I've been wondering why so many people (as seen in newsgroup postings) have had problems getting search to work *at all*.

After all, all you need to do is get Shared Services setup; start the SharePoint Server Search Service and by default it will search your "Local Office SharePoint Server sites"

Hah!!

In fact all that has been specified by doing that lot is that *when you have specified Crawl Schedules* it will start indexing your "Local Office SharePoint Server sites".

The default for Crawl schedules is namely Off (actually not specified and thus Off).

Now this combination to my mind is Microsoft playing with us. Why give us a default "sites to search" and yet don't bother setting indexing of those "sites to search" going?

... and why remind the administrator that he's using the same username for the Central Administration application pool and yet don't remind the administrator that he hasn't turned crawling on yet ?

Someone wasn't thinking about how normal people behave.

Normal people expect if they are being spoon-fed to be spoon-fed with everything they need to do. Normal people expect that if a logical default is set that another logical default connected to it and essential for it is also set etc. etc.

We know they are all brilliant in Redmond but don't they have user testing labs too? I certainly thought they did. Maybe what they need is an "Administrator's Testing Lab" to get the illogical stuff out of their installation material (or some of it).

By the way I found the confirmation about "By default, this content source is not scheduled to run or crawl...." in page 568 of the Administrator's Companion book (MSPress http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0735622825/heme0f). It's a pity imo it wasn't in bold text there.

P.S. I've of course earlier added the pdf image and run the IFilter but none of the PDF files contents were appearing on the Search page. Was it perhaps because the PDF files were ver 7.0 or ver 8.0 files? That would be a valid reason given that we still only have a 6.0 IFilter available to us from Adobe. However the reason is more prosaic - in addition to not including .pdf files in the lists of recognizable file types, Microsoft also haven't included .pdf in the list of file types that are going to be searched. For that you need to go to the "Manage File Types" section under Search settings.

P.P.S. Don't think of looking for this "Manage File Types" in a WSS 3.0 installation. I have been told in a newsgroup that it's not there and that instead there's KB Article 927675 that you should look at. (Not that it worked for him ....)

This little posting is just to register that you can save time in the simplest of ways. The SharePoint time saver is particularly simple and brings the question of "why didn't you do this before?".

Let's start with that one.

I add a lot of links each week to the two WSS FAQ sites' "Articles - 2007 Documents" sections. Most of the effort is actually finding the articles/downloads etc. that are worth saving a link for, but even so every time I did this I was wasting a few seconds because of a stupid "design" (too fine a word for it).

I had Category set to Other and Sub-Category set to Pending. The idea was that it was better to quickly identify entries where I had been too quick to press Enter (and thus hadn't got time to set Category and Sub-Category to something sensible).

In fact I almost always remembered to set these two values (they were after all staring me in the face) and so - after about a year of doing this (!) - I finally realised the obvious. Namely that as most of the items I added were in the "Info - 2007 Products" Category, it would be sensible to set that as the default.

I left the Sub-Category as "pending" though rather than go for "MOSS 2007" which is the most common alternative there. I do want to be able to distinguish between articles/downloads that are only MOSS / either MOSS or WSS / only WSS and not setting a final value to MOSS seemed to be the best way to ensure that. Even though I lose those couple of seconds every time ...

The first OneNote amendment is similarly banal.

I have a massive structure of notebooks and sections and add throughout the day extracts to it (for my own use) mainly from blogs; or other web pages.

Knowing that the text I'd copied wouldn't fit in the Header row, I've always first moved down into the text section before Pasting my text in with Ctrl-V. I then copy the first line into the header section because even though that first line would automatically be chosen for the right-hand column, I might want to amend the header text in some way and so populating the header row every time is (for me) good practise.

A week or so  I discovered that it wasn't necessary to move down into the text section.  OneNote was smart enough to realise that if I pasted a long text into the header row that I didn't actually want it as a header and it automatically pastes it into the text section. Everything else remains as described about but again there I have a couple of unnecessary movements saved.

The other OneNote saving is (finally) a bit cleverer.

I have *one* set of OneNote files but two machines I use them on - my work portable and my home portable. When I was working 5 days a week I could sometimes forget about transfering the latest version of the My Notebooks file structure (via a USB 2.0 drive) to my home machine and just wait until I went back to work on Monday, but now I work 4 days a week in the winter and 3 days a week in the summer and suddenly being without the ability to update OneNote in one location (with the location depending on where the latest version of those OneNote files are) for several days was a major pain. Meanwhile the transfer of the full set of OneNote files was taking quite a while (plus I also seemed to lose some ...).

So now I have a new method.

I've set up a new notebook called Transfer and put that notebook on the USB drive that is on the "chain" which also contains my two ways of getting into (and out of) the office. I have a designated One Note master (at the moment the home machine) and when at work I now copy/paste data to Transfer (adding the name of the planned final location to the title row).

