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 wssv3faq.mindsharp.com daily.)
From 28th February - 6th March 2010
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
New
Description of the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Cumulative Update server hotfix package (Sts-x-none.msp): January 18, 2010
5th March 2010
You cannot add members to a distribution group that is created across forests when the Incoming e-mail message feature is set up in Office SharePoint Server 2007
5th March 2010
Anonymous users are prompted for authentication when they use Explorer View to view a document library in Office SharePoint Server 2007
5th March 2010
Description of the Office SharePoint Server 2007 hotfix package (Coreserver-x-none.msp): January 18, 2010
5th March 2010
Description of the Office SharePoint Server 2007 Cumulative Update server hotfix package: January 18, 2010
5th March 2010
MicrosoftOfficeSharePointServer2007DeploymentGuideMicrosoftWindowsServer2008
1st March 2010
MicrosoftOfficeSharePointServer2007DeploymentGuideMicrosoftWindowsServer2003
1st March 2010
Description of the Office SharePoint Server 2007 Cumulative Update server hotfix package (MOSS server-package): February 23, 2010 (ver 1.1)
24th February 2010
Modifed
You cannot upgrade from Windows Server 2008 to Windows Server 2008 R2 after you install Office SharePoint Server 2007 on a computer that is running Windows Server 2008 (ver 2.0)
4th March 2010
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
Achieving Meaningful Use Reporting Using Microsoft SharePoint and BI Suite
2nd March 2010
SharePoint Productivity Hub (site collection with training content etc.)
15th December 2009
B. Other Office 2007 products
None
C. Other relevant products
None
Modified
None
III WebCasts (+ PodCasts, On-Line courses) for 2007 Products
None
Note: All of the addresses below were valid at the time I added them to the SPF 2010 FAQ site and to this file. I can't guarantee that they still are.
(Items are added to the SPF 2010 FAQ throughout the week so you will find new items more quickly by checking at wssv4faq.mindsharp.com daily.)
From 28th February to 6th March 2010
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 2010 KB Articles
New or Modifed
None
II. Articles - 2010 Products
New
A. Office 2010 Server Products
Physical Records Planning Worksheet (SPS 2010)
4th March 2010
Record Categories Worksheet (SPS 2010)
4th March 2010
In-Place Records Planning Worksheet (SPS 2010)
4th March 2010
SharePoint 2010 Search…What’s Next for SharePoint Pros (Lars Forstrup)
3rd March 2010 (date added)
Multiple servers for a three-tier farm (SharePoint Foundation 2010) (updated ca 2nd March 2010)
2nd March 2010 (updated roughly then - article official date not changed from Nov 2009)
Configure and deploy Web Parts (SharePoint Foundation 2010) (updated 25th February 2010)
25th February 2010
Manage Web Parts (SharePoint Foundation 2010) (updated 25th February 2010)
25th February 2010
Configure and deploy Web Parts (SharePoint Server 2010) (updated 25th February 2010)
25th February 2010
Manage Web Parts (SharePoint Server 2010) (updated 25th February 2010)
25th February 2010
B. Other Office 2010 products
Microsoft Project Server 2010 Beta - Virtual Machine
1st March 2010
C. Other relevant products
Visual Studio 2010 Reviewer's Guide (ver 1.1)
3rd March 2010
Modified
None
III WebCasts (+ PodCasts, On-Line courses) for 2010 Products
None
IV WSS v4 FAQ
New
V.0040 Microsoft SharePoint Designer 2010 Step by Step (MS Press - Penelope Coventry)
V.0041 Inside Microsoft SharePoint 2010 (MS Press - Ted Pattison)
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.
(Items are added to the WSS FAQ throughout the week so you will find new items more quickly by checking at www.wssfaq.com (wssv3faq.mindsharp.com) daily.)
From 15th - 20th February 2010
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
New
None
Modifed
How to enable the indexing of .xlsb files and of .zip files in SharePoint Server 2007 Service Pack 1 (ver 2.2)
29th January 2008
I.b Forefront KB Articles
New
Description of Hotfix Rollup 1 for Forefront Security for SharePoint with Service Pack 3 (ver 2.0)
17th February 2010
Modified
None
I.c InfoPath 2007 KB Articles
New
How to work with stored procedures by using script in an InfoPath form (ver 3.2)
23rd March 2007
(new to the site)
Modified
None
I.d SPD 2007 KB Articles
New or Modified
None
II. Articles - 2007 Products
New
A. Office 2007 Server Products
Customizing the Content Query Web Part in SharePoint Server 2007 (MSDN - Robert Bogue, Thor Projects)
19th February 2010 (date added - article dated January 2010)
Interacting with the Excel Web Services API for SharePoint Server 2007 (Spencer Harbar - harbar.net)
15th February 2010
How to Crawl the Content in .csv Files in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (Blog - Anne Stenberg)
11th February 2010
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server Integration with IBM Systems Using Microsoft Host Integration Server 2009
7th February 2010
Microsoft Online Services Mobility Solutions Description
5th February 2010
B. Other Office 2007 products
None
C. Other relevant products
None
Modified
None
III WebCasts (+ PodCasts, On-Line courses) for 2007 Products
Microsoft "How Do I?" Videos: How Do I: Use the Permission Reporting Tool? (Hilton Giesenow)
17th February 2010 (date added)
Microsoft "How Do I?" Videos: How Do I: Install Service Pack 2? (Hilton Giesenow)
17th February 2010 (date added)
Microsoft "How Do I?" Videos: How Do I: Enhance User Profiles with BDC Data? (Hilton Giesenow)
17th February 2010 (date added)
Microsoft "How Do I?" Videos: How Do I: Configure My Sites On My SharePoint Server 2007 Farm? (Hilton Giesenow)
17th February 2010 (date added)
Microsoft "How Do I?" Videos: How Do I: Configure Federated Search in SharePoint Server 2007? (Hilton Giesenow)
17th February 2010 (date added)
Microsoft "How Do I?" Videos: How Do I: Install and Configure Microsoft Search Server 2008 Express? (Hilton Giesenow)
17th February 2010 (date added)
TechNet Webcast: Creating Highly Branded, Rich User Experiences in SharePoint Server 2007 (Level 200) (Ross S Freedman, Rightpoint)
10th February 2010
TechNet Webcast: Planning Your Internet Presence with SharePoint Server 2007 (Level 200) (Jim McPherson, Aspect)
27th January 2010
TechNet Webcast: Staffing, Methodology, and Governance for External-Facing SharePoint Sites (Level 200) (Andre Engberts, Razorfish)
20th January 2010
TechNet Webcast: Migrating from Content Management Server 2002 to SharePoint Server 2007 (Level 200) (Rasool Ryani, Metalogix and Geordie Henderson, Metalogix)
13th January 2010
IV WSS v3 FAQ
New
V.251 Deployment for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (Microsoft - unknown)
V.252 Installation guide for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (Microsoft - unknown)
V.253 Planning and architecture for: Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, Part 1 (Microsoft - unknown)
V.254 Planning and architecture for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, Part 2 (Microsoft - unknown)
V.255 Security for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (Microsoft - unknown)
V.256 Getting started with Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (Microsoft - unknown)
V.257 Planning an extranet environment for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (Microsoft - unknown)
V.258 Upgrading to Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (Microsoft - unknown)
V.259 Getting started with Office SharePoint Server 2007 (Microsoft - unknown)
V.260 Governance guide for Office SharePoint Server 2007 (Microsoft - unknown)
V.261 Security for Office SharePoint Server 2007 (Microsoft - unknown)
V.262 Document management guide for Office SharePoint Server 2007 (Microsoft - unknown)
V.263 Design and build sites for Office SharePoint Server 2007 (Microsoft - unknown)
V.264 Deployment for Office SharePoint Server 2007 (Microsoft - unknown)
V.265 Records management guide for Office SharePoint Server 2007 (Microsoft - unknown)
V.266 Administering enterprise search for Office SharePoint Server 2007 (Microsoft - unknown)
V.267 Internet presence scenario for Office SharePoint Server 2007 (Microsoft - unknown)
V.268 Planning an extranet environment for Office SharePoint Server 2007 (Microsoft - unknown)
V.269 Upgrading to Office SharePoint Server 2007 (Microsoft - unknown)
V.270 Planning and architecture for Office SharePoint Server 2007, Part 1 (Microsoft - unknown)
V.271 Planning and architecture for Office SharePoint Server 2007, Part 2 (Microsoft - unknown)
V.272 Installation guide for Office SharePoint Server 2007 (Microsoft - unknown)
V.273 Plan and configure availability within an Office SharePoint Server 2007 farm (Microsoft - unknown)
V.274 Planning and architecture, deployment, and operations for Office Forms Server 2007 (Microsoft - unknown)
V.275 Web publishing and planning guide for Office SharePoint Server 2007 (Microsoft - unknown)
V.276 SharePoint 2007 Tips, tricks and techniques (lulu.com - Saifullah Shafiq, Sadia Younas)
V.277 SharePoint 2007 End User (WSS/MOSS) (Architecting Connected Systems - Chris Givens)
Modified
None
V WSSv2 KB Articles (plus SPS 2003 Hot fixes)
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.
(Items are added to the WSS FAQ throughout the week so you will find new items more quickly by checking at www.wssfaq.com (wssv3faq.mindsharp.com) daily.)
(This usually applies. However I've been away for several weeks and there is still a backlog which will probably be added next week. Apologies that this listing is rather short - I've only checked out some KB articles since I came back)
From 17th January - 14th February 2010
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
New
You cannot view the AreaNavigationSettings.aspx page in Office SharePoint Server 2007 after you create a relative URL
26th January 2010
Modifed
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 2.0)
26th January 2010
How to configure SharePoint Server 2007 and Excel Services for Kerberos authentication (ver 6.0)
26th January 2010
I.b Forefront KB Articles
New and Modified
None
I.c InfoPath 2007 KB Articles
New
How to work with stored procedures by using script in an InfoPath form (ver 3.2)
23rd March 2007
(new to the site)
Error message when you try to open an InfoPath 2007 form from a hyperlink: "Insufficient security privilege" (version 1.0)
27th January 2007
(new to the site) (supposedly just modified so why is the version 1.0?)
