When Microsoft first introduced the ultraportable concept I thought it was a perfect small device for controlling my hard-disk-based CD collection via a USB port.

But then the first models came out and the were all-singing, all-dancing (and slow!) monsters that were way over the prices indicated by Microsoft.

So because of price I just gave up the idea and continued to use my portable (with the subsequent risks that I was continually checking my e-mail and newsgroup postings whenever I set up the portable to control my music).

Now, maybe, there is an ultraportable coming that could just solve my problem by being much closer to the original concept (and more important to the original price).

Here's

http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,131620-pg,1/article.html

news of the new version of the Samsung Q1 Ultra

and one of those models is available for less than $800.

Mind you one has to wonder about putting Vista on a device with a fairly slow processor and no doubt not too much memory. Certainly although I like Vista, all I need for my designed use is XPPro and if they'd had that instead of Vista they could have included the Tablet Edition in the price.

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

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

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

From 30th April - 6th May 2007

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

New

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=934613

Error message when you try to install a feature in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: "The 'UserSelectionMode' attribute is not allowed"

30th April 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=934882

A file that is attached to an e-mail message is not put in a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 document library

30th April 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=932922

A default column value is saved to a document regardless of the content type of the document in a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 document library

30th April 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=934253

The Web File Properties dialog box displays incorrect properties for a document that is saved in a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 document library

30th April 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=935605

Issues that may occur when you use the volume shadow copy service (VSS) reference writer in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0

30th April 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=934790

Description of the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 hotfix package: April 12, 2007

30th April 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=934251

Description of the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 hotfix package that includes the English, French, and German MUI: April 12, 2007

30th April 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=933823

How to create a detached page that downloads the Core.js file but that does not reference the Core.js file in a SharePoint Server 2007 site

27th April 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=923938

You do not receive a delete confirmation dialog box when you delete an item from a SharePoint list in Outlook 2007 (ver 1.4) [Which SP versions?]

25th April 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=919045

You may be prompted repeatedly to enter your authentication credentials when Outlook 2007 tries to synchronize SharePoint lists (ver 1.3) [Which WSS version??]

25th April 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=919044

Error message when you try to set a reminder in Outlook 2007 for an appointment that is in a linked SharePoint calendar: "The reminder for Event_Name could not be set because the item is in a folder that does not support reminders" (ver 1.3) [Which SP ?]

25th April 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=917121

The boxes in the Instant Search pane are only for e-mail search parameters when you search SharePoint document libraries in Outlook 2007 (ver 1.3)

25th April 2007

Modified

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

Attachments that are allowed by Outlook 2007 may be blocked by Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (ver 1.2)

25th April 2007

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

You cannot delete an RSS folder that is subscribed to a subfolder of a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 document library in Outlook 2007 (ver 1.1)

25th April 2007

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

You cannot view the items in the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 list that you added to Outlook 2007 (ver 1.1)

25th April 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=928309

The content from a folder in a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 document library is no longer synchronized with Outlook 2007 after you rename the folder (ver 1.1)

25th April 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=917033

A Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 list that you added to Outlook 2007 is not synchronized with the server after you close the SharePoint Lists.pst file in Folder List view (ver 1.2)

25th April 2007

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

Error message when you use Outlook 2007 to visit SharePoint Server 2007 Web sites that are configured to use client certificate mapping: "401 Unauthorized" (ver 1.2)

25th April 2007

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

Error message when you add a Windows SharePoint Services list to Outlook 2007: "Outlook cannot download to this remote data because Admin Settings allow only creation of Outlook 97-2002 Personal Folders file (.pst)" (ver 1.2)

25th April 2007

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

An item in a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 discussion board is missing a follow-up flag, the level of importance, or the color category when you view the item in Outlook 2007 (ver 1.2)

25th April 2007

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

The value of a column in a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 list that you connected to Outlook 2007 is blank after you use the "Send/Receive" command in Outlook to update the list (ver 1.2)

