But first. Why wasn't it possible for me to open Documents and Settings in the Vista boot drive and work my way down to Favorites so that I could copy my Favorites across from the XPPro side. Instead I had to start fiddling about with the menu item Add Favorites and really p*** about to get these across.

I forgot also to say yesterday that I didn't have at first music but that Vista managed to find a driver and that took care of that.

What however I didn't have was the latest graphics driver for my Mobilty Radeon X700 that I later discovered maybe only has 128MB memory itself but it's also stealing over 0.5GB of mine (without bothering to tell me). Vista claimed it's own ("Microsoft") driver was the latest and greatest but a trip to amd.ati.com (I'd forgotten they'd bought ATI) gave a new driver from the end of February so that is now installed. Hopefully that will clear up yesterday's problem of the machine going to sleep OK but refusing to wake up (which forced me to do something I always hate which is to take out the mains cable and then the battery). I've in any case now changed the power settings and closing the lid should now be the only thing that puts the portable into hibernation (default was sleep for some odd reason).

Kudos by the way at this point to the "Vista - in a Nutshell" book from O'Reilly that listed hibernation in the index and also warned about needing to upgrade the graphics card and/or amend the power settings if the machine wasn't waking up as it should. That was a perfect book for me. I'll leave the Missing manuals and Missing Manuals Starter Edition for people who haven't seen quite so many Operating Systems come and go. I'll also leave their Definitive Edition well alone too because that was written by Mr William Stanek who continues in his blurb to be proud that he helped to bomb Iraq in the first Gulf War. Given the fact that this book is not just meant for the US market, someone ought to have a quiet word with Mr Stanek. (Oddly enough I blogged and complained about this the last time I mistakenly went so far as to buy a book by him something like two years ago. Nothing changes (and I had more readers then!)).

As for Finnish (grrrr). Zinio gave me no choice and installed the Finnish language version of its reader. OK I understand it but that's not the point. Give me the choice ! 

Similarly I'm re-installing the latest version of the Nero I have on the other side (from where I will remove it if the Vista version works) and the installation routine is telling me in Finnish what to do. Hopefully there at least they aren't installing a Finnish version of the software as then I will really scream (and do it all over again after setting my locale temporarily to English).

That's it other than to say that Thunderbird just lies there for hours trying to send a single message. Not a great implementation, that.

My (Acer Ferrari) portable has 100 GB divided into 2 drives of roughly 40GB and 60GB.  There was no particularly good reason to upgrade it from XPPro but I'd been offered (legally) a good price for buying a copy of Vista Ultimate (a far cry from the 345 Euros [ca $440] they want here in Finland) so I now had a copy of that raring to go.

Actually I had two copies of which I was only allowed to install one as the total amount of "goods" that people get for the $440 are a box; 2 DVDs (32- and 64-bit versions) a card and a very (very) small booklet. Oh yes and a serial number.

Now the plan was to install that on the desktop and leave my working portable well alone, but that idea was squashed by my wife who happens to be the main user of that desktop and who for some reason didn't want to risk (again!!) her applications not working, so the portable it was.

So I took image backups of C: and D:; removed most of the files from D: (easier to do than for C:) to give space for the upgrade; and proceded to upgrade from XPPro to Vista Ultimate.

Or rather I didn't. After several failed attempts to start from within XPPro and after changing the BIOS so that it would boot from the DVD drive, I realised that the problem was not with my system, it was with the 32-bit Vista DVD. Yes for $440 they supply you with a bum disk as well. So this forced me into what in retrospect was probably the right decision, namely to install the 64-bit version.

So I booted from the DVD drive only this time with the 64-bit disk there and everything went smoothly only of course because I was now installing the 64-bit version I could no longer upgrade so (as I had good backups after all) I just did a new installation on D:.

Here's where the  "by surprise" in the title comes in. Once the installation was complete I actually had two choices on re-boot. I could either start "earlier version of Windows" in which case XPPro loads from C: (with the D: drive where the Vista stuff is) or I can start Vista in which case that loads from C: (with the XPPro stuff in D:). To put it another way I've lost nothing (except all the stuff I deleted from D: most of which were VMs that I can use from an external USB drive in any case) and yet I've gained Vista.

So at the moment I'm wondering just what if anything I'll need to boot XPPro for. So far I'm stuck at Outlook Express which i use for newsgroup handling. In Vista it seems I'd be forced to use Thunderbird which I don't find as easy to use when monitoring rather than just reading newsgroups.

As for Vista itself. So far so good. The only major screaming moment came when all the English language links started leading to Finnish language sites because my locale was set to Finland (for keyboard and character set) and after a while (when I stopped shouting at the machine that if I wanted bloody Finnish I wouldn't be using an English language Operating system would I) I cooled down and just changed the IE settings so that it would give me English UK; English US; German; and Swedish pages before daring to inflict Finnish pages on me again and that problem was gone as quickly as it came.

Connection to the internet was just a matter of finding my code to connect to my Wifi Router. I discovered as always that there are free 90 day trial versions of at least one piece of virus checking software - in this case there were two Norton (which worked) and Microsoft's Live (which didn't install) and two other virus checker companies who seemed to be offering only chargeable versions. Then there was the inevitable download of Adobe Reader (which oddly wouldn't install when the Norton was installing but did later - ver 8.0 for Vista by the way) and finally the full Office suite which means that at there moment there are two copies of that on that portable (one on each side) so the XPPro copy is going to get removed asap.

