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 8th - 14th January 2007

Note: The next copy of this will be posted on the 4th of February 2007

I 2007 KB Articles    (*now only one section for WSS and MOSS*)

New

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;928303

Error message when you try to view a Web page to which you added a Content By Query Web part in SharePoint Server 2007: "404 File Not Found"

12th January 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;928783

You receive different results on an Office SharePoint Server 2007 server than on a client computer for an Office Excel 2007 workbook when you use a managed-code user-defined function in the workbook

11th January 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;928719

Error message when you try to view an Excel 2007 workbook that contains a formula that uses a caret operator in Excel Services: "The workbook may be in an unsupported file format, or it may be corrupt" (ver 1.1)

11th January 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;928721

Excel Services loads and displays an Excel 2007 workbook but does not display shapes or embedded pictures in a chart in the workbook (ver 1.1)

11th January 2007

http://www.portalconcepts.co.uk/article_wss-hosting-comparison.html

WSS Hosting Comparison

11th January 2007 (date added)

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;928624

SharePoint Server 2007 disk-based caching for "binary large objects" stops responding after an IIS application pool is recycled

10th January 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;928620

Error message when you try to start the Search service in SharePoint 2007: "An unhandled exception occurred in the user interface"

10th January 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;928622

Error messages in SharePoint Server 2007 when you try to add an import connection to import users from Active Directory services: "An error occurred while validating or updating the directory service connection" (ver 1.1)

10th January 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;928737

A hyperlink does not work in an Excel 2007 client workbook that is published to Excel Services in SharePoint Server 2007 (ver 1.1)

10th January 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;928731

Data appears in a way that is incorrect when you click Filter in the drop-down menu for a PivotTable report in Excel 2007

9th January 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;929320

Cannot view a SharePoint Services 3.0 Web site after you migrate a Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 content database

8th January 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;928095

How to install Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 side-by-side with Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 on a computer that is running Windows Small Business Server 2003

5th January 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;928617

Error message when you try to create a site collection by using a site template in the top-level site template gallery in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: "The template you have selected is invalid or cannot be found"

5th January 2007

Modified

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=927081

Error message when you try to perform an in-place upgrade of the servers in a server farm that are running the Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 Indexing Service: "Application Web Config for this IIS site (1) could not be found'  (ver 1.1)

5th January 2007   (name change - was "Error message when you try perform ...")

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;929912

How to turn on word breakers and stemmers in SharePoint Server 2007 (ver 2.0)

4th January 2007

II. Articles - 2007 Products  (*still for the moment with other Office 2007 products - this may change in the future*)

New

A. Office 2007 Server Products

http://blogs.msdn.com/joelo/archive/2007/01/12/why-wss-3-0-x64-and-moss-2007-x64-what-s-the-deal.aspx

Why WSS 3.0 x64 and MOSS 2007 x64 (MS Blog - Joel Oleson)

12th January 2007

http://weblog.vb-tech.com/nick/archive/2007/01/12/2088.aspx

Webservices, Business Data Catalog and InfoPath 2007 (Blog - Nick Swan)

12th January 2007

http://weblogs.asp.net/jan/archive/2007/01/11/how-to-enable-scheduled-publishing-in-a-moss-collaboration-portal.aspx

How-to Enable Scheduled Publishing in a MOSS Collaboration Portal (Blog - Jan Tielens)

11th January 2007

http://meiyinglim.blogspot.com/2007/01/displaying-correct-titles-of-lotus.html

Displaying the Correct Titles of Lotus Notes Documents in SharePoint Search Results (Blog - Mei Ying)

10th January 2007

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/helloitsliam/archive/2007/01/09/17654.aspx

MOSS2007 – Search and Index Lotus Notes (Blog - Liam Cleary)

9th January 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=247c06ba-c599-4b22-b2d3-7bf88c4d7811&displaylang=en

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 MP for MOM 2005

9th January 2007

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/vandest/archive/2007/01/09/17634.aspx

SharePoint 2007: Ghosting and Site Templates (Blog - Steven Van de Craen)

9th January 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=0e4dd1e7-4b1d-4cb1-b906-6d5d272c8e9d&displaylang=en&tm

SharePoint Server 2007 Code Sample: Item-Level Auditing (ver Jan07)

9th January 2007

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/tonstegeman/archive/2007/01/09/17599.aspx

