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).
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.
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