Modified
Description of the Office InfoPath 2007 update: December 08, 2009 (ver 2.1)
16th December 2009
Error message when you try to open multiple instances of an InfoPath 2007 form at the same time by using different input parameters (ver 4.1)
29th July 2009
I.d SPD 2007 KB Articles
New or Modified
None
II. Articles - 2007 Products
New
A. Office 2007 Server Products
None
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 and Modified
None
Note: All of the addresses below were valid at the time I added them to the WSS v4 FAQ site and to this file. I can't guarantee that they still are.
(Items are added to the WSS v4 FAQ throughout the week so you will find new items more quickly by checking at wssv4faq.mindsharp.com daily.)
From 21st - 27th February 2010
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 2010 KB Articles
New or Modifed
None
II. Articles - 2010 Products
New
A. Office 2010 Server Products
Using the SharePoint Foundation 2010 Managed Client Object Model with the Open XML SDK 2.0 (Eric White)
25th February 2010 (date added - article January 2010)
A Brief Introduction to Enterprise Metadata Management for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Developers (Ken Milne, Paula Wing)
25th February 2010 (date added - article December 2009)
Displaying the Server Ribbon and Site Actions Menu on Customized Search Pages Upgraded to SharePoint 2010 Using Visual Upgrade (Dennis Doorn, Jo-Anne West)
25th February 2010 (date added - article November 2009)
Overview of the Fluid Application Model in SharePoint Foundation 2010 (Ricky Kirkham)
25th February 2010 (date added - article November 2009)
Technical Diagram: SharePoint 2010 Products Deployment
25th February 2010 (date added)
Technical Diagram: Services in SharePoint 2010 Products
25th February 2010 (date added)
Technical Diagram: Cross-farm Services in SharePoint 2010 Products
25th February 2010 (date added)
Technical Diagram: Hosting Environments in SharePoint 2010 Products
25th February 2010 (date added)
Technical Diagram: Search Technologies for SharePoint 2010 Products
25th February 2010 (date added)
Technical Diagram: Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Products Upgrade Planning
25th February 2010 (date added)
Technical Diagram: Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Products Upgrade Approaches
25th February 2010 (date added)
Technical Diagram: Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Products — Test Your Upgrade Process
25th February 2010 (date added)
SharePoint 2010 Presentations: Developer Conference Session Files
25th February 2010 (date added)
Plan for PerformancePoint Services security (SharePoint Server 2010) (updated 18th February 2010)
18th February 2010
Plan Visio Services deployment (updated 18th February 2010)
18th February 2010
Data Platform Improvements in SharePoint 2010 (MS Team Blog - Ryan McMinn) (Ed: This is about Access 2010 + SP 2010)
15th February 2010
Using a records archive versus managing records in place (SharePoint Server 2010) (updated 12th February 2010)
12th February 2010
Configure mobile views (SharePoint Foundation 2010) (updated 11th February 2010)
11th February 2010
Configure cross firewall access zone (SharePoint Foundation 2010) (updated 11th February 2010)
11th February 2010
Plan browser support (SharePoint Foundation 2010) (updated 11th February 2010)
11th February 2010
What's new in upgrade (SharePoint Foundation 2010) (updated 11th February 2010)
11th February 2010
Plan browser support (SharePoint Server 2010) (updated 11th February 2010)
11th February 2010
Using Access Services with SQL Reporting Services: Installing SQL Server 2008 R2 Reporting Services Add-In (SharePoint Server 2010) (updated 11th February 2010)
11th February 2010
Improving the Reach and Manageability of Microsoft Access 2010 Database Applications with Microsoft Access Services (updated 10th February 2010)
10th February 2010
Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 Beta Technical Library in Compiled Help format
9th February 2010
Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Beta Technical Library in Compiled Help format
9th February 2010
Choosing a business intelligence tool in SharePoint Server (updated 8th February 2010)
8th February 2010
Set up and configure PerformancePoint Services (step-by-step) (updated 4th February 2010)
4th February 2010
Best practices for testing upgrade (SharePoint Foundation 2010) (updated 4th February 2010)
4th February 2010
Use a trial upgrade to find potential issues (SharePoint Foundation 2010) (updated 4th February 2010)
4th February 2010
Estimate how long the upgrade process will take and the space that you need (SharePoint Foundation 2010) (updated 4th February 2010)
4th February 2010
Cleaning up your environment before upgrade (SharePoint Foundation 2010) (updated 4th February 2010)
4th February 2010
Troubleshoot upgrade issues (SharePoint Foundation 2010) (updated 4th February 2010)
4th February 2010
Resume upgrade (SharePoint Foundation 2010) (updated 4th February 2010)
4th February 2010
Determine how to handle customizations (SharePoint Foundation 2010) (updated 4th February 2010)
4th February 2010
Upgrade scenarios using Remote BLOB Storage (SharePoint Foundation 2010) (updated 4th February 2010)
4th February 2010
Attach databases and upgrade to SharePoint Foundation 2010 (updated 4th February 2010)
4th February 2010
Determine upgrade approach (SharePoint Foundation 2010) (updated 4th February 2010)
4th February 2010
Upgrade in place to SharePoint Foundation 2010 (updated 4th February 2010)
4th February 2010
Designing for in-place records management (updated 2nd February 2010)
2nd February 2010
SharePoint 2010 Products Deployment
2nd February 2010
Management Features of PowerPivot for SharePoint (MS Team Blog - John Hancock)
1st february 2010
Operating System Requirements of SharePoint 2010 (MS Team Blog)
22nd January 2010
Upgrading from Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 to SharePoint Foundation 2010 (Updated 21st January 2010)
21st January 2010
Plan for profile synchronization (SharePoint Server 2010) (Updated 21st January 2010)
21st January 2010
Prepare the new SharePoint Foundation 2010 environment for a database attach upgrade (updated 12th November 2009)
12th November 2009
Upgrade process overview (SharePoint Foundation 2010) (updated 12th November 2009)
12th November 2009
Administrative and service accounts required for initial deployment (SharePoint Foundation 2010) (updated 12th November 2009)
12th November 2009
Run the pre-upgrade checker (SharePoint Foundation 2010) (updated 12th November 2009)
12th November 2009
Verify upgrade and review upgraded sites (SharePoint Foundation 2010) (updated 12th November 2009)
12th November 2009
B. Other Office 2010 products
Microsoft Project 2010 “Ignite” training slide presentations
28th January 2010
C. Other relevant products
None
Modified
What's new in upgrade (SharePoint Server 2010) (updated 11th February 2010)
11th February 2010
Determine hardware and software requirements (SharePoint Foundation 2010) (updated 8th January 2010)
8th January 2010
III WebCasts (+ PodCasts, On-Line courses) for 2010 Products
MSN Video: Creating Web Databases with Access 2010 and Access Services (Joel Krist, iSoftStone)
25th February 2010 (date added)
MSN Video: Getting Started SharePoint 2010: Creating .NET Types for a Business Connectivity Services Solution (unknown)
25th February 2010 (date added)
Visual How To: Connecting to a .NET Framework Source Using Business Connectivity Services in Office 2010 (Joel Krist - iSoftStone)
25th February 2010 (date added - MS date February 2010)
Visual How To: Converting Word Documents to PDF using SharePoint Server 2010 and Word Automation Services ((Michael Case - iSoftStone)
25th February 2010 (date added - MS date January 2010)
MSDN Webcast: SharePoint Server 2010 (Part 3 of 8): Customizing Search Results (Level 200) (Steve Peschka)
16th February 2010
Channel Nine: The Access Show: Client performance improvements against SharePoint lists (D.J. Cole)
5th February 2010
TechNet Webcast: Migrating Public-Facing Web Sites to SharePoint 2010 (Level 200) (Rasool Rayani, Metalogix)
3rd February 2010
MSDN Webcast: SharePoint Server 2010 (Part 2 of 8): Developing Rich Solutions in Silverlight (Level 400) (Bob German)
3rd February 2010
MSDN Webcast: BenkoTips Live and On Demand: What's New in Visual Studio 2010 (Level 200) (Mike Benkovich)
20th January 2010
MSDN Webcast: SharePoint Server 2010 (Part 1 of 8): What's New for Developers (Level 100) (Paul Andrew)
20th January 2010
PowerPivot part 5 - Management (dashboard that gets installed in SharePoint 2010) (Andrew Fryer)
19th January 2010
PowerPivot part 4 - Sharing in SharePoint 2010 (Andrew Fryer)
19th January 2010
TechNet Webcast: Project Server 2010 Project and Portfolio Management Reporting (Level 200) (Marc Soester, iPMO)
6th January 2010
Developing Quality Applications in Visual Studio 2010 (unknown)
29th December 2009
MSDN Webcast: Project 2010 and Project Server 2010 Programmability (Level 200) (Chris Boyd)
17th December 2009
TechNet Webcast: Microsoft Office Project 2010 Overview (Level 200) (Keshav Puttaswamy)
16th December 2009
MSDN Webcast: An Introduction to Visual Studio 2010 Extensibility (Level 200) (Wes Hutchins)
16th December 2009
Channel Nine: The Access Show: Managing Access Databases with SharePoint (Steve Greenberg)
1st December 2009
IV WSS v4 FAQ
New
V.0031 SharePoint 2010 How-To (Sams - Ishai Shagi)
V.0032 Beginning SharePoint Designer 2010 (Wrox - Woodrow W. Windischman, Bryan Phillips, Asif Rehmani)
V.0033 Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Unleashed (Michael Noel, Colin Spence)
V.0034 Customizing Sites with SharePoint Designer 2010 (Course Technology PTR - Paul Stork, Daniel Galant)
V.0035 SharePoint Development with Visual Studio 2010 (Addison-Wesley - Eric Carter, Boris Scholl, Mike Morton)
V.0036 Microsoft SharePoint 2010 PerformancePoint Services Unleashed (Sams - Tim Kashani, Ola Ekdahl, Kevin Beto, Rachel Vigier)
V.0037 Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Administrator (Microsoft Press - Bill English, The Microsoft SharePoint Community Experts)
V.0038 Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Administrator (Microsoft Press - Ben Curry, Joyce Cox)
V.0039 Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Development Unleashed (Sams - Robert Foster)
Modified
V.0001 Professional SharePoint 2010 Development (Wiley - Tom Rizzo, Reza Alirezaei, Jeff Fried, Paul Swider, Scot Hillier, Kenneth Schafer)
(additional author)
V.0013 Professional SharePoint 2010 Branding and User Interface Design (Wiley - Randy Drisgill, John Ross, Jacob J. Sanford, Larry Riemann)
V.0025 Sams Teach Yourself SharePoint Foundation 2010 in 24 Hours (Sams - Mike Walsh)
V.0062 Professional Microsoft FAST Search: Customizing, Designing, and Deploying Search for SharePoint 2010 and Internet Servers (Wrox - Mark Bennett, Jeff Fried, Miles Kehoe, and Natalya Voskresenskaya)
(different author)
V.0021 SharePoint Designer 2010 Unleashed (Sams - Kathy Hughes)
V.0022 SharePoint Developers Guide: SharePoint Foundation 2010 (Thomson - Todd Bleeker, Paul Schaeflein)
Note: All of the addresses below were valid at the time I added them to the WSS v4 FAQ site and to this file. I can't guarantee that they still are.
