I'll be one of several SharePoint MVPs who will be at the European SharePoint Conference in Berlin next week.

Unlike most of them I am neither an independent consultant nor someone whose company is paying the costs of attendence.

In other words, all the attendence costs (Travel; Hotel; Food) will be paid straight from my pocket and to make it even more annoying I am not even being allowed to regard the 3 conference days as "working days" so I'm being forced to take 4 days holiday (back to Helsinki on Thursday) as well.

Ironically, I have a meeting at work today about the next version of an important WSS-based application here where I consulted on the initial (WSS 2.0) version. It makes you wonder.

The only minor protest I am allowing myself (I couldn't find a pirate flag) is that I shall be representing the "MVP" company (and my job title is "WSS FAQ Maintainer"), rather than the Computer Services (!) company (that shall remain nameless in this as in all earlier and later web posts to protect the innocent [me!]) that you would normally expect to be interested in improving my SharePoint knowledge (and getting some publicity at the conference) but doesn't seem to be.

Anyway I will be - perhaps more than usual, given that background! - very happy to see any readers of this blog there. Come up and say Hello; Hallo; Szervusz or whatever else you fancy. Just don't hit me - I'm already down.

P.S. That meeting turned out to be a sort of internal job interview / confirmation of a transfer. So there's hope that next time there's a SharePoint conference someone other than me is going to pay for me to attend. (Still don't hit me next week ....)

The other good news is that it's a (still-to-be-finally-confirmed but looks solid) permanent transfer to a SharePoint-based job, where going in in the morning and spending the day working is all that is expected rather than the present situation of it not being considered enough to be available to answer every SharePoint question (and to do all the SharePoint internal consulting) I am asked (to do) and to spend the rest of the work time preparing for possible questions/consultancy. After two years in semi-limbo since being out-sourced it's about time.

P.P.S. (Later the same day) So much for "still-to-be-finally-confirmed but looks solid" - the transfer is off and all that has been agreed is that I will work temporarily for them for an unspecified time of their choosing. (I was not involved in this decision.) So I'm back to virtual limbo in other words with the only difference being that for a few weeks (?) I'll be charging all my time (at very low internal rates) as opposed to little bits of it. I'll also be spending the bulk of my time in their office rather than in my own but naturally not moving permanently as it is no longer a (permanent) transfer.

D***. These things are sent to try us but coming on top of the paying-conferences-for-myself business there's been rather too much of this sort of thing recently.

P.P.P.S When I got back to Finland (and hadn't broken a leg when I was there) I managed to persuade my boss to regard the four days I spent in Berlin and travelling back as me "working at home". So I at least didn't lose any holiday days while at the conference but I'm still out of pocket by roughly the amount of the reasonable portable I saw in the paper yesterday that I could have used as a standalone server for MOSS testing purposes. As I haven't got twice that amount of spare money, I'll just have to keep on testing with VMs stored on external USB drives. Pity.

 

 

Note: This is three weeks additions/changes rather than the usual one week because of my holiday in the sun and away from a keyboard. It's rather long as a result.

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 15th January - 4th Febuary 2007

 

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

New

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;928033

Error message in SharePoint Server 2007 when you log on to the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 document library and then click "My Approval": "Unexpected query execution failure, error code 1205"

31st January 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=841057

Support for changes to the databases that are used by Office server products and by Windows SharePoint Services

30th January 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=931509

Message in the Information bar in Internet Explorer 7 when you browse to a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 site or to a SharePoint Server 2007 site: "The Web site wants to run the following add-on: 'Name ActiveX Control'"

26th January 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=930887

You experience issues with portal alerts in SharePoint Portal Server 2003 or with search performance in SharePoint Server 2007 after you create SQL Server 2005 maintenance plans

26th January 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=928720

An access violation occurs when you try to open an Excel 2007 workbook file that resides on a SharePoint Server 2007 server

24th January 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=930462

Error message when you try to migrate content from Content Management Server 2002 to SharePoint Server 2007: "Unable to connect to the database server"

