The answer I guess is "It depends".

A customer that isn't running a SharePoint virus checker on his internal WSS 2.0 servers - but where every client supposedly has it's own virus checker software - was struck for the first time in about two production years by a single document containing a virus that had been uploaded to a document library.

SharePoint of course was blamed even though SharePoint was only acting as a storage location for the document and thus naturally the problem had nothing whatsoever to do with SharePoint really.

However to avoid this kind of thing in future I was asked to look at virus checkers for WSS 2.0 and that leads me to the question in the Subject line.

At tens of thousands of dollars for the number of potential users that that client has (pricing is always per seat), is it really worth it to pay just to avoid people blaming SharePoint for something that has nothing to do with it?

In this case it was annoying that in order to check this out (i.e. see for myself) I had to try to open that document only to see my own (client) virus checker grab it and thus I later needed to delete my IE temporary files to get rid of it. But is saving my annoyance worth more than a few dollars ...

My gut feeling is that it isn't and that Virus Checkers on uploads should be used mainly for sites that are open to the Internet and the potentially nasty people who are out there. But then I always was tight-fisted.

P.S. A report has come in that some versions of the client virus checker software are not saying this document is infected. So now we know how the document got created at least. Not that it helps with the above question.

P.P.S. Pricing isn't always per seat. The same company (at least that one, maybe the others, I haven't got the prices back yet) that only has per seat prices listed on its web site also in fact has server-based prices. These are somewhat less than the tens of thousands of dollars I mentioned above.

Many years ago I had finally (after months of fiddling and newsgroup messages) got networking to work in the then current (and very early) version of Virtual PC when I got an offer to use VM Workstation for nothing.

I had a look at it and when I discovered that networking just worked by saying you wanted networking (what an interesting concept!), I switched to VM Workstation and have been there ever since updating (still for nothing) my version to the latest version all the time.

Well now the good times are over. I no longer seem to have free updates to VM Workstation 6.0 from 5.5 and so it's decision time.

Do I fork out $99 for the upgrade to VM Workstation 6.0 so that it officially supports Vista; do I stay at the final version of VM workstation 5.5 which it tells me doesn't support running under Vista ("Windows 6" it calls it) but actually works perfectly well when the Host is Vista; or do I move to Virtual PC 6.0 or to the latest version of Virtual Server ?

At the moment I'm sticking with VM Workstation 5.5. When Virtual PC 6.0 was the only thing that was supposed to work under Vista, I tried that and I found that I could specify a VM but then couldn't actually get that VM to install the operating system. Obviously there must be a way but it just wouldn't pick up the OS installation CD (MSDN) on the CD drive on my portable. Anyway, I don't fancy messing with its networking again !

The major problem with staying with VM Workstation 5.5 is that I seem to have created an awful lot of VMs under VM Workstation Beta 6.0 and none of them will load under 5.5. Of course at the time I was expecting to get a free upgrade to VM Workstation 6.0 just as I'd got a free upgrade from that first free copy of 4.5 to 5.0.

On the other hand it's probably good for me to have to start creating new VMs from scratch as I seem to have totally lost control of what is installed in what VM (and which VMs need other VMs in order to work and which don't).

This time around I'll try to do better - maybe one improvement will be if I try to avoid having Intel and AMD copies of the same VM. Now that I'm only working 3 day weeks (in summer) and 4 day weeks (in winter) I can do all of my VM work on my home (AMD 64-bit) portable - now that I've upped it's memory from 1.5GB to 2GB it's fast enough. The IBM (Intel) portable was memory-bound and too slow anyway.

I've started my VM clean-up by creating a single new VM in an external drive that didn't previously have any VMs. I've called it a sensible name (including the info that it's a 5.5 VM) and once I'd got a mass of security updates in it, I saved a couple of extra copies of it.

Maybe this time I'll keep control of my VMs (but don't hold your breath).