... and that's enough for today ... (except perhaps for the strange note that Vista's IE7 wouldn't let me download the Firefox installation exe (and note that I had had no problems earlier with the Adobe download))

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 26th February - 4th March 2007

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

New

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;931636

Description of the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 hotfix package: February 6, 2007

28th February 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;931637

Description of the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 hotfix package: January 25, 2007

28th February 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;932055

You cannot select the values for a custom field when you try to edit the properties on the FldEditEx.aspx page on a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Web site

28th February 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;932347

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 does not comply with daylight saving time in Western Australia for the years 2006 to 2009

28th February 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;932056

One or more custom programs do not finish successfully when you run multiple custom programs that use the BreakRoleInheritance function in the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 object model

28th February 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;932743

Some items are not indexed correctly when you configure SharePoint Portal Server 2003 to crawl content that resides on a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 site or on a SharePoint Server 2007 site

27th February 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb%3ben-us%3b932563

One-time timer jobs will not run until one hour after the jobs were created in SharePoint Server 2007

27th February 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;932742

Error message when you try to access a custom application that includes ASP.NET resource files in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 or in SharePoint Server 2007: "Resource file not found"

27th February 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=930807

You cannot open a SharePoint Server 2007 notification message in Outlook 2007 when your mailbox is on an Exchange 2003 server

12th February 2007 (marked as an exchange server problem - seen thanks to the weekly EMO newsletter)

Modified

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

You cannot search a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 site when the host header site uses HTTP and HTTPS (ver 2.1)

23rd February 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=823379

You receive a "Server Error in '/' Application. Access to the path <path> is denied" error message when you log on to Windows SharePoint Services (ver 8.0)

23rd February 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 3.1)

23rd February 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 (ver 7.0)

15th February 2007

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 3.1)

13th February 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.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=2aeb1a5e-43b8-483b-8cb2-86c0e82bf0ab&displaylang=en&tm

Configuring and Integrating Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Microsoft Commerce Server 2007

2nd March 2007

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/tonstegeman/archive/2007/03/02/20312.aspx

Managing Content Type order and visiblility on a SharePoint list in code (Blog - Ton Stegeman)

2nd March 2007

http://www.sharepointplatform.com/teamblog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?List=427bfca2%2Db731%2D4c19%2D87c6%2D83c90460e02c&ID=43

XSLT Data Views (aka Data View Web Parts) (Blog - Mark Parsons)

1st March 2007

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/tonstegeman/archive/2007/03/01/20263.aspx

Navigation options in a SharePoint Publishing Site (Blog - Ton Stegeman)

1st March 2007

http://devcow.com/blogs/jdattis/archive/2007/03/01/Office_SharePoint_Server_2007_Forms_Based_Authentication_FBA_w_MySites_Walkthrough_Part_2.aspx

Office SharePoint Server 2007 - Forms Based Authentication (FBA) Walk-through - Part 2: w/My Sites (Blog - Dan Attis)

1st March 2007

http://devcow.com/blogs/jdattis/archive/2007/02/23/Office_SharePoint_Server_2007_Forms_Based_Authentication_FBA_Walkthrough_Part_1.aspx

Office SharePoint Server 2007 - Forms Based Authentication (FBA) Walk-through - Part 1 (Blog - Dan Attis)

1st March 2007 (date added)

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=516b95c5-9133-46c4-a01f-d7598780dc17&displaylang=en&tm

SharePoint Server 2007 Template: Role-Based My Site – Controller-Financial Analyst and Sales Account Manager

28th February 2007

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/ssa/archive/2007/02/28/20228.aspx

Creating an Installer for your web service (Blog - S.S. Ahmed)

28th February 2007

https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastRegistrationConfirmation.aspx?culture=en-US&RegistrationID=1288744478

TechNet Webcast: Technical Overview of Excel Services (Level 200) (Blain Barton)

27th February 2007

http://wm.microsoft.com/ms/gsd/mikegannotti/moss_training_portal.wmv

Creating a Training Portal Using Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (Mike Gannotti)

27th February 2007 (date added)

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb267332.aspx

InfoPath 2007 Lab 12: Using SharePoint Server Workflows with InfoPath 2007

27th February 2007 (date added - lab dated February 2007)

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/ssa/archive/2007/02/27/20171.aspx

Searching PHP Sites With SharePoint (Blog - S.S. Ahmed)

27th February 2007

http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/9e71760e-5459-48dd-9332-d80e6018b1261033.mspx?mfr=true

Install protocol handlers (Office SharePoint Server)

27th February 2007 (date added)

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=23b904b9-b883-46df-b5dd-51ad2286393b&displaylang=en&tm

Leading global coffee retailer improves business processes and enhances store Web portal with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007

26th February 2007

http://weblogs.asp.net/jan/archive/2007/02/26/using-the-ajax-control-toolkit-in-sharepoint.aspx

Using the AJAX Control Toolkit in SharePoint (Blog - Jan Tielens)

26th February 2007

https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastRegistrationConfirmation.aspx?culture=en-US&RegistrationID=1288744546

MSDN Webcast: Creating Customizable Applications Using Web Parts with Visual Studio 2005 and ASP.NET 2.0 (Anand Iyer) (Ed: SharePoint WebParts too?)

