It's unfortunate that some times really stupid names are required in order to sell books.

I'm talking about the "For Dummies" series which any self-respecting Computer Pro wouldn't usually touch with a bargepole, but which often are far better than their title would suggest.

The first "For Dummies" computer title I bought (and if truth be told the last) was the one on Firewalls. I had been to a presentation given by one of the co-authors and liked his style and so I bought the book.

It actually taught me a lot - even though I already had a reasonable knowledge, it filled in the gaps.

I've now been looking at Chapter One ("Getting to Know SharePoint") of "Microsoft SharePoint 2007 For Dummies (For Dummies - Vanessa Williams)" -

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0470099410/heme0f

and it's a very good (26 page) overview both of how we got here and of what you can use "SharePoint" for.

The author is fully aware of the need to get the names right and early on makes sure both that she defines "WSS" and "MOSS" as the names she will (mostly) use later (*) and also in an inset box mentions the use of "SharePoint" as inexact but as something she will use when she means something that's available in both products.

(*) The sentence defining "WSS" and "MOSS" is oddly inexact. Here it is

"I focus on the two primary SharePoint products: Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS)."

Spot the problem ?

She carefully defines the abbrieviations she is going to use and equally carefully gives MOSS its full name including the 2007 - which for MOSS isn't really necessary as there is as yet no other MOSS  - yet she misses out the 3.0 which is necessary to define the correct one of the two different WSS "editions" (2.0 and 3.0).

Very odd.

But most people will make the correct assumptions and correctly ignore this, and for *end-users* new to any SharePoint product, this still remains the best introduction chapter I have seen.

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 4th June - 10th June 2007

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

New

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;937884

How to index SharePoint Portal Server 2003 list items in SharePoint Server 2007

6th June 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;937207

Description of the SharePoint Server 2007 hotfix package: May 15, 2007

1st June 2007

Modified

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 1.3)

31st 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://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=92311&clcid=0x409

SharePoint Products and Technologies customization policy

6th June 2007 (date added) (paper is June 2007)

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=6803aa1d-0578-4d7d-bc2f-9600f0440d92&displaylang=en&tm

Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Management Pack for Operations Manager 2007 (ver 6.0.5000.0)

4th June 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=e7bfee42-2d3c-4810-97f8-4d89d7428a5f&displaylang=en&tm

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Management Pack for Operations Manager 2007 (ver 6.0.5000.0)

4th June 2007

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/spstuff/archive/2007/06/03/sharepoint-2007-installation-step-by-step.aspx

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Installation Step by Step (Blog - Gene) [Ed: the original title was the inexact "SharePoint 2007 Installation ..."]

3rd June 2007

http://davidmcnamee.com/blog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=18

Enforcing Required Fields on SharePoint Server 2007 Publishing Pages via Content Types and Page Layouts (Blog - David McNamee)

30th May 2007

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032329673&EventCategory=3&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US

Forefront Security for SharePoint Virtual Lab

7th February 2007

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

None

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

None

 

Modified

None

Deleted

None

III WSS v3 FAQ

New

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1089

III.02.12 Limits: Practical Limits for Mobile sites

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1104

III.26.08 Alerts: Why are My alerts going to the Exchange badmail folder?

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1107

V.56 Microsoft Sharepoint 2007 für Dummies (Wiley - Vanessa L. Williams) (In German)

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1090

VII.06 SharePoint 2007 User's Guide: Learning Microsoft's Collaboration and Productivity Platform (APress - ISBN 1590598296) (Chapter 1 - Introduction to SharePoint Technologies)

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1091

VII.07 Workflow in the 2007 Microsoft Office System (APress - ISBN 1590597001) (Chapter 1 - Introduction)

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1092

VII.08 Microsoft SharePoint: Building Office 2007 Solutions in C# 2005 (APress - ISBN 1590598091) (Chapter 1 - SharePoint Business Solutions)

