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Tuesday, October 31, 2006

Another minor change to the (mirror) WSS FAQ site

I was reading something over the weekend (I can't remember whether this was a book or an article or what) about designing web sites and the one clear message I got out of it was "put the stuff that your users need in the correct place in the page" (or they will go elsewhere).

So far the (mirror) WSS FAQ site at www.wssfaq.com (or indeed www.wssv3faq.com - try it!) has been so standard that I've left the typical menu line (Home to Help) alone and apart from the Google ads (that hardly anyone bothers with these days - I guess they, like me, have seen them all before; hopefully the release of v3 will bring some new companies) and that nice row of links to the main sections that is underneath the standard header section, there is nothing particularly different between that site and the site as it came out of the box. Heck, I haven't even bothered to change the default colour/color - nor am I likely to.

But "inspired" (if that's the word) by my reading, I decided to make that standard menu line more useful and so I got rid of all the standard links except Home. (Before I did that I made sure that I put "Documents and Lists" and "Site Settings" behind a couple of icons so that I could still access them.)

I then thought a bit about which inside pages were people most likely to want to go directly to (and which I could have snappy names for).

The first one was obvious - Books - and while I was at it I added an additional text to the v3 Books page to avoid people accessing the links only to find that the books haven't been released yet. [Aside: I think it's good information to put there what is coming out so you can if you want hold back on buying something because you know that your favourite author is coming out with a book a month or so later. Hopefully the addition of "*released*" in a Title column will satisfy both kinds of users of the site. Note, though, that Amazon allow you to pre-order most books they list (and one person has taken advantage of that to pre-order books though my links on that page for which my thanks(!))]

The other decision was to always link to the v3 version of the particular kind of information. In the case of Books this was fine because there was a link there already to the v2 books page (and back from that to the v3 books page), but in the case of the other links I was adding there was no such cross-linking and this had to be added. Finally, I had to create new Views in the v2 section in order for there to be an equivalent page to go to from the already existing v3 page.

So what we ended up with as my choice for what *you* are going to want to access directly is

Books; Labs; SDKs and Web Casts

All, as I said already, go directly to the v3 pages, but there are links from there to the equivalent v2 pages (and back). [Note: except Labs as there are no equivalent links in the "MS Articles" List.]

So what started out - as the subject says - as another minor change to the WSS FAQ site turned out in fact to be a bit more that that.

I hope you find that that effort wasn't wasted.

P.S. Note that when you use Front Page 2003 to amend the Menu Line (Home to Help) in default.aspx the change is done immediately (no saving) and is valid for the entire site. So don't be surprised by that (I was the first time I did this, but not this time). The technique by the way is (in design mode in FP 2003) to select the Menu Line and then right-click and then the choice about halfway down allows you easily to remove/add/modify links.

10/31/2006 9:14:07 AM (FLE Standard Time, UTC+02:00)

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Monday, October 30, 2006

Book Review: SharePoint 2003 Advanced Concepts : Site Definitions, Custom Templates, and Global Customizations (3)

Note: The first part of my review of this book was at

http://mikewalsh.bilsimser.com/PermaLink,guid,d8eb8269-6e83-44d7-95c8-26e26aa21e4d.aspx

The second part of my review of this book was at

http://mikewalsh.bilsimser.com/PermaLink,guid,f5fda223-1398-452f-bb26-ab707bc94c8a.aspx

The book itself can be found via these links

Amazon UK: http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0321336615/heme

Amazon US: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0321336615/heme0f

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This third part of the review is about Chapter 3 which is a long look at List Definitions.

If I were a German I'd love it but as I'm not I'm not so sure.

I'd better perhaps explain.

Before I moved back to Germany the last time, I had an interview and the German prospective boss said that he liked having a mixed team of Englishmen and Germans. I naturally asked him why and he said that the Germans spent far too much time designing a system before implementing it while the English wanted to get on with it and thus spent too little time. The mixed team meant the Germans pushed the English to slow down and do a little bit of planning at least; while the English pushed the Germans not to make such a meal of the design phase.

This difference in attitudes was confirmed a few years later when I had been made responsible for introducing a (mainframe) repository system and after less than three months we had solved the usual stumbling blocks of naming standards and a data structure and were in production (admittedly with the great help of a german consultant who had done this all before -but guess who pushed her to supply information at a faster speed than she wanted to). A few months later I went to a user group for that product at Braun and we were given a talk from someone from that company about their design. It turned out that they had started "implementation" a good year before us and *still* were in the design phase!

