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

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

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

From 13th - 19th November 2006 

I.a KB Articles

New

None

Modified

None

II.b 2007 KB Articles

(MOSS 2007 at first)

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=927155

Crawls of a content source that contains MIME file types are not completed successfully after you upgrade to the original release version of SharePoint Server 2007

9th November 2006

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/925198/en-us

You may not see the values of the promoted fields when you upload an InfoPath 2007 form to a document library

9th November 2006

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=925765

How to configure SharePoint to let you search OneNote 2007 content on SharePoint sites (ver 1.1)

3rd November 2006

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=926964

Error message when you use Outlook 2007 to visit SharePoint Server 2007 Web sites that are configured to use client certificate mapping: "401 Unauthorized" (ver 1.1)

3rd November 2006

(WSS from here on)     Note: due to a mixup when adding these some of them are actually MOSS 2007 - apologies

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;928148

Changes to an Office Open XML Formats file are not saved when you click a hyperlink to open the file

17th November 2006

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;928305

Scalable hosting mode sites are inaccessible after you detach and reattach an upgraded Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 content database

17th November 2006

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;926891

Attachment is missing from an e-mail message that is sent to a Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 document library

16th November 2006

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;928028

Error message when a user tries to save an item to a list or respond to a survey in a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Web site: "An unexpected error has occurred"

15th November 2006

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;916895

Error message when you try to install an East Asian version of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: "Language of this installation package is not supported by your system" (ver 1.1)

14th November 2006

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;916893

Error message when you try to install Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: "This access control list is not in canonical form" (ver 1.1)

14th November 2006

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;916894

Error message when you install SharePoint Portal Server 2007 or Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: "Failed to create sample data" (ver 1.1)

14th November 2006

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;927082

Users are unexpectedly prompted to enter their credentials when they access a list in a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 site that is based on the Publishing Site template (ver 1.2)

14th November 2006

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;927772

Error message during the SharePoint Server 2007 installation process: "The data location path is too long"

14th November 2006

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;927919

You cannot search a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 site when the host header site uses HTTP and HTTPS

13th November 2006

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;927100

A user still has administrator permissions after you change the user's role from a SharePoint administrator to a SharePoint reader in Windows Small Business Server 2003

13th November 2006

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;926961

Error message when you use SharePoint 3.0 Central Administration to try to re-add a content database in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0

13th November 2006

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=927675

No Adobe PDF documents are returned in the search results when you search a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Web site

10th November 2006

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=926702

When you open a SharePoint list on the Windows SharePoint Services Web site in Internet Explorer, either the primary key field is blank or the whole list is blank in Access 2007

8th November 2006

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=926536

Error message when you try to save data on a List Item form in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Beta: "Unable to validate data"

7th November 2006

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=919042

Changes that you make to a recurring item are not synchronized, or all-day events are displayed incorrectly when you view a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Calendar list in Outlook 2003

7th November 2006

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=918725

Free/busy information for an appointment in a Windows SharePoint Services Calendar list is displayed in Outlook 2007 but not in Windows SharePoint Services

7th November 2006

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=926319

You cannot change to a view other than WebView view when you use the Open dialog box in a 2007 Office program to open a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 site on a computer that is running Windows Vista (ver 1.1)

7th November 2006

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=926439

You cannot view the items in the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 list that you added to Outlook 2007

6th November 2006

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=925830

You cannot delete an RSS folder that is subscribed to a subfolder of a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 document library in Outlook 2007

6th November 2006

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=924133

You cannot copy a recurring meeting series to a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 calendar from an Outlook 2007 calendar

6th November 2006

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=927376

Error message when you try to create a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Web application in SharePoint 3.0 Central Administration: "The IIS Web Site you have selected is in use by SharePoint"

6th November 2006

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=926718

How to attach a content database backup during a gradual upgrade of a Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 farm to Windows SharePoint Services 3.0

6th November 2006

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;920783

Event ID 10017 error messages are logged in the System log after you install Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (ver 2.1)

3rd November 2006

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;925728

Error message when you click "Create Site" on the tab that is located in the upper-right corner of the Site Directory page of a site collection: "Page cannot be displayed" (ver 1.1)

3rd November 2006

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;923902

Values that were previously associated with a field are reset when you run a custom code that calls the Lists.UpdateList method to update a list view in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 or in SharePoint Portal Server 2003 (ver 1.1)

3rd November 2006

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=917032

Error message when you add a Windows SharePoint Services list to Outlook 2007: "Outlook cannot download to this remote data because Admin Settings allow only creation of Outlook 97-2002 Personal Folders file (.pst)" (ver 1.1)

3rd November 2006

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=919549

The value of a column in a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 list that you connected to Outlook 2007 is blank after you use the "Send/Receive" command in Outlook to update the list (ver 1.1)

3rd November 2006

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=920276

An item in a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 discussion board is missing a follow-up flag, the level of importance, or the color category when you view the item in Outlook 2007 (ver 1.1)

3rd November 2006

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=920785

Attachments that are allowed by Outlook 2007 may be blocked by Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (ver 1.1)

3rd November 2006

(After this are Forms Services articles - may in fact just be InfoPath 2007 articles but Applies To says Forms Server)

None

 

II. Articles - 2007 Products

New

A. Office 2007 Server Products

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms778813.aspx

Best Practices: Using Disposable Windows SharePoint Services Objects (Scott Harris, Mike Ammerlaan)

18th November 2006 (date added)  [June 2006 updated November 2006]

http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/c7647e52-2178-4d3d-9376-84b2c9a35a1e1033.mspx?mfr=true

Deploy Windows SharePoint Services version 3 - Pre-install databases

18th November 2006 (date added)

http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/bd2a9863-954a-4e44-bafc-af8c9599cb471033.mspx

Deploy Windows SharePoint Services version 3 - Deploy and configure SharePoint sites - Deploy language packs

18th November 2006 (date added)

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointtechnology/HA102055631033.aspx

Demo: Tour a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 site

18th November 2006 (date added)

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa973804.aspx

Using Excel Web Services in a SharePoint Web Part (Dan Battagin)

18th November 2006 (date added)

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=2c5919e4-0757-4db1-9798-e0e4032f12a8&displaylang=en

SharePoint Server 2007 Sample: Web Part That Calls Excel Web Services

17th November 2006

http://msmvps.com/blogs/shane/archive/2006/11/15/installing-moss-2007-rtm-on-a-farm-running-moss-2007-beta2-tr.aspx

Installing MOSS 2007 RTM on a farm running MOSS 2007 Beta2 TR (Blog - Shane Young)

17th November 2006 (date added)

http://blogs.msdn.com/joelo/archive/2006/11/16/office-sharepoint-server-b2tr-to-rtm.aspx

Upgrading from Office SharePoint Server 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh to Release Version (SharePoint Team Blog - Joel Oleson)

17th November 2006 (date added)

http://blogs.msdn.com/joelo/archive/2006/11/16/upgrading-from-wss-3-0-b2tr-to-rtm.aspx

Upgrading from Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Beta 2 Technical Refresh to Release Version (SharePoint Team Blog - Joel Oleson)