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1093

VII.09 Microsoft SharePoint: Building Office 2007 Solutions in VB 2005 (APress - ISBN 159059813X) (Chapter 1 - SharePoint Business Solutions)

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1094

VII.10 Pro InfoPath 2007 (APress - ISBN 1590597303) (Chapter 1 - Introducing InfoPath)

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1095

VII.11 Beginning SharePoint 2007: Building Team Solutions with MOSS 2007 (Wrox - ISBN 978-0-470-12449-9) (Chapter 1 - Getting Started with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server)

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1096

VII.12 Beginning SharePoint 2007 Administration: Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (Wrox - ISBN 978-0-470-12529-8) (Chapter 1 - Introduction to Microsoft SharePoint 2007)

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1097

VII.13 Professional BizTalk Server 2006 (Wrox - IBSN 978-0-470-04642-5) (Chapter 1 - Technology Primer)

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1098

VII.14 Professional Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 (Wrox - ISBN 978-0-470-10917-5) (Chapter 1 - Why Virtualize)

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1099

VII.15 Professional Visual Studio 2005 (Wrox - ISBN 978-0-7645-9846-3) (Chapter 1 - A Quick Tour of the IDE)

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1100

VII.16 Professional Windows Workflow Foundation (Wrox - ISBN 978-0-470-05386-7) (Chapter 1 - In Introduction to Workflow and Windows Workflow Foundation)

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1101

VII.17 Beginning Excel Services (Wrox - ISBN 978-0-470-10489-7) (Chapter 1 - Overview of Excel Services)

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1102

VII.18 Professional Excel Services (Wrox - ISBN 978-0-470-10486-6) (Chpater 1 - Introduction to Excel Services)

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1103

VII.19 Professional SharePoint 2007 Development (Wrox - ISBN 978-0-470-11756-9) (Chapter 1 - The Microsoft Application Platform and SharePoint)

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1105

VII.20 Microsoft SharePoint Server 2007 Bible (Wiley - ISBN 047000861X) (Chapter 1 - Introducing SharePoint Products and Technologies)

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1106

VII.21 Microsoft SharePoint 2007 For Dummies (Wiley - ISBN 0470099410) (Chapter 1 - Getting to Know SharePoint)

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1088

X.57 WSPBuilder (free - Keutmann, Codeplex)

Modified

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

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

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

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

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSS%20FAQ/EditForm.aspx?ID=71

III.06.3 Site Migration from WSS to WSS

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

III.55.01 Alerts aren't working even if the Timer Service is running. What might be wrong?

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSS%20FAQ/EditForm.aspx?ID=174

VII.03 Web Hosting for WSS sites (in alphabetical order)

I've now had a look through the on-line chapters of the two more general Wrox books that have come out so. In both I liked the text much more than that of the "Bible" but I didn't like the sloppy way they handled the naming of the products.

One of the things that people who know me from the newsgroups will know is that I am a pain for wanting people to get the names right.

If we are to answer a question properly in a newsgroup we need to know which product people are using yet often they don't say and even when they are specifically asked they say things like "I'm using SharePoint 2007" which is pretty useless information considering that there are two SharePoint products that came out in 2007 (WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007).

There are also people who claim to be using SPS 2007 (no such thing) or STS 2.0 (ditto) or WSS (good enough a description when there was only one SharePoint version called WSS but now no use) etc.

I take this so seriously that my chapter of the MVP book (also Wrox in fact) spends a good bit of time making quite sure people know both the correct names and the correct abbrieviations.

Not so unfortunately both of these sets of authors (although - as above - apart from the names, the texts are mostly fine).

Amanda and Shane in "Beginning SharePoint 2007: Building Team Solutions with MOSS 2007" -

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0470124490/heme0f

are the worst (of these two sets of writers) offenders in this aspect of name usage.

They are absolutely fine when they spell out the names Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 in full and they are completely correct in their descriptions of what sort of thing WSS 3.0 alone is sufficient for. Most people wondering whether to use WSS 3.0 or MOSS 2007 will find this very useful. However these people will also find it difficult to know where the discussion of what's in WSS 3.0 stops and what's in MOSS 2007 starts because most of the time Amanda and Shane are talking about "SharePoint".

