As I wrote yesterday my MOSS site had this listed at Order 5 in things to do (and accessing it got a message that Central Administration was using an application pool that wasn't unique).

STOP: I'm now wondering (just that for the moment) what they mean here (in the subject line quote) by "account". So far I've been assuming that they meant simply that it was using the same application pool as something else.

Back to the planned text of this blog regardless.

Yesterday with more than a little help from a couple of fellow SharePoint MVPs I found out that you can't change an already assigned Application Pool within MOSS 2007. Instead you have to go to IIS and do it there. That too is the place you create a new Application Pool. Both things that weren't mentioned in the SharePoint Companion (but very possibly because they have nothing to do with SharePoint - I can just see that counter coming!)

When I went to IIS I discovered that I already *was* using a separate Application Pool for Central Administration - one too that I (?) had cleverly named Central Administration SharePoint v3. All the other web applications (Default; MYSites; Publishing) that I had created were all there too called ApplPool80, ApplPoolnnnn and ApplPoolmmmm respectively and each of these four pools only contained stuff that had some connection with only that one web application.

However it WAS giving me the above message, so I *in IIS* created a new Application Pool and then made sure that that Application Pool was now specified for Central Administration.

How ?  I wish I could remember. I know I was quite tired (and emotional?) by that time.

Anyway it was all irrelevant. That my Appl Pool now being used for Central Administration couldn't possibly be in use for anything else than Central Administration was certain, yet (you've guessed it) it was still claiming that my Central Administration application pool account should be unique.

By Design ?

Hardly seems likely.

Bug?

I'm a Microsoft MVP I don't think we are allowed to use that word

The Result of my trying wrongly to use the same application pool for Central Administration that Default was already using ?

Probably although it didn't let me do it. Seems to me that if that's the case it set something first ("he's going to use the same port as Default") and forgot to turn it off. If that's the case would *you* say that is "by design"?

P.S. The comment from "Gillian" was that it is indeed the *account* it is complaining about. You probably remember (as I do) when preparing your MOSS 2007 installation a Microsoft paper telling you that you ought to be using 6 (something like six) different accounts for different parts of the install. I thought they were mad (I don't think THAT is a banned word for MVPs!)and stuck with two only - one for the database system and one for installing MOSS 2007 and with that one having database creation and security admin rights for the database system. Well with this message Microsoft is telling me they didn't like me ignoring their advice (to have six accounts). As far as I can see nothing bad is going to happen to me if I ignore this Order 5 warning. So that (ignore it) is precisely what I am going to do when I get back to work on Monday! In the meantime I've learnt some useful stuff about Application Pools so none of the time spent looking at the (slightly!) wrong thing here has been wasted. [That's my story - and I'm sticking to it!)

As part of my quest (still unresolved) to see how I can manage to persuade the Central Admin site to use a different Application Pool (or even to see which one it IS using so I can maybe change what's using that), I tried to see if Extending a Web Application could help.

It didn't of course but I did see the useful information that this is what you would use if you wanted to have a second "version" of a site (for say Extranet) in which the content was the same but the access rights different.

That seemed interesting and remarkably easy and so (as I don't have an Extranet handy) I decided to use this as a way of remembering the port of my (still pure and innocent) Publishing Site and thus set about having this also as port 12345.

[I quickly abandoned the idea of getting a number of random numbers until I found one I liked :)]

It was remarkably easy and as I now have an different Application Pool for this one too, it means I can (if I can find out how!!) re-assign the normal Application Pool used now for the Publishing Site to use this one as well. This in turn will free that normal Application Pool (for 38782 as it happens) to be used for the Central Admin site (17757) which is the one now complaining it can't be sharing an Application Pool with something else (see the previous post's P.S.).

There was on small snag caused by my total incomprehension of what I was actually doing when extending a web application to a second port.

Namely that I **didn't** now have an additional 12345 Web Application but simply a new port for the old 38782 Web Application.

It seems 100% logical when you write it like that - and it is - but bear with me and look at what you actually do to create this extended web application and you'll see I hope how the mix-up comes about.