17th November 2006 (date added)

http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/dd35daa3-dca9-48bd-bc62-affab156d3531033.mspx?mfr=true

Upgrading from Office Forms Server 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh to Release Version

17th November 2006 (date added)

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa830817.aspx

Customizing and Branding Web Content Management-Enabled SharePoint Sites (Part 3 of 3): Creating and Configuring WCM-Enabled Sites (Patrick Tisseghem, U2U)

16th November 2006 (date added)

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=d51730b5-48fc-4ca2-b454-8dc2caf93951&DisplayLang=en

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (released version)

16th November 2006 (date added)

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=36ee1bf0-652c-4e38-b247-f29b3eefa048&DisplayLang=en

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Language Pack

16th November 2006 (date added)

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=0a50da0f-7c94-4814-bbfe-2b66fe4a9087&DisplayLang=en

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 x64

16th November 2006 (date added)

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=45fa2637-efc0-4ed6-8f47-8a013e9ce9d9&DisplayLang=en

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Language Pack x64

16th November 2006 (date added)

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=2e6e5a9c-ebf6-4f7f-8467-f4de6bd6b831&DisplayLang=en

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Trial Version

16th November 2006 (date added)

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/zimmer/archive/2006/11/15/16102.aspx

MOSS 2007: Search and Indexing - Part 1 (Tobias Zimmergren)

16th November 2006 (date added)

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointserver/HA102078901033.aspx

Demo: Enable Excel Services and data connections for a SharePoint team site

16th November 2006 (date added)

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointserver/HA102045611033.aspx

Demo: Add a library to a Records Center site

16th November 2006 (date added)

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointserver/HA102050471033.aspx

Demo: Deploy an administrator-approved form template

16th November 2006 (date added)

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointserver/HA102047921033.aspx

Demo: Configure a SharePoint Server 2007 site to receive e-mail

16th November 2006 (date added)

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=0daafc81-efff-4f5b-a28a-8265f1e99f5b&DisplayLang=en

Installing Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 on a Server Running Windows Small Business Server

15th November 2006

http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2006/11/15/moss-enterprise-to-standard-not-recommended.aspx

Enterprise eval to Standard edition steps (MS Team Blog)

15th November 2006

http://andrewconnell.com/blog/archive/2006/11/15/5168.aspx

Programmatically adding pages to a MOSS Publishing site (Blog - Andrew Connell)

15th November 2006

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointtechnology/FX101758691033.aspx

Which SharePoint technology is right for you? (Comparison of which features are in which product)

15th November 2006 (date added)

http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/11/13/79

Manually removing the Office 2007 Beta (Blog - Patrick Schmid - quoting with permission a Microsoft document)

15th November 2006 (date added)

http://www.rehmanis.net/images/Blog/IntelligentDashboards.zip

Intelligent Dashboard using Excel Services (Asif Rehmani)

14th November 2006

http://www.rehmanis.net/images/blog/features.zip

The "Features" feature (Asif Rehmani)

14th November 2006

https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastRegistrationConfirmation.aspx?culture=en-US&RegistrationID=1286819148

TechNet Webcast: How Microsoft IT Deployed and Architected SharePoint Server 2007 (Level 300) (Sean Livingston)

14th November 2006

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/tbaginski/archive/2006/11/14/16053.aspx

HOW TO: Prevent creation of sub sites within MOSS 2007 My Sites (Blog - Todd Baginski)

14th November 2006

http://weblogs.asp.net/soever/archive/2006/11/14/SharePoint-2007_3A00_-using-the-masterpage-from-your-site-in-custom-_5F00_layouts-pages.aspx

SharePoint 2007: using the masterpage from your site in custom _layouts pages (Blog - Serge van den Oever)

14th November 2006

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/ssa/archive/2006/11/13/15988.aspx

Searching Fileshares in MOSS 2007 (Blog - S.S. Ahmed)

13th November 2006

http://weblogs.asp.net/soever/archive/2006/11/12/SharePoint-Solution-Generator-_2D00_-part-2_3A00_-the-internals-of-the-created-site-definition-project.aspx

SharePoint Solution Generator - part 2: the internals of the created site definition project (Blog - Serge van den Oever)

12th November 2006

http://weblogs.asp.net/soever/archive/2006/11/11/SharePoint-Solution-Generator-_2D00_-part-1_3A00_-create-a-site-definition-from-an-existing-site.aspx

SharePoint Solution Generator - part 1: create a site definition from an existing site (Blog - Serge van den Oever)

11th November 2006

http://weblogs.asp.net/soever/archive/2006/11/11/SharePoint-2007_3A00_-Accessing-information-on-the-SharePoint-Web-Server-Extensions-folder.aspx

SharePoint 2007: Accessing information on the SharePoint Web Server Extensions folder (Blog - Serge van den Oever)

11th November 2006

https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastRegistrationConfirmation.aspx?culture=en-US&RegistrationID=1286819276

TechNet Webcast: Build Great Looking Sites Using Web Content Management Features in Office SharePoint Server 2007 (Level 200) (Bob German)

10th November 2006

https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastRegistrationConfirmation.aspx?culture=en-GB&RegistrationID=1286845249

Records Management in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (Marc Fresko, Cornwell Management Consultants + Rob Gray, Microsoft UK)

10th November 2006

http://weblogs.asp.net/soever/archive/2006/11/09/SharePoint-2007-_2D00_-_2F005F00_layouts-and-how-to-create-pages-that-run-in-site-context.aspx

SharePoint 2007 - /_layouts and how to create pages that run in site context (Blog - Serge van den Oever)

9th November 2006

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/andymay/archive/2006/11/09/15913.aspx

MOSS 2007 - Advanced Search on your own metadata (Blog - Andy May)

9th November 2006

http://www.codeplex.com/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ProjectName=SLK&ReleaseId=1014

SharePoint Learning Kit

8th November 2006

http://spstips.blogspot.com/2006/08/common-and-simple-coding-tasks-in.html

Common (and simple) coding tasks in sharepoint (Blog - Ishai Sagi)

29th August 2006

B. Other Office 2007 products

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=12b99325-93e8-4ed4-8385-74d0f7661318&displaylang=en

2007 Office System Add-In: Icons Gallery (ver 1106)

17th November 2006

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=6f575686-cb66-41a0-be75-b06f542e90bf&displaylang=en

Groove Server 2007 Data Bridge Administrator's Guide, version 1

16th November 2006

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=c6d04019-659d-4229-ae2d-b855e0925225&displaylang=en

Groove Server 2007 Relay Administrator's Guide, version 1

14th November 2006

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=ef5d7e8f-9e09-4606-936f-13499131d0a6&displaylang=en

Groove Server 2007 Manager Domain Administrator's Guide, version 1

13th November 2006

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=0ab02f18-26d6-48e0-9dec-6af923dcd359&displaylang=en

Groove Server 2007 Manager Server Administrator's Guide, version 1

13th November 2006

 

C. Other New 2006/2007 Products

https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastRegistrationConfirmation.aspx?culture=en-US&RegistrationID=1286819318