Sometimes by this they mean both products but mostly they seem to mean MOSS 2007. Yet if that's the case why do they later introduce the term "SharePoint 2007" which yes, you've guessed it, seems to mean MOSS 2007. as well.

So for now the jury is out on this one. I suspect that once we've got past the first chapter they will be talking only about MOSS 2007 and then it won't really matter what they call it for short (except for poor newsgroup answerers in future) and we'll have the benefit of their wide practical knowledge which despite the name confusion in chapter one does shine out there.

The other chapter one - this time from Göran Husman's Beginning SharePoint 2007 Administration: Windows SharePoint Services 3 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 -

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0470125292/heme0f

was more of a standard approach (with, for instance, a very long table comparing what you get when working with different Office versions) and as such means that I probably wouldn't buy the book for myself. (But then which self-respecting SharePoint MVP would buy a book titled "Beginning ..." !)

The names were a bit off here too for a pedantic person like myself with things like "they released version 3.0 which is known as Windows SharePoint Services and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server" when adding 3.0 and 2007 respectively to the product names was absolutely necessary. There was also for my taste far too much of "SharePoint 2007" (again!)

Aside: what to use? "The v3 SharePoint products" if you want both; otherwise having established the abbrieviations use WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007 all the time (and never as happens here more than once just WSS when you mean WSS 3.0).

However like the Amanda and Shane book, this one too if you could forget about the name usage and a few minor inexactitudes (I don't feel quite so worried about my coming errors any more having read these first three Chapter Ones), this chapter wouldn't put me off recommending this book for people new to Administrating SharePoint systems - just as I would probably still advise people wanting to do useful things with MOSS 2007 to buy the ... Building Team Solutions with MOSS 2007 book. I wouldn't be surprised if the Beginning in that title was a trifle wrong though, as I suspect they'll manage to go much further than you might think in their "building". Given that, even I might well consider buying this one (despite "Beginning ..."!) - but I'd want a look through the remaining chapters to see if the naming problem vanishes when it's all about MOSS 2007.

Even though most of those SharePoint on-line chapters I mentioned in the previous blog are variations on an "Introduction to SharePoint" theme, it's still worth glancing through them.

Not so much to help you decide which books to buy, although that too, but mainly to help you decide which books not to buy.

I've started working through these on-line chapters and the first one I looked at was the Sharepoint "Bible" from Wiley. Well I m certainly NOT going to buy that !

There are continual references in that chapter to WSS 2007. Even in the early betas the WSS version was never called WSS 2007 and always WSS 3.0.

If the guys can't even get the name of a product right, what sort of message does that give you about the quality of the rest of the book ?

Certainly this is enough for me to completely discard all thoughts of buying the book. There are after all enough books written or co-written by SharePoint MVPs (the "Bible" as far as I can see wasn't) and say what you will about SharePoint MVPs, but we do have a good knowledge of the various SharePoint products and versions of products - and we sure as heck don't call WSS 3.0 "WSS 2007".

 

P.S. This makes you wonder if that book ever had a review process and if so who reviewed it. Our MVP book did and we had a very good technical reviewer who pointed out several minor (my story!) inaccuracies in my chapter. I have a horrible feeling that - in the severe time pressure I was in to make changes to the text as a result of his suggestions - I missed one (a trip to England and away from computers came at just the wrong time), so I do know how mistakes can stay in a text, but this WSS 2007 is so blatant an error and occurs something like ten times in that chapter, that even the most time-pressured author couldn't miss amending this when the mistake was pointed out to him/her.

For some time now I've had a page in the WSS FAQ sites with links to Chapters from v3 SharePoint books (and ones useful for SharePoint admins/developers) that have been made available free on-line by the publishers.

However this past week I have extended it dramatically from 5 to 21 chapters by searching publishers' sites.