25th April 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=912264

You cannot open a Windows SharePoint Services list or a Windows SharePoint Services document library from a sharing invitation that you receive from another Outlook user (ver 1.1)

25th April 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;934838

How to change the password of service accounts in SharePoint Server 2007 and in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (v 2.0)

10th April 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.dell.com/downloads/global/casestudies/2007_DellOnSharepoint.pdf

How Dell Does IT: SharePoint Server 2007 (marketing broschure)

5th May 2007 (date added)

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/marcoperes/archive/2007/05/04/lixeira-do-sharepoint-recycle-bin.aspx

Lixeira do SharePoint (Recycle Bin) (Blog - Marco Aurélio Peres) (in Portuguese)

4th May 2007

https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastRegistrationConfirmation.aspx?culture=en-US&RegistrationID=1290136539

MSDN Webcast: SharePoint Products and Technologies for Developers (Part 3 of 4): Site Conversion to Windows SharePoint Services (Level 200) (Mike Benkovich)

4th May 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=c523ac7a-5724-48be-b973-641e805588f4&displaylang=en

Understanding and Troubleshooting the SharePoint Explorer View (v2 paper probably relevant for v3)

4th May 2007 (date added)

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/poonamthawani/archive/2007/05/04/gradual-migration-of-custom-sites.aspx

Gradual Migration of WSS 2.0 Custom Sites to WSS 3.0 (Blog - Poonam)

4th May 2007

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/mypoint/archive/2007/05/04/permission-level-und-permissions.aspx

Table of which Permissions Categories and the Individual Permissions they grant (Blog - Olaf Koestner)

4th May 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=bc9b3526-decf-4057-a530-91840c0d5401&displaylang=en&tm

Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0 List Web Part

3rd May 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=318d8562-58bd-4329-b1f6-f1941a38bc7f&displaylang=en&tm

SharePoint Server 2007 Language Pack (x64)  (Note: as of today only ca 6 language versions)

3rd May 2007

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/wkkf/archive/2007/05/02/programmatically-compiling-audiences-in-moss2007.aspx

Programmatically Compiling Audiences in MOSS 2007 (Blog - WKKF)

2nd May 2007

http://h71019.www7.hp.com/ActiveAnswers/cache/497613-0-0-0-121.html

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 on HP ProLiant Servers - Performance Summary

2nd May 2007 (date added)

https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastRegistrationConfirmation.aspx?culture=en-US&RegistrationID=1290136635

TechNet Webcast: How Microsoft IT Implemented Information Protection with Windows Rights Management Services (Level 200) (Grant Hogan)

1st May 2007

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

SharePoint Server 2007 Templates: All Role-Based My Site Templates

30th April 2007

https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastRegistrationConfirmation.aspx?culture=en-US&RegistrationID=1290136602

MSDN Webcast: SharePoint Products and Technologies for Developers (Part 4 of 4): Windows SharePoint Services and Access 2007 (Level 200) (Mike Benkovich)

30th April 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

30th April 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

30th April 2007

http://www.wssdemo.com/blog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?List=d5813c18%2D934f%2D4fd6%2D9068%2D5cdd59ce56ba&ID=267

SharePoint Farm Account (Blog - Ian Morrish)

29th April 2007

http://blogs.msdn.com/echarran/archive/2007/04/28/how-to-debug-a-web-part-for-sharepoint-2007.aspx

How to Debug a Web Part for SharePoint 2007 (Blog - Eric Charran)

28th April 2007

http://www.wssdemo.com/blog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?List=d5813c18%2D934f%2D4fd6%2D9068%2D5cdd59ce56ba&ID=266

Alternative to the SharePoint Page Viewer Web Part to solve the height problem (Blog - Ian Morrish)

27th April 2007

https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastRegistrationConfirmation.aspx?culture=en-US&RegistrationID=1290025869

MSDN Webcast: MSDN geekSpeak: Sharepoint Products and Technologies with Brendon Schwartz and Matt Ranlett (Level 200)