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 7th May - 13th May 2007

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

New

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;936759

E-mail notifications for alerts are not sent when content in a migrated list or in a migrated document library changes after you perform a database migration to upgrade to Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (ver 1.2)

10th May 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;936760

The URLs of alerts in e-mail notifications that you receive are incorrect after the URL of a Web application for a site in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 or in SharePoint Server 2007 changes

10th May 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;932118

Persistent cookies are not shared between Internet Explorer 7 and Office applications in Windows Vista

7th May 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;928754

Excel Services does not support asynchronous queries

3rd May 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=934793

Description of the SharePoint Server hotfix package: April 12, 2007

3rd May 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=920278

Custom SharePoint task list columns may not appear in Outlook 2007 (ver 1.2)

25th April 2007

[SharePoint Designer 2007 follow]

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;927151&sd=rss&spid=11677

How to create a custom Index Server search page by using ASP in SharePoint Designer 2007

9th May 2007

Modified

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 or in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: "Invalid page URL" or "An unexpected error has occurred" (ver 1.1)

11th May 2007 (Title changed as well)

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;888041

How to make Windows SharePoint Services use a pre-existing database as the content database (ver 4.0)

4th May 2007

(version 3.0 was marked as a v2 KB article - now moved to v3 [it covers both])

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=898631

Supported and unsupported scenarios for working with custom site definitions and custom area definitions in Windows SharePoint Services, in SharePoint Portal Server 2003, and in Office SharePoint Server 2007 (ver 3.0)

4th May 2007

(version 2.0 was marked as a v2 KB article - now moved to v3 as renamed [it covers both])

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

Error message when you try to use an existing site template to create a new SharePoint Server 2007 site: "Failed to apply template" (ver 2.0)

3rd May 2007

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

Error message when you try to upgrade Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: "Failed to detect if this server is joined to a server farm" (ver 2.0)

3rd May 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 (ver 2.1)

2nd May 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=929072

Error message when you use Forefront Security for SharePoint: "ERROR: Unable to connect to service." (ver 2.0)

1st May 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=929073

Error message when you start Forefront Server Security Administrator: "ERROR: Unable to connect to service" (ver 2.0)

1st May 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://blogs.msdn.com/joelo/archive/2007/05/11/sharepoint-rss-ttl.aspx

SharePoint RSS TTL [Time to Live tag] (MS Blog - Joel Oleson)

11th May 2007

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb466172.aspx

Upgrading an MCMS 2002 Application to SharePoint Server 2007 (Part 1 of 2)

10th May 2007 (date added)

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb466171.aspx

Upgrading an MCMS 2002 Application to SharePoint Server 2007 (Part 2 of 2)

10th May 2007 (date added)

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/zimmer/archive/2007/05/09/simple-excel-services-step-by-step-publishing-a-spreadsheet-to-sharepoint-2007.aspx

Simple Excel Services - Step by step, publishing a spreadsheet to SharePoint 2007 (Blog - Tobias Zimmergren)

9th May 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=7ea93b92-07c1-4de6-9c74-be48df443a0f&displaylang=en&tm

SharePoint Server 2007 Demo: Add a Library to a Records Center Site

9th May 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=c910a323-164d-4fad-8646-64872ffe4c46&displaylang=en&tm

SharePoint Server 2007 Demo: Configure a SharePoint Server 2007 Site to Receive E-Mail

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=29e28ae2-0b3f-4e5d-9d34-a1452968703c&displaylang=en&tm

SharePoint Server 2007 Demo: Enable Excel Services and Data Connections for a SharePoint Team Site

9th May 2007

http://blogs.technet.com/wbaer/archive/2007/05/08/database-management-concepts-for-large-and-growing-content-databases.aspx

Database Management Concepts for Large and Growing Content Databases (Blog - William Baer)

8th May 2007

http://download.microsoft.com/download/A/A/1/AA13E922-FFA3-4EB1-BA3D-D177AB058746/SP_Users_Guide.doc

Forefront Security for SharePoint - User's Guide

8th May 2007 (date added)

http://www.appliedis.com/Library/MOSS%202007%20as%20an%20Ap%20Dev%20Platform%20vfweb.pdf

MOSS 2007 as an Application Development Platform (Applied Information Sciences Inc. white paper - Vishwas Lele)