(Items are added to the WSS v4 FAQ throughout the week so you will find new items more quickly by checking at wssv4faq.mindsharp.com daily.)
From 17th January to 20th February 2010
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 2010 KB Articles
New or Modifed
None
II. Articles - 2010 Products
New
A. Office 2010 Server Products
Data Platform Improvements in SharePoint 2010 (MS Team Blog - Ryan McMinn) (Ed: This is about Access 2010 + SP 2010)
15th February 2010
Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 Beta Technical Library in Compiled Help format
9th February 2010
Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Beta Technical Library in Compiled Help format
9th February 2010
SharePoint 2010 Products Deployment
2nd February 2010
Management Features of PowerPivot for SharePoint (MS Team Blog - John Hancock)
1st february 2010
Operating System Requirements of SharePoint 2010 (MS Team Blog)
22nd January 2010
Plan for profile synchronization (SharePoint Server 2010) (Updated 21st January 2010)
21st January 2010
B. Other Office 2010 products
Microsoft Project 2010 “Ignite” training slide presentations
28th January 2010
C. Other relevant products
None
Modified
None
III WebCasts (+ PodCasts, On-Line courses) for 2010 Products
MSDN Webcast: SharePoint Server 2010 (Part 3 of 8): Customizing Search Results (Level 200) (Steve Peschka)
16th February 2010
TechNet Webcast: Migrating Public-Facing Web Sites to SharePoint 2010 (Level 200) (Rasool Rayani, Metalogix)
3rd February 2010
MSDN Webcast: SharePoint Server 2010 (Part 2 of 8): Developing Rich Solutions in Silverlight (Level 400) (Bob German)
3rd February 2010
MSDN Webcast: BenkoTips Live and On Demand: What's New in Visual Studio 2010 (Level 200) (Mike Benkovich)
20th January 2010
MSDN Webcast: SharePoint Server 2010 (Part 1 of 8): What's New for Developers (Level 100) (Paul Andrew)
20th January 2010
PowerPivot part 5 - Management (dashboard that gets installed in SharePoint 2010) (Andrew Fryer)
19th January 2010
PowerPivot part 4 - Sharing in SharePoint 2010 (Andrew Fryer)
19th January 2010
TechNet Webcast: Project Server 2010 Project and Portfolio Management Reporting (Level 200) (Marc Soester, iPMO)
6th January 2010
Developing Quality Applications in Visual Studio 2010 (unknown)
29th December 2009
MSDN Webcast: Project 2010 and Project Server 2010 Programmability (Level 200) (Chris Boyd)
17th December 2009
TechNet Webcast: Microsoft Office Project 2010 Overview (Level 200) (Keshav Puttaswamy)
16th December 2009
MSDN Webcast: An Introduction to Visual Studio 2010 Extensibility (Level 200) (Wes Hutchins)
16th December 2009
IV WSS v4 FAQ
New
V.0031 SharePoint 2010 How-To (Sams - Ishai Shagi)
V.0032 Beginning SharePoint Designer 2010 (Wrox - Woodrow W. Windischman, Bryan Phillips, Asif Rehmani)
V.0033 Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Unleashed (Michael Noel, Colin Spence)
V.0034 Customizing Sites with SharePoint Designer 2010 (Course Technology PTR - Paul Stork, Daniel Galant)
V.0035 SharePoint Development with Visual Studio 2010 (Addison-Wesley - Eric Carter, Boris Scholl, Mike Morton)
V.0036 Microsoft SharePoint 2010 PerformancePoint Services Unleashed (Sams - Tim Kashani, Ola Ekdahl, Kevin Beto,
Rachel Vigier)
V.0037 Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Administrator (Microsoft Press - Bill English, The Microsoft SharePoint Community Experts)
V.0038 Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Administrator (Microsoft Press - Ben Curry, Joyce Cox)
Modified
V.0001 Professional SharePoint 2010 Development (Wiley - Tom Rizzo, Reza Alirezaei, Jeff Fried, Paul Swider, Scot Hillier, Kenneth Schafer)
(additional author)
V.0013 Professional SharePoint 2010 Branding and User Interface Design (Wiley - Randy Drisgill, John Ross, Jacob J. Sanford, Larry Riemann)
V.0062 Professional Microsoft FAST Search: Customizing, Designing, and Deploying Search for SharePoint 2010 and Internet Servers (Wrox - Mark Bennett, Jeff Fried, Miles Kehoe, and Natalya Voskresenskaya)
(different author)
V.0021 SharePoint Designer 2010 Unleashed (Sams - Kathy Hughes)
V.0022 SharePoint Developers Guide: SharePoint Foundation 2010 (Thomson - Todd Bleeker, Paul Schaeflein)
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 www.wssfaq.com (wssv3faq.mindsharp.com) daily.)
From 10th - 16th January 2010
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
New
ZIP files do not appear in the Upload Multiple Files on Vista (ver 7.0)
11th January 2010
Modifed
None
I.b Forefront KB Articles
New or Modified
None
I.c InfoPath 2007 KB Articles
New and Modified
None
I.d SPD 2007 KB Articles
New or Modified
None
II. Articles - 2007 Products
New
A. Office 2007 Server Products
TechNet Misinformation: How NOT to use Kerberos for SharePoint Authentication (Spencer Harbar, Consultant)
12th January 2010
B. Other Office 2007 products
Microsoft Forefront Server Security for SharePoint 10.x Management Pack for Operations Manager 2007 (ver 6.0.5000.0)
14th January 2010
C. Other relevant products
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise Edition VHD (ver 2.0)
14th January 2010
Modified
None
III WebCasts (+ PodCasts, On-Line courses) for 2007 Products
None
IV WSS v3 FAQ
New and Modified
None
V WSSv2 KB Articles (plus SPS 2003 Hot fixes)
New or Modified
None
Note: All of the addresses below were valid at the time I added them to the WSS v4 FAQ site and to this file. I can't guarantee that they still are.
(Items are added to the WSS v4 FAQ throughout the week so you will find new items more quickly by checking at wssv4faq.mindsharp.com daily.)
From 10th to 16th January 2010
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 2010 KB Articles
New or Modifed
None
II. Articles - 2010 Products
New
A. Office 2010 Server Products
SharePoint 2010 List Schema Designer for Visual Studio 2010 (Beta) (Note: code sample)
13th January 2010
Review upgrade best practices (SharePoint Foundation 2010) (Updated 7th January 2010)
7th January 2010
Review system requirements for upgrade (SharePoint Foundation 2010) (Updated 7th January 2010)
7th January 2010
Review supported and unsupported upgrade paths (SharePoint Foundation 2010) (Updated 7th January 2010)
7th January 2010
Create a communication plan (SharePoint Foundation 2010) (Updated 7th January 2010)
7th January 2010
Overview of Remote BLOB Storage (SharePoint Foundation 2010) (Updated 7th January 2010)
7th January 2010
Install and configure Remote BLOB Storage (SharePoint Foundation 2010) (Updated 7th January 2010)
7th January 2010
Review upgrade best practices (SharePoint Server 2010) (Updated 7th January 2010)
7th January 2010
Review system requirements for upgrade (SharePoint Server 2010) (Updated 7th January 2010)
7th January 2010
Review supported and unsupported upgrade paths (SharePoint Server 2010) (Updated 7th January 2010)
7th January 2010
Create a communication plan (SharePoint Server 2010) (Updated 7th January 2010)
7th January 2010
Overview of Remote BLOB Storage (SharePoint Server 2010) (Updated 7th January 2010)
7th January 2010
Install and configure Remote BLOB Storage (SharePoint Server 2010) (Updated 7th January 2010)
7th January 2010
Enable a content database to use Remote Blob Storage (RBS) (SharePoint Server 2010) (Updated 7th January 2010)
7th January 2010
Upgrade from a stand-alone installation of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 to SharePoint Foundation 2010 with Remote BLOB Storage (Updated 4th December 2009)
4th December 2009
Enable a content database to use Remote Blob Storage (RBS) (SharePoint Foundation 2010) (Updated 12th November 2009)
12th November 2009
Configure usage and health data collection (SharePoint Foundation 2010) (Updated 12th November 2009)
12th November 2009
Configure diagnostic logging (SharePoint Foundation 2010) (Updated 12th November 2009)
12th November 2009
Configure incoming e-mail (SharePoint Foundation 2010) (Updated 12th November 2009)
12th November 2009
Configure outgoing e-mail (SharePoint Foundation 2010) (Updated 12th November 2009)
12th November 2009
Configure a mobile account (SharePoint Foundation 2010) (Updated 12th November 2009)
12th November 2009
About service applications and services (SharePoint Foundation 2010) (Updated 12th November 2009)
12th November 2009
B. Other Office 2010 products
None
C. Other relevant products
None
Modified
None
III WebCasts (+ PodCasts, On-Line courses) for 2010 Products
None
IV WSS v4 FAQ
New and 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.