Creating a custom search page for searching a specific search scope in SharePoint 2007 (Blog - Tom Stegeman)

9th January 2007

http://office.microsoft.com/download/afile.aspx?AssetID=AM102140171033

Search in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Evaluation Guide (Microsoft - Dec 2006)

9th January 2007 (date added)

http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=79610&clcid=0x409

Planning and architecture, deployment, and operations for Office Forms Server 2007 (Microsoft - Dec 2006)

9th January 2007 (date added)

http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=79613&clcid=0x409

Planning and architecture, deployment, and operations for Office SharePoint Server 2007 for Search (Microsoft - Dec 2006)

9th January 2007 (date added)

http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=79552&clcid=0x409

Planning and architecture for Office SharePoint Server 2007 (Microsoft - Dec 2006)

9th January 2007 (date added)

http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=79598&clcid=0x409

Planning and architecture for Office Project Server 2007 (Microsoft - Dec 2006)

9th January 2007 (date added)

http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=79600&clcid=0x409

Planning and Architecture for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Technology (Microsoft - Dec 2006)

9th January 2007 (date added)

http://www.developer.com/net/net/article.php/3652346

SharePoint 2007 and Windows WorkFlow Foundation: Integrating Divergent Worlds (developer.com, Gustavo Velez)

8th January 2007

http://spstips.blogspot.com/2007/01/how-to-add-print-list-option-to-list.html

How to add a "print list" option to the list actions menu (Blog - Ishai Sagi)

8th January 2007

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/heliosa/archive/2007/01/08/17587.aspx

Virus protection in Sharepoint Products & Tecnologies (part 2) (in Spanish) (Blog - Hélio Sá Moreira)

8th January 2007

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/dwise/archive/2007/01/08/SingleMasterPage.aspx

One .Master to Rule Them All (Blog - David Wise)

8th January 2007

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/vandest/archive/2007/01/08/17581.aspx

SharePoint 2007: Customizing the CategoryResultsWebPart (Blog - Steven Van de Craen)

8th January 2007

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointdesigner/HA101741331033.aspx

Create and manage publishing pages

8th January 2007 (date added)

http://meiyinglim.blogspot.com/2007/01/using-sharepoint-2007-to-index-lotus.html

Using SharePoint 2007 to index a Lotus Notes database (Blog - Mei Ying)

3rd January 2007

http://www.devx.com/webdev/Article/33456

SharePoint Development Just Got Simpler Thanks to Visual Studio Extensions (Robert Bogue at Devx)

27th December 2006

B. Other Office 2007 products

None

C. Other New 2006/2007 Products

None

Modified

None

Deleted

None

III WSS v3 FAQ

New

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=942

I.04.02 Browsers: How do I get rich text edit functionality with Firefox or Safari?

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=937

III.64.07 SPD: Why am I getting "This page cannot be edited in SharePoint Designer"?

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=938

III.81 I can't import Excel spreadsheets - what could be the reason?

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=939

III.84 How do you move the "Windows Internal Database" (embedded SQL Server 2005 Express) to a different drive than C:

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=940

III.85 Why am I getting DCOM errors in Event Viewer for a MOSS system?

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=941

VI.27 MOSS 2007 Search Connector for Documentum (commercial - Vorsite)

Modified

None

Deleted

None

IV WSSv2 KB Articles (plus SPS 2003 Hot fixes)

New

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=924881

Description of the update for Windows SharePoint Services: January 9, 2007

9th January 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=929262

You cannot obtain the SPSite object for a Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 site if the wildcard inclusion is removed

5th January 2007

Modified

None

V. MS Articles for WSSv2

New

http://office.microsoft.com:80/en-us/winsharepointadmin/HA011608241033.aspx

Migrating from WMSDE to SQL Server 2000

12th January 2007 (date added)

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=d002054e-1ecc-4da5-8e5e-73a5c4ff2998&displaylang=en&tm

Update for Windows SharePoint Services (KB924881)

9th January 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;929450

Description of the SharePoint Portal Server 2003 post-Service Pack 2 hotfix package: December 14, 2006

9th January 2007

Modified

None

VI Non-MS Articles for WSSv2

New

None

Modified

None

VII WSSv2 FAQ

New

None

Modified

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

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

I don't like forums. It's such a mess compared to using a newreader to have to access a URL to get to a single forum and then to repeat this for all the rest. It's also a mess that a forum doesn't keep track of which messages you have read already.