26th February 2007

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/mykiep/archive/2007/02/26/20101.aspx

Creating a List with a Custom View in MOSS (Blog - "MdP")

26th February 2007

http://blogs.msdn.com/powlo/archive/2007/02/25/displaying-custom-data-through-sharepoint-lists-using-spgridview-and-spmenufield.aspx

Displaying custom data through SharePoint lists using SPGridView and SPMenuField: Part 1: Using SPGridview, adding menus, grouping and sorting (Blog - Paul Robinson)

25th February 2007

http://weblog.vb-tech.com/nick/archive/2007/02/25/2207.aspx

SharePoint 2007 Workflow with Visual Studio 2005 + InfoPath 2007 (RTM VERSION!) (Blog - Nick Swan)

25th February 2007

http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/5465aa2b-aec3-4b87-bce0-8601ff20615e1033.mspx?mfr=true

Estimate performance and capacity requirements for search environments

25th February 2007 (date added)

https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastRegistrationConfirmation.aspx?culture=en-US&RegistrationID=1288687108

Microsoft Webcast: Improve Productivity and Communication Using Office SharePoint Server 2007 (Joey Blondin)

22nd February 2007

http://software.emc.com/collateral/content_management/documentum_family /wp_documentum_sharepoint.pdf

Microsoft SharePoint 2007 and the EMC Documentum Platform

30th January 2007

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

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=26e4ff75-e68d-4b34-9c60-94ba1937b467&displaylang=en&tm

InfoPath 2007 Sample: Training Labs

26th February 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=9a303051-7f25-4da7-9918-c4c9af61b0c5&displaylang=en&tm

Deploying Groove Server 2007 and Groove 2007 at Microsoft

27th February 2007

 

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

http://www.asp.net/learn/videos/default.aspx?tabid=63#sql

SQL Server 2005 Express for Beginners (a series of short videos)

3rd March 2007 (date added)

http://www.asp.net/learn/videos/default.aspx?tabid=63#beginners

Videos for ASP.NET 2.0 Beginners

3rd March 2007 (date added)

http://www.asp.net/learn/videos/default.aspx?tabid=63#howdoi

“How Do I?” with ASP.NET (a series of short videos)

3rd March 2007 (date added)

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=51a5c65b-c020-4e08-8ac0-3eb9c06996f4&displaylang=en&tm

Visual Studio 2005 SDK version 4.0

28th February 2007 (added to get it included in the SDK list as Visual Studio is used by SharePoint developers)

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=530c4d2f-446f-4732-a96e-e15585ba5380&displaylang=en&tm

Microsoft Commerce Server 2007 Starter Site Help

26th February 2007

 

Modified

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032331911&EventCategory=3&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US

MSDN Virtual Lab: 2007 Microsoft Office System - Creating Workflows for Windows SharePoint Services

26th February 2007

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032331910&EventCategory=3&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US

MSDN Virtual Lab: Getting Started with the Business Data Catalog in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007

26th February 2007

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032331909&EventCategory=3&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US

MSDN Virtual Lab: 2007 Microsoft Office System - Understanding the 2007 Microsoft Office System User Experience and Interface Design

26th February 2007

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032331339&EventCategory=3&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US

TechNet Virtual Lab: 2007 Microsoft Office System - Introducing Content Types for Windows SharePoint Services

20th February 2007

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032331340&EventCategory=3&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US

TechNet Virtual Lab: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Enterprise Features Administration

20th February 2007

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032331338&EventCategory=3&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US

TechNet Virtual Lab: What's New in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Feature Walkthrough

20th February 2007

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032331569&EventCategory=3&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US

MSDN Virtual Lab: New Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 Programmability

20th February 2007

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032331568&EventCategory=3&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US

MSDN Virtual Lab: 2007 Microsoft Office System - Programmatic Manipulation of the Microsoft Office Open XML Formats

20th February 2007

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032331337&EventCategory=3&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US

TechNet Virtual Lab: What's New in Windows SharePoint Services Feature Walkthrough

20th February 2007

Deleted

http://weblog.vb-tech.com/nick/archive/2006/09/04/1753.aspx

SharePoint 2007 Workflow with Visual Studio 2005 (Blog - Nick Swan)

25th September 2006 (replaced with a RTM version)

III WSS v3 FAQ

New

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=977

I.34 What are the different version numbers of WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007 versions?

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=976

II.10 Do you have a batch file handy for installing the second lot of WSS 3.0 Application Templates?

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=988

III.77.02 Application Templates: I'm having a problem with the Lending Library admin templates, can you help?

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=985

V.42 SharePoint Services 3.0 Quick Source Guide (QuickSource) *released*

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=978

VI.10 Alert Plus Web Part (commercial - Bamboo Solutions)

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=979

VI.11 Group Email Web Part (commercial - Bamboo Solutions)

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=980

VI.12 Cross List Web Part (commercial - Bamboo Solutions)

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=981

VI.13 List Search Web Part (commercial - Bamboo Solutions)

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=982

VI.14 List Bulk Import (commercial - Bamboo Solutions)

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=983

VI.15 Nintex Workflow 2007 (commercial - Nintex) [end Feb 2007 = Preview release]

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=984

VI.16 Nintex Podcast Server 2007 (commercial - Nintex) (release date 1Q 2007)

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=986

VIII.11 Professional Visual Studio 2005 (Wrox - Andrew Parsons, Nick Randolph) *released*

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=987

X.41 X.41 SharePoint Inspector (free - Gaetan Bouveret)

Modified

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=971

I.32.01 What issues are fixed in fix packs for WSS 3.0?

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=968

V.41 Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server Moss et Office 2007 (Hermes Science - Erol Giraudy with Anthony Bidet, Renaud Comte, Hammou Fdili, Benoit Hamet, Christian Hougardy, Etienne Legendre, Philippe Luzet, Gregory Renard etc.) *released*

(authors added - full list in description as the list is too long for the field!)