Microsoft Webcast: Creating Cutting-Edge Web Designs with Microsoft Expression Web (Level 200) (Lindsay Rutter)

14th November 2006

 

Modified

http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/6181fe5b-90ca-40cf-aade-abd59cf3c9071033.mspx?mfr=true

Deploy Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 in a stand-alone installation

(Moved and "Beta2" removed)

http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/58d28a34-7a84-4564-a4cb-0e6b5425f67e1033.mspx?mfr=true

Deploy Windows SharePoint Services version 3 in a server farm environment

(Moved and "Beta2" removed)

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=2672f6f9-7028-4b30-99a2-18cb1eed1abe&displaylang=en

Project 2007: Software Development Kit (Release version Nov06)

16th November 2006

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=771aeb45-9d27-4d1f-acd1-9b950637d64e&displaylang=en

2007 Office System Document: Developer Posters (ver 1106)

16th November 2006

Deleted

None

 

III. MS Articles

ew

None

Modified

None

IV Non-MS Articles

New

None

Modified

None

V. WSS FAQ additions

None

VI WSS FAQ Modified

None

 

VII WSS v3 FAQ additions

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=901

III.02.08 Limits: Are there any limits to the number of MySites you can have?

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=903

III.49.10 Search: How do you search Fileshares in MOSS 2007?

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=911

III.49.11 Search: What's the default form of a many-word search in MOSS 2007?

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=912

III.76 How do you create a Calendar event in a WSSv3/MOSS 2007 Shared Calendar from Outlook 2007?

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=900

V.25 Beginning SharePoint 2007 Administration: Windows SharePoint Services 3 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (Wrox - Göran Husman)

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=904

V.26 Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007: A Beginner's Guide (McGraw-Hill Osborne - Ron Gilster)

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=905

V.27 Expert One-on-One SharePoint 2007 and Office Development (Wrox - Randy Holloway)

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=906

V.28 Professional SharePoint 2007 Development (Wrox - John Alexander, Jeff Julian, Eli Robillard, Tom Rizzo)

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=907

V.29 Pro SharePoint Solution Development: Combining .NET, SharePoint and Office 2007 (Apress - Susie Adams, Ed Hild)

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=908

V.30 SharePoint 2007 User's Guide: Learning Microsoft Collaboration Technology (Apress - Seth Bates, Tony Smith)

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=913

V.31 How to Do Everything with Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 (McGraw-Hill Osborne, David Plotkin)

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=902

VI.18 Metadata Manager for the Microsoft Office SharePoint Server Business Data Catalog (MMMOSSBDC)  (free - Nick Swan, Ted Baginski)

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=910

VI.19 Pane Manager v 2.4 (add-in for Expression Web or SharePoint Designer 2007) (commercial)

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=909

VIII.09 The Unofficial Guide to Microsoft Office 2007 (Unofficial Guides - Paul McFedries) *released*

VIII WSS v3 FAQ Modified

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=814

V.08 Microsoft SharePoint Bible (Wiley - Avitiva Corp, Wayne Tynes, Simeon Cathey, Wynne Leon)

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=821

V.15 Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Administrator's Pocket Consultant (MS Press - Ben Curry?)

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=888

V.22 Beginning SharePoint 2007: Building Team Solutions with MOSS 2007 (Wiley - Amanda Murphy, Shane Perran)

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=889

V.23 Sharepoint 2007: The Definitive Guide (O'Reilly - Robert Tidrow)

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=746

VI.01 MOSS BDC MetaData Manager (free - Todd Baginski)  *replaced by item 18 below*

 

VIII WSS v3 FAQ Deleted

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=824

V.17 SharePoint 2007: The Definitive Guide (O'Reilly - Jeff Webb)

(The author seems to have been replaced - the new listing is V.21 author Robert Tidrow)

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 third part of my review of this book was at

http://mikewalsh.bilsimser.com/PermaLink,guid,717b9e6c-a388-4199-bec8-bbe811959907.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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We're now up to Chapter 4 which is where I was told the new stuff was. I'll also very briefly cover Chapter 5 which concludes the book.

But first a seemingly irrelevant flashback to 1979.

In 1979 I was living and working in Gothenburg, Sweden and I went to a once-a-week night class at the technical university on "Micro-computers". Now in those days - and particularly perhaps at technical universities - Micro computers were half electronics and half programming. I'd been working in computers since 1968 and had spent a fair bit of that time doing programming so I had no problems with the programming half of my course but struggled a bit with the electronics side of things. (Ironic because my father is a chartered electrical engineer ...!).

Of the 12 people attending that course I was the only person with a programming background. All the rest had an electronics background and so what happened was that the lecturer spend a lot of time going over the programming side of things and (to my mind) rushed through the electronics side. In other words for my purposes he went into too great detail explaining the simple (=programming) concepts and too little time explaining the difficult (=electronics) concepts.

When I had read about 15 or so pages of chapter four of this book, I was reminded of that experience (and kept being reminded of it) because this chapter went into great (and to me unnecessary) detail explaining the SharePoint UI; and the Sharepoint templates; and several standard files that were all well known to me and yet as soon as it finally (and I mean finally - there was a 12 page introduction with too many unnecessary screen shots taking up many almost entire pages before the writer even got to the problem at hand) got to something where I wanted that in depth explanation (the first mention of user controls) there was no explanation at all.

So it continued for most of the chapter with a lot of code but no explanation of how to incorporate this code with the user controls code etc. etc.

So here was the chapter where I wanted to learn new techniques and I couldn't because there were assumptions being made about my field of expertise that were incorrect (and equally assumptions being made about a lack of expertise in basic Sharepoint techniques that were equally incorrect).

Or in other words I was back in Gothenburg again with the lecturer going into great detail about stuff I'd been doing for years and then not bothering with that level of detail for stuff i hadn't a clue about.

I finally (with my eyes glazing) got to the Summary to Chapter 4 and there *for the first time* I read the following bullet-point -

"We've seen JavaScript, user controls, ASP.NET, web services, and Data Access Blocks, which we already assumed you had experience with, and it's good to know that SharePoint uses those things that developers already know."

So there we have it. This book isn't to teach Advanced Concepts to people who already know SharePoint. It's to teach people who don't know SharePoint how to use their "things that developers already know" in a SharePoint environment.

Unlike the writer of that bullet-point, I haven't noticed when looking through the book any part of it that says that they assume knowledge of "JavaScript, user controls, ASP.NET, web services, and Data Access Blocks", in fact the preface says "This book is for people who have wrestled with SharePoint and have tried to make SharePoint behave in a way that it probably wasn't originally designed to  do". I doesn't sound like assuming knowledge of user controls, web services and Data Access Blocks to me - in fact it sounds like it's directed at me.

Well it isn't.

This book should have been "SharePoint for ASP.NET developers" (or something on those lines). What it isn't is a book for people with a good knowledge of SharePoint who want to start doing more with it than the basic product allows. That book is still missing (apart from Advanced SharePoint Solutions by Scot Hillier).

Chapter 5 is easily covered.