But at least with the new SharePoint forums there's an improvement.

For each forum there's a RSS feed. (and here, thanks to Lawrence Liu in a public newsgroup, is the full list)

SharePoint - General Q&A and Discussion:
http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/rss.aspx?ForumID=1200&Mode=0&SiteID=1

SharePoint - Setup, Upgrade, Administration, and Operation:
http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/rss.aspx?ForumID=1201&Mode=0&SiteID=1

SharePoint - Design and Customization:
http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/rss.aspx?ForumID=1202&Mode=0&SiteID=1

SharePoint - Development and Programming:
http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/rss.aspx?ForumID=1203&Mode=0&SiteID=1

SharePoint - Business Data Catalog:
http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/rss.aspx?ForumID=1204&Mode=0&SiteID=1

SharePoint - Business Intelligence:
http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/rss.aspx?ForumID=1205&Mode=0&SiteID=1

SharePoint - InfoPath Forms Services:
http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/rss.aspx?ForumID=1206&Mode=0&SiteID=1

SharePoint - Workflow:
http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/rss.aspx?ForumID=1207&Mode=0&SiteID=1

SharePoint - Excel Services:
http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/rss.aspx?ForumID=1208&Mode=0&SiteID=1

SharePoint - Search:
http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/rss.aspx?ForumID=1209&Mode=0&SiteID=1

SharePoint - Knowledge Network:
http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/rss.aspx?ForumID=1210&Mode=0&SiteID=1

So now when using an RSS Reader you can at least keep track of which messages you haven't read yet.

Also, to my surprise, when I clicked the link to one of these feeds, I went straight to the item in the forum AND (and this was the surprise) was able to reply without needing to log in with my passport (provided the correct one of my passports was active at the time ..) and it recognized me.

Maybe forums aren't so bad after all - provided you don't use them as if they are forums that is!

P.S. Unfortunately at the moment the RSS feeds above are only telling you if a new thread has been started. They are not giving you anything if there has been a reply to a thread. I have it on good authority that this will change in a few months time. Then the feeds will finally be how I want them to be.

The main Helsinki (Finnish language) paper put out a correction today to yesterday's article about Apple's IPhone.

They apologised for having said that it contained a GPS device when it didn't. (For some reason I am reminded of the phrase "everything but the kitchen sink" at this point)

My wife had torn this clipping out (I read the main Helsinki *Swedish language* paper and only glance through the Finnish one) so that I wouldn't miss it and had added this pencilled in comment

"oh well, we won't bother then".

[Important to the story is that I have just bought an expensive Garmin GPS with colour screen and maps (which replaced my old, bullkier, less expensive Garmin Gps without mapping but which still works)]

Off-topic, yes, but too good to waste ...

There probably won't be five things and I'm certainly not going to tag anyone else.

Let's see.

1. I was once British U-18 chess champion and the guy who won that title the year before me went on to become Great Britain's second Chess Grandmaster.

2. I have worked (and lived) in five countries for longer than I have worked in my home country.

3. My first micro was a CPM-based Osborne-1. This was when I learnt the benefit of taking lots and lots of backups (those early floppy drives weren't perfection).

4. I re-visited Hungary last year for the first time after almost 30 years and everything was still very familiar despite the changed street names and the new flashy shopping malls (and thanks to 3 months solid refresh work I could still get by in Hungarian - although the Hungarians I met may not think so).

5. Finland is warming up and I'm now muttering that I wish it was colder and snowing (whereas before I was muttering about it being too cold).

Ah well, I just - only just - made the five but I'm going to stick with the vow of not tagging anyone else!

[SharePoint because I was tagged by a fellow SharePoint MVP - shame on you!]

Special Note: I'm going to drop the normal coverage of Office 2007 *Client* articles from the beginning of 2007 and only cover Office 2007 Client articles that are connected with SharePoint products in some way. The present plan is to perhaps put the older (Client) posts in an "Archive" document library.

This (creation of Archive) might take a while as I'm off on vacation (when there will be a two week gap in these posts) in a week or so and I'm a bit busy until then.