(Items are added to the WSS FAQ throughout the week so you will find new items more quickly by checking at www.wssfaq.com (wssv3faq.mindsharp.com) daily.)
From 20th December to 9th January 2010
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
New
The Microsoft Office SharePoint Server Enterprise Search service does not full-text index Office Word 2007 template files (.dotx) in Office SharePoint Server 2007
6th January 2010
The "Show Quoted Messages" and "Hide Quoted Messages" links do not appear in a Discussion Board list in the French version of a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 site
6th January 2010
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 unexpectedly crawls information from sites that are external to a host header site
6th January 2010
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 cannot crawl a form-based authenticated Web site when an "HTTP 302" error message is received during the authentication session
6th January 2010
When you perform a search on a Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS) site, the W3wp.exe process on the MOSS 2007 server crashes
6th January 2010
Error message when you try to access a UNC Path of a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 or in SharePoint Server 2007 if no site collection is mapped to the root of the web application: "The network path was not found" (ver 2.0)
6th January 2010
Cannot crawl Exchange 2007 Public Folder - either using OWA or using NTLM (ver 3.0)
23rd December 2009
Description of the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 hotfix package (Sts-x-none.msp): December 27, 2009
21st December 2009
Modifed
Error message when you try to generate a Report Builder model from a data source in SharePoint Server 2007 or in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: "Server was unable to process request. ---> The operation has timed out"
29th December 2009
I.b Forefront KB Articles
New or Modified
None
I.c InfoPath 2007 KB Articles
New
An alert e-mail message contains an invalid hyperlink to an Office InfoPath form when you enable the "Open as Web page" option for a document library in a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 site
6th January 2010
How to dynamically populate a drop-down list by calling a Web service in InfoPath (ver 2.5)
23rd March 2007
(Must have been an InfoPath 2003 article - not then followed - that was later updated to be InfoPath 2007 too, hence "New" - the update is just out but as it is ver .5 the date hasn't been changed)
Modified
None
I.d SPD 2007 KB Articles
New or Modified
None
II. Articles - 2007 Products
New
A. Office 2007 Server Products
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 VHD (ver 3.0) (30 days use before expiry)
6th January 2010
Search Server 2008 Express (x64) - RTM (ver 2) (Note: includes SP2)
21st December 2009
B. Other Office 2007 products
None
C. Other relevant products
None
Modified
None
III WebCasts (+ PodCasts, On-Line courses) for 2007 Products
MSDN Webcast: Real-World Solutions: Project Server Security in SQL Server Reporting Services (Level 300) (Stephen C. Sanderlin, MSProjectExperts)
16th December 2009
TechNet Webcast: Using Your Existing SharePoint Server Investment to Power Your Web Site (Level 200) (David Soderna)
9th December 2009
IV WSS v3 FAQ
New
V.250 SharePoint Server 2007 : De l'intégration à la personalisation par le développement de composants, Pack en 2 volumes (in French) (ENI - Anthony Bidet, Stéphane Eyskens, Ludovic Lefort)
VI.179 MOSS Chart Web Part (commercial - Data Springs)
Modified
None
Note: All of the addresses below were valid at the time I added them to the WSS v4 FAQ site and to this file. I can't guarantee that they still are.
(Items are added to the WSS v4 FAQ throughout the week so you will find new items more quickly by checking at wssv4faq.mindsharp.com daily.)
From 3rd to 9th January 2010
I.1 2010 KB Articles
New or Modifed
None
II. Articles - 2010 Products
New
A. Office 2010 Server Products
Query Integration in Microsoft FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint (Beta)
6th January 2010
Optimize search relevance with Microsoft FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint (Beta)
6th January 2010
B. Other Office 2010 products
None
C. Other relevant products
None
Modified
None
III WebCasts (+ PodCasts, On-Line courses) for 2010 Products
None
IV WSS v4 FAQ
New
V.0030 Professional SharePoint Server 2010 Enterprise Content Management (Wrox - Andrew Connell, Chris Johnson, Ryan Duguid)
V.0029 Professional Microsoft FAST Search: Customizing, Designing, and Deploying Search for SharePoint 2010 and Internet Servers (Wrox - John Kane, Mark Bennett, Jeff Fried, Miles Kehoe)
Modified
V.0013 Professional SharePoint 2010 Branding and User Interface Design (Wiley - Randy Drisgill, John Ross, Jacob J. Sanford, Larry Riemann)
(new additional author)
V.0023 SharePoint 2010 Disaster Recovery Guide (Course Technology PTR - John L. Ferringer, Sean McDonough)
(prices for all except UK)
Note: All of the addresses below were valid at the time I added them to the WSS v4 FAQ site and to this file. I can't guarantee that they still are.
(Items are added to the WSS v4 FAQ throughout the week so you will find new items more quickly by checking at wssv4faq.mindsharp.com daily.)
From 27th December to 2nd January 2010
I.1 2010 KB Articles
New or Modifed
None
II. Articles - 2010 Products
New
A. Office 2010 Server Products
Using Kerberos for SharePoint Authentication (TechNet Mag, January 2010 - Pav Cherny)
2nd January 2010 (date added)
Using Business Connectivity Services in SharePoint 2010 (MSDN Mag, December 2009 - Kirk Evans)
2nd January 2010 (date added)
B. Other Office 2010 products
None
C. Other relevant products
Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 and Team Foundation Server 2010 Beta 2 for Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 SP1 Image
24th December 2009
Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 and Team Foundation Server 2010 Beta 2 virtual image for Windows Virtual PC
24th December 2009
Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 and Team Foundation Server 2010 Beta 2 virtual image for Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V
24th December 2009
Modified
None
III WebCasts (+ PodCasts, On-Line courses) for 2010 Products
LINQ for SharePoint 2010 part 1 - Introduction (Serge Luca)
LINQ for SharePoint 2010 part 2 - Adding objects (Serge Luca)
LINQ for SharePoint 2010 part 3 - Retrieving objects (Serge Luca)
LINQ for SharePoint 2010 part 4 - Removing objects (Serge Luca)
LINQ for SharePoint 2010 part 5 - Managing concurrency (Serge Luca)
IV WSS v4 FAQ
New or Modifed
None
Note: All of the addresses below were valid at the time I added them to the WSS v4 FAQ site and to this file. I can't guarantee that they still are.
(Items are added to the WSS v4 FAQ throughout the week so you will find new items more quickly by checking at wssv4faq.mindsharp.com daily.)
From 20th to 26th December 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 2010 KB Articles
New or Modifed
None
II. Articles - 2010 Products
New
A. Office 2010 Server Products
None
B. Other Office 2010 products
None
C. Other relevant products
None
Modified
None
III WebCasts (+ PodCasts, On-Line courses) for 2010 Products
PowerPoint 2010 Demo Teil 2 (in German) (Steffen Kraus) (ed: this part is about Integration with SP 2010)
22nd December 2009
SharePoint 2010 for Developers Part 1 and Part 2 (Paul Andrew) (45 mins)
21st December 2009 (date added)
2010 for IT Pros – Part 1 and Part 2 (Arpan Shah) (29 mins)
21st December 2009 (date added)
TechNet Webcast: Overview of Microsoft Project Server 2010 for IT Professionals (Level 200) (Christophe Fiessinger)
15th December 2009
MSDN Webcast: Lighting Up the New Visual Studio 2010 Editor with Rich Extensions (Level 200) (Chris Granger)
9th December 2009
Technet Online 2009: Sharepoint 2010 a Office 2010 - představení (in Czech) (Štěpán Bechynský)
20th November 2009
Datenvisualisierung mit Visio 2010 und Visio Services in SharePoint 2010 (in German) Steffen Krause
29th October 2009
SharePoint 2010: Übernahme von PowerPoint Designs nach SharePoint (in German) (Steffen Krause)
25th October 2009
SharePoint 2010 Developer Dashboard (in German) (Steffen Krause)
24th October 2009
Document Sets in SharePoint 2010 (in German) (Steffen Krause)
23rd October 2009
SharePoint 2010 Mehrsprachigkeit (in German) (Steffen Krause)
22nd October 2009
Word Webanwendung in SharePoint 2010 (in German) (Steffen Krause)
21st October 2009
SharePoint Server 2010 - Dokumente Rating, Tagging, Taxonomien (in German) (Steffen Krause)
20th October 2009
SharePoint 2010 Benutzerprofile (in German) (Steffen Krause)
19th October 2009
IV WSS v4 FAQ
New
V.0026 Professional Workflow 4 in SharePoint 2010: Real World Business Workflow Solutions (Wiley - Paul J. Galvin, Natalya Voskresenskaya, Harry Jones)
V.0027 Windows Workflow Foundation 4.0 Unleashed (Sams - Matt Winkler)
Modified
V.0006 Professional SharePoint 2010 Administration (Wiley - Todd Klindt, Shane Young, Steve Caravajal)
V.0017 Beginning SharePoint 2010 Administration: Windows SharePoint Services 4 and Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 (Wiley - Göran Husman)
V.0020 Workflow in Microsoft Office 2010 (Apress - David Mann)
Note: All of the addresses below were valid at the time I added them to the WSS v4 FAQ site and to this file. I can't guarantee that they still are.
(Items are added to the WSS v4 FAQ throughout the week so you will find new items more quickly by checking at wssv4faq.mindsharp.com daily.)