19th January 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=928623

Search results include draft documents in SharePoint Server 2007

19th January 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=928621

SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard does not start after you install SharePoint Server 2007 and Project Server 2007 on a Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 server (ver 1.1)

19th January 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=930006

A SharePoint list is converted to a table, and synchronization of the SharePoint list is disabled after you save an Excel 2007 workbook

18th January 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=927602

Warning message when you install Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 in a side-by-side installation together with Windows SharePoint Services 2.0: "There are third party products installed that integrate with Windows SharePoint Services 2.0." (ver 1.1)

17th January 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=928756

Excel Web Access stops responding when you try to open a large Excel worksheet that resides on a SharePoint Server 2007 server

17th January 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=928752

The "Operation in Progress" message remains visible after the page is loaded when you try to use Excel Web Access in Internet Explorer to view an Excel 2007 workbook

17th January 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;928739

The "Get Filter Values From" command is not displayed in the Connections menu when you try to edit an Excel Web Access Web Part in Excel Services

17th January 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=930007

Description of the supported method to upgrade from MCMS 2002 to SharePoint Server 2007

15th January 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=929360

You cannot create a new document or check out an existing document in a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 document library when you have multiple versions of Office installed

15th January 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=929359

You cannot create new Outlook calendar items when you click "Connect to Outlook" in a calendar that resides on a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 site

15th January 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;930147

Mobile browsers and devices that are supported in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and in SharePoint Server 2007

12th January 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;928032

The Document ID log report view may stop responding when you view a Document ID log report that contains lots of groups in SharePoint Server 2007

12th January 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;928746

Error message when you try to open an Excel workbook in SharePoint Server 2007: "Could not establish trust relationship for the SSL/TLS secure channel"

12th January 2007

Modified

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;928301

How to upgrade from Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Beta 2 to the original release version of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (ver 3.0)

17th January 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;928739

The "Get Filter Values From" command is not displayed in the Connections menu when you try to edit an Excel Web Access Web Part in Excel Services

17th January 2007

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 1.2)

12th January 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;929649

How to use SQL Server to take a snapshot of a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 content database (ver 1.1)

9th January 2007

II. Articles - 2007 Products  (no longer with all links to articles for other Office 2007 and other 2007 Products)

New

A. Office 2007 Server Products

http://www.codeplex.com/sptdatapop/Project/FileDownload.aspx?DownloadId=4702

SharePoint 2007 Test Data Population Tool (free - Microsoft, non-supported "community product")

3rd February 2007 (date added)

http://www.heathersolomon.com/content/sp07cssreference.htm

CSS Reference Chart for SharePoint 2007 (Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services v3) (Blog - Heather Solomon)

3rd February 2007 (date added)

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/ggalehouse/archive/2007/02/02/18889.aspx

Creating a web part to explicitly search custom columns in MOSS 2007 - Part 1 (Blog - Gary Galehouse)

2nd February 2007

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/tonstegeman/archive/2007/02/01/18801.aspx

MOSS Custom policies part 1 - Creating a custom information management policy  (Blog - Ton Stegeman)

31st January 2007

http://blogs.msdn.com/joelo/archive/2007/01/31/tips-on-site-collection-sizing.aspx

Tips on Site Collection Sizing (MS Blog - Joel Oleson)

31st January 2007

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/mcotw/archive/2007/01/31/18789.aspx

SharePoint Database Log Size (Ed: Reducing it) (Blog - Monty)

31st January 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=48564bad-160d-4110-873a-e6723549b210&displaylang=en&tm

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Application Template: Disputed Invoice Management

29th January 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=f811d8c1-2c55-4960-8b59-25808db5f793&displaylang=en&tm

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Application Template: Sports League

29th January 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=e815f516-f9a4-45cd-9cc2-f6e35962324a&displaylang=en&tm

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Application Templates: All Site Admin Templates

29th January 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=79080296-a3e9-462c-b66e-55339a79b2c9&displaylang=en&tm

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Application Template: Board of Directors

29th January 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=f9ad746c-b203-49f1-9c7a-ac799fd8eec4&displaylang=en&tm