25th April 2007

 

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

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=1379161b-74cb-4f46-bf30-86074915dcb8&displaylang=en&tm

Groove 2007 Planning and Deployment Guide (ver 4)

2nd May 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=ead1b060-0394-4e26-8963-fea45602f668&displaylang=en&tm

Project Server 2007 Trial Version (ver 1)

1st May 2007

https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastRegistrationConfirmation.aspx?culture=en-US&RegistrationID=1290025817

Microsoft Office System Webcast: Top 10 Tips for Groove 2007 (Level 100) (Evan Archilla)

26th April 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=1290025760

Momentum Webcast: Benefits of Upgrading to SQL Server 2005 (Level 100) (Eugene Lee)

26th April 2007

Modified

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 (ver 1.0)

4th May 2007

(The earlier version from 9th March was version 2.0 !!)

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=2447426b-8689-4768-bff0-cbb511599a45&displaylang=en&tm

SharePoint Server 2007 Language Pack

15th March 2007

(no longer only English - a long list of languages)

Deleted

None

III WSS v3 FAQ

New

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1045

V.21 Essential SharePoint 2007: A Practical Guide for Users, Administrators and Developers (O'Reilly - Jeff Webb)

(the low number is caused by filling a gap)

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1046

V.45 7 Microsoft Office Business Applications for Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MS Press - Microsoft [no author given])

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1047

V.46 Beginning Excel Services (Wrox - Liviu Asnash, Eran Megiddo, Craig Thomas) *released*

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1048

V.47 Professional Excel Services (Wrox - Shahar Prish) *released*

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1054

VI.32 conceptSharePoint (Concept Searching)

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1051

VII.02 Microsoft SharePoint 2007 Unleashed (ISBN: 0672329476)  - Chapter 3 - Planning Redundancy and Scaling the SharePoint Environment

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1052

VII.03 Microsoft SharePoint 2007 Development Unleashed (ISBN: 0672329034) - Chapter 3 - Programming with Features and Solutions

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1053

VII.04 Essential SharePoint 2007: Delivering High-Impact Collaboration (Addison-Wesley) - Chapter 1 - Your Collaboration Strategy: Ensuring Success

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1049

X.54 Microsoft IT Site Delete Capture 1.0 (Codeplex - Joel Oleson, William Baer)

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1050

X.55 SPClientUtilities Feature (free - Andrew Connell)

Modified

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

I.31.02 What issues are fixed in fix packs for WSS 3.0?

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/EditForm.aspx?ID=816

V.10 Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services Version 3.0 Inside Out (MS Press - Errin O'Connor)

[Author change - was Jim Buyens]

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/EditForm.aspx?ID=817

V.11 Sharepoint Designer All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies (For Dummies - John Paul Mueller) *released*

[definitely released - listed in US also listed in Amazon Germany; still not listed in Amazon UK]

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=847

V.21 Leveraging Office SharePoint Server 2007: Deploying and Customizing SharePoint (Addison-Wesley - Scott Jamison, Mauro Cardarelli)

[to be released under a different title (also listed)]

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IV WSSv2 KB Articles (plus SPS 2003 Hot fixes)

New

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=924468

You receive an error message when you try to publish the default calendar in Outlook 2007 to a Windows SharePoint Services site (ver 1.2)

25th April 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=913841

Some contact fields may be missing after you synchronize Outlook 2007 with a contacts list that is located on a Windows SharePoint Services Web site or on a SharePoint Portal Server Web site (ver 1.2)

25th April 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=913842

When you delete the contents of a folder on a Windows SharePoint Services or SharePoint Portal Server Web site, the contents of the folder are not moved to the Recycle Bin on the Web site in Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 (ver 1.2)

25th April 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=918718

SharePoint items are added to a .pst file when the PstDisableGrow registry value is configured to prevent the items from being added in Outlook 2007 (ver 1.3)

25th April 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=913113

A SharePoint list is not opened when you click a link that uses the stssync protocol in an Outlook 2007 e-mail message (ver 1.3)

25th April 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=923577

The progress indicator may appear to stop increasing when you synchronize Outlook 2007 and items in either a Windows SharePoint Services site or a SharePoint Portal Server site (ver 1.2)

25th April 2007

Modified

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSS%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=189

III.55.1 Alerts aren't working even if the Timer Service is running. What might be wrong?