It's back to a rather basic level again and while most of the "Global Customizations" are well chosen, spending time on the extremely basic and standard "adding a PDF icon" does seem to be a waste of time in a book supposedly offering "Advanced Concepts".

----------------------------------------------------

Summing up.

This book went into great detail in areas where people who knew SharePoint already didn't need the great detail. It then skipped the detail in areas where people who knew the SharePoint products from the point-of-view of an administrator required those details.

It would be a very good book for ASP.NET (etc.) developers with little or no knowledge of the SharePoint products to get a feel for Sharepoint and how they could use their skills to add additional functionality.

It would also be a good book for people with SharePoint knowledge who already had the necessary developer experience to be able to use Chapter 4. The earlier chapters - as I have noted already - included several gems that even people who have used SharePoint for quite a while would find new.

It would be however a very frustrating book (despite those early gems) for people who already knew SharePoint well but who wanted to extend their skills into adding functionality via user controls and web services.

Unfortunately neither the Preface nor the back jacket of the book made this distinction clear.

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

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

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

From 6th - 12th November 2006 

I.a KB Articles

New

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/923174

Error message when you use Explorer View in a document library in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: "Unexpected error occurred" or "Explorer View requires Internet Explorer 5.0 or greater and Web Folders" (ver 1.1)

3rd November 2006

Modified

None

II.b 2007 KB Articles

(MOSS 2007 at first)

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=925609

A crawl does not make any progress and the crawl logs show no new crawled documents in SharePoint Server 2007 (ver 2.0) 

7th November 2006

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=925713

Error message when you open a Web page that uses Excel Web Access in SharePoint Server 2007: "You do not have permissions to open this file on Excel Services" or "Excel cannot load the workbook that you requested" (ver 1.1) 

3rd November 2006

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=926281

Error message when you try to create a content deployment path in SharePoint Server 2007: "Value not in expected range"  (ver 1.1) 

3rd November 2006

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=925189

Error message when you try to use an existing site template to create a new SharePoint Server 2007 site: "Failed to apply template" (ver 1.1) 

3rd November 2006

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=925759

Fields are cleared or returned to their default settings, or you receive an error message when you submit a form that uses the "Save Results" component in SharePoint Designer 2007 (ver 1.2) 

3rd November 2006

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=925758

How to create a custom Web package for use with SharePoint Designer 2007 (ver 1.1) 

3rd November 2006

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=926282

Images do not appear after you convert a .docx file to a Web page in SharePoint Server 2007 (ver 1.2) 

3rd November 2006

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=926283

SharePoint Server 2007 article page content is added in the Pages library and not in the document library in which the article page was created (ver 1.1) 

3rd November 2006

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=926281

Error message when you try to create a content deployment path in SharePoint Server 2007: "Value not in expected range" (ver 1.1)

3rd November 2006

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=923900

Items that are associated with a "keyword best bet" in SharePoint Server 2007 are displayed in the search results even though a user does not have permissions to access the items (ver 1.1)

3rd November 2006

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=923901

The My Calendar Web Part still appears in Daily view even though you set the view to Weekly view in SharePoint Server 2007 (ver 1.1)

3rd November 2006

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=926202

You cannot change your user information on the "My Settings" page in SharePoint Server 2007 (ver 1.3)

3rd November 2006

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=919547

You cannot log on to a SharePoint Server 2007 site after you change the computer that is used as the dedicated front-end Web server (ver 1.1)

3rd November 2006

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=923173

Error message when you try to retrieve data from an XML Web service in SharePoint Designer 2007: "Server returned a non-specific error when trying to get data from the data source" (ver 1.1)

3rd November 2006

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=923593

Error message when users try to access a site collection in SharePoint Server 2007 after you remove the "NT Authority\Local Service" account from the policy for a Web application: "Access denied" (ver 1.1)

3rd November 2006

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=923590

How to customize the installation location when you install SharePoint Server 2007 from the command line (ver 1.1)

3rd November 2006

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=923592

Error message when you use SharePoint Central Administration to run a content deployment job in SharePoint Server 2007: "Microsoft.SharePoint.SPException': 'A folder with the name _catalogs/masterpage/Forms/Page Layout already exists" (ver 1.1)

3rd November 2006

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=924399

Error message when a user clicks the "My Profile" tab of a "My Site" personal site in SharePoint Server 2007: "Result: 404 File Not Found." (ver 1.1)

3rd November 2006

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=925728

Error message when you click "Create Site" on the tab that is located in the upper-right corner of the Site Directory page of a site collection: "Page cannot be displayed" (ver 1.1)

3rd November 2006

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=925974

The tab on the top link bar is not selected when you connect to a subsite after you enable the Office SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure feature in SharePoint Server 2007 (ver 1.1)

3rd November 2006

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=926812

Error message when you try to delete a master page file from the "Master Page and Page Layout Gallery" in SharePoint Server 2007: "This item cannot be deleted because it is still referenced by other pages" (ver 1.1)

3rd November 2006

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=927362

How to upgrade from Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Beta 2 TR or SharePoint Server 2007 Beta 2 TR to the original release versions when you did not rename the DSN registry key to DSN2 (ver 1.1) 

30.10.2006 

(WSS from here on)

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb%3ben-us%3b919042

Changes that you make to a recurring item are not synchronized, or all-day events are displayed incorrectly when you view a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Calendar list in Outlook 2003 (ver 1.0)

7th November 2006

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=926062

Error message when you try to upgrade Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: "Failed to detect if this server is joined to a server farm" (ver 1.1)

3rd November 2006

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=926197

Error message when you try to upgrade Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 to Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: "The system cannot find the path specified" (ver 1.1)

3rd November 2006

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=926370

The status of a workflow appears as "Failed to Start" when you try to start a workflow from a survey response in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (ver 1.1)

3rd November 2006

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=926435

Error message when you use the Stsadm.exe command-line tool to export a site in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: "Error: The file you are attempting to save or retrieve has been blocked from this Web site by the server administrators" (ver 1.1)

3rd November 2006

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=926434

An in-place upgrade to the release version of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 or SharePoint Server 2007 is not completed successfully (ver 1.1)

3rd November 2006

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=926719

A Column list in a content type template is not updated on a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 child site (ver 1.2)

3rd November 2006

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=919550

Error message when you view a Web page in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 or in SharePoint Server 2007: "Web Part Error: Access denied. You do not have permission to perform this action or access this resource." (ver 1.1)

3rd November 2006

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=920277

Windows Internal Database is not listed in the Add or Remove Programs tool and is not removed when you remove Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 from the computer (ver 1.1)

3rd November 2006

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=923174

Error message when you use Explorer View in a document library in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: "Unexpected error occurred" or "Explorer View requires Internet Explorer 5.0 or greater and Web Folders" (ver 1.1)

3rd November 2006

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=923502

Error message when you try to upload an Excel 2007 workbook to an Excel Web Access Web Part in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: "The request failed with HTTP status 401: Unauthorized." (ver 1.2)

4th November 2006

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=923591

Error message when you try to use data from an Excel 2007 workbook or from an Access 2007 database to create a new list in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: "An unexpected error has occurred" (ver 1.1)