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Application Template: Equity Research

29th January 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=5c75a23c-b4ac-47f3-9ae5-45296486f197&displaylang=en&tm

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Application Template: Classroom Management

29th January 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=b5206277-550c-44da-a2d5-d7e32e3b6b8f&displaylang=en&tm

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Application Template: Employee Training Scheduling And Materials

29th January 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=80fd0d64-4bd0-476b-bfd9-39da34c22efb&displaylang=en&tm

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Document: Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services Quick Reference Guide

29th January 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=a61506b4-6818-4453-a2d1-978ae4cf1567&displaylang=en&tm

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Application Template: New Store Opening

29th January 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=1029807f-fd44-4704-936f-bd19a6455351&displaylang=en&tm

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Application Template: Employee Activities Site

29th January 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=2ef6f9e5-5df2-42b4-9250-1cf8f091e11d&displaylang=en&tm

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Application Template: Manufacturing Process Management

29th January 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=88a5fbdc-db4c-4825-85aa-f5ba2e186e61&displaylang=en&tm

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Application Template: Competitive Analysis Site

29th January 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=b8485707-ebe0-4b9d-855f-d3d4046ebf40&displaylang=en&tm

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Application Template: Discussion Database

29th January 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=e66111c2-7b6b-4329-baa0-e3d3b7db1f9c&displaylang=en&tm

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Application Template: Request for Proposal

29th January 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=14c8ae74-4953-4e5b-9243-3687515a4437&displaylang=en&tm

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Application Template: Product and Marketing Requirements Planning

29th January 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=4423bfec-8bf5-4dab-b106-199b5d5a7ddd&displaylang=en&tm

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Application Template: Business Performance Reporting

29th January 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=0d05df2e-52fd-4da5-b9cc-b84d2ed573f5&displaylang=en&tm

Windows SharePoint Services Document: Collaboration on the Go

29th January 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=823a28a4-3fa3-4b55-b8ab-96ff5155752f&displaylang=en&tm

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Application Template: Timecard Management

29th January 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=03fb53cb-a083-4794-af66-95191648c99b&displaylang=en&tm

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Application Template: Employee Self-Service Benefits

29th January 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=de21d733-d40e-4fc0-a85a-8a03d8fea00b&displaylang=en&tm

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Application Template: Case Management for Government Agencies

29th January 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=11d56561-8e17-4af9-ab44-f59c7491b896&displaylang=en&tm

SharePoint Server 2007 Template: Role-Based My Site for Sales Account Managers

29th January 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=376321fc-4cd8-4fd9-b377-3bb984c35032&displaylang=en&tm

SharePoint Server 2007 Template: Role-Based My Site for Controllers-Financial Analysts

29th January 2007

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/helloitsliam/archive/2007/01/28/18676.aspx

MOSS2007 – Custom menu items for document library items (Blog - Liam Cleary)

28th January 2007

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032326933&EventCategory=3&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US

TechNet Virtual Lab: Synchronizing data between SharePoint 2007 and Groove 2007

27th January 2007

http://metahat.blogspot.com/2007/01/customizing-asp.html

Customizing Asp.Net 2.0 application to look like a SharePoint 2007 Portal: Approach 1 (Blog - Raghu Iyer)

27th January 2007

http://metahat.blogspot.com/2007/01/as-we-saw-in-my-previous-blog-one-of.html

Customizing Asp.Net 2.0 application to look like a SharePoint 2007 Portal: Approach 2 (Blog - Raghu Iyer)

27th January 2007

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/keutmann/archive/2007/01/27/18655.aspx

How to resize the thumbnails in a Picture Library (Blog - Karsten Keutmann)

27th January 2007

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/vandest/archive/2007/01/26/18265.aspx

SharePoint 2007: Restricting User Profiles control (Blog - Steven Van de Craen)

26th January 2007

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/adnan/archive/2007/01/26/18280.aspx

Move MOSS 2007 Web Application to another server (Blog - Adnan Ahmed)

26th January 2007

http://www.wssdemo.com/blog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?List=d5813c18%2D934f%2D4fd6%2D9068%2D5cdd59ce56ba&ID=235