V. MS Articles for WSSv2

New

None

Modified

None

VI Non-MS Articles for WSSv2

New

None

Modified

None

VII WSSv2 FAQ

New

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSS%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=649

VII.06.43 SPS 2003 and WSS Books - Microsoft Sharepoint Interview Questions: Share Point Certification Review (Equity Press - Tery, Sanchez-Clark)

Modified

None

I added 9 WSS 3.0 KB Articles just now to the WSS FAQ sites. All were dated the 30th of April and all were new (that is version 1.0)

There's nothing special about that except that usually I manage to add the articles rather more quickly after they come out.

What however was special was that I didn't find out about these articles via my RSS feeds (to be exact Microsoft's RSS feeds and for double "security" the KBAlertz RSS feeds). Despite all of these articles being correctly specified in the Applies To section as being for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, none of them have yet appeared in my Microsoft RSS feed and only one of them has so far appeared in the KBAlertz feed that usually just serves as a confirmation for me of what I have already read in the Microsoft feed.

I really do hope these Microsoft feeds (there's MOSS 2007 as well) are still using the same URLs because by coincidence early today I proof-read my chapter of the upcoming Wrox book written by MVPs and there I give a lot of useful RSS feeds including this one.

If anyone in Microsoft is reading this, could you comment on what's happening here? This is worrying. My other sources often only give the new KB articles a week or more after the date of issue -and that's too late !

Anyone checking the KB Articles section of the WSS FAQ sites will notice a lot of KB Articles in the "Outlook 2007" category all of which are dated 25.4.2007.

Most of these are 1.x versions of articles that were there before (usually from Oct/Nov 2006) but some are either new items or items that are new to the list as I missed them first time around.

It's been easy to miss them first time around because the Applies To section consistently for these articles says only "Outlook 2007" and makes no mention of any SharePoint product despite SharePoint (or WSS) being mentioned in the title.

Another problem with them is that the Outlook people seem to think there is only one version of Windows SharePoint Services out there (and sometimes that there is only one thing called "SharePoint"). Usually (because they also mention SPS 2003 in the same breath) it is possible to guess that they mean WSS 2.0, but sometimes even such a guess isn't possible (and don't get me started on the pointlessness of an article that says it affects "SharePoint Lists" - which product/version please!).

Anyway I've used MVP channels to put through requests for a mention of the WSS version number(s) and/or whether all or only some of the SharePoint products are affected. Plus, naturally, a request that something other than Outlook 2007 needs to be in the Applies To section.

We'll see what comes of those requests, but if there is a sudden flury of revised SharePoint/Outlook 2007 KB Articles in a couple of months time, you could always just for a laugh look to see if there are 2.0s in sight and whether the Applies To sections still only contains one product.

Jeff Webb has been active recently (both giving and taking) in the SharePoint newsgroups (using his usual alias) and I must admit I wondered.

It turns out that he is taking time out from writing non-SharePoint books to write what O'Reilly describe as the 2nd Edition of Essential SharePoint.

In fact it's the first edition of Essential SharePoint 2007 and is due out in September 2007. The 2003 edition (WSS only) was one of my favourites so I'm hoping for some good clear text from him again with this one.

In the meantime Addison-Wesley had grabbed the "Essential SharePoint" label for one of their books ("Essential SharePoint 2007: Delivering High-Impact Collaboration" (Addison-Wesley - Scott Jamison, Mauro Cardarelli)). Did they think O'Reilly wouldn't notice or is nothing sacred in the Publishing business?