You'll find all 21 links here

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/VII%20Book%20Extracts.aspx

There is one snag. In most cases the publishers let you have a free look at Chapter One. Most of these are SharePoint books (rather than books related to SharePoint) and thus almost every free chapter is "An Introduction to SharePoint" in various shapes, forms and lengths.

I'm a bit worried (perhaps not the right word) about this because I wrote the first chapter in the MVP's SharePoint book (Real World SharePoint 2007: Indispensable Experiences From 16 MOSS and WSS MVPs) out in mid August and available for Pre-Order here

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0470168358/heme0f

The reason I'm worried (apart from the chance using this chapter will give for thousands of people to find the mistakes that are no doubt there - hopefully though not any biggies) is that my chapter is not representative of the book. The rest of the book IS for the target audience of SharePoint Pros looking to that little extra from this (apart from me) illustrative set of MVPs, whereas mine is a chapter designed to get people with no pre-knowledge quickly up to speed with the main aspects of WSS v3 (and thus also with the underlying aspects of MOSS 2007) so that they can understand the rest of the book.

(and to those who wonder why a book with that title needs an Introduction chapter for people who haven't used a SharePoint product before, has your boss never turned up unexpectably at your office/cubicle/desk clutching a book he's bought and saying "I want you to do X - here's a book to help you".?)

More than one of mine has  ...

Since I last wrote about SharePoint v3 books here, many weeks have gone by and especially in the last couple of weeks there have been a flood of books that have made it to the Amazon US NON Pre-Order list. I have to write it that way because a couple of times I've been told by the author that a book is out only for Amazon to either not remove it from pre-order status or to half remove it (= remove it; change it back to pre-order; make it non-available and various other options designed to make me mad).

Anyway here as far as I can remember are all the new ones I haven't mentioned before (crosses fingers that when I import a URL in Safari in this garden usage Mac they will look like URLs to you [Later: they didn't look anything more than text so it was either do a bit of A+slashA html work on them all or (as I did) go to a PC; use IE in design mode]) - not in any particular kind of order ...

Beginning SharePoint 2007: Building Team Solutions with MOSS 2007 (Wrox - Amanda Murphy, Shane Perran)

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0470124490/heme0f

Inside Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MS Press - Patrick Tisseghem)

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0735623686/heme0f

Inside Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services Version 3 (MS Press - Ted Pattison, Daniel Larson)

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0735623201/heme

Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Administrator's Pocket Consultant (MS Press - Ben Curry)

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0735623821/heme0f

Microsoft SharePoint 2007 Development Unleashed (Sams - Kevin Hoffman, Robert Foster)

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0672329034/heme0f

Professional SharePoint 2007 Development (Wrox - John Holliday, John Alexander, Jeff Julian, Eli Robillard, Brendon Schwartz, Matt Ranlett, Dan Attis, Tom Rizzo)

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0470117567/heme0f

Microsoft SharePoint Bible (Wiley - Avitiva Corp, Wayne Tynes, Simeon Cathey, Wynne Leon)

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/047000861X/heme0f

Beginning SharePoint 2007 Administration: Windows SharePoint Services 3 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (Wrox - Göran Husman)

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0470125292/heme0f

P.S. I'll be back tomorrow with a place where you can find links to masses of free chapters from many of the above books. So look for that if you want to read several people's take of "An Introduction to SharePoint"

P.P.S. and silly me, here is the page of all SharePoint v3 books both released; pre-order and ?not yet started?.

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/V%20Books.aspx

I've been reading a book called "The Myths of Innovation" which is a small, circa 150 page black-covered hardback volume from O'Reilly (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0596527055/heme0f).

It's the sort of book you can give as a present to just about anyone with a brain rather than I would say to someone who has decided to be the creator of the next great thing on the Internet.