Adding Windows Live Search Results web part to SharePoint (Blog - Ian Morrish)

24th January 2007

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/johnwpowell/archive/2007/01/24/18213.aspx

Enabling Enterprise Features - Converting a Standard License to an Enterprise License (Blog - John W. Powell)

24th January 2007

http://blogs.msdn.com/markarend/archive/2007/01/24/search-results-page-may-be-different-per-search-scope.aspx

Search Results Page may be different per Search Scope (MS Blog - Mark Arend)

24th January 2007

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/kode2mb/archive/2007/01/23/18160.aspx

Søgning i PDF filer i WSS 3.0 (in Danish) (Searching PDF files in WSS 3.0) (Blog - Martin Braun)

23rd January 2007

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/tonstegeman/archive/2007/01/23/18123.aspx

Running a Content Deployment Job on MOSS 2007: I have got it working! (Blog - Ton Stegeman)

23rd January 2007

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/smc750/archive/2007/01/23/18181.aspx

Custom Cross-List Search Development Pitfalls (Part Two) (Blog - who?)

23rd January 2007

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/pprussak/archive/2007/01/23/18163.aspx

SharePoint vs. File Shares (Blog Piotr Prussak)

23rd January 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=6d94e307-67d9-41ac-b2d6-0074d6286fa9&displaylang=en&tm

SharePoint Server 2007 SDK: Software Development Kit and Enterprise Content Management Starter Kit (Download RTM Version - ver Nov06)

22nd January 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=05e0dd12-8394-402b-8936-a07fe8afaffd&displaylang=en&tm

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: Software Development Kit (SDK) (Download RTM version - ver 1)

22nd January 2007

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/heliosa/archive/2007/01/22/18088.aspx

Event Handlers Series - Part 1: Overview (Blog - Hélio Sá Moreira)

22nd January 2007

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/tonstegeman/archive/2007/01/21/18076.aspx

Using a hyperlink in the group description of a SharePoint group (Blog - Ton Stegeman)

21st January 2007

http://metahat.blogspot.com/2007/01/hiding-sharepoint-2007-list-context.html

Hiding SharePoint 2007 List Context Menu Items (Blog - Raghu Iyer)

20th January 2007

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/ssa/archive/2007/01/20/18039.aspx

Working With SharePoint Search - Part 2 (Blog - S S Ahmed)

20th January 2007

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/ssa/archive/2007/01/19/18034.aspx

Working With SharePoint Search - Part 1 (Blog - S S Ahmed)

19th January 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=b7583b3b-a50f-4871-a6d5-f7146b7e38c7&displaylang=en&tm

Technology Audit: SharePoint Server and SharePoint Server for Search 2007 (Butler Group)

18th January 2007

http://weblogs.asp.net/jan/archive/2007/01/18/how-to-get-a-list-of-web-parts-on-a-page.aspx

How to get a List of Web Parts on a Page (Ed: Code) (Blog - Jan Tielens)

18th January 2007

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/smc750/archive/2007/01/18/18011.aspx

Custom Cross-List Search Development Pitfalls (Part One) (Blog - who?)

18th January 2007

http://weblog.vb-tech.com/nick/archive/2007/01/17/2100.aspx

InfoPath 2007 Form submitting to webservice (Blog - Nick Swan)

17th January 2007

http://blogs.msdn.com/ecm/archive/2007/01/16/building-tylerbutler-com-part-6-what-was-tough-and-what-s-to-come.aspx

Building tylerbutler.com, Part 6: What Was Tough, and What’s to Come

16th January 2007

http://www.pptspaces.com/sharepointreporterblog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=28

How to Create a MOSS 2007 VPC Image (Blog - Tony Zink)

16th January 2007

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/joubin/archive/2007/01/16/17921.aspx

Add Lists to your site defintion (Blog - Joubain)

16th January 2007

http://office.microsoft.com/search/redir.aspx?AssetID=AM101639071033&CTT=5&Origin=HA101639821033