3rd November 2006

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=923588

The name of a subsite is not updated in the top link bar or in the Quick Launch of the top-level Web site in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (ver 1.1)

3rd November 2006

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=923905

The tab on the top link bar is not selected when you connect to a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 subsite (ver 1.1)

3rd November 2006

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=923904

Error message when you try to upgrade Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 to Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: "Upgrade has encountered one or more lists that were not updated by Prescan.exe and must exit" (ver 1.1)

3rd November 2006

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=923903

A new user is added to the "All People" list when you add the user to a user column in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (ver 1.1)

3rd November 2006

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=923896

Error message when you try to run the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 pre-upgrade scan tool from the command line: "This server is not the indexer of this search application" (ver 1.1)

3rd November 2006

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=923895

Tasks do not appear under "My tasks" or under "All tasks" when you select the "Only their own" option on a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 team site (ver 1.1)

3rd November 2006

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=924463

You receive an error message when you try to open a .cs file that you uploaded to a document library or that you attached to a list item in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (ver 1.1)

3rd November 2006

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=925425

Error message when you create a view that contains a workflow status filter in Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services V3: "Render Failed" (ver 1.1)

3rd November 2006

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=925426

Error message when you try to run stsadm.exe -o setconfigdb together with the -hh parameter in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: "Command line error. Invalid parameter" (ver 1.1)

3rd November 2006

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=925727

Error message when you try to delete a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Web application: "This operation uses the SharePoint Administration service (spadmin), which could not be contacted" (ver 1.1)

3rd November 2006

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=925726

Error message when you try to restore an item to a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 site: "The item <ItemName> cannot be restored" (ver 1.1)

3rd November 2006

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=926061

Error message when you try to restore a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Web site: "The site collection could not be restored. Please make sure the content databases are available and have sufficient free space" (ver 1.1)

3rd November 2006

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=926321

Error message when you try to restore a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 site collection by using a different name: "No content databases are available for this operation" (ver 1.1)

3rd November 2006

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=926328

You can use the cd command or the chdir command to change to a subfolder of a WebDAV shared folder even though the subfolder does not exist in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (ver 1.1)

3rd November 2006

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=926433

Error message when a user who has the Add Items permission to a document library saves a new document or saves an existing document to a document library: "You do not have the correct permissions, please contact the server administrator" (ver 1.0)

3rd November 2006

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=926284

Changes that you make to the "List View" Web Part are not retained after you save the site as a template in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (ver 2.1)

3rd November 2006

 

(After this are Forms Services articles - may in fact just be InfoPath 2007 articles but Applies To says Forms Server)

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=926265

A conditionally hidden rich text box control appears when you open an InfoPath 2007 form in a Web browser that differs from Internet Explorer (ver 1.1) 

3rd November 2006

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=925197

Error message when you click the signature on an InfoPath 2007 form that is opened in a browser: "The given key was not present in the dictionary" (ver 1.1) 

3rd November 2006

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=927164

Error message when you try to access document libraries after you upgrade Microsoft Office Forms Server 2007: "An unexpected error has occurred" (ver 1.1)

3rd November 2006

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=925428

If an InfoPath 2007 form has an attached file, a browser may not display the file attachment (ver 1.1) 

3rd November 2006

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=925429

Some controls inside a layout table appear to be the same width as the Outlook preview pane when you view an InfoPath 2007 form in the Outlook preview pane (ver 1.1) 

3rd November 2006

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=926516

The date format is incorrect when you type a date that has a two-digit year in an InfoPath 2007 form that you open in a browser (ver 1.1)

3rd November 2006

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=926263

The template link changes back to the original URL after you relink an InfoPath 2007 form (ver 1.2) 

3rd November 2006

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=926273

When you submit an existing Microsoft Office InfoPath 2007 form and then create a new form, the existing form is reopened (ver 1.1)

3rd November 2006

 

II. Articles - 2007 Products

New

A. Office 2007 Server Products

https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastRegistrationConfirmation.aspx?culture=en-US&RegistrationID=1286753202

TechNet Webcast: Effective Document and Records Management Using Server and Client Technologies in the 2007 Office System (Level 200) (Arpan Shah)

9th November 2006

http://blogs.msdn.com/ecm/archive/2006/11/08/how-to-make-your-moss-2007-web-site-faster-with-caching.aspx

How can I make my web site faster with caching ? (ECM Team Blog - Kai Lee)

8th November 2006

https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastRegistrationConfirmation.aspx?culture=en-US&RegistrationID=1286753235

TechNet Webcast: Microsoft Forefront Security for SharePoint (Level 100) (Peter Eicher)

7th November 2006

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=4e50be6e-3f92-4552-a78c-b3be1d94d5da&displaylang=en

Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services Add-in for Microsoft SharePoint Technologies - Community Technology Preview (CTP) November 2006

7th November 2006

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa830818.aspx

Customizing and Branding Web Content Management-Enabled SharePoint Sites (Part 1 of 3): Understanding Web Content Management and the Default Features (Patrick Tisseghem, U2U)

7th November 2006 (date added - date is "October 2006")

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa830815.aspx

Customizing and Branding Web Content Management-Enabled SharePoint Sites (Part 2 of 3): Extending WCM (Patrick Tisseghem, U2U)

7th November 2006 (date added - date is "October 2006")

http://blogs.msdn.com/ecm/archive/2006/11/06/building-tylerbutler-com-part-2-building-content-types-and-page-layouts.aspx

Building tylerbutler.com, Part 2: Building Content Types and Page Layouts (MS Blog - Tyler Butler)

6th November 2006

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=19f21e5e-b715-4f0c-b959-8c6dcbdc1057&DisplayLang=en

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Tools: Visual Studio 2005 extensions (ver Nov06)

6th November 2006

http://sharepointsolutions.blogspot.com/2006/11/walkthrough-windows-sharepoint.html

Walkthrough - Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Tools: Visual Studio 2005 Extensions (Blog - Tony Bierman)

6th November 2006

https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastRegistrationConfirmation.aspx?culture=en-US&RegistrationID=1286668505

TechNet Webcast: An In-Depth Look at Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and Office SharePoint Server 2007 (Level 200) (Keith Combs)

1st November 2006

http://kalsing.blogspot.com/2006/11/create-custom-list-form-for-sharepoint.html

Create a custom list form for a SharePoint list (Blog - Kristian Kalsing)

1st November 2006

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/windowsserver/sharepoint/techref/versions.mspx

Windows SharePoint Services Version Comparison

27th October 2006

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/windowsserver/sharepoint/techref/techguide.mspx

Windows SharePoint Services Technology Guide (Ed: unless later changed this is actually a March 2006 Beta 1 Evaluation Guide!)