It's in a way a curious book for O'Reilly to be publishing. O'Reilly as most of you know started life as a publisher of books for Unix specialists and I doubt if Unix in a Nutshell (or one of the more specific books in the same series) would be a book you could give to your Dad as a present. Now obviously O'Reilly has in the meantime moved away from the Unix niche - first to include similar Windows books and more lately more general computer books such as the Office 2007 Missing Manual series and (for your computer using Dad !) the simpler "Missing Manual - Starter Edition" books, but this is the first book from them I've seen that barely makes it as a computer book at all.

In fact although the first chapter has the author visiting Google to look at how innovation is supposed to happen there and although there are throughout the book many references to innovations that are in the computer area, there are many other references to innovations that go back centuries (the printing press) or even millenium (pyramids; Roman buildings).

The one main thing I've got so far is that innovation doesn't just happen. First the circumstances need to be right - you couldn't have a World Wide Web without an Internet - and secondly most innovations come as a result of a lot of hard work with time often being spent on failed efforts. Also, at least until recent times, innovators have often been before their times and have got no recognition at all.

So that's what this book is really about - a discussion of innovations and innovators throughout the ages - rather than a "Innovation in a Nutshell" guidebook to how to become an innovator.

The most that can be said is that innovations often come as a result of a lot of reading and studying and that by reading this book maybe some potential innovator will at least realise he/she needn't give up yet and may even get some inspiration. For the rest of us though this is just an interesting read of the kind of book you can pick up; read a few pages with interest and then put down for a while.

Ideal then for bed-time reading. Not so good if it's the only book you have with you for a long airplane journey. (Mind you it's better for that than Unix in a Nutshell!)

Note that the word SharePoint site is intentionally vague - i.e. it covers both the back (v2) applications and the new v3 applications.

There are two main impulses for this blog item. One naturally is the fact that I am suddenly more interested in Mac/SharePoint issues () and the other that there was a newsgroup post in the last week asking how Mac users edit their SharePoint sites.

There I replied that they do this probably through the use of Parallels or BootCamp (notice how I don't bother to explain these terms which are obvious to a Mac user ) because editing SharePoint sites using anything than the Windows Tools designed for this would be asking for trouble.

Hence they need access to a Windows environment and if all they have is a Mac (make that: "if they are lucky enough to have a Mac" ...) then they'll need to either use a Virtual Environment (Parallels - or in fact the latest VMWare version for the Mac which I think is still in beta) or dual boot their Mac using BootCamp to become a Windows machine.

The only snag with the latter is that BootCamp, as far as I know, only supports XPPro or Windows Vista. In other words if you want to do development work on a server operating system, you are out of luck.

An administrator who doesn't want to use a Mac for editing his site(s) but only for accessing them and amending the data in them (maybe because like me his Mac is smaller and lighter than the PC he normally uses), is mostly OK with a Mac.

Safari seems to work better than Firefox with at least v2 sites (I've not tried it with v3 sites yet) as you can for instance do right-click on a file name to Save it to the Desktop. This means that I can add new content to the WSS FAQ sites and also get hold of the latest version of the file I keep on the www.wssfaq.com site that contains all the amendments I've made to the sites during the week. I can't do that in Firefox.

I can't of course use Outlook Express (XPPro) or Windows Mail (Vista) as my newsreader, but Thunderbird works on the Mac as it does on the PC (= occasionally annoyingly and slightly less handy than OE or Windows Mail). So I can keep monitoring and posting to the SP newsgroups from the Mac.

What I can't seem to do is post replies to Forum messages. I can open the forum message (via a newsgator RSS feed) in Safari OK. I can login and I can get the Reply page (as me) but it won't let me enter any text into the reply box (which doesn't actually look like a box either). So that's a negative, but I don't access the forums 4 times a day as I do the newsgroups and I reply there much less often, so it's not a particularly major negative. It IS curious though.

Then there's .WMV files (meaning Microsoft web casts). I can download them from the Microsoft site OK. But I can't seem to get the MacBook to run them. Neither (Microsoft) Media Player for the Mac or Quick Time with the very latest plug-in from a third-party company but from the Microsoft site seem to want to do much with the picture part of these.