From 29th November to 5th December 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 2010 KB Articles
New or Modifed
None
II. Articles - 2010 Products
New
A. Office 2010 Server Products
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=0956787e-210d-4d78-9e4e-a9cdef0e8495
Language Packs for SharePoint Foundation 2010 Beta
1st December 2009
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=a0c7c05d-8fca-4391-bc70-b62c9af91123
2010 Server Language Packs for SharePoint Server 2010 Beta, Project Server 2010 Beta, and Search Server Express 2010 Beta
1st December 2009
http://blogs.technet.com/wbaer/archive/2009/11/30/introduction-to-the-microsoft-sharepoint-sharepoint-2010-database-layer.aspx
Introduction to the Microsoft SharePoint SharePoint 2010 Database Layer (MS Blog - Bill Baer)
30th November 2009
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc288518(office.14).aspx
Deploy language packs (SharePoint Foundation 2010) (updated 12th November 2009)
12th November 2009
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262108(office.14).aspx
Deploy language packs (SharePoint Server 2010) (updated 12th November 2009)
12th November 2009
B. Other Office 2010 products
None
C. Other relevant products
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=44bda62c-0cda-4a99-8d0a-d7fe06b39422
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 November CTP Report Services Add-in for Microsoft SharePoint Technologies 2007
1st December 2009
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=48a5b47b-8c9c-450f-ab6e-178600a733ca
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 - PowerPivot for Microsoft Excel 2010 - November Community Technology Preview (ver 10.50.1352.12)
30th November 2009
Modified
None
III WebCasts (+ PodCasts, On-Line courses) for 2010 Products
None
IV WSS v4 FAQ
New
http://wssv4faq.mindsharp.com/Lists/v4FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=58
I.0008 Which Languages are available in Language Packs?
Modified
None
Note: All of the addresses below were valid at the time I added them to the WSS v4 FAQ site and to this file. I can't guarantee that they still are.
(Items are added to the WSS v4 FAQ throughout the week so you will find new items more quickly by checking at wssv4faq.mindsharp.com daily.)
From 22nd to 28th November 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 2010 KB Articles
New or Modifed
None
II. Articles - 2010 Products
New
A. Office 2010 Server Products
http://blogs.technet.com/wbaer/archive/2009/11/23/step-by-step-provisioning-the-search-service-application.aspx
Provisioning the Search Service Application (MS Blog - Bill Baer)
23rd November 2009
http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepointdeveloperdocs/archive/2009/11/20/sharepoint-2010-beta-release-known-issues.aspx
SharePoint 2010 Beta Release Known Issues (MS SP Development Dcoumentation Team Blog - J Crowley)
20th November 2009
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=3b13aea7-d877-4056-a8ef-51bf081267f0
SharePoint Workspace 2010: Groove Web Services Software Development Kit
19th November 2009
B. Other Office 2010 products
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=552d34b8-4f30-4d71-bbc5-f31b726f4a22
Microsoft Office 2010 Beta Language Pack
23rd November 2009
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=48a5b47b-8c9c-450f-ab6e-178600a733ca
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 - PowerPivot for Microsoft Excel 2010 - November Community Technology Preview (Ed: "share your analysis through Microsoft® SharePoint 2010")
19th November 2009
C. Other relevant products
None
Modified
None
III WebCasts (+ PodCasts, On-Line courses) for 2010 Products
http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/funkyonex/Using-the-SharePoint-Business-Data-Connectivity-Designer-in-VS-2010/
Channel Nine: Using the SharePoint Business Data Connectivity Designer in VS 2010 (Boris Scholl)
23rd November 2009
http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/funkyonex/SharePoint-Feature-and-Package-Designers-in-Visual-Studio-2010/
Channel Nine: SharePoint Feature and Package Designers in Visual Studio 2010 (Lily Ma)
19th November 2009
http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/funkyonex/Importing-SharePoint-Solution-Packages-WSP-into-Visual-Studio-2010/
Channel Nine: Importing SharePoint Solution Packages (WSP) into Visual Studio 2010 (Saaid Khan)
18th November 2009
http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/funkyonex/Overview-of-SharePoint-Development-in-Visual-Studio-2010/
Channel Nine: Overview of SharePoint Development in Visual Studio 2010 (Mike Morton)
16th November 2009
IV WSS v4 FAQ
New or Modified
None
There's a lot I don't know.
For instance I always thought (based on how I'd once installed Project Server 2003 and then got it to synchronize with a copy of WSS 2.0 plus the fact that supposedly you no longer needed to do this synchronization with Project Server 2007) that Project Server 2007 included WSS 3.0 *technology* and so all you did was install Project Server 2007 and that was that.
Apparently not.
I've just seen a post on Project Server 2010 and the MS guy says that one difference is that whereas you installed Project Server 2007 on top of WSS 3.0, now you install Project Server 2010 on top of SPS 2010.
What's more you need to bear that in mind when licensing (which he said and then left there hanging in the air) which presumably means you need both SPS 2010 and Project Server 2010 CALs and maybe even two lots of Internet Connection licenses.
Sounds pricey, doesn't it, and all caused by a stroke of the pen "you must install on top of SPS 2010, SPF 2010 won't do".
Note: All of the addresses below were valid at the time I added them to the WSS v4 FAQ
site and to this file. I can't guarantee that they still are.
(Items are added to the WSS v4 FAQ throughout the week so you will find new items more quickly by checking at wssv4faq.mindsharp.com daily.)
From 15th to 21st November 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 2010 KB Articles
New or Modifed
None
II. Articles - 2010 Products
New
A. Office 2010 Server Products
http://blogs.technet.com/wbaer/archive/2009/11/18/installation-notes-for-microsoft-sharepoint-server-and-microsoft-sharepoint-foundation-2010-beta.aspx
Installation Notes for Microsoft SharePoint Server and Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 Beta (MS Blog - Bill Baer)
18th November 2009
http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2009/11/18/path-to-user-profile-synchronization-success-in-sharepoint-2010-beta.aspx
Path to User Profile Synchronization success in SharePoint 2010 Beta (MS Team Blog)
18th November 2009
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=f0c9daf3-4c54-45ed-9bde-7b4d83a8f26f
SharePoint 2010 Reference: Software Development Kit (ver NOV09_Beta)
18th November 2009
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=c422d3c7-1443-41e4-b0fe-fc402ee4d8c1
Microsoft FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint Enterprise Search Evaluation Guide
18th November 2009
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=13fb5242-aa6f-467a-9d5e-1833f2b73e2f
Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Enterprise Search Evaluation Guide
18th November 2009
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=16bb10f9-3acc-4551-bacc-bdd266da1d45
SQL Server 2008 R2 November CTP Reporting Services Add-in for Microsoft SharePoint Technologies 2010
18th November 2009
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/ee677571.aspx
Get Ready for SharePoint 2010 (TechNet Magazine, November 2009 - Pav Cherny)
18th November 2009 (date added)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=bcc37c48-11fb-40a2-8cfb-743de20260f6
Microsoft FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint Beta
17th November 2009
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=aa37e8b0-c4d6-4452-a476-b81ee0bfbda5
Microsoft FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint Internet Sites Beta
17th November 2009
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=c8a9d749-b7a8-412a-b2db-f3e464ed3fcf
Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Products (Beta) Management Pack
17th November 2009
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=82df15bd-16a5-460e-a7c4-22599c669bb1
Microsoft SharePoint Designer 2010 Beta (32-bit)
17th November 2009
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=eeda9ab1-ac53-4870-9e1c-38940343d677
Microsoft SharePoint Designer 2010 Beta (64-bit)
17th November 2009
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=43d5ee9a-b9a6-441d-a35e-8a7b9b15e20c
Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 (Beta) Management Pack
17th November 2009
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=77c30c6c-47fc-416d-88e7-8122534b3f37
Microsoft SharePoint Server Enterprise 2010 Beta
17th November 2009
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=580fc452-4948-44ab-9995-a0599271ad48
Microsoft SharePoint Server for Internet Sites Enterprise 2010 Beta
17th November 2009
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=906c9f5a-6505-4eba-bf24-95e423ac1703
SharePoint Foundation 2010 (Windows SharePoint Services 2010 Beta)
17th November 2009
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=8101da55-1af2-41a1-89ef-15536a8000f2
Known Issues – FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint (Beta)
17th November 2009
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=3a4f0877-3ca7-4ec6-923c-3e896dd71d9a
Groove Server 2010 Beta (Manager and Relay)
17th November 2009
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=49429f87-212c-4dd7-b2fa-c72837a6746b
Microsoft Office 2010 (Beta) Filter Packs
17th November 2009
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=dfd0cfac-f52c-4c02-a972-0e4f1c4e7977
Microsoft Search Server 2010 Express Beta
17th November 2009
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=6276d8ce-2eaa-469d-bb3a-9d40cd9552ab
Microsoft Project Server 2010 Beta
17th November 2009
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=46007f25-b44e-4aa6-80ff-9c0e75835ad9
Project 2010 Reference: Software Development Kit (Note: includes Project Server 2010)
17th November 2009
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/ee335710.aspx
Collaborative Workflow: Improvements in SharePoint 2010 (MSDN Magazine, November 2009 - Paul Andrew, Microsoft)
14th November 2009 (Date added)
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/ee335711.aspx
Developing, Deploying, and Monitoring Sandboxed Solutions in SharePoint 2010 (MSDN Magazine, November 2009 - Paul Stubbs, Microsoft)
14th November 2009 (Date added)
B. Other Office 2010 products
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/dd582936.asp
Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 (page with links to downloads of different versions)
20th November 2009 (date added)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/ee390818.aspx
Download Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2010 Beta (the only way to get InfoPath 2010 Beta)
18th November 2009
C. Other relevant products
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=01c664e4-1c98-4fc8-93ee-08cc039503c1
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 November CTP StreamInsight (ver 10.50.1352.24)
16th November 2009
Modified
None
III WebCasts (+ PodCasts, On-Line courses) for 2010 Products
None
IV WSS v4 FAQ
New
http://wssv4faq.mindsharp.com/Lists/v4FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=55
V.0023 SharePoint 2010 Disaster Recovery Guide (Course Technology PTR - John L. Ferringer, Sean McDonough)
Modified
http://wssv4faq.mindsharp.com/Lists/v4FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=5
V.0001 Professional SharePoint 2010 Development (Wiley - Tom Rizzo, Reza Alirezaei, Jeff Fried, Paul Swider, Scot Hillier)
(Additional authors, new prices)
Note: All of the addresses below were valid at the time I added them to the WSS v4 FAQ
site and to this file. I can't guarantee that they still are.