27th October 2006

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/windowsserver/sharepoint/techref/datasheet.mspx

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Datasheet

27th October 2006

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/windowsserver/sharepoint/techinfo/overview.mspx

Windows SharePoint Services Overview

6th October 2006

http://spstips.blogspot.com/2006/09/moss-2007-controls-have-bit-of-fun.html

MOSS 2007 controls - have a bit of fun with the "people editor" form control (Blog - Ishai Sagi)

6th September 2006

B. Other Office 2007 products

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=59daebaa-bed4-4282-a28c-b864d8bfa513&displaylang=en

2007 Microsoft Office System Update: Redistributable Primary Interop Assemblies

9th November 2006

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=048dc840-14e1-467d-8dca-19d2a8fd7485&displaylang=en

PowerPoint Viewer 2007 (ver 1)

9th November 2006

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=d88e4542-b174-4198-ae31-6884e9edd524&displaylang=en

Visio 2007 Viewer (ver 1)

9th November 2006

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=8684ebe4-4363-455c-b48c-00c12985fc52&displaylang=en

InfoPath 2007 Tool: 64-bit Server Upgrade and Migration Tool for Microsoft Office InfoPath

9th November 2006

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=98ad8620-8558-4c12-bb67-69ddad7454fd&displaylang=en

Groove 2007 Migrator (ver3)

9th November 2006

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=941b3470-3ae9-4aee-8f43-c6bb74cd1466&displaylang=en

Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 File Formats

6th November 2006

https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastRegistrationConfirmation.aspx?culture=en-US&RegistrationID=1286668412

Microsoft Webcast: Using the 2007 Office System as a Business-Productivity Platform (Sandy Sharma, INS)

2nd November 2006

https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastRegistrationConfirmation.aspx?culture=en-US&RegistrationID=1286668457

Microsoft Office System Webcast: Microsoft Office System: Advanced Tips and Tricks for Creating Dynamic Diagrams with Visio 2007 and Excel 2007 (Level 300) (Stephanie Krieger, Arouet.net)

2nd November 2006

 

C. Other New 2006/2007 Products

https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastRegistrationConfirmation.aspx?culture=en-US&RegistrationID=1286689984

MSDN Webcast: Windows Workflow Foundation Exposed (Level 200) (Lindsay Rutter)

7th November 2006

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=10cc340b-f857-4a14-83f5-25634c3bf043&DisplayLang=en

Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 Redistributable Package

6th November 2006

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=5d61409e-1fa3-48cf-8023-e8f38e709ba6&DisplayLang=en

Visual Studio 2005 extensions for .NET Framework 3.0 (Windows Workflow Foundation) (ver 3.00.4203.2)

6th November 2006

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=708e826a-9dd9-4327-bf49-5a8fa5e53ab3&displaylang=en

Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2006 VHD

6th November 2006

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=558f3ece-6509-45e9-8d60-25175848a8b7&displaylang=en

Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edition VHD

6th November 2006

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=15609c1e-dc8f-43c0-a7c6-30ca07e38fd3&displaylang=en

Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise Edition VHD

6th November 2006

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=6e6501f6-481a-4117-bc22-c745400bcda0&DisplayLang=en

Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 VHD - 32-bit version (added in case this might be useful for someone)

6th November 2006

https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastRegistrationConfirmation.aspx?culture=en-US&RegistrationID=1286668288

Introduction to Windows Workflow Foundation

2nd November 2006

Modified

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=772ccdd1-7d06-4cc4-8ecd-de5864428c26&DisplayLang=en

Visio 2007 Software Development Kit (ver 1)

9th November 2006

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=baa487e9-e1b9-4a10-beea-1fd906b77f92&DisplayLang=en

Groove 2007 Software Development Kit (ver 3)

9th November 2006

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=3294ddaf-9f67-409f-a92d-2f6070dc0d1a&displaylang=en

Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 Documentation Update (CHM) (ver 1)

7th November 2006

Deleted

https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastRegistrationConfirmation.aspx?culture=en-US&RegistrationID=1285752297

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

(Deleted because of a later webcast on this by the same speaker)

 

III. MS Articles

New

Modified

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=7287252c-402e-4f72-97a5-e0fd290d4b76&DisplayLang=en

Office 2003 Add-in: Office Web Components (ver 4) [Client-side!]

9th November 2006

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=517

VII.05.67 WSS Products - PointFire™ Multilingual User Interface (MUI)None

 

VII WSS v3 FAQ additions

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=897

III.02.06 Limits: Is there a maximum number of columns when creating a List from Excel 2007?

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=898

III.02.07 Limits: Is there a maximum number of columns when creating a List from Access 2007?

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=894

V.24 Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) et Office 2007 (In French) (Lavoisier - Erol Giraudy)

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=896

VI.17 Cross-Site Lookup Column Add-On for WSS v3 (free - SharePoint Solutions) *requires registration*

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=895

IX.09 SharePoint Solutions (US)

 

VIII WSS v3 FAQ Modified

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

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

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

IX.04 Ted Pattison Group (US) (Ted Pattison, Scot Hillier)

 

VIII WSS v3 FAQ Deleted

None

 

 

KB 927362 for which version 1.1 is dated the 30th of October is interesting for the following reason.

It's a KB article for what to do as part of an upgrade from a Beta2 TR version to a RTM version.

(and there was I thinking they only went RTM in November ...)

The key information included in the article by the way is that you need to amend a registry key from DSN to DSN2 before removing WSSv3 Beta2TR because that removal of WSSv3 Beta2TR will remove the DSN key and without DSN2 being there, the install routine for WSSv3 RTM will think it's doing a new installation.

Be careful out there !

For those of you who rushed off to check out the v3 KB articles, I regret that I have since discovered another batch of 9 MOSS, 1 WSS and 6 "Forms Server" (seem to be InfoPath 2007 mostly) KB articles.

I'm afraid I was less than diligent in checking through a file containing new KB articles in the middle of October and only checked the usual "culprits" - i.e. the ones for the v2 products. The KB articles for the v3 products had appeared but had been given a new "product name".

I only discovered this when I *was* diligent in checking a file containing last week's items and after adding all those I realised a bit later that there might have been some even earlier with these new product names and so I checked those old files again (and found the above 16).

I think that's all of them now, but Microsoft have a habit of occasionally putting (say) Word first in the Applies To section for a WSS article so that kind of thing occasionally means I miss a couple.

I'm going to go through the back files for the past few weeks again looking for Excel 2007; Word 2007 etc. articles to see if any of them are actually MOSS2007 or WSSv3 ones.

But for now enjoy the ones you have. Microsoft have updated almost all of them already so there are a mass of articles that in the WSS FAQ sites are dated 3rd November 2006 (for as always the latest version I know about).

Oh, and to newcomers here's the URL of a View of links to all v3 KB articles in Description order.

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/KB%20Articles/V3%20Sorted%20By%20Description.aspx

 

Nero has of course a well-deserved reputation for quality burning but I imagine that if their offer to upgrade my existing Nero copy hadn't come just when I'd bought a new portable and the cost by comparison to the cost of the portable was peanuts I probably wouldn't have bothered.

After all what do I need all the new media stuff for, I already have (several copies of) PowerDVD and WinDVD ?

But anyway I did and now I can report that to my amazement I was yesterday able to say that I wanted to convert a copy of a Mike Fitzmaurice SharePoint web cast (in .wmv format) so that it would run on my (Video) IPod.

Even more amazing was the the resulting file was readable (at least for the power points - the IPod screen *is* a bit small for those demos) *and* in sync.