What's that to do with this book ?

Well the book has a very germanic feel to it - especially the third chapter. The chapter goes into great detail about the background of List definitions and even includes a six page table on the possible values of the Field attribute (something you may well think ought to be left to the standard Microsoft SDK for the product), yet the examples of *when* to use these techniques are few and far between.

For instance I've many times over the years seen replies in the newsgroups that say you can use "event handlers" to solve particular problems that can't be solved out-of-the-box. I've never actually learnt how to write event handlers. So when this book started giving an example for when to use event handlers I thought "great", at last I'll find out how to do this. Fat chance: it shows you where to specify that event handlers can be used and that's that. Nothing about how to write an event handler at all (and I checked the index - what I read is all there is).

Similarly there is only one example of adding a field to a definition (one for an expiration date) despite all those pages of detail on the Field attribute. OK. Perhaps most of you would include the example of adding a field for SizeInKB - well it was never explained as far as I could see what use this field was going to be.

Do't get me wrong, there's a lot of useful stuff here - the section on adding Views *in the templates* rather than - as I have done - creating them in a List and then Saving the List as template is again very well written and detailed, and just as before there are the occasional useful tips along the way such as the fact that even a Required field can be outflanked by copying a file to the Explorer View (when the required field is set to null), but the general picture remains for me the same. The book is designed for people who want to know all the details before they start using the product - or to put it another way, it's for Germans.

As for me, I continue to miss the problem-based approach used by "Advanced SharePoint Programming" and I wonder more than a bit if a book that takes such a thorough approach to SharePoint v2, didn't come out just a bit late in the cycle. I spent my time looking at the fundementals when WSSv2 was in late beta and by the time it had been in production for a few months I was looking for the solutions to problems. This book came out in 2006, two and a half years after WSS and SPS 2003 went into production. I can't help feeling that it's solving a problem (complete understanding of the fundementals) that it's too late for most people to solve.

10/30/2006 7:40:55 AM (FLE Standard Time, UTC+02:00)

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Sunday, October 29, 2006

WSS FAQ additions and corrections - XXVIII - 23rd - 29th October 2006

Note: All of the addresses of the KB / Articles - 2007 Products / MS / Non-MS Articles below were valid at the time I added them to the WSS FAQ site and to this file. I can't guarantee that they still are.

(This is also posted to the WSS newsgroup at microsoft.public.sharepoint.windowsservices - web access via http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/newsgroups/server/sharepoint.mspx)

(Items are added to the WSS FAQ throughout the week so you will find new items more quickly by checking at wss.collutions.com or www.wssfaq.com daily.)

From 23rd - 29th October 2006

I. KB Articles

New

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=888039

You receive a "The folder you entered does not appear to be valid" error message when you try to create a Network Place shortcut to SharePoint Portal Server 2003 or to Windows SharePoint Services (ver 2.0)16th October 2006

Modified

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=903044

You do not receive e-mail notifications after you configure an alert to notify you when Web site content is changed in SharePoint Portal Server 2003 or in Windows SharePoint Services (ver 3.0)19th October 2006

II. Articles - 2007 Products

New

A. Office 2007 Server Products

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/joostschermers/archive/2006/10/26/15183.aspx

Sending Documents to an archive (the Document life cycle) (Blog - Joost Schermers)

26th October 2006

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/helloitsliam/archive/2006/10/25/15035.aspx

MOSS2007 - Rebuild Corporate Website Part 3 (Blog - Liam Cleary)

25th October 2006

http://blah.winsmarts.com/2006-10-InfoPath_2007_Forms_Server_MOSS_2007.aspx

InfoPath 2007, Forms Server, MOSS 2007 and using these to your organization's benefit (Blog - Sahil Malik)

25th October 2006

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/helloitsliam/archive/2006/10/25/15001.aspx

MOSS2007 - Rebuild Corporate Website Part 2 (Blog - Liam Cleary)

25th October 2006

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/mypoint/archive/2006/10/24/14893.aspx

Content Management mit MOSS (Basics) (in German) (Blog - Olaf Köstner) (Content Management with MOSS (Basics))