(Items are added to the WSS v4 FAQ throughout the week so you will find new items more quickly by checking at www.wssfaq.com (wssv4faq.mindsharp.com) daily.)
From 8th to 14th November 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 2010 KB Articles
New or Modifed
None
II. Articles - 2010 Products
New
A. Office 2010 Server Products
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=a65aef6f-bc99-4b29-81bb-37fce8ad6ea7&utm
Deployment and configuration of FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint (Beta)
12th November 2009
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=ca3ad5cc-3743-4ce2-aa13-edf55cea92d7#tm
Planning and Architecture for FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint (Beta)
12th November 2009
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=23d2ef19-ea50-4a08-8e1d-64a889434369#tm
FAST Search Server for SharePoint 2010 Windows PowerShell Cmdlet Help (Beta)
12th November 2009
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=1e0dda0d-3fd8-4a4d-8650-b878b5d5fbd8#tm
Monitoring for FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint (Beta)
12th November 2009
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=0a91ae47-8c6f-447e-8084-2ef7208837ae#tm
FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint Windows PowerShell Cmdlets Overview (Beta)
12th November 2009
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=16bb10f9-3acc-4551-bacc-bdd266da1d45#tm
SQL Server 2008 R2 November CTP Reporting Services Add-in for Microsoft SharePoint Technologies 2010
11th November 2009
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=3e01806c-e586-4ff1-b61e-2a5179413cf1#tm
Microsoft FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint Management Pack (Beta) for SC OpsMgr 2007 (ver 2.0.7.0)
6th November 2009
B. Other Office 2010 products
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=11358091-20fa-42b4-a859-98ea63913cb6
InfoPath 2010 Reference: InfoPath 2010 Developer Reference for Managed Code Form Templates (ver Nov09)
12th November 2009
C. Other relevant products
None
Modified
None
III WebCasts (+ PodCasts, On-Line courses) for 2010 Products
Note: In addition to the ca 20 Channel None SharePoint 2010 Developer Courses listed individually below, I've also added links to ca 15 Channel Nine Office 2010 courses. See the site for them (most are SP relevant)
http://channel9.msdn.com/learn/courses/SharePoint2010Developer/SharePointGettingStarted/SharePointGettingStartedWelcome/
Channel Nine's SharePoint 2010 Developer Course: SharePoint 2010 Developer Roadmap - What's New in SharePoint 2010 (in the Developer arena) (Ted Pattison, Critical Path Training)
10th November 2009 (date added)
http://channel9.msdn.com/learn/courses/SharePoint2010Developer/SharePoint2010DeveloperRoadmap/SharePoint2010DevelopmentPrimer/
Channel Nine's SharePoint 2010 Developer Course: SharePoint 2010 Developer Roadmap - SharePoint 2010 Development Primer (Ted Pattison, Critical Path Training)
10th November 2009 (date added)
http://channel9.msdn.com/learn/courses/SharePoint2010Developer/SharePoint2010DeveloperRoadmap/NewDeveloperToolsforSharePoint2010/
Channel Nine's SharePoint 2010 Developer Course: SharePoint 2010 Developer Roadmap - New developer Tools for SharePoint 2010 (Ted Pattison, Critical Path Training)
10th November 2009 (date added)
http://channel9.msdn.com/learn/courses/SharePoint2010Developer/SharePoint2010DeveloperRoadmap/SharePoint2010IntegrationwithPowerShell/
Channel Nine's SharePoint 2010 Developer Course: SharePoint 2010 Developer Roadmap - SharePoint 2010 Integration with PowerShell (Ted Pattison, Critical Path Training)
10th November 2009 (date added)
http://channel9.msdn.com/learn/courses/SharePoint2010Developer/VisualStudio2010ToolsForSharePoint2010/IntroductiontoVS2010SharePointTools/
Channel Nine's SharePoint 2010 Developer Course: Visual Studio 2010 Tools for SharePoint 2010 - Introduction to VS2010 SharePoint Tools (Ted Pattison, Critical Path Training)
10th November 2009 (date added)
http://channel9.msdn.com/learn/courses/SharePoint2010Developer/VisualStudio2010ToolsForSharePoint2010/SharePointToolsProjectStructure/
Channel Nine's SharePoint 2010 Developer Course: Visual Studio 2010 Tools for SharePoint 2010 - SharePoint Tools Project Structure (Ted Pattison, Critical Path Training)
10th November 2009 (date added)
http://channel9.msdn.com/learn/courses/SharePoint2010Developer/VisualStudio2010ToolsForSharePoint2010/AddingSPIstoaProject/
Channel Nine's SharePoint 2010 Developer Course: Visual Studio 2010 Tools for SharePoint 2010 - Adding SPIs to a Project (Ted Pattison, Critical Path Training)
10th November 2009 (date added)
http://channel9.msdn.com/learn/courses/SharePoint2010Developer/UiEnhancements/TheSharePointFluentUserInterface/
Channel Nine's SharePoint 2010 Developer Course: UI Enhancements - The SharePoint Fluent User Interface (Ted Pattison, Critical Path Training)
10th November 2009 (date added)
http://channel9.msdn.com/learn/courses/SharePoint2010Developer/UiEnhancements/SitesasCollectionsofPages/
Channel Nine's SharePoint 2010 Developer Course: UI Enhancements - Sites as Collections of Pages (Ted Pattison, Critical Path Training)
10th November 2009 (date added)
http://channel9.msdn.com/learn/courses/SharePoint2010Developer/UiEnhancements/ManagingDatawithSharePoint2010/
Channel Nine's SharePoint 2010 Developer Course: UI Enhancements - Managing Data with SharePoint 2010 (Ted Pattison, Critical Path Training)
10th November 2009 (date added)
http://channel9.msdn.com/learn/courses/SharePoint2010Developer/ListsAndSchemas/NewandImprovedEvents/
Channel Nine's SharePoint 2010 Developer Course: Lists and Schemas - New and Improved Events (Ted Pattison, Critical Path Training)
10th November 2009 (date added)
http://channel9.msdn.com/learn/courses/SharePoint2010Developer/ListsAndSchemas/ListRelationshipsandJoins/
Channel Nine's SharePoint 2010 Developer Course: Lists and Schemas - List Relationships and Joins (Andrew Connell, Critical Path Training)
10th November 2009 (date added)
http://channel9.msdn.com/learn/courses/SharePoint2010Developer/ListsAndSchemas/LargeListSupport/
Channel Nine's SharePoint 2010 Developer Course: Lists and Schemas - Large List Support (Andrew Connell, Critical Path Training)
10th November 2009 (date added)
http://channel9.msdn.com/learn/courses/SharePoint2010Developer/ListsAndSchemas/FieldandListItemValidation/
Channel Nine's SharePoint 2010 Developer Course: Lists and Schemas - Field and List Item Validation (Andrew Connell, Critical Path Training)
10th November 2009 (date added)
http://channel9.msdn.com/learn/courses/SharePoint2010Developer/LINQtoSharePointUnit/AccessingSharePointListData/
Channel Nine's SharePoint 2010 Developer Course: LINQ to SharePoint - Accessing SharePoint List Data (Ted Pattison, Critical Path Training)
10th November 2009 (date added)
http://channel9.msdn.com/learn/courses/SharePoint2010Developer/ClientObjectModel/OverviewoftheClientObjectModel/
Channel Nine's SharePoint 2010 Developer Course: Client Object Model - Overview of the Client Object Model (Andrew Connell, Critical Path Training)
10th November 2009 (date added)
http://channel9.msdn.com/learn/courses/SharePoint2010Developer/ClientObjectModel/SilverlightClientObjectModel/
Channel Nine's SharePoint 2010 Developer Course: Client Object Model - Silverlight Client Object Model (Andrew Connell, Critical Path Training)
10th November 2009 (date added)
http://channel9.msdn.com/learn/courses/SharePoint2010Developer/ClientObjectModel/ECMAScriptClientObjectModel/
Channel Nine's SharePoint 2010 Developer Course: Client Object Model - ECMAScript Client Object Model (Andrew Connell, Critical Path Training)
10th November 2009 (date added)
http://channel9.msdn.com/learn/courses/SharePoint2010Developer/Workflow/WhatsNewinSharePoint2010Workflow/
Channel Nine's SharePoint 2010 Developer Course: Workflow - Whats New in SharePoint 2010 Workflow (Ted Pattison, Critical Path Training)
10th November 2009 (date added)
http://channel9.msdn.com/learn/courses/SharePoint2010Developer/Workflow/DesigningWorkflowswithSPD/
Channel Nine's SharePoint 2010 Developer Course: Workflow - Designing Workflows with SPD (Ted Pattison, Critical Path Training)
10th November 2009 (date added)
http://channel9.msdn.com/learn/courses/SharePoint2010Developer/Workflow/DevelopingWorkflowswithVS2010/
Channel Nine's SharePoint 2010 Developer Course: Workflow - Developing Workflows with VS 2010 (Ted Pattison, Critical Path Training)
10th November 2009 (date added)
http://channel9.msdn.com/learn/courses/SharePoint2010Developer/ServicesArchitecture/ArchitecturalandLogicalOverview/
Channel Nine's SharePoint 2010 Developer Course: Services Architecture - Architectural and Logical Overview (Andrew Connell, Critical Path Training)
10th November 2009 (date added)
http://channel9.msdn.com/learn/courses/SharePoint2010Developer/ServicesArchitecture/CreatingCustomServiceApplications/
Channel Nine's SharePoint 2010 Developer Course: Services Architecture - Creating Custom Service Applications (Andrew Connell, Critical Path Training)
10th November 2009 (date added)
http://channel9.msdn.com/learn/courses/SharePoint2010Developer/AccessingExternalData/BusinessConnectivityServices(BCS)Primer/