Instead of spending hours looking for a free or virtually free (25 dollars) shareware solution, I should have gone directly to a quality product. The upgrade (using the download option of course) probably didn't run to more than 50 dollars anyway and I also got a few more goodies with it. (Even a better burner, I suspect).

Mind you I did wonder when that new upgrade I did a few days ago led to me having a nero search box on my bottom menu line. (For those curious it seems to either search the portable or the net) What are nero doing spending time on such a thing?

P.S. Mind you I shouldn't have been so greedy. When that single file worked I set a batch of 10 .wmv files going for conversion. The first ca 6 were OK but there were problems with the next and the conversion failed and I ended up with *none* of them on the IPod. (The conversion phase for all the files in the batch is first and only when that is complete does it save them all, it seems) So tonight I'll just have to convert one at a time.

I've just added a mass (30+?) of MOSS 2007 and WSSv3 KB articles to the KB articles section of the WSS FAQ sites.

For now all of them have been added as category "Other".

I now need to read them all in detail and see if I can find better categories for them. But I wanted to add them to the site as soon as possible so they are available for searches.

I bought this IPod so that I could copy music to it; shove it into the Apple "HiFi" speaker and play the music.

Nothing else. The fact that it had the ability to play back Video was irrelevant.

But I'm a gadget lover like I suspect most computer people and so after a month or so of using ITunes on the machine upstairs (bigger hard disk than the portable) to copy most of my non-classical non-jazz CDs to it and with still most of the 80GB unused, I decided to copy a few films to it just to see if I could.

The impulse for this came from me reading somewhere that Nero 7 Premium Edition already included the ability to create Ipod-style films from .avi s and non-copyright protected DVDs (etc.) and so having failed to find this in the version of Nero 7 Premium that I had, it was time to upgrade that (for nothing) to the latest version of all the components and try.

The first snag was that I had to install ITunes on this machine (I was working on the portable) and connect the IPod to the machine and then when ITunes was installed that wanted to remove all the files on the Ipod that had been synced to the other machine - it seems one Ipod can only "belong" to a single machine. Well I wasn't having any of that so I decided to learn how to say "Cancel" every time it asked me (yes, it would be easier to do this on the upstairs machine but this film creation stuff takes hours and that machine is often used by my wife (enough said?).

Then I started up Nero and finally thanks to one of their PDF FAQs found instructions on how to do this and started - only to be interupted by messages that I needed to specify that it would be using the IPod as a hard disk (plus something else) and setting that didn't seem to have any effect until I re-started Nero.

OK. So finally this worked and the first couple of test .avi films went fairly quickly to the IPod. Then I tried a DVD that had been recorded from the TV. That worked too but needed almost two hours ...

At the end of all this the IPod supposedly had all three films on it but it was still flashing "do not disconnect" like a maniac and waiting for another half an hour had no effect; nor did removing it via "Safely Remove Hardware" so the only choice was to shut down the machine (which didn't shut down until I pulled the IPod from the USB slot ...).

It then continued flashing "do not disconnect" and it was time to spend over an hour looking for what the h*** to do now.

The Apple site told me that if your IPod is set to "use as a disk" you can't just pull out the USB cable to disconnect as this can cause it to freeze - now they tell me!! - instead you have to dismount it from within ITunes.

Next time I'll know but for now that info isn't helping me.

So I found a "you'll have to reset" with the ominous words *try* this.

This said press the Music and Select buttons for 6-10 seconds. Great but my IPod doesn't have a button with the Select text on and the Apple site is no use in telling me what *I' should do with my Ipod version without a Select button.

(Yes, some of you will now be ahead of me)

But then I discovered there were public newsgroups and my first search led right to a message that even I could understand - "to reset press simultaneously the Music button and the button in the middle for 10 seconds".

This worked. (Note: the button in the middle is obviously what Apple mean by the Select button but it is labelless - how's a poor guy to know?)

All this (because of various other attempts involving many reboots and reloads of ITunes and re-adding and taking away to different USB ports) took well over an hour ....

So there you are - reset your IPod by pressing Music + 'the button in the middle'.

In my case this happened without me losing a thing.

Oh yes, and the video quality from that thing recorded on DVD from the TV was surprisingly good. So maybe I'll use it for that as well and put the new Archos (with a bigger screen) on hold until Archos includes WiFi with it.

P.S. It's cheating I know to have SharePoint clicked for this blog, but my next attempt will be to see if the Nero will accept a (SharePoint) .wmv presentation as the input film. I doubt if it will which means that I am still looking for something that will convert Microsoft web casts to avi or mpeg. There's plenty that can convert films in .wmv format but they all still seem to have major problems with Microsoft web casts.

This is a review of roughly the first half of this web cast. That was the point when I "walked out" and if it had been a presentation at TechEd I would have gone after less than ten minutes.

So no prizes for guessing whether I thought this was a good presentation.

For a presentation describing itself as an "In-depth" look at anything this was a joke. As was the level 200 billing. This was closer to 100 - much closer.

So what was the problem?

The guy hadn't bothered to create many slides and most of the ones he used in those 20 or so minutes I survived were stock Microsoft ones over which he talked and talked.

So there were a few general slides and a lot of general words. An awful lot of general words. None of which even started being an in-depth look.

You'll have noted the title - WSS 3.0 *and* MOSS 2007 - and you won't I suppose be surprised that in all that flow of words I noticed absolutely no mention of the fact that most of the things he was talking about weren't in the free WSS product. In fact he didn't (again as far as I heard - I'll admit my mind wandered several times) even mention that there were two products.

It is of course typical for most Microsoft people to always only tell you what's in MOSS 2007 and never bother to tell you that most of what they are saying isn't in WSSv3 (honourable MS exception, Mike Fitzmaurice, who is very clear and upfront about this), but I think we have a right to expect this in a presentation where both WSS and MOSS are listed in the title.

Mike, too, being close to the development team, has a right to say "We" when he's talking about features in a SharePoint product. This guy used "we" as well but his blurb says that he is "a TechNet presenter on the Microsoft Seminar Sales Team" which doesn't to my mind put him even close to the developer team and in a position to say "we" all the time when saying what the developers had added.

 

But that's a minor niggle. The big niggle is that this "in-depth" look wasn't. Not even close.