To extend the web application you can specify a new application pool with a new description *just as you did when creating a new web application*. Then you specify whether this new address is going to be default; internet, intranet, custom or extranet again just as before.

This is where the problems started. It offered me Intranet and I chose Internet because my alternate access mappings had worked best with that setting in the past.

I then went to the Alternate Access mappings page and tried to specify the 12345 web application. Loop now while I do this a few time. Eventually I decide something is wrong and delete the 12345 setting that is listed on the Alternate Access Mappings home page.

I'll miss out a few more loops before pointing out that all I had succeeded in doing was to remove the alternate access alternative for Internet use for 38782. My allocating 12345 to Internet had removed the existing Internet version for 38782 and now by deleting it I'd removed the 12345 Internet version *for 38782*.

Now I could no longer access the Publishing site from away from the server.

The fix was of course easy. 12345 was in fact still there. 38782 was still there. So all I had to do was go into Alternate Access mappings again. Select the Mapping selection 38782 (top-right) and then use "Edit Public URLs" to add back the variant of the 38782 name to the Internet slot and add the variant of the 12345 name to the (in this case) Custom slot.

[Note in another oddity, that if you try to change the slot used by a particular URL variant by clicking on it in the Alternate Access Mapping page you get to the unfortunately named "Edit Internal URLs" page which never lets you amend it!]

I can now access the site using the 12345 address from a remote client. I can also access the site using the 38782 address from a remote client. Now to see that both pages have only correct (remote) links (Internet will; I'm not sure about Custom) and then to play around a bit with seeing if different groups of people can access one but not the other.

P.S. The only link that still goes to a URL that works ONLY on the server is (as I half expected) the My Sites link for 12345 (Extranet setting remember). 38782 set as Internet works fine and My Sites is the full correct external address. I'll try changing 12345 to Custom without much hope (Intranet didn't work last time I tried it) of things improving.

P.P.S. As I thought, neither Custom nor Extranet mean that 12345's MySite link points to the correct external URL.

As I wade through the massive quantity of things that a MOSS 2007 installation seems to think that you need to do before you can actually start using the darn thing (and wishing I was back in relatively simple WSS-land until I realise that I actually like challenges [my chess "career" was laden with me getting into terrible positions and then waking up and fiddling my way out of them - until that is I reached the heights of the Hungarian Premier League (board 5 for the two of you who care) when that wasn't quite good enough].

Well in MOSS there are challenges enough to keep anyone busy reading up stuff before daring to proceed (although "configuring" workflow was a simple matter of accepting all the defaults and pressing OK - even I could manage that, although the subsequent editing of the item to mark it "Completed" was something new as I'd just deleted them before [Oops!]) however [finally reaching the point ...] Microsoft haven't made is as straightforward as they could.

I've noticed before (but now I have a very clear case where this applies) that the order they say you should do the Administrator Tasks in is odd to say the least.

Anyway here's a crass example:

I'm looking at a list headed with Incoming E-Mail Settings (Order 2) and followed by Outgoing E-Mail Settings (Order 3), so Microsoft expect you to first set the incoming E-mail settings and then the outgoing e-mail settings?

It certainly seems logical that you should do Step 1 before Step 2. But not in Redmond it would seem where they presumably walk around all day with umbrellas up when it's not raining rather than following the rest of the world's Step 1: wait for rain; Step 2: put up umbrella.

Anyway. Follow the Redmond order and see where it gets you ...

Try to do Incoming E-Mail Settings. Oh look. "The SMTP service is not installed"

and where do you install it ?

in Order 3 of course (Outgoing E-Mail Settings)

At least that's what it seems like to me as Outgoing E-Mail Settings is asking me for the Outbound SMTP server and anyway if Order 2 required the SMTP Service to be installed shouldn't that have been listed as Order 1 ?