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

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

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

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

Deleted

None

IV WSSv2 KB Articles (plus SPS 2003 Hot fixes)

New

None

Modified

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 (ver 1.1)

14th February 2007

V. MS Articles for WSSv2

New

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=9023a71e-37cd-48b9-82b4-1e1a8748d000&displaylang=en&tm

SharePoint Surveys Get Started (2003)

26th February 2007

Modified

None

VI Non-MS Articles for WSSv2

New

http://www.imakenews.com/mernstmann/e_article000435389.cfm

Printing Web Parts in SharePoint (CorasWorks)

27th February 2007 (date added)

Modified

None

VII WSSv2 FAQ

New

None

Modified

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSS%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=23

I.12.02 Document Library - Alerts - Amending the text

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSS%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=403

III.100 How do I display a MS Access Report as a web part?

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSS%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=410

III.102 How do I Filter by the last x days?

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSS%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=451

VII.09.06 Free (but) WSS Web Parts - Calendar webpart (incl. colour/color coding) [Programs Unlimited Inc. - free but limited functionality and nag link]

A while back it was impossible to even ask this question because there were no SharePoint v3 books out and then for almost a month there was only one. But now there's a choice so it's decision time.

(All the books are listed here http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/V%20Books.aspx and all the one's mentioned before have icons on the right-hand-side of that page [leading to Amazon US - the items in the center also have links to Amazon UK, Amazon Germany and Amazon France]

To my mind there's only one book on anybody's must list and that is the Administrator's Companion. I was always referring to the equivalent v2 book - for instance even though I'd done tens of installations of WSS 2.0 and SPS 2003 I still referred to that book and the Microsoft installation documentation every time I did a production installation (and the book was where I kept my scribbled notes on those installations).

The rest of the books that are out make for a more interesting discussion. Both the Todd Bleeker and the Scot Hillier book are for developers and yet at the same time they contain enough useful information to be of great value for Admins who have no intention of doing any developing.

Todd's book "Developer's Guide to the Windows SharePoint Services v3 Platform" contains a marvellous set of chapters about what is new in SharePoint v3 that will be useful to anyone coming to the v3 products from the v2 SharePoint products without being heavily involved in the v3 betas (and probably to those that were as well).

Scot's book "Microsoft SharePoint 2007: Building Office 2007 Solutions with C#" has apparently (the word from a source I trust on this) the best chapter on how to set up a development (virtual machine) environment that's out there. This doesn't surprise me. I found the first chapter in Scot's second v2 book (SPS 2003 and WSS Books - Advanced SharePoint Services Solutions) to be so useful that I used to say (and think) that it was worth the cost of the whole book by itself. I suspect the same is the same with this chapter in this v3 book (although personally I'm waiting for the equivalent VB book to come out before buying it).

The final pure SharePoint book that's out is the User's Guide "SharePoint 2007 User's Guide: Learning Microsoft’s Collaboration and Productivity Platform"). This one I've not seen so take the following comments with a pinch of salt. If you want a User's Guide at the moment (i.e. presumably a general SharePoint v3 book that doesn't go into the details of the Administrator's Companion) by all means consider it as it's for now the only one out there than covers this area. I remember not being over-impressed by the equivalent v2 book (capable rather than full of new knowledge) but that might have been because it came out relatively late and I by that time already knew quite a lot about the v2 product(s). As I say, treat my comment above about this book with a piece of salt.

As for the final book on that list of icons, that's a book about workflow. Workflow is a key area in the v3 SharePoint products and no doubt if you have the time to study this book and if workflow projects are your main area of SharePoint activity then this book (Workflow in the 2007 Microsoft Office System) is certainly one you should seriously consider. [Note added-in: However you should have a look at the the book first if possible. The writing style didn't appeal at all to the second person who commented this blog item - however it did appeal to someone else who commented!.]

I'll ignore here the final two icons which are for a couple of DVD courses (cost $299 and $399 respectively). I suspect that none of you blog readers are going to fork out that amount of your own money. Also all I can say about them is that the same "writer" did the same two courses in the v2 timeframe as well, so presumably they sold well enough (and therefore were good enough) to make this second v3 series possible.

 

So there you have it. The answer to which book to buy seems to be "all of them". As always it depends who and what you are buying them for.

Every Admin: Administrator's Companion

Starting with SharePoint: User's Guide

Development: the Todd Bleeker and Scot Hillier books

What's in v3 if you know v2: the Todd Bleeker book

Workflow: the workflow book (!) [but note the question mark in the text above]

P.S. In the v2 timeframe the general book I liked the best was the O'Reilly one from Jeff Webb. He's not writing the v3 O'Reilly one so the jury has to be out on that. (It, like all the rest, isn't out yet). Otherwise the Unleashed book (also coming for v3) and the Digital Press book from Kevin Laahs and a couple of others was also well up there (and his/their v3 one is coming but only in the late summer). You need usually to be careful with the Microsoft Press general books because they tend to be somewhat middle-of-the-road in my opinion. The For Dummies books (of which there seem to be quite a few coming) have their own readers of course and I have found the one of the series (Firewalls) that I own to be very useful to me, so don't think I'm knocking them. I suspect however most readers of this blog will be looking elsewhere when they order.

Quest Software kindly sent me a couple of T-shirts a while ago so I started off as being positive about them but then I tried to find out about their SharePoint products via their web site.

It's crazy enough to want me to give them an E-mail address and my name and location before they are prepared to let me look at a technical specifications paper. (Which seemed to be the only place where they would commit to their product "Quest Site Administrator for SharePoint" working with the 2007 SharePoint products because the 2 page glossy they did let me look at for nothing said absolutely nothing about 2007.)

