroup threads that I have been involved with and where the originator hasn't come back in the thread with a "Thanks, that solved my problem" reply. Here's the text of that proposed message -------------- Hi XXX, How's everything going? I wanted to check to see if you have any questions on it. Please let me know if you need further information. --------------- Of course if I do then everyone will think that losing MVP status has finally pushed me over the top and I've gone completely mad, because equally everyone knows that in newsgroups no answer means there no longer is a problem (or the poster no longer needs to know the answer). So why then are managed newsgroups "colleagues" continuing to post completely pointless messages to the public newsgroups which contain (only) the following text. --------------
Hi XXX,
How's everything going?
I wanted to check to see if you have any questions on it. Please let me
know if you need further information.
--------------- Why is it that they continually break the unwritten rules of public newsgroups in this way? Everyone wants to know.
I'm following the revised (end October) version of the "Setting Up a Development Environment for the 2007 Microsoft Office System" and apart from a minor bit of confusion where they had (Steps 1-3) *downloads* of .Net Framework 3.0; Windows SDK for the .NET Framework 3.0 and Visual Studio 2005 Extensions for WWF, followed by *installing* .NET Framework 3.0 (which I naturally had already installed in step 1) it is a good piece of work with the right links in the right place. But why do I have to keep looking at the screen (especially as I'm working on another PC at the same time and that PC is at 180 degrees from the installation PC - which also goes very quickly black so I can't just turn my head) in order to make sure the installation is still progressing. I just had a typical (and really stupid, Microsoft guys) case where I had installed Visual Studio 2005 and the next step was to install Visual Studio 2005 SP1. So I clicked on the link; started the link; answered a couple of message boxes and it started downloading. I then ignored it. Big mistake. When I checked 40 mins later it was showing a message "Do you want to update Visual Studio 2005 Professional Edition with the SP1 for Visual Studio 2005 Professional Edition". What the h*** do you think, MS guys ?
P.S. Wasn't it the Bob Newhart Driving Instructor sketch that had something like "Madam, you said you were going to turn left; you put out your indicator to turn left so naturally I assumed you were going to turn left" ?
You'd be amazed. At least I was. Here as far as I can see is the total list Windows Server 2008 for Itanium - 64-bit Windows Web Server 2008 - 32-bit (without Hyper-V) Windows Web Server 2008 - 64-bit (without Hyper-V [? the MS text is unclear]) Windows Server 2008 Standard - 32 bit without Hyper-V Windows Server 2008 Standard - 32 bit with Hyper-V Windows Server 2008 Standard - 64 bit with Hyper-V Windows Server 2008 Enterprise - 32 bit without Hyper-V
Windows Server 2008 Enterprise - 32 bit with Hyper-V
Windows Server 2008 Enterprise - 64 bit with Hyper-V Windows Server 2008 DataCenter - 32 bit without Hyper-V
Windows Server 2008 DataCenter - 32 bit with Hyper-V
Windows Server 2008 DataCenter - 64 bit with Hyper-V So what's that ? TWELVE versions. This I suppose is what happens when the Marketing guys take over. Just pity the poor support people. "Now was that Enterprise 32-bit with or without Hyper-V" ?
P.S. Actually when it comes to paying for the things there are even more versions because of course there's often the choice of product + CALs and paying per processor. P.P.S. A piece on this from Redmondmag said that the difference in price between with Hyper-V and without Hyper-V was a massive (sarcasm level high) 28 dollars. Or less than 3% (sometimes much less than 3%) of the price. Someone out there isn't ticking properly. They probably lose that 28 dollars on the printing costs of preparing the material for those extra versions.
Many of the SharePoint v3 books that are already published or soon to be published are written either in full or in part by MVPs. This makes the job of an MVP reviewer of these books somewhat difficult because the internal code between MVPs is to be nice to each other. So for instance say that I make a completely wrong statement in a newsgroup and another MVP wants to correct me, then he doesn't say "That's complete rubbish" but something like "Umm, Mike, isn't actually XXX the solution?". The other thing that makes reviewing these v3 books more difficult than reviewing the v2 books was is that now I (as the writer of one chapter in a v3 book) am standing in the book equivalent of a glasshouse. If I say nasty things about their chapters then they can say nasty things about mine - and they don't even need to buy the book, because my chapter is the free on-line one ... Luckily there's a way out. Many of the books are written by multiple authors only some of whom are MVPs and usually you can't see who wrote which chapter. One such book is O'Reilly's "SharePoint 2007 - The Definitive Guide" (http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=889) which is in effect the O'Reilly version of "Beginning SharePoint 2007 Administration: Windows SharePoint Services 3 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (Wrox)" (http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=900) As there is a dearth of SharePoint Designer 2007 books (although I'm told that "Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 Step by Step (MSPress - Penelope Coventry)" is likely to be out first (Jan 8th 200) (http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1238) I thought I'd look at the Chapter the Definitive Guide has on SPD 2007 and compared it with the equally short (20 pages) chapter that the "Real World SharePoint 2007: Indispensable Experiences From 16 MOSS and WSS MVPs (Wrox)" has (http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=961) I've already written about the Dustin Miller (the Wrox book says who wrote each chapter) chapter (5) on SPD 2007. I found it short but useful - well written with a good balance of text to screen prints. I can't say the same about Chapter 19 of the Definitive Guide. It seemed as if someone had knocked off a quick intro in a couple of hours, most of which were spent doing screen prints. There were in fact so many screen prints and so little text that there were six pages with only screen prints and a couple more with only a few lines of text. This also meant that the text and the relevant screen print were separated in some cases by several pages (so p426 had a reference to Figure 19-26 and that was on page 431!). So the quality of the editing of at least this chapter was way below O'Reilly's usual standards. Maybe it was an impossible task with such a high proportion of screen prints to text, but in that case shouldn't O'Reilly's editor have demanded more text ? As for the text. It wasn't that great. The introductory two pages (no screen prints!) were not really very useful for someone wanting to learn how to use SPD 2007. The two examples (creating a Data View Web Part after connecting to a database; a workflow example) were very trivial and went no further than someone just messing about with the product would be able to do. Just very basic, standard stuff in other words that you probably didn't need a book for. The final section (Managing SharePoint Sites) is as trivial as they come, with very short and very general text only. All in all a very disappointing chapter and after working through it I know no more than I did before. So I won't be recommending this chapter as something to look at while waiting for a full-length SPD 2007 book to come out. Dustin Miller's chapter on the other hand IS something worth mentioning. It would be better if it were longer but the few examples he includes are well worth having and unlike the chapter of the Definitive book they encourage (and prepare the way for) your own experimentation. For more of the same, keep in mind the Dustin Miller / Heather Solomon SPD 2007 for Dummies book (http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=844) which is likely to be out a couple of months after the MS Press one mentioned above (and which given the way these deadlines seem constantly to move [back] may actually beat it out).
I made a major blunder this weekend when I took advantage of a 25% off - last three days - offer to upgrade my copy of Nero to version 8.
Their offer had very cleverly not bothered to tell you just how much this upgrade would cost (and it was more than I expected for an upgrade let alone an upgrade -25%, but having got so far in the process [of finding my old code] I stupidly carried on and ordered it). In fact you had to enter the code of the product you were upgrading from for them to tell you.
So the first blunder was mine (but caused by them). Not knowing that the upgrade cost was going to be the same regardless of which version of the product you were upgrading it from (as later checks showed), I upgraded the Nero 7 Multimedia version I had on my Portable (which is the machine I do the majority of my burning on and on which Nero 7 Multimedia was working well despite the OS being 64-bit Vista). Instead what I ought to have done was upgrade the OEM Nero 6.3 I had on my older desktop where it had been bundled. Then of course I'd - for the same money - had one PC running Nero 7 Multimedia and one running Nero 8.
The second blunder was thinking that if I was upgrading a copy of the English version 7 to a copy of the English version 8, the installation routine would be in English.
No, the Nero (Ahead, actually) guys have now a certain amount of Finnish support, which means that without bothering to ask me that upgrade's menus were all in Finnish. Now I may live in Finland (location) and I may use Finnish settings on my PCs but that is purely to get a semi-automatic installation of a Finnish keyboard; Finnish decimals (= ",") and Finnish sort orders. What it does NOT mean is that I want them (for an installation of an English product, I remind you) to give me a set of Finnish installation menus once I press "Update" on the *English* language menu.
Now I've been here long enough and have worked in a Finnish language environment long enough to speak and understand Finnish, but there are lots of people living here who work solely in English because some of the big multinationals have English as their working language, and they would have had serious problems because of this Nero/Ahead cleverness.
For one they would have wondered for instance why after a re-boot the installation started up again. (Which only partly worried me because I had seen the screen way before the Re-boot now screen which had said roughly that some things were still open so the installation would continue after the re-boot). They would in any case have been pressing OK on every screen with no real idea of what they were pressing OK to.
At this point the first message was sent to the Nero support address. (Why the **** are the menus in Finnish?)
Anyway I was OK. I could read the Finnish menus (although cursing at the additional effort required of me) and I would in the end have an English installation wouldn't I ?
Well not exactly. There's something it installs called "Nero Home". THAT was in Finnish. There's also something called a Control Center. That was in Finnish too (actually only partly ...).
At this point the second message was sent to the Nero support address. (Why the **** are Home and Control Center in Finnish?)
I then decided I'm not having this and went to change my computer settings to English and also location to England. I removed Nero 8 from Control Panel / Add or remove Programs and re-installed (again using a custom installation to get everything and to be able to satisfy a location on the D: drive as C: was a bit full). I used the demo version download but specified the full version's code.
Great Joy - English language installation menus !!
The installation went through OK but then I saw that under Start / Programs the only things that were listed were two folders "Nero Manuals" and "Nero Tools". No links to any of the programs at all ....
Nero Manuals by the way is a joke as all it includes is a single file that says that you have to download the manuals as for reasons of space they are not included in the installation download.
Nero Tools includes Nero Control Center which at least this time had text in English.
But to get to the programs that do anything you need to wander down through the file system (and then drag the Nero8 file directory to your Start button to avoid needing to do this again).
I did this and started up the SmartStart application which in v7 I'd used as a quick way to get to the correct actual application for what I wanted to do.
This has some links on the left but there was also a line of Tabs above the main area of the screen so I selected something like (I'm on another machine now, I'll correct the name later) the "Copy and Burn" Tab and the main area came up with "Upgrade Now to the full version of Nero 8". As did all the other Tabs.
Time for a third message to Nero/Ahead support. I've paid; I've used the code I got back when I installed; why don't I have the full version ?
At this point (if not before!) I was getting very irritated. I'd upgraded because I was about to burn some CDs and thought the burning process might be minutely better if I had the latest version of the software. Now I'd spent several hours and seemingly I couldn't burn at all.
So I uninstalled again.
Finally I did yet another install (I've missed one above as I did 2 Finnish setting installs, so this was actually the fourth), this time using the upgrade exe rather than the trial exe (hoping that install would finally take notice of the code I'd bought and then during the installation I selected Typical settings (hoping that I'd now get the Nero products accesible via Start/Programs/Nero).
There was nothing more I could do, I felt.
Well the install apart from adding stuff to C: instead of D: made no difference.
There were still only Nero Manuals (still empty of manuals) and Nero Tools listed and all of the apps were still only available via the file structure (only now in C:\Program Files (x86) of course).
There were still a bunch of Tabs in SmartStart which said I needed to upgrade to the full version of Nero 8 (whereas by now I was wishing I could just revert to Nero 7 Multimedia).
Yet, strangely enough I could actually burn just as usual by going to Nero BurnRom (in the file structure of course) and starting the .exe there.
(Which I'd perhaps been able to do all along).
So I was finally able (near midnight on Sunday with a work day ahead) to burn the things I had in mind to burn.
But I still don't know how many of the other applications will not work because I "need to upgrade to the full version". I still don't know if even the ones that work today will stop working after 30 days even though it ought to know that I've paid.
I don't know because I no longer trust this software.
The "upgrade" was truly a nightmare and I doubt if I'll get any joy from their support people as I have been, let's put it this way, not as friendly and matter-of-fact as I ought to have been (and in fact would probably have been if it hadn't for their **** software forcing Finnish on me and giving me no way to decide that I didn't want Finnish).
So this is one "upgrade" I recommend all Nero users to give a miss.
At least until SP1 is out :)
P.S. I did a fifth installation. This time I switched off the virus checker and everything else that was running before I downloaded the upgrade .exe which starts the installation. It required a couple of re-boots and then it said it was ready.
It had all the same problems. My (Nero) license info said both that I was running a non-expiring full version and that I was running an expiring Demo version (after an earlier installation I'd tried deleting the Demo version here but that didn't help, I'd found). Nero SmartStart still had Tabs that didn't work and said I needed to Upgrade to the full version. I couldn't find the Nero code in the registry where it was supposed to be and none of the products (except for Control Center) were listed in Start / All Programs / Nero8.
So I tried in Control Center to get the latest Updates.
This went fine for a while (going slowly) but then there was an "Error accessing the OLE registry" and the rest of the installation speeded up. Then a re-boot was needed after which there was an automatic (yet another - and again very slow !) installation of Nero8. When this was finally finished I actually had a list of all the products with version numbers listed in Control Center / Update and also had the products listed on Start/All Programs/Nero8.
What I unfortunately still had was a non-functioning SmartStart that still kept demanding that I upgrade to the full version; two Nero8 versions listed in Control Center/License; and no Nero code in the registry.
So this time I sent a very calm and detailed message to Nero support (and for good measure apologised for the earlier ones).
This "upgrade" was still a disaster though. Keep away from it (unless you are running an early OEM version when it's a good idea to do it anyway - but maybe wait a bit first :) )
Stop Press: It's no several days later. Their so-called "Help"-desk hasn't replied to a single one of my e-mails.
Could this be that they don't actually have a Help Desk or is it that everyone who has installed (or tried to install Nero 8) is sending messages to them.
I think I'll be generous to the Help Desk guy (singular intended) and say it is a bum product ...
... and to think I really liked Nero 7 Premium ... (when I still had it - pay 50 Euros and have your software destroyed, now that is what they should have had on their upgrade page!).
Most of the time when people complain that a Microsoft product doesn't work the way they think it should (and often complain that the people involved haven't a clue), I tend to think the people making the complaint are the ones who haven't a clue.
Being an MVP doesn't get you very far inside the MS tent, but at least close enough to realise that people who are inside that tent are trying to make the best products they can and that usually things that are missing (or not done the way the rest of us think they should be done) are the results of design decisions - i.e. they often *have* thought of the thing that we see as missing but decided for good (to them) reasons not to include that functionality.
However occasionally they get it very wrong and in my opinion the worst cases of this are when they remove functionality in a later version that was in an earlier version of the same product (even if that product name has been changed in the meantime to confuse us and maybe make it seem it isn't the same product).
One good example of both of these last two points comes in SharePoint Designer 2007 (which - for SharePoint uses - is the follow-up product to Front Page 2003).
Whereas when you used Front Page 2003 to create a Data View Web Part (DVWP), you had access to all the SharePoint Lists on the same *server*, using SharePoint Designer 2007 you only have access to SharePoint Lists in the same *site collection* on that server.
I think discussion of this started in a thread in a SharePoint public newsgroup where I suggested using SPD 2007 to create a DVWP from any list on the server (based on FP 2003 experiences of doing just this) only for the person asking the question to come back and say this didn't work for sites in another site collection).
Now we have a blog post from Monty (the same guy as in the newsgroup, perhaps?) on this, complete with a reference to a basic MS page saying which SharePoint Lists you can add to a "Data Source Library" where it clearly states ". If the other site is in a different site collection, you can still access all of the other data sources, but not SharePoint lists and libraries."
That Monty blog (with that reference) is here:
http://www.sharepointblogs.com/mcotw/archive/2007/11/07/No-longer-able-to-create-a-DVWP-with-a-datasource-that-pulls-data-from-another-site-collection.aspx
What I'd like to know (but probably never will) is just what was the "design reason" in this case? SPD 2007 is a product that covers an awful lot more than FP 2003 ever did (making it more difficult to use, incidentally), so why, oh why, REMOVE functionality - and what's more, functionality that was easy to use? Yes, even for me.
Note: All of the addresses of the KB / Articles - 2007 Products / MS / Non-MS Articles below were valid at the time I added them to the WSS FAQ
site and to this file. I can't guarantee that they still are.
(This is also posted to the WSS newsgroup at microsoft.public.sharepoint.windowsservices - web access via http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/newsgroups/server/sharepoint.mspx)
(Items are added to the WSS FAQ throughout the week so you will find new items more quickly by checking at wss.collutions.com or www.wssfaq.com daily.)
From 4th - 10th November 2007
I.1 2007 KB Articles (*now only one section for WSS and MOSS*)
New
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/944433
The 2007 Office documents are not found when you try to search for the documents in the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 site collection
8th November 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=943105
After you install SharePoint Server 2007 Service Pack 1, the maximum disk space that is used on a query server or on an index server increases to 2.85 times the physical size of the index
6th November 2007
Modified
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;929360
You cannot create a new document or check out an existing document in a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 document library when you have multiple versions of Office installed (ver 3.0)
9th November 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=943345
How to defragment Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 databases and SharePoint Server 2007 databases (ver 1.3)
7th November 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;843578
Things to consider when you configure collation settings for SQL Server 2000 databases or SQL Server 2005 databases that are used by SharePoint Portal Server 2003, by SharePoint Server 2007, and by Windows SharePoint Services (ver 2.4)
6th November 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=841057
Support for changes to the databases that are used by Office server products and by Windows SharePoint Services (ver 7.3)
6th November 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb%3ben-us%3b932744
Information about the Maintenance Plan Wizard in SQL Server 2005 and about tasks that administrators can perform against SharePoint databases (ver 2.1)
7th November 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=938499
An external storage API is available for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (ver 1.1)
31st October 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;941330
How to automate the deletion of backups in SharePoint Server 2007 and in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 by using a Visual Basic script (ver 1.1)
31st October 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;936859
Error message when you click Reply in a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 discussion board in Subject view: "The page cannot be found" (ver 1.2)
31st October 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;936913
How to determine whether the Stsadm.exe command-line tool was run successfully in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and in SharePoint Server 2007 (ver 1.1)
31st October 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;934536
You cannot create a list that is based on a list template that has the E-Mail Notification option enabled in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 or in SharePoint Server 2007 (ver 1.1)
31st October 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;936623
Error message after you change the configuration database name when you perform a gradual upgrade from SharePoint Portal Server 2003 to SharePoint Server 2007: "An update conflict has occurred" (ver 2.1)
31st October 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=932118
Persistent cookies are not shared between Internet Explorer 7 and Office applications in Windows Vista (ver 1.3) [Note: relevance to SSO in MOSS 2007]
31st October 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;944105
How to customize application pages in the Layouts folder in SharePoint Server 2007 and in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (ver 3.0)
30th October 2007
I.b Forefront KB Articles
New
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;943624
Support information for Antigen or Forefront Security management console programs on a computer on which an Antigen server product or a Forefront Security server product is installed
7th November 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;943620
Folders to exclude when you perform a file-level antivirus scan on a server operating system
2nd November 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;943625
Antigen or Microsoft Forefront server security products may detect a file as being infected with the UnwritableCompressedFile virus
2nd November 2007
Modified
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=929074
The scan engines are not updated when you schedule a scan engine update in Forefront Server Security for SharePoint or Forefront Server Security for Exchange, and an error message occurs: "ERROR: Unable to load manifest" (ver 3.0)
7th November 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;943611
An error message is logged in the ProgramLog.txt file when you try to update a scan engine in Forefront Security for Exchange Server or in Forefront Security for SharePoint: "ERROR: Failed to create temporary manifest file" (ver 1.2)
2nd November 2007
I.c InfoPath 2007 KB Articles
New
None
Modified
New
II. Articles - 2007 Products (no longer with all links to articles for other Office 2007 and other 2007 Products)
New
A. Office 2007 Server Products
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb954662.aspx
Upgrading SharePoint Portal Server 2003 Customizations to SharePoint Server 2007 (Part 1 of 2)
7th November 2007 (date added)
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb954661.aspx
Upgrading SharePoint Portal Server 2003 Customizations to SharePoint Server 2007 (Part 2 of 2)
7th November 2007 (date added)
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointdesigner/HA102098081033.aspx
Collect data from a user in a workflow (SPD 2007 article)
7th November 2007 (date added)
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointdesigner/HA102336241033.aspx
Assign a form to a group in a workflow (SPD 2007 article)
7th November 2007 (date added)
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointdesigner/HA102336231033.aspx
Assign a to-do item in a workflow (SPD 2007 article)
7th November 2007 (date added)
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointdesigner/HA102376561033.aspx
Create a secondary workflow (SPD 2007 article)
7th November 2007 (date added)
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb330848.aspx
Setting Up a Development Environment for the 2007 Microsoft Office System (Keith Bunge, Alex Hart, Bryan Hart - all Solanite Consulting) (for Microsoft)
7th November 2007 (date added - revised date of paper October 2007)
http://blogs.technet.com/wbaer/archive/2007/11/06/moving-site-collections-between-domains.aspx
Moving site collections between domains (MSBlog - William Baer)
6th November 2007
http://www.sharepointforum.com/en-US/Wiki/Installation%20WSS%203.0.aspx
Installation WSS 3.0 (Daniel Bugday [not MS])
5th November 2007
http://www.sharepointforum.com/en-US/Wiki/Installation%20MOSS%202007.aspx
Installation MOSS 2007 (Daniel Bugday [not MS])
5th November 2007
http://blogs.msdn.com/jingmeili/archive/2007/11/05/how-to-exclude-a-site-collection-from-being-indexed-for-a-global-search-but-not-for-local-search.aspx
How to exclude a site collection from being indexed for a global search but not for local search? (Blog - Jingmei Li)
5th November 2007
http://www.sharepointforum.com/en-US/Blog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?List=f0104928%2D1beb%2D4409%2Db7f3%2Df577171376fd&ID=5
Content Types: Rename Title Column Issue (Blog - Daniel Bugday)
5th November 2007
http://blogs.inetium.com/blogs/rmitchell/archive/2007/11/01/use-powershell-to-list-your-views.aspx
Use PowerShell to list your Views (Blog - Raymond Mitchell)
1st November 2007
http://www.sharepointblogs.com/toth/archive/2007/10/31/using-named-anchors-in-sharepoint-wiki-pages.aspx
Using named anchors in SharePoint Wiki pages (Blog - Adam Toth)
31st October 2007
http://sharepointsolutions.blogspot.com/2007/10/sharepoint-designer-workflows-how-to.html
SharePoint Designer Workflows: How to Tell Which Fields Have Changed (Blog - Ricky Spears, SharePoint Solutions)
31st October 2007
B. Other Office 2007 products (selected few only since 1.1.2007)
None
C. Other New 2006/2007 Products (selected few only since 1.1.2007)
None
Modified
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=f9956176-cf66-478b-b20d-b9b92dd0dbfa&displaylang=en&tm
Microsoft Office 2007 Professional VHD (ver 1.1)
5th November 2007
III WebCasts (+ PodCasts, On-Line courses) for 2007 Products
None
IV WSS v3 FAQ
New
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1249
I.39 What are the differences between .stp and .wsp template files?
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1253
I.40 What are the differences between using (AD) Domain Groups and using SharePoint Groups?
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1256
III.49.15 Search: How do I enable Search Server 2008 Express features for WSS 3.0?
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1257
III.49.16 Search: Why am I getting an error when I install Search Server 2005 Express on my MOSS 2007 server?
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1248
V.72 SharePoint 2007 Fundamentals: Interactive Training Course (DVD-ROM) (Pilothouse Consulting, Inc.. - Andre Abramenko) *released*
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1252
V.73 Modelando procesos de negocio con Workflow Foundation (Workflow Book in Spanish) (Editorial Krasis Press - Unai Zorrilla Castro)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1250
VI.82 Lighting Tools Data Viewer Web Part (commercial - Lighting Tools Ltd)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1251
VI.83 eSENSE Bridge (commercial - nse)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1254
VI.84 Newsletter Web Part for Microsoft SharePoint (commercial - SharePartXXL International Gmbh)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1255
VI.85 CorasWorks Data Integration Toolset for MOSS 2007 (commercial - CorasWorks)
Modified
V WSSv2 KB Articles (plus SPS 2003 Hot fixes)
New
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=944445
SharePoint Portal Server 2003 cannot index a 2007 Office document or file [My assumption is that this applies to WSS 2.0 as well]
5th November 2007
Modified
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;822697
Problems that may occur in Meeting Workspace information when you use Outlook Web Access (ver 3.4)
5th November 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=823569
E-mail message attachments are not uploaded to the document library in your SharePoint Services virtual server (ver 1.5)
25th October 2007
(was "E-Mail Message Attachments Are Not Uploaded to the Document Library When You Configure an E-Mail Enabled Document Library (ver 1.2)")
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=913402
Description of the Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 post-Service Pack 2 hotfix package: February 7, 2006 (ver 2.1)
24th October 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=915746
Description of the Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 post-Service Pack 2 hotfix package: March 21, 2006 (ver 2.1)
24th October 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=828813
You receive a "Specified domain does not exist" or an "Adding user name failed" error message when you extend a virtual server with Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 (ver 5.0)
23rd October 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=829067
You may receive a "The initializestrings method returned the incorrect number of strings" error message when you use FrontPage 2003 to open the properties of a Web Part (ver 4.0) [Only in an SPS 2003 environment]
22nd October 2007
Deleted
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=918744
Description of the Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services post-Service Pack 2 hotfix package: June 1, 2006
VI WSSv2 FAQ
New
None
Modified
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSS%20FAQ/EditForm.aspx?ID=67
III.05.2 Forbidden characters
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSS%20FAQ/EditForm.aspx?ID=242
III.77 SQL Reporting Services on a WSS Server. How do I get it to work?
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSS%20FAQ/EditForm.aspx?ID=307
VII.08.09 Free WSS Web parts - Outlook Folders and others (Sigi Weber)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSS%20FAQ/EditForm.aspx?ID=329
VII.08.13 Free WSS Web Parts - Logout WebPart (Sigi Weber)
I ended with being unable to play the avi (mp4) files in the Mac (scratchy sound in the Mac itself and/or player crashing and reversed and upside-down pictures in a Parallels VM running Server 2003) yet being able to play them in my Vista based portable (right away) and in an XPPro set-up after installating Windows Media Player 11 and installing the divx codec. So the logical thing to do was to try to upgrade the Windows Media Player 10 in the Server VM to 11 and see if that managed to clear up the reverse (etc) picture problem there. This was the point at which I started cursing Microsoft and their "we know better attitude". They just *knew* that I had Finnish settings and so they *knew* I'd be wanting the Finnish version of the Media player. So I'd find an English language link in a MS site to Media Player 11; click on it and be directed to a page in Finnish offering me a download of Media Player 10 (yes 10!). After jumping through so many hoops that I can't even remember them, I finally was able to download the English language version of Media Player 11 and installed it - well up to the point where it said it could only be installed on XPPro with SP2 ... So the next step was to create a VM running XPPro. Again under Parallels. So I did that and because the Swedish keyboard is the same as the Finnish one, I specified Swedish settings for a change. The XPPro installation (as always the English language version) went OK and then I went to install Media Player 11. If my problems with the Finnish settings and continual attempts by Microsoft to give me the Finnish version were bad enough, they were ten time worse with their attempts to give me the Swedish version. The main trick I had done with the Finnish version to get it to give me the English version (search on worldwide) didn't work with the Swedish version and there were things like menus that automatically decided to only select links if the text was in Swedish; even resetting this to all languages and picking English language pages still always led to a download of the Swedish language version until a random event happened and for no apparent reason I did finally have an Enlgish language version of Media Player 11 to download. I installed it; tested the avi file; as expected only sound; installed the dix codec; and .... got both sound and vision *reversed and upside-down*! Conclusion: there must be something wrong with Parallels. Next test: Install XPPro SP2; Media Player 11 and the divx codec on a VM under VMWare Fusion (for which I have the beta of version 1.1). Then finally I might be able to play these files on the Mac. Meanwhile a note that Firefox downloads also suggest the Finnish language version to me BUT they have one line lower a link to "other language versions". Nice and simple. Why oh why doesn't Microsoft do something similar and stop assuming they know best (and virtually forcing their choice on me)?
P.S. I've now created an XP Pro with SP2 VM under VM Fusion; added Media Reader 11; added the divx codec. Just in fact what I did on a real XPPro. It didn't help. The file is still upside down and reversed (and it's not the file as I tried with a smaller file; same thing).
So now the question is, is this a MAC VM "feature" or do I have a reverse back codec on both the XPPro and the Vista (native) machines on which this has run correctly ?
Next stop a VM running XPPro on the Vista machine.
Note: The main problem with this is that each test uses up an XPPro authentication because otherwise you can't install Media Reader 11 and even MSDN users don't have that many to use for testing (which is very clearly what I am doing here).
P.P.S. It will play fine using the free Divx Player (from www.divx.com and included in the divx codec download) but use Real Player in that same VM Fusion:based XPPro system and it's reversed and upside down again just like in Media Player 11.
As you have seen from the title this for once is not a SharePoint blog piece. I have a recently bought Digibox with a hard disk. I carefully bought one of the few that had a USB port so that I could transfer files to my PC. Well I can but these files are in a very strange format and I discovered there are no free ways of converting these files into a normal video file format that is anything less than very complicated and time consuming. (Nor did there seem to be any solution I could pay for) So it was time to look at something else. Well, by chance, in addition to a video IPod (80GB) I also have an Archos 604 Wifi device and I've recently bought its add-on for adding content direct from the TV because it also included a charger for the Archos' battery (which you can charge via USB port if you have half a day to spare). So I connected that to one of the many output places on my (expensive) digibox and started a program going from the digibox and recorded it to the Archos device. (In real time of course and with - at least the way I did it - no way of telling it automatically when to stop recording, so I had to monitor it). I now had a mp4 format .avi file that I could transfer to my Portable PC or MacBook and play there. Well not actually and not entirely. It will play on the Portable PC (Vista) but the MacBook is odd. Firstly in QuickTime it plays OK (video) but with very scratchy/jumpy sound. I paid for a codec from Apple that helped not a bit. I tried adding the divx codec (free) for luck but to no effect. So I tried it in a Parallels VM running VM Server and after I loaded Windows Media Viewer 10 I got sound but no picture. So I added here the divx codec and now I get perfect picture and sound. BUT the picture is upside down and also horizontally switched by 180 degrees (so left is right and right is left - only noticeable because of the TV stations logo) (There's a message about "error downloading codec" and simultaneously playback starts). So almost there but not quite. Obviously it's a codec problem. Equally obviously my PC portable has it ... (but which and where did I get it from?)
P.S. I tried to run the .avi file on an XPPro. Sound only. So I upgraded to Windows Media Viewer 11 and tried again. It said it was uploading a codec and that went OK. I still only got sound though ..
So I tried adding the divx codec (from http://www.divx.com and installing only the codec part of the free download) and now I had both vision and sound. Maybe I should try Media Viewer 11 on the Windows Server 2003 running in that VM ...?
Note: All of the addresses of the KB / Articles - 2007 Products / MS / Non-MS Articles below were valid at the time I added them to the WSS FAQ
site and to this file. I can't guarantee that they still are.
(This is also posted to the WSS newsgroup at microsoft.public.sharepoint.windowsservices - web access via http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/newsgroups/server/sharepoint.mspx)
(Items are added to the WSS FAQ throughout the week so you will find new items more quickly by checking at wss.collutions.com or www.wssfaq.com daily.)
From 28th October - 3rd November 2007
I.1 2007 KB Articles (*now only one section for WSS and MOSS*)
New
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;944104
Error message when you try to configure the SSO service on a computer that is running SharePoint Server 2007: "Failed to connect to the database server"
31st October 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;944154
You receive an HTTP 404 error message when you browse the SharePoint site collections after a hotfix package or a public update for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 is applied
31st October 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;944106
When you programmatically use the SPUser.RegionalSettings object on a server that is running Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, the value of the returned object is NULL
30th October 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;843578
Things to consider when you configure collation settings for SQL Server 2000 databases or SQL Server 2005 databases that are used by SharePoint Portal Server 2003, by SharePoint Server 2007, and by Windows SharePoint Services (ver 2.3)
30th October 2007
(moved from v2)
Modified
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;944105
How to customize application pages in the Layouts folder in SharePoint Server 2007 and in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (ver 2.0)
29th October 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=934793
Description of the SharePoint Server 2007 hotfix package: April 12, 2007 (ver 3.0)
29th October 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=934790
Description of the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 hotfix package: April 12, 2007 (ver 1.5)
11th September 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=934251
Description of the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 hotfix package that includes the English, French, and German MUI: April 12, 2007 (ver 1.1)
11th September 2007
I.b Forefront KB Articles
New
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;943611
An error message is logged in the ProgramLog.txt file when you try to update a scan engine in Forefront Security for Exchange Server or in Forefront Security for SharePoint: "ERROR: Failed to create temporary manifest file"
1st November 2007
Modified
None
I.c InfoPath 2007 KB Articles
New
None
Modified
None
II. Articles - 2007 Products (no longer with all links to articles for other Office 2007 and other 2007 Products)
New
A. Office 2007 Server Products
http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/3c5ea34d-e9da-44b0-a1a7-e92107203b8d1033.mspx?mfr=true
Manage Web Parts page and controls security (Office SharePoint Server)
2nd November 2007
http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/a219574c-783b-49e2-84a5-691685cd4b821033.mspx?mfr=true
Site Use Confirmation and Automatic Deletion: Stsadm properties (Office SharePoint Server)
1st November 2007
http://blogs.technet.com/wbaer/archive/2007/10/30/installing-windows-sharepoint-services-3-0-on-windows-server-2008.aspx
Installing Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 on Windows Server 2008 (MS Blog - William Baer)
30th October 2007
http://sharepointnutsandbolts.blogspot.com/2007/10/stsadm-export-content-deployment.html
STSADM export, Content Deployment, Content Migration API, Features/Solutions - deployment options compared (Blog - Chris O'Brien)
29th October 2007
http://blogs.msdn.com/joelo/archive/2007/10/29/sharepoint-app-pool-settings.aspx
Recommendations for SharePoint Application Pool Settings (MS Blog - Joel Oleson)
29th October 2007
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointdesigner/HA100996241033.aspx?mode=print
Apply conditional formatting to a Data View
29th October 2007 (date added)
http://www.sharepointblogs.com/zimmer/archive/2007/10/28/moss-2007-customize-the-search-result-using-xslt-part-3-customize-using-sharepoint-designer-2007.aspx
MOSS 2007: Customize the Search Result (using XSLT) - Part 3 - Customize using SharePoint Designer 2007 (Blog - Tobias Zimmergren)
28th October 2007
http://www.sharepointblogs.com/zimmer/archive/2007/09/01/moss-2007-customizing-the-search-results-page-xslt-part-2-add-highlighting.aspx
MOSS 2007: Customizing the Search Results Page (XSLT) - Part 2 - Add highlighting (Blog - Tobias Zimmergren)
1st September 2007
http://www.toddklindt.com/blog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=48
Redirection options in SharePoint (Blog . Todd Klindt)
19th August 2007
B. Other Office 2007 products (selected few only since 1.1.2007)
None
C. Other New 2006/2007 Products (selected few only since 1.1.2007)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=be706c39-b73b-4b6f-8d22-87aeec1ebfa2&displaylang=en&tm
Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 R2 Reviewer's Guide (ver 1.0)
29th October 2007
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=8790e652-1da5-4e80-88fe-b87606233db4&displaylang=en&tm
BizTalk Server 2006 R2 Runtime Architecture Poster (ver 1.0)
29th October 2007
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=ff468298-64be-4947-a086-f61584caf995&displaylang=en&tm
BizTalk Server 2006 R2 Scale-Out Configurations Poster (ver 1.0)
29th October 2007
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=b9f13051-1cfd-462b-a637-013fd923b177&displaylang=en&tm
Business-to-Business Integration with BizTalk Server 2006 R2 (ver 1.0)
29th October 2007
Modified
http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/82c09ad6-6137-438d-a324-16a7f99e12681033.mspx?mfr=true
Plan to crawl content (Office SharePoint Server)
1st November 2007
III WebCasts (+ PodCasts, On-Line courses) for 2007 Products
https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastRegistrationConfirmation.aspx?culture=en-US&RegistrationID=1293376675
Momentum Webcast: Microsoft Enterprise Search Solutions in SharePoint Server 2007 (Level 100) (Chris Ertz)
24th October 2007
IV WSS v3 FAQ
New
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1244
V.62 Sharepoint Server 2007 : Tome 1, Installation et déploiement (in French) (MSPress - Bill English and others) *released*
(uses free V.62 number)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1240
V.68 Administrator's Guide to Microsoft Office 2007 Servers: Forms Server 2007, Groove Server 2007, Live Communications Server 2007, PerformancePoint Server, SharePoint Server 2007 for Search (Unleashed) (SAMS - J. Peter Bruzzese, Ronald Barrett)
(replaces former V.62 - author and up-to-date prices added - (mistake adding as new!)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1241
V.69 Windows SharePoint Services 3.0-Programmierung (in German) (MSPress Deutschland - Ted Pattison, Daniel Larson)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1242
V.70 Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 - Das Handbuch. (in German) (in German) (MSPress Deutschland - Dirk Grasekamp)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1243
V.71 Microsoft SharePoint-Technologien (in German) (MSPress Deutschland - Ben Curry)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1247
VII.19B Professional SharePoint 2007 Development (Wrox - ISBN 978-0-470-11756-9) (Chapter 5 *extract* - Programming Event Handling in Windows SharePoint Services
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1246
VII.23A Real World SharePoint 2007: Indispensable Experiences from 16 MOSS and WSS MVPs (Wrox - ISBN 978-0-470-17402-9) Chapter 1 - Introduction to SharePoint
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1245
VIII.03C InfoPath 2007 (in French) (Editions ENI - Jean-François Fustec) *released*
Modified
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=966
V.39 Microsoft SharePoint 2007 im Einsatz (in German) (Addison-Wesley - Torsten Mollien, Thomas Hauser)
(author added; new delivery date)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=967
V.40 Microsoft SharePoint - Technik und Einsatz (in German) (Microsoft Press, Deutschland - Egbert Jeschke)
(new title; new delivery date)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1074
V.50 Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services v3. Das offizielle Trainingsbuch (in German) (MS Press Deutschland - Olga M. Londer, Todd Bleeker, Penelope Coventry) *released*
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1107
V.56 Microsoft Sharepoint 2007 für Dummies (Wiley - Vanessa L. Williams) (In German) *released*
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1125
V.59 Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS 2007) - Personnalisation et Développement (in French) (Editions ENI - Antony Bidet) *released*
(also VII.23A and 23B have been moved to become 23B and 23C)
V WSSv2 KB Articles (plus SPS 2003 Hot fixes)
New
None
Modified
None
VI WSSv2 FAQ
New
None
Modified
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/923643/en-us
Description of Windows SharePoint Services Service Pack 3 (ver 5.1)
29th October 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;941412
Description of the Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 hotfix package: August 23, 2007 (ver 2.1)
26th October 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;911559
Description of the SharePoint Portal Server 2003 post-Service Pack 2 hotfix package: December 5, 2005 (ver 2.1)
24th October 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=910920
Description of the Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 post-Service Pack 2 Hotfix Package: February 14, 2006 (ver 2.1)
24th October 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=915424
Description of the Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 post-Service Pack 2 hotfix package: March 13, 2006 (ver 2.2)
24th October 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;918744
Description of a new command-line operation that you can use to repair content databases in Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 and Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server 2003 (ver 2.2)
24th October 2007
Unfortunately most publishers have got wise to my method in early days as an MVP of having such a large set of free on-line chapters stored in my private STS (later WSS 2.0) site that they covered the whole subject.