Visio Poster: MOSS 2007 Base Topologies

16th January 2007 (date added)

http://office.microsoft.com/search/redir.aspx?AssetID=AM101638921033&CTT=5&Origin=HA101639821033

Visio Poster: MOSS 2007 Customization

16th January 2007 (date added)

http://office.microsoft.com/search/redir.aspx?AssetID=AM101638971033&CTT=5&Origin=HA101639821033

Visio Poster: MOSS 2007 Inter-Farm Shared Services

16th January 2007 (date added)

http://office.microsoft.com/search/redir.aspx?AssetID=AM101638981033&CTT=5&Origin=HA101639821033

Visio Poster: MOSS 2007 Products Migration

16th January 2007 (date added)

http://office.microsoft.com/search/redir.aspx?AssetID=AM101638991033&CTT=5&Origin=HA101639821033

Visio Poster: MOSS 2007 Search Administration

16th January 2007 (date added)

http://office.microsoft.com/search/redir.aspx?AssetID=AM101639091033&CTT=5&Origin=HA101639821033

Visio Poster: MOSS 2007 Shared Services

16th January 2007 (date added)

http://office.microsoft.com/search/redir.aspx?AssetID=AM101639111033&CTT=5&Origin=HA101639821033

Visio Poster: Upgrading SharePoint Server Products

16th January 2007 (date added)

http://office.microsoft.com/search/redir.aspx?AssetID=AM101639131033&CTT=5&Origin=HA101639821033

Visio Poster: Upgrading SPS 2003 to MOSS 2007, Part 1

16th January 2007 (date added)

http://office.microsoft.com/search/redir.aspx?AssetID=AM101639171033&CTT=5&Origin=HA101639821033

Visio Poster: Upgrading SPS 2003 to MOSS 2007, Part 2

16th January 2007 (date added)

http://office.microsoft.com/search/redir.aspx?AssetID=AM101639261033&CTT=5&Origin=HA101639821033

Visio Poster: Scenario: Enterprise Content Management - Customer Engagement Cycle

16th January 2007 (date added)

http://office.microsoft.com/search/redir.aspx?AssetID=AM101639371033&CTT=5&Origin=HA101639821033

Visio Poster: Scenario: InfoPath Forms Services Customer Interaction Form

16th January 2007 (date added)

http://office.microsoft.com/search/redir.aspx?AssetID=AM101639381033&CTT=5&Origin=HA101639821033

Visio Poster: Scenario: InfoPath Forms Services Expense Reporting

16th January 2007 (date added)

http://office.microsoft.com/search/redir.aspx?AssetID=AM101639391033&CTT=5&Origin=HA101639821033

Visio Poster: Scenario: InfoPath Forms Services Insurance Claims

16th January 2007 (date added)

http://office.microsoft.com/search/redir.aspx?AssetID=AM101639401033&CTT=5&Origin=HA101639821033

Visio Poster: Scenario: InfoPath Forms Services Permits

16th January 2007 (date added)

http://office.microsoft.com/search/redir.aspx?AssetID=AM101639411033&CTT=5&Origin=HA101639821033

Visio Poster: Scenario: InfoPath Forms Services Supplier Survey

16th January 2007 (date added)

http://office.microsoft.com/search/redir.aspx?AssetID=AM101639251033&CTT=5&Origin=HA101639821033

Visio Poster: Scenario: Keeping Connections to Data Sources Current

16th January 2007 (date added)

http://office.microsoft.com/search/redir.aspx?AssetID=AM101639331033&CTT=5&Origin=HA101639821033

Visio Poster: Scenario: Large Corporate Internet Site (Infrequent changes to Web Content)

16th January 2007 (date added)

http://office.microsoft.com/search/redir.aspx?AssetID=AM101639221033&CTT=5&Origin=HA101639821033

Visio Poster: Scenario: MOSS 2007 Call Center

16th January 2007 (date added)

http://office.microsoft.com/search/redir.aspx?AssetID=AM101639241033&CTT=5&Origin=HA101639821033