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 1st - 7th January 2007

 

I 2007 KB Articles    (*now only one section for WSS and MOSS*)

New

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;928625

Error message when you try to enable the Publishing feature on a SharePoint Server 2007 site: "The feature failed to activate because a list at 'Pages' already exists in this site"

5th January 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;928727

Description of the Analysis Services formats that are supported by cube formulas in Excel Services in SharePoint Server 2007

4th January 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;928744

Error message when you try to update Excel 2007 workbook data from an external data source in SharePoint Server 2007: "Data Refresh Failed"

2nd January 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;929582

Error message when you specify a server for a SharePoint site in Project Portfolio Server 2007: "SharePoint Server URL must begin with 'http://' or 'https://' and have a valid host"

2nd January 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;928748

Not all the Excel Calculation Service servers may be used when you use Excel Web Access to load workbooks and URL load balancing is enabled (ver 1.1)

2nd January 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;928626

The Web front-end server that is running Excel Services in SharePoint Server 2007 encounters an exception

29th December 2006

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;929912

How to turn on word breakers and stemmers in SharePoint Server 2007

29th December 2006

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=928985

An Excel 2007 workbook is not saved as expected to a document library on a Windows SharePoint Services site

21st December 2006

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=928284

The order of blog post objects changes during publication when you use Word 2007 to publish a blog post to a SharePoint blog site

20th December 2006

Modified

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=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 SharePoint Products and Technologies (ver 2.0)

18th December 2006

II. Articles - 2007 Products  (*still for the moment with other Office 2007 products - this may change in the future*)

New

A. Office 2007 Server Products

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/johnwpowell/archive/2007/01/04/17484.aspx

How to Change the SharePoint Url using Alternate Access Mappings (Blog - John W Powell)

4th January 2007

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/heliosa/archive/2007/01/02/17403.aspx

Virus protection in Sharepoint Products & Tecnologies (part 1) (in Spanish) (Blog - Hélio Sá Moreira)

2nd January 2007

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/tonstegeman/archive/2006/12/30/17335.aspx

Managing Content Deployment Paths and Jobs from code (Blog - Ton Stegeman)

30th December 2006

http://www.wssdemo.com/blog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?List=d5813c18%2D934f%2D4fd6%2D9068%2D5cdd59ce56ba&ID=222

Customising SharePoint Search (MOSS only) (Blog - Ian Morrish)

22nd December 2006

http://blogs.msdn.com/ecm/archive/2006/12/18/building-tylerbutler-com-part-5-final-touches.aspx

Building tylerbutler.com, Part 5: Final Touches

18th December 2006

B. Other Office 2007 products

None

 

C. Other New 2006/2007 Products

None

Modified

None

Deleted

None

III WSS v3 FAQ

New

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=933

III.26.05 Alerts: Can you set alerts for a View?

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=931

III.54.04 Templates: why do I only see the Publishing Site template on a site I upgraded from SPS 2003?

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=932

III.64.06 SPD: How do I use SPD 2007 to transfer a workflow from test to production?

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=935

III.82 When connecting to a database what is a valid list of BDC DataAccessProviders?

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=936

III.83 How does an Administrator edit another user's information such as the e-mail address used by WSS 3.0?

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=930

VI.26 SharePoint Builder (free - Bil Simser)

 

Modified

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

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

Deleted

None

IV WSSv2 KB Articles (plus SPS 2003 Hot fixes)

New

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=929254

The field values are invisible on the page when you update the field metadata of a Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 list by using FrontPage remote procedure calls

27th December 2006

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=929265

You may receive a COMException exception when you use the "SPWeb.GetFileAsString(URL)" method to obtain an XML file in Windows SharePoint Services

27th December 2006

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=929256

Error message when you select a template from the Template Selection page in Windows SharePoint Services 2.0: "Cannot complete this action"

26th December 2006

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=929263

How to create read-only views in Windows SharePoint Services 2.0

22nd December 2006

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=929259

How to programmatically download attachments from list items in Windows SharePoint Services

21st December 2006

Modified

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=926892

Changes are not saved when you use an Office 2003 program to change a 2007 Office file in a Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 document library (ver 1.1)

19th December 2006

Withdrawn

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=831106

Things to consider when you use SSL termination with SharePoint Portal Server 2003 and with Windows SharePoint Services

was ver 2.9 - 11 Jan 2006

V. MS Articles for WSSv2

New

None

Modified

None

VI Non-MS Articles for WSSv2

New

None

Modified

None

VII WSSv2 FAQ

New

None

Modified

None

It baffles me. There's  a perfectly good SBS 2003 newsgroup (microsoft.public.windows.server.sbs) which is very active and has some very good people providing support.