These days if there are on-line chapters available in full, they tend to be Chapter One - Introduction to XXX and so having a collection of 12 on-line chapters on a particular subject no longer means that you cover the content of an entire book. Instead you are very well information about the basics.
Nevertheless these on-line chapters do have a role to fill and that is of letting you see whether the writer's style is something you can put up with through an entire book.
There was a book a while back that got a comment from one person that the humour was laid on so thickly that he couldn't bear to read it, even though the technical matter was good. Other people of course praised the humour. So that was one book where to make your own mind up you could usefully read the on-line chapter. (The writer is now an MVP so I'm not going to say which book even if you ask).
Another snag is that many books have more than one author (this seems to be almost the norm for SharePoint v3 as it becomes more and more complicated / covers more areas) and so deciding you like (or dislike) the style of the writing based on the on-line Chapter One isn't going to help you to much if that writer has only written Chapter One and the other chapters were written by others.
The final snag that comes to mind is that Chapter One is sometimes written at a completely different level to the rest of the book.
In Real World SharePoint 2007, my Chapter One (yes, called "An Introduction to SharePoint" - accurate for once, because it also mentions the history of the SharePoint products) is intentionally the only one written for non-experts. Its aim is to get people quickly up-to-speed in SharePoint 2007 (using WSS 3.0 as a simpler example) so that they have a chance of understanding the rest of the book and know where to find (and ask for) more information.
So I was very happy when that Chapter was not the one used - as a free on-line chapter - to show what the book was like, but instead there were some extracts available of (parts of) other chapters. "WAS happy" because yesterday I discovered that that Chapter One is now available in full, on-line as a free download (and one, what's more, that is easier to find than those extracts). Oops.
Anyway for people just itching to read it and find all the factual and spelling errors (another reason for me being fairly happy it wasn't available on-line), you'll find it linked to on my page with links to all the on-line chapters and part-chapters I could find.
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/VII%20Book%20Extracts.aspx
(item 23A)
When there, if you've been before, you might also take a look at 19B which has also just been added.
P.S. As always, if you know of any on-line chapters or part chapters that are available but for which I haven't got a listing, please let me know. SharePoint only of course (although I'm wondering how far chapters of ASP.NET 2.0 books are relevant these days).
At least once a week I do a sweep through Amazon US looking to see if there are any newly listed (typically available more than six months later) SharePoint books or to see whether any books have been released since my last sweep.
(Slightly less often I check for books on things like Excel Services and InfoPath and even less often for books on subject close to SharePoint such as BizTalk; Virtual Server systems etc.)
I then add or modify the listing of V3 books
(http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/V%20Books.aspx)
accordingly.
Now most people are interested only in the English language books but there are those (and perhaps most of all their users) who want if possible books in their own language (we'll ignore a discussion of whether books in American English are in the own language of Brits; Aussies; Kiwis etc.) and so I try to cater for them too.
Needless to say, because there are less books I tend much less often to check the French; and German Amazon sites for books in those languages and I'm forced to reply on people mentioning books in any other language in their blogs or their newsgroup postings.
Well this weekend it was a fairly miserable day so I did one of those rare scans for foreign language books and found that the second original SharePoint book in French was now available along with a French translation of the MS Press massive 30 Chapter (and over 1100 pages) MOSS 2007 Administrator's Companion from Bill English and his team. Well not actually a translation, because the listing says it's of Part 1, so I can only guess that they have divided the book up into two "handy" parts - this part 1 ("Tome 1") being for Installation and Deployment. Given that, it's perhaps irritating to find that the list price for this first half (with only a 5% deduction available) is more than the list price of the entire original.
The other thing that struck me was that especially the German MSPress has actively seeked out translations of many of their (MS Press) English language titles and that these are becoming available before (or long before) any original German language SharePoint books.
I remember an e-mail conversation that I had with the writer of a SharePoint v2 book about whether I thought a German translation of his book would be worth doing. ("Possibly") He did it in the end without much competition from anyone. How it sold I don't know but I do know that one of the for Dummies SharePoint books is already available in German (and that for sure doesn't come from the MS Press ... !)
Finally, please, please, if you know of any Spanish, Italian; Turkish, Persian, (even Swedish or Finnish!) etc. SharePoint v3 books out there - or even any French or German ones I'm not listing - please let me know!
Note: All of the addresses of the KB / Articles - 2007 Products / MS / Non-MS Articles below were valid at the time I added them to the WSS FAQ
site and to this file. I can't guarantee that they still are.
(This is also posted to my blog at http://mikewalsh.bilsimser.com)
(This is also posted to the WSS newsgroup at microsoft.public.sharepoint.windowsservices - web access via http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/newsgroups/server/sharepoint.mspx)
(Items are added to the WSS FAQ throughout the week so you will find new items more quickly by checking at wss.collutions.com or www.wssfaq.com daily.)
From 21th - 27th October 2007
I.1 2007 KB Articles (*now only one section for WSS and MOSS*)
New
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;944105
How to customize application pages in the Layouts folder in SharePoint Server 2007 and in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (ver 1.1)
25th October 2007
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=a2f225fd-dfb8-4e2a-b0b5-2facd681541f&displaylang=en
2007 Office System Sample: Setting Up a Development Environment (ver 1007)
23rd October 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;943076
Description of the Excel Services in Office SharePoint Server 2007 hotfix package: October 9, 2007 (ver 1.1)
22nd October 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;943594
You experience performance issues after you install security update 934525 (MS07-059) in a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 environment that contains many host-named site collections (ver 1.1)
22nd October 2007
Modified
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=943345
How to defragment Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 databases and SharePoint Server 2007 databases (ver 1.2)
24th October 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;938663
One-time timer jobs in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 or in SharePoint Server 2007 are delayed by at least one hour when the jobs are scheduled to occur during daylight saving time (DST) (ver 1.3)
23rd October 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;936227
MS07-042: Vulnerability in Microsoft XML Core Services could allow remote code execution (ver 2.2)
22nd October 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=837847
How to customize SharePoint Portal Server 2003 or Office SharePoint Server 2007 by using IFilters, noise word files, and thesaurus files (ver 6.2)
22nd October 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;942989
Some SharePoint timer job definitions are not restored successfully when you back up a Windows SharePoint Services 3-0 Web application or a Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Web application, and then you restore this application to a new farm (ver 2.0)
19th October 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;941142
Error message when you try to upgrade from a SharePoint 2.0 product to a SharePoint 3.0 product on a computer that is running Windows Server 2008: "Execution of a full-text operation failed" (ver 2.0)
19th October 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=832811
How to restore a corrupted Windows SharePoint Services home page (ver 3.0)
18th October 2007
I.b Forefront KB Articles
New
None
Modified
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=940879
Users cannot upload documents or files that are larger then 128 MB on the SharePoint site after you install Forefront Security for SharePoint (ver 1.3)
18th October 2007
I.c InfoPath 2007 KB Articles
New
None
Modified
None
II. Articles - 2007 Products (no longer with all links to articles for other Office 2007 and other 2007 Products)
New
A. Office 2007 Server Products
http://www.sharepointblogs.com/mdlotter/archive/2007/10/24/infopath-2007-and-sharepoint-site-columns.aspx
InfoPath 2007 and SharePoint Site Columns (Blog - Michael Lotter)
24th October 2007
http://www.sharepointblogs.com/agoodwin/archive/2007/10/24/pdf-documents-not-appearing-in-search-results.aspx
pdf documents not appearing in search results? (Blog - A Goodwin)
24th October 2007
http://office.microsoft.com/download/afile.aspx?AssetID=AM102447701033
Data protection and recovery for Office SharePoint Server in small to medium deployments (Bruno Lanceleaux)
19th October 2007 (date of MS reference to this - paper itself dated October 2007)
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb852172.aspx
Searching Sites Protected by Forms Authentication with Enterprise Search in SharePoint Server 2007 (Jo-Anne West)
21st October 2007 (date added) (article dated October 2007)
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb852081.aspx
Overview of Web Service Support in InfoPath 2007 (Mark Roberts)
21st October 2007 (date added) (article dated October 2007)
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb852171.aspx
Helper Classes for the SharePoint Server 2007 Search Query Web Service Built Using the Microsoft .NET Framework (Callum Shillan)
21st October 2007 (date added) (article dated October 2007)
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb802729.aspx
Visual How To: Writing and Debugging Event Handlers for Project Server 2007 (Joel Krist, Akona Systems)
21st October 2007 (date added) (article dated October 2007)
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb871637.aspx
Visual How To: Adding Excel Web Parts to Pages Programmatically in SharePoint Server 2007 (Joel Krist, Akona Systems)
21st October 2007 (date added) (article dated October 2007)
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb871647.aspx
Visual How To: Creating Custom Enterprise Search Web Parts in SharePoint Server 2007 (Joel Krist, Akona Systems)
21st October 2007 (date added) (article dated October 2007)
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb899428.aspx
Visual How To: Developing Custom Applications by Using Excel Web Services in SharePoint Server 2007 (Joel Krist, Akona Systems)
21st October 2007 (date added) (article dated October 2007)
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb814929.aspx
Usage Event Logging in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (Radu Rusu, Erick R. Lerma, Les W. Smith)
21st October 2007 (date added) (article dated September 2007)
http://www.sharepointblogs.com/sezai/archive/2007/10/19/locking-down-styles-in-the-moss-publishing-html-field-control.aspx
Locking Down Styles in the MOSS Publishing HTML Field Control (Blog - Sezai)
19th October 2007
http://blog.tedpattison.net/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?List=80e51818%2D7b98%2D41d8%2Db313%2D955977ecd68f&ID=4
Using a Web Application Feature to Modify web.config (Blog - Ted Pattison)
18th October 2007
http://office.microsoft.com/download/afile.aspx?AssetID=AM102446561033
Integrating the Office SharePoint Server 2007 Business Data Catalog and SAP Enterprise for Search
18th October 2007 (dated October 2007)
http://office.microsoft.com/download/afile.aspx?AssetID=AM102446571033
Integrating the Office SharePoint Server 2007 Business Data Catalog with SAP NetWeaver
18th October 2007 (dated October 2007)
http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/3107ebf3-2037-45f4-90b9-4200d9799b361033.mspx
Configure forms-based authentication (Office SharePoint Server)
11th October 2007
http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/19dd4838-f0bd-4cfd-b490-8970e5cd81b41033.mspx
Page design roadmap
11th October 2007
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=101328&clcid=0x409
Sample project plan: Office SharePoint Server 2007 deployment (Office Project 2007 format)
8th October 2007
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=102043&clcid=0x409
Sample project plan: Office SharePoint Server 2007 deployment (Office Project 2003 format)
8th October 2007
http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/afb61f44-5405-4a2f-9b13-2bc03a6e16f81033.mspx
Document management roadmap
4th October 2007
http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/7cb8b313-f0ec-4b98-9831-8afc10ff5d241033.mspx
InfoPath Forms Services roadmap
4th October 2007
http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/ca538a1a-2017-4cf4-bb36-8a2f5c34ee051033.mspx
Workflows roadmap
4th October 2007
http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/9f650af0-ffa9-4244-9715-94a93495a6351033.mspx
Business intelligence roadmap
4th October 2007
B. Other Office 2007 products (selected few only since 1.1.2007)
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb230129.aspx
InfoPath 2007 Developer Reference (SDK) (on-line version - top page)
25th October 2007 (date added - probably 18th September 2007)
C. Other New 2006/2007 Products (selected few only since 1.1.2007)
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb848116.aspx
PerformancePoint Monitoring Software Development Kit (SDK)
25th October 2007 (date added - probably 20th September 2007) (added to include in SDK list)
Modified
http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/f484f5f2-35bb-4d70-bf56-dd1c4c287c721033.mspx
Deploy software updates for Office SharePoint Server 2007
18th October 2007
http://technet2.microsoft.com/windowsserver/WSS/en/library/91649a7e-6b5a-4e5a-9ee5-51951f4b857f1033.mspx?mfr=true
Deploy software updates for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
18th October 2007
III WebCasts (+ PodCasts, On-Line courses) for 2007 Products
http://wm.microsoft.com/ms/msdn/office/2007OfficeVisualHowTos/PJ2007WritingDebuggingEventHandlers.wmv
Visual How To: Writing and Debugging Event Handlers for Project Server 2007 (Video) (Joel Krist, Akona Systems)
21st October 2007 (date added) (article dated October 2007)
mms://wm.microsoft.com/ms/msdn/office/2007OfficeVisualHowTos/MOSS2007AddinganExcelWebPartsProgrammatically.wmv
Visual How To: Adding Excel Web Parts to Pages Programmatically in SharePoint Server 2007 (Video) (Joel Krist, Akona Systems)
21st October 2007 (date added) (article dated October 2007)
mms://wm.microsoft.com/ms/msdn/office/2007OfficeVisualHowTos/MOSS2007CreatingCustomEnterpriseSearchWebParts.wmv
Visual How To: Creating Custom Enterprise Search Web Parts in SharePoint Server 2007 (Video) (Joel Krist, Akona Systems)
21st October 2007 (date added) (article dated October 2007)
mms://wm.microsoft.com/ms/msdn/office/2007OfficeVisualHowTos/MOSS2007DevelopingCustomApplicationUsingExcelWebServices.wmv
Visual How To: Developing Custom Applications by Using Excel Web Services in SharePoint Server 2007 (Video) (Joel Krist, Akona Systems)
21st October 2007 (date added) (article dated October 2007)
IV WSS v3 FAQ
New
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1238
V.66 Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 Step by Step (MSPress - unknown)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1239
V.67 Sharepoint 2007 (Nevada learning Series - unknown) *released*
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1237
X.87 SharePoint Skinner (free - eLumenotion)
Modified
V WSSv2 KB Articles (plus SPS 2003 Hot fixes)
New
None
Modified
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=832815
"The page cannot be displayed" error message when you try to open a Visio XML drawing (.vdx) in a document library on your Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 site (ver 3.0)
22nd October 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;918744
Description of a new command-line operation that you can use to repair content databases in Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 and Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server 2003 (ver 2.1)
18th October 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;883506
A user who logs on to a Windows SharePoint Services Web site by using anonymous access cannot view a document that is checked out by another user (ver 3.0)
18th October 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=885652
Metadata of non-Office documents is not retained after you copy documents to a document library in SharePoint Portal Server 2003 or in Windows SharePoint Services (ver 2.0)
18th October 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=933738
An update is available that addresses an issue in which items that use the Date and Time fields are off by one hour in Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 (ver 6.1)
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;840931
18th October 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;840931
"The page cannot be displayed" error message when you connect to the portal site if you use Apache Web server to reverse-proxy Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 (ver 3.0)
18th October 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=915424
Description of the Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 post-Service Pack 2 hotfix package: March 13, 2006 (ver 2.1)
18th October 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=925839
Description of the Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 post-Service Pack 2 hotfix package: September 25, 2006 (ver 2.1)
18th October 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=927878
Description of the Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 post-Service Pack 2 hotfix package: November 9, 2006 (ver 2.1)
18th October 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=929189
Description of the Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 post-Service Pack 2 hotfix package: December 4, 2006 (ver 2.1)
18th October 2007
VI WSS FAQ v2
New and Modified
None
I don't know about you, but for me SharePoint Designer 2007 (SPD 2007) may be much more powerful to use but it's also a pain in the neck to use. There's just too much there.
Take Data View Web Part (DVWP) creation for instance. Once I'd done this a couple of times in Front Page 2003 for WSS 2.0 sites, everything was automatic. It was in fact so simple that all you really needed to write in the newsgroups was "use the Data function on the menu line to create a Data View Web Part and follow the UI to specify the source of the data".
When you try to create a DVWP in SPD 2007 it's not enough to know to use the Data menu item, you need a book. At least that's my experience.
The problem of course is that none of the "someday to be released" SPD 2007 books (find those listed here: http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/V%20Books.aspx) are available at the moment and it looks as if we'll have to wait until 2008.
So what to do in the meantime? One solution is to buy the (warning: shameless plug coming) "Real World SharePoint 2007" book and work your way through Dustin Miller's Chapter 5. Dustin is one of the two co-authors of one of the upcoming SPD 2007 books and also often teaches how to create DVWPs in his training courses, so he knows his stuff.
Of course in one chapter there isn't space for much and this at 20 pages is one of the shorter chapters in the book, but still he finds space to show how to connect to a list; how to do conditional formatting; how to connect to an RSS feed and how to connect to a web service plus a few words on customized and uncustomized pages.
I've been working through the chapter and once I've got the basics of one of these items have of course been messing about to see what I can do to embelish things a bit.
BUT there was one section where I had to mess about to even get things to work as Dustin says is possible by following his instructions.
I did the "connecting to an RSS feed" twice and followed the instructions to the letter and yet both times I ended up either with a visible hyperlinked "Title text +URL" field (which of course gave an error on clicking as the hyperlink wasn't valid) or a hyperlinked "Title text" field that tried to go to http://<mysite>/<mysubsite><Title text> (no wonder that didn't work)
After a lot of messing about I did in the end achieve the aim of a visible "Title Text" that when clicked on actually went to the equivalent (working) URL but I'm not quite sure how and why that happened. Certainly even my second workthrough needed to be fiddled with before that result was achieved.
I suspect that they amended slightly the UI between the version Dustin used and the RTM version - either that or perhaps the more likely scenario of "Walsh can't follow simple instructions".
In any case, Dustin provided me in the chapter with enough information for me to be able to go and fiddle with things until I managed to get things right. That's the main thing. I'm not going to have the book available all the time so I need experience of fiddling!
P.S. The usual links to the book
Amazon US: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0470168358/heme0f
Other Amazons' links are listed here: http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=961
Note: All of the addresses of the KB / Articles - 2007 Products / MS / Non-MS Articles below were valid at the time I added them to the WSS FAQ
site and to this file. I can't guarantee that they still are.
(This is also posted to the WSS newsgroup at microsoft.public.sharepoint.windowsservices - web access via http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/newsgroups/server/sharepoint.mspx)
(Items are added to the WSS FAQ throughout the week so you will find new items more quickly by checking at wss.collutions.com or www.wssfaq.com daily.)
From 14th - 20th October 2007
I.1 2007 KB Articles (*now only one section for WSS and MOSS*)
New
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=943345
How to defragment Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 databases and SharePoint Server 2007 databases
17th October 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=932118
Persistent cookies are not shared between Internet Explorer 7 and Office applications in Windows Vista (ver 1.2) [Note: relevance to SSO in MOSS 2007]
16th October 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=928325
Percentage-formatted data in an Excel 2007 chart data table has a value that is 100 times larger than the actual value when you view the chart data table in Excel Web Access (ver 1.2)
15th October 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=832811
How to restore a corrupted Windows SharePoint Services home page (ver 2.5)
8th October 2007
Modified
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;928029
Document library does not open successfully when you try to use Internet Explorer 7 to open a SharePoint Server 2007 or a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 document library (ver 1.3)
16th October 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=927362
How to upgrade from Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Beta 2 TR or SharePoint Server 2007 Beta 2 TR to the original release versions when you did not rename the DSN registry key to DSN2 (ver 1.5
16th October 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;925714
An Excel 2007 workbook does not load from a Web page that uses EWA when there are many connections to the computer that is running SharePoint Server 2007 (ver 1.6)
15th October 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=925713
Error message when you open a Web page that uses Excel Web Access in SharePoint Server 2007: "You do not have permissions to open this file on Excel Services" or "Excel cannot load the workbook that you requested" (ver 1.2)
15th October 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;928719
Error message when you try to view an Excel 2007 workbook that contains a formula that uses a caret operator in Excel Services: "The workbook may be in an unsupported file format, or it may be corrupt" (ver 1.2)
15th October 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;916894
Error message when you install SharePoint Portal Server 2007 or Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: "Failed to create sample data" (ver 1.5)
15th October 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;928721
Excel Services loads and displays an Excel 2007 workbook but does not display shapes or embedded pictures in a chart in the workbook (ver 1.3)
15th October 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=930887
You experience issues with portal alerts in SharePoint Portal Server 2003 or with search performance in SharePoint Server 2007 after you create SQL Server 2005 maintenance plans (ver 3.1)
15th October 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;928327
Error message in Word 2007 when you try to publish a blog post to a blog that was created in Windows SharePoint Services: "Word cannot publish the pictures in this post" (ver 1.1)
15th October 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/917662/
How to make sure that Word 2007 documents that are created in a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 document library use an up-to-date version of the document template (ver 1.3)
15th October 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;928292
The text in a bulleted or numbered list becomes misaligned when you use Word 2007 to publish a blog post to a SharePoint blog site (ver 1.2)
15th October 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb%3ben-us%3b928299
The width of empty table cells is not preserved when you use Word 2007 to publish a table to a SharePoint blog site (ver 1.2)
15th October 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=937832
Description of the security update for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: October 9, 2007 (ver 3.0)
15th October 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;928284
The order of blog post objects changes during publication when you use Word 2007 to publish a blog post to a SharePoint blog site (ver 1.3)
15th October 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=837847
How to customize SharePoint Server by using IFilters, noise word files, and thesaurus files (ver 6.1)
15th October 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;936623
Error message after you change the configuration database name when you perform a gradual upgrade from SharePoint Portal Server 2003 to SharePoint Server 2007: "An update conflict has occurred" (ver 1.1)
11th October 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=841215
You cannot connect to a document library in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 or Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 by using Windows shell commands or by using Explorer View (ver 4.0)
11th October 2007
I.b Forefront KB Articles
New
None
Modified
None
I.c InfoPath 2007 KB Articles
New
None
Modified
None
II. Articles - 2007 Products (no longer with all links to articles for other Office 2007 and other 2007 Products)
New
A. Office 2007 Server Products
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=9a79ca73-9d64-4f92-b3b7-2eb3b78a2aa4&displaylang=en&tm
SharePoint Server 2007 for Search Trial Version
19th October 2007
http://blogs.msdn.com/echarran/archive/2007/10/17/how-to-debug-a-custom-owstimer-job.aspx
How to Debug a Custom OWSTimer Job (Blog - Eric Charran)
17th October 2007
http://blogs.msdn.com/joelo/archive/2007/10/17/high-availability-scale-planning-and-amazing-work-by-mike-watson.aspx
High Availability, Scale Planning and Amazing work by Mike Watson (MS Blog - Joel Oleson)
17th October 2007
http://www.sharepointblogs.com/bobbyhabib/archive/2007/10/16/creating-your-own-custom-base-class-with-your-own-web-part.aspx
Creating your own custom Base Class with your own MOSS Web Part (Blog - Bobby Habib)
16th October 2007
http://www.sharepointblogs.com/sam/archive/2007/10/16/how-to-restrict-public-access-to-sharepoint-list-views-using-filters.aspx
How to restrict public access to sharepoint list views using filters (Blog - Sam)
16th October 2007
http://www.sharepointblogs.com/clint/archive/2007/10/16/feature-inheritance-for-new-sites.aspx
Feature Inheritance for new sites (Blog - Clint)
16th October 2007
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=101604&clcid=0x409
Managing enterprise metadata with content types (Robert Bogue, MVP)
16th October 2007 (date added - article dated October 2007)
http://sharepointnutsandbolts.blogspot.com/2007/10/deployment-using-stsadm-export-or.html
Deployment using STSADM export or content migration API (Blog - Chris O'Brien)
14th October 2007
http://blogs.technet.com/stefan_gossner/archive/2007/10/12/deep-dive-into-the-sharepoint-content-deployment-and-migration-api-part-5.aspx
Deep Dive into the SharePoint Content Deployment and Migration API - Part 5 (MS Blog - Stefan Gossner)
12th October 2007
B. Other Office 2007 products (selected few only since 1.1.2007)
None
C. Other New 2006/2007 Products (selected few only since 1.1.2007)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=0cefac3f-91ed-40c3-a684-603f149a4e32&displaylang=en&tm
Microsoft Forefront Client Security BPA (ver 1.0)
15th October 2007
Modified
None
Deleted
None
III WebCasts (+ PodCasts, On-Line courses) for 2007 Products
None
IV WSS v3 FAQ
New
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1236
VI.81 SharePoint InfoPath Form Viewer Web Part (commercial - KWizCom)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1234
X.85 Virtual Earth Maps on SharePoint (CodePlex - Microsoft's IT Information Services team)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1235
X.86 SharePoint Connector for Confluence (free - Atlassian)
Modified
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1230
X.81 Windows Live ID Authentication for SharePoint v1.0 (CodePlex - Keith Bunge)
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V WSSv2 KB Articles (plus SPS 2003 Hot fixes)
New
None
Modified
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=910922
Description of the Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 post-Service Pack 2 hotfix package: December 7, 2005 (ver 2.0)
17th October 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=916156
Description of the Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 post-Service Pack 2 hotfix package: March 28, 2006 (ver 2.0)
17th October 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=915424
Description of the Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 post-Service Pack 2 hotfix package: March 13, 2006 (ver 2.0)
17th October 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=828813
You receive a "Specified domain does not exist" or an "Adding user name failed" error message when you extend a virtual server with Windows SharePoint Services (ver 3.3)
17th October 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=828812
Extension of a virtual server with Windows SharePoint Services does not complete successfully when you use Active Directory account creation mode
17th October 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=927878
Description of the Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 post-Service Pack 2 hotfix package: November 9, 2006 (ver 2.0)
17th October 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=926886
CPU usage may be more than expected or the computer may stop responding during a full crawl or an incremental crawl of a Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 server (ver 3.0)
17th October 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=925839
Description of the Windows SharePoint Services post-Service Pack 2 hotfix package: September 25, 2006 (ver 2.0)
17th October 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;840931
"The page cannot be displayed" error message when you connect to the portal site if you use Apache Web server to reverse-proxy Windows SharePoint Services (ver 2.3)
17th October 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=929189
Description of the Windows SharePoint Services post-Service Pack 2 hotfix package: December 4, 2006 (ver 2.0)
16th October 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;918744
Description of a new command-line operation that you can use to repair content databases in Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 and Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server 2003 (ver 2.0)
16th October 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;933738
An update is available that addresses an issue in which items that use the Date and Time fields are off by one hour in Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 (ver 6.0)
16th October 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;837850
Error message when you click Explorer View in a document library in Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 or in SharePoint Team Services: "This page contains both secure and nonsecure items" (ver 3.5)
12th October 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/923643/en-us
Description of Windows SharePoint Services Service Pack 3 (ver 5.0)
12th October 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;835559
You cannot access portal sites or Web sites, certain areas of SharePoint Portal Central Administration display the incorrect server name, and e-mail notifications contain incorrect URLs after you rename the server (ver 8.0)
11th October 2007
VI WSSv2 FAQ
New
None
Modified
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSS%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=410
III.102 How do I Filter by the last x days?
Note: All of the addresses of the KB / Articles - 2007 Products / MS / Non-MS Articles below were valid at the time I added them to the WSS FAQ
site and to this file. I can't guarantee that they still are.
(This is also posted to the WSS newsgroup at microsoft.public.sharepoint.windowsservices - web access via http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/newsgroups/server/sharepoint.mspx)
(Items are added to the WSS FAQ throughout the week so you will find new items more quickly by checking at wss.collutions.com or www.wssfaq.com daily.)
From 7th - 13th October 2007
I.1 2007 KB Articles (*now only one section for WSS and MOSS*)
New
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;943076
Description of the Excel Services in Office SharePoint Server 2007 hotfix package: October 9, 2007
9th October 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;934525
Description of the security update for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: October 9, 2007
9th October 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;937832
Description of the security update for SharePoint Server 2007: October 9, 2007
9th October 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;942017
MS07-059: Vulnerability in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and in SharePoint Server 2007 could result in elevation of privilege within the SharePoint site
9th October 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;942989
Some SharePoint timer job definitions are not restored successfully when you back up a Windows SharePoint Services Web application or a Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Web application, and then you restore this application to a new farm (ver 1.1)
6th October 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=942512
How to use Excel Services as a data source in Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 Monitoring and Analytics (ver 1.1)
6th October 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=303650
Intranet site is identified as an Internet site when you use an FQDN or an IP address (ver 9.10)
31st January 2007
Modified
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;936227
MS07-042: Vulnerability in Microsoft XML Core Services could allow remote code execution (ver 2.1)
11th October 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;942017
MS07-059: Vulnerability in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and in SharePoint Server 2007 could result in elevation of privilege within the SharePoint site (ver 2.0)
10th October 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;941955
A Web Part that contains an ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 UpdatePanel control that uses the _doPostBack() function does not work when the URL of the hosting SharePoint Web site contains international characters (ver 1.1)
10th October 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;841215
You cannot connect to a document library in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 or Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 by using Windows shell commands or by using Explorer View (ver 3.2)
8th October 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;934838
How to change service accounts and service account passwords in SharePoint Server 2007 and in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (ver 2.4 / 2.5)
8th October 2007 / 11th October 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=837847
How to customize SharePoint Server by using IFilters, noise word files, and thesaurus files (ver 6.0)
8th October 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=940879
Users cannot upload documents or files that are larger then 128 MB on the SharePoint site after you install Forefront Security for SharePoint (ver 1.2)
2nd October 2007
I.b Forefront KB Articles
New
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;941005
Error information may be logged in the STSADM export log file after you install Forefront Security for SharePoint on a computer that is running SharePoint Server 2007: "Access Denied"
9th October 2007
Modified
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;941006
You must press CTRL+C to close the Operation Completed Successfully dialog box when you import or export SharePoint Server 2007 site data on a computer that is running Forefront Security for SharePoint (ver 1.2)
8th October 2007
I.c InfoPath 2007 KB Articles
New
None
Modified
None
II. Articles - 2007 Products (no longer with all links to articles for other Office 2007 and other 2007 Products)
New
A. Office 2007 Server Products
http://www.sharepointblogs.com/tmt/archive/2007/10/12/displaying-features-version-in-the-site-collection-features-overview.aspx
Displaying Features' version in the Site (Collection) Features Overview (Blog - Waldek Mastykarz )
12th October 2007
http://blog.tedpattison.net/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=3
Understanding Site Pages versus Application Pages (Blog - Ted Pattison)
11th October 2007
http://blogs.msdn.com/joelo/archive/2007/10/11/default-install-configuration.aspx
Default Install Configuration (Which defaults should be changed) (MS Blog - Joel Oleson)
11th October 2007
http://www.cjvandyk.com/blog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?List=744536f4%2D127e%2D4c4a%2Dbcff%2Db85408e7e7e5&ID=133
How do I – Solve the “Could not create type WebService.Name” error when trying to deploying a web service? (Blog - Cornelius J. van Dyk)
10th October 2007
http://www.sharepointblogs.com/erickraus/archive/2007/10/09/sql-profile-import-with-forms-based-authentication.aspx
SQL Profile Import with Forms Based Authentication (Blog - Eric Kraus)
9th October 2007
http://www.sharepointblogs.com/echef/archive/2007/10/09/pulling-site-collections-via-direct-sql-query.aspx
Pulling site collections details via direct SQL query (Blog - Josef Nielsen)
9th October 2007
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=667335dd-df2e-4f14-a130-5758701be055&displaylang=en&tm
Security Update for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 x64 Edition (KB934525)
8th October 2007
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=76fc2225-2802-46e5-a294-a842e3841877&displaylang=en&tm
Security Update for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (KB934525)
8th October 2007
http://andrewconnell.com/blog/archive/2007/10/07/Having-Default-Web-Parts-in-new-Pages-Based-Off-Page.aspx
Having Default Web Parts in new Pages Based Off Page Layouts in MOSS 2007 Publishing Sites (Blog - Andrew Connell)
7th October 2007
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=595b6021-58bf-4628-8a27-8f54e7029eea&displaylang=en&tm
SAP MOSS Interop Animation ZIP
5th October 2007
http://www.sharepointblogs.com/ethan/archive/2007/10/04/specify-what-forms-a-field-shows-up-on.aspx
Specify What Forms a Field Shows Up On (Blog - Ethan)
4th October 2007
http://www.sharepointblogs.com/erickraus/archive/2007/10/03/sharepoint-automated-deployment-using-msbuild.aspx
SharePoint Automated Deployment Using MSBuild (Blog - Eric Kraus)
3rd October 2007
http://www.sharepointblogs.com/tonstegeman/archive/2007/10/03/export-user-information-to-excel-using-quot-export-to-spreadsheet-quot-in-sharepoint-2007.aspx
Export user information to Excel using "Export to spreadsheet" in SharePoint 2007 (Blog - Ton Stegeman)
3rd October 2007
http://www.sharepointblogs.com/ethan/archive/2007/10/03/working-with-web-parts-through-code.aspx
Working With Web Parts Through Code (Blog - Ethan)
3rd October 2007
B. Other Office 2007 products (selected few only since 1.1.2007)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=34f41573-c552-466f-b531-32cb09a57cdd&displaylang=en&tm
BizTalk Server 2006 R2 Capabilities Poster (ver 1.1)
5th October 2007
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=e4e84ae5-21d2-4d12-91e0-3e0ff07aeb19&displaylang=en&tm
Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 R2 Management Pack for Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 (ver 03.6.1404.0000)
4th October 2007
http://www.devx.com/enterprise/Article/35469/1954?pf=true
Coding Options for Building InfoPath Forms (devx - Robert Bogue)
24th September 2007
C. Other New 2006/2007 Products (selected few only since 1.1.2007)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=0672b4ca-c6dc-4093-bae6-30eb1560a429&displaylang=en&tm
Microsoft Forefront Client Security Health Management Pack for Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 SP1 (ver 01.0.0000.000)
10th October 2007
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=ae4ce23b-9e1e-455c-87a4-36167fe43107&displaylang=en&tm
Microsoft Forefront Server Security Management Console User Guide
10th October 2007
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=f9b669c6-6f9f-4c09-8457-c00b5b6ebd7a&displaylang=en&tm
Microsoft Forefront Server Security Management Console Trial Version (ver 1241)
9th October 2007
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=c0a22055-3aa9-4a23-ae6f-d499c6b33ff7&displaylang=en&tm
Microsoft Forefront Security for SharePoint with Service Pack 1 Readme (ver 10.1)
5th October 2007
Modified
None
Deleted
None
III WebCasts (+ PodCasts, On-Line courses) for 2007 Products
http://www.runasradio.com/default.aspx?showNum=27
Joel Oleson on Sharepoint Management! (RunAs Radio podcast)
10th October 2007
https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastRegistrationConfirmation.aspx?culture=en-US&RegistrationID=1293089593
MSDN Webcast: MSDN geekSpeak: Using SharePoint Server as a Development Platform with Paul Stork (Level 200)
10th October 2007
https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastRegistrationConfirmation.aspx?culture=en-US&RegistrationID=1293090194
Momentum Webcast: Discover the Benefits of SharePoint Server 2007: Presented by Microsoft and CDW (Level 100) (Dan Balchunas, CDW, and Nga Nguyen)
3rd October 2007
https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastRegistrationConfirmation.aspx?culture=en-US&RegistrationID=1293090286
TechNet Webcast: Deploying Forefront Client Security (Part 2 of 2) (Chris Avis)
19th September 2007
https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastRegistrationConfirmation.aspx?culture=en-US&RegistrationID=1293090333
TechNet Webcast: Deploying Forefront Client Security (Part 1 of 2) (Level 200) (Blain Barton)
5th September 2007
IV WSS v3 FAQ
New
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1229
X.80 .Net helpers for the SharePoint Server 2007 Search Query Web Service (CodePlex - Callum Shillan)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1230
X.81 Windows Live ID Authentication for SharePoint v1.0 (free - Keith Bunge)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1231
X.82 Enhanced Content Query Web Part (CodePlex - Ishai Sagi) (10/10/2007 = Beta3)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1232
X.83 World Clock and Weather (free - Bamboo Solutions)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1233
X.84 A script to configure SharePoint to use ADFS for authentication (free - Bernabe Hostein, Microsoft)
Modified
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=939
III.30.04 Databases: How do you move the "Windows Internal Database" (embedded SQL Server 2005 Express) to a different drive than C:
Deleted
None
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V WSSv2 KB Articles (plus SPS 2003 Hot fixes)
New
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=934000
Description of the Windows SharePoint Services post-Service Pack 2 hotfix package: March 9, 2007 (ver 2.0)
8th October 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=912451
A time-out occurs and data that is retrieved from the data source is not displayed if the Web service takes more than 30 seconds to send a response in Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 (ver 2.0)
8th October 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;924934
Description of the SharePoint Portal Server 2003 post-Service Pack 2 hotfix package: September 1, 2006 (ver 3.0)
(new to FAQ listing)
4th October 2007
Modified
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=823552
You receive a "Service Unavailable" error message when you browse a Windows SharePoint Services Web site (ver 4.0)
10th October 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;837850
Error message when you click Explorer View in a document library in Windows SharePoint Services or in SharePoint Team Services from Microsoft: "This page contains both secure and nonsecure items" (ver 3.4)
10th October 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=823378
"Virtual server is running FrontPage 2002 Server Extensions" message when you run Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 Setup or when you try to extend the virtual server with Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 (ver 4.4)
10th October 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=835559
You cannot access portal sites or Web sites, certain areas of SharePoint Portal Central Administration display the incorrect server name, and e-mail notifications contain incorrect URLs after you rename the server (ver 7.0)
9th October 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=928787
Description of the Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 post-Service Pack 2 hotfix package: November 20, 2006 (ver 2.0)
9th October 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=930773
Description of the Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 post-Service Pack 2 hotfix package: January 16, 2007 (ver 2.0)
9th October 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=910920
Description of the Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 post-Service Pack 2 Hotfix Package: February 14, 2006 (ver 2.0)
9th October 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=934000
Description of the Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 post-Service Pack 2 hotfix package: March 9, 2007 (ver 2.1)
9th October 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=912344
You cannot configure the time-out value of the OLEDB database connection in Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 (ver 3.0)
9th October 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=918421
Description of the Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 post-Service Pack 2 hotfix package: May 23, 2006 (ver 2.1)
9th October 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=923854
Description of the Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 post-Service Pack 2 hotfix package: August 14, 2006 (ver 2.0) (2nd one of same name)
8th October 2007
Deleted
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;915410
Description of the SharePoint Portal Server 2003 post-Service Pack 2 hotfix package dated March 7, 2006
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;917323
Description of the SharePoint Portal Server 2003 post-Service Pack 2 Hotfix Package: April 26, 2006
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=913373
Description of the SharePoint Portal Server 2003 post-Service Pack 2 hotfix package: January 18, 2006
(MS Articles and Non-MS Articles - for WSS 2.0 - never have any entries here these days so have been removed)
VI WSSv2 FAQ
New or Modified
None
One of the many (?) benefits of maintaining a FAQ site (and doing everything manually as I do) is that you have at least a vague memory of things you've added and so when faced with a problem yourself you know roughly where (in that site) to look and/or with what Search criteria. Add to that answering the odd newsgroup question and occasionally you find that problems at work just fall away. I discovered for instance yesterday that a test site was completely out of space on C: Amazingly you could still access the site but you couldn't exactly do much ! Even more amazingly - as this is supposed to be a test site for several people - no-one had reported this (and the last 1KB log file went to the site in late August!). The first step was of course to see if the obvious culprits (log files) were at work. But I'd cleverly (!) reduced those in scope so they were fairly small and while both sets had of course eaten up what little disk space that was left, they weren't the problem. No, the problem - naturally - was the fact that as this was a quick "do this as quickly as you can and then vanish" test installation, I'd used the Basic installation - or in other words it was using the "Windows Internal Database" and that naturally enough was on C: and storing all its data on C: Meanwhile I had an empty (yes, virtually completely empty) E: drive because I was using a standard VMset-up of C: and E: (D: being the CD/DVD drive). One look at that and I could see that the main problem wasn't even with the content databases (less than 1GB) but with the config databases (getting on for 3GB. So - and here's where the experience comes in - as I knew that there was a FAQ item on moving the databases of the "embedded SQL Server 2005 Express" (the old name of what is now "Windows Internal Database"), all I needed to do was open the WSS v3 FAQ and Search on "embedded" and there was the solution. (Also found by looking at all the items starting with "Databases: " in section III Administration of the (note carefully) "WSS v3 FAQ" not the "WSS FAQ" which is v2 ...) Well, actually, two solutions because there was the main text of the item (from Jim Sykora) and also a blog item from Ian Morrish. I actually used the blog item because the statements you needed to use in the Command Line were clearer there and I did eventually get them to work but only after also interspersing with a bit of the information from the Jim Sykora piece with those commands (and also correcting a couple of spelling errors in them). So, for instance, whereas I managed to detach; copy and then attach my content databases by just stopping the content database in the UI; and then stopping all the four running WSS services, this didn't work for the largest of the content databases (over 2GB) as that said it was in use. It turns out that Ian makes a few assumptions about your knowledge (he didn't say to stop the WSS services either as far as I can remember) whereas Jim doesn't. Jim clearly says to stop IIS (which in turn stops a couple more things and it's a good idea to write down what those are before you say OK) before doing the detach and that indeed was all that I was missing when trying to detatch the config databases (there being no "Stop Config Database" available in the UI. So there you are. Spend inummerable hours of your own time updating a FAQ site and occasionally you save a bit of "work" time. Is that a bargain or not ? For your employer it certainly is!