I also found a couple of books from Wrox about Excel Services.

For me that's SharePoint because after all you need MOSS 2007 Enterprise to get it. Oddly an Amazon search for SharePoint threw up only the baby version "Beginning Excel Services" (Wrox - Liviu Asnash, Eran Megiddo, Craig Thomas) which is actually already out [US: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/04701048997/heme0f, UK: http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0470104899/heme] and didn't throw up the grown-up version "Professional Excel Services" (Wrox - Shahar Prish) which this morning wasn't marked as being released but now is [US: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0470104864/heme0f; UK: http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0470104864/heme]. The reason of course was that the blurb on the Amazon US page for Professional Excel Services didn't mention SharePoint at all.

Mind it, that ("Professional") book is written by a Microsoft guy. He probably has no conception of needing to pay for software licences (i.e. MOSS 2007 Enterprise in this case) to be able to use an application.

So there you are - even more books for you to rush out and buy. I only hope that you are using the Walsh method. This - in case you are unaware of the concept - is that you buy a book; put it on your shelf; and within months of it being there (unopened apart from the Intro pages) you become (by magic) an "expert". If you don't follow this method, I suggest you don't buy any more SharePoint (including those Excel Services!) books at the moment because summer only comes once a year.

[Meanwhile you Southern hemisphere people can buy double quantities. You have nothing else to do now the Cricket World Cup is over. (Yes I know it was in the West Indies. I even know who won, but don't they always)]

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

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

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

From 23rd - 29th April 2007

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

New

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;935502

Error message when you configure the Content Query Web Part in SharePoint Server 2007: "The query cannot be completed because the number of lists in the query exceeded the allowable limit"

23rd April 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;935504

Error message when you click "New" to create a new item in a list or when you click an existing item in SharePoint Server 2007: "Invalid page URL" or "An unexpected error has occurred"

23rd April 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;935751

Error message when you try to iterate through Windows SharePoint Services site objects or SharePoint Server 2007 site objects by using the SharePoint object model: "Unhandled Exception: System.IO.FileNotFoundException"

23rd April 2007

Modified

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 5.1)

17th April 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=932741

RSS feeds are not updated as expected when you configure them for content in a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Web site by using an RSS reader (ver 1.1)

16th April 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.windowsitpro.com/Articles/articleid/95919/95919.html

SharePoint Integration with Outlook 2007, Part 1 (WindowITPro, needs site registration - Siegfried Jagott)

28th April 2007 (date added)

www.vanolstweb.nl/blog/documents/sharepointsearch.ppt

SharePoint Search presentation by Mirjam van Olst of Macaw

27th April 2007 (date added)

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/wkkf/archive/2007/04/26/randomly-displaying-a-single-sharepoint-item-on-refresh-i-e-item-rotator.aspx

Randomly Displaying a Single SharePoint Item on Refresh (i.e. Item Rotator) (Blog - Clayton Leonard)

26th April 2007

http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2007/04/26/customizing-the-quick-launch-menu-adding-fly-out-menus-to-sharepoint-navigation.aspx

Customizing the Quick Launch menu: Adding fly-out menus to SharePoint navigation (MS Team Blog - Luis Angel Mex)

26th April 2007

http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/blogs/harshc/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=5

Retrieving User Alerts via Object Model (MS Blog - Harsh)

26th April 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/technetmag/issues/2007/05/UtilitySpotlight/default.aspx?loc=en

Utility Spotlight: Upgrade Toolkit for SharePoint Sites and Templates (TechNet Magazine, May 2007 - Luis Câmara Manoel and Peter Skjøtt Larsen)

26th April 2007 (date added)

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=418eb366-2890-439d-a145-08b0f8840483&displaylang=en&tm

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Application Template Documents: All Application Template datasheets

25th April 2007

http://www.willierust.com/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=7

Using a SharePoint List as an Authentication Provider: Part 2 (Blog - Willie Rust)