24th October 2006

https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastRegistrationConfirmation.aspx?culture=en-US&RegistrationID=1286486599

TechNet Webcast: An In-Depth Look at SharePoint Server 2007 Search Technology (Level 200) (Kevin Remde)

23rd October 2006

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/helloitsliam/archive/2006/10/22/14914.aspx

MOSS2007 - Rebuild Corporate Website Part 1 (Blog - Liam Cleary)

22nd October 2006

http://www.andrewconnell.com/blog/articles/HowToConfigPublishingSiteWithDualAuthProvidersAndAnonAccess.aspx

Configuring a Office SharePoint Server 2007 Publishing Site with Dual Authentication Providers and Anonymous Access (Blog - Andrew Connell)

21st October 2006

https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastRegistrationConfirmation.aspx?culture=en-US&RegistrationID=1286486567

TechNet Webcast: Integrating the Business Data Catalog and Business Applications Using Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (Level 200) (Matt Hester)

20th October 2006

http://meiyinglim.blogspot.com/2006/10/integrating-microsoft-commerce-server.html

Integrating Microsoft Commerce Server 2007 and MOSS 2007 (Blog - Mei Ying)

18th October 2006

http://blogs.msdn.com/robcaron/archive/2006/08/14/699845.aspx

Configuring Team Foundation Server to Use a Remote SharePoint Server

14th August 2006

B. Other Office 2007 products

https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastRegistrationConfirmation.aspx?culture=en-US&RegistrationID=1286526054

TechNet Webcast: Overview of Microsoft Office Project Server 2007 (Level 200) (Jean-Francois LeSaux)

26th October 2006

https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastRegistrationConfirmation.aspx?culture=en-US&RegistrationID=1286507592

TechNet Webcast: Best Practices for Developing, Deploying, and Maintaining Forms Solutions (Level 200) (Keith Combs)

25th October 2006

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa813327.aspx

Overview of the InfoPath Designer API for Integrating InfoPath 2007 into Visual Studio 2005

25th October 2006 (date added)

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa827350.aspx

Integrating Visio 2007 and Project 2007

25th October 2006 (date added)

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa730921.aspx

Improving Performance in Excel 2007

25th October 2006 (date added)

https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastRegistrationConfirmation.aspx?culture=en-US&RegistrationID=1286486515

Microsoft Office System Webcast: Advanced Tips and Tricks for Fast and Fabulous Excel 2007 Charts (Stephanie Krieger, Arouet.net)

19th October 2006

http://blogs.catalystss.com/blogs/christopher_v_domino/archive/2006/07/29/22.aspx

InfoPathology - Part 12 - SharePoint Web Services (Blog - Christopher V. Domino)

29th July 2006

http://blogs.catalystss.com/blogs/christopher_v_domino/archive/2006/07/29/21.aspx

InfoPathology - Part 11 - SharePoint Integration (Blog - Christopher V. Domino)

29th July 2006

http://www.microsoft.com/office/preview/programs/designer/guide.mspx

Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 Product Guide

27th March 2006

C. Other New 2006/2007 Products

https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastRegistrationConfirmation.aspx?culture=en-US&RegistrationID=1286526617

MSDN Webcast: Using Cascading Style Sheets, Identifiers, and Classes in Microsoft Expression Web (Level 200) (Wayne Smith)

26th October 2006

https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastRegistrationConfirmation.aspx?culture=en-US&RegistrationID=1286507538

TechNet Webcast: Secure Application Publishing with Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2006 (Level 200) (Chris Avis)

25th October 2006

Modified

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=22fbb784-fe7c-44eb-b30f-a10c6b7ad0df&displaylang=en

Project Portfolio Server 2006 Document: Installation Guide (ver 3)

24th October 2006

Deleted

None

III. MS Articles

New

None

Modified

None

IV Non-MS Articles

New

None

Modified

None

V. WSS FAQ additions

None

VI WSS FAQ Modified

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSS%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=580

I.28.02 What is fixed in the fix packs to SPS 2003 Service Pack 2

VII WSS v3 FAQ additions

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=875

VI.15 SharePoint Explorer Client 2.0 - Community Edition (free - DotNetFactory)