P.S. Down in the list at Order 5 is "Central Administration application pool account should be unique." Now they tell me! So I went to the page they suggest and I find I have three application pools (:80; for MySites; for a Publishing Site) and it doesn't indicate which of those is being used for Central Admin. I suspect :80 even if I don't really understand why it let me do this at all. Surely it would be a simple check "can't use this, it's being used for Central Admin" or vice versa "You can't use this, you must use a new one for Central Admin" depending on which came first. Now as the names of all those Application pools reflect the ports they use, I want to create a new one for Central Admin use to reflect its use, and I bet that's going to be impossible. Just it seems as impossible as finding where I can create a new Application Pool at all. Search, Mike, search! You like challenges, remember.

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 14th - 20th 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;936861

The sort order of the selected view is incorrect when you insert a hyperlink into a document in a document library in SharePoint Server 2007

16th May 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;936913

How to determine whether the Stsadm.exe command-line tool was run successfully in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and in SharePoint Server 2007

15th May 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;936623

Error message after you change the configuration database name when you perform a gradual upgrade from SharePoint Portal Server 2003 to SharePoint Server 2007: "An update conflict has occurred"

15th May 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;936859

Error message when you click Reply in a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 discussion board in Subject view: "The page cannot be found" (ver 1.1)

15th May 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;935503

Some items are not returned in the search results when you use CAML to create a query that uses the SPQuery class to retrieve Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 list items that contain a URL

14th May 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;936912

Error message when you enter February 29 in the "Birthday" field in SharePoint Server 2007: "The date you have entered is not in a valid format"

14th May 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=909840

Windows SharePoint Services, SharePoint Portal Server 2003, and SharePoint Server 2007 do not support Virtual PC and Virtual Server for production environments (ver 5.2)

11th May 2007 (was v2 article)

[SharePoint Designer 2007 follow]

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;933823

How to create a detached page that downloads the Core.js file but that does not reference the Core.js file on a SharePoint Server 2007 site (ver 1.1)

15th May 2007

Modified

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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=8248ab85-3ef7-4dd2-a5a6-2615683f6f6d&displaylang=en

SharePoint Server 2007 Document: Role-Based Templates for SharePoint My Sites — Under the Hood

17th May 2007

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/tonstegeman/archive/2007/05/17/sharepoint-2007-filter-webparts-using-the-page-field-filter-webpart-on-a-lookup-field.aspx

SharePoint 2007 Filter webparts - using the Page Field Filter webpart on a Lookup field (Blog - Tom Stegeman)

17th May 2007

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/helloitsliam/archive/2007/05/17/moss2007-where-are-my-content-types-being-used.aspx

MOSS2007 - Where are my content types being used? (Blog - Liam Cleary)

17th May 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=cf5bb5e2-909d-4910-a8bb-3f4718bee8f7&displaylang=en&tm

Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Document: Transform Your Business With SharePoint Products and Technologies

17th May 2007

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb410047.aspx

Visual How To: Filtering One Business Data Catalog List from Another by Using Associations in SharePoint Server 2007 (John Peltonen, 3Sharp)

17th May 2007 (date added)

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb410048.aspx

Visual How To: Creating Business Data Catalog Entities in SharePoint Server 2007 (John Peltonen, 3Sharp)

17th May 2007 (date added)

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb397370.aspx

Visual How To: Retrieving an Entire Workbook or a Snapshot of a Workbook in Excel Services (Siew Moi Khor, Danny Khen, Microsoft and Joel Krist, Akona Systems)

17th May 2007 (date added)

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb410114.aspx

Visual How To: Refining Business Data Catalog Search with Scopes (Ryan Femling, 3Sharp)

17th May 2007 (date added)

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb428648.aspx

Visual How To: Creating and Exposing Managed Properties in the Advanced Search Page of SharePoint Server Enterprise Search (Patrick Tisseghem, U2U)

17th May 2007 (date added)

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb428649.aspx

Visual How To: Creating Managed-Code UDFs for Excel Services (Joel Krist, Akona Systems)

17th May 2007 (date added)

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb406004.aspx

Visual How To: Using Business Data Catalog Actions to Pass Parameters to InfoPath 2007 Browser Forms (David Gerhardt, 3Sharp)

17th May 2007 (date added)

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb428855.aspx

Visual How To: Creating a Custom Search Page and Tabs in the Search Center of SharePoint Server  (Patrick Tisseghem, U2U)