Then there's a SBS 2003-only article giving details of how to upgrade from WSS 2.0 to WSS 3.0 (and keep WSS 2.0) *only* in that SBS 2003 environment.

Yet despite the fact that no-one in the WSS newsgroup has yet managed to answer questions about that procedure (not really surprising because the vast majority of them don't have SBS 2003 and so they can't follow the article even if they felt like it), people still continue to post questions *in the .windowsservices* newsgroup about it.

What are they trying to achieve ?  If we don't have SBS 2003 we're not going to install it no matter how many SBS 2003 specific questions that come there.

Yet if anyone dares to reply and suggest that they post to microsoft.public.windows.server.sbs the likelihood is that they'll get snapped at.

The computer world's a mad place sometimes (or is it just the people in it?).

I can only assume that there was a DNS mess-up in Germany that led to www.asaris.de being redirected to the other company I mentioned in my last post.

Now, at least, the WSS FAQ mirror is working again after giving me the biggest scare I've had for many years.

Breathes out (and again and again and again)

It seems to be a regular event. On the last day of the 2005 I just happened to be on-line when I received an e-mail that the SharePoint hoster of the European mirror site was moving to a new server and so the site was down for a couple of days and then reappeared with a new address that I had to map into DNS servers etc.

There was nothing to complain about. Hosting is provided free to me by the german Asaris company and they were moving to their own servers from those of a third-party.

At the end of 2006 I rather expected something similar - this time because I suspected that Asaris would be upgrading to MOSS 2007 (the earlier site ran on a WSS site within SPS 2003) - but nothing happened just before the New Year so I thought I was OK for a while.

Now after the site has worked well so far in 2007, it's suddenly gone down and when I checked www.asaris.de (the WSS FAQ site is actually http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/default.aspx) I was transfered to http://www2.mycema.com/default.aspx and all attempts to add sites/walsh to that failed. (Yes I did try).

So I've done what I could do and whipped off an e-mail and I am keeping my fingers crossed that they didn't contact me because they are going to transfer my sites.

But if not, and if I've lost my free hoster, I'll be looking for a new one that is prepared to host the mirror site in return for an ad on the front page.

But for now guys, use the wss.collutions.com site !

It's really a major pity that the direct link to the Books List has gone just as the SharePoint v3 Books are starting to come out....

Fingers tightly crossed ... Mike

P.S. They do seem now to be hosting using MOSS 2007 so hopefully, hopefully they have moved my stuff across ....

Look here for the list of SharePoint v3 books

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/V%20Books.aspx

It's been a long wait but finally one of them, Todd Bleeker's book on WSS 3.0 listed fourth is OUT !

Next to come is maybe the Adminstrator's Guide (Bill English et al.). 

Is life so dull in Minnesota ?

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 24th - 31st December 2006

 

I 2007 KB Articles    (*now only one section for WSS and MOSS*)

New

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;928726

Error message when a user tries to view a chart in Excel Web Access: "Failed to download Excel Services Chart"

29th December 2006

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;928030

When you insert a label in a document that you have created and then saved in a SharePoint Server 2007 document library, some characters do not appear in the Label field

28th December 2006

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;928730

You may expose internal server names or path names when you post an Excel 2007 file to a SharePoint Server 2007 Web site if the file uses a CELL(<address>) function

23rd December 2006

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;928743

Analysis Services data cache sharing of an OLAP cube may not work correctly in Excel Calculation Services

22nd December 2006

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;928750

The Office SharePoint Server 2007 Excel Services server may not have sufficient memory to function correctly when the "Maximum Private Bytes" attribute is set to a value that is less than 100 MB

22nd December 2006

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;928749

Excel Services will not load workbooks from sites that are mapped to internal sites that are listed as trusted locations in SharePoint Server 2007

22nd December 2006

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;928302

Anonymous users can search the version comments in a document or in a picture in SharePoint Server 2007

21st December 2006

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;928751

The Sort Order is not applied when you select a new Sort Order that is not the default Sort Order for a site locale in Office SharePoint Server 2007