But that wasn't enough. After I'd (muttering to myself) filled in that information (correctly too), they then (on the next web page) wanted to know about my company; job; industry; my real address and my telephone number - all of which were compulsary fields. So I slapped in N/A for all the fields where there wasn't a drop-down; let chance decide what the drop-down gave; and wrote 123456789 (as usual) for my telephone number. Oh no they didn't like the street address ("N/A") so I had to write in the equally nonsensical "NA katu 1" before I finally was allowed to see that technical paper and deduce from that that yes, indeed, it did work with SharePoint 2007.

Are they mad? Most people (without a web site to fill with product information) would have given up a long time ago.

In the time taken to barely find this out (= "works, probably, with SharePoint 2007") I'd earlier seen full information about all the Bamboo Solutions web parts that at present (4) and in the near future (?) will work with SharePoint 2007 - with not a  "register here" in sight.

That's how it should be. Let me register once I've bought the product and want information you want to keep for buyers only; or at least give me access to your info after I supply ONLY an e-mail address. Heck, I don't even mind if you want me to confirm that e-mail address (not that Quest did that so I could have been putting my favourite enemy's address there if I had a *favourite* enemy, that is).

P.S. One of the comments said that "Quest Site Administrator for SharePoint" will support the v3 SharePoint versions from ca the end of March.

[For those of you who can't be bothered to read the comments.]

As readers of all the blog posts will have seen I've been temporarily transfered to another group. I was happy about that because at long last I will have some steady SharePoint work but I'm discovering a major minus with it.

They work in a so-called "landscape office" space which is a nice word for cubicles with a few pot plants. The snag of course is that I'm used to my having my own office *with a door*. The mere fact that I had a door in my office meant that I could decide for myself when the noise from outside became too annoying and could shut the door (and thus cut off the source of the noise).

Here I can't and as I live in a very quiet house where the "kid" moved out 18 years ago, this almost permanent noise level is more than a bit annoying - and very much more than a bit when I am trying to concentrate on understanding some text  - when doing routine work it's just irritating that people can be so thoughtless.

SharePoint relevance: None, apart from the fact that the non-routine things I'm trying to understand are SharePoint ones.

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 19th - 25th 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;932619

You cannot crawl case-sensitive Web content in SharePoint Server 2007

22nd February 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;932621

Description of the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 hotfix package: February 10, 2007

22nd February 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;932620

Description of the SharePoint Server 2007 hotfix package: February 10, 2007

22nd February 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;931008

You cannot perform a search query after you upgrade to Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 on a Windows Small Business Server 2003-based computer

21st February 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;931496

Description of the SharePoint Server 2007 hotfix package: February 7, 2007

21st February 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb%3ben-us%3b932744

Information about the Maintenance Plan Wizard in SQL Server 2005 and about tasks that administrators can perform against SharePoint databases

21st February 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;932378

Members of the domain local group cannot view a Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Web site

19th February 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;932376

How to configure SharePoint Server 2007 to use a database that is hosted on a server that is running SQL Server in an untrusted domain

19th February 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb%3ben-us%3b931497

Description of the SharePoint Server 2007 hotfix package: January 25, 2007

16th February 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/321185

How to identify your SQL Server version and edition (ver 10) (added here because I thought it might be useful - allocated to v3)

30th May 2006

Modified

None

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.sharepointblogs.com/ssa/archive/2007/02/24/19978.aspx

Showing web service data in Data View web part (Blog - S.S. Ahmed)

24th February 2007

http://bobfox.net/spblog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=19

Building a VM Test Lab Part 1 (Blog - Bob Fox)

24th February 2007 (date added)

http://bobfox.net/spblog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=20

Building a VM Test Lab Part 2 (Blog - Bob Fox)

24th February 2007 (date added)

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/dustin/archive/2007/02/23/19834.aspx

MVP Dustin Miller's guide to installing the latest 20 application templates

23rd February 2007

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/helloitsliam/archive/2007/02/23/19949.aspx

MOSS2007 – Lotus Notes Migration using Proposion Migrator (Blog - Liam Cleary)

23rd February 2007

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/helloitsliam/archive/2007/02/23/19919.aspx

MOSS2007 – Lotus Notes Migration Transporter (Blog - Liam Cleary)

23rd February 2007

http://weblogs.asp.net/erobillard/archive/2007/02/23/build-a-sharepoint-development-machine.aspx

How to Build a SharePoint Development Machine (Blog - Eli Robillard)

23rd February 2007

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/yeon/archive/2007/02/23/19985.aspx

Automatically applying a My Site master page to a site when it is created (blog - Yeon)

23rd February 2007

http://weblogs.asp.net/erobillard/archive/2007/02/22/updating-data-through-the-bdc.aspx

Updating data through the BDC (Blog - Eli Robillard)

22th February 2007

http://blogs.technet.com/wbaer/archive/2007/02/21/configuring-sharepoint-products-and-technologies-for-cross-forest-deployments.aspx

Configuring SharePoint Products and Technologies for Cross-Forest Deployments (Blog - William Baer)

21st February 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=5807b5ef-57a1-47cb-8666-78c1363f127d&displaylang=en&tm

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Application Templates: All Templates

21st February 2007

**** The next is needed if you are installing individual application templates ****

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=c1039e13-94da-4d7d-8cae-3b96fa5a4045&displaylang=en&tm

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Application Template: Application Template Core

21st February 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=7e45a0f5-68e9-4e1f-9279-28981f5c7053&displaylang=en&tm

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Application Template: Inventory Tracking

21st February 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=3a69cf29-0010-42de-aea5-d9ac8d57bfba&displaylang=en&tm