8th May 2007 (date added)

http://blogs.msdn.com/sherder/archive/2007/05/07/excel-services-saving-workbooks-back-to-the-server.aspx

Excel Services: Saving Workbooks back to the Server (MS Blog - Sherman Der)

7th May 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=c5480d57-6a0b-4a65-a17f-8bea296c0402&displaylang=en&tm

Office SharePoint Server 2007 Guide: Setting up the Role-Based My Site Template for Sales Account Managers

7th May 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=d69da344-d4e2-49ef-bd44-4c9e8ef761bf&displaylang=en&tm

Office SharePoint Server 2007 Guide: Setting up the Role-Based My Site Template for Controllers-Financial Analysts

7th May 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=b2da1095-faba-44b0-9935-a00dceeca0f3&displaylang=en&tm

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Demo: Tour a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Site

7th May 2007

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/mossman/archive/2007/05/07/how-to-add-a-button-the-html-editor-control-in-sharepoint.aspx

How to Add a Button to the HTML Editor Control in SharePoint (Blog - MOssman - based on and adding to the MSDN article of the same name)

7th May 2007

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/yeon/archive/2007/05/06/how-to-create-2-step-approval.aspx

How to create 2 step approval using SPD 2007 without VS2005 (Blog - Yeon)

6th May 2007

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/pholpar/archive/2007/05/06/hunting-the-encoding-problem-in-content-deployment-part-2.aspx

Hunting the encoding problem in content deployment - part 2 (Blog - Péter Holpár)

6th May 2007

http://www.projectservergurus.com/adnan/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=5

Best Practices for Project Server 2007 Deployment in a Large Server Farm with Office SharePoint Server 2007 (Blog - Syed Adnan Ahmed)

5th May 2007

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/pholpar/archive/2007/05/05/hunting-the-encoding-problem-in-content-deployment-part-1.aspx

Hunting the encoding problem in content deployment - part 1 (Blog - Péter Holpár)

5th May 2007

http://weblogs.asp.net/soever/archive/2007/05/03/sharepoint-features-elements-scope-and-other-info.aspx

SharePoint Features - elements, scope and other info (Blog - Serge van den Oever)

3rd May 2007

http://blogs.msdn.com/sherder/archive/2007/05/01/excel-services-snapshot-vs-open-in-excel-what-the-diff.aspx

Excel Services: Snapshot vs Open in Excel - What's the diff? (MS Blog - Sherman Der)

1st May 2007

http://blogs.msdn.com/sherder/archive/2007/04/09/excel-services-only-let-them-see-what-you-want-them-to-see.aspx

Excel Services - Only let them see what you want them to see (MS Blog - Sherman Der)

9th April 2007

http://www.u2u.info/Blogs/Kevin/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=8

Showing list items from another site (Blog - Kevin DeRudder)

3rd April 2007

http://blogs.msdn.com/sherder/archive/2007/03/13/excel-services-welcome-to-the-future-of-spreadsheets.aspx

Excel Services: Welcome to the future of spreadsheets (MS Blog - Sherman Der)

13th March 2007

http://udayakumarethirajulu.blogspot.com/2007/02/creating-publishing-infopath-form-using.html

Creating and Publishing an InfoPath Form using Form Services in Moss 2007 (Blog - Uday)

21st February 2007

http://www.thelineberrys.com/default-category/hosting-multiple-unique-sharepoint-sites-on-a-single-server-2.html

Hosting Multiple unique SharePoint Sites on a single server (Blog - Steve Lineberry)

17th January 2007

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

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=fc2ca984-e9c3-451c-a225-b1a5812722db&displaylang=en&tm

InfoPath 2007 Demo: Convert a Word Document into an InfoPath 2007 Form Template

9th May 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=821c81df-ffcf-4116-ac35-288a177a0a60&displaylang=en&tm

InfoPath 2007 Demo: View the Business Logic in an InfoPath 2007 Form Template

9th May 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=aeeaec61-2dfc-4ee3-aaa0-5bf007f3d697&displaylang=en&tm