So all in all, Mac as a user [and note that I've not above mentioned the usual things like No Multiple Uploads etc.] is reasonable for quick glances while sitting on the back porch and using the wireless interface, but perhaps you shouldn't throw away your PC yet if you are serious about Administering SharePoint sites and especially if you want to develop for them.

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 28th May - 3rd June 2007

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

New

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;936908

A subsite that you create in SharePoint Server 2007 does not inherit master page settings from its parent site, and you receive error messages on the Site Master Page Settings page

30th May 2007

Modified

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'" (ver 2.1)

31st May 2007

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

How to configure SharePoint Server 2007 to use a database that is hosted on a server that is running SQL Server in an untrusted domain (ver 1.2)

14th May 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=927675

No Adobe PDF documents are returned in the search results when you search a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Web site (ver 1.2)

14th 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://www.sharepointblogs.com/helloitsliam/archive/2007/05/30/moss2007-javascript-item-menus-part-3-real-world.aspx

MOSS2007 – JavaScript Item Menus Part 3 (Real World Examples) (Blog - Liam Cleary)

30th May 200

http://sharepointblogs.com/nmoutdoors/archive/2007/05/30/getting-away-from-fully-trusted-web-parts.aspx

Getting Away From Fully Trusted Web Parts (Blog - Scott)

30th May 2007

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/helloitsliam/archive/2007/05/30/moss2007-javascript-item-menus-part-2-real-world-examples.aspx

MOSS2007 – JavaScript Item Menus Part 2 (Real World Examples) (Blog - Liam Cleary)

30th May 2007

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb457205.aspx

Visual How To: Writing a Filter Provider Web Part for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (Joel Krist, Akona Systems)

30th May 2007

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb460810.aspx

Visual How To: Writing a Filter Consumer Web Part for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Using Excel Services (Joel Krist, Akona Systems)

30th May 2007

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/helloitsliam/archive/2007/05/30/moss2007-javascript-item-menus-part-1-real-world-examples.aspx

MOSS2007 – JavaScript Item Menus Part 1 (Real World Examples) (Blog - Liam Cleary)

30th May 2007

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/infopath/HA102105871033.aspx

InfoPath 2007 features that are unavailable in InfoPath Forms Services

30th May 2007 (date added)

http://sharepointnutsandbolts.blogspot.com/2007/05/feature-stapling.html

Feature Stapling (Blog - Chris O'Brien)

29th May 2007

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa981559.aspx

Comparisons of SharePoint Search Versions

28th May 2007 (date added)

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=e719ecf7-9f46-4312-af89-6ad8702e4e6e&DisplayLang=en

SQL Server 2005 Samples and Sample Databases (February 2007) [Ed. not included with Windows Internal Database installation]

28th May 2007 (date added - actually Feb 2007)

https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastRegistrationConfirmation.aspx?culture=en-US&RegistrationID=1290617384

TechNet Webcast: Controlling Your SharePoint Server 2007 Sites with IT Governance (Level 200) (Kevin Remde)

25th May 2007

https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastRegistrationConfirmation.aspx?culture=en-US&RegistrationID=1290617402

TechNet Webcast: Technical Overview of Forefront Security for SharePoint (Level 200) (Blain Barton)

25th May 2007

https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastRegistrationConfirmation.aspx?culture=en-US&RegistrationID=1290617451

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

25th May 2007

http://sharepointnutsandbolts.blogspot.com/2007/05/sharepoint-deployment-optionsfeatures.html

Features: SharePoint deployment options : Features or Content Deployment? (Blog - Chris O'Brien)

21st May 2007

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb428856.aspx

Visual How To: Creating and Exposing Search Scopes in SharePoint Server 2007 Enterprise Search (Partick Tisseghem, U2U)

17th May 2007 (same date as the other ones - this one was missed)

http://sharepointnutsandbolts.blogspot.com/2007/05/deploying-web-parts-as-feature.html

Features: Deploying web parts as a feature (Blog - Chris O'Brien)