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Application Template: IT Team Workspace

21st February 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=3cf62351-d91d-44ee-9169-68303c205292&displaylang=en&tm

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Application Template: Room and Equipment Reservations

21st February 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=bc4e5c4e-fbbb-4666-8e32-c4cee09e1fe6&displaylang=en&tm

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Application Template: Knowledge Base

21st February 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=7bcea3bd-fe37-4532-a58b-051da6a6900a&displaylang=en&tm

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Application Template: Change Request Management

21st February 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=aa0cbe99-06b8-4a8d-93fd-a48e66410544&displaylang=en&tm

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Application Template: Physical Asset Tracking and Management

21st February 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=86eaf23e-7606-4c7a-bd45-3a9fcf861183&displaylang=en&tm

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Application Template: Contacts Management

21st February 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=ce90d6d7-7b96-47bf-a22f-a7e8c5d40647&displaylang=en&tm

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Application Template: Help Desk

21st February 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=a9c1228a-832c-4e88-a864-4b8800b8cd02&displaylang=en&tm

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Application Template: Sales Lead Pipeline

21st February 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=02c4d1b4-7d53-4b72-b577-3da23f86ec17&displaylang=en&tm

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Application Template: Document Library and Review

21st February 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=b193c98b-562e-43df-9edf-25c674a9ca90&displaylang=en&tm

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Application Template: Job Requisition and Interview Management

21st February 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=aae4cb5a-91d2-4f1b-9a45-3bb894e218f8&displaylang=en&tm

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Application Templates: All Server Admin Templates

21st February 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=e272a569-6c3e-4a35-baed-de24264e9d2a&displaylang=en&tm

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Application Template: Compliance Process Support Site

21st February 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=89514708-e33c-4ea7-8af2-c04b3657b27b&displaylang=en&tm

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Application Template: Lending Library

21st February 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=4eab254b-f775-476d-83a7-a232dd3a21f4&displaylang=en&tm

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Application Template: Call Center

21st February 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=04fda604-bab0-4e43-8b88-38101dfe121a&displaylang=en&tm

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Application Template: Budgeting and Tracking Multiple Projects

21st February 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=c72d23af-f556-47aa-a6f2-0027246a9928&displaylang=en&tm

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Application Template: Bug Database

21st February 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=f9b98691-4d6b-4382-a415-0f8d3080dfc1&DisplayLang=en

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Application Template: Project Tracking Workspace

21st February 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=cb44f5d2-19bf-48b1-9154-cc5d66513195&DisplayLang=en

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Application Template: Event Planning

21st February 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=380dce97-4585-4daf-a17e-35cf1109ef5b&DisplayLang=en

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Application Template: Expense Reimbursement and Approval

21st February 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=56406562-01f9-4a18-9924-2dc0684232c8&DisplayLang=en

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Application Template: Absence Request and Vacation Schedule Management

21st February 2007

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/ssa/archive/2007/02/21/19725.aspx

Publishing, Sharing And Searching PowerPoint Files in SharePoint (Blog - S.S.Ahmed)

21st February 2007

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/erickraus/archive/2007/02/21/19743.aspx

SharePoint Object Model - Download/Upload Files via Code (Blog - Eric Kraus)

21st February 2007

http://office.microsoft.com/search/redir.aspx?AssetID=AM102179571033

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Evaluation Guide (February 2007)

21st February 2007 (date added)

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032331567&EventCategory=3&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US

TechNet Virtual Lab: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Records Management Deployment and Configuration Virtual Lab (new version?)

20th February 2007

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/tonstegeman/archive/2007/02/20/19732.aspx

Adding a custom action to the MOSS expiration policy (Blog - Ton Stegeman)

20th February 2007

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/heliosa/archive/2007/02/20/19721.aspx

EMC Documentum: a competitor for Sharepoint Techs? [What is in Documentum + Links] (Blog - Helio Sa Moreira)

20th February 2007

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/snehal/archive/2007/02/20/19730.aspx

How to create a Web Application in WSS 3.0/MOSS 2007 (Blog - Snehal Patel)

20th February 2007

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb226683.aspx

Developing User-Defined Functions for Excel 2007 and Excel Services (Danny Khen, Shahar Prish) (MSDN Tech Article - Web)

20th February 2007 (date added)

http://www.documentmedia.com/ME2/dirmod.asp?sid=85E19EF231F247A6A5E041508233D23C&nm=Content+Library&type=Publishing&mod=Publications::Article&mid=8F3A7027421841978F18BE895F87F791&tier=4&id=2E6E5035A9254CA2BB3A5071CAB33B05

Are You Ready for SharePoint 2007? - Harnessing its Records Center and records management capabilities (Document Media - Russell Stalters, Robert Markham)

20th February 2007 (date added)

http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2007/02/19/microsoft-sql-server-2005-sp2-reporting-services-integration-with-wss-3-0-and-moss-2007.aspx

Microsoft SQL Server 2005 SP2 Reporting Services integration with WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007 (MSTeam Blog - Lawrence Liu)

19th February 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=3015fde4-85f6-4cbc-812d-55701fbfb563&displaylang=en&tm

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Trial Version (x64)

19th February 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=18848d8b-6784-4e6a-b716-96d571eeb676&displaylang=en&tm

Project Portfolio Server 2007 Document: Programmer Reference

19th February 2007

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/tomshirley/archive/2007/02/19/Sharepoint_Themes.aspx

Apply a Sharepoint Theme to any provisioned webs based off any Site Definition via Feature Stapling (Blog - Tom Shirley)

19th February 2007

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/pprussak/archive/2007/02/15/19533.aspx