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=868

VIII.01 BizTalk Server 2006 Recipes (apress - Mark Beckner, Ben Goeltz, Brandon Gross, Brennan O'Reilly, Stephen Roger, Mark Smith, Alexander West)

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=869

VIII.02 Pro BizTalk 2006 (apress - George Dunphy, Ahmed Metwally)

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=870

VIII.03 Foundations of BizTalk Server 2006 (apress - Daniel Woolston)

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=871

VIII.04 CSS: The Missing Manual (O'Reilly - David Sawyer McFarland)

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=872

VIII.05 CSS Cookbook, 2nd Edition (O'Reilly - Christopher Schmitt)

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=873

VIII.06 CSS: The Definitive Guide (3rd Edition) (O'Reilly - Eric Meyer)

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=876

IX.01 Mindsharp (US) (Bill English, Todd Bleeker etc.)

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=877

IX.02 Combined-Knowledge (UK - Steve Smith etc.)

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=878

IX.03 Breeze Training (Australia) (Mick Badran)

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=879

IX.04 Gorilla Training (US) (Ted Pattison)

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=880

IX.05 U2U (Belgian - but in English for whole EMEA region) (Patrick Tisseghem, Jan Tielens)

VIII WSS v3 FAQ Modified

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=707

III.40 Does smigrate support migrating sites/site collections from SPS2003 to MOSS 2007?

VIII WSS v3 FAQ Deleted

None

P.S. People will wonder about the font used here. Well hopefully it's a one off. Instead of copying and pasting from a Notepad copy of my text file, I went into the browser and opened the file there and did copy/paste from that. (The reason was that I was using Firefox and I couldn't Save the file from the browser to my machine) The result was a complete mess (no formatting) and extremely small print. While trying to sort that out, I seemed to have increased the print size too much and used a different font. After I've messed about this for several iterations, it's going to stay as it is and next time I'm going to use the NotePad copy for my copy/paste.

10/29/2006 8:53:52 AM (FLE Standard Time, UTC+02:00)

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Wednesday, October 25, 2006

Non-SP books - why did I add them to the WSS FAQ sites?

As you may have worked out by now, I use the WSS FAQ sites a lot myself (well, to be truthful I use the german "mirror" site a lot because it seems from here to be faster than the Collutions site).

This has the advantage for other users that I am continually adding new things like Views because I can see that such a View would help *me*. I of course then add that View to both sites, which helps users of the collutions site too - aren't I nice ?!

That too is the reason why I've just added a new section in the WSSv3FAQ part for non-SP books (with equivalent View).

What happened was that I saw a blog article about a new BizTalk Server 2006 book. Now I think that my future ought to lie partly in getting information from other company systems into MOSS 2007 and this is going to need BizTalk Server 2006 knowledge, so I wanted to save that information. At the same time I knew from experience that printing out the page wasn't a great idea (!) and I didn't really want to start putting links to Books in my OneNote set of folders/documents/pages so it really needed to go in a Sharepoint Link Library.

Once I'd decided that it was a question of "Do I make it publically available?" or not. (I have my own section of the german WSS FAQ site for non-public stuff). I answered that question with "Yes" as it's likely that other people like myself will also be needing BizTalk knowledge with their SharePoint systems.

So that book became the first item in a new Non-SP Books section (http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/VIII%20NonSP%20Books.aspx) which will only cover non-SP books that have real relevance (in my mind) to MOSS 2007 and WSSv3.

While on a roll I added a couple more new BizTalk Server 2006 books and then followed that up with new (in some cases new versions) CSS books . I've namely just bought one of those myself as I can see that it will be very useful to know what I'm doing when it's time to make CSS changes to my SharePoint v3 sites, even if I am using SharePoint Designer.

As for the (book) icons I chose (for the german site); there are two (at the moment) because that matches the number of items in the list; and in time icons will reflect my "buy this" preferences (based on my own reading and what I read about books) - just as the list of icons in the page for SharePoint v2 books (http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSS%20FAQ/VII%20view%20%20SPS%202003%20and%20WSS%20Books.aspx) does at the moment. However for the moment these are possible books (although I must admit that at first glance "CSS The Missing Manual" fits what I want to see in a CSS book) just as those listed in the SharePoint v3 list (http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/V%20Books.aspx) are a possible first selection only - with none of those books out yet, and with thus all unseen, it's difficult to do anything else.