Channel Nine's SharePoint 2010 Developer Course: BCS - Business Connectivity Services (BCS) Primer (Andrew Connell, Critical Path Training)
10th November 2009 (date added)
http://channel9.msdn.com/learn/courses/SharePoint2010Developer/AccessingExternalData/CreatingBCSApplications/
Channel Nine's SharePoint 2010 Developer Course: BCS - Creating BCS Applications (Andrew Connell, Critical Path Training)
10th November 2009 (date added)
http://channel9.msdn.com/learn/courses/SharePoint2010Developer/AccessingExternalData/Creating.NETAssemblyConnectorsinVisualStudio2010support/
Channel Nine's SharePoint 2010 Developer Course: BCS - Creating .NET Assembly Connectors in Visual Studio 2010 support (Andrew Connell, Critical Path Training)
10th November 2009 (date added)
http://channel9.msdn.com/learn/courses/SharePoint2010Developer/ExtendingSearch/TheConnectorFramework/
Channel Nine's SharePoint 2010 Developer Course: Extending Search - The Connector Framework (Andrew Connell, Critical Path Training)
10th November 2009 (date added)
http://channel9.msdn.com/learn/courses/SharePoint2010Developer/ExtendingSearch/EnhancingtheSearchUserInterface/
Channel Nine's SharePoint 2010 Developer Course: Extending Search - Enhancing the Search User Interface (Andrew Connell, Critical Path Training)
10th November 2009 (date added)
http://channel9.msdn.com/learn/courses/SharePoint2010Developer/ExtendingSearch/CreatingCustomRankingModels/
Channel Nine's SharePoint 2010 Developer Course: Extending Search - Creating Custom Ranking Models (Andrew Connell, Critical Path Training)
10th November 2009 (date added)
http://channel9.msdn.com/learn/courses/SharePoint2010Developer/PerformancePointServices/BusinessIntelligence(BI)Primer/
Channel Nine's SharePoint 2010 Developer Course: PerformancePoint Services - Business Intelligence (BI) Primer (Chris Predeek, Critical Path Training)
10th November 2009 (date added)
http://channel9.msdn.com/learn/courses/SharePoint2010Developer/PerformancePointServices/ExcelServices/
Channel Nine's SharePoint 2010 Developer Course: PerformancePoint Services - Excel Services (Chris Predeek, Critical Path Training)
10th November 2009 (date added)
http://channel9.msdn.com/learn/courses/SharePoint2010Developer/PerformancePointServices/PerformancePointServices/
Channel Nine's SharePoint 2010 Developer Course: PerformancePoint Services - Performance Point Services (Chris Predeek, Critical Path Training)
10th November 2009 (date added)
http://channel9.msdn.com/learn/courses/SharePoint2010Developer/SandboxedSolutions/IntroducingSandboxedSolutions/
Channel Nine's SharePoint 2010 Developer Course: Sandboxed Solutions - Introducing Sandboxed Solutions (Andrew Connell, Critical Path Training)
10th November 2009 (date added)
http://channel9.msdn.com/learn/courses/SharePoint2010Developer/SandboxedSolutions/ExecutingCodeintheSandbox/
Channel Nine's SharePoint 2010 Developer Course: Sandboxed Solutions - Executing Code in the Sandbox (Andrew Connell, Critical Path Training)
10th November 2009 (date added)
http://channel9.msdn.com/learn/courses/SharePoint2010Developer/SharePoint2010Security/IntroductiontoClaimsbasedSecurity/
Channel Nine's SharePoint 2010 Developer Course: SharePoint 2010 Security - Introduction to Claims based Security (Ted Pattison, Critical Path Training)
10th November 2009 (date added)
IV WSS v4 FAQ
New or Modified
None
Note: All of the addresses below were valid at the time I added them to the WSS v4 FAQ site and to this file. I can't guarantee that they still are.
(Items are added to the WSS v4 FAQ throughout the week so you will find new items more quickly by checking at www.wssfaq.com (wssv4faq.mindsharp.com) daily.)
From 1st to 7th November 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 2010 KB Articles
New or Modifed
None
II. Articles - 2010 Products
New
A. Office 2010 Server Products
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee557869(office.14).aspx
What's New: PerformancePoint Services
6th November 2009 (date added)
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee558289(office.14).aspx
What's New: Excel Services
6th November 2009 (date added)
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee558300(office.14).aspx
What's New: SharePoint Enterprise Search
6th November 2009 (date added)
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee559353(office.14).aspx
What's New: Enterprise Content Management (ECM)
6th November 2009 (date added)
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee557658(office.14).aspx
What's New: Business Connectivity Services (BCS)
6th November 2009 (date added)
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee558398(office.14).aspx
What's New: User Profiles and Social Data
6th November 2009 (date added)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee424405(office.14).aspx
Excel Services overview (SharePoint Server 2010) (updated 19th October 2009)
19th October 2009
B. Other Office 2010 products
http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepointdesigner/archive/2009/11/02/sharepoint-designer-2010-new-shell-tour.aspx
SharePoint Designer 2010 New Shell Tour (SharePoint Designer Team Blog - unknown)
2nd November 2009
C. Other relevant products
None
Modified
None
III WebCasts (+ PodCasts, On-Line courses) for 2010 Products
http://www.sharepoint-videos.com/sp10navigational-components-of-sharepoint-designer-2010/
Create External Content Types using SharePoint Designer 2010 (Asif Rehmani, SharePoint-eLearning.com)
6th November 2009 (date added)
http://www.sharepoint-videos.com/sp10navigational-components-of-sharepoint-designer-2010/
Navigational components of SharePoint Designer 2010 (Asif Rehmani, SharePoint-eLearning.com)
6th November 2009 (date added)
http://www.sharepoint-videos.com/sp10creating-sharepoint-2010-site-components/
Creating SharePoint 2010 site components (Asif Rehmani, SharePoint-eLearning.com)
6th November 2009 (date added)
http://www.sharepoint-videos.com/sp10create-and-manage-sharepoint-content-using-sharepoint-designer-2010/
Create and Manage SharePoint Content using SharePoint Designer 2010 (Asif Rehmani, SharePoint-eLearning.com)
6th November 2009 (date added)
http://www.sharepoint-videos.com/sp10whats-new-in-infopath-2010-walkthrough/
What's new in InfoPath 2010 - Walkthrough (Asif Rehmani, SharePoint-eLearning.com)
6th November 2009 (date added)
http://www.sharepoint-videos.com/sp10configuring-sharepoint-security-using-sharepoint-designer-2010/
Configuring SharePoint security using SharePoint Designer 2010 (Asif Rehmani, SharePoint-eLearning.com)
6th November 2009 (date added)
http://www.sharepoint-videos.com/sp10explore-infopath-2010-controls/
Explore InfoPath 2010 Controls (Asif Rehmani, SharePoint-eLearning.com)
6th November 2009 (date added)
http://www.sharepoint-videos.com/sp101851/
Webinar - Introduction to SharePoint Designer 2010 (Asif Rehmani, SharePoint-eLearning.com)
6th November 2009 (date added)
http://www.sharepoint-videos.com/sp10xslt-list-view-web-parts-and-conditional-formatting/
XSLT List View web parts and Conditional Formatting (Asif Rehmani, SharePoint-eLearning.com)
6th November 2009 (date added)
http://www.sharepoint-videos.com/sp10configuring-rules-in-infopath-2010/
Configuring Rules in InfoPath 2010 (Asif Rehmani, SharePoint-eLearning.com)
6th November 2009 (date added)
http://www.sharepoint-videos.com/sp10create-a-site-workflow-and-modify-its-form-using-infopath/
Create a Site Workflow and modify its form using InfoPath (Asif Rehmani, SharePoint-eLearning.com)
6th November 2009 (date added)
http://www.sharepoint-videos.com/sp10an-end-to-end-process-using-infopath-2010-for-forms-and-visio-2010-and-sharepoint-designer-2010-for-workflows/
An end to end process using InfoPath 2010 for forms and Visio 2010 and SharePoint Designer 2010 for Workflows (Asif Rehmani, SharePoint-eLearning.com)
6th November 2009 (date added)
http://www.sharepoint-videos.com/sp10create-reusable-workflows-using-sharepoint-designer-2010-and-attach-to-content-types/
Create reusable workflows using SharePoint Designer 2010 and attach to Content Types (Asif Rehmani, SharePoint-eLearning.com)
6th November 2009 (date added)
IV WSS v4 FAQ
New
http://wssv4faq.mindsharp.com/Lists/v4FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=51
III.0060 SPD 2010: Can you use SharePoint Designer 2010 to edit WSS 3.0 or MOSS 2007 sites?
http://wssv4faq.mindsharp.com/Lists/v4FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=52
IX.0005 U2U (Belgium)
Modified
http://wssv4faq.mindsharp.com/Lists/v4FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=49
V.0014 Microsoft SharePoint 2010: Building Solutions for SharePoint 2010 (Apress - Sahil Malik)
http://wssv4faq.mindsharp.com/Lists/v4FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=50
V.0015 Pro Project Management with SharePoint 2010 (Apress - Mark Weinstein)
(both 14 and 15 have updated information and new URLs)
Note: All of the addresses below were valid at the time I added them to the WSS v4 FAQ site and to this file. I can't guarantee that they still are.
(Items are added to the WSS v4 FAQ throughout the week so you will find new items more quickly by checking at wssv4faq.mindsharp.com daily.)