P.S. I suppose I'd better say where the WSS FAQ site is - www.wssfaq.com (what else!?)
People who have ever used Firefox to go to the site behind www.wssfaq.com will have noticed I'm sure that the top page looks a mess with a very wide empty space between the left hand column (Quick Launch) and the first column with web parts
It was caused almost at the start by me amending the page in FP 2003 and testing it in IE6 only (and naturally not taking copies often enough). I made numerous attempts to get rid of that empty space and never suceeded.
Today (and I've ony been using this for 4 months or so ...) I noticed that Safari in the Mac didn't have that ugly amount of empty space. In fact the page looks just like it does in IE.
So I hereby declare my page to be conform and Firefox to have a bug !
P.S. As a result of a suggestion in the Comments, I got rid of the problem so you oughtn't to see this any more. Curiously amending something from =89% to =100% didn't solve it (and that was what I had probably tried many times before) but removing that width statement altogether did.
Last week was a good week mostly. I was renewed as a SharePoint MVP. That makes this (2007-2008) the sixth year, which sounds a lot until you heard that another SharePoint MVP - Michael Greth of Berlin - is now in his tenth year as an MVP. How's that possible you may ask given that the SharePoint products first came out in 2001 ? Well Michael started as MVP for FrontPage which has been going for a bit longer (until it's life - or rather then name - was cut short at the beginning of this year). Michael was one of the people behind the European SharePoint Conference which was held in Berlin in February earlier this year. Despite being heavily involved with the preparations of that, he still found time to buy and send me a week's travel card for the Berlin transport system so that I was able to get off my plane and jump right onto the right bus (he told me that too) that took me directly to the hotel. Nice guy ! Another good thing was that my Vista-based portable suddenly started recognizing my Apple AirPort Extreme Base Station so I no longer need to have both my old DLink wireless router and the Extreme Base station in order to use both the Vista and the MacBook remotely. So that's one small box; ethernet cable and power supply less on my desk. Of course I still don't get anything more than the standard wireless speed from the Vista when connected directly to this, so the MacBook is still way faster, but at least it works. I have no idea whether this was caused by a Vista fix or a Extreme Base Station fix by the way - or even when this fix was downloaded. All I know is that I had forgotten to put the DLink plug in when I turned the Vista machine on and suddenly noticed it had spotted the Apple station. I still didn't expect the login to work (I'd fiddled with this for hours when I got the Apple station) but I tried it anyway and success. Actually come to think of it, I had a similar experience with my Archos Wifi IPod-like device a couple of weeks ago. Earlier that too wouldn't connect to the Apple Station but a couple of weeks ago I tried again and this time it did. At the time I thought it was because I was sure to usual Capitals for the letters in the code but now I imagine that in the meantime there'd been a fix to the Station that had cleared problems with both the Archos and the Vista machine. And finally sales of the Real World SharePoint 2007 (Wrox) book seem (looking at the Amazon site) to be going fairly well and the reviews of it are very positive. They are probably by people who skipped my (Introductory) Chapter One so I was glad to hear from a old friend that although my photograph on the cover was terrible (so what else is new?), he was finding the first chapter useful and wished he had read it a few months ago when he was introducing himself to the SharePoint platform. So that's three good things. What was the bad one? Well, I'd better apologise for even mentioning this as no doubt most readers of this blog are slaving away 5 days a week ... but I realised that last week was the first week since mid April that I had worked four days rather than three days or not at all. Boy did the working week seem long ... (I'm semi-retired and work 60% of the time, but in the non-summer I work 4 days a week and get a few extra weeks holiday as a result - so taking those extra holiday weeks in April and September led to it being so long since I last finished my working week on a Thursday. (In the summer I worked either 3 days a week or was on regular holiday.))
Note: All of the addresses of the KB / Articles - 2007 Products / MS / Non-MS Articles below were valid at the time I added them to the WSS FAQ
site and to this file. I can't guarantee that they still are.
(This is also posted to the WSS newsgroup at microsoft.public.sharepoint.windowsservices - web access via http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/newsgroups/server/sharepoint.mspx)
(Items are added to the WSS FAQ throughout the week so you will find new items more quickly by checking at wss.collutions.com or www.wssfaq.com daily.)
From 30th September - 6th October 2007
I.1 2007 KB Articles (*now only one section for WSS and MOSS*)
New
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;941678
The SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard does not finish successfully on a computer that also has GroupBoard Workspace 2007 installed
3rd October 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;941955
A Web Part that contains an ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 UpdatePanel control that uses the _doPostBack() function does not work when the URL of the hosting SharePoint Web site contains international characters
28th September 2007
Modified
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;926959
Error when you try to edit the content source schedule in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007: "Access is denied" (ver 2.4)
1st October 2007
I.b Forefront KB Articles
New
None
Modified
None
I.c InfoPath 2007 KB Articles
New
None
Modified
None
II. Articles - 2007 Products (no longer with all links to articles for other Office 2007 and other 2007 Products)
New
A. Office 2007 Server Products
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb802729.aspx
Visual How To: Writing and Debugging Event Handlers for Project Server 2007 (Joel Krist, Akona Systems)
4th October 2007 (date added) (article is October 2007)
http://wm.microsoft.com/ms/msdn/office/2007officevisualhowtos/pj2007writingdebuggingeventhandlers.wmv
Visual How To: Writing and Debugging Event Handlers for Project Server 2007 (Video - Joel Krist, Akona Systems)
4th October 2007 (date added) (article is October 2007)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=ff617264-2145-44fa-9e0d-caa89ce51183&displaylang=en&tm
.NET Rocks! - Vishwas Lele on MOSS as an Application Platform
3rd October 2007
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb852172.aspx
Searching Sites Protected by Forms Authentication with Enterprise Search in SharePoint Server 2007 (Jo-Anne West)
3rd October 2007 (date added) (article is October 2007)
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb852171.aspx
Helper Classes for the SharePoint Server 2007 Search Query Web Service Built Using the Microsoft .NET Framework (Callum Shillan)
3rd October 2007 (date added) (article is October 2007)
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb852081.aspx
Overview of Web Service Support in InfoPath 2007 (Mark Roberts)
3rd October 2007 (date added) (article is October 2007)
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb814929.aspx
Usage Event Logging in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (Radu Rusu, Erick R. Lerma, Les W. Smith)
3rd October 2007 (date added) (article is September 2007)
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb727372.aspx
How to Create a SharePoint Server 2007 Custom Master Page and Page Layouts for a Web Content Management Site (Avneesh Kaushik)
3rd October 2007 (date added) (article is September 2007)
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb787184.aspx
Advanced Server-Side Authentication for Data Connections in InfoPath 2007 Web-Based Forms (Nick Dallett, Mark Roberts)
3rd October 2007 (date added) (article is September 2007)
http://www.sharepointblogs.com/tommysegoro/archive/2007/10/02/create-an-image-item-from-asp-upload-control-in-sharepoint-list-programmatically.aspx
Create an Image Item from ASP File Upload Control in Sharepoint Image Library Programmatically (Blog - Tommy Segoro)
2nd October 2007
http://www.sharepointblogs.com/sam/archive/2007/10/02/restore-a-production-sharepoint-farm-to-a-test-environment.aspx
Restore a production sharepoint web farm to a new web farm (Note: This is WSS 3.0) (Blog - "sam")
2nd October 2007
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb850574.aspx
Visual How To: Displaying Custom Fields in Content Query Web Parts in Office SharePoint Server 2007 (Joel Krist, Akona Systems)
2nd October 2007 (date added) (date of article September 2007)
http://wm.microsoft.com/ms/msdn/office/2007officevisualhowtos/moss2007displayingcustomfieldscontentquerywebparts.wmv
Visual How To: Displaying Custom Fields in Content Query Web Parts in Office SharePoint Server 2007 (Video - Joel Krist, Akona Systems)
2nd October 2007 (date added) (date of article September 2007)
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb847941.aspx
Visual How To: Creating User Profiles in the User Profile Store in SharePoint Server 2007 (Joel Krist, Akona Systems)
2nd October 2007 (date added) (date of article September 2007)
http://wm.microsoft.com/ms/msdn/office/2007officevisualhowtos/moss2007creatinguserprofilesintheuserprofilestore.wmv
Visual How To: Creating User Profiles in the User Profile Store in SharePoint Server 2007 (Video - Joel Krist, Akona Systems)
2nd October 2007 (date added) (date of video September 2007)
http://www.rodneyviana.com/portal/Sharepoint/MOSS2007Install2of2/tabid/57/Default.aspx
Sharepoint 2007 Installation Part 2 of 2 (Camtasia Video - Rodney Viana, Alfredo Fortenboher)
1st October 2007 (date added)
http://www.rodneyviana.com/portal/Sharepoint/MOSS2007Install1of2/tabid/55/Default.aspx
Sharepoint 2007 Installation Part 1 of 2 (Camtasia Video - Rodney Viana, Alfredo Fortenboher)
1st October 2007 (date added)
http://www.combined-knowledge.com/Downloads/Demo%20-%20resetting%20customized%20sites%20and%20configuring%20search%20after%20an%20Upgrade%20to%202007%20RTM.zip
Resetting customized sites and configuring search after an Upgrade to 2007 RTM (Combined Knowledge)
1st October 2007 (date added)
http://www.combined-knowledge.com/Downloads/Securing%20Central%20Administration%20in%20SharePoint%202007.zip
Securing Central Administration in SharePoint 2007 (Combined Knowledge)
1st October 2007 (date added)
http://www.combined-knowledge.com/Downloads/Modify_Alert_Notifications.zip
Modify Alert Notifications using AlertTemplates.xml in SharePoint 2007 (Combined Knowledge)
1st October 2007 (date added)
http://www.combined-knowledge.com/Downloads/How%20to%20configure%20Email%20Enabled%20Lists%20in%20Moss2007%20RTM%20using%20Exchange%202007.zip
How to configure Email Enabled Lists in Moss2007 RTM using Exchange 2007 (Combined Knowledge)
1st October 2007 (date added)
http://www.combined-knowledge.com/Downloads/How%20to%20configure%20Email%20Enabled%20Lists%20in%20Moss2007%20RTM%20using%20Exchange%202003.zip
How to configure Email Enabled Lists in Moss2007 RTM using Exchange 2003 (Combined Knowledge)
1st October 2007 (date added)
http://www.andrewconnell.com/blog/articles/UsingCodeBehindFilesInSharePointSites.aspx
Using ASP.NET 2.0 Code Behind Files in SharePoint v3 Sites (MVP Andrew Connell)
30th September 2007
http://www.sharepointblogs.com/ethan/archive/2007/09/30/setting-permissions-through-code.aspx
Setting Permissions Through Code (Blog - Ethan)
30th September 2007
http://blogs.msdn.com/outlook/archive/2007/09/28/sharepoint-outlook-the-perfect-link.aspx
Document Library syncing capability with Outlook 2007 (MS TeamBlog)
28th September 2007
http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=344635
Channel 9: InfoPath and SharePoint (Philo)
28th September 2007
http://www.sharepointblogs.com/tonstegeman/archive/2007/09/27/localizing-sharepoint-2007-site-columns-using-resource-files.aspx
Localizing SharePoint 2007 site columns using resource files (Blog - Ton Stegeman)
27th September 2007
http://www.sharepointblogs.com/ethan/archive/2007/09/27/generating-test-data.aspx
Generating Test Data using the SharePoint Work Acceleration Toolkit (SWAT) from iDevFactory (Blog - Ethan)
27th September 2007
http://www.sharepointblogs.com/michael/archive/2007/09/27/sharepoint-wiki-create-pages-based-on-a-template.aspx
SharePoint Wiki: Create pages based on a template (Blog - Michael Hofer)
27th September 2007
http://devcow.com/blogs/jdattis/archive/2007/09/27/11463.aspx
SharePoint 2007 - Content Editor Web Part and Absolute Url's (Blog - Dan Attis)
27th September 2007
http://www.sharepointblogs.com/tmt/archive/2007/09/27/sharepoint-programmatically-managing-solutions.aspx
SharePoint Programmatically: Managing Solutions (Blog - Waldek Mastykarz)
27th September 2007
http://www.heathersolomon.com/blog/articles/brandsppart2.aspx
Branding SharePoint - Part 2: Creating the Design in SharePoint (Blog - Heather Solomon)
26th September 2007
http://sharepointnutsandbolts.blogspot.com/2007/09/blending-publishingcollaboration.html
Blending publishing/collaboration functionality in SharePoint (Blog - Chris O'Brien)
26th September 2007
http://www.sharepointblogs.com/jeff102410/archive/2007/09/25/adhoc-task-rollup.aspx
Adhoc Task Rollup (Blog - Jeff Rogers)
25th September 2007
http://www.sharepointblogs.com/smc750/archive/2007/09/25/deep-dive-sharepoint-2007-object-model.aspx
Deep Dive SharePoint 2007 Object Model (using Classmaster from www.certdev.com) (Blog - Steve Curran)
25th September 2007
http://www.moss2007.be/blogs/vandest/archive/2007/09/24/splistitem-replacelink-method.aspx
SPListItem.ReplaceLink Method (Blog - Steven Van de Craen)
24th September 2007
http://www.sharepointblogs.com/ethan/archive/2007/09/23/working-with-features-through-code.aspx
Working With Features Through Code (Blog - Ethan)
23rd September 2007
http://blog.tedpattison.net/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?List=80e51818%2D7b98%2D41d8%2Db313%2D955977ecd68f&ID=2
Stapling Features to the Global Site Definition (Blog - Ted Pattison)
23rd September 2007
http://www.sharepointblogs.com/tonstegeman/archive/2007/09/22/moss-2007-filter-webparts-part-2-providing-and-consuming-a-default-value-and-using-excel-services.aspx
MOSS 2007 Filter webparts part 2 - providing and consuming a default value and using Excel Services (Blog - Ton Stegeman)
22nd September 2007
http://www.sharepointblogs.com/tonstegeman/archive/2007/09/21/moss-2007-filter-webparts-part-1-create-your-own-provider-and-consumer.aspx
MOSS 2007 Filter webparts part 1 - create your own provider and consumer (Blog - Ton Stegeman)
21st September 2007
http://blogs.technet.com/wbaer/archive/2007/09/21/deploying-proclarity-viewer-6-3-for-sharepoint.aspx
Deploying ProClarity Viewer 6.3 for SharePoint (Blog - William Baer)
21st September 2007
http://www.moss2007.be/blogs/vandest/archive/2007/09/19/sharepoint-2007-and-pdf-indexing.aspx
SharePoint 2007 and PDF indexing (Blog - Steven Van de Craen)
19th September 2007
http://www.sharepointblogs.com/erickraus/archive/2007/09/19/create-workflow-feature-to-copy-content-to-new-list.aspx
Create Workflow Feature to Copy Content to New List (Blog - Eric Kraus)
19th September 2007
http://www.sharepointblogs.com/dez/archive/2007/09/19/employee-training-and-scheduling-template-a-couple-fixes-part-2.aspx
Employee Training and Scheduling Template - a couple fixes Part 2 (Blog - "dlink")
19th September 2007
http://www.sharepointblogs.com/dez/archive/2007/09/19/employee-training-and-scheduling-template-a-couple-fixes.aspx
Employee Training and Scheduling Template - a couple fixes Part 1 (Blog - "dlink")
19th September 2007
http://www.sharepointblogs.com/andynoon/archive/2007/09/18/reparenting-a-workflow-to-a-different-list.aspx
Re-parenting a SharePoint Designer workflow to a different list (Blog - Andrew Noon)
18th September 2007
http://www.heathersolomon.com/blog/articles/brandsppart1.aspx
Branding SharePoint - Part 1: Designing your SharePoint Site (Blog - Heather Solomon)
13th September 2007
http://blogs.msdn.com/joelo/archive/2007/09/12/sharepoint-disk-allocation-and-disk-i-o.aspx
SharePoint Disk Allocation and Disk I/O (MSBlog - Joel Oleson)
12th September 2007
http://www.harbar.net/devtips.pdf
10 Essential SharePoint Developer Tips (slides of presentation - Spencer Harbar)
10th September 2007
http://weblogs.asp.net/jan/archive/2007/09/10/adding-breadcrumb-navigation-for-sharepoint-application-pages.aspx
Adding Breadcrumb Navigation for SharePoint Application Pages (Blog - Jan Tielens)
10th September 2007
http://weblogs.asp.net/erobillard/archive/2007/09/07/moss-and-forms-based-authentication-the-tricks.aspx
MOSS and Forms-Based Authentication: the Tricks (Blog - Eli Robillard)
7th September 2007
http://weblogs.asp.net/jan/archive/2007/09/05/using-the-current-page-url-in-the-urlaction-of-a-sharepoint-feature.aspx
Using the Current Page URL in the UrlAction of a SharePoint Feature (Blog - Jan Tielens)
5th September 2007
http://planetwilson.blogspot.com/2007/08/how-to-add-picker-to-send-to-other.html
How to add a picker to the send to other location screen (Blog - Mark Wilson)
29th August 2007
http://wm.microsoft.com/ms/msdn/office/2007OfficeVisualHowTos/MOSS2007DesigningInfoPathFormsforWorkflows.wmv
Visual How To: Designing InfoPath 2007 Forms for Mobile Web Browsers (Video - David Gerhardt, 3Sharp)
20th August 2007
http://wm.microsoft.com/ms/msdn/office/2007officevisualhowtos/infopathcreatingandeditingcustomdocumentinformationpanelsfromofficeinfopath2007.wmv
Visual How To: Creating and Editing Custom Document Information Panels in InfoPath 2007 (Video - Erika Ehrli, Brian Jones)
20th August 2007
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=5B6C8FB0-9B67-47DB-8A09-BCA76BC9A5D1&displaylang=en
SharePoint Server 2007 Sample: Creating a Custom User Site Provisioning Solution with Office SharePoint Server 2007 (ver Jul07)
8th August 2007
http://wm.microsoft.com/ms/msdn/office/2007officevisualhowtos/wssbuildinglistdefinitionswitheventreceiver.wmv
Visual How To: Building List Definitions with Event Receiver in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (Video - Joel Krist, Akona Systems)
1st August 2007 (actually just August 2007)
http://wm.microsoft.com/ms/msdn/office/2007officevisualhowtos/wssbuildingmasterpagesusingsitedefinitions.wmv
Visual How To: Building Master Pages for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 using Site Definitions in Visual Studio 2005 (Video - Joel Krist, Akona Systems)
1st August 2007 (actually just August 2007)
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb737887.aspx
Creating a Web Service Connection by using the Business Data Catalog Definition Editor (Jo-Anne West)
1st August 2007 (actually just August 2007)
http://wm.microsoft.com/ms/msdn/office/2007officevisualhowtos/ip2007publishingformtemplatestoformsserver.wmv
Visual How To: Publishing InfoPath 2007 Form Templates to Servers Running InfoPath Forms Services (Video - David Gerhardt, 3Sharp)
1st August 2007 (actually just August 2007)
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/office/bb677157.aspx
How Do I: Create Excel Services with User-Defined Functions? (Video - Steve Hansen)
24th July 2007
http://wm.microsoft.com/ms/msdn/office/2007officevisualhowtos/2007mosscreatingsearchqueriesprogrammaticallyusingtheom.wmv
Visual How To: Creating Search Queries Programmatically by Using the Search Object Model in SharePoint Server 2007 (Video - Patrick Tisseghem, U2U)
20th July 2007
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb625950.aspx
Visual How To: Creating Search Queries Programmatically by Using the Search Web Service in SharePoint Server 2007 (Patrick Tisseghem, U2U)
20th July 2007
http://wm.microsoft.com/ms/msdn/office/2007officevisualhowtos/moss2007creatingsearchqueriesusingthewebservice.wmv
Visual How To: Creating Search Queries Programmatically by Using the Search Web Service in SharePoint Server 2007 (Video - Patrick Tisseghem, U2U)
20th July 2007
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/office/bb629437.aspx
How Do I: Bind Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) to Word Content Controls? (Steve Hansen)
17th July 2007
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/office/bb649501.aspx
How Do I: Bind SharePoint Content to Excel Ranges? (Steve Hansen)
10th July 2007
http://wm.microsoft.com/ms/msdn/office/2007officevisualhowtos/2007mossexposingsearchbyusingie7andtheofficeresearchpane.wmv
Visual How To: Exposing Enterprise Search in SharePoint Server 2007 by Using Internet Explorer 7 and the Office Research Pane (Video - Patrick Tisseghem, U2U)
10th July 2007
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/office/bb649501.aspx
How Do I: Bind SharePoint Content to Excel Ranges? (Video - Steve Hansen)
10th July 2007
http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepointdesigner/archive/2007/07/06/porting-sharepoint-designer-workflows-to-visual-studio.aspx
Porting SharePoint Designer Workflows to Visual Studio (MS TeamBlog - Eilene)
6th July 2007
http://wm.microsoft.com/ms/msdn/office/2007officevisualhowtos/2007sharepointdesignerbuildingcustom%20activities.wmv
Visual How To: Building Custom Activities for Use in SharePoint Designer 2007 (Video - Patrick Tisseghem, U2U)
1st July 2007 (actually just July 2007)
http://wm.microsoft.com/ms/msdn/office/2007officevisualhowtos/2007infopathbuildingsimplecustomapprovalworkflows.wmv
Visual How To: Building Simple Custom Approval Workflows with InfoPath 2007 Forms (Video - Patrick Tisseghem, U2U)
1st July 2007 (actually just July 2007)
http://wm.microsoft.com/ms/msdn/office/2007officevisualhowtos/wss3.0buildingsimplemasterpages.wmv
Visual How To: Building Simple Master Pages for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (Video - Joel Krist, Akona Systems)
1st July 2007 (actually just July 2007)
http://wm.microsoft.com/ms/msdn/office/2007officevisualhowtos/mosscreatingandeditingcustomdocumentinformationpanels.wmv
Visual How To: Creating and Editing Custom Document Information Panels from Office SharePoint Server 2007 (Video - Joel Krist, Akona Systems)
1st July 2007 (actually just July 2007)
http://wm.microsoft.com/ms/msdn/office/2007officevisualhowtos/wssbuildingcustomfieldtypes.wmv
Visual How To: Building Custom Field Types in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (Video - Erika Ehrli, Brian Jones)
1st July 2007 (actually just July 2007)
http://wm.microsoft.com/ms/msdn/office/2007officevisualhowtos/infopath2007pullingcrmdatabrowserforms.wmv
Visual How To: Pulling CRM Data into InfoPath 2007 Browser Forms (Video - David Gerhardt, 3Sharp)
1st May 2007 (actually just May 2007)
http://wm.microsoft.com/ms/msdn/office/2007officevisualhowtos/wss3enablingintellisensewithcaml.wmv
Visual How To: Configuring IntelliSense with CAML Files When Developing for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (Video - Ted Pattison, Ted Pattison Group)
1st May 2007 (actually just May 2007)
http://wm.microsoft.com/ms/msdn/office/2007officevisualhowtos/wss3createcustomhttphandler.wmv
Visual How To: Create a Custom HttpHandler in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (Video - Ted Pattison, Ted Pattison Group)
1st May 2007 (actually just May 2007)
http://wm.microsoft.com/ms/msdn/office/2007officevisualhowtos/wsscreatingafeatureforanecbitem.wmv
Visual How To: Creating a Feature for an Entry Control Block Item in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (Video - Ted Pattison, Ted Pattison Group)
1st May 2007 (actually just May 2007)
http://wm.microsoft.com/ms/msdn/office/2007officevisualhowtos/wsscreatingafeatureforthesiteactionsmenu.wmv
Visual How To: Creating a Feature for the Site Actions Menu in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (Video - Ted Pattison, Ted Pattison Group)
1st May 2007 (actually just May 2007)
http://wm.microsoft.com/ms/msdn/office/2007officevisualhowtos/wss3createsolutionpackage.wmv
Visual How To: Creating a Solution Package in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (Video - Ted Pattison, Ted Pattison Group)
1st May 2007 (actually just May 2007)
http://wm.microsoft.com/ms/msdn/office/2007officevisualhowtos/wss3createvisualstudioproject.wmv
Visual How To: Creating a Visual Studio Project for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (Video - Ted Pattison, Ted Pattison Group)
1st May 2007 (actually just May 2007)
http://wm.microsoft.com/ms/msdn/office/2007officevisualhowtos/wsscreatecustomapplicationpage.wmv
Visual How To: Creating an Application Page in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (Video - Ted Pattison, Ted Pattison Group)
1st May 2007 (actually just May 2007)
http://wm.microsoft.com/ms/msdn/office/2007officevisualhowtos/wss3displayingdatainspgridviewctrl.wmv
Visual How To: Displaying Data by Using the SPGridView Control in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (Video - Ted Pattison, Ted Pattison Group)
1st May 2007 (actually just May 2007)
http://wm.microsoft.com/ms/msdn/office/2007officevisualhowtos/wss3readingauditentries.wmv
Visual How To: Reading Entries from the Audit Log in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (Video - Ted Pattison, Ted Pattison Group)
1st May 2007 (actually just May 2007)
http://wm.microsoft.com/ms/msdn/office/2007officevisualhowtos/wssreadinglistidanditemidfromanapppage.wmv
Visual How To: Reading ListId and ItemId from an Application Page in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (Video - Ted Pattison, Ted Pattison Group)
1st May 2007 (actually just May 2007)
http://wm.microsoft.com/ms/msdn/office/2007officevisualhowtos/wss3runningcmdwithelevatedprivileges.wmv
Visual How To: Running Commands with Elevated Privileges in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (Video - Ted Pattison, Ted Pattison Group)
1st May 2007 (actually just May 2007)
http://wm.microsoft.com/ms/msdn/office/2007officevisualhowtos/wss3writingcustomauditentries.wmv
Visual How To: Writing Custom Entries to the Audit Log in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (Video - Ted Pattison, Ted Pattison Group)
1st May 2007 (actually just May 2007)
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb466221.aspx
Visual How To: Writing Custom Entries to the Audit Log in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (Ted Pattison, Ted Pattison Group)
1st May 2007 (actually just May 2007)
http://wm.microsoft.com/ms/msdn/office/2007officevisualhowtos/moss2007writingafilterconsumerwebpart.wmv
Visual How To: Writing a Filter Consumer Web Part for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Using Excel Services (Video - Joel Krist, Akona Systems)
1st May 2007 (actually just May 2007)
http://wm.microsoft.com/ms/msdn/office/2007officevisualhowtos/wss3writingafilterproviderwebpart.wmv
Visual How To: Writing a Filter Provider Web Part for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (Video - Joel Krist, Akona Systems)
1st May 2007 (actually just May 2007)
http://wm.microsoft.com/ms/msdn/office/2007officevisualhowtos/wssactivatingauditingforsitecollection.wmv
Visual How To: Activating Auditing Programmatically for a Site Collection in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (Video - Ted Pattison, Ted Pattison Group)
1st May 2007 (actually just May 2007)
http://wm.microsoft.com/ms/msdn/office/2007officevisualhowtos/wssactivatingaudtingondocumentlibrary.wmv
Visual How To: Activating Auditing Programmatically for a Single Document Library in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (Video - Ted Pattison, Ted Pattison Group)
1st May 2007 (actually just May 2007)
http://wm.microsoft.com/ms/msdn/office/2007officevisualhowtos/moss2007enablinguserslobdatawithbdc.wmv
Visual How To: Enabling Users to Act on LOB Data with Business Data Catalog Actions (Video - John Peltonen, 3Sharp)
1st May 2007 (actually just May 2007)
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb397403.aspx
Item-Level Auditing with SharePoint Server 2007 (Ted Pattison (Ted Pattison Group), Joanna Bichsel)
1st April 2007 (actually just April 2007)
http://wm.microsoft.com/ms/msdn/office/2007officevisualhowtos/moss2007creatingcustomsearchpages.wmv
Visual How To: Creating a Custom Search Page and Tabs in the Search Center of SharePoint Server (Video - Patrick Tisseghem, U2U)
1st April 2007 (actually just April 2007)
http://wm.microsoft.com/ms/msdn/office/2007officevisualhowtos/moss2007creatingexposingmanagedproperties.wmv
Visual How To: Creating and Exposing Managed Properties in the Advanced Search Page of SharePoint Server Enterprise Search (Video - Patrick Tisseghem, U2U)
1st April 2007 (actually just April 2007)
http://wm.microsoft.com/ms/msdn/office/2007officevisualhowtos/moss2007creatingexposingsearchscopes.wmv
Visual How To: Creating and Exposing Search Scopes in SharePoint Server 2007 Enterprise Search (Video - Patrick Tisseghem, U2U)
1st April 2007 (actually just April 2007)
http://wm.microsoft.com/ms/msdn/office/2007officevisualhowtos/moss2007creatingcontentsourcestocrawlbusinessdata.wmv
Visual How To: Creating Content Sources to Crawl Business Data in SharePoint Server 2007 Enterprise Search (Video - Patrick Tisseghem, U2U)
1st April 2007 (actually just April 2007)
http://wm.microsoft.com/ms/msdn/office/2007officevisualhowtos/moss2007xlservicescreatingmanagedcodeudfs.wmv
Visual How To: Creating Managed-Code UDFs for Excel Services (Video - Joel Krist, Akona Systems)
1st April 2007 (actually just April 2007)
http://wm.microsoft.com/ms/msdn/office/2007officevisualhowtos/moss2007refiningbdcsearchscopes.wmv
Visual How To: Refining Business Data Catalog Search with Scopes (Video - Ryan Femling, 3Sharp)
1st April 2007 (actually just April 2007)
http://wm.microsoft.com/ms/msdn/office/2007officevisualhowtos/moss2007excelservicesretrievingworkbooks.wmv
Visual How To: Retrieving an Entire Workbook or a Snapshot of a Workbook in Excel Services (Video - Siew Moi Khor, Danny Khen, Microsoft and Joel Krist, Akona Systems)
1st April 2007 (actually just April 2007)
http://wm.microsoft.com/ms/msdn/office/2007officevisualhowtos/infopathparameters.wmv
Visual How To: Using Business Data Catalog Actions to Pass Parameters to InfoPath 2007 Browser Forms (Video - David Gerhardt, 3Sharp)
1st April 2007 (actually just April 2007)
http://wm.microsoft.com/ms/msdn/office/2007officevisualhowtos/moss2007filteringbdcsusingassociations.wmv
Visual How To: Filtering One Business Data Catalog List from Another by Using Associations in SharePoint Server 2007 (Video - John Peltonen, 3Sharp)
1st April 2007 (actually just April 2007)
http://wm.microsoft.com/ms/msdn/office/2007officevisualhowtos/moss2007creatingbusinessdatacatalogs.wmv
Visual How To: Creating Business Data Catalog Entities in SharePoint Server 2007 (Video - John Peltonen, 3Sharp)
1st April 2007 (actually just April 2007)
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb153523.aspx
Working with ASP.NET 2.0 Web Parts and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (Erika Ehrli, Jo-Anne West)
1st March 2007 (actually just March 2007)
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb380251.aspx
Improving the Performance of InfoPath 2007 Forms (Andrew Begun)
1st March 2007 (actually just March 2007)
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb219479.aspx
Best Practices: Writing SQL Syntax Queries for Relevant Results in Enterprise Search (Dmitriy Meyerzon, Jo-Anne West)
1st January 2007 (actually just January 2007)
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa973805.aspx
Deploying and Optimizing a SharePoint Web Part That Calls Excel Web Services (Dan Battagin)
1st November 2006 (actually just November 2006)
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa972194.aspx
Excel Services Technical Overview
1st November 2006 (actually just November 2006)
B. Other Office 2007 products (selected few only since 1.1.2007)
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb851478.aspx
Visual How To: Creating Custom Web Parts for Project Server 2007 (Joel Krist, Akona Systems)
2nd October 2007 (date added) (date of article September 2007)
http://wm.microsoft.com/ms/msdn/office/2007officevisualhowtos/pj2007creatingcustomwebparts.wmv
Visual How To: Creating Custom Web Parts for Project Server 2007 (Video - Joel Krist, Akona Systems)
1st October 2007 (date added)
C. Other New 2006/2007 Products (selected few only since 1.1.2007)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=73906bf5-4197-4941-a73f-a43c0d38618f&displaylang=en&tm
Installing and Configuring Microsoft BizTalk Adapters for Enterprise Applications (ver RTM)
28th September 2007
Modified
None
Deleted
None
III WSS v3 FAQ
New
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1227
I.38 What are the different Version Numbers of WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007?