 

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

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

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

From 30th October - 5th November 2006 

I. KB Articles

New

None

 

Modified

None

 

II. Articles - 2007 Products

New

A. Office 2007 Server Products

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/helloitsliam/archive/2006/11/03/15740.aspx

MOSS2007 – Rebuild Corporate Website (Part 4) (Blog - Liam Cleary)

3rd November 2006

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/joostschermers/archive/2006/11/03/15717.aspx

Publishing Web Content (Blog - Joost Schermers)

3rd November 2006

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=7bab2321-71e6-4cf2-8bcd-0880e0d1cda3&displaylang=en

Deploying Windows Rights Management Services with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Step-By-Step Guide

3rd November 2006

(Note too

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=114f4f9c-b398-4f95-b10c-74ea32dc562d&displaylang=en

Installing Windows Rights Management Services with Service Pack 2 Step-by-Step Guide

3rd November 2006)

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/ssa/archive/2006/11/04/15719.aspx

Creating a Survey in MOSS 2007 Programmatically (Blog - S.S.Ahmed)

3rd November 2006

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/ssa/archive/2006/11/01/15602.aspx

Creating a Survey in MOSS 2007 (Blog - S.S.Ahmed)

1st November 2006

http://blogs.msdn.com/ecm/archive/2006/10/30/building-tylerbutler-com-part-1-planning-and-basic-branding.aspx

Building tylerbutler.com, Part 1: Planning and Basic Branding (MS Blog - Tyler Butler)

30th October 2006

http://blogs.msdn.com/cjohnson/archive/2006/11/01/feature-stapling-in-wss-v3.aspx

30th October 2006

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/joeldhall/archive/2006/10/30/15504.aspx

MOSS 2007 Search: Hiding part of a page from indexing & crawling - Part One (Blog - Joel D Hall)

30th October 2006

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/joeldhall/archive/2006/10/30/15512.aspx

MOSS 2007 Search: Hiding part of a page from indexing & crawling - Part Two (Blog - Joel D Hall)

30th October 2006

http://msd2d.com/newsletter_tip.aspx?id=a14f3443-c394-4950-a048-8394bcce749b&section=Sharepoint

More About SharePoint 2007 Content Types (MSD2D - Bob Mixon) *may need registration*

30th October 2006

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/tonstegeman/archive/2006/10/29/15374.aspx

Custom Edit forms in Office SharePoint Server and WSS lists (Blog - Ton Stegeman)

29th October 2006

http://sharepointsolutions.blogspot.com/2006/10/automation-in-visual-studio-2005-for.html

Automation in Visual Studio 2005 for WSS v3 Feature Development (Blog - Tony Bierman)

28th October 2006

https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastRegistrationConfirmation.aspx?culture=en-US&RegistrationID=1286567344

TechNet Webcast: Microsoft Office Excel Services Technical Overview (Level 200) (Matt Hester)

27th October 2006

http://www.devx.com/dotnet/Article/32908/1954?pf=true

Share Your Spreadsheets with Excel Services in SharePoint 2007 (Devx - Laurence Moroney)

25th October 2006

http://www.heathersolomon.com/blog/articles/servermstpageforsitecollect_feature.aspx

Create a Feature: Master Pages for Site Collections (Blog - Heather Solomon)

19th October 2006

http://www.15seconds.com/issue/060824.htm

Building Web Parts for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (internet.com - Gayan Peiris)

24th August 2006

 

B. Other Office 2007 products

https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastRegistrationConfirmation.aspx?culture=en-US&RegistrationID=1286567307

Microsoft Office System Webcast: Advanced Tips and Tricks for Incredible PowerPoint 2007 Presentations in No Time (Level 300) (Stephanie Krieger, Arouet.net)

26th October 2006

C. Other New 2006/2007 Products

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=c1a8cc18-dc9e-4c50-b598-86e640a79910&DisplayLang=en

Commerce Server 2007 Starter Site

31st October 2006

http://www.microsoftvirtuallabs.com/express/registration.aspx?LabId=e423099b-b71b-44f6-bd63-b11170f1e0cf

MSDN Virtual Labs: Microsoft Virtual Lab Express: What's New in BizTalk Server 2006

31st October 2006 (date added)

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=f05fc67a-1a2d-45c3-8a9b-6d4123f560ea&displaylang=en

Commerce Server 2007 Starter Site Installation Guide

27th October 2006

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032296904&EventCategory=3&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US

MSDN Virtual Labs: BizTalk 2006 - New Features for Deploying and Managing a BizTalk Application

3rd April 2006

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032296905&EventCategory=3&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US

MSDN Virtual Lab: BizTalk 2006 - New Features for Working with Flat Files

3rd April 2006

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032296902&EventCategory=3&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US

MSDN Virtual Lab: BizTalk 2006 - Integrating Business Rules

3rd April 2006

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032296906&EventCategory=3&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US

MSDN Virtual Lab: BizTalk 2006 - Working with Maps
 
3rd April 2006

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032296903&EventCategory=3&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US

MSDN Virtual Lab: BizTalk 2006 - Working with Schemas

3rd April 2006

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032303235&EventCategory=3&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US

MSDN Virtual Lab: Getting Started with Windows Workflow Foundation Server

31st October 2005

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032306527&EventCategory=3&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US

MSDN Virtual Lab: Architecting Connected Systems: Windows Workflow Foundation (Ed. using Visual Studio 2005)

31st October 2005

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032312601&EventCategory=3&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US

MSDN Virtual Labs: Commerce Server 2007: Profile Integration and Extension Virtual Lab

24th October 2005

Modified

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=771aeb45-9d27-4d1f-acd1-9b950637d64e&displaylang=en

2007 Office System Document: Developer Posters (ver 1006)

27th October 2006

Deleted

None

 

III. MS Articles

New

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=3d11925e-1ed6-43b0-bb94-fe69170ccf82&DisplayLang=en

Business Intelligence Portal Sample Application for Microsoft Office 2003

30th October 2006

Modified

None

IV Non-MS Articles

New

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/uday/archive/2006/11/02/15620.aspx

Backup & Restore Site in SharePoint 2003 (Uday)

4th November 2006 (date added)

Modified

None

V. WSS FAQ additions

None

VI WSS FAQ Modified

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSS%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=193

III.59 How can I make the link between Web Part Connections a dropdown list rather than the standard radio buttons?

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSS%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=462

VII.05.48 WSS Products - SP Manager v2 for SharePoint 2003 (SPS and WSS) [Backup - NSE Inc.] *** Now "EMC Backup Manager for SharePoint" (EMC) ***

VII WSS v3 FAQ additions

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=884

I.29.07 What are the differences between SPS 2003 and MOSS 2007?

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=883

III.73 What are the differences between a Blank Site created in the browser and one created with stsadm ?

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=885

III.74 Can you change tree view navigation so that it only shows sites and not pages?

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=887

III.75 How do you change the number of levels of menus from the top navigation bar?

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=888

V.22 Beginning SharePoint 2007: Building Team Solutions with MOSS 2007 (Wiley - Amanda Murphy, Shane Perran)

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=889

V.23 Sharepoint 2007: The Definitive Guide (O'Reilly - Robert Tidrow)

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=892

VI.16 SharePoint Manager 2007 (Carsten Keutmann)

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=890

VIII.07 Designing Forms with Microsoft Office InfoPath and Forms Services 2007 (Microsoft .NET Development Series) (Addison-Wesley - Scott Roberts, Hagen Green) 

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=891

VIII.08 Pro InfoPath 2007 (apress - Philo Janus)

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=881

IX.06 SharePoint Experts (US) (Dustin Miller)

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=882

IX.07 Dolmen (Belgium) (Joris Poelmans+)

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=886

IX.08 Informator (Sweden) (SP trainer usually Göran Husman)

VIII WSS v3 FAQ Modified

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=637

III.02.01 Limits: Is there still a 10MB limit for templates?

VIII WSS v3 FAQ Deleted

None