From 25th to 31st October 2009
I.1 2010 KB Articles
New or Modifed
None
II. Articles - 2010 Products
New
A. Office 2010 Server Products
http://www.sharepointnutsandbolts.com/2009/10/sp2010-developer-skills-preparation.html
SP2010 - developer skills preparation (Chris O'Brien)
27th October 2009
Note: the following 10 Labs all have the same URL - this is because I can't extract the direct URL from the page. The intention in having ten entries is to make the title of each HOL searchable in the List.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=c010fc68-b47f-4db6-b8a8-ad4ba33a35c5#tm
Hands-On Lab: HOL01 - Developing a Visual Web Part in Visual Studio 2010 (Use the download link in the second half of the page - choose VB or CS link)
19th October 2007
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=c010fc68-b47f-4db6-b8a8-ad4ba33a35c5#tm
Hands-On Lab: HOL02 - Developing a List Definition and Event Receiver in Visual Studio 2010 (Use the download link in the second half of the page - choose VB or CS link)
19th October 2007
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=c010fc68-b47f-4db6-b8a8-ad4ba33a35c5#tm
Hands-On Lab: HOL03 - Developing Advanced Web Parts for SharePoint 2010 with Visual Studio 2010 (Use the download link in the second half of the page - choose VB or CS link)
19th October 2007
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=c010fc68-b47f-4db6-b8a8-ad4ba33a35c5#tm
Hands-On Lab: HOL04 - Developing with LINQ to SharePoint in Visual Studio 2010 (Use the download link in the second half of the page - choose VB or CS link)
19th October 2007
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=c010fc68-b47f-4db6-b8a8-ad4ba33a35c5#tm
Hands-On Lab: HOL05 - Developing for SharePoint 2010 with the Client OM and REST in Visual Studio 2010 (Use the download link in the second half of the page - choose VB or CS link)
19th October 2007
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=c010fc68-b47f-4db6-b8a8-ad4ba33a35c5#tm
Hands-On Lab: HOL06 - Developing a BCS External Content Type with Visual Studio 2010 (Use the download link in the second half of the page - choose VB or CS link)
19th October 2007
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=c010fc68-b47f-4db6-b8a8-ad4ba33a35c5#tm
Hands-On Lab: HOL07 - Developing a SharePoint 2010 Workflow with Initiation Form in Visual Studio 2010 (Use the download link in the second half of the page - choose VB or CS link)
19th October 2007
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=c010fc68-b47f-4db6-b8a8-ad4ba33a35c5#tm
Hands-On Lab: HOL08 - Developing SharePoint 2010 User Interface with Silverlight in Visual Studio 2010 (Use the download link in the second half of the page - choose VB or CS link)
19th October 2007
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=c010fc68-b47f-4db6-b8a8-ad4ba33a35c5#tm
Hands-On Lab: HOL09 - Developing SharePoint 2010 Sandboxed Solutions in Visual Studio 2010 (Use the download link in the second half of the page - choose VB or CS link)
19th October 2007
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=c010fc68-b47f-4db6-b8a8-ad4ba33a35c5#tm
Hands-On Lab: HOL10 - Developing SharePoint 2010 User Interface Ribbon and Dialog Customizations (Use the download link in the second half of the page - choose VB or CS link)
19th October 2007
http://sharepoint2010.microsoft.com/product/editions/Pages/default.aspx
SharePoint 2010 Lineup: Preview Guide (warning: simple short list of product names with brief explanatory texts - not a list of functions in each)
25th October 2009 (date added)
B. Other Office 2010 products
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=dd993c57-3829-438b-a09d-3e19cbb93e23#tm
Project Server 2010 Upgrade Paths (posters)
28th October 2009
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=12e25e2b-fda6-4fda-9f1b-fa39134e26ee#tm
Project Portfolio Server 2007 to Project Server 2010 Paths and Considerations (poster)
28th October 2009
C. Other relevant products
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=a4fbe2f3-45dd-46bf-8747-16a111c04107#tm
Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Edition x64 (Full Install) VHD (180 days)
28th October 2009
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=37264b32-c79f-4249-a5d4-b8696772a62a#tm
Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Edition x64 (Core Install) VHD (180 days)
28th October 2009
Modified
None
III WebCasts (+ PodCasts, On-Line courses) for 2010 Products
http://www.microsoft.com/learning/_silverlight/learningsnacks/SP10/snack01/Default.html
Learning Snacks for SharePoint 2010: Developing Solutions with Microsoft SharePoint 2010 (warning: speaker can't pronounce the letter "r")
30th October 2009 (date added)
http://www.microsoft.com/learning/_silverlight/learningsnacks/SP10/snack02/Default.html
Learning Snacks for SharePoint 2010: Experiencing the Microsoft SharePoint 2010 User Interface
30th October 2009 (date added)
http://www.microsoft.com/learning/_silverlight/learningsnacks/SP10/snack03/Default.html
Learning Snacks for SharePoint 2010: Managing and Troubleshooting with Microsoft SharePoint 2010
30th October 2009 (date added)
http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/10-4/10-4-Episode-33-Downloading-and-Installing-Visual-Studio-2010-Beta-2/
10-4 Episode 33: Downloading and Installing Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 (Channel 9)
29th October 2009 (date added)
mms://msstudios.wmod.llnwd.net/a2294/o21/msstudios/0910/1001501/1001501_SharePoint2010_Foundation_Laura_1000k.wmv
Introduction to SharePoint Foundation (Laura Brown)
27th October 2009 (date added)
mms://msstudios.wmod.llnwd.net/a2294/o21/msstudios/0910/1001501/1001501_SharePoint2010_Composites_JR_1000k.wmv
Introduction to SharePoint Composites (J.R. Arredondo)
27th October 2009 (date added)
mms://msstudios.wmod.llnwd.net/a2294/o21/msstudios/0910/1001501/1001501_SharePoint2010_ITPro_Arpan_16x9_1000k.wmv
SharePoint 2010 for IT Pros (Arpan Shah)
27th October 2009 (date added)
mms://msstudios.wmod.llnwd.net/a2294/o21/msstudios/0910/1001501/1001501_SharePoint2010_Communities_Jaqueline_1000k.wmv
Introduction to Collaboration and Social Community
("Communities") (Jacqueline Russell)
27th October 2009 (date added)
mms://msstudios.wmod.llnwd.net/a2294/o21/msstudios/0910/1001501/1001501_SharePoint2010_Insights_Pej_1000k.wmv
Introduction to key SharePoint 2010 features (Pej Javaheri)
27th October 2009 (date added)
mms://msstudios.wmod.llnwd.net/a2294/o21/msstudios/0910/1001501/1001501_SharePoint2010_Content_Ryan_1000k.wmv
Introduction to Content Management (Ryan Dugano)
27th October 2009 (date added)
mms://msstudios.wmod.llnwd.net/a2294/o21/msstudios/0910/1001501/1001501_SharePoint2010_Developer_Paul_16x9_1000k.wmv
SharePoint 2010 for Developers (Paul Andrew)
27th October 2009 (date added)
mms://msstudios.wmod.llnwd.net/a2294/o21/msstudios/0910/1001501/1001501_SharePoint2010_Sites_Cory_1000k.wmv
Introduction to Information Management (Corey Artherholt)
27th October 2009 (date added)
mms://msstudios.wmod.llnwd.net/a2294/o21/msstudios/0910/1001501/1002117_SharePoint2010_Partners_Kathleen_1000k.wmv
Introduction into opportunities for partners (Kathleen Winder)
27th October 2009 (date added)
mms://msstudios.wmod.llnwd.net/a2294/o21/msstudios/0910/1001501/1002117_SharePoint2010_Search_Evan_1000k.wmv
Introduction to Enterprise search (Evan Richman)
27th October 2009 (date added)
http://msstudios.wmod.llnwd.net/a2294/o21/msstudios/0910/1001501/1001501_SharePoint2010_ITPro_Arpan_16x9_1000k.wmv
Top Features Demo for IT professionals (Arpan Shah)
27th October 2009 (date added)
IV WSS v4 FAQ
New
http://wssv4faq.mindsharp.com/Lists/v4FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=36
I.0006 Is there a 2010 version of SharePoint Designer and is it still free ?
http://wssv4faq.mindsharp.com/Lists/v4FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=43
I.0007.01 What are the licensing rules for SharePoint Foundation 2010?
http://wssv4faq.mindsharp.com/Lists/v4FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=44
I.0007.02 What are the licensing rules for SharePoint 2010?
http://wssv4faq.mindsharp.com/Lists/v4FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=40
II.0001 Which database System is used by a Basic Installation of SharePoint Foundation 2010 ?
http://wssv4faq.mindsharp.com/Lists/v4FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=41
II.0002 Which database system is used by a Basic Installation of SharePoint Server 2010?
http://wssv4faq.mindsharp.com/Lists/v4FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=46
II.0003 Is there a particular installation order when installing SP 2010 and Visual Studio 2010?
http://wssv4faq.mindsharp.com/Lists/v4FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=48
III.0030.01 Does Import/Export include Alerts?
http://wssv4faq.mindsharp.com/Lists/v4FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=47
III.0030.02 Does Import/Export include Workflows?
http://wssv4faq.mindsharp.com/Lists/v4FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=42
III.0050 How many Silverlight web parts are provided in SP 2010?
(I used 0050 for this as this Q+A came up now but isn't that mainstream)
http://wssv4faq.mindsharp.com/Lists/v4FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=45
III.0051 Which versions of Visual Studio 2010 support SharePoint development?
http://wssv4faq.mindsharp.com/Lists/v4FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=37
IV.0001 Implementation of IBackupRestore (SP 2010 Foundation - code gallery - MS)
http://wssv4faq.mindsharp.com/Lists/v4FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=38
IV.0002 Activity Feeds Console Application (SharePoint 2010 - code gallery - MS)
http://wssv4faq.mindsharp.com/Lists/v4FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=39
IV.0003 Social Data Statistics Web Part (SharePoint 2010 - code gallery - MS)
Modified
None
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.
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.
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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)
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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.
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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.
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.
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).
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
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VI WSSv2 FAQ
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VII. MS Articles
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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 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*)
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