Practical usage of Application Security Settings (Blog - Piotr Prussak)

19th February 2007

http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/blogs/mike/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=3

Integrating ASP.NET AJAX with SharePoint (MS Blog - Mike Ammerlaan)

19th February 2007

http://blogs.technet.com/wbaer/archive/2007/02/19/co-hosting-team-and-personal-site-collections-within-an-individual-web-application.aspx

Co-hosting "team" and Personal Site Collections within an individual Web Application (Blog - William Baer)

19th February 2007

http://www.bewise.fr/download/articles/article-41.doc

WSS V3 - Use ASP .NET AJAX Framework with WSS 3.0 (English version - Larent Cotton)

19th February 2007

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointserver/FX102176831033.aspx

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Related Technologies pricing (Note: US and small number of licences)

19th February 2007 (date added)

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb267252.aspx

Extending the Excel Services Programmability Framework (Luis F. Bitencourt-Emilio)

18th February 2007 (date added - article February 2007)

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=1e53f882-0c16-4847-b331-132274ae8c84&DisplayLang=en

Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services Add-in for Microsoft SharePoint Technologies

17th February 2007

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/tonstegeman/archive/2007/02/15/19518.aspx

MOSS Custom policies part 3 - implementing the custom policy (Blog - Tom Stegeman)

15th February 2007

https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastRegistrationConfirmation.aspx?culture=en-US&RegistrationID=1288604309

Microsoft Webcast: Enterprise Search at Microsoft with Office SharePoint Server 2007 (Lauri Ellis)

15th February 2007

https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastRegistrationConfirmation.aspx?culture=en-US&RegistrationID=1288604374

TechNet Webcast: Take Control with Forefront Server Security Management Console (Level 200) (Peter Eicher)

15th February 2007

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/ssa/archive/2007/02/15/19508.aspx

Deploying InfoPath Forms (Blog - S.S.Ahmed)

15th February 2007

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/ssa/archive/2007/02/15/19454.aspx

Groove and SharePoint (Blog - S.S.Ahmed)

15th February 2007

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/helloitsliam/archive/2007/02/15/19500.aspx

MOSS2007 - Custom Library and List Menu Items (Blog - Liam Cleary)

15th February 2007

http://blogs.technet.com/wbaer/archive/2007/02/14/configuring-trusted-file-locations-for-excel-services.aspx

Configuring Trusted File Locations for Excel Services (Blog - William Baer)

14th February 2007

https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastRegistrationConfirmation.aspx?culture=en-US&RegistrationID=1288604466

TechNet Webcast: Planning Deployment of Search Solutions for the Enterprise: Technical Overview (Level 200) (Karl Kuhnhausen, Allin Consulting)

14th February 2007

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/ssa/archive/2007/02/14/19435.aspx

Setting Excel Services properly in SharePoint Central Administration (Blog - S.S.Ahmed)

14th February 2007

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/zimmer/archive/2007/02/14/19407.aspx

Configure aliases for your web-applications in MOSS 2007 (Blog - Tobias Zimmergren)

14th February 2007

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/drivenbysharepoint/archive/2007/02/13/19370.aspx

3 tips for InfoPath 2007 Starters (Blog - Geoffrey)

13th February 2007

https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastRegistrationConfirmation.aspx?culture=en-US&RegistrationID=1288604534

TechNet Webcast: Business Intelligence with Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 (Level 300) (Rex Parker)

13th February 2007

https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastRegistrationConfirmation.aspx?culture=en-US&RegistrationID=1288604584

Managing the Project Lifecycle with Portfolio Server and Project Server 2007 (unknown)

13th February 2007

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/tonstegeman/archive/2007/02/12/19308.aspx

MOSS Custom policies part 2 - creating a handler to submit items to the records center (Blog - Tom Stegeman)

12th February 2007

https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastRegistrationConfirmation.aspx?culture=en-US&RegistrationID=1288604625

TechNet Webcast: Adding Rich Reporting to SharePoint Server 2007 with SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services (Level 200) (Carolyn Chau)

12th February 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=c75a850f-b4bd-4b23-a43a-509a03590dd7&displaylang=en

SharePoint Server 2007 Sample: Extending Excel Services Programmability Framework Samples (ver Feb 07)

12th February 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=e09fefbf-5fc7-44a7-9731-fd3dc41e5b9b&displaylang=en

SharePoint 2007 Sample: User-Defined Functions for Excel 2007 and Excel Services Sample Solution (ver Feb07)

12th February 2007

http://sharepointed.wordpress.com/2007/02/09/specifying-the-file-size-that-moss-can-crawl/

Specifying the Maximum File Size That MOSS [ed. and WSS 3.0] Can Crawl (Blog - Alexey Smirnov)

9th February 2007

https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastRegistrationConfirmation.aspx?culture=en-US&RegistrationID=1288605045

MSDN Webcast: Building Key Business Applications on the 2007 Office System Server Environment (Level 200) (Susan Wisowaty)

8th February 2007

https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastRegistrationConfirmation.aspx?culture=en-US&RegistrationID=1288604775

TechNet Webcast: Compliance and Records Management with Office SharePoint Server 2007 (Level 200) (Kevin Combs)

7th February 2007

https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastRegistrationConfirmation.aspx?culture=en-US&RegistrationID=1288604873

TechNet Webcast: How Microsoft IT Manages the World's Largest Windows SharePoint Services Deployment (Level 300) (Scott St. Jean)

6th February 2007

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

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb229745.aspx

InfoPath 2007 Developer Reference

19th February 2007 (date added)