24th April 2007

http://sharepointblogs.com/helloitsliam/archive/2007/04/24/moss2007-multiple-columns-in-cqwp.aspx

MOSS2007 – Multiple columns in CQWP (Blog - Liam Cleary)

24th April 2007

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/llowevad/archive/2007/04/23/sharepoint-2007-single-sign-on-setup.aspx

SharePoint 2007 Single Sign-On Setup (Blog - Dave Wollerman)

24th April 2007

http://blogs.msdn.com/martinkearn/archive/2007/04/23/configuring-kerberos-for-sharepoint-2007-part-1-base-configuration-for-sharepoint.aspx

Configuring Kerberos for SharePoint 2007: Part 1, Base Configuration for SharePoint (MS Blog - Martin Kearn)

23rd April 2007

http://blogs.technet.com/wbaer/archive/2007/04/23/sql-server-2005-database-mirroring-and-windows-sharepoint-services-3-0-microsoft-office-sharepoint-server-2007-part-1-introduction-overview-and-basics.aspx

SQL Server 2005 Database Mirroring and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0/Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 - Part 1 (Introduction, Overview, and basics) (Blog - William Baer)

23rd April 2007

http://blogs.provoke.co.nz/Ari/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=14

Creating a Custom SharePoint 2007 List Definition (Blog - Ari Bakker)

18th April 2007

https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastRegistrationConfirmation.aspx?culture=en-US&RegistrationID=1289914292

2007 Microsoft Office System for Professional Services - Integrated Workspaces Virtual Lab

11th April 2007

http://blog.thekid.me.uk/archive/2007/03/20/floating-toolpane-for-sharepoint.aspx

Floating ToolPane for SharePoint (Blog - Vincent Rothwell)

20th March 2007

http://blogs.msdn.com/brianwilson/archive/2007/02/26/fine-tuning-search-relevancy-in-moss-2007-getting-the-search-results-your-user-expects-part-1.aspx

Search: Fine Tuning search relevancy in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2007: Getting the search results your user expects (Blog - Brian Wilson)

26th February 2007

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

None

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

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=d351bca8-182b-4223-8c9e-627e184ba02b&displaylang=en&tm

Microsoft Windows Server 2000/2003 Internet Information Services Management Pack

25th April 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=d826b836-59e5-4628-939e-2b852ed79859&displaylang=en&tm

Systems Center Operations Manager 2007 Documentation (ver 1.0)

24th April 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=36b6609e-6f3d-40f4-8c7d-ad111679d8dc&DisplayLang=en

Microsoft Pre-release Software Visual Studio Code Name "Orcas" Beta 1 Team Suite (Virtual PC version)

19th April 2007

Modified

None

Deleted

None

III WSS v3 FAQ

New

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1036

I.29.10 What are the differences between how Office 2003 works with (WSS 2.0)SPS 2003/MOSS 2007(WSS3.0) and how Office 2007 works with (WSS 2.0)SPS 2003/MOSS 2007(WSS3.0)?

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1039

V.43 Microsoft Windows Workflow Foundation Step by Step (Pro Step By Step Developer) (MS Press - Kenn Scribner)

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1040

V.44 Professional Windows Workflow Foundation (Wrox - Todd Kitta)

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1035

VI.28 IntelliGantt Microsoft Project Add-In (commercial - TeamDirection)

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1038

VI.29 Application Acceleration Appliances for SharePoint [hardware] (commercial - Certeon)

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1042

VI.30 PointFire 2007 (IceFire Studios)

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1044

VI.31 Enterprise Portal System for Law Firms (commercial - XMLAW)

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1037

X.51 Search Query Web Service Test Tool for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 (free - MOSSSearch.com

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1041

X.52 WSS 3.0 for Hosters Solution Kit (free - CodePlex)

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1043

X.53 PointFire 2007 Developer Edition (free; needs registration - IceFire Studios)