InfoPath 2007 and Outlook 2007 Demo: Use InfoPath E-Mail Forms to View Data in Outlook 2007

9th May 2007

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

http://sambbiblog.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!794708049C7AE9C2!762.entry

Add "minibars" to your SQL Server Reporting Services Reports (Blog - Sam Sam Batterman)

11th May 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=d6266f43-549f-492a-b1ab-70c5ac6b213b&displaylang=en&tm

Visual Studio 2005 Team System Training Videos

10th May 2007

http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/ifilter/

Foxit PDF IFilter (free)

8th May 2007 (date added)

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=2e575633-e357-4ee7-aaff-34138f00e830&displaylang=en&tm

Hands-on Labs for Windows Workflow Foundation in C# and VB.NET

7th May 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=6096ce0f-d21e-47ac-afe2-d4e1c2fce670&displaylang=en

A Microsoft Windows Workflow Foundation timer does not resume correctly after reloading a workflow

(relevant to solving SPD 2007 workflow problems)

12th April 2007

Modified

None

Deleted

None

III WSS v3 FAQ

New

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1059

I.35 What (main) Excel 2007 features are not available in Excel Services

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1060

III.54.06 Templates: (Any that use Project Tracking features): Why aren't fields showing up in the new or edit item pages?

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1061

III.54.07 Templates: Bug Database Template: Problems?

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1064

V.48 Programming Excel Services (Pro Developer) (MS Press - Alvin J. Bruney)

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1055

VI.33 Tzunami Deployer (commercial - Tzunami)

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1056

VI.34 Tzunami Designer (commercial - Tzunami)

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1057

VI.35 ComplianceBuilder / SharePoint Edition (commercial - Vital Path)

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1058

VI.36 Scanning Enabler 2007 (commercial - darkblueduck)

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1063

VI.37 WSS Cross Site Search (commercial - KWizCom)

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1065

VI.38 DSP Performance Canvas 2007 (commercial - DSPanel)

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1062

X.56 .STP Language Converter (free - KWizCom)

Modified

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

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

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

VI.15 Nintex Workflow 2007 (commercial - Nintex)

VII WSSv2 FAQ

New

None

Modified

None

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

IV WSSv2 KB Articles (plus SPS 2003 Hot fixes)

New

None

Modified

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;835559&FR=1

You cannot access portal sites or Web sites, certain areas of SharePoint Portal Central Administration display the incorrect server name, and e-mail notifications contain incorrect URLs after you rename the server (ver 5.5)

2nd February 2007

V. MS Articles for WSSv2

New

None

Modified

None

VI Non-MS Articles for WSSv2

New

None

Modified

None

Like most people I suppose running IE7, I have a set of Tabs that I have set up to be my home page.

I'd know if I'd changed that set and I haven't. However for the past few startups I've been getting uk.msn.com (My "locality" for IE is set to getting news from the UK so the Finnish languages pages many sites insist on showing me ignore me sometimes) as my first tab instead of www.wssfaq.com which should by rights be there.

Looking back at it now (after several times of thinking I was seeing things) I realise that there are two things that might have caused this - and both, not surprisingly given what the tab has been changed to, come from Microsoft.

One is that I was in Hotmail and I told it that it could switch me from the Old Hotmail to the new, improved "Hotmail on Microsoft Live".

The second is that I have this Vista machine (contrary to my usual policy which is download upgrades but don't install) set to automatic upgrades.

(This by the way is mostly OK except for its nasty happy of wanting to boot my machine by popping up a (usually hidden) pop-up and then, instead of waiting for me to approve of the re-boot it says is necessary, it starts a 10(?) minute countdown and then just re-boots. One time that messed up the very final stages of a running the SharePoint configuration wizard for MOSS (in a VM). To say I was not amused would be an understatement.)

Anyway ... When starting this piece I thought this grabbing my first IE7 tab was caused by one of those automatic updates. Now I'm thinking (given what it put in place of the first tab) it was that Hotmail change.

But just what gives Microsoft the right to decide what I want to have on my first tab just because I decided to change from old HotMail to new, improved formula HotMail?

Yes, I'm p****d.

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.