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

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=da0531e4-e94c-4991-82fa-f0e3fbd05e63&displaylang=en&tm

SQL Server 2005 Best Practices Analyzer (February 2007 CTP)

21st February 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=7b243252-acb7-451b-822b-df639443aeaf&displaylang=en&tm

Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edition VHD

19th February 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=ae4ce23b-9e1e-455c-87a4-36167fe43107&displaylang=en&tm

Microsoft Forefront Server Security Management Console Beta 1 User Guide

19th February 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=04d26402-3199-48a3-afa2-2dc0b40a73b6&displaylang=en&tm

Virtual PC 2007 (ver 1.0)

19th February 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=d07219b2-1e23-49c8-8f0c-63fa18f26d3a&displaylang=en&tm

Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2 (includes Reporting Services web parts for v3 SharePoint)

16th February 2007

 

Modified

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=10db8a71-28f8-41d7-8421-39c331d19734&displaylang=en&tm

Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 VHD - 32-bit version

22nd February 2007 (replaces one from November 2006)

https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastRegistrationConfirmation.aspx?culture=en-US&RegistrationID=1288604417

TechNet Webcast: Disaster Recovery Planning for Office SharePoint Server 2007 (Level 200) (Bryan von Axelson) [new version]

15th February 2007

http://www.codeplex.com/SLK/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx

SharePoint Learning Kit (ver 1.0)

9th January 2007

Deleted

None

III WSS v3 FAQ

New

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=958

I.31.01 What issues are fixed in fix packs to MOSS 2007?

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=971

I.32.01 What issues are fixed in fix packs for WSS 3.0?

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=959

I.33 What are the prices of the v3 SharePoint Products?

(I.33 as I.32.01 has been left for issues fixed in the fix packs to WSS 3.0)

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=973

II.09 Can you upgrade WSS 3.0 to MOSS 2007 without losing content?

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=961

V.37 SharePoint 2007 MVP (Editor: Scot Hillier. Authors: 16 MVPs (listed in description))

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=965

V.38 Programación con SharePoint 2007 (dotNetMania - Gustavo Vélez) *released*

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=966

V.39 Microsoft SharePoint 2007 im Einsatz (Addison-Wesley - Torsten Mollien)

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=967

V.40 SharePoint-Technologien und Office 2007 im Teamwork, m. CD-ROM (Microsoft Press, Deutschland - Egbert Jeschke)

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=968

V.41 Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server Moss et Office 2007 (Hermes Science -  Erol Giraudy) *released*

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=964

*** Note: Section VI has been changed to "Commercial Products" (where they get new numbers) and the free products moved to "X Free Products" (where they keep the same numbers) ****

VI.06 Colligo Contributor for SharePoint V2.0 (commercial - Colligo)

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=969

VI.07 Extranet Collaboration Manager for SharePoint 2007 (commercial - SharePoint Solutions)

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=972

VI.08 Vorsite Search Connector for MOSS 2007 (commercial - Vorsite)

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=974

VI.09 Equilibrium MediaRich for Sharepoint 2007 (commercial - Equilibrium)

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=975

X.31 TechnoPart (Display blog/site statistics in SharePoint sites) (free - S. S. Ahmed)     (X.31 used to be a commercial product that is now VI.0n)

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=960

X.37 WS-Downloader *Web Part* (free - S.S.Ahmed)

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=962

X.38 radEditor for MOSS (free "to registered clients of SharePoint 2007" - telerik with Microsoft)

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=963

X.39 Colligo Reader for SharePoint (free to individual users - Colligo)

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=970

X.40 SharePoint Explorer for WSS3 (free - Lars Fastrup)

Modified

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

V.15 Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Administrator's Pocket Consultant (MS Press - Ben Curry)   (author confirmed; new prices)

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

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

(no longer free although there is a free version still)

Deleted

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IV WSSv2 KB Articles (plus SPS 2003 Hot fixes)

New

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=932057

Description of the Windows SharePoint Services post-Service Pack 2 hotfix package: January 29, 2007

7th February 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=930476

Description of the Windows SharePoint Services post-Service Pack 2 hotfix package: January 9, 2007

5th February 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=930773

Description of the Windows SharePoint Services post-Service Pack 2 hotfix package: January 16, 2007

29th January 2007

Modified

None

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?

 

Last week Nick Swan posted the link to my web page listing of SharePoint v3 books (http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/V%20Books.aspx) in his (UK) blog and both that day and the next day a couple of book orders were placed at Amazon UK via the links on my site. As these were the first orders via the site at Amazon.UK in quite a while (and there have been none since), I think we can safely assume that Nick's blog item helped move things along.

So my thanks to Nick and of course to those people who ordered via the site.

One other good effect of that blog item was that a Spanish-speaking person informed Nick in a comment that a Spanish Language SharePoint 2007 book was released a couple of weeks earlier. I saw this (when I was checking Nick's blog item to see if indeed it had been posted the day (19th) of the first of those Amazon orders) and then added that book too (despite the lack of Amazon links!!) to the list.

This gave me the impulse (not before time) to look for some French and German books and I found the Erol Giraudy (and others) very expensive *but released* book on Amazon.fr and a couple of soon-to-be-released (April?) original books in German at Amazon.de and I was able to add them too.

In the v2 lists I have a book in Italian and one even in Turkish (although I never did get the copy of that the writer said he'd send me - not that I speak Turkish but it would have looked good on my shelf at work!!) so if anyone knows of books on SharePoint 2007 in any language at all (there's for instance a very active blogger in Iran so maybe there's a book in Farsi coming), please let me know about them to the usual hotmail address (which is englantilainen)