21st December 2006

Modified

None

II. Articles - 2007 Products  (*still for the moment with other Office 2007 products - this may change in the future*)

New

A. Office 2007 Server Products

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=5e9bf2af-7019-4723-b8d9-6d2a376d302e&displaylang=en

Using InfoPath Forms on a SharePoint Site Get Started

29th December 2006

http://www.mikeysgblog.com/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?List=2a6f6104%2D74fc%2D44a8%2D9105%2D8e1ccca15897&ID=426

Installing The PDF Ifilter In SharePoint and Registering the PDF Icon (Blog - Michael Gannotti using information from Marvin Mitchell)

29th December 2006 (date added)

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/technetmag/issues/2007/01/SharePoint/?rss=http://www.microsoft.com/technet/technetmag/issues/2007/01/SharePoint

An Overview of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (TechNet Magazine Jan 2007 - Thomas Rizzo)

28th December 2006 (date added)

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/technetmag/issues/2007/01/Security/?rss=http://www.microsoft.com/technet/technetmag/issues/2007/01/Security

7 New Features That Enhance Security in SharePoint  (TechNet Magazine Jan 2007 - Adam Robert Buenz)

28th December 2006 (date added)

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/technetmag/issues/2007/01/Search/?rss=http://www.microsoft.com/technet/technetmag/issues/2007/01/Search

Find It All with SharePoint Enterprise Search (TechNet Magazine Jan 2007 - Matt Hester)

28th December 2006 (date added)

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/technetmag/issues/2007/01/CommandPrompt/?rss=http://www.microsoft.com/technet/technetmag/issues/2007/01/CommandPrompt

Powerful Command Line Administration for SharePoint (TechNet Magazine Jan 2007 - Todd Klindt)

28th December 2006 (date added)

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/technetmag/issues/2007/01/Wiki/?rss=http://www.microsoft.com/technet/technetmag/issues/2007/01/Wiki

Wiki While You Work (TechNet Magazine Jan 2007 - Mauro Cardarelli)

28th December 2006 (date added)

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/tonstegeman/archive/2006/12/26/17238.aspx

Exporting and importing SharePoint 2007 content using the object model (Blog - Ton Stegeman)

26th December 2006

http://blog.funknstyle.com/?p=563

SharePoint 2007 – Document Library Send To Feature (Blog - Amanda Murphy)

22nd December 2006

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=8626ec5d-115a-431a-a8b0-dd4b91b1821a&displaylang=en

SharePoint Surveys Get Started

22nd December 2006

http://blogs.technet.com/wbaer/archive/2006/12/22/prescan-errors-what-they-mean.aspx

PRESCAN Errors: What they mean (Blog - William Baer)

22nd December 2006

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=e120ae9b-750b-4f1d-ab98-9c10c48cc52e&displaylang=en

IT Showcase: Streamlining Records Management Using SharePoint Server 2007 Workflow

22nd December 2006

https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastRegistrationConfirmation.aspx?culture=en-US&RegistrationID=1287452235

MSDN Webcast: SharePoint Server 2007 Web Content Management for Developers and Designers (Level 200) (Andrew Connell, Mindsharp)

21st December 2006

http://www.ideseg.com/AddCustomWorkflowActivitiesToSharePointDesignerPart2.aspx

Add custom workflow activities to SharePoint Designer (Part 2) (Blog - Carlos Segura Sanz)

13th December 2006

http://www.ideseg.com/AddCustomWorkflowActivitiesToSharePointDesignerPart1.aspx

Add custom workflow activities to SharePoint Designer (Part 1) (Blog - Carlos Segura Sanz)

12th December 2006

http://www.ideseg.com/AccionesDeFlujosDeTrabajoPersonalizadasEnSharePointDesigner2.aspx

Acciones de flujos de trabajo personalizadas en SharePoint Designer (2) (in Spanish) (Blog - Carlos Segura Sanz)

9th December 2006

http://www.ideseg.com/AccionesDeFlujosDeTrabajoPersonalizadasEnSharePointDesigner1.aspx

Acciones de flujos de trabajo personalizadas en SharePoint Designer (1) (in Spanish) (Blog - Carlos Segura Sanz)

8th December 2006

B. Other Office 2007 products

None

 

