Disclaimer The opinions expressed herein are my own personal opinions and do not represent my employer's view in anyway.
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
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
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
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)
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;963028
Description of a time zone update for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
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)
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
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
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
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
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
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
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)
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
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)
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)
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
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)
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)
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=943345
How to defragment Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 databases and SharePoint Server 2007 databases (ver 2.0)
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)
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
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;968479
Infopath does not resolve some email names to addresses
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;961751
Description of the InfoPath 2007 hotfix package (Ipeditor.msp): February 24, 2009
Modified
I.d SPD 2007 KB Articles
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
II. Articles - 2007 Products
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
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)
III WebCasts (+ PodCasts, On-Line courses) for 2007 Products
IV WSS v3 FAQ
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)
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)
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?)
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)
VI WSSv2 FAQ
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