10/25/2006 7:49:14 AM (FLE Standard Time, UTC+02:00)

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Monday, October 23, 2006

Book Review: SharePoint 2003 Advanced Concepts : Site Definitions, Custom Templates, and Global Customizations (2)

Note: The first part of my review of this book was at

http://mikewalsh.bilsimser.com/PermaLink,guid,d8eb8269-6e83-44d7-95c8-26e26aa21e4d.aspx

The book itself can be found via these links

Amazon UK: http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0321336615/heme

Amazon US: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0321336615/heme0f

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I discovered that one of the problems with spending most of your time looking at the version 3 (beta) SharePoint products is that what they provide (and look like) quickly becomes your norm - or to put it another way when I picked up this book again and started reading it, my original reaction was to think why are they talking about WSSv2?

It took far too many seconds to wake up and remember that I was reviewing a v2 book ...

Let's - after all that unnecessary introduction - get on with it.

Chapter 1 continued with a rather mundane listing of how to create a List template but then quickly switched into top gear again at the end with the clearest text on the difference between a ghosted page and an unghosted page that I have read anywhere. I knew of course that unghosting your pages meant that you had database accesses that potentially slowed down your site (although I never did notice any difference in real life) but this explanation for the first time gave me a solid explanation of what *exactly* was happening.

Chapter 2 contained a fair amount of things that were also in the earlier Advanced SharePoint Services Solutions book (apress; Scot Hillier) but presented in a different style. Scot's book would be what I would use if I had limited time and just wanted a quick change to my site whereas this book would be the one to use if I really wanted to know the background to why that change was needed in that particular location and why doing it in this particular way was the best approach.

Don't get me wrong, Scot also gives reasons not just code, but this book goes deeper (and in doing so partly confuses the issue for people just wanting a quick fix).

I'm a quick fix guy myself and somehow there's always enough to do without knowing exactly why but I can understand that some people prefer the opposite approach and this book would clearly suit them better.

Apart from these fixes, the chapter also had a detailed look at the various components of default.aspx - again a different kind of approach to anything I've seen elsewhere.

Finally it concluded with a section on debugging Site definitions which included the reasons why several quite common but obstruse error messages could be obtained. Useful if you can remember a) that you've seen this error message before somewhere and b) that you remember that it was in this chapter of the book (most of the errror messages don't at first glance have anything to do with Site definitions, hence the problem).

But still, the book continued with its promised "not covering things in other books" which I would perhaps amend to "covering things in that are not in most other books and when doing so covering them in a very detailed manner".

P.S. I wonder if my reluctance to go to the depths of explanation presented here is because this is after all a v2 book and I would be more interested in learning *all* about the foundations of the v3 solution rather than - at this stage - potentially confusing myself. This might be the wrong idea as possibly the same techniques lie under v3 too.

10/23/2006 8:49:43 AM (FLE Standard Time, UTC+02:00)

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Sunday, October 22, 2006

WSS FAQ - additions and corrections - XXVII - 9th to 15th October 2006

(This is also posted to the WSS newsgroup at microsoft.public.sharepoint.windowsservices - web access via http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/newsgroups/server/sharepoint.mspx)

(Items are added to the WSS FAQ throughout the week so you will find new items more quickly by checking at wss.collutions.com or www.wssfaq.com daily.)

From 16th - 22nd October 2006

I. KB Articles

New

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;926224

Description of the SharePoint Portal Server 2003 post-Service Pack 2 hotfix package: October 2, 2006

18th October 2006

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;925380

Description of the SharePoint Portal Server 2003 post-Service Pack 2 hotfix package: September 19, 2006

16th October 2006

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=925839

Description of the Windows SharePoint Services post-Service Pack 2 hotfix package: September 25, 2006

16th October 2006

Modified

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=892866

Impersonation does not work when you use the SharePoint Portal Server object model or the Windows SharePoint Services object model to impersonate an authenticated user (ver 1.2)

12th October 2006

II. Articles - 2007 Products

New

A. Office 2007 Server Products

http://www.avepoint.com/download/MOSS_2007_Backup_Strategies.pdf

MOSS 2007 Backup Strategies (Warning: AvePoint - includes their products)

20th October 2006 (date added)

http://blog.u2u.info/DottextWeb/patrick/archive/2006/10/19/34234.aspx

The SharePoint DelegateControl Uncovered (Blog - Patrick Tisseghem)