Visio Poster: Scenario: MOSS 2007 Corporate Intranet Portal Site

16th January 2007 (date added)

http://office.microsoft.com/search/redir.aspx?AssetID=AM101639281033&CTT=5&Origin=HA101639821033

Visio Poster: Scenario: MOSS 2007 Departmental Portal Site

16th January 2007 (date added)

http://office.microsoft.com/search/redir.aspx?AssetID=AM101639291033&CTT=5&Origin=HA101639821033

Visio Poster: Scenario: MOSS 2007 Equities Research

16th January 2007 (date added)

http://office.microsoft.com/search/redir.aspx?AssetID=AM101639321033&CTT=5&Origin=HA101639821033

Visio Poster: Scenario: MOSS 2007 Informational Portal Site

16th January 2007 (date added)

http://office.microsoft.com/search/redir.aspx?AssetID=AM101639301033&CTT=5&Origin=HA101639821033

Visio Poster: Scenario: MOSS 2007 Out-Hosted Portal Sites (1)

16th January 2007 (date added)

http://office.microsoft.com/search/redir.aspx?AssetID=AM101639311033&CTT=5&Origin=HA101639821033

Visio Poster: Scenario: MOSS 2007 Out-Hosted Portal Sites (2)

16th January 2007 (date added)

http://office.microsoft.com/search/redir.aspx?AssetID=AM101639351033&CTT=5&Origin=HA101639821033

Visio Poster: Scenario: Online News Internet Site (Frequent Web Content Updates and Searching)

16th January 2007 (date added)

http://office.microsoft.com/search/redir.aspx?AssetID=AM101639341033&CTT=5&Origin=HA101639821033

Visio Poster: Scenario: Preserving "One Version of the Truth" for Distributed Workbooks

16th January 2007 (date added)

http://office.microsoft.com/search/redir.aspx?AssetID=AM101639361033&CTT=5&Origin=HA101639821033

Visio Poster: Scenario: Records Management in MOSS 2007

16th January 2007 (date added)

http://office.microsoft.com/search/redir.aspx?AssetID=AM101639271033&CTT=5&Origin=HA101639821033

Visio Poster: Scenario: Rendering Data from Spreadsheets to Web Parts

16th January 2007 (date added)

http://office.microsoft.com/search/redir.aspx?AssetID=AM101638851033&CTT=5&Origin=HA101639821033

Visio Poster: Flowcharts: MOSS 2007 Development

16th January 2007 (date added)

http://office.microsoft.com/search/redir.aspx?AssetID=AM101638871033&CTT=5&Origin=HA101639821033

Visio Poster: Flowcharts: MOSS 2007 Planning, Part 1 (Application Administrators)

16th January 2007 (date added)

http://office.microsoft.com/search/redir.aspx?AssetID=AM101638881033&CTT=5&Origin=HA101639821033

Visio Poster: Flowcharts: MOSS 2007 Planning, Part 2 (IT Pros)

16th January 2007 (date added)

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/helloitsliam/archive/2007/01/15/17916.aspx

MOSS2007 – Content Query Web Part Step by Step Basic Styling (Blog - Liam Cleary)

15th January 2007

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/jeanmarc/archive/2007/01/15/17880.aspx

Tip: SLK Deployment (in Spanish) (Blog - Marcel Jeanneau)

15th January 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=4bf39c83-d83f-439a-982b-03ac7bbc33ad&displaylang=en&tm

Project leadership firm improves employee communication and reduces IT costs with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007

15th January 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=6805a521-601f-4fdc-84d3-26397ca443f7&displaylang=en&tm

Leading novelty giftware manufacturer boosts productivity and gains business insight with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007

15th January 2007

http://www.wssdemo.com/blog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?List=d5813c18%2D934f%2D4fd6%2D9068%2D5cdd59ce56ba&ID=232

How to run inline code in SharePoint aspx pages (Blog - Ian Morrish)

15th January 2007

https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastRegistrationConfirmation.aspx?culture=en-US&RegistrationID=1288257417

TechNet Webcast: Upgrading and Migrating to Office SharePoint Server 2007 (Level 200) (Blain Barton)