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III.55.04 Workflows: How can I avoid having workflow associations deleted after 60 days?
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III.100 Why are some top link tabs not highlighted?
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VII.28 7 Microsoft Office Business Applications for Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MS Press - ISBN: 9780735622760) (Chapter 1? - Getting Started with Office Business Applications)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1228
VIII.05B Implementing and Administering Microsoft Office Project Server 2007 (msProjectExperts - Gary L. Chefetz, Dale Howard)
(note that the numbers in section VIII have changed in order to group books by product or product type)
X.75 Smart Search for SharePoint (Codeplex - China's Enterprise Search team)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1220
X.76 Predefined Search for MOSS2007 (Codeplex - China's Enterprise Search team)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1221
X.77 MOSS Search Admin (Codeplex - China's Enterprise Search team)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1222
X.78 Forms Base Authentication Tools and Utils for SharePoint 2007 (Codeplex - Stacy Draper)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1223
X.79 MOSS Faceted Search (CodePlex - "leonidly")
Modified
None
Deleted
X.1 MOSS BDC MetaData Manager (free - Todd Baginski)
X.18 Metadata Manager for the Microsoft Office SharePoint Server Business Data Catalog (MMMOSSBDC)
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IV WSSv2 KB Articles (plus SPS 2003 Hot fixes)
New
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;924298
Description of the SharePoint Portal Server 2003 post-Service Pack 2 hotfix package: August 17, 2006 (ver 2.0)
3rd October 2007
Modified
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;924931
Description of the SharePoint Portal Server 2003 post-Service Pack 2 hotfix package: August 31, 2006 (ver 4.0)
3rd October 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;939770
Description of the update that addresses the issue in Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 in which items that use the Date and Time fields are off by one hour (ver 2.0)
28th September 2007
V. MS Articles for WSSv2
New or Modified
None
VI Non-MS Articles for WSSv2
New or Modified
None
VII WSSv2 FAQ
New or Modified
None
An "audience" was one of those SPS 2003 things I knew were in SPS 2003 and not in WSS (2.0) but that was about the extent of my knowledge. Well, that and the fact that you could use them to show different information to different people.
(I was WSS only and only needed to know what was only in SPS 2003 so I could ignore questions on them (newgroups) or pass them on to a colleague (conferences))
Now, in the v3 products, this (showing different information to different people) is automatic, isn't it, as people now see only what they are allowed to see, so I'll admit that I didn't see the point in having Audiences in MOSS 2007 any more, yet there they were.
This has niggled me for some time (as has the question of why do some people think that WSS 3.0 has audiences too [wrongly as it happens]) so I finally grabbed a pile of SharePoint v3 books and looked through the indexes.
I found sections on audiences on both the MVP written "Beginning SharePoint xxx" books from Wrox and Göran Husman's Administration section comes out with a definite "Remember that Audience Groups are exclusive to MOSS" (followed by the fact that with WSS you could use "target filtering using SP Groups and security groups") and both that book and Amanda/Shane's define audiences in a Shared Services Administration site (=MOSS).
So that solved the "It's not in WSS 3.0 question?" (= it isn't) but it still didn't solve the "why on earth do we still have Audiences?" question which needed me to read on (in those same books).
It soon became very clear.
Whereas the new interface means that you only see what you are allowed to see (=security), Audiences mean that you see what you want to see (or at least what the SP admin thinks you want to see).
Let's take the sort of example they use in those two books. Sales.
You can specify that certain sites / doc libs / Link Libraries etc. can only be accessed by Sales people and then these sites/doc libs/Link libraries won't appear on the web pages of non-Sales people because they are not allowed to access them. (Security!)
However you might have things that you don't really care if non-Sales people see or not, but you don't think that they will be particularly interested in them. In this case the built-in security trimming isn't going to do the job for you and you need something more.
So you set up an Audience of Sales People and assign that Audience to those things that aren't by any means secret to Sales people only but which normally only Sales people will want to see. Now the Sales people's web pages will show those things but the web pages of non-Sales people won't.
So what's the difference ?
- If the non-Sales person hasn't got (security) access rights to something. he can't access it.
- If however the non-Sales person is excluded from having certain information presented to him on his web pages via Audiences, then he/she can still access that information provided he knows where it is. He/she is not blocked from seeing the information, it's just made more difficult.
So that's why Audiences are still there. They are if you like there so that users can avoid having too much Information available to them at first glance.
Of course the question remains that if they are so useful why can't we have them in WSS 3.0.
Well we can - in the words of fellow MVP Robert Bogue talking about IRunTimeFilter "the underlying technology works in WSS -- the implementation of IRunTimeFilter in MOSS is Audiences." - it's just that Microsoft provides the code in MOSS 2007 and you have to write it yourself in WSS 3.0.
In addition, as the quote above from the Göran Husman book makes clear, you can still have target filtering in WSS 3.0. Not so powerful maybe and not applicable everywhere, but still a solution to the same problem.
P.S. You'll find those Wrox books as items 25 and 22 here
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/V%20Books.aspx
It's now over a week since the WSS FAQ's URL www.asaris.de/sites/walsh became wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh and site hits are still running at a fraction (40% on a good day) of what they were before the URL change so I thought I'd see what Google was giving for a simple WSS FAQ search (i.e. Typing WSS and FAQ in a simple search with no "). Google was fine. It gave first the Collutions site (wss.collutions.com) which has had the same name for years and then the wss.asaris.de address. So I thought I'd check www.live.com. They still had www.asaris.de .... So much for that. Google wins this comparison handsdown.
We are creatures of habit and it's really only by chance that I've recently discovered that I can save myself a lot of time and still get the same amount of MVP "work" done. The first time savings was a big one. I've been using Outlook Express to handle the newsgroups as using any newsreader is a major time-saver compared to any use of the browser in particular because a newsreader keeps track of what messages you have read already. There were two main problems with OE. Firstly because I track newsgroups both at home (on at the time two machines) and at work (1) there was always the need to bring the second machine's OE to the same level as the first machine's OE. This was easy enough if I went straight home from work and immediately turned the home computer on but even only stopping off a the shops on the way home meant I had to either take the risk of marking messages as read that I hadn't in fact read OR re-reading more messages than I cared to read. The second problem was that I read messages by thread and OE had this good feature that when you opened a newsgroup in it it would go straight to the earliest unread message BUT then had no feature to go to the next earliest unread message. So I would open .windowsservices; read the earliest unread message there; open .general; read the earliest unread message there and then repeat. Messy; took extra time (but less usually than finding that next unread message) and had the risk of me thinking I was in .windowsservices when I was actually in .general. I'd tried Thunderbird but used it too in thread mode and had seen no advantages in it (and a couple of oddities) and so abandoned it again. But then I got the MacBook and guess what OE doesn't work in the Mac. So Thunderbird again only this time (and don't ask me why) I started using it in message mode - in other words single messages are listed sorted according to the date with the latest at the end. Suddenly I solved the above two problems. Once I'd found the first unread message, all the rest followed neatly directly after it and it was now simple t update the home machine - just mark all messages until the time 'd last looked at the newsgroup (often visible because of a reply from me). Simple. So I started using Thunderbird everywhere . However this thread was about time saving. There is a major time saving with only having to do down arrow to see the next message's opening (or complete) text. So my sessions take maybe 25-50% (nearer to the lower figure) of the time I used to take. There is always a snag and in this case it's minor. Sometimes either people don't quote what they are replying to (or sometimes Thunderbird doesn't pick up the quote) and so without after all selecting thread mode (*for that message*) I can't see the context. The other even more minor snag is that if someone posts a message to two newsgroups *at once* (not as two separate messages) it appears in both my Thunderbird newsgroups as unread whereas in OE once I read it in one it is marked as read in the other one. That's one time saving.
The other involves keeping track of the SP KB articles and the changes to them. Because I'm far too curious for my own good I have printed copies of all the SP KB Articles I know about and every time there is a modification (ver 1.1 say) I compare that with the 1.0 version (and file that new version too). Because printing from IE doesn't always work properly for A4, I print in Firefox and so far what I've done is keep track (when I add new or modified articles to the WSS FAQ sites) of articles I've not printed yet by listing them in the file I use to post the WSS FAQ additions and changes message/blog. Then I copy/paste them one by one to Firefox and print them out. Today I realised (about time!) that all I needed to do was open in Firefox my Blog site and the latest WSS FAQ additions and comments Blog. Now I just go down the list there of KB articles click enter; print; back browser; click next entry etc. Saves 50% of the time when printing and all the time taken to keep that separate list up-to-date. Why didn't I think of that before ? So there you are. It's worth having a look at your semi-manual methods now and again to see if - based on experience - there aren't better methods around.
When you buy an Apple "HiFi" loudspeaker (of the kind that came out last year and that you can put an IPod into but can also - as I mostly do - connect to the headphone plug of your HiFi amplifier) then you get a small unit that looks roughly like an IPod which which you remotely control basic functions of the Ipod that is stuck into the loudspeaker.
I use it mostly to control the volume of the speaker (as its much smaller and more responsive than the amplifier's remote control).
Apple have been "clever" and you can if you have a Mac also use the same control to control the volume of ITunes on the Mac. This sounds a useful function doesn't it?
As I discovered today when I was starting up a VM in Parallels that contained WSS 3.0 and WSS 3.0 versions of several of the WSS FAQ sites' Lists, this dual functionality isn't always a great feature.
I namely amended the volume of the loudspeaker just as the VM was opening and there was a dull click from the MacBook and an ominious message that Parallels was unable to open the VM. Luckily the VM opened after doing the re-boot of the Mac they suggested (and without the addition of a volume click from me) but my heart was in my hands for a short while.
Sometimes Apple just go one step too far. (I'd like a right click on this keyboard too as the method you can use in OsX (Ctrl-Click) doesn't work in a Windows 2003 VM so you need to use one of you USB ports to add an external *proper* mouse.)
Note: I've spent most of the past week catching up with stuff. What
you won't notice here are webcasts that happened since I was away and most blog items as I haven't yet been through most of them.
They'll be in next week's. There's enough to be going on with here in any case.
Note: All of the addresses of the KB / Articles - 2007 Products / MS / Non-MS Articles below were valid at the time I added them to the WSS FAQ
site and to this file. I can't guarantee that they still are.
(This is also posted to the WSS newsgroup at microsoft.public.sharepoint.windowsservices - web access via http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/newsgroups/server/sharepoint.mspx)
(Items are added to the WSS FAQ throughout the week so you will find new items more quickly by checking at wss.collutions.com or www.wssfaq.com daily.)
From 17th - 22nd September 2007
I.1 2007 KB Articles (*now only one section for WSS and MOSS*)
New
None
Modified
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb%3Ben-us%3B932619
You cannot crawl case-sensitive Web content in SharePoint Server 2007 (ver 2.3)
20th September 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb%3Ben-us%3B888037
Medium server farm configurations that are supported in SharePoint Portal Server 2003 (ver 5.0)
17th September 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;938182
Description of the SharePoint Server 2007 hotfix package for SharePoint Server 2007 and for SharePoint Server 2007 for Search: May 31, 2007 (ver 1.2)
11th September 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=934793
Description of the SharePoint Server 2007 hotfix package: April 12, 2007 (ver 2.3)
11th September 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;936056
Description of the security update for the 2007 Microsoft Office system servers: August 14, 2007 (ver 2.2)
11th September 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;939654
Description of the SharePoint Server 2007 hotfix package: June 29, 2007 (2nd of same name) (ver 1.2)?
11th September 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;933853
How to manually update the TIMEZONE.XML file to be DST 2007-compliant if you cannot install update 924881 or a later update for Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 software (ver 2.1)
15th August 2007
I.b Forefront KB Articles
New
None
Modified
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=940880
Error message when you try to upload files to or download files from a Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Web site or a Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Web site: "Virus Found" (ver 1.2)
12th September 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;940880
Error message when you try to upload files to or download files from a Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Web site or a Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Web site: "Virus Found" (ver 1.1)
11th September 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;940879
Users cannot upload documents or files that are larger then 128 MB on the SharePoint site after you install Forefront Security for SharePoint (ver 1.1)
5th September 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;940874
Compatibility of Forefront Security for SharePoint with Exchange Server 2007 (ver 1.1)
5th September 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;940878
After you install Forefront Security for SharePoint, and then you change the antivirus settings on the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Antivirus page, the SharePoint site stops responding (ver 1.1)
5th September 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;940875
A manual scan fails in Forefront Security for SharePoint (ver 1.1)
5th September 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;941006
You must press CTRL+C to close the Operation Completed Successfully dialog box when you import or export SharePoint Server 2007 site data on a computer that is running Forefront Security for SharePoint (ver 1.1)
5th September 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;940877
The manual scan process does not work as expected in Microsoft Forefront Security for SharePoint (ver 1.1)
5th September 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;940876
SharePoint keyword filtering does not scan 2007 Office documents correctly and the list of scanned items may not be correct (ver 1.1)
5th September 2007
I.c InfoPath 2007 KB Articles
New
None
Modified
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;938894
Description of the InfoPath 2007 hotfix package: June 17, 2007 (ver 1.1)
11th September 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;939605
Description of the InfoPath 2007 hotfix package: June 29, 2007 (2nd of same date) (ver 1.1)
11th September 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;938540
Description of the InfoPath 2007 hotfix package: June 11, 2007 (ver 1.1)
11th September 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;939593
Description of the InfoPath 2007 hotfix package: June 29, 2007 (1st of same date) (ver 1.1)
11th September 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;939187
Description of the InfoPath 2007 hotfix package: June 24, 2007 (ver 1.1)
11th September 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/925198/en-us
You may not see the values of the promoted fields when you upload an InfoPath 2007 form to a document library (ver 1.1)
28th December 2006
II. Articles - 2007 Products (no longer with all links to articles for other Office 2007 and other 2007 Products)
New
A. Office 2007 Server Products
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=100254&clcid=0x409
Administering Enterprise Search for Office SharePoint Server (white paper)
21st September 2007 (date added is September 2007)
http://h71019.www7.hp.com/activeanswers/Secure/548230-0-0-0-121.html
HP ProLiant Sizer for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
19th September 2007 (date added)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=35fc4205-792b-4306-8e4b-0de9cce72172&displaylang=en&tm
Microsoft Transporter Suite for Lotus Domino (ver 08.01.0206)
17th September 2007
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb687949.aspx
Best Practices: Common Coding Issues When Using the SharePoint Object Model (Scott Harris, Mike Ammerlaan)
18th September 2007 (date added actually September 2007)
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb727371.aspx
How to Optimize a SharePoint Server 2007 Web Content Management Site for Performance (Avneesh Kaushik)
18th September 2007 (date added actually September 2007)
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb727372.aspx
How to Create a SharePoint Server 2007 Custom Master Page and Page Layouts for a Web Content Management Site (Avneesh Kaushik)
18th September 2007 (date added actually September 2007)
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb736296.aspx
Creating a Database Connection by using the Business Data Catalog Definition Editor (Jo-Anne-West)
18th September 2007 (date added actually August 2007)
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb736146.aspx
Visual How-To: Building List Definitions with Event Receiver in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (Joel Krist, Akona Systems)
18th September 2007 (date added actually August 2007)
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb687717.aspx
Visual How-To: Designing InfoPath 2007 Forms for Mobile Web Browsers (David Gerhardt, 3Sharp)
18th September 2007 (date added actually August 2007)
http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/21dcf8aa-8a6e-4325-aa17-0188e491361c1033.mspx?mfr=true
Data Retrieval Services: Stsadm properties (Office SharePoint Server)
13th September 2007
http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/21dcf8aa-8a6e-4325-aa17-0188e491361c1033.mspx?mfr=true
Workflow: Stsadm properties (Office SharePoint Server)
13th September 2007
http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/21dcf8aa-8a6e-4325-aa17-0188e491361c1033.mspx?mfr=true
Antivirus: Stsadm properties (Office SharePoint Server)
13th September 2007
http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/21dcf8aa-8a6e-4325-aa17-0188e491361c1033.mspx?mfr=true
Peoplepicker: Stsadm properties (Office SharePoint Server)
13th September 2007
http://sharepointsolutions.blogspot.com/2007/09/make-selected-links-in-links-list-open.html
Make Selected Links in a Links List Open in a New Window (Blog - Ricky Spears, SharePoint Solutions)
6th September 2007
http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/21dcf8aa-8a6e-4325-aa17-0188e491361c1033.mspx?mfr=true
Deploy software updates for Office SharePoint Server 2007
31st August 2007
http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/21dcf8aa-8a6e-4325-aa17-0188e491361c1033.mspx?mfr=true
Targeting content (Ed. in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007)
30th August 2007
http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/21dcf8aa-8a6e-4325-aa17-0188e491361c1033.mspx?mfr=true
Administering personalization permissions
30th August 2007
http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/21dcf8aa-8a6e-4325-aa17-0188e491361c1033.mspx?mfr=true
Logical architecture components
30th August 2007
http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/21dcf8aa-8a6e-4325-aa17-0188e491361c1033.mspx?mfr=true
Migrate content or sites after upgrade (Office SharePoint Server)
30th August 2007
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=98657
Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) Installation/Configuration Guide for SharePoint Integration Mode (Raju Sakthivel
)
30th August 2007 (date of article marked as August 2007)
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=83725&clcid=0x409
Using Database Mirroring with Office SharePoint Server and Windows SharePoint Services (white paper)
27th August 2007
http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/21dcf8aa-8a6e-4325-aa17-0188e491361c1033.mspx?mfr=true
Estimate performance and capacity requirements for Internet environments (Office SharePoint Server)
23rd August 2007
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=98664
Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) Installation/Configuration Guide for SharePoint Integration Mode
3rd August (a different paper to the other one with the same name but an author?)
B. Other Office 2007 products (selected few only since 1.1.2007)
None
C. Other New 2006/2007 Products (selected few only since 1.1.2007)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=938d5e7f-fb74-4c0c-9b6e-31e2d1ee7cbb&displaylang=en&tm
BizTalk Server 2006 R2 Help (HxS collection update) (ver 2.0)
18th September 2007
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=3844fd97-51cb-4dd4-bc90-e149b8d360f1&displaylang=en&tm
Visual Basic Pack for Visual Studio 2005 SDK (ver 1.0)
14th September 2007
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=5272e1d1-93ab-4bd4-af18-cb6bb487e1c4&displaylang=en&tm
Excel 2007 SDK: Excel 2007 XLL Software Development Kit (ver Sept07)
(to get it in the SDK view)
11th September 2007
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=54ea1e0c-937a-45db-b51e-d0c602543ec8&displaylang=en&tm
BizTalk Server 2006 R2 Evaluation
11th September 2007
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=df2e8a88-fb23-49a4-9ac7-d17f72517d12&displaylang=en&tm
BizTalk Server 2006 R2 Installation and Upgrade Guides
11th September 2007
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=4e6a9d40-dbfc-4474-826a-ddeca287e57d&displaylang=en&tm
BizTalk Server 2006 R2 Documentation (chm)
11th September 2007
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=6f629eac-d8c6-4437-9d20-b47b02db413a&displaylang=en&tm
Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2006 Supportability Update (ver 5721.240)
11th September 2007
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=8352c9a0-99c5-4f63-a793-6e6decf6223a&displaylang=en&tm
Introducing BizTalk Server 2006 R2
10th September 2007
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=34f41573-c552-466f-b531-32cb09a57cdd&displaylang=en&tm
BizTalk 2006 R2 Capabilities posters
8th September 2007
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=e4d97ff7-c037-4171-a4e5-332596809bcf&displaylang=en&tm
BizTalk 2006 R2 Datasheet
8th September 2007
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=e395185f-f17e-4708-b4a6-13d76279c62a&displaylang=en&tm
Microsoft Windows Software Development Kit (SDK) for RC 1 Windows Vista and .NET Framework 3.0 Runtime Components (ISO) (ver 6.0)
(to get it in the SDK view)
7th September 2007
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=9aa65956-4a13-46a3-9711-82939a041792&displaylang=en&tm
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Beta 3 VHD (Full Installation)
(to get it in the VHD view)
5th September 2007
Modified
http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/e5134b97-b629-4fc0-8733-f2a49126daee1033.mspx?mfr=true
Index for Stsadm operations and properties (Office SharePoint Server)
13th September 2007
http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/5a2be738-df29-43cd-b361-84b7822164e31033.mspx?mfr=true
Install available language template packs (Office SharePoint Server)
30th August 2007
http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/5465aa2b-aec3-4b87-bce0-8601ff20615e1033.mspx?mfr=true
Estimate performance and capacity requirements for search environments
July 19th 2007
Deleted
None
III WSS v3 FAQ
New
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1213
VII.27A Programming Excel Services (MSPress - ISBN 9780735624078) (Chapter 1: An Introduction to Excel Services)
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1212
VII.27B Programming Excel Services (MSPress - ISBN 9780735624078) (Chapter 3: Excel Web Access)
Modified
None
IV WSSv2 KB Articles (plus SPS 2003 Hot fixes)
New
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;938795
Issues that are fixed in SharePoint Portal Server 2003 by SharePoint Portal Server 2003 Service Pack 3
18th September 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;923644
Description of SharePoint Portal Server 2003 Service Pack 3
18th September 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;939770
Description of the update that addresses the issue in Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 in which items that use the Date and Time fields are off by one hour
6th September 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;941412
Description of the Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 hotfix package: August 23, 2007 (ver 2.0)
6th September 2007
Modified
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;924881
Description of the update for Windows SharePoint Services: January 9, 2007 (ver 2.4)
11th September 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;937462
Description of the SharePoint Portal Server 2003 hotfix package: May 15, 2007 (ver 1.1)
11th September 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;888253
How to manually update the DST period for a time zone definition in Windows SharePoint Services by modifying the Timezone.xml file (ver 5.0)
7th September 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;941412
How to configure a Windows SharePoint Services virtual server to use Kerberos authentication and how to switch from Kerberos authentication back to NTLM authentication (ver 10.2)
5th September 2007
V. MS Articles for WSSv2
New
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=2bbfc89b-eb59-49ff-b58f-684693cb25a7&displaylang=en&tm
Windows SharePoint Services Service Pack 3 (SP3)
17th September 2007
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=805da520-1246-4ce1-88d7-5245e21548ed&displaylang=en&tm
Windows SharePoint Services Language Template Pack Service Pack 3 (SP3)
17th September 2007
Modified
None
VI Non-MS Articles for WSSv2
New or Modified
None
VII WSSv2 FAQ
New
None
Modified
http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSS%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=121
III.43 Why can't I specify anonymous access to my WSS web site? (It's greyed/grayed out)
The first thing is the Subject.
This should be completely meaningless. "Help!" is good.
Even if you decide to say something more meaningful here, NEVER say which SharePoint Product you are using. (This applies to the text too - we love making guesses and we love even more giving alternative answers).
Then - even if this is your first posting - start it with "Hello friends".
In order to really encourage us to answer the question, carry on by making sure we are aware that you work for a non-profit organisation or the US military. The latter really encourages SharePoint experts based in muslim countries to respond to your question.
Then you have two choices.
a) post your entire log file as the rest of your message
b) post your question in a long sentence with no punctuation and never use any Capital letters and if possible use as many SMS-type words - "u" for instance - as possible.
Finally end your question with a sentence like
"Please help me!"
It's a well-known fact that people only answer questions in newsgroups if they are asked specifically with this kind of sentence to provide help.
(even more efficient is of course "PLEASE HELP ME!")
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Let's see - did I miss anything?
Well there's always if you are a non-native English speaker who can write clear English anyway, always make a point of apologising for your English. Never do this if your English is terrible. Oh, and of course, the English language newsgroups really love having messages posted to them in Spanish.
I'm still stuck with the problem that (in Central Administration / Application Management / Reporting Services section) I can't open the Set Server Defaults section without it crashing with a long - but to me meaningless - message.
That despite the fact that I was able to compare my steps so far with Part One of (now MVP) Laim Cleary's old sharepoint blogs article on reporting services which he has managed to recover since the disastrous crash of the SharePoint Blogs server a few month's ago and which is now here
http://www.helloitsliam.com/Downloads/Articles/MOSS2007%20-%20Reporting%20Services%20Addin%20(Part%201).pdf
In his case of course the Set Server Defaults section opens fine ...
Anyway, Liam's article says that this section is "just used for setting up some basic configuration" so I thought that I might not actually need to set anything here at all (and hoped that if I didn't the defaults would be active) and I went looking to see if I could find any Reporting Services web parts on the site regardless.
I couldn't so I tried this time a search of my OneNote files and found this blog item which was about Reporting Services SP2 *beta* and Web Parts.
http://bimvp.com/blogs/bsm/archive/2006/10/23/266.aspx
It's a good description but things have changed since then so the command line statement is now (at least in my server where I have SQL Server on a different drive)
stsadm.exe -o addwppack -filename "E:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\90\Tools\Reporting Services\SharePoint\RSWebParts.cab" -url http://sharepointservername
(note as well as the C: to E: change that there's a change of folder from 80 to 90)
and the path to the location of stsadm.exe is now
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\BIN
(12 not 60)
Once I'd made these changes that addwppack statement worked fine and when I now went to the site to see what web parts would be offered me if I did Add a WebPart on default.aspx, I now had a "Report Viewer" (the heading) web part on my page.
(The full name of the WebPart which is what you see in the list of web parts when you try to add one is "SQL Server Reporting Services Report Viewer").
So now I have that there I need to perhaps look at SQL Server Reporting Services in order to create a Report that I can then show in that WebPart ? Seems to be a plan.
Don't however wait for me to resolve this because I'm going away PC-less on holiday in a few days.
P.S. Would I have got this web part anyway even if I hadn't bothered installing the Reporting Services Add-In ? Answers please on a small piece of paper (and failing that as a comment to this blog item)
I recently amended the web parts of the WSS v3 FAQ in the default.aspx page of www.wssfaq.com. In fact I tried to reflect how many new and amended KB articles there are these days for the v3 products by making the previous one web part two - one for new KB articles and one for modified KB articles.
In order to make sure that something new to the WSS FAQ list is in the New list even if it's actually not ver 1.0, I use the difference between Created and Modified to decide whether something goes in the New web part view or in the Modified web part view. (As you know when you create an item, the same value is put in both the Created field and the Modified field, so all I need to do is make sure that Created is identical with Modified and I have a New (to this list) KB Article.)
So why are the web parts often but not always in Issue Date order in this View ?
The reason is that the intention is to show the latest KB articles that have been added to the WSS FAQ listing because these are I imagine what people checking the default page are looking for. These are usually also the latest KB Articles by Issue Date but occasionally I miss one and add it later when it pops up on yet another of my sources for these KB Articles.
In that case the Issue Date could well be a week or so earlier, yet people checking that default page will still see it as New - thanks to me listing here by Created/Modified date.
I must admit that I had today to go and look at why a KB Article with the date of the 10th of August was appearing in the middle of much later articles, so I thought it worth a small explanation here.
Now maybe I'll remember it myself !!
Note: All of the addresses of the KB / Articles - 2007 Products / MS / Non-MS Articles below were valid at the time I added them to the WSS FAQ
site and to this file. I can't guarantee that they still are.
(This is also posted to the WSS newsgroup at microsoft.public.sharepoint.windowsservices - web access via http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/newsgroups/server/sharepoint.mspx)
(Items are added to the WSS FAQ throughout the week so you will find new items more quickly by checking at wss.collutions.com or www.wssfaq.com daily.)
From 20th - 26th August 2007
I.1 2007 KB Articles (*now only one section for WSS and MOSS*)
New
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb%3Ben-us%3B888037
Medium server farm configurations that are supported in SharePoint Portal Server 2003 and in SharePoint Server 2007 (ver 3.1)
24th August 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb%3Ben-us%3B941212
The Document Conversions Launcher Service status on a SharePoint Server 2007 Web front-end server displays "Starting" but does not start or stop
24th August 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb%3Ben-us%3B939035
A new operation has been added to the Stsadm.exe tool to repartition a site collection of a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 content database
23rd August 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;939654
Description of the SharePoint Server 2007 hotfix package: June 29, 2007 (2nd of the same date) (ver 1.1)
23rd August 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb%3Ben-us%3B939592
Description of the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 hotfix package: June 29, 2007 (ver 1.1)
23rd August 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;939188
Description of the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 hotfix package: June 24, 2007
23rd August 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb%3Ben-us%3B941142
Error message when you try to upgrade from Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 or from SharePoint Portal Server 2003 to Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 or to SharePoint Server 2007: "Execution of a full-text operation failed"
22nd August 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;939535
How to use the new "renamesite" operation to change the URL of a host-named site collection in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
22nd August 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;555967
UserControl security exception in SharePoint 2007 (Community Solution - Alvin Bruney)
19th August 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;555963
Accessing configuration settings from InfoPath 2007 browser-enabled form templates (Community Solution - S.Y.M. Wong-A-Ton)
18th August 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/937053/en-us
When you copy text from a Rich Text box in InfoPath on a computer that has Internet Explorer 7 installed, the pasted text unexpectedly appears inside a table cell (ver 2.1)
16th August 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=939942
FIX: You receive an error message when you try to access a report after you configure SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services to run under the SharePoint integrated mode
20th July 2007
Modified
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=936056
Description of the security update for the 2007 Microsoft Office system servers: August 14, 2007 (ver 1.1)
21st August 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=929074
The scan engines are not updated when you schedule a scan engine update in Forefront Server Security for SharePoint or Forefront Server Security for Exchange, and an error message occurs: "ERROR: Unable to load manifest" (ver 2.0)
20th August 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=894630
You receive a "The specified file or folder name is too long" error message when you create a new folder or a new document in a document library in SharePoint Portal Server or in Windows SharePoint Services (ver 2.1)
20th August 2007 (moved from v2 as now includes v3 products)
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;937203
Description of the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 hotfix package: May 15, 2007 (ver 2.0)
15th August 2007 Forefront for SharePoint (Modified) http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=929074 The scan engines are not updated when you schedule a scan engine update in Forefront Server Security for SharePoint or Forefront Server Security for Exchange, and an error message occurs: "ERROR: Unable to load manifest" (ver 2.0) 20th August 2007
II. Articles - 2007 Products (no longer with all links to articles for other Office 2007 and other 2007 Products)
New
A. Office 2007 Server Products
http://www.sharepointblogs.com/zimmer/archive/2007/08/23/moss-2007-customize-the-search-result-using-xslt.aspx
MOSS 2007: Customize the Search Result (using XSLT) (Blog - Tobias Zimmergren)
23rd August 2007
http://andrewconnell.com/blog/archive/2007/08/22/6100.aspx
Creating custom Refactorings for use in Refactor! Pro: The "Create Web Part Definition" Refactoring (Part 5 of 5) (Blog - Andrew Connell)
22nd August 2007
http://andrewconnell.com/blog/archive/2007/08/22/6099.aspx
Use of StringProviders in AC's VS CodeRush/Refactor Tools for SharePoint Devs (Part 4 of 5) (Blog - Andrew Connell)
22nd August 2007
http://andrewconnell.com/blog/archive/2007/08/22/6098.aspx
MOSS Publishing Templates in AC's VS CodeRush/Refactor Tools for SharePoint (Part 3 of 5) (Blog - Andrew Connell)
22nd August 2007
http://andrewconnell.com/blog/archive/2007/08/22/6097.aspx
Working with Templates in AC's VS CodeRush/Refactor Tools for SharePoint Devs (Part 2 of 5) (Blog - Andrew Connell)
22nd August 2007
http://www.sharepointblogs.com/chadclarkesmossblog/archive/2007/08/21/solution-for-multiple-filters-javascript-forms-solution.aspx
Solution for multiple filters... (Javascript/Forms Solution) (Blog - Chad Clarke)
21st August 2007
http://andrewconnell.com/blog/archive/2007/08/21/6095.aspx
Announcing AC's VS CodeRush/Refactor Tools for SharePoint Devs (Part 1 of 5) (Blog - Andrew Connell)
21st August 2007
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=3e1dcccd-1cca-433a-bb4d-97b96bf7ab63&displaylang=en&tm
Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Tools: Visual Studio 2005 Extensions, Version 1.1 CTP
20th August 2007
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb687711.aspx
Creating a Custom User Site Provisioning Solution with SharePoint Server 2007 (Part 1 of 2) (Sonya Zidek)
20th August 2007 (date added) (Article dated August 2007)
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb687710.aspx
Creating a Custom User Site Provisioning Solution with SharePoint Server 2007 (Part 2 of 2) (Sonya Zidek)
20th August 2007 (date added) (Article dated August 2007)
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb687718.aspx
Visual How To: Publishing InfoPath 2007 Form Templates to Servers Running InfoPath Forms Services (David Gerhardt, 3Sharp)
20th August 2007 (date added) (Article dated August 2007)
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb687712.aspx
Visual How To: Building Master Pages for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 using Site Definitions in Visual Studio 2005 (Joel Krist, Akona Systems)
20th August 2007 (date added) (Article dated August 2007)
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb687717.aspx
Visual How To: Designing InfoPath 2007 Forms for Mobile Web Browsers (David Gerhardt, 3Sharp)
20th August 2007 (date added) (Article dated August 2007)
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb629922.aspx
Visual How To: Building Custom Activities for Use in SharePoint Designer 2007 (Patrick Tisseghem, U2U)
20th August 2007 (date added) (Article dated July 2007)
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb684919.aspx
Visual How To: Building Custom Field Types in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (Erika Ehrli, Brian Jones)
20th August 2007 (date added) (Article dated July 2007)
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb674787.aspx
Visual How To: Creating and Editing Custom Document Information Panels in InfoPath 2007 (Erika Ehrli, Brian Jones)
20th August 2007 (date added) (Article dated July 2007)
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb684920.aspx
Visual How To: Building Simple Master Pages for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (Joel Krist, Akona Systems)
20th August 2007 (date added) (Article dated July 2007)
http://www.quest.com/landing/?ID=1090
Four Essentials for Building Your SharePoint Strategy (Quest - needs registration)
20th August 2007 (date added)
http://sharepointnutsandbolts.blogspot.com/2007/08/automatically-setting-custom.html
Automatically setting custom permissions on new sites (Blog - Chris O'Brien)
19th August 2007
http://www.sharepointblogs.com/roni/archive/2007/08/18/moss-2007-creating-an-asp-net-application-in-the-layouts-directory-using-the-visual-studio-2005-plug-in-web-application-project.aspx
MOSS 2007 – Creating an ASP.NET Application in the “_layouts” Directory using the Visual Studio 2005 Plug-In “Web Application Project” (Blog - Roni)
18th August 2007
http://www.sharepointblogs.com/dwarfnebula/archive/2007/08/18/how-to-create-a-custom-document-library-item-edit-upload-form.aspx
How to create a custom Document Library item edit/upload form (Blog - unknown)
18th August 2007
http://blogs.technet.com/wbaer/archive/2007/08/17/scripting-sharepoint-with-powershell.aspx
Scripting SharePoint with Powershell (Blog - William Baer)
17th August 2007
http://www.sharepointblogs.com/stevekay72/archive/2007/08/16/create-sub-folders-in-lists-programmatically.aspx
Create Sub Folders in Lists Programmatically (Blog - Steve Kay)
16th August 2007
http://blogs.technet.com/wbaer/archive/2007/08/15/cluster-or-mirror.aspx
Cluster or mirror? (Blog - William Baer)
15th August 2007
https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastRegistrationConfirmation.aspx?culture=en-US&RegistrationID=1292197239&Validate=false
MSDN Webcast: MSDN geekSpeak: Custom Authentication Providers for SharePoint Server 2007 (Level 200) (Glen Gordon, Lynn Langit)
15th August 2007
https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastRegistrationConfirmation.aspx?culture=en-US&RegistrationID=1292197349&Validate=false
Microsoft Webcast: Creating a Global Human Resources System Foundation with SharePoint Server 2007 (Level 100) (Saumil Gandhi, Gaylon Blank)
15th August 2007
http://blog.thekid.me.uk/archive/2007/07/25/debugging-tips-for-sharepoint-and-wss-exceptions.aspx?id=85
Debugging tips for SharePoint (Blog - Vincent Rothwell)
25th July 2007
http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2007/02/24/updated-installation-guide-for-the-20-server-admin-application-templates-for-wss-3-0.aspx
Updated Installation Guide for the 20 server admin Application Templates for WSS 3.0 (MS Team Blog)
24th February 2007
B. Other Office 2007 products (selected few only since 1.1.2007)
None
C. Other New 2006/2007 Products (selected few only since 1.1.2007)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=21eabb90-958f-4b64-b5f1-73d0a413c8ef&displaylang=en&tm
Internet Explorer Application Compatibility VPC Image
20th August 2007
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=389fcb89-f4cf-46d7-bc6e-57830d234f91&displaylang=en&tm
Microsoft Biztalk Server 2006 Management Pack for Operations Manager 2007 (ver 6.0.5000)
17th August 2007
Modified
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=05e0dd12-8394-402b-8936-a07fe8afaffd&displaylang=en&tm
Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: Software Development Kit (SDK) (ver 1.2-Aug07)
22nd August 2007
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=6d94e307-67d9-41ac-b2d6-0074d6286fa9&displaylang=en&tm
SharePoint Server 2007 SDK: Software Development Kit(ver 1.2-Aug07)
22nd August 2007
III WSS v3 FAQ
New
http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1201
I.37 Where do I see when my trial version of MOSS 2007 expires?
http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1200
VI.76 DWG Parser Solution Accelerator (commercial - Bamboo Solutions)
http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1199
X.71 Stock Quote Web Parts (free - Dor Rotman)
http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1202
X.72 Imtech Fields Explorer (free - Waldek Mastykarz, Imtech ICT Business Solutions)
http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1203
X.73 AddToEnvPath (free - Waldek Mastykarz, Imtech ICT Business Solutions)
Modified
None
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IV WSSv2 KB Articles (plus SPS 2003 Hot fixes)
New
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/937462/en-us
Description of the SharePoint Portal Server 2003 hotfix package: May 15, 2007
10th August 2007
Modified
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/933738/en-us
An update is available that addresses an issue in which items that use the Date and Time fields are off by one hour in Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 (ver 5.0)
17th August 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/292663/en-us
Error message when you add or edit an item in a SharePoint Web site (ver 5.4)
17th August 2007 http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=826803
Server That Runs Windows SharePoint Services May Run Low on Memory Resources (ver 3.0)
17th August 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/933853/en-us
How to manually update the TIMEZONE.XML file to be DST 2007-compliant if you cannot install update 924881 or a later update for Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 software (ver 2.1)
15th August 2007
V. MS Articles for WSSv2
New or Modified
None
VI Non-MS Articles for WSSv2
New or Modified
None
VII WSSv2 FAQ
New
None
Modified None
It's odd that even today the best article on how to install SQL Server 2005 SP2 Reporting Services is a SharePoint Team Blog from February but there (if I haven't missed something) you are. (http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2007/02/19/microsoft-sql-server-2005-sp2-reporting-services-integration-with-wss-3-0-and-moss-2007.aspx) (Aside: It's good that the SharePoint Team Blog mostly doesn't just repeat information from other team blogs about the release of beta products - see today's other blog item here) I've been working through that article and it could do with some re-writing in my opinion - as a blog item it's fine, but if MS ever produce a white paper or TechNet article onthis subject they will need to improve the text quite a bit. The first thing that I found confusing is the use of the "Reporting Services" term and the "Report Server" term. This has little to do with the writer of the piece however and more with the insane fact that when you in SQL Server 2005 click on "Reporting Services configuration" (Programs->SQL Server 2005->Configuration Tools->Reporting Services configuration) you get a screen headlined "Configure Report Server". Yes, you saw that correctly you select ReportING ServICES and you get Report ServER. How mad is that! Then of course this is all about installing the Reporting Services *Add-In* so there is an over-abundance of Reporting Services which the documentation doesn't make a really great job of distinguising among. Anyway enough of the general mutters, what about some specifics. There's first a list of what components need to be installed. - SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services - SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2 - Office SharePoint Server 2007 - Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services Add-In for Microsoft SharePoint Technologies (Aside: why is SQL Server 2005 ... and Office SharePoint Server enough for those items but the final name - which is long enough anyway - has a Microsoft shoved in front of it?) Anyway you see that list; think you've already installed SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services; the SP2 and MOSS 2007 and so you now install The Add-In. WRONG. This is just a list. Preparing the ground as it were. Don't you hate it when they do that? Instead you have to read on and here there's a para on "Report Server Configuration". *This* is the first thing you do (*before* installing the Add-In). This is a completely useless paragraph - except that is for the information that you need in a **screen** headed "Configure Report Server" to have a tick next to the SharePoint Integration item. What it misses are many key points. 1. You access this page by "Reporting Services configuration" (how - see my earlier mutters above) 2. When you do there is a question mark next to SharePoint Integration. This it says is because you haven't specified a Database for reports. You go to Database Setup and see that there is a database specified for Reports. You try just saving that. I can assure you it's not going to be enough. Instead what you need to do is to create a NEW Database for reports or amend the existing one (which SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services installed for you which the writer of the paper knows you have done ....) I created a new database just to be 100% sure. 3. That new database needs to have "SharePoint Integration" selected (the same page where you create it - i.e. in the Database Setup part of the Configure Report server page). Now finally you have a tick next to SharePoint Integration and your own "Configure Report Server" page looks like the one in the Team Blog. Only now can you install the Add-In! (The paper doesn't bother to tell you this (the next para starts "After installing the .... Add-In ... a new application becomes available) so if you were reading through this paper before installing anything you would in fact already have installed the Add-In before doing the necessary Report Server Configuration change ...) OK. So so far the steps are 1. Run Reporting Services configuration so that you can amend the Configure Report Server page (!) 2. Install the Add-In. You are then supposed to see a new "Reporting Services" section in Central Authorization/Application Management. Chances are that there's a 50% chance that you won't. That's because again there is something missing from the instructions (if you can even call them that) in the team blog article. In this case it's the information that you need to be logged in as the user that you used to install MOSS 2007. In my case I was logged in as the Administrator of the server which was a fine choice for doing the SQL Server (Report Server / Reporting Services) configuration changes. But try (and re-install; and do occasional iisresets etc.) as I might I never saw the Reporting Services section in Application Management after installing the Add-In. No, instead, you need to (first as Administrator uninstall the Add-In); log-out; log back in as the user used to install MOSS 2007 and only then install the Add-In. Now you will, finally, see the Reporting Services section in Application Management. You'd think that would be worth mentioning wouldn't you ? The next step is described in in the Team Blog as "you must set each of the options ... as follows"
- Manage integration settings – To configure the Report Server Web Service URL and Authentication Mode (either Windows or other trusted account).