Modified

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/EditForm.aspx?ID=813

V.09 Microsoft SharePoint 2007 Technologies: Planning, Design and Implementation (Digital Press - Kevin Laahs, Emer McKenna, Veli-Matti Vanamo)

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IV WSSv2 KB Articles (plus SPS 2003 Hot fixes)

New

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=934437

How to install a service pack or a software update on a computer that is running Sybari Antigen 8.0 for SharePoint Portal Server (ver 1.1)

17th April 2007

Modified

None

V. MS Articles for WSSv2

New

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=3c6c7a37-82cb-46c4-a300-902d184c9d96&displaylang=en&tm

Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 (2003) Management Pack (ver 6.0.5000.0)

25th April 2007

Modified

None

VI Non-MS Articles for WSSv2

http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/SharePoint_2003_SQL_Repo.asp

Configuring SQL Reporting Services 2005 with Windows SharePoint Services 2003 (Udayakumar Ethirajulu)

15th April 2007

Modified

None

VII WSSv2 FAQ

New

None

Modified

None

I'd already investigated which MS wireless keyboard had a Vista driver (the keyboard I use on the desktop is the non-wireless one including the fingerprint reader and getting that to work with the portable meant I have a permanent popup-box on boot (with or without using that keyboard) about the fingerprint software not working. (I know, I know - as will those of you who remember the trials and tribulations involved in getting that keyboard to work with 64-bit Vista ). I found quite a lot that worked with Vista but only one (or was it just only one keyboard that didn't cost a fortune?) that also had a 64-bit Vista driver. (In typical (?) style the box might well say "Vista approved" but it won't necessarily mean - and mostly doesn't - that it'll work with 64-bit Vista).

In fact at my price level (which turned out to be 40 Euros). There was one - the wireless desktop 2000.

Even though the fact that using the portable's own keyboard was driving me mad because of an over-sensitive mouse pad which meant that I was continuously losing text, I still had no particular intention to actually go and buy one, and it needed a rather odd series of events for me to do so.

First I popped into a department store's basement food store to buy some bread that only they have and had to go past the CD/DVD+ section on the way out. Usually I don't bother looking because they never have anything at the sort of prices I pay for CDs and DVDs these days, but they had a strangely cheap Olympus digital camera (4Mpixels; 2.8 optical zoon) at 59 Euros which dragged me in and then I saw a bunch of mostly rubbishy CDs selling at the even cheaper (so cheap I've never seen it anywhere else, ever) price of 2 for 1 Euro. Now among those were some rather nice Classical CDs from the Finnish Ondine company which classical buffs will know doesn't make rubbish at all. So I bought all they had (11) including some duplicates (good presents!) and one of the better of the rubbishy ones to make up the even dozen at a grand total of 6 Euros and wandered off home.

Next day I was back as additional 2 for 1 Euro stock was promised and as in fact it wasn't yet there, I bought the Olympus digital camera (well, actually not, I'd checked it out on the web the night before and found out it wasn't rubbish and decided to get it for taking to places (and leaving in places) where it wouldn't be a disaster to lose or ruin it).

So now I had a camera that only had it's own memory to store pictures in and I needed to buy an xd card and I found a 1GB SanDisk fast card (H) for 24,90 or 2 Euros more than the normal card (M) and about 8 Euros less than the equivalent Olympus brand M card. This I found at the "networkshop" store which is about a 10 mins drive away. So I ordered it via the web; got a pickup number and now had to decide when to go and get it.

I was up early enough on Saturday morning to drive there, but if I was going to make a special journey there (and back) just for that very very small card, was there anything else in the computer way I needed?

So *that's* why I've spent a good bit of the afternoon getting that wireless keyboard and mouse (and the svideo connection to the TV ...) to work and why I've been able to write this entire piece without losing any text at all. (Later: Spelling mistakes - now corrected - were however still not a problem!)