C. Other New 2006/2007 Products

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=3119f516-a14a-4144-848f-0390dd13eb60&displaylang=en

Microsoft® Expression Web Quickstart Guide (ver 1)

23rd December 2006

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=4a4cc4c9-a0e9-49c7-8bf1-e0264a2094e9&displaylang=en

Microsoft® Expression® Design Portfolio Starter Kit

22nd December 2006

 

Modified

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=bae62cfc-d5a7-46d2-9063-0f6885c26b98&displaylang=en

Rights Management Services Administration Toolkit with SP2 (Ed. no longer in beta)

23rd December 2006

Deleted

I have removed all the links to SharePointv3-based sites. There are now too many to try to keep track of.

 

III WSS v3 FAQ

New

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=929

III.80 How do I transfer a WSS site in a Virtual Machine to a production site?

Modified

None

Deleted

None

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IV WSSv2 KB Articles (plus SPS 2003 Hot fixes)

New

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;929260

You cannot use the "Minimize" option and other menu options in Web Parts in the personal view on a Windows SharePoint Services site

21st December 2006

Modified

None

V. MS Articles for WSSv2

New

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=b81ef41f-11ed-43f5-817f-a62a02dc3cc4&displaylang=en

SharePoint Meeting Workspaces Get Started (2003)

22nd December 2006

Modified

None

VI Non-MS Articles for WSSv2

New

None

Modified

None

VII WSSv2 FAQ

New

None

Modified

http//www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSS%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=626

VIII.10.55 Free WSS-relevant Programs - SharePoint Document Puller (S.S.Ahmed) * Now ver 4.0*

My desktop has been playing up recently (I'm a slow mover so that means roughly for 3 months) with the two main indications (apart from the slow start-up and occasional freezes of my wife's boot system) being the fan going almost immediately to LOUD and the occasional shut down of the computer for no apparent reason (upon which you can't just turn it back on; you have to turn it on; then turn it off at the mains then on at the mains). This latter occured every time I tried to install Vista on that machine on a parallel partition but today occured when only Outlook was open and doing absolutely nothing.

So finally I pulled out all the cables; dragged it out from under the desk (it's a tower model "desktop"); and opened it up. A bit of dust, sure but not much so I looked at a few things inside the case and finally got to the processor fan. Most of the slots between it and the processor were not the colour of the original metal but were white (the colour of small particles of dust).

So I poked about a bit with a pencil (which I reckoned was safe) and started extracting small chunks of white dust. A painfully slow process but well worth it because now the computer has been back on for about 20 minutes; is doing some heavy processing (converting .ra files to .mp3) and is still maintaining that low hum.

Now I'm wondering about Vista. Pity that in the meantime I've grabbed the space on that partition :)

One of the things (and running a close second to the latest phenomena of posting to a newsgroup for all SharePoint products and versions and not bothering to say which one you are using) I dislike intensely in the public SharePoint newsgroups is the habit of some people of saying they have a problem; explaining what it is (so far so good) and then unnecessarily slagging off Microsoft for not having fixed this.

Now I follow closely the KB articles that Microsoft issue and there are an amazing number of WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007 KB articles appearing at the moment which are either pointing out that something is by design; giving a fix or confessing an error and giving a workaround. Given time there will be code fixes and inevitably a Service Pack followed just as inevitably by post-Service Pack fixes etc.

So Microsoft are following errors that are reported but every time I see a message with the kind of unnecessary "why haven't Microsoft fixed this" statements (and worse) all I can think is that if anything this particular obscure thing *won't* be fixed in a hurry because Microsoft people are just as human as the rest of us and humans don't respond well to being told they are idiots.

P.S. Make that running a close *third*. The most annoying thing continues to be people who mark their (public newsgroups remember which equals volunteer support) posts as Urgent! and then bitch about not getting a reply within a few hours. In fact make it *fourth* because of all the people who post the same message to a lot of different newsgroups either immediately or after those few hours had elapsed without an answer. There was one guy recently who sent 6 questions to one SharePoint newsgroup and received answers within 24 hours to 2 of them. So then he sent identical copies of the other four messages to another SharePoint newsgroup. Amazing.

P.P.S. If any of the "Urgent" guys are reading this, call Microsoft PSS (Product Support Services) with your credit card available. They have to listen to you - it's their job.