- Grant database access – To configure the name of the report server database server instance name.
- Set server defaults – To configure report server timeouts and other options.
Based on previous experience of this Team Blog, I doubt if that's going to be that straightforward (if you look at the above text for the second two items, all it seems to say is that you need to configure somethings - not what to configure them as!), so for today (or at this this blog) I'm going to quit while I'm ahead.
P.S. I'd like at this point to express my thanks to Corleen Heiderken for posting a response to my newsgroup question asking why "Reporting Services" wasn't appearing in Application Management. I was thinking of looking there next, but it was good to get a quick confirmation in advance.
P.P.S. I couldn't, of course, leave well alone and I tried to configure all three of the items listed under Reporting Services. It *seemed* (but who really knows) that the first two went OK (at least they didn't crash and burn) but the third one crashed and burned even before I got it opened claiming that "An unexpected error occurred while connecting to the report server. Verify that the report server is configured for SharePoint integrated mode."
There's a KB article for this message but it's only for Forms Authentication which i don't have. My weekend starts here so I'll now be wondering about it all that long weekend. I ought to have stuck to having a break after getting something working instead. (I have no idea whether this problem is caused by filling out the two earlier items incorrectly or not btw - I filled them out with things that were a) valid (produced no error message) and b) seemed reasonable. But what do I know.
If just one more SharePoint blogger tells me that
VSeWSS 1.1 CTP released
I'll go mad.
P.S. I apologise if in the earlier version of this blog item I seemed to be picking on one particular blogger. I intended only copying the text not the link. (Now there's only the text)
P.P.S. One comment flamed me. It included the words "probably a deleted comment". Whoever wrote it was right :)
As promised the first thing I did when I finally got my own copy of the Real World SharePoint 2007 book (all links via the usual book list page -http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/V%20Books.aspx) was to quickly read through my own chapter and look for errors that had crept in (or hadn't crept out) during the final proof-reading and editing sessions.
I found as expected a couple of Americanisms I hadn't managed to kill; a few missing commas and even (typically Finnish!) a missing "a" or two, but mainly it wasn't too bad.
There was however one biggy that was quite amusing.
On page 22 I explain that URLs have to be of certain forms and that for many forms of URL "Test this link" will work OK even when the Link actually won't work when used from a SharePoint Link List.
So http:// is fine but only if it's an absolute URL but a relative URL won't work even if "test this link" is happy with it.
I then go on to say that (I think that's is what it was!) "similarly file:/// will work in WSS 3.0 but things like ftp:// will not, even though "test this link" has no problems with them".
At least that is what I tried to say. What actually appeared was
"similarly "Error! Hyperlink reference not valid" will work in WSS 3.0 but things like ftp:// will not, even though "test this link" has no problems with them".
Maybe we'd better go back to hand-setting. I bet Gutenburg had no such problems ...
I installed the Beta for a suite of programs yesterday.
I very carefully followed the installation instructions (which were long and in a seperate PDF file) and yet only one application in that suite was installed.
I followed the instructions for removing all traces of an earlier installation and tried again - being even more careful this time. Still only one application.
So I started wondering which newsgroup I should post to - if any, as this is a beta - and decided that before I do any posting I was going to look again at the page that said "download here" to see if there was another download link.
There was only this one link specified as being for the whole suite of programs, BUT a few lines below was the text that read something like "the present beta contains only Application X. Applications Y and Z will come soon when they have reached beta status."
Motto: read everything. I thought I was being extremely thorough reading the installation documentation before I installed. (OK. I confess - after I'd installed it the first time!) but a little bit more reading before clicking the install link and I wouldn't have needed to.
A while back and long enough ago for me to manage to forget the details, I had the problem that having done a basic installation of WSS 3.0, I could only access the site from within the VM itself.
Today I had the same thing. Access from within the VM OK but from everywhere else it was blocked (although I could ping the server). It didn't work over the network and not even from the mother PC.
...and I'd set AAM so it wasn't that. (That I *do* remember).
Several screaming bouts later and several breaks (hoping that moving from the computer would help) later and I started looking through my old blogs (Google Search specifying the blog's URL) for something I thought I'd written on this first time around.
Despite knowing that it had something to do with Windows Server 2003 *R2*, I couldn't find a thing.
So I wander through the VM and find **Windows Firewall**.
Turn that b***** thing off and I'm OK. I can access from everywhere.
Anyone who wants to call R2 an improvement over the original version has my fist heading in their direction.
Maybe it's just the upcoming "Labor Day" weekend in the US but yesterday evening (US time) the .windowsservices newsgroup got only a few questions and most of those were for SPS 2003 or for MOSS 2007. I.e. they were posted in the wrong newsgroup completely.
Here is an Info message I felt necessary to post there.
I'm at a loss to understand why given the clear name of this newsgroup (.windowsservices) there were last night virtually only questions about SPS 2003 and MOSS 2007 here.
There is an old newsgroup for SPS 2003 and MOSS 2007 at microsoft.public.sharepoint.portalserver
There are also new newsgroups (that Microsoft prefer that people use) which cover all SharePoint products and versions and these thus cover even SPS 2003 and MOSS 2007 questions and also question on WSS 2.0 and 3.0 and questions on (for instance) WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007.
These new newsgroups are per question type and are
microsoft.public.sharepoint.setup_and_administration (Installations; Administration)
microsoft.public.sharepoint.design_and_customization (Simple customization; typically with SPD 2007)
microsoft.public.sharepoint.development_and_programming (Difficult customization; web part creation and other programming issues typically with Visual Studio 2005
microsoft.public.sharepoint.general for questions that don't fit in any of the above three newsgroups.
There's enough choice there, so please don't post questions about SPS 2003 and/or MOSS 2007 in this WSS newsgroup but instead post to ONE of the above possibilities.
That was a catchy title wasn't it? I'm referring of course to the fact that the "MVP Book" on SharePoint is now out. Just like all of the other (16) writers of chapters in it, I'm duty bound to write a blog item saying that it's out. Unlike some of them (!) I didn't jump the gun and now that Amazon are listing it as no longer "Pre-Order" status (and in fact one copy has been ordered *and delivered* by a link on my site), I can safely bang the drum for the book. You can order it here. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0470168358/heme0f (Amazon US) (or see here http://wss.collutions.com/Lists/WSSv3FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=959 for a link to your local Amazon) When you get it most of you will want to skip chapter one. That is namely my chapter for the people who were given the book by their bosses with the words "Learn SharePoint". In other words it's a very fast introduction into the basics so that people without prior SharePoint experience can have a chance at following the somewhat more difficult stuff in the specialist chapters. I'll be looking at the first chapter too but mainly only to find the errors I missed when doing my final revision. I only hope I didn't add any in at that stage ... Just look at it this way - even without the first chapter you are still buying 15 chapters each written by someone who knows the subject of that chapter in depth. Must surely be a worthwhile investment ...
I'm running this Acer portable on Vista Ultimate with Finnish settings (but with IE set to English (UK) for web sites). I have Finnish settings so I can get Finnish style dates and punctuation. As a result of this far too many companies are amazingly kind to me and offer me without me asking Finnish language downloads and products. Even Firefox and Thunderbird decide that because of my settings I must be interested in the Finnish language versions of those products and I have to do an extra click to be able to download the one any person with any sense will want - i.e. the English language version. Now one click isn't that bad, but Apple and Microsoft have conspired to make a simple thing such as an ITunes (Windows) upgrade a nightmare - no one-click solution there. Note: I am - as usual - running the US English version of ITunes. What happens is that at Operating systems level I'm informed by Apple *in Finnish* that there's an Upgrade available for ITunes. I'd be stuck if I didn't speak Finnish but I do so I say I want it and a long download starts. At the end of it the installation starts and at some time crashes. My guess is because it's trying to install a Finnish language update on top of English language software. So I open my *English language* ITunes and look for the Upgrade this software menu item (the Finnish message when the previous installation crashed was of course no use at all). I find it and this time I presumably am installing an English language upgrade. Well, in fact I probably am, but after a couple (maybe only one) of screens in English guiding me through that installation, there's suddenly a spate of Finnish language screens for the next stages in the installation. Again **and unlike many foreigners who live here** I can speak Finnish so I click on the right things; the installation ends and I have an upgraded and still working English language ITunes. But this is consumer software isn't it and Apple pride themselves on producing quality software don't they? Well this time they've overdone the "user-friendliness" !
There's no documentation about upgrading WSS 3.0 to MOSS 2007 that I have found. This is I'm told because it's easy. Never one to avoid trying easy things, I had a go. I had a working and non-customized working WSS 3.0 site in a VM. I made a copy of the VM; increased the memory from 512MB to 1GB; added the MSDN MOSS 2007 .iso file as my "CDROM" and let it rip. Note: I had the WSS 3.0 running with the built-in Windows Internal Database on a single server. This was in a Workgroup not a domain. I thought I'd get a problem in the Configuration Wizard stage (the "installation" phase is only putting the software in place so problems don't happen until the *real* installation is going on), but it ran through completely smoothly. At the end though it was supposed to access the MOSS site (not :80 because I didn't want to mess that up) and it couldn't. Instead I got the well-known "Server Error in "\" Application" message telling me that I should set a part of config.web from "On" to "RemoteOnly" (or to "Off" is accessing remotely). I was accessing from the server itself so I set this to "RemoteOnly" in every single web application's web.config file (= "the config.web in the root of the web application"). and there was no change at all. I tried iisreset; I tried re-booting the machine; I even tried a new browser and using the TCP/IP address rather than the server address. All gave the same "you should set it to "RemoteOnly" - hello, is there anyone there - I have! Now it may well be that what it is objecting to is that this is still in a workgroup and not in a domain (and at some stage I'm going to have to try creating a small DC in the same network and adding this supposedly OK MOSS server to it) but that certainly isn't what that message is saying. Instead it's saying do something I've done already. Ah, the joys of installations!
Note: All of the addresses of the KB / Articles - 2007 Products / MS / Non-MS Articles below were valid at the time I added them to the WSS FAQ
site and to this file. I can't guarantee that they still are.
(This is also posted to the WSS newsgroup at microsoft.public.sharepoint.windowsservices - web access via http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/newsgroups/server/sharepoint.mspx)
(Items are added to the WSS FAQ throughout the week so you will find new items more quickly by checking at wss.collutions.com or www.wssfaq.com daily.)
From 6th - 12th August 2007
I.1 2007 KB Articles (*now only one section for WSS and MOSS*)
New
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb%3Ben-us%3B939599
Description of the SharePoint Server 2007 hotfix package: June 29, 2007
8th August 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;940183
Workflows are incorrectly run multiple times when you add a new document to a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 document library in Explorer view
6th August 2007
Modified
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/935751/en-us
Error message when you try to iterate through Windows SharePoint Services site objects or SharePoint Server 2007 site objects by using the SharePoint object model: "Unhandled Exception: System.IO.FileNotFoundException" (ver 2.0)
31st July 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=936864
Description of the 2007 Office hotfix package: June 17, 2007 (2nd with same name) (ver 2.0)
31st July 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;936867
Description of the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 hotfix package: May 8, 2007 (ver 1.1)
31st July 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=939030
You receive an error message from the SharePoint 2007 provider when you try to provision a Windows SharePoint Services site by using HMC 4.0 (ver 1.1)
27th July 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/829065/en-us
Error message when you connect to the SharePoint Central Administration page in Windows SharePoint Services: "You are not authorized to view this page" (ver 5.1)
13th July 2007
I.2 Forefront (New) KB Articles
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=940879
Users cannot upload documents or files that are larger then 128 MB on the SharePoint site after you install Forefront Security for SharePoint
31st July 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=940874
Compatibility of Forefront Security for SharePoint with Exchange Server 2007
1st August 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=940878
After you install Forefront Security for SharePoint, and then you change the antivirus settings on the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Antivirus page, the SharePoint site stops responding
1st August 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=940875
A manual scan fails in Forefront Security for SharePoint
2nd August 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=940880
Error message when you try to upload files to or download files from a Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Web site or a Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Web site: "Virus Found"
2nd August 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=941006
You must press CTRL+C to close the Operation Completed Successfully dialog box when you import or export SharePoint Server 2007 site data on a computer that is running Forefront Security for SharePoint
7th August 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=940877
The manual scan process does not work as expected in Microsoft Forefront Security for SharePoint
9th August 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=940876
SharePoint keyword filtering does not scan 2007 Office documents correctly and the list of scanned items may not be correct
10th August 2007
II. Articles - 2007 Products (no longer with all links to articles for other Office 2007 and other 2007 Products)
New
A. Office 2007 Server Products
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=5b6c8fb0-9b67-47db-8a09-bca76bc9a5d1&displaylang=en&tm
SharePoint Server 2007 Sample: Creating a Custom User Site Provisioning Solution with Office SharePoint Server 2007 (ver Jul07)
8th August 2007
http://www.sharepointblogs.com/tanujashares/archive/2007/08/07/impersonation-in-sharepoint-2007.aspx
Impersonation in SharePoint 2007 (Blog - Tanuja Bapat)
7th August 2007
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=47ffc540-1858-4d80-adee-e1cdb1a46090&displaylang=en&tm
Microsoft Forefront Server Security for SharePoint 10.x Management Pack for Operations Manager 2007 (ver 6.0.5000.0)
6th August 2007
http://www.cjvandyk.com/blog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?List=744536f4%2D127e%2D4c4a%2Dbcff%2Db85408e7e7e5&ID=118
How do I? – Work around the BUG where Site Columns for a custom Site Content Type do not show up as field controls in SharePoint Designer when customizing the Page Layout (Blog - Cornelius J. van Dyk)
6th August 2007
http://www.sharepointblogs.com/mirjam/archive/2007/08/06/renaming-a-moss-server.aspx
Renaming a MOSS Server (Blog - Mirjam van Olst)
6th August 2007
http://sharepointnutsandbolts.blogspot.com/2007/08/creating-deploying-and-updating-custom.html
Creating, deploying and updating custom site definitions, Part 1 (Blog - Chris O'Brien)
5th August 2007
http://www.sharepointblogs.com/tonstegeman/archive/2007/08/04/creating-custom-editor-parts-for-a-sharepoint-webpart.aspx
Creating custom editor parts for a SharePoint webpart (Blog - Ton Stegeman)
4th August 2007
http://blog.funknstyle.com/?p=577
Understanding Reusable Content in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (Blog - Amanda Murphy)
3rd August 2007
http://sharepointsolutions.blogspot.com/2007/08/take-custom-action-upon-sharepoint-fba.html
Take Custom Action Upon SharePoint FBA User Login
3rd August 2007
http://blogs.technet.com/wbaer/archive/2007/08/02/stress-testing-microsoft-office-sharepoint-server-2007-windows-sharepoint-services-3-0.aspx
Stress Testing Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007/Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (Blog - William Baer)
2nd August 2007
http://blogs.technet.com/wbaer/archive/2007/08/01/sql-server-2005-database-mirroring-and-windows-sharepoint-services-3-0-microsoft-office-sharepoint-server-2007-part-3-failover.aspx
SQL Server 2005 Database Mirroring and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0/Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 - Part 3 (Failover) (Blog - William Baer)
1st August 2007
http://www.devx.com/enterprise/Article/35068/1954?pf=true
Customize a SharePoint Login Page (devx, Robert Bogue)
31st July 2007
http://www.devx.com/dotnet/Article/35070/1954?pf=true
Sync Your Database to SharePoint Using SSIS (devx, Lee Richardson)
30th July 2007
B. Other Office 2007 products (selected few only since 1.1.2007)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=95fece79-65b6-41ad-bc52-f34ad19a6eba&displaylang=en&tm
Microsoft Office Project Server 2007 Management Pack for Operations Manager 2007 (ver 6.0.5000.0)
6th August 2007
C. Other New 2006/2007 Products (selected few only since 1.1.2007)
None
Modified
None
Deleted
None
III WSS v3 FAQ
New
http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/EditForm.aspx?ID=1185
III.88.03 Indexing: How do I index CSF files?
http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1189
III.93 How can I adjust the display size in a List when I have an image in a "Hyperlink or Picture" column?
http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1191
III.96 How do I stop WSS 3.0 asking me for login details when I open a document from a document library?
http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/EditForm.aspx?ID=1188
VI.79 Brava! Enterprise for SharePoint (commercial - Informative Graphics)
http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/EditForm.aspx?ID=1186
X.65 ShareIt Desktop Bundle (free - InformativeGraphics)
http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/EditForm.aspx?ID=1187
X.66 Net-It Now Plug-in (free - InformativeGraphics)
http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1190
X.67 Anonymous Comment Feature for SharePoint Blog (free - Codeplex [ex Microsoft])
http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1192
X.68 SharePoint Web Parts for Moodle (free - Codeplex [ex Microsoft])
http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1193
X.69 Microsoft Learning Gateway Refresh for MOSS 2007 and WSS 3.0 [Ed. includes various web parts] (free - Codeplex [ex Microsoft])
Modified
http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/EditForm.aspx?ID=958
I.31.01 What issues are fixed in fix packs to MOSS 2007?
http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1137
V.61 Exploring Microsoft SharePoint Designer 2007 (Prentice Hall - Robert Grauer, Daniela Marghitu)
(aadditional author, new [later] publication date)
Deleted
(In order to put all the webpart items together, various web part items have been moved to 33.xx)
IV WSSv2 KB Articles (plus SPS 2003 Hot fixes)
New
None
Modified
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=937462
Description of the SharePoint Portal Server 2003 hotfix package: May 15, 2007
10th August 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=933738
An update is available that addresses an issue in which items that use the Date and Time fields are off by one hour in Windows SharePoint Services (ver 4.0)
8th August 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=933853
How to manually update the TIMEZONE.XML file to be DST 2007-compliant if you cannot install update 924881 or a later update for Windows SharePoint Services software (ver 2.0)
7th August 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=840024
You cannot edit an existing document or create a new document in a document library in your Windows SharePoint Services Web site or in your SharePoint Team Services Web site (ver 1.5)
1st August 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=918744
Description of a new command-line operation that you can use to repair content databases in Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 (ver 1.4)
31st July 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/832769/en-us
How to configure a Windows SharePoint Services virtual server to use Kerberos authentication and how to switch from Kerberos authentication back to NTLM authentication
31st July 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=888946
You cannot use a Web browser to access a document library after you delete the document library Forms folder in Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 (ver 5.0)
27th July 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/826803/en-us
Server that runs Windows SharePoint Services may run low on memory resources (ver 2.1)
13th July 2007
V. MS Articles for WSSv2
New
None
Modified
None
VI Non-MS Articles for WSSv2
New or Modified
None
VII WSSv2 FAQ
New
None
Modified
http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSS%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=580
I.28.02 What is fixed in the fix packs for SPS 2003 Service Pack 2
I promised more details on the disk upgrade from 60GB to 160GB in the MacBook so here they are.
In fact I could save myself the trouble and just post this URL www.macinstruct.com/node/130 which is a very high quality description of how to upgrade a MacBook's hard disk but that would be too easy, so here's a briefer description with no pictures :)
The very first thing is to make a backup of your hard disk. For this I butchered a fireware disk I had by moving most stuff from it to another external but USB2 drive and then re-formatting it for the Macintosh. I then partitioned it 70 and 160 (or so).
Having done that I used SuperDuper! (free) to make a bootable copy of the internal disk to that 70GB partition in the firewire drive; then tested that I could boot from that copy (which of course had SuperDuper! too already installed).
Then I had to deal with the hardware. The first thing is that the memory and hard disk is easily accessible when you remove the battery. They are covered by a thin metal plate held in place by three small screws, but I'd already been able to remove that easily (with a screwdriver I already had!) so it was no problem to remove it again.
Then I saw what I was completely oblivious to when I took out the memory, namely that the hard disk was on the left and that it had a piece of white "paper" covering most of the visible side of it. From that tutorial I knew in fact that this could be opened and used to pull the disk out (if I hadn't read that I wouldn't have dared !) so I did that and the disk came out remarkably easily.
The next step should have been to unscrew the protective plate on the original hard disk and put it on the new hard disk, but no screwdriver I had would fit. I did however know from the description that I needed a Torx T8 screwdriver.
So I put everything back (the shops were already shut for the day) and checked that everything still worked and next day set out to buy a Torx T8 screwdriver. There are no longer any small shops that sell that kind of thing so I went to a large handyman store quite a way away and got one there along with 10 empty DVD-RWs which cost ten times as much as the screwdriver. Next - as I was where I was, a long way from my usual haunts - I also went into a shop to buy a cheap electric razor that was on offer, only to buy one that cost twice as much ... before finally heading for home. That screwdriver had by now cost me 80 Euros or about 100 dollars plus petrol ...
Once home I opened everything again.Switched the hard disk; closed everything up and then attached the firewire disk; booted from it (hold Alt-A and start the Mac) and restored from the copy on the Firewire disk to the new internal drive (and made it bootable). All (the last bit) courtesy of SuperDuper!
There just remained the final test. Turn everything off; uncouple the firewire drive and boot from the new 160GB internal drive.
It worked so now for less than 150 dollars (and 100 dollars for the screwdriver!) I have 160GB instead of 60GB and can finally start adding my SharePoint-related VMs to the internal disk instead of to an external USB drive. Luxury!
Oh, yes, and if I ever feel like backing up that 160Gb drive I have both the software and the firewire drive partition of a suitable size waiting for me.
P.S. Thunderbird (Mac) needed a re-install.
P.P.S.Zinio's rights protection didn't like the new disk and so I had to delete the Zinio folder and re-install the Zino Reader (2.2 Mac).
One of the problems of being in the computer business for as long as I've been (which for the record is since 1968 for mainframes and 1985 for micros) is that you learn some "facts" and they stick with you.
One such fact is "you can't upgrade the hard dsk of a portable yourself". This to a certain extent even in my mind became less of a 100% fact when IBM came out with the first (?) ThinkPad models and you could easily pull out the hard disk and replace it with another one, but it still stayed with me as the revised "you can't upgrade the hard disk of a portable unless it's a ThinkPad".
This in turn naturally led to a couple of "rules" when buying portables - get the best processor; graphics card and biggest hard disk you can afford because you can't upgrade them. Memory I felt incapable of changing so I added that to the rule too.
This, naturally, led to me buying desktops (where I could change all of the above, and I did (OK, maybe not the processor)) and not portables which by the time I'd added decent processors; graphics; hard disk and memory to my standard requirements were way beyond my price range.
I suspect that if I'd stayed with PC portables, these principles would have gone with me to my grave although I must confess to increasing the Acer's memory all by myself - ca two weeks after buying it (the memory that is) and with a series of "shall I take it in for them to do - or not" moments behind me.
Luckily, though, (as I'm hopefully not that far gone) I bought the cheapest MacBook going and since then I'm having to learn everything again (which I guess makes it "re-learn" except for the fact that I'm learning them for the Mac and not for the PC).
So one of the things I learnt was that adding memory is really simple (it was easier than I thought on the Acer but on the MacBook they seem to expect people to do it themselves so made it even easier) but I thought that was it and I would be forced to stay with my far too small 60GB disk. (If you think that's not small, try adding a few SharePoint Server VMs).
But - new to the Mac as I am - I'm reading a lot of Mac magazines (from the library) and there was a casual mention in the letter section of one of them of upgrading the hard disk in a MacBook.
So a quick Google search later (maybe on "changing hard disk MacBook" - something like that anyway) and I had an article of several pages with good pictures of how to do this.
The next step of course was to buy the necessary hard disk. There's a good selection at reasonable prices at the Finnish "networksales" store ("networksales" being a term that here means Internet sales) so the first drive I picked was the largest one (250GB).
Luckily I then checked that in Google / MacBook and found a comment saying that that particular disk range had caused problems when used as a MacBook replacement because it had head parking technology built-in that was conflicting with the Mac's own head-parking technology. They then went on to say that they replaced that drive with the similarly-priced drive from another company and all was well.
That of course made me decide for the other company's drive and as the max they had was a 160GB drive, that (or rather 150GB - odd that) is what I've now got installed and running.
How, is the story for another day, but for today it's enough to say that most of the time spent doing the install was looking for a screwdriver and being distracted on the way home with that!
Note: All of the addresses of the KB / Articles - 2007 Products / MS / Non-MS Articles below were valid at the time I added them to the WSS FAQ
site and to this file. I can't guarantee that they still are.
(Items are added to the WSS FAQ throughout the week so you will find new items more quickly by checking at wss.collutions.com or www.wssfaq.com daily.)
From 30th July - 5th August 2007
I.1 2007 KB Articles (*now only one section for WSS and MOSS*)
New
None
Modified
Description of the SharePoint Server 2007 hotfix package for SharePoint Server 2007 and for SharePoint Server 2007 for Search: May 8, 2007 (ver 1.1)
27th July 2007
The tab on the top link bar is not selected when you connect to a subsite after you enable the Office SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure feature in SharePoint Server 2007 (ver 2.0)
25th July 2007
You cannot search a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 site when the host header site uses HTTP and HTTPS (ver 3.1)
24th July 2007
Description of the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 hotfix package: February 6, 2007 (ver 2.1)
24th July 2007
Description of the 2007 Office hotfix package: June 17, 2007 (ver 3.4)
23rd July 2007
You experience issues with portal alerts in SharePoint Portal Server 2003 or with search performance in SharePoint Server 2007 after you create SQL
Server 2005 maintenance plans (ver 3.0)
20th July 2007
Error message when users try to change their password in Windows SharePoint Services: "Error setting password for user account '<UserName>' " (ver 2.1)
13th July 2007
Path of the Log Files in the Log File Location Box on the Configure Usage Analysis Processing Page of Windows SharePoint Services Central Administration
Is Truncated (ver 3.1)
13th July 2007
Error message when you try to install Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: "This access control list is not in canonical form" (ver 2.0)
9th July 2007
No results are returned when you search for a document or a file in a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 site by using the URL of the document or of the file (ver 2.0)
9th July 2007
II. Articles - 2007 Products (no longer with all links to articles for other Office 2007 and other 2007 Products)
New
A. Office 2007 Server Products
Visual How To: Building Simple Custom Approval Workflows with InfoPath 2007 Forms (Patrick Tisseghem, U2U)
1st July 2007 (dated July 2007)
Visual How To: Creating and Editing Custom Document Information Panels from Office SharePoint Server 2007 (Joel Krist, Akona Systems)
1st July 2007 (dated July 2007)
Integrating Siebel CRM with Office SharePoint Server 2007 (Balaji Gangishetty, Sierra Atlantic Inc)
1st July 2007 (dated July 2007)
Microsoft Forefront Security for SharePoint with Service Pack 1 Readme (ver 10.1)
31st July 2007
Examples of common formulas
31st July 2007 (date added)
SharePoint Server 2007 Document: Microsoft and EMC - Managing Content Across an Enterprise
30th July 2007
Using the Business Data Catalog with Single Sign-On (Blog - Michael Hofer)
30th July 2007
Using workflow and policies to view only certain list items (Blog - Maarten Eekel)
30th July 2007
Office SharePoint Server Management Pack Guide
19th July 2007
Deploying and Supporting Enterprise Search (How Microsoft Does IT)
19th July 2007
FAQ: Crawling Lotus Notes (Office SharePoint Server 2007)
12th July 2007
Troubleshoot a Lotus Notes configuration (Office SharePoint Server 2007)
12th July 2007
Manage My Site host locations
12th July 2007
Manage personalization site links
12th July 2007
Manage personalization policies
12th July 2007
Deploy in a simple server farm (Office SharePoint Server)
12th July 2007
Configure Office SharePoint Server Search to crawl Lotus Notes (Office SharePoint Server 2007)
5th July 2007
Cross-browser support (Office SharePoint Server)
5th July 2007
Planning an Extranet Environment for Windows SharePoint Services
1st June 2007 (dated June 2007)
Planning an Extranet Environment for Office SharePoint Server
1st June 2007 (dated June 2007)
Windows SharePoint Services Security
1st June 2007 (dated June 2007)
Office SharePoint Server Security
1st June 2007 (dated June 2007)
MOSS Document Management
1st June 2007 (dated June 2007)
Records Management Guide for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
1st May 2007 (dated May 2007)
Web Publishing and Planning Guide with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server
1st May 2007 (dated May 2007)
Getting Started with Office SharePoint Server 2007
1st May 2007 (dated May 2007)
Getting Started with Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
1st May 2007 (dated May 2007)
Plan for availability (Office SharePoint Server)
16th November 2006 (new here)
B. Other Office 2007 products (selected few only since 1.1.2007)
Groove 2007 Document: Planning and Architecture for Office Groove 2007
3rd August 2007
Groove 2007 Document: Getting Started for Office Groove 2007
3rd August 2007
Groove 2007 Document: Operations for Office Groove 2007, Part 1
3rd August 2007
Groove 2007 Document: Operations for Office Groove 2007, Part 2
3rd August 2007
Groove 2007 Document: Operations for Office Groove 2007, Part 3
3rd August 2007
Groove 2007 Document: Operations for Office Groove 2007, Part 4
3rd August 2007
Groove 2007 Document: Security for Office Groove 2007
3rd August 2007
Groove 2007 Document: Troubleshooting for Office Groove 2007
3rd August 2007
Groove 2007 Document: Deployment for Office Groove 2007
3rd August 2007
Groove 2007 Document: Enterprise Services Security
2nd August 2007
C. Other New 2006/2007 Products (selected few only since 1.1.2007)
SQL Server 2005 Samples and Sample Databases (ver 9.00.3042)
3rd August 2007
Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2006 Hands-On Labs
3rd August 2007
Microsoft Windows Software Development Kit (SDK) for Windows Server 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 (pre-release)
30th July 2007 (added to get it in the SDK view)
Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 SDK July 2007
27th July 2007 (added to get it in the SDK view)
How to: Upgrade a SQL Server Express Report Server to Other SQL Server Editions
14th April 2006
Modified
Index for Stsadm operations and properties (Office SharePoint Server)
26th July 2007
Using SQL Server Database Mirroring with Office SharePoint Server and Windows SharePoint Services
5th July 2007
Deployment for Office SharePoint Server (Downloadable version - revised June 2007)
(previous version 15th March 2007)
1st June 2007
Planning and architecture for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 technology, part 2 (Downloadable version - revised June 2007)
(previous version 15th March 2007)
1st June 2007
Deployment for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 technology (Downloadable version - revised May 2007)
(previous version 15th March 2007)
1st May 2007
Deleted
None
III WSS v3 FAQ
New
V.62 Administrator's Guide to Microsoft Office 2007 Servers: Forms Server 2007, Groove Server 2007, Live Communications Server 2007, PerformancePoint Server 2007, Project Portfolio Server 2007, Project Server 2007, SharePoint Server 2007 for Search (Sams)
VI.52 Picture Library Plus (commercial - KWizCom)
VI.53 CRM Connector to SharePoint (commercial - KWizCom)
VI.54 List Integrity Web Part (commercial - Bamboo Solutions)
VI.55 Map Chart Web Part (commercial - Bamboo Solutions)
VI.56 Password Expiration Web Part (commercial - Bamboo Solutions)
VI.57 Virtual Map View Web Part (commercial - Bamboo Solutions)
VI.58 Calendar Plus Web Part (commercial - Bamboo Solutions)
VI.59 Form Auto Save Web Part (commercial - Bamboo Solutions)
VI.60 Grants Management Solution Accelerator (commercial - Bamboo Solutions)
VI.61 Group Redirect Web Part (commercial - Bamboo Solutions)
VI.62 Job Requisition and Interview Management (JRIM) Template Extension (commercial - Bamboo Solutions)
VI.63 List Rollup Web Part (commercial - Bamboo Solutions)
VI.64 List Rotator Web Part (commercial - Bamboo Solutions)
VI.65 Mini-Calendar Web Part (commercial - Bamboo Solutions)
VI.66 Office to PDF Conversion Solution Accelerator (commercial - Bamboo Solutions)
VI.67 Password Change Web Part (commercial - Bamboo Solutions)
VI.68 Password Reset Web Part (commercial - Bamboo Solutions)
VI.69 SharePoint Desktop Explorer (commercial - Bamboo Solutions)
VI.70 SQL View Web Part (commercial - Bamboo Solutions)
VI.71 Tree View Web Part (commercial - Bamboo Solutions)
VI.72 User Account Setup Web Part (commercial - Bamboo Solutions)
VI.73 User Directory Web Part (commercial - Bamboo Solutions)
VI.74 User Redirect Web Part (commercial - Bamboo Solutions)
VI.75 Decatec Help Desk for MOSS 2007 (commercial - Decatec, Italy)
VI.76 CRM for Sharepoint MOSS 2007 (commercial - Decatec, Italy)
VI.77 Credit Management (commercial - Decatec, Italy)
VI.78 Procurement - (commercial - Decatec, Italy)
VII.25 Beginning SQL Server 2005 Administration (Wrox - 0470047046) (Chapter 1 - Introducing SQL Server 2005)
VIII.21 Beginning SQL Server 2005 Administration (Wrox - Dan Wood, Chris Leiter, Paul Turley) *released*
VIII.22 Professional SQL Server 2005 Administration (Wrox - Brian Knight, Ketan Patel, Wayne Snyder , Jean-Claude Armand, Ross LoForte, Brad
McGehee), Steven Wort, Joe Salvatore, Haidong Ji ) *released*
X.64 WebControl for hiding unauthorized WebParts (free - Laurent Cotton)
Modified
VI.37 WSS Cross Site Search (commercial - KWizCom)
VI.40 SharePoint Survey Plus Web Part (commercial - KwizCom) [much lower price]
VI.42 SharePoint Calendar Plus Web Part (commercial - KWizCom) [much lower price]
VI.43 SharePoint Search String Highlighter (commercial - KWizCom) [lower price]
VI.46 SharePoint List Filter - Multiple Drop-Down (commercial - KWizCom) (new id because added by mistake and then older version replaced)
Deleted
(In order to put all the webpart items together, various web part items have been moved to 33.xx)
IV WSSv2 KB Articles (plus SPS 2003 Hot fixes)
New
None
Modified
You cannot use a Web browser to access a document library after you delete the document library Forms folder in Windows SharePoint Services (ver 5.0)
27th July 2007
No site usage data appears on the Site Usage Report page of a site after you enable usage analysis processing in Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 (ver 1.1)
27th July 2007
V. MS Articles for WSSv2
New
None
Modified
None
VI Non-MS Articles for WSSv2
New or Modified
None
VII WSSv2 FAQ
New
None
Modified
IV.23 How do I remove the *headings* in Quick Launch?