P.S. Both the keyboard and mouse are working well although even when using the new batteries supplied there is the occasional moan that the battery strength in the mouse isn't enough. This is solved by moving the transmitter *much* nearer the mouse - i.e. that cable stretches out almost as far as the wireless keyboard and mouse, making the whole thing somewhat less than wireless in my opinion.
However it did take a while to get both to work correctly. The initial recognition of the keyboard/mouse combination installed goodness only knows which drivers. My guess is that they were the 32-bit drivers, because the whole thing (the keyboard being the problem) only started working after I went to www.microsoft.com; searched on "drivers wireless keyboard Vista" and found (not as first hit but close enough) a suitable www.microsoft.com/hardware/drivers/... page that contained a link to all drivers. This then gave two 64-bit Vista drivers (one for the mouse; one for the keybaord) that then worked fine. So in the end getting a Microsoft keyboard - where I knew they had Vista 64-bit drivers - paid off compared to buying the Logitech ones I passed in the shop on the way to the Microsoft ones.

Workflow is such an essential part of the SharePoint v3 products (in fact only yesterday I advised someone to consider that different (invoicing) procedures for different types of documents would *because of different workflows* probably mean that those different types of documents would be happier in different Document libraries) that when I made the decision to include a newly released Windows Workflow Foundation (WWF) book in the WSS FAQ sites, I wasn't sure where to put it.

As it was I'd already made the decision when adding the David Mann (Workflow in the 2007 Microsoft Office System) book to the SharePoint v3 Books list rather than to the "Non-SP Books" list, so this new one went to SharePoint v3 Books too.

The newly released book btw is "Microsoft Windows Workflow Foundation Step by Step" by K. / Kenn / Kennard Scribner (depending on which Amazon site you look at!).

The Amazon US link is here http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/073562335X/heme0f

If you are in Europe considering ordering from the Amazon France site (http://www.amazon.fr/exec/obidos/ASIN/073562335X/wssfaq0fe-21) which has at the moment a price which is even almost competitive (for Europeans) with the US price. So if you are in a hurry that might be the cheapest way.

But if you do watch out for postage etc. costs. Only yesterday a friend here told me that the price increase for four books he was going to buy from there had so much added on that he went instead to the Fnac site.

P.S. I decided to see what other WWF books are just out and found a few more of which this one seems perhaps the best for SP people. "Professional Windows Workflow Foundation (Wrox - Todd Kitta)" at

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0470053860/heme0f

Regular visitors to the www.wssfaq.com site may notice today that there is an extra icon at the top of the Home Page called "2006 - Office Documents".

This leads to the first cut of my (long put-off) attempt to remove 2006 links that refer to the Office 2007 client products from the "Articles - 2007 Products" list which is getting rather full.

When I started this List in mid 2006 there wasn't that much SharePoint stuff and so as I was also following the Office 2007 clients products' beta stuff, I decided there were probably more people like me around and I added links to new stuff on them to the "Articles - 2007 Products" list as well.

Now of course most of that information is still potentially valuable but not particularly valuable for people concentrating on Sharepoint problems (of which there are enough!) so rather than just mass delete them from the "Articles - 2007 Products" list I've created a new list "2006 - Office Documents" and copied them there.

I've only started with this process (and started with the clearcut "Office 2007 Systems" sub-category) and also only started doing this for the www.wssfaq.com site and not the wss.collutions.com site.

So expect to see the amount of links in "2006 - Office Documents" increase slowly over the next few days with a corresponding (and welcome) decline in the "Articles - 2007 Products" list.

There*are* some links to Office 2007 *client* software from the 2007 period that are still being added to the "Articles - 2007 Products" list, but, as followers of the weekly "WSS FAQ additions and corrections" posting will know, these are these days only a severely restricted (and hopefully the most relevant to SharePoint users) number of the total amount of stuff out there.

P.S. I've also removed some of the Beta links. I have tried not to remove links which have relevance today (such as where to get the Beta products - as these might be needed as part of someone's upgrade process).