When I go home I am forced to grab the USB 2.0 device because I can't get out of the office otherwise, so I am bound to have the latest OneNote updates with me when I go home for the weekend / evening. I then, at home, open this Transfer notebook's section which also opens my my OneNote notebooks on the portable's own hard disk and then I transfer the files across to their correct notebooks/sections with drag and drop.

Simple and efficient.

My one remaining problem is with updating the work machine's OneNote as using the above method means that Transfer is empty.

I have three choices I think.

a) copy/paste to both Transfer and the work notebook's main notebooks/sections and then do the above at home

b) when at home, copy/paste to the home notebook's main notebooks/sections and then use drag and drop to move the items when back at work to the work notebook's main notebooks/sections

c) copy the Transfer/section file on the USB 2.0 drive to create a parallel file and then use that one (still filled!) when back at work to drag/drop to the home notebook's main notebooks/sections.

[It's useful needing to write these out knowing there are people out there because otherwise I'd never have come up with the simple c) which probably is going to be the most efficient method!]

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 21st - 27th 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;936910

Warning message when you perform a content deployment or when you import contents to a site in SharePoint Server 2007: "Warning: Provisioning did not succeed"

24th May 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;936914

Error message when you try to search for content in a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 site: "The site <URLOfSite> could not be found in the Web application"

24th May 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;937771

How to manually collocate ProClarity Analytics Server 6.3 and SharePoint Server 2007 on port 80

21st May 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;936911

Links do not appear as forward links on a wiki page in SharePoint Server 2007 or in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0

21st May 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;937290

Error message when you try to upgrade from Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 to Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 or to SharePoint Server 2007: "Violation of UNIQUE KEY constraint 'AllUserData_Url'"

18th May 2007

Modified

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=932056

One or more custom programs do not finish successfully when you run multiple custom programs that use the BreakRoleInheritance function in the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 object model (ver 2.1)

11th May 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=933138

You cannot disable VSAPI scans when you schedule manual scans of content in SharePoint Server 2007 and in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0

11th May 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=932347

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 does not comply with daylight saving time in Western Australia for the years 2006 to 2009 (ver 2.1)

11th May 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=932055

You cannot select the values for a custom field when you try to edit the properties on the FldEditEx.aspx page on a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Web site (Ver 2.0)

11th May 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=932619

You cannot crawl case-sensitive Web content in SharePoint Server 2007 (ver 2.0)

11th May 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=933939

No documents are returned in the search results when a user searches for Lotus Notes content in SharePoint Server 2007 (ver 2.0)

11th May 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=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" (ver 1.1)

11th May 2007

Deleted (most were replaced by a later hot fix)

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;933819

Description of the SharePoint Server 2007 hotfix package: March 9, 2007

5th April 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;933818

Description of the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 hotfix package: March 9, 2007

26th March 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;932917

Description of the SharePoint Server 2007 hotfix package: February 26, 2007

20th March 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;933586

Description of the SharePoint Server 2007 hotfix package: March 3, 2007

16th March 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=931497

Description of the SharePoint Server 2007 hotfix package: January 25, 2007 (ver 1.1)

6th March 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;932914

Description of the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 hotfix package: February 28, 2007

30th February 2007

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

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

28th February 2007

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

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

22nd February 2007

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

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

22nd February 2007

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

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

21st February 2007

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

New

A. Office 2007 Server Products

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=50b97994-8453-4998-8226-fa42ec403d17&displaylang=en&tm

Feature Pack for Microsoft SQL Server 2005 - February 2007 (ver 9.00.3042)

25th May 2007

http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2007/05/25/sharepoint-and-popfly-integration-yes-really.aspx

SharePoint and Popfly integration (MS Team Blog - Mike Gannotti)

25th May 2007

http://blogs.technet.com/wbaer/archive/2007/05/25/sql-server-2005-database-mirroring-and-windows-sharepoint-services-3-0-microsoft-office-sharepoint-server-2007-part-2-configuration.aspx

SQL Server 2005 Database Mirroring and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0/Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 - Part 2 (Configuration) (Blog - William Baer)

25th May 2007

http://office.microsoft.com/search/redir.aspx?AssetID=XT102255671033&CTT=5&Origin=HA102255701033

Transform your business with SharePoint Products and Technologies (whitepaper)

25th May 2007 (date added)

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/usecases/archive/2007/05/24/displaying-the-document-url-in-a-document-library-column-part-2.aspx

Displaying the document URL in a document library column (Blog - "Toni")

24th May 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=ac03b947-7fe8-4c0b-91dd-083de40e07d7&displaylang=en&tm