17th May 2007 (date added)

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb430246.aspx

Visual How To: Creating Content Sources to Crawl Business Data in SharePoint Server 2007 Enterprise Search (Patrick Tisseghem, U2U)

17th May 2007 (date added)

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb418733.aspx

Visual How To: Reading ListId and ItemId from an Application Page in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (Ted Pattison, Ted Pattison Group)

17th May 2007 (date added)

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb418732.aspx

Visual How To: Creating an Application Page in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (Ted Pattison, Ted Pattison Group)

17th May 2007 (date added)

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb418730.aspx

Visual How To: Activating Auditing Programmatically for a Single Document Library in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (Ted Pattison, Ted Pattison Group)

17th May 2007 (date added)

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb418729.aspx

Visual How To: Activating Auditing Programmatically for a Site Collection in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (Ted Pattison, Ted Pattison Group)

17th May 2007 (date added)

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb418728.aspx

Visual How To: Creating a Feature for the Site Actions Menu in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (Ted Pattison, Ted Pattison Group)

17th May 2007 (date added)

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb418731.aspx

Visual How To: Creating a Feature for an Entry Control Block Item in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (Ted Pattison, Ted Pattison Group)

17th May 2007 (date added)

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb466224.aspx

Visual How To: Creating a Visual Studio Project for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (Ted Pattison, Ted Pattison Group)

17th May 2007 (date added)

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb466219.aspx

Visual How To: Displaying Data by Using the SPGridView Control in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (Ted Pattison, Ted Pattison Group)

17th May 2007 (date added)

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb466220.aspx

Visual How To: Running Commands with Elevated Privileges in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (Ted Pattison, Ted Pattison Group)

17th May 2007 (date added)

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb466225.aspx

Visual How To: Creating a Solution Package in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0  (Ted Pattison, Ted Pattison Group)

17th May 2007 (date added)

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb466223.aspx
 
Visual How To: Reading Entries from the Audit Log in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (Ted Pattison, Ted Pattison Group)

17th May 2007 (date added)

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb431899.aspx

Visual How To: Pulling CRM Data into InfoPath 2007 Browser Forms (David Gerhardt, 3Sharp)

17th May 2007 (date added)

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb457187.aspx

Visual How To: Enabling Users to Act on LOB Data with Business Data Catalog Actions (John Peltonen, 3Sharp)

17th May 2007 (date added)

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/helloitsliam/archive/2007/05/16/moss2007-business-data-catalog-using-bdcmetaman.aspx

MOSS2007 – Business Data Catalog using BDCMetaMan (Blog - Liam Cleary)

16th May 2007

http://blogs.technet.com/stefan_gossner/archive/2007/05/15/adding-modify-all-site-settings-to-the-root-of-the-site-action-menu.aspx

Adding "Modify All Site Settings" to the root of the Site Action Menu (MS Blog - Stefan Goßner)

15th May 2007

http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2007/05/14/understanding-the-sharepoint-calendar-and-how-to-export-it-to-ical-format.aspx

Understanding the SharePoint calendar and how to export it to iCal format (MS Team Blog - Matt Swann)

14th May 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=f3217b7d-fafb-45c9-a5d8-145b745534f2&displaylang=en&tm

SharePoint Server 2007 Guide: Setting Up the Role-Based My Site Template for IT Managers

14th May 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=05501160-52fa-4d20-a1ee-224d1dbadb94&displaylang=en&tm

SharePoint Server 2007 Guide: Setting Up the Role-Based My Site Template for Marketing Managers

14th May 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=8ba86fb2-5ef4-4384-a8df-fc87e0197088&displaylang=en&tm

SharePoint Server 2007 Guide: Setting Up the Role-Based My Site Template for Administrative Assistants

14th May 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=9a4056bf-6fa1-45d2-8588-115b61583b12&displaylang=en&tm

SharePoint Server 2007 Guide: Setting Up the Role-Based My Site Template for HR Managers

14th May 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=93694166-3f3d-4a20-a26b-7d33aa70eed3&displaylang=en&tm