13th January 2007

http://blogs.msdn.com/harsh/archive/2007/01/10/forms-based-authentication-in-moss.aspx

Forms Based Authentication in MOSS (Blog - Harshawardhan Chiplonkar)

10th January 2007

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

SharePoint Server 2007 Code Sample: Item-Level Auditing

9th January 2007

B. Other Office 2007 products (selected few only since 1.1.2007)

http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/07/02/RibbonX/default.aspx

Extend The 2007 Office System With Your Own Ribbon Tabs And Controls (MSDN Magazine, Feb 2007 - Eric Faller)

2nd February 2007 (date added)

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/bb229690.aspx

Integrating Visio 2007 and SharePoint Products and Technologies 

2nd February 2007 (date added - paper dated January 2007)

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb226688(office.11).aspx

Conditional Formatting: Adding Custom Conditional Formatting to Excel 2007

2nd February 2007 (date added - paper dated January 2007)

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=9044790b-4e24-4277-b714-66d7b18d0aa1&displaylang=en&tm

Word 2007 Guide: Word 2003 to Word 2007 interactive command reference guide

26th January 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=89718abd-2758-47b3-9f90-93788112b985&displaylang=en&tm

Excel 2007 Guide: Excel 2003 to Excel 2007 interactive command reference guide

26th January 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=bef41dc3-8e28-4282-82d4-cec2f416cd40&displaylang=en&tm

PowerPoint 2007 Guide: PowerPoint 2003 to PowerPoint 2007 interactive command reference guide

26th January 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=f2c2c7e9-5abb-401b-ad32-fed03295b61d&displaylang=en&tm

2007 Office System Sample: Office Development Bloggers OPML

23rd January 2007

C. Other New 2006/2007 Products  (selected few only since 1.1.2007)

https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastRegistrationConfirmation.aspx?culture=en-US&RegistrationID=1288256536

TechNet Webcast: Office Groove 2007 Guided Hands-on Virtual Labcast (Level 200) (Abbott Lowell)

2nd February 2007

https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastRegistrationConfirmation.aspx?culture=en-US&RegistrationID=1288256729

TechNet Webcast: How Microsoft IT Deployed Office Groove 2007 (Level 300) (Lyle Rice, Abbott Lowell, Leon Alexandrou)

30th January 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=21ad9b84-f889-49bd-9cd7-337d0b7889da&displaylang=en&tm

Groove 2007 Document: Client Online Help

25th January 2007

https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastRegistrationConfirmation.aspx?culture=en-US&RegistrationID=1288257476

TechNet Webcast: Enterprise Deployment and Capabilities of Office Groove 2007 (Level 200) (Abbott Lowell)

11th January 2007

Modified

None

Deleted

None

III WSS v3 FAQ

New

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=947

V.32 Mastering Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (Sybex - C. A. Callahan)

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=948

V.33 Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007: The Complete Reference (McGraw-Hill Osborne - David Sterling)

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=949

V.34 Essential SharePoint 2007 (Addison-Wesley - Scott Jamison, Mauro Cardarelli)

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=943

VI.28 A VS 2005 Project Template for SharePoint Solution Deployment (free - Vincent Rothwell)

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=944

VI.29 Automate back Up Process MOSS 2007 (free - Raghu Iyer)

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=945

VI.30 Design Migrator for SharePoint 2007 (commercial - CorasWorks)

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=946

VI.31 Change My Password v3 (Commercial - Advis)

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=950

VI.32 SharePoint 2007 Test Data Population Tool (free - Microsoft, non-supported "community product")

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=951

VI.33 SharePoint 2007: ProfilePictureUpdaterTool: set pictures for all User Profiles (free - Steven Van de Craen)

Modified

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=827

V.18 Inside Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MS Press - Patrick Tisseghem)

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

V.23 Sharepoint 2007: The Definitive Guide (O'Reilly - Robert Tidrow, Christopher Buechler, Bob Fox, Murray Gordon, Jason Medero, Nilesh Mehta, Joris Poelmans, Piotr Prussak, Christopher Regan)