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Hosting (White Paper, Microsoft)

24th May 2007

https://www.mindsharp.com/default.aspx?premium=downloads&file=stsadmpart1.pdf

Manage SharePoint Products Using the SharePoint STSADM.EXE Command Line Tool - Part 1 (Ben Curry, Kathy Hughes, Mindsharp) **requires free registration to Mindsharp Premium Content) **

24th May (date added)

https://www.mindsharp.com/default.aspx?premium=downloads&file=CodeAccessSecurityInSharePoint2007ForAdministrators.pdf

Code Access Security in SharePoint 2007 for Administrators (Brett Lonsdale, CombinedKnowledge) **access to this page here requires free registration to Mindsharp Premium Content) **

24th May (date added)

http://blogs.technet.com/wbaer/archive/2007/05/22/understanding-and-handling-microsoft-it-site-delete-capture-1-0-archives.aspx

Understanding and Handling Microsoft IT Site Delete Capture 1.0 Archives (Blog - William Baer)

22nd May 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=e8a00b1f-6f45-42cd-8e56-e62c20feb2f1&displaylang=en&tm

SharePoint Products and Technologies Utility: Upgrade Pre-scan Tool

22nd May 2007

http://blogs.msdn.com/joelo/archive/2007/05/22/how-long-does-a-typical-deployment-take.aspx

How Long Does a Typical Deployment Take? (MS Blog - Joel Oleson)

22nd May 2007

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/johnwpowell/archive/2007/05/22/sharepoint-2007-custom-authentication-using-the-asp-net-membership-database.aspx

SharePoint 2007 Custom Authentication using the Asp.Net Membership Database (Blog - John W Powell)

22nd May 2007

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/martinbailey/pages/create-a-site-column-using-a-feature-deployed-via-a-solution-package.aspx

Create a Site Column using a feature deployed via a solution package (Blog - Martin Bailey)

21st May 2007

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb428899.aspx

Team-Based Development in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (Eric Charran)

21st May 2007 (date added)

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/dooke/pages/part-1-importing-user-profiles.aspx

Use multiple resources to manage your user profiles - Part 1: Importing User Profiles (Blog - Koen)

19th May 2007

https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastRegistrationConfirmation.aspx?culture=en-US&RegistrationID=1290450771

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

18th May 2007

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb507730.aspx

Visual How-To: Configuring IntelliSense with CAML files when developing for SharePoint 2007 (Ted Pattison, Ted Pattison Group)

15th May 2007 (date all of these added)

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb457204.aspx

Visual How-To: Create a Custom HttpHandler in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (Ted Pattison, Ted Pattison Group)

15th May 2007 (date all of these added)

http://blogs.msdn.com/jackiebo/archive/2007/02/26/content-deployment-step-by-step-tutorial.aspx

Content Deployment – Step By Step Tutorial (Blog - Jackie Bodine)

26th February 2007

http://bloggingabout.net/blogs/mglaser/archive/2007/01/31/hosting-sharepoint-on-a-fully-qualified-domain-name-fqdn.aspx

Hosting SharePoint on a fully qualified domain name (FQDN) (Blog - Mike Glaser)

31st January 2007

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

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=00a6472c-14df-4da8-8d77-6aa2315b5862&displaylang=en&tm

BizTalk Server 2006 Capabilities

22nd May 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=65ab53ce-78c1-4cc4-96fd-a492dd7f3f4a&displaylang=en&tm

BizTalk Server 2006 Runtime Architecture (version V)

22nd May 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=ae60b18d-c7f0-4089-aeb3-6bc652a3b898&displaylang=en&tm

BizTalk Server 2006 Legacy Modernization with Host Integration Server 2006 (version V)

22nd May 2007

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

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=FFD86643-7C31-42A2-91D8-7D160449B368&DisplayLang=en

Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite VHD

14th May 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=fa09a01d-ac7b-4a7e-8d28-79e222b14ae5&DisplayLang=en

Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Enterprise / Exchange Server 2007 32-bit VHD

11th May 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=27342759-e9d6-4073-918c-e9dff77d0206&DisplayLang=en

Microsoft System Center Essentials 2007 VHD

11th May 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=C2C27337-D4D1-4B9B-926D-86493C7DA1AA&DisplayLang=en

Microsoft Windows Vista 30-Day Eval VHD

10th May 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=d4e8bc52-3c3b-4bae-b937-987da892fad7&DisplayLang=en

Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2007 Beta 2 VHD

10th May 2007

 

Modified

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=825510

How to stop the !New tag from appearing when you add items to your SharePoint Team Services and SharePoint Services Web site (ver 4.0)

10th April 2007  (moved from v2 and also date and version updated)

Deleted

None

III WSS v3 FAQ

New

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1080

III.02.10 Limits: How many lists can a Content Query Web Part query?