I thought we'd seen the end of the people who are running SPS 2003 yet insist on posting their questions in the WSS newsgroup because "SPS 2003 contains WSS and I'm asking about the WSS bit of it"
This was fine (in certain circumstances) when the WSS newsgroup was only covering WSS 2.0 and *if the question was one that would equally apply to a standalone WSS 2.0 installation* but was often abused for questions that relied on this being a SPS 2003 installation.
It was difficult on occasions to draw a line in the sand but nowadays the line is simple. The .windowsservices newsgroup is for people who have installed the WSS 2.0 or WSS 3.0 product. The .portalserver newsgroup is for people who have installed the SPS 2003 product or the MOSS 2007 product.
The reason this hard and fast division ought to be accepted by everyone is that there are now four newsgroups that are for all products. So if you have a question about "WSS in SPS 2003" you can ask it in one of those new newsgroups and there's no dispute about as to whether it's a WSS or a SPS question as both products are covered.
Mostly this has been clear to everyone and people who have posted in error to the WSS newsgroup just move on. But occasionally there is someone who wants to object to the clear division because "it's a WSS question even though I'm running SPS 2003" and they won't let go.
They of course do themselves no favours. The thread is long and full of the argument about the right to post it there (or not) and with no attempt to answer the question. It would be so much better just to post in an appropriate newsgroup ...
Luckily this only happens occasionally and is nothing like the problem in all newsgroups that are caused by people asking (in some cases) a detailed question but without bothering to say which SharePoint product they are running.
With even the WSS and SPS newsgroups now covering two products (v2 and v3) and the other newsgroups covering all products, such questions almost automatically these days provoke a "which SP product are you using?" question before most people are prepared to spend time on the question itself.
Mostly then the answer (of which product) comes by return and we can get on with answering the original question but today there was a wonderful (?) reply from someone who had asked a question that replied on knowledge of which web part and which SP product and had been asked to supply the names of them. His reply was that he was not a member of the SharePoint team and didn't have access to that information.
It's hard to imagine how someone who can find a SharePoint newsgroup isn't even aware of which SharePoint product is in use, but that apparently was the case. It's also hard to understand the SharePoint team not even being prepared to disclose (to a user who asks) which SharePoint version that company is running.
But maybe that's just me.
P.S. One thing that I'd like to add here while I'm niggling. I do NOT understand people who write a question in a newsgroup and then say things like "Please anyone help" (often more than once). Apart from being completely pointless because people answering questions in newsgroups are going to answer a question they can anyway, it's a fact - at least as far as I'm concerned - a reason to NOT respond. Mind you the people I definately don't bother responding to are the ones who write that a question is "Urgent!" when it is nothing of the kind. For me Urgent should be saved for "my server has stopped working" and not for "my boss has asked me to create a list of who is accessing the site" (the like of which I've seen).
Microsoft produce a lot of documentation on upgrading from WSS 2.0 to WSS 3.0; from SPS 2003 and MOSS 2007; and I suppose from CMS 2002 to MOSS 2007. Free documentation that's available on-line. So what is the extra value in providing the same information in the "Upgrading to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007" section of the MS Press book "MOSS 2007 Administrator's Companion"? The usual reason is that - from past experience - the information in such a book is better. Certainly I used to always do my WSS 2.0 and especially SPS 2003 (where I had less practice) installations with one eye on the MS documentation and the other on the relevant chapter of the v2 equivalent of the MOSS 2007 Administrator's Companion - i.e. the SPS 2003 Resource Kit (leaving my middle eye to look at the screen and the keyboard). I would hope that that's the case here too although there is a small risk because the Admin Companion came out right after the release of the product and giving lead-times in the publishing business was obviously written on pre-production builds. However there is one aspect of upgrading that is a curious omission from that book and as far as I can see it's not (much?) covered by Microsoft on-line documentation either. This is upgrading from WSS 3.0 to MOSS 2007. Now I'm aware (and I've said so often enough in the newsgroups) that the way to upgrade WSS 2.0 to MOSS 2007 is to first upgrade WSS 2.0 to WSS 3.0 (following one of three methods listed in the MS documentation and/or that book) and then to upgrade WSS 3.0 to MOSS 2007. I usually throw this off as if it were obvious. But is a WSS 3.0 to MOSS 2007 upgrade obvious? As to why it's not in the book, I suspect it was because they were thinking in terms of product families when they wrote it. WSS 2.0 -> WSS 3.0 (WSS) family upgrade SPS 2003 -> MOSS 2007 (SPS) family upgrade and CMS 2002 -> MOSS 2007 is the only way CMS 2002 can be "upgraded". But WSS 2.0 to MOSS 2007 is moving in two directions at once (up and over). Did the writers of the book chapters not think anyone would be doing that? or did they just run out of time? (Or is it in the book and I just haven't found it yet?)
I've always used Outlook Express to handle newsgroups and like most other MVPs have moaned heavily when Microsoft have started trying to move SharePoint questions over to forums mainly because there is No "I've read that already" possibility when accessing a forum via a browser.
But "I've read that already" in Outlook Express (and now in the Vista OS that's called something else - which naturally as I'm now on the Mac I can't remember - Microsoft Reader maybe) only works when you are only using one single machine. Move to another machine and all the stuff you've read in the other one's copy of Outlook Express isn't marked as read in the second machine.
This isn't so much of a problem among my three machines at home, as when I switch machines I just make sure machine A is up-to-date; then switch; load all messages in each newsgroup; and then mark all as read. But it is a problem when I switch from my work portable (which I leave at work - it's quite a pain to work with as it is naturally one or two generations behind my home machines) to a home machine as there could be (depending on what I get up to between work and home) anything between 15 minutes and 3 hours or so between leaving work and arriving home.
The usual is probably more like 30 mins (drive home via the food shop(s)) and then I just assume that nothing important has come in in the meantime and check the very latest new threads only and then mark all as read. So if I ignore your reply to an earlier thread now and again, that could be it.
If it's more like 3 hours then I've been canoeing on the way home and then I try to read those otherwise lost messages but as that means re-reading a lot of messages I read at work I do it for a restricted group of newsgroups (the same restricted group I look at at work unless it's a very slow day).
Now Outlook Express I've always used so that it shows thread and messages within threads, but Outlook Express naturally isn't available on the Mac so there I use Thunderbird. I'd tried Thunderbird on the PC too but found it took forever to set up roughly to be like Outlook Express.
On the Mac though I didn't bother - although I did change the (stupid) defaults so that my replies were *above* what I was quoting - and so I started using it in a different way to the way I use Outlook Express.
I now use it so that it just shows the messages (if I really need to I can do a few clicks and see the thread) and I've found this to be a much faster method of checking all messages quickly. These days there's so much in the SP products and equally so much covered by each newsgroup that I only have a clue on a fraction of the messages anyway and in any case there are these days so many messages that answering them could easily turn out to be a full-time occupation if you are not careful. Certainly I tend to notice that these days there is no problem in waiting for the Public Library to open on a Saturday morning as I'm still clicking away mostly by 10.
This use of Thunderbird brings with it its own problems. Apart from the fact that an extra machine at home means that an extra manual "snyc" is needed, there's also the stupid difference that Thunderbird uses "Reply" to reply to the newsgroup whereas OE uses Reply Group to reply to the newsgroup (Reply means an e-mail to the person who wrote the message you are replying to); and there's also the need for people to quote messages when you are not reading them in a thread.
At the moment I'm not even sure if Thunderbird(Mac) and OE treat quotes in the same way. Certainly normal text quotes are repeated fine in both, but there has been more than one case recently when people replying via a certain web site(s) interface think they are quoting yet Thunderbird (and maybe OE?) doesn't show the quote at all.
But that's something to look closer at. First I have to have a look at a non-quote (Thunderbird) message in Outlook Express *and* in that Vista "equivalent".
Almost forgot. The web-based forums.
I have RSS feeds for them (so I can mark messages as read !) and then click and thus go to the forum itself only if I think I might be able to reply to the message.
The problem here is that I (using Newsgator's browser edition) can see the RSS feeds in both the PC and in the Mac; and can in both click to access the forum itself, but when it comes to replying, the PC lets me reply and the Mac's browser (Safari) doesn't! So mostly when using the Mac I don't bother with the forums at all. So if anyone is wondering why they haven't seen me there recently, that's why.
Regular readers will remember perhaps that I bought an Apple AirPort Extreme because I could attach a (in fact several via a hub at least theoretically) USB drive to it and then be able to access files on the USB drive wirelessly from the two portables I have (an Acer running Vista and a MacBook running OS X Tiger).
With this I mainly hoped to finally acheive the aim of having all my non-Classical music available on call via a portable without needing to have the portable physically near to the large USB drive I had them on.
It's working but there are a few problems.
The first is that most of my music files are .wma. This means that while I can play them from the MacBook, ITunes will not catalogue them so I can only play them one track at a time rather than per album or per artist.
The Acer has no such problems. Once they are added to the Media Viewer Library, all the usual functions are available there (and I suppose as it's Vista Ultimate in Media Center). The problem here was that in order to add 3000 tracks to the Library I had to click over 3000 times on different files on that same USB hard disk.
The reason seems to be that in order to atttach it to that Apple device, the USB disk needs to be Mac-formatted. Certainly it has to be Mac-formatted if I intend to add a Parallels VM to it.
This means that Vista doesn't recognize the drive as a normal drive but as a drive of form \\xxxxxxx\xxx and this in turn seems to mean that the automatic finding of media files doesn't work properly. What happens is that it works until it finds a file it needs to add and then it stops. I discovered that by clicking *any* file on that disk and then another each time increases the count of files found by (usually) 2. So an awful lot of clicks later and with by no means all my CDs yet on that disk (and when I now put them on it they are .mp3 to allow the MacBook to access them from within ITunes), I now have a perfectly working Windows Viewer with wireless access to my "cheapskate's" Media Server.
There's still a lot of space on that disk so for now I don't need to find a good enough hub to add another USB disk. (But as I have several possibles, no doubt I'll be trying that sooner rather than later.)
Note: All of the addresses of the KB / Articles - 2007 Products / MS / Non-MS Articles below were valid at the time I added them to the WSS FAQ
site and to this file. I can't guarantee that they still are.
(This is also posted to the WSS newsgroup at microsoft.public.sharepoint.windowsservices - web access via http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/newsgroups/server/sharepoint.mspx)
(Items are added to the WSS FAQ throughout the week so you will find new items more quickly by checking at wss.collutions.com or www.wssfaq.com daily.)
From 16th - 22nd July 2007
I.1 2007 KB Articles (*now only one section for WSS and MOSS*)
New
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;938218
Error message when you try to use a feature in SharePoint Server 2007 to open an InfoPath form in a Web browser: "The URL <URLToken>/FormServerTemplates/InfoPath.xsn is an unsupported relative URL"
17th July 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;938217
Error message when you run the "SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration" wizard to configure SharePoint Server 2007: "Failed to create the configuration database"
16th July 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;925381
Error message in the Unified Logging Service log files in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: “InvalidCastException”
16th July 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=939030
You receive an error message from the SharePoint 2007 provider when you try to provision a Windows SharePoint Services site by using HMC 4.0
29th June 2007
Modified
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;937771
How to manually collocate ProClarity Analytics Server 6.3 and SharePoint Server 2007 on port 80 (ver 1.1)
27th June 2007
I.2 Forefront for SharePoint KB Articles
New
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;939414
Error message in Forefront Security or in Antigen 9.0: "ERROR: Call to engine scan function returned virus found with no virus name"
17th July 2007
II. Articles - 2007 Products (no longer with all links to articles for other Office 2007 and other 2007 Products)
New
A. Office 2007 Server Products
http://www.moss2007.be/blogs/vandest/archive/2007/07/20/office-2003-web-parts-and-office-2007-clients.aspx
Office 2003 Web Parts and Office 2007 clients (Blog - Steven Van de Craen)
20th July 2007
http://blogs.msdn.com/cjohnson/archive/2007/07/20/document-libraries-folders-content-types.aspx
Document libraries, Folders & Content Types (Blog - Chris Johnson)
20th July 2007
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb626127.aspx
Visual How To: Creating Search Queries Programmatically by Using the Search Object Model in SharePoint Server 2007 (Patrick Tisseghem, U2U)
20th July 2007 (date added - article is July 2007)
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb608684.aspx
Using the Business Data Catalog and Smart Tags with the 2007 Microsoft Office System (Scot Hillier, Ted Patisson Group, and Bhushan Nene)
20th July 2007 (date added - article is July 2007)
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb463068.aspx
Excel Services and Excel 2007 Windows Compute Cluster Server Job Submission Sample Developer Guide (Web version - intro page)
20th July 2007 (date added)
http://www.sharepointblogs.com/johnwpowell/archive/2007/07/19/what-happens-to-listings-during-upgrade-and-migration.aspx
What Happens to Listings During Upgrade and Migration (Blog - John Powell)
19th July 2007
http://www.sharepointblogs.com/johnwpowell/archive/2007/07/19/64-bit-gotchas.aspx
64-Bit Gotchas (Blog - John Powell)
19th July 2007
http://sharepointnutsandbolts.blogspot.com/2007/07/using-customaction-to-modify-system.html
Using CustomAction to modify system pages (Blog - Chris O'Brien)
18th July 2007
http://www.cjvandyk.com/blog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?List=744536f4%2D127e%2D4c4a%2Dbcff%2Db85408e7e7e5&ID=113
Beware – MOSS migration of SPS Listings generates problematic Site Columns (Blog - Cornelius van Dyk)
17th July 2007
http://johnholliday.net/archive/2007/07/19/Working-with-CAML.Net---Part-2--Introducing-the-CAML.aspx
Working with CAML.Net - Part 2 - Introducing the CAML Query Designer - (Blog - John Holliday)
19th July 2007
http://www.sharepointblogs.com/tonstegeman/archive/2007/07/18/using-sharepoint-2007-audiences-in-combination-with-moss-publishing-placeholders.aspx
Using SharePoint 2007 audiences in combination with MOSS Publishing placeholders (Blog - Tom Stgeman)
18th July 2007
http://blogs.msdn.com/joelo/archive/2007/07/18/upgrade-performance-and-time-to-upgrade.aspx
Upgrade Performance and Time to Upgrade (MSBlog - Joel Oleson)
18th July 2007
http://entmag.com/reports/article.asp?editorialsid=119
SharePoint Server Comes of Age (ENT News)
17th July 2007 (date added)
http://blogs.msdn.com/joelo/archive/2007/07/16/unattended-and-silent-installs.aspx
Unattended and Silent Installs (MSBlog - Joel Oleson)
16th July 2007
http://www.sharepointblogs.com/mosslover/archive/2007/07/16/pulling-data-from-sql-server-for-use-in-sharepoint-2007.aspx
Pulling Data From SQL Server for Use in Sharepoint 2007 (Blog - Becky Isserman)
16th July 2007
http://www.sharepointblogs.com/michael/archive/2007/07/16/sharepoint-s-core-css-stylesheet-put-it-to-where-it-belongs.aspx
SharePoint's core.css stylesheet: Put it to where it belongs! (Blog - Michael Hofer)
16th July 2007
https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastRegistrationConfirmation.aspx?culture=en-US&RegistrationID=1291741821&Validate=false
Momentum Webcast: Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Application Templates (Level 100) (Hila Grinberger)
16th July 2007
http://www.jornata.com/presentations/MOSS_Security.pdf
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Security Model (Mauro Cardarelli,Nicholas Bisciotti - Jornata)
16th July 2007 (date added)
http://bobfox.net/spblog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?List=08b611f0%2D15a1%2D4708%2Da0c6%2D874f34da277d&ID=58
MOSS 2007 on Windows 2008 (Blog - Bob Fox)
13th July 2007
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb625950.aspx
Visual How To: Creating Search Queries Programmatically by using the Search Web Service in SharePoint Server 2007
10th July 2007
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb625970.aspx
Visual How To: Exposing Enterprise Search in SharePoint Server 2007 by Using Internet Explorer 7 and the Office Research Pane
10th July 2007
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb643160.aspx
Converting InfoPath 2003 Managed Code to the New InfoPath 2007 Object Model (Mark Roberts)
26th June 2007
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=513D97DA-34B7-4346-A9E5-B8998170AADE&displaylang=en
SharePoint Server 2007 Sample: Excel Services and Excel 2007 Windows Compute Cluster Server Job Submission Sample (ver June07)
26th June 2007
http://www.paylasimnoktasi.com/en/programmingMOSSonclientmachines.aspx
Developing MOSS 2007 Applications On a Client Operating System (Nezih Tinas, MVP)
23rd June 2007
http://technet2.microsoft.com/windowsserver/WSS/en/library/21e4cc2f-5f0e-4d49-98ed-4e1d1fc852e21033.mspx?mfr=true
Install Windows SharePoint Services in the Windows Server 2008 operating system
14th June 2007
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb499682.aspx
Evaluating and Customizing Search Relevance in SharePoint Server 2007 (Dmitriy Meyerzon, Avi Schmueli, Jo-Anne West)
5th June 2007
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb462636.aspx
Publishing and Synchronizing Excel 2007 Tables to SharePoint Lists (Jon Adams, Frank Rice)
5th June 2007
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=25836E52-1892-4E17-AC08-5DF13CFC5295&displaylang=en
Excel 2007 Add-in: Synchronizing Tables with SharePoint Lists (download)
4th June 2007
http://johnholliday.net/archive/2007/05/06/Working-with-CAML.Net---Part-1.aspx
Working with CAML.Net - Part 1 (Blog - John Holliday)
6th May 2007
B. Other Office 2007 products (selected few only since 1.1.2007)
http://sergeluca.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!E8A06D5F2F585013!986.entry
Creating Workflows for Windows Sharepoint Services and MOSS2007 (part 8/20) Bringing data from the workflow to the task form (Blog - Serge Luca)
18th July 2007
http://sergeluca.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!E8A06D5F2F585013!972.entry
Creating Workflows for Windows Sharepoint Services and MOSS2007 (part 7/20) Using association and initialization forms (Blog - Serge Luca)
17th July 2007
http://sergeluca.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!E8A06D5F2F585013!961.entry
Creating Workflows for Windows Sharepoint Services and MOSS2007 (part 6/20) Using Several Task Forms (Blog - Serge Luca)
16th July 2007
http://msmvps.com/blogs/benwalters/archive/2007/07/13/contact-selector-the-good-and-the-bad.aspx
Contact Selector the Good and the Bad (Blog - Ben Walters)
13th July 2007
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/infopath/HA102270681033.aspx
Guidelines for using colors, fonts, and images in a form template
1st June 2007 (info said June/July 2007)
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb509311.aspx
Working with XML Data Using the XPathNavigator Class in InfoPath 2007 Form Templates (Mark Roberts)
1st June 2007 (article dated June 2007)
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb456484.aspx
Guidelines for Creating InfoPath 2007 Converters
1st May 2007 (article dated May 2007)
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb431899.aspx
Pulling CRM Data into InfoPath 2007 Browser Forms (David Gerhardt, 3Sharp)
1st May 2007 (article dated May 2007)
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb409614.aspx
How to: Share InfoPath 2007 Template Parts and ActiveX Controls
1st April 2007 (article dated April 2007)
C. Other New 2006/2007 Products (selected few only since 1.1.2007)
None
Modified
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=2672f6f9-7028-4b30-99a2-18cb1eed1abe&DisplayLang=en
Project 2007: Software Development Kit (version 1.2-July07)
17th July 2007
Deleted
Various duplicates.
III WSS v3 FAQ
New
http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1132
III.55.03 Workflows: Why can't I start a Workflow from Word 2007?
http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1136
V.60 Professional SharePoint 2007 Web Content Management Development: Building WCM Sites with Office SharePoint Server (Wrox - Andrew Connell, Spencer Harbar)
http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1137
V.61 Exploring Microsoft SharePoint Designer 2007 (Prentice Hall - Robert Grauer)
http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1135
VI.51 Semaphore MOSS Edition (commercial - Smartlogic)
http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1141
VII.12B Beginning SharePoint 2007 Administration: Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (Wrox - ISBN 978-0-470-12529-8) (Chapter 8 *extract* Advanced Configurations - section on Searching in MOSS 2007)
http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1143
VII.17B Beginning Excel Services (Wrox - ISBN 978-0-470-10489-7) (Chapter 14 *extract* - Building Custom Solutions)
http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1142
VII.18B Professional Excel Services (Wrox - ISBN 978-0-470-10486-6) (Chapter 3 *extract* - Inside Excel Services)
(Note the next three take over spots previous used by re-numbered books - I have done A and B numbers for two chapters/extracts from the same book to get them next to each other)
http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1138
VII.23 Real World SharePoint 2007: Indispensable Experiences from 16 MOSS and WSS MVPs (Wrox - ISBN 978-0-470-17402-9) Chapter 4 *extract* - Developing Publishing Sites The Smart And Structured Way)
http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1140
VII.24A SharePoint 2007 and Office Development Expert Solutions (Wrox - ISBN 978-0-470-09740-3) (Chapter 1 - What’s New for Developers)
http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1139
VII.24B SharePoint 2007 and Office Development Expert Solutions (Wrox - ISBN 978-0-470-09740-3) (Chapter 6 *excerpt* SharePoint Application Services)
http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/EditForm.aspx?ID=1131
VIII.19 Working with Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0 (MS Press - Mike Snyder, Jim Steger) *released*
http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1133
X.60 FilteredViewWebPart (free - Steven Van de Craen)
http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1134
X.61 GroupByItemLimitWebPart (free - Steven Van de Craen)
Modified
None
Deleted
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IV WSSv2 KB Articles (plus SPS 2003 Hot fixes)
New
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;937886
No site usage data appears on the Site Usage Report page of a site after you enable usage analysis processing in Windows SharePoint Services
16th July 2007
Modified
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;918744
Description of a new command-line operation that you can use to repair content databases in Windows SharePoint Services (ver 1.3)
28th June 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;838117
How to disable FrontPage authoring for Windows SharePoint Services (3.3)
26th June 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=888946
You cannot use a Web browser to access a document library after you delete the document library Forms folder in Windows SharePoint Services (ver 4.2)
26th June 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=832769
How to configure a Windows SharePoint Services virtual server to use Kerberos authentication and how to switch from Kerberos authentication back to NTLM authentication (ver 9.0)
23rd June 2007
V. MS Articles for WSSv2
New or Modified
None
VI Non-MS Articles for WSSv2
New or Modified
None
VII WSSv2 FAQ
New and Modified
None
When Jerry Pournelle was writing for the Byte magazine when it was still published by McGraw-Hill in paper form, he used to do all his testing himself. Often he'd do stupid things and write about his experiences with the motto "we do these (stupid) things so you don't have to" and more often than not to solve his problems he'd grab some expert from the company concerned.
When his column moved to the on-line edition he started using his son Alex more and more and also some other younger guys and since he moved from that on-line site to his own site, he's added a few more guys who seem to have taken over most of the actual testing.
I meanwhile have been restricted mainly to my own stumbles and (even) positive experiences but this mutter about books has been prompted by my wife's recent experiences with Word 2003.
Without going into details as to why, she has ca 300 pages of connected text she needs to write and she decided for some reason that Master Pages were what she needed to use.
The only problem was that when she tried using them, things didn't work as she thought they should.
I was keeping well out of this so I just handed her the 1500 page blockbuster "Microsoft Office System 2003 Edition Inside Out" and said "look in that".
Several hours later I was told that there was one reference to master pages that referred you to a section two pages earlier in the book and that (2 page earlier) page said "master pages, look in the product's on-line help".
Great. A really wonderful book. I think we don't need to bother giving that one house room any more. (Did I ever tell you about the Microsoft Press book on Windows XP Pro Networking which told me absolutely nothing that I didn't already know from wandering around the menus in the product. I think I'll dump that at the same time.)
So as I was desperate, I got out my copy of O'Reilly's "Word 2007: The Missing Manual" and found it had a very clear 5 page section only on Master Pages. Not only was it clearly written but my wife (after all those problems with Master Pages) took great delight in reading aloud to me various sections where the writer was saying things like "if you really must use Master Pages" and about a nifty feature (?) that when you remove a link to a file all that file's text is copied into the main document (surprise!!).
All-in-all obviously a very worthwhile book. While Microsoft Press books are mainly (always?) very wary about pointing out product warts, obviously this Missing Manual at least isn't.
Not that she's yet solved her problem. But at least she's now got both some information to help her along and some confirmation that it's hardly her fault this "feature" didn't work as it should.
Neither of which she got from blockbuster ...
P.S. Yes, I did say she was using Word 2003 and I did in the end give her a Word 2007 book. You weren't dreaming. I'm hardly going to at this stage rush out and buy a book on Word 2003 am I (and especially not when I've got a good one on Word 2007 on the shelf).
P.P.S. The book link: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/059652739X/heme0f
I bought an (Apple) AirPort Extreme to replace my D-Link Wireless Modem that was working well.
Why, you ask ? (and if you don't, you should)
1. I can now get 1GB between it and the Mac.
2. (and more important, actually) I can connect a USB hard disk to it (and more if I have a suitable fast USB hub) and have it be visible to all the computers on the network.
The first snag was that all my USB drives were formatted (of course) with NTFS. It wanted a particular Mac Format or Fat-32. Curiously enough on XPPro it said this network" drive required SP2 and yet on my XPPro SP2 it refused to format even an empty USB drive as FAT-32. Catch 22.5 ..
So after messing about with that for a while I connected the drive to the Mac and re-formatted it there (in that Mac format it wanted). In the Mac there were several Mac formats available and Unix and something else, but not FAT-32 ...
That however was nothing compared to getting the Vista portable to recognize the AirPort Extreme.
First I connected it to the XPPro desktop. No problem. I installed the Apple software and connected to it and then specified all the security stuff.
I then repeated for the Mac using the written down passwords.
At this stage I added the hard disk (after it had been suitably formatted) and both systems let me specify its name and password and *both* systems let me copy files to it and open files from it in local applications (and remember it was Mac formatted).
But Vista. Not a hope as it couldn't even connect to it.
For a start it is really very very messy trying to specify a network connection in Vista. Amazingly messy compared to XPPro. But even when I'd finally worked out where to specify the security (and even amending the AirPort Extreme to make sure it was exactly the same one that I was setting on the Vista), there still wasn't a flicker of a connection.
So I dug out the old D-Link wireless modem and connected it to the AirPort Extreme via Ethernet and now believe it or not I have access to that "network" hard disk from the Vista machine too.
But what a mess (on my shelf). I now have
Vista -> (100mb wireless) DLink Wireless -> (via Ethernet) AirPort Extreme -> ADSL Modem -> Internet
Mac -> (1GB wireless!) AirPort Extreme -> ADSL Modem -> Internet
XPPro -> (fast enough) (via Ethernet) AirPort Extreme -> ADSL Modem -> Internet
Now how to get my music from the other non-newly-Mac-formatted USB disk to this one ...
P.S. Did I mention that on the Vista it insisted on installing the AirPort Extreme software in B*****Y Finnish. How I hate it when they do that without giving you a chance to change the language. It it really too much to ask? I can't remember this problem when installing the software on the Mac and I'm sure it was in English in the XPPro too, as that's where I installed it first. So it's Vista being clever again. *******
Imagine the situation. There is one television program that you want to watch this evening. Just one.
You're settled in front of the TV; you've watched the first part up to the first twist in the plot and *whoosh* the entire cable system goes down taking with it not only your digital TV stations but also your analog ones because they are coming to you via the same central system.
No problem you think. I'm covered for this situation, I've got a USB TV gadget that gets its digital pictures from the air not from the cable system.
So cursing that that doesn't work on the fast starting MacBook, you get the PC Portable; start it going and go to hunt for the USB TV thingie. On the first pass you don't find it so you type in the PC's password and go on the second pass. Still nothing. Finally after opening drawers; pulling out boxes you finally realise it's on top of the spare video recorder (logical place) and the reason you haven't seen it while passing that was because the painters were in the house and so you've covered that up with a cloth. (They haven't of course reached that room yet but it was covered up anyway ...)
Anyway you now have it and you plug it in and wait for the program that can use it to load. Which it does - slowly.
You now have a picture and sound and for 1 minute you watch the program when of course there is the second advert break (in Finnish commercial TV these are about every 15 mins which tells you how long you hunted for the USB TV thingie).
4 or so minutes later the advert break is over; the program starts and almost instantaneously all the applications in the PC shut down (including the TV) and Vista tells you it's installing upgrades and re-boots.
A Vista re-boot takes a long time. Normally. This time it takes even longer because it spends what seems like eternity "configuring upgrades".
Then there's the typical long drawn-out process of pre-loading various things; running NOD32 to see if there's a new fix; etc. etc. until finally it's possible to load the TV-watching program.
By now there is exactly 2 minutes of program time left to watch.
Today I really REALLY hate Microsoft security updates!!
This isn't a review in the true sense of the word as I don't really feel the urge to give this book the time needed to write a real review. That doesn't mean it's a bad book though, so read on.
Each Wrox SharePoint 2007 book has a diagram on the back cover with a heirarchy of Wrox SharePoint 2007 books. At the bottom row there are three books all including "Beginning" in the title. There's Beginning Excel Services; Beginning SharePoint 2007 and Beginning Sharepoint 2007 Administration.
The next two levels are a bit odd in that level two is Advanced Excel Services and SharePoint 2007 Development and level three is (presumably) the Experts level with "SharePoint 2007 and Office Development" and "SharePoint 2007 MVP" .
I have no objection to them regarding the MVP book as for Experts (all except my chapter that is) but it seems very odd that SharePoint 2007 and Office Development is considered more for experts than SharePoint 2007 Development given that because of the inclusion of Office it has to cover more ground and thus not cover that ground in as much detail.
Ah well, I suppose Wrox know best...
Because the MVP book is not yet out "Sales" of it aren't that great (in fact I think I've had a grand total of one Pre-Order of it via the links in my WSS FAQ sites) but I anyway go to have a look at how it's doing in Amazon every couple of weeks or so.
Last time I looked it was position 100,000 in Books with Beginning SharePoint 2007 (which is out) at ca 70,000 and Beginning SharePoint 2007 Administration at 10,000.
This struck me as very odd - why should one of the two Beginning SharePoint 2007 be doing better than the other, especially when Beginning SharePoint 2007 Administration is very much a very straightforward computer manual and if truth be told rather boring in all the detail it includes whereas the Beginning SharePoint 2007 book is much more a labour of love with very useful insights spread throughout it.
I looked at both books again. I decided that there were two reasons why the Administration book was doing so much better.
One reason was simply the title. Many people are SharePoint Administrators so they buy a book with Administration in the title.
The other reason is probably that a book that contains a lot of detail about how to do various standard things (in the same kind of detail that KB Articles contain including Press OK) collected in one place (most information it includes is no doubt spread throughout Microsoft articles and KB article) is precisely what people need who have been given an already-designed SharePoint site and told to administer it.
Note an already designed SharePoint site - by and large the Administration book is not one for people seeking hints as to how to design their sites and what clever things to do when designing it. That is much more the area of the "Beginning SharePoint 2007" book.
That's the reason why I couldn't understand the difference in sales figures. For me designing a site is part of "Administration" but in certain companies (and it seems from what I've heard, in mine too where people administrating Exchange sites for customers seem to be acquiring the job of administrating SharePoint sites too for the same customers) it isn't and these people will really need this book (because at the moment it is the only one that goes into this level of detail when explaining how to do (for me!) the most simple administrative tasks.
It doesn't really explain the 7 to 1 sales ratio, but that I suspect comes solely from the clearer title - after all do you know what the sub-title "Building Team Solutions with MOSS 2007" of the Beginning SharePoint 2007 book really means ?
Ah, with that I've found another reason for the 7 to 1 in sales - the sub-title of the Administration book is "Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007". Maybe all those extra sales come from WSS 3.0 people ?
Finally as always the Book links -
All v3 Books: http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/V%20Books.aspx
Beginning SharePoint 2007: http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=888
Beginning SharePoint 2007 Administration: http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=900
P.S. Actually a book like this (Beginning SharePoint 2007 Administration that is) can be really useful even if you know how to do most of the things it covers and don't need the detail it provides. I just had a case where someone asked a question in a newsgroup. Rather than quickly opening a VM to check out my spontaneous answer (which was correct) I just grabbed the book; turned to the right section and quickly found confirmation.
Similarly I can imagine situations where someone asks you how to do something and rather than showing them on a live site you just throw the book at them and say "Chapter 4" ...
I have always kept very quiet about the possibility of installing the Finnish version of WSS (both 2.0 and 3.0) because I didn't want the hassle of having Finnish language error messages that Google wouldn't be able to find (and that I would have difficulty not in understanding but in doing the 100% accurate - "accurate" = getting the same end text as in the English version, which isn't necessarily a correct translation - translation that would allow me to ask an International audience what could be causing the error) even ignoring the fact that the Finnish version might well have fixes coming out later than the English version.
I was aware of course that there were language packs that meant that you could have an English installation but still (say) Finnish language sites, but this seemed far too much of a hassle when you could just use Finnish names (for Document Libraries and the like) in an English language site and could even amend the Help menu item to read "Apua" and so on.
However other SharePoint MVPs that I regularly "talk" with are mostly running single language sites that are installed in the same (major) language - namely English, German and Spanish - and so I suppose it was obvious that at one time one of them would ask me about Language Packs.
The question was luckily one I could answer but only because I'd seen it asked and answered in a newsgroup. It was "can you have more than one WSS Language Packs?" and the answer was that you can.
Anyway I'm just building up the functionality of my Parallels-based VM that I can access either from the Mac itself or - if they are in the same home wireless network - from my Vista portable (Office 2007) or my XPPro desktop (Office 2003; FP 2003), so that seemed a perfect machine to try this out on.
So while in the main machine (the Mac - not the VM) I went to the download page for the WSS Language Packs; selected Finnish and then clicked on Download and repeated this for Swedish. I was a bit surprised that both files had the same names but just renamed them both so that later I'd know when I was installing which.
Then a couple of days later when I had more time, I opened the Win Server 2003 VM and transfered both files to it. (Aside: I've always had problems doing this kind of transfer to a VM Workstation VM but this went completely smoothly and quickly with only the question as to whether I wanted to VM to use the file from the Mac file structure or whether I wanted to copy it to the VM - I chose copy and it was there.)
The next step of course was to install them and so without bothering to look for instructions I clicked on the Finnish file and it told me it was installing the *English* language pack. Oops. So I clicked on the Swedish file and it too told me it was installing the English language pack (only with the addition that it wanted to know if I wanted to Repair the existing installation).
OK. I've been here before. I went to the download page and selected Finnish only *now* I actually clicked on "Change" which gave me a download page in Finnish and there I downloaded what later turned out indeed to be the Finnish Language Pack. Ditto for Swedish and, as I was feeling lucky by now, for Italian.
I clicked on the Finnish installation file and it was installed; and the same for Swedish and Italian. A quick look at "Add or Remove Programs" and yes, I now had *four* Language packs installed. FOUR? Yes, English was there too. There is of course no point in installing an English Language Pack on an English Language WSS 3.0 installation, but Microsoft let you do it.
Now what? I knew that installing a Language Pack means that you can have sites in that language so it seemed natural to simply try to Create a new site under the existing default site.
Select Create Site and everything seems the same as usual. It's all in English and wants a Site Name; Description and File Name as usual. But then you move down the page and you see the one key difference - there's a drop-down box with the word "English" in it and if you select that you see that your options are - not surprisingly - English; Finnish. Italian and Swedish.
I create a site in Finnish; go back in the browser and create a site in Swedish and then do the same in Italian. I've chosen Team Site in all cases (or whatever the translated name for that was in each case - in any case it's always the first choice with blank site coming next) and so i get a completely familiar site with lots of peculiar names.
But, as I wrote in the title, there's nothing to be scared of. These are perfectly normal Team Sites that just happen to be in a different language and (of course) if you get a problem, because the underlying language (of WSS 3.0 itself) is English you will get error messages that both you and the majority of people in the newsgroups wil have a chance of recognizing.
Aside: I'm sure I saw something saying that Windows Server 2008 RCP is out but I certainly can't find it ..
We left Windows Server 2008 Beta 3 in a Parallels VM where it couldn't find the networking driver.