11th May 2007

http://sharepointnutsandbolts.blogspot.com/2007/04/deploying-master-pages-and-page-layouts.html

Features: Deploying master pages and page layouts as a feature (Blog - Chris O'Brien)

27th April 2007

http://sharepointnutsandbolts.blogspot.com/2007/04/feature-to-create-lookup-fields-on.html

Features: Feature to create lookup fields on Codeplex (Blog - Chris O'Brien)

20th April 2007

http://sharepointnutsandbolts.blogspot.com/2007/04/deploying-content-types-as-feature.html

Features: Deploying content types as a feature (Blog - Chris O'Brien)

17th April 2007

http://sharepointnutsandbolts.blogspot.com/2007/04/sample-code-creating-list-based-site.html

Features: Sample code - creating list based site columns as a feature (Blog - Chris O'Brien)

14th April 2007

http://sharepointnutsandbolts.blogspot.com/2007/03/how-to-debug-sharepoint-feature.html

Features: How to debug SharePoint feature receivers (Blog - Chris O'Brien)

20th March 2007

http://sharepointnutsandbolts.blogspot.com/2007/04/creating-list-based-site-columns-as.html

Features: Creating list-based site columns as a feature (Blog - Chris O'Brien)

9th March 2007

http://sharepointnutsandbolts.blogspot.com/2007/04/creating-lists-with-vsewss.html

Features: Creating lists with VSeWSS (Blog - Chris O'Brien)

2nd March 2007

http://blogs.msdn.com/jackiebo/archive/2007/02/27/displaying-a-list-on-another-site-in-the-same-site-collection.aspx

Displaying a list on another site (in the same site collection) (Blog - Jackie Bodine)

27th February 2007

http://blogs.msdn.com/jackiebo/archive/2007/02/26/supercharge-your-sharepoint-wiki-adding-columns-and-creating-dynamic-tables.aspx

Supercharge your SharePoint Wiki - Adding Columns and Creating Dynamic Tables  (Blog - Jackie Bodine)

26th February 2007

http://blogs.msdn.com/jackiebo/archive/2007/02/23/lookup-count-related-the-magic-behind-sharepoint-s-comments-column.aspx

Lookup (Count Related) – The magic behind SharePoint’s # Comments Column  (Blog - Jackie Bodine)

23rd February 2007

http://blogs.msdn.com/jackiebo/archive/2007/02/23/sharepoint-content-migration-object-model-and-content-migration-packages.aspx

SharePoint Content Migration Object Model and Content Migration Packages  (Blog - Jackie Bodine)

23rd February 2007

https://blogs.pointbridge.com/Blogs/morse_matt/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=2

How to use WSS v3 with ADAM for user authentication (Blog - Matthew Morse)

5th December 2006

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)

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III WSS v3 FAQ

New

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1085

V.55 Pro SharePoint 2007 Development Techniques (Apress - Margriet Bruggeman, Nikander Bruggeman)

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1086

VI.46 SharePoint List Filter - Multiple Drop-Down (commercial - KWizCom)

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1086

VII.05 Pro SharePoint Solution Development: Combining .NET, SharePoint and Office 2007, Chapter 1 - Office Business Applications (Apress - ISBN: 1590598083)

Modified

Various v3 books were released in the past week. See the books page http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/V%20Books.aspx

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IV WSSv2 KB Articles (plus SPS 2003 Hot fixes)

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None

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None

V. MS Articles for WSSv2

New

None

Modified

None

VI Non-MS Articles for WSSv2

New

None

Modified

None

VII WSSv2 FAQ

New

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSS%20FAQ/EditForm.aspx?ID=650

III.122 How do you migrate SharePoint 2003 databases from a separate SQL Server 2000 box to a new SQL Server 2005 box (directly applies to SPS 2003; probably to WSS 2.0 as well in essence)

Modified

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSS%20FAQ/EditForm.aspx?ID=242

III.77 SQL Reporting Services on a WSS Server. How do I get it to work?