19th October 2006

http://andrewconnell.com/blog/archive/2006/10/18/4910.aspx

What's a MOSS 2007 vs. WSS v3 Feature? (Blog - Andrew Connell)

18th October 2006

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/ssofian/archive/2006/10/18/14183.aspx

MOSS 2007 B2TR RSS Ticker (Blog - Steve Sofian)

18th October 2006

https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastRegistrationConfirmation.aspx?culture=en-US&RegistrationID=1286401211

Momentum Webcast: Build Your Business Productivity Infrastructure with the 2007 Microsoft Office System Servers (Level 100) (Matt Berg)

17th october 2006

https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastRegistrationConfirmation.aspx?culture=en-US&RegistrationID=1286401288

Microsoft Webcast: An Introduction to Microsoft Expression Web (Level 200) (William Steele)

17th october 2006

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/nrdev/archive/2006/10/17/14175.aspx

Search under Forms Authentication WSS 2007 B2TR (Blog - Nathan Shulman)

17th October 2006

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/tonstegeman/archive/2006/10/17/14193.aspx

SharePoint 2007 SiteGroups - part 2 - Creating SiteGroups in code (Blog - Ton Stegeman)

17th October 2006

http://sharepointsolutions.blogspot.com/2006/10/anatomy-of-sharepoint-wss-v3-feature.html

Anatomy of a SharePoint WSS v3 Feature Project in Visual Studio 2005 (Blog - Tony Bierman)

17th October 2006

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/ssa/archive/2006/10/17/14132.aspx

MOSS 2007 - Creating a Site Collection [Basics] (Blog - S.S. Ahmed)

17th October 2006

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/helloitsliam/archive/2006/10/16/14066.aspx

MOSS2007 + Colligo Contributor Beta 2 (Blog - Liam Cleary)

16th October 2006

https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastRegistrationConfirmation.aspx?culture=en-US&RegistrationID=1286401675

TechNet Webcast: Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2006 Technical Overview (Level 200) (Keith Combs)

16th October 2006

https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastRegistrationConfirmation.aspx?culture=en-US&RegistrationID=1286401807

Microsoft Webcast: An Introduction to Microsoft Expression Interactive Designer (Level 100) (William Steele)

16th October 2006

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/itsolutions/msit/deploy/itwebtcs.mspx

Improving an IT Self-Help Portal User Experience (Ed: Microsoft's migration from CMS 2002 to MOSS 2007)

15th October 2006 (date added)

http://weblogs.mysharepoint.de/fabianm/archive/2006/05/26/Form_2D00_basierte-Authentifizierungen-gegen-einen-SQL-Server-2005-in-SharePoint-_2800_Teil-1_2900_.aspx

Form-basierte Authentifizierungen in SharePoint (Teil 1) (In German) (Blog - Fabian Moritz) (Form-based authentication in SharePoint - part 1)

15th October 2006 (date added)

http://weblogs.mysharepoint.de/fabianm/archive/2006/06/13/Form_2D00_basierte-Authentifizierungen-in-SharePoint-_2800_Teil-2_2900_.aspx

Form-basierte Authentifizierungen in SharePoint (Teil 2) (In German) (Blog - Fabian Moritz) (Form-based authentication in SharePoint - part 2)

15th October 2006 (date added)

http://weblogs.mysharepoint.de/fabianm/archive/2006/07/04/Form_2D00_basierte-Authentifizierungen-in-SharePoint-_2800_Teil-3_2900_.aspx

Form-basierte Authentifizierungen in SharePoint (Teil 3) (In German) (Blog - Fabian Moritz) (Form-based authentication in SharePoint - part 3)

15th October 2006 (date added)

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/tonstegeman/archive/2006/10/14/13889.aspx

SharePoint 2007 SiteGroups - part 1 - the basics (Blog - Ton Stegeman)

14th October 2006

B. Other Office 2007 products

http://msdn.microsoft.com/architecture/office/oba/rap/scm/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dnbda/html/OBARAPSCM.asp

Building Better Business Applications Using the 2007 Microsoft Office System (Atanu Banerjee)

20th October 2006 (date added)

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa431857.aspx

Business Contact Manager for Outlook Developer Guide (web version)