SharePoint Server 2007 Guide: Setting Up the Role-Based My Site Template for Customer Service Managers

14th May 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=add5a053-e07f-4400-92b7-ea8d704cb82e&displaylang=en&tm

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

14th May 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=d6dbdc34-ac81-4c8b-8b67-ce72f57c4107&displaylang=en&tm

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

14th May 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=37f568de-3e44-4f03-bb50-edff019d2bc3&displaylang=en&tm

SharePoint Server 2007 Template: Role-Based My Site for Administrative Assistants

14th May 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=5bc5bc50-e825-4e2c-a979-6d4a68dba0b4&displaylang=en&tm

SharePoint Server 2007 Template: Role-Based My Site for Customer Service Managers

14th May 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=3aad08be-f2f6-4958-a305-0834f2ef8b13&displaylang=en&tm

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

14th 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

14th May 2007

http://www.wssdemo.com/blog/default.aspx

Adding non-SharePoint links to My Links (Blog - Ian Morrish)

13th May 2007

http://www.codeproject.com/spoint/MossAjaxWebPart.asp

Microsoft Office SharePoint 2007 and ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX 1.0 Web Part (Blog - Mahdi Abdulhamid)

13th May 2007

https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastRegistrationConfirmation.aspx?culture=en-US&RegistrationID=1290307974

MSDN Webcast: Workflow and Windows SharePoint Services (Level 200) (Lynn Langit, Mike Benkovich)

11th May 2007

http://www.sharepoint-tips.com/2007/05/sharepoint-designer-article-2-creating.html

SharePoint Designer Article 2 - Creating an XSLT DataView for a sharepoint list (Blog - Ishai Sagi)

11th May 2007

http://www.sharepoint-tips.com/2007/04/sharepoint-designer-article-1-how-to.html

SharePoint Designer Article 1 - how to edit a page? (Blog - Ishai Sagi)

30th April 2007

http://msmvps.com/blogs/cgross/archive/2007/03/24/moving-your-wss-3-0-databases.aspx

Moving your WSS 3.0 databases (Blog - C Gross) (Ed: from the Windows Internal Database to SQL Server 2005)

24th March 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)

None

 

Modified

Some articles relevant to Application Templates had been given different names when posted at different dates. These were tidied up.

Deleted

Some duplicates were removed.

III WSS v3 FAQ

New

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1078

II.10 How do I upgrade a Trial version of MOSS 2007 to a production version?

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1073

V.49 Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 - Das Handbuch (in German) (Bill English and others)

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1074

V.50 Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services v3. Das offizielle Trainingsbuch (in German) (MS Press Deutschland - Olga M. Londer, Todd Bleeker, Penelope Coventry)

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1075

V.51 Office SharePoint Server 2007 und Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. Das Lösungsbuch (in German) (Galileo Computing - Ulrich B. Boddenberg)

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1076

V.52 Microsoft SharePoint-Technologien - Einsatz und Webpartprogrammierung. Fortgeschrittene Themen rund um Microsoft SharePoint (in German) (MS Press Deutschland - Markus Weisbrod)

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1077

V.53 Microsoft Windows Workflow Foundation - Schritt für Schritt (in German) (MS Press Deutschland - Kennard Scribner)

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1066

VI.39 CollaDec WebPart Manager 2007 (commercial? - CollaDec)

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1067

VI.40 SharePoint Survey Plus Web Part (commercial -KWizCom)

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1068

VI.41 KWizCom ShareGo (commercial - KWizCom)

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1069

VI.42 SharePoint Calendar Plus Web Part (commercial - KWizCom)

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1070

VI.43 SharePoint Search String Highlighter (commercial - KWizCom)

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1071

VI.44 Org. Chart Web Part (commercial - KWizCom)

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1072

VI.45 Quick Launch Web Part (commercial - KWizCom)

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1078

VIII.13 Professional BizTalk Server 2006 (Wrox - Darren Jefford, Kevin B. Smith, Ewan Fairweather) *released*

Modified

None

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IV WSSv2 KB Articles (plus SPS 2003 Hot fixes)

New

None

Modified

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

None

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

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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.