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1082

III.02.11 Limits: How many links can you have in a Wiki?

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1081

III.26.07 Alerts: Alerts aren't working. What might be wrong?

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1083

III.94 My Internet Explorer is crashing when I open an Office document. How do I fix this?

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1084

V.54 Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Quick Source Guide (QuickSource) *released*

Modified

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

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

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IV WSSv2 KB Articles (plus SPS 2003 Hot fixes)

New

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;936909

Icons that represent 2007 Office files are incorrect, and the "Edit in Microsoft Office <ProgramName>" option does not appear in a document library in SharePoint Portal Server 2003 or in Windows SharePoint Services 2.0

23rd May 2007

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

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

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

(note: modified with a suggestion for WSS *3.0*)

One of the main misconceptions that I've seen with people sending messages to either the Microsoft public newsgroups for SharePoint or the more recent Microsoft forums for SharePoint is that you quite often see messages for Microsoft there.

These are either complaining about something or requesting that their question is answered by "someone from Microsoft".

In both cases (with one exception which I'll talk about later) this is completely off-the-mark. Microsoft people very rarely reply to messages in the public newsgroups and even when they do they are doing it in their own free time and are thus not official representatives of Microsoft. Similarly when the forums started, Microsoft people were encourage to visit there but to no ones particular surprise and certainly not to my surprise, their participation lasted (Note: in the few SP forums I follow regularly) less than a month and recently I've seen no "Microsoft people" posts there at all.

So that leaves a handful of MVPs and otherwise all the other readers of the various newgroups some of whom also answer questions in addition to asking them. These are always described in Microsoft documentation about newsgroups as "your peers" and that's what they are (= the same as you NOT "peers" in the British sense of "lording over you") and without their active participation the newsgroups wouldn't be what they are today. [MVP replies are well and good but the few MVPs answering messages in the newsgroups on a regular basis can't possibly cope with the quantity and nor do they do so. The days are long gone when active participation in newsgroups was the sole criteria for becoming and staying an MVP.]

So summing up, there are ocassional replies from MS people in their own time; ditto from MVPs and the majority of replies from "your peers" - so what's the exception I mentioned above ?

This exception is "managed groups".

Microsoft do provide enhanced support for people who in MSDN or TechNet have registered for so-called "managed newsgroups". Registration is free, but in these cases Microsoft do promise a response to a question within 24 hours (Chinese mainland [Shanghai] working hours; Monday-Friday to be exact) and these people also stay with the question thread until the person who asked it has either given up (!) or has pronounced him/herself satisfied.

One of the snags with these managed newsgroups is that there are not managed newsgroups for all standard public newsgroups (so you have to post to something as close as possible that is there) and that a managed newsgroup message appears in the normal public newsgroup (that matches that managed newsgroup) and looks exactly like all normal posts to that newsgroup.

This leads to confusion sometimes. First there is always someone (usually me!) jumping up and pointing out that this is the wrong newsgroup for that question (which it is) but not knowing that they were forced to post the question here because there wasn't an equivalent managed newsgroup for the correct public newsgroup. Another confusion is that the way managed newsgroup questions are dealt with leads to over-high expectations in how people reply to normal public newsgroup postings.

As I wrote above managed newsgroups are picked up by a (Chinese) team of Microsoft employees working in their office time. There are only a relative few managed newsgroup messages and this is after all their work so they have time to follow-up on every posting until such time as the original poster has "closed the case".

[Aside looking out for those Chinese names and the style of their posts is the only way normal newsgroup visitors can tell if a message thread is a managed thread or not]

Some people - probably unaware that these are managed (newsgroup) threads - then expect the same kind of continuing support in a *normal* thread from the people who reply to them. Perhaps that's not quite accurate. They expect this continuing support from MVPs.

Now both the MVPs and the normal "peer" posters are working in their own time. There is no way they can find the time to keep hacking at a problem until it is solved. They can do their best and when their suggestions get nowhere in a particular case they can hand in the towel. This they do either by just stopping answering or by explicitly saying so.

(Aside: you would think that explicitly saying that you have no more to offer would be the way that would be most appreciated but my experience is that people take offence at an MVP saying he now has nothing more to offer in a thread, so usually these days [you can take just so much abuse] I just drop off. Often I may add because when moving from one computer to another my copies of Outlook Express  / Windows Mail (Vista) have lost track of which messages I have read and which not - so it can happen that I stop replying even when I intended to continue.)

The main point here is that the second misconception is that once someone has answered the first message in a thread they are bound to continue answering messages until the problem is solved. It just doesn't happen that way. If it was made compulsary there would be a massive reduction in the number of those first replies which would benefit no-one.

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

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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

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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.