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 - Ernest Johnson)   [new author, new date]

Deleted

None

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

IV WSSv2 KB Articles (plus SPS 2003 Hot fixes)

New

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=931180

You cannot use properties to tell whether a Web site was created by using a Visual Studio .Net Web project or whether it was created by using Windows SharePoint Services 2.0

26th January 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=930103

Description of the Windows SharePoint Services post-Service Pack 2 hotfix package: January 3, 2007

19th January 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=928787

Description of the Windows SharePoint Services post-Service Pack 2 hotfix package: November 20, 2006

16th January 2007

Modified

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=822526

"Assembly <AssemblyName> Security Permission Grant Set Is Incompatible Between App Domains" Error Message Occurs with Strong-Named Assemblies (ver 2.0)

30th January 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=832769

How to configure a Windows SharePoint Services virtual server to use Kerberos authentication and how to switch from Kerberos authentication back to NTLM authentication (ver 6.1)

25th January 2007

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

You receive a "The folder you entered does not appear to be valid" error message when you try to create a Network Place shortcut to SharePoint Portal Server 2003 or to Windows SharePoint Services (ver 3.0)

16th January 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;909840

Windows SharePoint Services and SharePoint Portal Server 2003 do not support Virtual PC and Virtual Server for production environments (ver 2.0)

10th January 2007

Withdrawn

None

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

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSS%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=579

I.23.4 What is fixed in the fix packs to WSS Service Pack 2?

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSS%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=245

III.79 I am running Office 2003 on my client - why can't I see "Edit in Datasheet View"?

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSS%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=628

III.117 Where is the template pack for Visual Studio (for creating a sharepoint sequential workflow library)?

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSS%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=510

VI Managing Site Collections in Content databases

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSS%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=250

VII.08.01 Free WSS Web Parts - FeedReader (Tim Heuer)

Needless to say despite a mass of time spent in front of computer screens since I arrived back, I've still not got up to date with most things.

I did manage to read and deal with my work e-mail and catch up with what's been happening in the SharePoint Knowledge Base articles front since the middle of January, and I've spent most of my day off working through RSS feeds giving me Microsoft downloads and articles and other useful things and I've also checked some of the many messages sent out to Sharepoint MVPs by SharePoint MVPs but that's about it.

What I have noticed of importance is that there's been a slowing down in the numbers of MOSS KB articles and that half the promised new WSS v3 Application Templates are out. Also that there are two MOSS "templates". What of course I then had to decide was whether to call them "Application Templates" or not despite MS calling the MOSS ones "Templates" and the WSS ones "Application Templates" so I went for a new category of "Other Templates" just to play safe. I can always bulk change them in Datasheet View if it turns out that MS is just trying to confuse us again.

I've also decided to take the plunge and to finally stop adding links to every single Office 2007 paper that MS produces. That saved a lot of time but I also backed away from a complete ban when I found a few useful Excel; PowerPoint and Word papers saying where to find 2003 things in the 2007 products. So that's the policy from now on - all the SP things from MS that I can find; a selection of non-MS SP things which these days means mostly from blogs and then only the best of things for Office 2007 products and other 2007 Server products.

Anyway the results of my labour will be visible in the regular Sunday "WSS FAQ additions and changes" posts both here and to the WSS newsgroup. It's already very long and I haven't even looked for web casts yet (nor for blog items that were posted in the past just over 2 weeks - which will take *quite a while*)

Of course the really big thing that happened while I was away was that the Admin Guide (called for some reason a "companion" - surely they mean a "partner" these days) is finally out and a couple of nice people have even ordered it via the link in the WSS FAQ site's (2007) Book page http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/V%20Books.aspx. Rush there immediately !

For those of you wondering how I managed to update that item on the web page with "*released*" while I was away and still not touch a computer, I'll confess that I had asked a friend at work to check the Amazon site now and again while I was away to see if the book was out and gave him the password to update the item. That's why it was only updated at www.wssfaq.com and not at wss.collutions.com which was no doubt another mystery to afficianados.

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 ....