I finally decided to spend more than the odd second on this and carefully looked at which driver was being used in a working Parallels VM running Windows Server 2003 (and WSS 3.0 - what else?) and then looking at the same location in the 2008 Beta 3 VM.
In 2003 it was prleth.sys (and there were four more Parallels drivers) and in 2008 there were no Parallels drivers at all.
So more in desperation than anything else I decided to install the Parallels Tools (which just like in VMWorkstation I always install just to get rid of the need to do Ctrl-Alt just for the cursor to be able to leave the VM) and discovered that *that* added several drivers including prleth.sys.
So now I had Ethernet and wireless access and could move to the real program of installing the Server 2008 built-in WSS 3.0.
They've learnt from past mistakes.
You now select "Add Roles" and when you pick WSS 3.0 it says it will need first to install various things (such as IIS and .NET Framework 3.0) and would you like it to install those ? I have no idea what happens if you say No (although giving you the option seems a trifle odd) but I just said Yes and waited to install what in Windows Server 2003 and the WSS 3.0 download is the Basic Installation (although you can as there also have an installation that uses an existing SQL Server).
It's been churning for so long that I've finished everything I wanted to do on the PC portable I'm writing this on so this post goes out without final certainty. But it certainly looks to be a keeper.
Note: All of the addresses of the KB / Articles - 2007 Products / MS / Non-MS Articles below were valid at the time I added them to the WSS FAQ
site and to this file. I can't guarantee that they still are.
(This is also posted to the WSS newsgroup at microsoft.public.sharepoint.windowsservices - web access via http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/newsgroups/server/sharepoint.mspx)
(Items are added to the WSS FAQ throughout the week so you will find new items more quickly by checking at wss.collutions.com or www.wssfaq.com daily.)
From 25th June - 1st July 2007
I 2007 KB Articles (*now only one section for WSS and MOSS*)
New
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;938663
One-time timer jobs in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 are delayed by at least one hour when the jobs are scheduled to occur during daylight saving time (DST)
29th June 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;938536
Description of the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 hotfix package: June 11, 2007
29th June 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;938537
Description of the SharePoint Server 2007 hotfix package: June 12, 2007
29th June 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;938535
Description of the SharePoint Server 2007 hotfix package: June 11, 2007
29th June 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;937291
You receive an error message when you run the pre-upgrade scan tool (Prescan.exe) to scan Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 sites before you upgrade to Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (ver 1.1)
26th June 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;938110
Site groups are not maintained, and users are assigned to roles after you upgrade from SharePoint Portal Server 2003 to SharePoint Server 2007 (ver 1.1)
26th June 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;923589
Error message when you try to change the name of a site column back to its original name in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: "The column name that you entered is already in use or reserved." (ver 2.0)
26th June 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;938182
Description of the SharePoint Server 2007 hotfix package for SharePoint Server 2007 and for SharePoint Server 2007 for Search: May 31, 2007
22nd June 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;938183
Description of the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 hotfix package: May 31, 2007
22nd June 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;889644
Error message when users try to change their password in Windows SharePoint Services: "Error setting password for user account '<UserName>' " (ver 2.0)
15th May 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;829065
Error message when you connect to the SharePoint Central Administration page in Windows SharePoint Services: "You are not authorized to view this page" (ver 5.0)
15th May 2007
Modified
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;939015
Support WebCast: Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 integration with Contact Lists and Document Libraries of Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) version 3 or Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 (ver 2.1)
29th June 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;929360
You cannot create a new document or check out an existing document in a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 document library when you have multiple versions of Office installed (ver 2.0)
28th June 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=930887
You experience issues with portal alerts in SharePoint Portal Server 2003 or with search performance in SharePoint Server 2007 after you create SQL Server 2005 maintenance plans (ver 2.0)
19th June 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;823506
Path of the log files in the Log file location box on the Configure Usage Analysis Processing page of Windows SharePoint Services Central Administration is truncated (ver 3.0)
(WSS 3.0 included in Applies To - moved in WSS FAQ to v3)
15th May 2007
II. Articles - 2007 Products (no longer with all links to articles for other Office 2007 and other 2007 Products)
New
A. Office 2007 Server Products
http://www.sharepointblogs.com/mykiep/archive/2007/06/30/overriding-the-content-query-web-part.aspx
Overriding the Content Query Web Part (Blog - MdP)
30th June 2007
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/technetmag/issues/2007/07/PublicFolders/default.aspx?rss%3dhttp%3a%2f%2fwww.microsoft.com%2ftechnet%2ftechnetmag%2fissues%2f2007%2f07%2fPublicFolders&pf=true
A Powerful Alternative to Public Folders (TechNet Mag July 2007 - Alan Maddison)
30th June 2007 (date added)
http://www.sharepointblogs.com/tbaginski/archive/2007/06/29/Which-WSS-3.0-_2F00_-MOSS-2007-site-Template-is-right-for-me_3F00_.aspx
Which WSS 3.0 / MOSS 2007 site Template is right for me? (Blog - Todd Baginski)
29th June 2007
http://blogs.msdn.com/joelo/archive/2007/06/29/sharepoint-groups-permissions-site-security-and-depreciated-site-groups.aspx
SharePoint Groups, Permissions, Site Security, and Depreciated Site Groups (MSBlog - Joel Oleson)
29th June 2007
http://vividgroup.com.au/pdf/MCMS2002ToMOSS2007Migration-WhitePaper.pdf
MCMS to MOSS upgrade (VividGroup whitepaper)
28th June 2007 (date added)
http://blogs.msdn.com/joelo/archive/2007/06/27/file-name-length-size-and-invalid-character-restrictions-and-recommendations.aspx
File Name, Length, Size and Invalid Character Restrictions and Recommendations (MSBlog - Joel Oleson)
27th June 2007
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=92fe268e-c232-44a3-8a78-95a38cc2a765&displaylang=en&tm
Installing and Configuring Microsoft Dynamics AX Enterprise Portal (ver 1.01)
(This document describes how to install and configure Microsoft Dynamics AX Enterprise Portal 4.0 for Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server)
27th June 2007
http://www.sharepointblogs.com/sezai/archive/2007/06/27/setting-up-a-multilingual-moss-2007-farm-english-and-chinese-simplified-websites-running-on-the-same-farm.aspx
Setting up a Multilingual MOSS 2007 Farm - English and Chinese (Simplified) Websites Running on the same farm (Blog - Sezai)
27th June 2007
http://www.sharepointblogs.com/sezai/archive/2007/06/27/programmatically-accessing-bdc-data-in-custom-web-parts-or-user-controls-in-moss-2007.aspx
Programmatically Accessing BDC Data in Custom Web Parts or User Controls in MOSS 2007 (Blog - Sezai)
27th June 2007
http://www.sharepointblogs.com/jeremewatts/archive/2007/06/26/aam-vanity-url-workarounds.aspx
AAM, Vanity URL workarounds (Blog - Jereme Watts)
26th June 2007
http://metahat.blogspot.com/2007/06/people-picker-in-moss-2007-unable-to.html
People Picker in MOSS 2007 unable to find user from Multiple Domain (Blog - Raghu Iyer)
26th June 2007
http://www.sharepointblogs.com/mkruger/archive/2007/06/26/free-sharepoint-dataview-tips.aspx
Free SharePoint DataView Tips (Blog - Mark Kruger)
26th June 2007
http://www.sharepointblogs.com/mkruger/archive/2007/06/26/howto-using-sharepoint-calculated-columns-to-display-a-list-item-as-quot-x-quot-days-old.aspx
HowTo: Using SharePoint Calculated Columns to Display a List Item as "X" Days Old (Blog - Mark Kruger)
26th June 2007
http://www.sharepointblogs.com/llowevad/archive/2007/06/25/site-collection-logical-architecture.aspx
Site Collection Logical Architecture (Blog - Dave Wollerman)
25th June 2007
http://www.sharepointblogs.com/llowevad/archive/2007/06/25/sharepoint-2007-single-sign-on-setup.aspx
SharePoint 2007 Single Sign-On Setup (Blog - Dave Wollerman)
25th June 2007
http://blogs.msdn.com/miketag/archive/2007/06/25/recommended-guidelines-for-search-boundaries.aspx
Recommended Guidelines for Search Boundaries (MSBlog - Mike Taghizadeh)
25th June 2007
http://blog.funknstyle.com/?p=503
InfoPath 2007: Creating a Template Part (Blog - Amanda Murphy)
25th June 2007
https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastRegistrationConfirmation.aspx?culture=en-US&RegistrationID=1291430402
MSDN Webcast: SharePoint Server 2007 and Business Intelligence (Level 200) (Mike Benkovich, Lynn Langit)
22nd June 2007
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb462636(office.11).aspx
Publishing and Synchronizing Excel 2007 Tables to SharePoint Lists (John Adams, Frank Rice)
(1st) June 2007
B. Other Office 2007 products (selected few only since 1.1.2007)
http://www.sharepointblogs.com/michael/archive/2007/06/28/how-to-clone-an-infopath-form.aspx
How to Clone an Infopath Form (Blog - M Hofer)
28th June 2007
C. Other New 2006/2007 Products (selected few only since 1.1.2007)
None
Modified
None
Deleted
None
III WSS v3 FAQ
New
http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1119
III.88.02 Indexing: How do I index OneNote files in a 64-bit system?
http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1117
V.57 Programming Excel Services (MSPress - Alvin J. Bruney) *released*
http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1118
VI.49 DWG IFIlter 2007 (CAD and Company)
Modified
http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=958
I.31.01 What issues are fixed in fix packs to MOSS 2007?
http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=971
I.31.02 What issues are fixed in fix packs for WSS 3.0?
http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1000
III.88.01 Indexing: How do I index DWG files (Autocad)?
IV WSSv2 KB Articles (plus SPS 2003 Hot fixes)
New
None
Modified
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;823279
Digest authentication and Advanced Digest authentication are not supported in Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003 or Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services (ver 6.0)
20th June 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;826803
Server that runs Windows SharePoint Services may run low on memory resources (ver 2.0)
18th May 2007
V. MS Articles for WSSv2
New or Modified
None
VI Non-MS Articles for WSSv2
New or Modified
None
VII WSSv2 FAQ
New or Modified
None
I now have a setup with three machines all of which are running on 64-bit processors and all of which are less than 3 years old.
The desktop, used mainly these days by my wife, will be three years old in September. It's running XPPro; Office 2003 and FrontPage 2003. It has 1GB and an Athlon processor (and it's Fujitsu-Siemens because the price was right. It has a 250GB hard disk.
The main portable is 18 months old and cost about twice the cost of the desktop. It's running Vista Ultimate and Office 2007. It has 2GB and a Turon processor. (It's an Acer Ferrari and has a 100GB hard disk)
The second portable is a MacBook. It runs OS X Tiger and has 2GB and a Core 2 Duo processor. It's about a month old (although the model has been out for six months) and is the cheapest MacBook in the range. Bought as an experiment when I was unsure whether I'd like it, I now regret that I didn't buy a more expensive version with a larger hard disk (the disk is 60GB).
At the moment I'm running my VMs on Parallels in the MacBook (as my VMWorkstation 5.5 i slow in the Vista machine and I don't want to pay for an upgrade ...). Because of the lack of local disk space I have only one VM (WSS 3.0) stored locally and am using a Mac-formatted (see earlier blogs) 80GB LaCie (very small) external USB 2.0 drive that runs off the portable's power to store other VMs. At present these other VMs are Office Server 2008 Beta3 (soon to be replaced with RCP) and a copy of the WSS 3.0 VM from the portable (which is soon to be stripped and from that stripped version to be a DC and a MOSS 2007 VM (2 VMs)).
The desktop is needed for a couple of things:
- The WSS FAQ sites still run on v2 so I use FP 2003 with them when needed.
- Edit in Datasheet View only works with the WSS FAQ sites from this machine (i.e. not from the Vista/Office 2007 portable) and so when I needed that (to transfer KB Articles and Articles - 2007 Products to the WSS 3.0 VM) this was the machine I had to use.
- It still uses IE 6.x so I can test its usage here too.
The Vista/Office 2007 portable:
- Here I use IE7 (at work I use Firefox and IE6 so I cover most things) and Outlook Express
The MacBook:
- Here I use Safari although Firefox is also installed.
- I use Thunderbird for newsgroups.
So with the basics established what improvements and non-improvements are there ?
One improvement with Safari (and probably Firefox on both platforms) when used with v3 is that drop-down works. So whereas I can not (using Safari) Edit a KB Article entry in v2 using a dropdown (but need to use the Maintenance View that has an Edit icon), I can do this with the identical v3 version.
What is bad of course is that the Vista/Office 2007 combination has a problem with Edit in Datasheet View with (at least) my SP v2 sites.
I'll add some more later when I come across them ...
I've recently had the Mac on more than one occasion recognize my Wireless router (etc.) but still claim I have no connection to the Internet.
I've been to look and the Internet connection is fine. I've also then loaded up the Acer and it's been able to access the Internet OK, so what's going on.
My theory is that a recent OS upgrade did something it shouldn't. Of course it may be that I installed this upgrade (or some other upgrade) in the wrong way because I for instance assumed that a Parallels upgrade had been done and yet all it had done was to put the file on the desktop.
Then when I started that file it didn't say it was updating but that it wanted to do a new installation (and this of a .x.x update version). All very odd and it's things like this that make me continually conscious that I'm like a child of ten with the Mac compared to with a PC.
Networking too - once it had decided I didn't have an Internet connection - wasn't the easiest thing to get working. There was nothing like repair connection which in the windows world often does the trick and the Assistant continued to insist I turn the hardware off and on which made no difference at all.
In the end I ended up (on both occasions) creating a totally new Internet connection as only that managed to create for me a working Internet connection.
The problem with that method is that I have a very long WPA PSK password that of course I can never remember. So I suppose there is nothing for it but to post it to myself because otherwise I'll be stuck if they same thing happens when I'm on the road.
Maybe it's time to look at that big OsX Tiger edition book and see what it says about Networking. Child of nine, more like.
On thing that I've learnt since buying a Mac and trying to do most of my MVP "work" on it has been that what people moving to the Mac from the PC (or even those like me who are working in parallel with both environments) need is a friend with a good level of Mac experience.
He or she would need to have infinite patience however to put up with a barrage of "how do you do this in the Mac" questions ranging from the extremely simple ("what's the Mac equiavlent of Ctrl-C") to more complicated ones (which turned out in my case to be how do you format a USB drive - or indeed anything).
If you don't have such a friend very handy, the next best step is to have a book. In my case the book I found at Amazon and which has been solving most of my Mac adjustment problems since is the O'Reilly book "Switching to the Mac: The Missing Manual, Tiger Edition
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0596006608/heme0f
I blogged briefly earlier that I was going to buy this and was a bit worried by the fact that it first came out in September 2005 which seems a lifetime away. Well that's true but it is now on it's Ninth Printing and corrections have been made on its journey there.
In fact the Ninth Printing includes a whole new appendix on running Windows on the Mac (Boot Camp or Parallels) which contains fairly basic information but at least is there (and wasn't in the Eighth Printing). So to a certain extent this is (at least) a Second Edition.
Anyway what of the book?
The good news is that it has solved many of my basic problems - most of which have to do with simple/stupid things such as the afore-mentioned Ctrl-C (which is AppleKey-C like most such Ctrl- codes) and Ctr-Alt-del which thank goodness was in the index because I needed it in order to boot a Windows machine running under Parallels. (It's *in this order* Ctrl; Alt; fn; and 'erase previous' !!).
In fact that is both the strength and weakness of the book. It's written more as a book to read through rather than as a reference manual.
I'd better explain that because it might give the wrong impression.
All parts and programs that come with Tiger are covered and points of difference to Windows equivalents clearly stated. So, yes, you can use it as a "Missing Manual" by looking up for instance the chapter on Mail. The index too while not brilliant (I couldn't find how to format a disk there!) is fairly long - however to a certain extent I thought that perhaps it was a slightly amended version of an index for Tiger for Mac users rather than a newly written index for the benefit of former Windows users (otherwise surely Formatting wouldn't be missing).
To a certain extent however needing to actually read full sections of the manual is beneficial. Certainly I found out things (and they were always compared with Windows things) there when just browsing that I didn't know and what's more that I wouldn't have learnt about if I had only grabbed the book when I had a problem.
A good example of this is the PDF reader. I naturally (?) from my PC background assumed that as I could open PDF files without the need to download Acrobat Reader from the Adobe site, that Apple had done a deal with Adobe and it was built in.
Far from it. Reading the book, I found that it was actually using an internal application called Preview to open the PDF files and that Preview was actually also (mainly) a graphics program. The book gave me the URL of where I could download Adobe Reader for the Mac if I wanted but also gave me some additional information about the functionality of Preview with PDF files that made we wonder whether I'd actually need to.
The conclusion I suppose is that I'm happy with the book and glad that I got it. Without it I'd no doubt be scrambling through the Internet looking for tips (such as I needed to do for formatting - the answer to which was "Use Disk Utility"; something that I found to make formatting a USB disk seem like a major operation). I would have probably in fact given up half way but I wanted to use this USB disk (80GB) to store some Parallels (Windows Servers running WSS and MOSS) VMs and Parallels said that USB disks when used for that needed to be Mac formatted. I took them at their word.
I discovered yesterday after writing the above that the PDF files I was seeing were actually not using Preview but were just being shown by the browser (Safari) which unlike IE doesn't require an installation of Acrobat Reader in oder to show them.
I spotted this thanks to the section in the book that told me how to Zoom In or Zoom Out in Preview (as this wasn't working!) and when trying to correct this with the equivalent of a Right-Click (Ctrl-Space in a Mac without a 2 button mouse) I discovered an "Open in Preview" option. Now Zoom In not only worked but produced extremely good quality enlarged text - very clear and sharp - which made reading the front page of an Italian newspaper (where the first page in pdf form is free on the web) extremely pleasant.
This is both funny and sad.
This blog always has one set of two Google Ads (the weekly WSS FAQ list has three sets which are there because the text is long and needs splitting up), and - just in case you didn't know this - what you see there varies to a certain extent according to where you are located.
This doesn't usually matter much because a lot of the ads are US anyway, but occasionally some of them are European and even less often (= very rarely) these ads are in Finnish.
So don't both checking the previous blog item out unless you actually live in Finland because the ad you see won't be this one.
Anyway a certain Finnish company via a third-party site is looking for people with skills in various technical areas (most of which you can only see listed if you go to the web site which I can't because it would break my agreement with Google not to click myself on ads on my site/blog).
The point is that I don't know for sure that they are looking for people with SharePoint skills or not - but why else would their advert be picked up for my blog ?
As for "both funny or sad".... Funny is because their ad appears on my blog; Sad is the fact that internal systems seem incapable of locating me as someone who knows the SharePoint products reasonably well (yet Google apparently can ...).
I found the on-line chapter of Professional SharePoint 2007 Development (WROX) to be a tough read.
I imagine it is supposed to be. After all it is one of the very few Chapter Ones that doesn't have the word "Introduction" in the Chapter Title (which is "The Microsoft Application Platform and SharePoint").
No doubt this is what most developers want. After a few pages of text there are a series of tables "XXXX Services" giving in column one Microsoft Technology and in Column two brief descriptions of the various services in the XXX section that are connected with that technology.
So for instance in the table "Security Services" and for the Microsoft Technology "Office SharePoint Server" there are two items mentioned in column 2 - Single Sign-On and Information Rights Management both with very brief descriptions.
I suppose developers love this kind of information presented in this way, but it didn't do that much for me, I'm afraid.
As for the naming. Yes, there was the by now typical naming confusion for these on-line chapter ones (so much so I'm wondering if my own chapter one messes up the naming too - time will tell).
It this case it all started well with Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 written out in full. But then we had a "SharePoint is" which you at first think might possibly mean all SharePoint products since the beginning of time but then you see "SharePoint takes advantage of the first workflow platform" and you realise that here "SharePoint" could only possibly mean the v3 SharePoint products.
Well that I can just about live with, but I can't live with a section on "Windows SharePoint Services" which only talks about what is in WSS *3.0* but apart from one mention that actually says "WSS 3.0" (some mistake, surely!) all the references in that paragraph like the heading say "WSS".
Then we have this "Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS or OSS)". Hands up those of you who have heard MOSS refered to as OSS! One person only (the writer of this probably). Let's for goodness sake stick to MOSS 2007 as the name (MOSS is just about OK just like WSS once was **when it refered to WSS 2.0 that is ** (as it was at that time the only WSS) but OSS, wasn't that a CIA predecessor? (and by CIA I don't mean the Common Interface Architecture))
Following this we have mostly "MOSS" but occasionally "OSS" too. In fact this entire chapter is a delight with MAP (anyone guess ? "Microsoft Application Platform") as well as MMC, SOA, OLAP, KPI, WF, OCS (Office Communications Server) which is "an IP BTX which means it can act as a company's VoIP phone switch or it can communicate with an existing IP PBX or TDM switch" and so on (there are more).
Yes, indeed, a book for developers. They'll no doubt love it.
Which actually brings me to a serious point. This book was written by 8 people and the MVP book was written by 16 people. In this case the writer of the on-line Chapter 1 probably wrote one more chapter; in the case of the MVP book - just like all the other MVPs - the writer of Chapter One wrote only Chapter One.
So let's say you love the style of the guy who wrote Chapter One of this book. There are something like 14 chapters he didn't write, how can you tell if you'll love the style of the guys who wrote them ? You can't.
Now in this case this is not an easy Introduction chapter so there is a fair chance that at least the difficulty level will be the same from Chapter to Chapter. But in the case of the MVP book the first (my, only) chapter is probably going to be the only one at that easy level. How do you then choose whether or not to buy the book? Is the magic word "MVP" enough? No, I really hope they use another sample chapter for the MVP book than Chapter One.
P.S. Oops, I forgot the links again ...
Professional SharePoint 2007 Development: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0470117567/heme0f
MVP Book (unlike the above - not yet out): http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0470168358/heme0f
...and of course for the list of all v3 books: http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/V%20Books.aspx
... and a list of the on-line chapters: http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/VII%20Book%20Extracts.aspx
(The relevance to SharePoint is purely that I am running WSS 3.0 and MOSS etc.) in Parallels virtual machines on the Mac) I need to convert my trial copy of Parallels to a full copy ($79.99)) So what's the logical thing to do ? You go to the Parallels webpage (www.parallels.com) where there is a big picture of "Parallels 3.0 for the Mac" at $79.99 [noting that Parallels for Windows is $49.99 and muttering to yourself as you go] and you click on Buy Now. You have a feeling you are not going to like this when you see that the seller they are using is in Germany and the price is marked in Euros - less in numbers than 79.99 but at today's rate of exchange more expensive in real money than $79.99. But you can change it to payment in dollars and there's the $79.99. So far so good but you bet that unlike a US company they are going to want value -added-tax and so they do. The only relief being that they want the German rate (19%) and not the Finnish rate (22%), but that's a minute difference and you are anyway up to almost $100. You remember that there was a coupon code on an earlier page so you hunt the internet in a different copy of the browser for a coupon for Parallels. All the links go finally to today's Parallels page and any mention of coupons say that they expired in July *2006*. So back to the original order page (the one that is almost $100 by now) and click on Order. You get an error page - surely not because pop-ups are blocked? How crazy can a seller be? So now you don't of course know whether your order has gone through or not and you'll need to carefully check both e-mail and credit account statements for days to come. Meanwhile you go back to the Parallels main page and instead of Buy Now under the picture of Parallels 3.0 for Mac you now select instead the Buy Now item on the menu line. Bingo! This goes to a US seller and all they seem to want is the $79.99 (which suddenly seems remarkably cheap :) ) even after you specify Finland. [Note this is a download so there are no extra costs for supplying to me and while I don't mind (much!) paying money to software developers, I DO mind paying unnecessary taxes.] Unfortunately I can't order it there and then because I still don't know whether that order via the german company has gone through or not. Probably not because these guys always send e-mail but you never know and one thing I certainly DON'T need is two copies. What's the betting that by the time I come to order (i.e. on the last day of my 15-day free trial) even that link will be pointing at that ***** German re-seller as well. I'll let you all know in a P.S. - for now I have a print-out with the direct URL to that US seller (which also came up while I was investigating the coupon possibility so I could try retracing those steps too).
P.S. This is not funny. I managed with a bit of effort to once again get the US seller,rather than that German one, and despite me specifying an address in Finland (I need to use my own address to claim this back off tax!) it still only specified 79.95 dollars while asking for my credit card info. I then pressed order thinking that was that. Parallels for 79.95.
Guess again, Mike. *Then* they gave me yet another page to say Order and now they'd sneaked in (there's no other word for it) a tax charge. Only this time it wasn't the German tax rate of 19%, it was the Finnish tax rate of 22% which made it even closer to 100 dollars in total.
Tough luck, guys. You're definately not getting my business. Is there no other place where they won't demand Finnish / German / Mongolian taxes ? Yes, Amazon US. But they won't send software to Finland. Grrrr.
Note: All of the addresses of the KB / Articles - 2007 Products / MS / Non-MS Articles below were valid at the time I added them to the WSS FAQ
site and to this file. I can't guarantee that they still are.
(This is also posted to the WSS newsgroup at microsoft.public.sharepoint.windowsservices - web access via http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/newsgroups/server/sharepoint.mspx)
(Items are added to the WSS FAQ throughout the week so you will find new items more quickly by checking at wss.collutions.com or www.wssfaq.com daily.)
From 11th - 17th June 2007
I 2007 KB Articles (*now only one section for WSS and MOSS*)
New (warning: some of the "new" 14th May items may in fact be modified - I messed up my file a bit)
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;939015
Support WebCast: Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 integration with Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) version 3 Contact Lists and Document Libraries
15th June 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;937208
Description of the SharePoint Server 2007 hotfix package: May 15, 2007
14th June 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;937203
Description of the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 hotfix package: May 15, 2007
14th June 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;937775
A document library or a list is not returned in the search results when you use an SQL query to sort search results in SharePoint Server 2007
14th June 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;937904
Description of the SharePoint Server 2007 hotfix package: May 25, 2007 (2nd one from May 25)
13th June 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;937949
You cannot upgrade SharePoint Portal Server 2003 to SharePoint Server 2007, and you receive an error message when you run the Prescan.exe tool
12th June 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;937142
The Publish button is not displayed when you create a site that is based on the Publishing Portal site template in SharePoint Server 2007
12th June 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;937906
Description of the SharePoint Server 2007 hotfix package: May 25, 2007
11th June 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=841215
You cannot connect to a document library in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 or Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 by using Windows shell commands or by using Explorer View (ver 3.0)
25th May 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=918718
SharePoint items are added to a .pst file when the PstDisableGrow registry value is configured to prevent the items from being added in Outlook 2007 (ver 2.0)
25th May 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=923577
The progress indicator may appear to stop increasing when you synchronize Outlook 2007 and items in either a Windows SharePoint Services site or a SharePoint Portal Server site (ver 2.0)
25th May 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=913842
When you delete the contents of a folder on a Windows SharePoint Services or SharePoint Portal Server Web site, the contents of the folder are not moved to the Recycle Bin on the Web site in Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 (ver 2.0)
25th May 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=936541
Exchange services do not start after you install Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2
17th May 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=924464
You do not see a link to the home page of the portal site in a personal site that you created in SharePoint Server 2007 (ver 1.3)
14th May 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=923899
More than one item is returned in the search results when you use the "item:<URL>" search term to search for a specific item in SharePoint Server 2007 (ver 1.3)
14th May 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=923898
No items are returned in the search results in SharePoint Server 2007 when you run a query that contains a URL property restriction that includes a port number (ver 1.4)
14th May 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=924801
Error message when you try to edit HTML content that is hosted on SharePoint Server 2007: "An error has occurred in the script on this page" (ver 1.5)
14th May 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=926814
Error messages are logged and the upgrade fails when you try to upgrade to the SharePoint Services 3.0 Beta Technical Refresh version by using an invalid SharePoint account (ver 1.5)
14th May 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=923906
When you try to open a folder in a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 document library in Explorer View, the folder does not open (ver 1.4)
14th May 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=923897
No results are returned when you search for a document or a file in a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 site by using the URL of the document or of the file (ver 1.4)
14th May 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=928730
You may expose internal server names or path names when you post an Excel 2007 file to a SharePoint Server 2007 Web site if the file uses a CELL(<address>) function
14th May 2007
Modified
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=934793
Description of the SharePoint Server hotfix package: April 12, 2007 (ver 2.1)
7th June 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=923938
You do not receive a delete confirmation dialog box when you delete an item from a SharePoint list in Outlook 2007 (ver 2.0)
25th May 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=919045
You may be prompted repeatedly to enter your authentication credentials when Outlook 2007 tries to synchronize SharePoint lists (ver 2.0)
25th May 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=934253
The Web File Properties dialog box displays incorrect properties for a document that is saved in a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 document library (ver 1.1)
25th May 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=928301
How to upgrade from Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Beta 2 to the original release version of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (ver 4.0)
22nd May 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=928737
A hyperlink does not work in an Excel 2007 client workbook that is published to Excel Services in SharePoint Server 2007 (ver 1.2)
14th May 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=930006
A SharePoint list is converted to a table, and synchronization of the SharePoint list is disabled after you save an Excel 2007 workbook (ver 2.1)
14th May 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=925609
A crawl does not make any progress and the crawl logs show no new crawled documents in SharePoint Server 2007 (ver 2.1)
14th May 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=928741
A maximum number of 25 sessions can be active at the same time on Excel Services when you enable anonymous access to a SharePoint Server 2007 Web site (ver 1.4)
14th May 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=928619
Adobe Reader files cannot be found after you add the .pdf file type to the list of crawled file types in SharePoint Server 2007 (ver 1.3)
14th May 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=928743
Analysis Services data cache sharing of an OLAP cube may not work correctly in Excel Calculation Services (ver 1.3)
14th May 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=928302
Anonymous users can search the version comments in a document or in a picture in SharePoint Server 2007 (ver 1.3)
14th May 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=928740
Changes to an Excel 2007 workbook may not be displayed when you resave the workbook to a SharePoint Server 2007 document library and then view the workbook in Excel Web Access (ver 1.3)
14th May 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=927155
Crawls of a content source that contains MIME file types are not completed successfully after you upgrade to the original release version of SharePoint Server 2007 (ver 1.2)
14th May 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=928727
Description of the Analysis Services formats that are supported by cube formulas in Excel Services in SharePoint Server 2007 (ver 1.1)
14th May 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=930007
Description of the supported method to upgrade from MCMS 2002 to SharePoint Server 2007 (ver 1.2)
14th May 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=928029
Document library does not open successfully when you try to use Internet Explorer 7 to open a SharePoint Server 2007 or a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 document library (ver 1.2)
14th May 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=928303
Error message when you try to view a Web page to which you added a Content By Query Web part in SharePoint Server 2007: "404 File Not Found" (ver 1.2)
14th May 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=927772
Error message during the SharePoint Server 2007 installation process: "The data location path is too long" (ver 1.3)
14th May 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=928033
Error message in SharePoint Server 2007 when you log on to the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 document library and then click "My Approval": "Unexpected query execution failure, error code 1205" (ver 1.2)
14th May 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=924399
Error message when a user clicks the "My Profile" tab of a "My Site" personal site in SharePoint Server 2007: "Result: 404 File Not Found." (ver 1.3)
14th May 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=928028
Error message when a user tries to save an item to a list or respond to a survey in a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Web site: "An unexpected error has occurred" (ver 1.2)
14th May 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=923593
Error message when users try to access a site collection in SharePoint Server 2007 after you remove the "NT Authority\Local Service" account from the policy for a Web application: "Access denied" (ver 2.2)
14th May 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=925728
Error message when you click "Create Site" on the tab that is located in the upper-right corner of the Site Directory page of a site collection: "Page cannot be displayed" (ver 1.3)
14th May 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=926281
Error message when you try to create a content deployment path in SharePoint Server 2007: "Value not in expected range" (ver 1.5)
14th May 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=928037
Error message when you try to create a document template in SharePoint Server 2007: "To save to the server, correct the invalid or missing required properties" (ver 1.2)
14th May 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=926812
Error message when you try to delete a master page file from the "Master Page and Page Layout Gallery" in SharePoint Server 2007: "This item cannot be deleted because it is still referenced by other pages" (ver 1.5)
14th May 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=928625
Error message when you try to enable the Publishing feature on a SharePoint Server 2007 site: "The feature failed to activate because a list at 'Pages' already exists in this site" (ver 1.2)
14th May 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=928746
Error message when you try to open an Excel workbook in SharePoint Server 2007: "Could not establish trust relationship for the SSL/TLS secure channel" (ver 1.1)
14th May 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=928620
Error message when you try to start the Search service in SharePoint 2007: "An unhandled exception occurred in the user interface" (ver 1.2)
14th May 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=928744
Error message when you try to update Excel 2007 workbook data from an external data source in SharePoint Server 2007: "Data Refresh Failed" (ver 1.2)
14th May 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=925189
Error message when you try to use an existing site template to create a new SharePoint Server 2007 site: "Failed to apply template" (ver 2.1)
14th May 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=927083
Error message when you try to view the "Search Settings" page after you upgrade from the Beta 2 Technical Refresh version to the original release version of SharePoint Server 2007: "unhandled exception occurred in the user interface" (ver 1.5)
14th May 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=923592
Error message when you use SharePoint Central Administration to run a content deployment job in SharePoint Server 2007: "Microsoft.SharePoint.SPException': 'A folder with the name _catalogs/masterpage/Forms/Page Layout already exists" (ver 1.3)
14th May 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=928622
Error messages in SharePoint Server 2007 when you try to add an import connection to import users from Active Directory services: "An error occurred while validating or updating the directory service connection" (ver 1.3)
14th May 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=926959
Error when you try to edit the content source schedule in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007: "Access is denied" (ver 2.3)
14th May 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=928749
Excel Services will not load workbooks from sites that are mapped to internal sites that are listed as trusted locations in SharePoint Server 2007 (ver 1.3)
14th May 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=928756
Excel Web Access stops responding when you try to open a large Excel worksheet that resides on a SharePoint Server 2007 server (ver 1.2)
14th May 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=928038
Guidelines for managing the Group Approval workflow process in SharePoint Server 2007 (ver 1.1)
14th May 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=923590
How to customize the installation location when you install SharePoint Server 2007 from the command line (ver 1.4)
14th May 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=929912
How to turn on word breakers and stemmers in SharePoint Server 2007 (ver 2.3)
14th May 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=926282
Images do not appear after you convert a .docx file to a Web page in SharePoint Server 2007 (ver 1.5)
14th May 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=923900
Items that are associated with a "keyword best bet" in SharePoint Server 2007 are displayed in the search results even though a user does not have permissions to access the items (ver 1.3)
14th May 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;932378
Members of the domain local group cannot view a Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Web site (ver 1.2)
14th May 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=928748
Not all the Excel Calculation Service servers may be used when you use Excel Web Access to load workbooks and when URL load balancing is enabled (ver 1.4)
14th May 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=928031
Review form buttons are disabled after an assigned role member clicks "Claim Task" and then clicks the Approve button in SharePoint Server 2007 (ver 1.4)
14th May 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=928623
Search results include draft documents in SharePoint Server 2007 (ver 1.2)
14th May 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=928469
Setup is not successful when you install MSXML 6.0 and then you try to install a different language version of SharePoint Server 2007 (ver 1.4)
14th May 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=928621
SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard does not start after you install SharePoint Server 2007 and Project Server 2007 on a Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 server (ver 1.3)
14th May 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=926283
SharePoint Server 2007 article page content is added in the Pages library and not in the document library in which the article page was created (ver 1.5)
14th May 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=928624
SharePoint Server 2007 disk-based caching for "binary large objects" stops responding after an IIS application pool is recycled (ver 1.2)
14th May 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=928745
Some "Date Filter" and "Value Filter" commands may be unavailable when you use Excel Web Access to view an Excel workbook in SharePoint Server 2007 (ver 1.2)
14th May 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=928032
The Document ID log report view may stop responding when you view a Document ID log report that contains lots of groups in SharePoint Server 2007 (ver 1.2)
14th May 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=928752
The "Operation in Progress" message remains visible after the page is loaded when you try to use Excel Web Access in Internet Explorer to view an Excel 2007 workbook (ver 1.1)
14th May 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=928747
The "View in Web Browser" option does not appear as expected when you try to view an Excel workbook in SharePoint 2007 (ver 1.2)
14th May 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=928755
The data in a workbook is not displayed when you use Excel Web Access to open a workbook that queries a Jet database (ver 1.2)
14th May 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=928034
The Document ID log report does not contain information about deleted documents in SharePoint Server 2007 (ver 1.3)
14th May 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=923901
The My Calendar Web Part still appears in Daily view even though you set the view to Weekly view in SharePoint Server 2007 (ver 1.3)
14th May 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=928750
The Office SharePoint Server 2007 Excel Services server may not have sufficient memory to function correctly when the "Maximum Private Bytes" attribute is set to a value that is less than 100 MB (ver 1.2)
14th May 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=928751
The Sort Order is not applied when you select a new Sort Order that is not the default Sort Order for a site locale in Office SharePoint Server 2007 (ver 2.3)
14th May 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=925974
The tab on the top link bar is not selected when you connect to a subsite after you enable the Office SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure feature in SharePoint Server 2007 (ver 1.4)
14th May 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=928626
The Web front-end server that is running Excel Services in SharePoint Server 2007 encounters a System.Threading.ThreadAbortException exception (ver 1.3)
14th May 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=928036
Users still have the Contributor permission on a released task in a SharePoint Server 2007 document library (ver 1.3)
14th May 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=923902
Values that were previously associated with a field are reset when you run a custom code that calls the Lists.UpdateList method to update a list view in SharePoint Products and Technologies (ver 2.3)
14th May 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=928030
When you insert a label in a document that you have created and then saved in a SharePoint Server 2007 document library, some characters do not appear in the Label field (ver 1.3)
14th May 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=928035
You cannot add an alert or a new item to the Document ID Log Report in SharePoint Server 2007 (ver 1.3)
14th May 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=926202
You cannot change your user information on the "My Settings" page in SharePoint Server 2007 (ver 1.6)
14th May 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=928742
You cannot load an Excel 2007 workbook in Excel Web Access when a SharePoint Server 2007 Web site uses Basic authentication and when the trusted file location type is set to HTTP (ver 1.3)
14th May 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=928753
You cannot locate an Excel 2007 workbook when you specify http://localhost in the workbook URL parameter for an Excel Web Access Web Part (ver 1.3)
14th May 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=919547
You cannot log on to a SharePoint Server 2007 site after you change the computer that is used as the dedicated front-end Web server (ver 1.3)
14th May 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=928304
You cannot select a new index server on the "Edit Shared Services Provider" page in SharePoint Server 2007 (ver 1.3)
14th May 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=926719
A Column list in a content type template is not updated on a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 child site (ver 1.6)
14th May 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=923903
A new user is added to the "All People" list when you add the user to a user column in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (ver 1.3)
14th May 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=925188
An embedded link on a new .aspx Web page on a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 site does not point to the correct URL (ver 1.1)
14th May 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=926434
An in-place upgrade to the release version of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 or SharePoint Server 2007 is not completed successfully (ver 1.4)
14th May 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=926891
Attachment is missing from an e-mail message that is sent to a Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 document library (ver 1.3)
14th May 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=929320
Cannot view a SharePoint Services 3.0 Web site after you migrate a Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 content database (ver 3.1)
14th May 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=919042
Changes that you make to a recurring item are not synchronized, or all-day events are displayed incorrectly when you view a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Calendar list in Outlook 2003 (ver 1.4)
14th May 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=926284
Changes that you make to the "List View" Web Part are not retained after you save the site as a template in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (ver 3.4)
14th May 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=926433
Error message when a user who has the Add Items permission to a document library saves a new document or saves an existing document to a document library: "You do not have the correct permissions, please contact the server administrator" (ver 1.3)
14th May 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=925425
Error message when you create a view that contains a workflow status filter in Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services V3: "Render Failed" (ver 1.5)
14th May 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=927012
Error message when you perform a search query after you upgrade to the release version of Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: "Your search cannot be completed because of a service error" (ver 1.4)
14th May 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=928830
Error message when you try to create a document library or a new site after you upgrade to Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: "Unknown Error" or "Method not found" (ver 1.4)
14th May 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=928617
Error message when you try to create a site collection by using a site template in the top-level site template gallery in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: "The template you have selected is invalid or cannot be found" (ver 1.3)
14th May 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=927376
Error message when you try to create a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Web application in SharePoint 3.0 Central Administration: "The IIS Web Site you have selected is in use by SharePoint" (ver 2.2)
14th May 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=925727
Error message when you try to delete a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Web application: "This operation uses the SharePoint Administration service (spadmin), which could not be contacted" (ver 1.3)
14th May 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=926321
Error message when you try to restore a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 site collection by using a different name: "No content databases are available for this operation" (ver 1.3)
14th May 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=926061
Error message when you try to restore a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Web site: "The site collection could not be restored. Please make sure the content databases are available and have sufficient free space" (ver 1.5)
14th May 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=925726
Error message when you try to restore an item to a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 site: "The item <ItemName> cannot be restored" (ver 1.3)
14th May 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=925426
Error message when you try to run stsadm.exe -o setconfigdb together with the -hh parameter in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: "Command line error. Invalid parameter" (ver 1.3)
14th May 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=923896
Error message when you try to run the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 pre-upgrade scan tool from the command line: "This server is not the indexer of this search application" (ver 1.4)
14th May 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=926536
Error message when you try to save data on a List Item form in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Beta: "Unable to validate data" (ver 1.4)
14th May 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=923904
Error message when you try to upgrade Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 to Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: "Upgrade has encountered one or more lists that were not updated by Prescan.exe and must exit" (ver 1.3)
14th May 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=926062
Error message when you try to upgrade Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: "Failed to detect if this server is joined to a server farm" (ver 2.1)
14th May 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=925083
Error message when you try to upload a large file to a document library on a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 site: "Request timed out" (ver 1.5)
14th May 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=923502
Error message when you try to upload an Excel 2007 workbook to an Excel Web Access Web Part in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: "The request failed with HTTP status 401: Unauthorized." (ver 1.5)
14th May 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=923591
Error message when you try to use data from an Excel 2007 workbook or from an Access 2007 database to create a new list in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: "An unexpected error has occurred" (ver 1.4)
14th May 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=927156
Error message when you try to use the SharePoint Products and Technologies Wizard: "Exception: System.ArgumentException: Error during encryption or decryption" (ver 1.2)
14th May 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=926958
Error message when you use Internet Explorer 7 to open a Word document in a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 document library: "The AppShow command is not available because permission for this document is currently restricted" (ver 1.1)
14th May 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=926961
Error message when you use SharePoint 3.0 Central Administration to try to re-add a content database in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (ver 1.2)
14th May 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=926435
Error message when you use the Stsadm.exe command-line tool to export a site in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: "Error: The file you are attempting to save or retrieve has been blocked from this Web site by the server administrators" (ver 1.3)
14th May 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=919550
Error message when you view a Web page in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 or in SharePoint Server 2007: "Web Part Error: Access denied. You do not have permission to perform this action or access this resource." (ver 1.5)
14th May 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=926960
Error when you try to do an in-place upgrade of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Beta 2 TR to the release version of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 running on a Windows Small Business Server 2003-based computer or a domain controller: "Job Failed" (ver 1.3)
14th May 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=920783
Event ID 10017 error messages are logged in the System log after you install Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (ver 2.3)
14th May 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=926718
How to attach a content database backup during a gradual upgrade of a Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 farm to Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (ver 1.2)
14th May 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=925190
How to move a WMSDE content database that resides on a Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 server to a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 server (ver 1.2)
14th May 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=928305
Scalable hosting mode sites are inaccessible after you detach and reattach an upgraded Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 content database (ver 1.3)
14th May 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=923895
Tasks do not appear under "My tasks" or under "All tasks" when you select the "Only their own" option on a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 team site (ver 1.5)
14th May 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=927918
The computer restarts when you use the Config.xml file in the SetupUpgradeSilent folder to silently upgrade a computer that is running Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 to Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (ver 1.4)
14th May 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=923588
The name of a subsite is not updated in the top link bar or in the Quick Launch of the top-level Web site in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (ver 1.3)
14th May 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=926370
The status of a workflow appears as "Failed to Start" when you try to start a workflow from a survey response in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (ver 1.3)
14th May 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=923905
The tab on the top link bar is not selected when you connect to a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 subsite (ver 1.3)
14th May 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=927082
Users are unexpectedly prompted to enter their credentials when they access a list in a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 site that is based on the Publishing Site template (ver 2.1)
14th May 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=927602
Warning message when you install Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 in a side-by-side installation together with Windows SharePoint Services 2.0: "There are third party products installed that integrate with Windows SharePoint Services 2.0." (ver 1.3)
14th May 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=920277
Windows Internal Database is not listed in the Add or Remove Programs tool and is not removed when you remove Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 from the computer (ver 2.2)
14th May 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=926328
You can use the cd command or the chdir command to change to a subfolder of a WebDAV shared folder even though the subfolder does not exist in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (ver 1.4)
14th May 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=926320
You cannot add users and groups to the Farm Administrators group after you remove the BUILTIN\Administrators group from the Farm Administrators group in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (ver 1.3)
14th May 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=926319
You cannot change to a view other than WebView view, create a new folder or delete an item when you use the Open dialog box in a 2007 Office program to open a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 site on a computer that is running Windows Vista (ver 2.3)
14th May 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=924133
You cannot copy a recurring meeting series to a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 calendar from an Outlook 2007 calendar (ver 1.3)
14th May 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=929360
You cannot create a new document or check out an existing document in a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 document library when you have multiple versions of Office installed (ver 1.3)
14th May 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=929359
You cannot create new Outlook calendar items when you click "Connect to Outlook" in a calendar that resides on a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 site (ver 1.2)
14th May 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=931008
You cannot perform a search query after you upgrade to Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (ver 4.0)
14th May 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=927919
You cannot search a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 site when the host header site uses HTTP and HTTPS (ver 2.4)
14th May 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=926813
You cannot upload or save a file when you try to use a 2007 Office program to upload the file to a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 document library (ver 1.4)
14th May 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=931349
You do not have the option to list users according to organizational unit when you add users to a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 site (ver 1.1)
14th May 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=924463
You receive an error message when you try to open a .cs file that you uploaded to a document library or that you attached to a list item in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (ver 1.4)
14th May 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=926516
The date format is incorrect when you type a date that has a two-digit year in an InfoPath 2007 form that you open in a browser (ver 2.0)
27th November 2006
II. Articles - 2007 Products (no longer with all links to articles for other Office 2007 and other 2007 Products)
New
A. Office 2007 Server Products
http://www.sharepointupgrade.com/Shared%20Documents/OFC207_Oleson_20070509_175121_TechEd2007%20Governance_Oleson.pdf
TechEd US 2007 (pdfs of PowerPoints) OFC207 SharePoint Governance and Information Architecture Guidance (Joel Oleson)
16th June (date added)
http://www.sharepointupgrade.com/Shared%20Documents/OFC222_Oleson_20070509_180832_TechEd2007_Basic_Deployment_Oleson.pdf
TechEd US 2007 (pdfs of PowerPoints) OFC222 Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies 2007: Administrative Architecture and Planning for Deployment, Part 1 (Joel Oleson and Shane Young)
16th June (date added)
http://www.sharepointupgrade.com/Shared%20Documents/OFC418_Oleson_20070509_175903_TechEd2007_Advanced_Deployment_Oleson.pdf
TechEd US 2007 (pdfs of PowerPoints) OFC222 Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies 2007: Administrative Architecture and Planning for Deployment, Part 2 (Joel Oleson and Shane Young)
16th June (date added)
http://www.sharepointupgrade.com/Shared%20Documents/OFC304
TechEd US 2007 (pdfs of PowerPoints) OFC304 Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services and Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server 2003 Upgrade and Migration (Joel Oleson and Shane Young)
16th June (date added)
TechEd US 2007 (pdfs of PowerPoints)
16th June (date added)
http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/65788bb9-0345-42c8-a216-e99e558b173d1033.mspx?pf=true
Export: Stsadm operation (Office SharePoint Server)
11th June 2007 (date added)
http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/1178aa35-20b1-45b0-bcb6-4249aa34ea481033.mspx?pf=true
Import: Stsadm operation (Office SharePoint Server)
11th June 2007 (date added)
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointdesigner/HA100819231033.aspx
Export or import a Web package (Ed: Using SPD 2007)
11th June 2007 (date added)
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointdesigner/HA100699391033.aspx
Back up, restore, or move a SharePoint site (Ed: Using SPD 2007)
11th June 2007 (date added)
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms570748.aspx
Enterprise Search Architecture
11th June 2007 (date added)
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa981314.aspx
Enterprise Search Security Model
11th June 2007 (date added)
https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastRegistrationConfirmation.aspx?culture=en-US&RegistrationID=1291020681
MSDN Webcast: Web Parts and Workflows in SharePoint Server 2007 and Visual Studio (Level 200) (Mike Benkovich)
8th June 2007
https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastRegistrationConfirmation.aspx?culture=en-US&RegistrationID=1291020759
MSDN Webcast: Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 and SharePoint (Level 300) (Mike Ammerlaan)
8th June 2007
https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastRegistrationConfirmation.aspx?culture=en-US&RegistrationID=1291020797
MSDN Webcast: How to Select the Right Combination of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, Windows Workflow Foundation, and BizTalk for All Your Workflow and Orchestration Needs (Level 300) (Christoph Schittko)
8th June 2007
http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/7dd07103-88c2-41af-a582-a7821464c9291033.mspx?mfr=true
How to: Evaluate and approve a form template
7th June 2007
http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/3479e99e-0734-4237-a412-9fc42bf8bd251033.mspx?mfr=true
Run the pre-upgrade scan tool (Office SharePoint Server)
7th June 2007
https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastRegistrationConfirmation.aspx?culture=en-US&RegistrationID=1291020878
TechNet Webcast: Workflow in Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies 2007: Out-of-the-Box and Creating Custom Workflows (Level 200) (Alex Starykh, Ed Hild)
5th June 2007
http://blogs.technet.com/wbaer/archive/2007/06/04/productivity-on-the-go.aspx
Productivity on the go... (Blog - William Baer)
4th June 2007
http://blogs.technet.com/wbaer/archive/2007/06/04/site-collection-sizing-considerations.aspx
Site Collection Sizing Considerations (Blog - William Baer)
4th June 2007
http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/d9ed798e-c720-424e-9703-069981d591d51033.mspx?mfr=true
Administering import connections and user profiles
31st May 2007
http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/dfe0087e-b25c-4737-8463-800db7447f9d1033.mspx?mfr=true
Configure anonymous access (Office SharePoint Server)
31st May 2007
http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/45daf889-d7cc-4527-8147-e537e5d214ac1033.mspx?mfr=true
Configure digest authentication (Office SharePoint Server)
31st May 2007
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=ac03b947-7fe8-4c0b-91dd-083de40e07d7&displaylang=en&tm
WhitePaper: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Hosting
24th May 2007
http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/0cf7b3cd-090a-4c5e-b2c1-6272584ba2b21033.mspx?mfr=true
Configure a dedicated front-end Web server for crawling (Office SharePoint Server 2007)
24th May 2007
http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/01cad765-f754-4d07-9dd9-4c725852a8d91033.mspx?mfr=true
Getting your content crawled (Office SharePoint Server 2007)
24th May 2007
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=91053
Information architecture in Office SharePoint Server (case study for Fabrikam Industries)
17th May 2007
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=91026
Integrating Office SharePoint Server 2007 and SAP
14th May 2007
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=b12528d7-84d6-4842-a8ec-e62a000685bd&displaylang=en&tm
Forms Server 2007 Demo: Deploy an Administrator-Approved Form Template
9th May 2007 (an odd one; there seems to be an article on this elsewhere and this was only issued in mid June despite the mid May date)
http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/5a2be738-df29-43cd-b361-84b7822164e31033.mspx?mfr=true
Install available language template packs (Office SharePoint Server)
30th April 2007
http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/e2a845f6-952f-4d0e-9b59-e85f3957e23c1033.mspx?mfr=true
Add site content (Office SharePoint Server)
26th April 2007
http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/82c09ad6-6137-438d-a324-16a7f99e12681033.mspx?mfr=true
Plan to crawl content (Office SharePoint Server)
16th November 2006
B. Other Office 2007 products (selected few only since 1.1.2007)
https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastRegistrationConfirmation.aspx?culture=en-US&RegistrationID=1291020831
Microsoft Webcast: Security Series (Part 6 of 8): Securing Sensitive Data with Rights Management Services (Level 200) (Paul Cooke)
7th June 2007
C. Other New 2006/2007 Products (selected few only since 1.1.2007)
None
Modified
None
III WSS v3 FAQ
New
None
Modified
http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=958
I.31.01 What issues are fixed in fix packs to MOSS 2007?
http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=971
I.31.02 What issues are fixed in fix packs for WSS 3.0?
http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1081
III.26.07 Alerts: Alerts aren't working. What might be wrong?
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IV WSSv2 KB Articles (plus SPS 2003 Hot fixes)
New
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=919551
Error message when you try to add users or import contacts from Outlook 2007 to a Windows SharePoint Services V2 Web site: "You must have an Address Book compatible with Windows SharePoint Services"
14th May 2007
Modified
None
V. MS Articles for WSSv2
New
None
Modified
None
VI Non-MS Articles for WSSv2
New
None
Modified
None
VII WSSv2 FAQ
New
None
Modified
None
About a week ago when I'd just added links to a number of On-line chapters to the WSS FAQ sites and was starting to read all those (Introduction to...) Chapter Ones, I wasn't particularly complementary about one aspect of Chapter One of the Wrox book "Beginning SharePoint 2007: Building Team Solutions with MOSS 2007" by Amanda Murphy and Shane Perran.
It was in fact that old aversion of mine to inaccurate naming of the SharePoint products and in this case it was mainly that having done a good list of why you would want to use Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, they went on to give an equally good list of when to use MOSS 2007 only they called that "SharePoint" and only "SharePoint". Well Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 is SharePoint too!
I thought at the time that the problems this caused in that chapter might well vanish when they moved on because this book is after all named in the sub-title as being specifically a book on MOSS 2007 (even though the main title line is the equally confusing "SharePoint 2007" because of course WSS 3.0 is also a SharePoint product that came out in 2007).
Anyway, now that I've got hold of a copy of the book, I can confirm that I was right. Once past chapter one and the naming confusions this is a very valuable book for anyone wanting to quickly get up to speed on just what MOSS 2007 is and what it's main constituent parts are. (Just ignore that it often says only "SharePoint" - this is MOSS 2007 stuff)
I'd actually recommended it a couple of times in the SharePoint public newsgroups before I'd done more than glance through it - because the chapter titles covered everything that those two people wanted to know.
Now however I've sat down and actually read it (or most of it at this stage) in detail and I am fairly amazed by the massive amount of ground they cover and the detail (but clear detail with many useful small screen shots) they include.
Now I know a fair bit about most of the things covered by this book, but even so I found myself finding small but useful details that I didn't know.
A simple example of that was for instance the section on Image Libraries. I've been used to Document Libraries since SharePoint Team Services (v1, to you late comers) and Image Libraries are nothing new to me as a storage location for images. Also the *concept* of adding PowerPoint slide shows to an Image Library was clear as well, but in a few clear pages the writers of this book were able to show me that there was much more I could do with these things than I'd imagined. Practical things in a company situation too ...
If anything the only problem is deciding who should buy the book. My conclusion is that it should be bought by people who already know the SharePoint v2 products on behalf of people new to SharePoint. That way the people with the existing knowledge (of I would hope by now MOSS 2007 and not just the v2 products) will have time to quickly run through the chapters to try to pick up the information they didn't already know before passing the book on to the real target audience.
The other open question I have is whether that target audience is Administrators or Users. I rather suspect the actual target audience is the Administrator who also does the site design, but I actually think the book could very well be given to key power users so they could use as much of the wide range of things offered by MOSS 2007 (and mentioned in this book) as possible.
The only snag is that they will probably then make the poor site administrator's life a misery if he is the kind of person who (wisely?) wants to offer as little functionality as possible to make his/her job as easy as possible.
But that's hardly the fault of the book's writers. Buy it!
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0470124490/heme0f
The story so far. Two days ago I installed Windows Server 2003 Standard R2 on a trial versions of the Mac VM Software called "Parallels" using the default Networking of accessing the Internet via the Mac's connection.
Yesterday I changed the networking so that it grabbed (no reconfig needed in Win 2003) a suitable address from my wireless network. It could still access the Internet but now it was in the same network as my Vista machine.
I still couldn't access the WSS site from either Vista or the Mac (non-VM) and while the Win 2003 Server could ping the Vista machine; it couldn't ping back. Looking through all the Parallels manual didn't help (although my earlier read had produced the idea to change the Networking so it wasn't completely wasted time).
So off to work on the bus (for a change) and time to wonder. It's probably nothing to do with Parallels and something (stupid!) that R2 does that the earlier Windows Server 2003 didn't do.
(Moans about why do Microsoft do these things were kept to a minimum as I really hate people who use the public newsgroups provided by Microsoft to slam Microsoft.)
Comes home to try to see if I can find anything. Can't find anything via Google so look at Services. Oh look, there's a "Windows Firewall" and it's running. At first glance it doesn't seem to be blocking anything but I'm getting bored with not being able to connect so it's time for the big hammer. I stop the Windows Firewall.
Now, the Mac's copy of Safari accesses the WSS server (using nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn); asks me for a name and password and then says it doesn't like servername. Ditto Firefox (on the Mac).
Well, a couple of months ago that would have stumped me, but in the meantime I know about Alternate Accessing Methods and I quickly generate a couple of Internet alternatives (http://nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn and http://nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn:portnumber for the two standard (port 80) and Central Administration sites; do a iisrest for luck and then try Safari and Firefox on the Mac again. This time they work.
Walk downstairs to the Vista portable (which has Office 2007 installed) and try there. It can access the WSS site as well.
So now I have a rather odd situation. A small MacBook with a small hard drive that includes a VM of Windows Server 2003 with WSS 3.0 installed. So that can travel with me and I can check Admin options etc. I can also check what people with Safari and Firefox can see (and not see).
Then at home I can use that same MacBook as my server and try out all the functionality that the combination of Office 2007 and WSS 3.0 can offer (and there I'll probably have more servers - such as MOSS - on USB drive-based VMs).
Not exactly what you would first think of, but much more interesting than running a second PC portable with the same amount of RAM and VMWare Workstation or VM Server or VPC I think you'll agree.
I've known for a long time that having my wireless network "protected" by WEP wasn't particularly safe. I knew that someone in the street could grab half-an-hour of my traffic and then use a free program from the web to delve through that traffic to get access. But this is Finland; I live in a quiet residential area with only a few neighbours and so all I did was to pull out the plug to the wireless router and use the desktop when I accessed my bank. But then I bought the Mac and it lists all the wireless networks it can find. I bought a book on the Mac and it suggested a free program to give even more information. I installed that and now I knew that one neighbour (slightly further away from the others probably, as it is a weaker signal) had a completely open wireless network; several had WEP and one or two had WPA. So I wondered and did a quick Google search. That led me to Georg Ou's article here http://www.lanarchitect.net/Articles/Wireless/SecurityRating/ which says newer techniques can break WEP in minutes. Well I might spot a guy with a computer sitting in a car for 30 mins, but 5 mins - no chance. It was about time I did something. The first thing was to see if my wireless router already had WPA support. Surely not, as if it had I'd have used it when I did the installation. Well, I have one from D-Link and I quickly found (via a link in their most asked questions section) the note that Revision 2 of my model has WPA support. Do I have Revision 2 ? Who knows - it doesn't say in the manual. So I go to look (good job I still have the manual as that appears to be the only place where I have written the password for accessing it down). I access the router with the standard 192.168.0.1 URL for D-Link and the password doesn't work - ooops ... I then discover that 192.168.0.1 is actually my Ethernet router (also from D-Link) and I try 192.168.0.2 and that password and now it works. I still can't find if it's revision 2 but it obviously is because there's a WPA option. So I select that. Write an even longer password than before. Write it again only in the D-Link manual (!) and press OK a couple of times and head off downstairs to set-up the Mac and the Vista portables to access this revised wireless device. The Mac is no problem at all. It tells me I've changed it; asks me for the new password and that's it. Done. The Vista refuses to access and it takes an awful lot of (intelligent(?)) messing about before I find a place where I can amend the settings. The problem is here (in the Vista machine) that there are several (4) WPA options each of which can be either TKIP or AES mode. I probably try 6 of the 8 possible options before I hit the one that works. (Which turns out to be WPA Personal + TKIP which according to the security article (see above) is the minimum I need to have [AES would be better, it seems - the article says that is "rock-solid" whereas "TKIP may be under attack in the near future"]) Anyway the motto of all this is that if you are running WEP on you wireless router, first check whether that same router supports WPA and change it. If not think of getting a new wireless router and if you do make sure that new router has WPA AES support to avoid the need to buy yet another new model when TKIP has been cracked.
P.S. Having that unprotected access point in the neighbourhood is something of a mixed blessing. If my wife upstairs pulls out the plug on my wireless access point (to access her bank!) then the Mac just switches automatically to the only other access point it can access (namely the unprotected one)and the only visible sign of this is a minute scrolling bar at the top-right of the screen with the new name. So my browsing gets slightly slower (and possibly becomes illegal) and as far as I can see if she then plugs my wireless router back in, the Mac doesn't switch back because of course as far as it is concerned it is still connected (to that unprotected network). It's simple to switch back but it needs to be done.
It's unfortunate that some times really stupid names are required in order to sell books. I'm talking about the "For Dummies" series which any self-respecting Computer Pro wouldn't usually touch with a bargepole, but which often are far better than their title would suggest. The first "For Dummies" computer title I bought (and if truth be told the last) was the one on Firewalls. I had been to a presentation given by one of the co-authors and liked his style and so I bought the book. It actually taught me a lot - even though I already had a reasonable knowledge, it filled in the gaps. I've now been looking at Chapter One ("Getting to Know SharePoint") of "Microsoft SharePoint 2007 For Dummies (For Dummies - Vanessa Williams)" - http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0470099410/heme0fand it's a very good (26 page) overview both of how we got here and of what you can use "SharePoint" for. The author is fully aware of the need to get the names right and early on makes sure both that she defines "WSS" and "MOSS" as the names she will (mostly) use later (*) and also in an inset box mentions the use of "SharePoint" as inexact but as something she will use when she means something that's available in both products. (*) The sentence defining "WSS" and "MOSS" is oddly inexact. Here it is "I focus on the two primary SharePoint products: Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS)." Spot the problem ? She carefully defines the abbrieviations she is going to use and equally carefully gives MOSS its full name including the 2007 - which for MOSS isn't really necessary as there is as yet no other MOSS - yet she misses out the 3.0 which is necessary to define the correct one of the two different WSS "editions" (2.0 and 3.0). Very odd. But most people will make the correct assumptions and correctly ignore this, and for *end-users* new to any SharePoint product, this still remains the best introduction chapter I have seen.
I've now had a look through the on-line chapters of the two more general Wrox books that have come out so. In both I liked the text much more than that of the "Bible" but I didn't like the sloppy way they handled the naming of the products.
One of the things that people who know me from the newsgroups will know is that I am a pain for wanting people to get the names right.
If we are to answer a question properly in a newsgroup we need to know which product people are using yet often they don't say and even when they are specifically asked they say things like "I'm using SharePoint 2007" which is pretty useless information considering that there are two SharePoint products that came out in 2007 (WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007).
There are also people who claim to be using SPS 2007 (no such thing) or STS 2.0 (ditto) or WSS (good enough a description when there was only one SharePoint version called WSS but now no use) etc.
I take this so seriously that my chapter of the MVP book (also Wrox in fact) spends a good bit of time making quite sure people know both the correct names and the correct abbrieviations.
Not so unfortunately both of these sets of authors (although - as above - apart from the names, the texts are mostly fine).
Amanda and Shane in "Beginning SharePoint 2007: Building Team Solutions with MOSS 2007" -
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0470124490/heme0f
are the worst (of these two sets of writers) offenders in this aspect of name usage.
They are absolutely fine when they spell out the names Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 in full and they are completely correct in their descriptions of what sort of thing WSS 3.0 alone is sufficient for. Most people wondering whether to use WSS 3.0 or MOSS 2007 will find this very useful. However these people will also find it difficult to know where the discussion of what's in WSS 3.0 stops and what's in MOSS 2007 starts because most of the time Amanda and Shane are talking about "SharePoint".
Sometimes by this they mean both products but mostly they seem to mean MOSS 2007. Yet if that's the case why do they later introduce the term "SharePoint 2007" which yes, you've guessed it, seems to mean MOSS 2007. as well.
So for now the jury is out on this one. I suspect that once we've got past the first chapter they will be talking only about MOSS 2007 and then it won't really matter what they call it for short (except for poor newsgroup answerers in future) and we'll have the benefit of their wide practical knowledge which despite the name confusion in chapter one does shine out there.
The other chapter one - this time from Göran Husman's Beginning SharePoint 2007 Administration: Windows SharePoint Services 3 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 -
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0470125292/heme0f
was more of a standard approach (with, for instance, a very long table comparing what you get when working with different Office versions) and as such means that I probably wouldn't buy the book for myself. (But then which self-respecting SharePoint MVP would buy a book titled "Beginning ..." !)
The names were a bit off here too for a pedantic person like myself with things like "they released version 3.0 which is known as Windows SharePoint Services and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server" when adding 3.0 and 2007 respectively to the product names was absolutely necessary. There was also for my taste far too much of "SharePoint 2007" (again!)
Aside: what to use? "The v3 SharePoint products" if you want both; otherwise having established the abbrieviations use WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007 all the time (and never as happens here more than once just WSS when you mean WSS 3.0).
However like the Amanda and Shane book, this one too if you could forget about the name usage and a few minor inexactitudes (I don't feel quite so worried about my coming errors any more having read these first three Chapter Ones), this chapter wouldn't put me off recommending this book for people new to Administrating SharePoint systems - just as I would probably still advise people wanting to do useful things with MOSS 2007 to buy the ... Building Team Solutions with MOSS 2007 book. I wouldn't be surprised if the Beginning in that title was a trifle wrong though, as I suspect they'll manage to go much further than you might think in their "building". Given that, even I might well consider buying this one (despite "Beginning ..."!) - but I'd want a look through the remaining chapters to see if the naming problem vanishes when it's all about MOSS 2007.
Even though most of those SharePoint on-line chapters I mentioned in the previous blog are variations on an "Introduction to SharePoint" theme, it's still worth glancing through them.
Not so much to help you decide which books to buy, although that too, but mainly to help you decide which books not to buy.
I've started working through these on-line chapters and the first one I looked at was the Sharepoint "Bible" from Wiley. Well I m certainly NOT going to buy that !
There are continual references in that chapter to WSS 2007. Even in the early betas the WSS version was never called WSS 2007 and always WSS 3.0.
If the guys can't even get the name of a product right, what sort of message does that give you about the quality of the rest of the book ?
Certainly this is enough for me to completely discard all thoughts of buying the book. There are after all enough books written or co-written by SharePoint MVPs (the "Bible" as far as I can see wasn't) and say what you will about SharePoint MVPs, but we do have a good knowledge of the various SharePoint products and versions of products - and we sure as heck don't call WSS 3.0 "WSS 2007".
P.S. This makes you wonder if that book ever had a review process and if so who reviewed it. Our MVP book did and we had a very good technical reviewer who pointed out several minor (my story!) inaccuracies in my chapter. I have a horrible feeling that - in the severe time pressure I was in to make changes to the text as a result of his suggestions - I missed one (a trip to England and away from computers came at just the wrong time), so I do know how mistakes can stay in a text, but this WSS 2007 is so blatant an error and occurs something like ten times in that chapter, that even the most time-pressured author couldn't miss amending this when the mistake was pointed out to him/her.
For some time now I've had a page in the WSS FAQ sites with links to Chapters from v3 SharePoint books (and ones useful for SharePoint admins/developers) that have been made available free on-line by the publishers.
However this past week I have extended it dramatically from 5 to 21 chapters by searching publishers' sites.
You'll find all 21 links here
http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/VII%20Book%20Extracts.aspx
There is one snag. In most cases the publishers let you have a free look at Chapter One. Most of these are SharePoint books (rather than books related to SharePoint) and thus almost every free chapter is "An Introduction to SharePoint" in various shapes, forms and lengths.
I'm a bit worried (perhaps not the right word) about this because I wrote the first chapter in the MVP's SharePoint book (Real World SharePoint 2007: Indispensable Experiences From 16 MOSS and WSS MVPs) out in mid August and available for Pre-Order here
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0470168358/heme0f
The reason I'm worried (apart from the chance using this chapter will give for thousands of people to find the mistakes that are no doubt there - hopefully though not any biggies) is that my chapter is not representative of the book. The rest of the book IS for the target audience of SharePoint Pros looking to that little extra from this (apart from me) illustrative set of MVPs, whereas mine is a chapter designed to get people with no pre-knowledge quickly up to speed with the main aspects of WSS v3 (and thus also with the underlying aspects of MOSS 2007) so that they can understand the rest of the book.
(and to those who wonder why a book with that title needs an Introduction chapter for people who haven't used a SharePoint product before, has your boss never turned up unexpectably at your office/cubicle/desk clutching a book he's bought and saying "I want you to do X - here's a book to help you".?)
More than one of mine has ...
Since I last wrote about SharePoint v3 books here, many weeks have gone by and especially in the last couple of weeks there have been a flood of books that have made it to the Amazon US NON Pre-Order list. I have to write it that way because a couple of times I've been told by the author that a book is out only for Amazon to either not remove it from pre-order status or to half remove it (= remove it; change it back to pre-order; make it non-available and various other options designed to make me mad).
Anyway here as far as I can remember are all the new ones I haven't mentioned before (crosses fingers that when I import a URL in Safari in this garden usage Mac they will look like URLs to you [Later: they didn't look anything more than text so it was either do a bit of A+slashA html work on them all or (as I did) go to a PC; use IE in design mode]) - not in any particular kind of order ...
Beginning SharePoint 2007: Building Team Solutions with MOSS 2007 (Wrox - Amanda Murphy, Shane Perran)
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0470124490/heme0f
Inside Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MS Press - Patrick Tisseghem)
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0735623686/heme0f
Inside Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services Version 3 (MS Press - Ted Pattison, Daniel Larson)
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0735623201/heme
Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Administrator's Pocket Consultant (MS Press - Ben Curry)
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0735623821/heme0f
Microsoft SharePoint 2007 Development Unleashed (Sams - Kevin Hoffman, Robert Foster)
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0672329034/heme0f
Professional SharePoint 2007 Development (Wrox - John Holliday, John Alexander, Jeff Julian, Eli Robillard, Brendon Schwartz, Matt Ranlett, Dan Attis, Tom Rizzo)
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0470117567/heme0f
Microsoft SharePoint Bible (Wiley - Avitiva Corp, Wayne Tynes, Simeon Cathey, Wynne Leon)
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/047000861X/heme0f
Beginning SharePoint 2007 Administration: Windows SharePoint Services 3 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (Wrox - Göran Husman)
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0470125292/heme0f
P.S. I'll be back tomorrow with a place where you can find links to masses of free chapters from many of the above books. So look for that if you want to read several people's take of "An Introduction to SharePoint"
P.P.S. and silly me, here is the page of all SharePoint v3 books both released; pre-order and ?not yet started?.
http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/V%20Books.aspx
I've been reading a book called "The Myths of Innovation" which is a small, circa 150 page black-covered hardback volume from O'Reilly (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0596527055/heme0f).
It's the sort of book you can give as a present to just about anyone with a brain rather than I would say to someone who has decided to be the creator of the next great thing on the Internet.
It's in a way a curious book for O'Reilly to be publishing. O'Reilly as most of you know started life as a publisher of books for Unix specialists and I doubt if Unix in a Nutshell (or one of the more specific books in the same series) would be a book you could give to your Dad as a present. Now obviously O'Reilly has in the meantime moved away from the Unix niche - first to include similar Windows books and more lately more general computer books such as the Office 2007 Missing Manual series and (for your computer using Dad !) the simpler "Missing Manual - Starter Edition" books, but this is the first book from them I've seen that barely makes it as a computer book at all.
In fact although the first chapter has the author visiting Google to look at how innovation is supposed to happen there and although there are throughout the book many references to innovations that are in the computer area, there are many other references to innovations that go back centuries (the printing press) or even millenium (pyramids; Roman buildings).
The one main thing I've got so far is that innovation doesn't just happen. First the circumstances need to be right - you couldn't have a World Wide Web without an Internet - and secondly most innovations come as a result of a lot of hard work with time often being spent on failed efforts. Also, at least until recent times, innovators have often been before their times and have got no recognition at all.
So that's what this book is really about - a discussion of innovations and innovators throughout the ages - rather than a "Innovation in a Nutshell" guidebook to how to become an innovator.
The most that can be said is that innovations often come as a result of a lot of reading and studying and that by reading this book maybe some potential innovator will at least realise he/she needn't give up yet and may even get some inspiration. For the rest of us though this is just an interesting read of the kind of book you can pick up; read a few pages with interest and then put down for a while.
Ideal then for bed-time reading. Not so good if it's the only book you have with you for a long airplane journey. (Mind you it's better for that than Unix in a Nutshell!)
Note that the word SharePoint site is intentionally vague - i.e. it covers both the back (v2) applications and the new v3 applications.
There are two main impulses for this blog item. One naturally is the fact that I am suddenly more interested in Mac/SharePoint issues () and the other that there was a newsgroup post in the last week asking how Mac users edit their SharePoint sites.
There I replied that they do this probably through the use of Parallels or BootCamp (notice how I don't bother to explain these terms which are obvious to a Mac user ) because editing SharePoint sites using anything than the Windows Tools designed for this would be asking for trouble.
Hence they need access to a Windows environment and if all they have is a Mac (make that: "if they are lucky enough to have a Mac" ...) then they'll need to either use a Virtual Environment (Parallels - or in fact the latest VMWare version for the Mac which I think is still in beta) or dual boot their Mac using BootCamp to become a Windows machine.
The only snag with the latter is that BootCamp, as far as I know, only supports XPPro or Windows Vista. In other words if you want to do development work on a server operating system, you are out of luck.
An administrator who doesn't want to use a Mac for editing his site(s) but only for accessing them and amending the data in them (maybe because like me his Mac is smaller and lighter than the PC he normally uses), is mostly OK with a Mac.
Safari seems to work better than Firefox with at least v2 sites (I've not tried it with v3 sites yet) as you can for instance do right-click on a file name to Save it to the Desktop. This means that I can add new content to the WSS FAQ sites and also get hold of the latest version of the file I keep on the www.wssfaq.com site that contains all the amendments I've made to the sites during the week. I can't do that in Firefox.
I can't of course use Outlook Express (XPPro) or Windows Mail (Vista) as my newsreader, but Thunderbird works on the Mac as it does on the PC (= occasionally annoyingly and slightly less handy than OE or Windows Mail). So I can keep monitoring and posting to the SP newsgroups from the Mac.
What I can't seem to do is post replies to Forum messages. I can open the forum message (via a newsgator RSS feed) in Safari OK. I can login and I can get the Reply page (as me) but it won't let me enter any text into the reply box (which doesn't actually look like a box either). So that's a negative | |