Aside: I'm sure I saw something saying that Windows Server 2008 RCP is out but I certainly can't find it ..

We left Windows Server 2008 Beta 3 in a Parallels VM where it couldn't find the networking driver.

I finally decided to spend more than the odd second on this and carefully looked at which driver was being used in a working Parallels VM running Windows Server 2003 (and WSS 3.0 - what else?) and then looking at the same location in the 2008 Beta 3 VM.

In 2003 it was prleth.sys (and there were four more Parallels drivers) and in 2008 there were no Parallels drivers at all.

So more in desperation than anything else I decided to install the Parallels Tools (which just like in VMWorkstation I always install just to get rid of the need to do Ctrl-Alt just for the cursor to be able to leave the VM) and discovered that *that* added several drivers including prleth.sys.

So now I had Ethernet and wireless access and could move to the real program of installing the Server 2008 built-in WSS 3.0.

They've learnt from past mistakes.

You now select "Add Roles" and when you pick WSS 3.0 it says it will need first to install various things (such as IIS and .NET Framework 3.0) and would you like it to install those ? I have no idea what happens if you say No (although giving you the option seems a trifle odd) but I just said Yes and waited to install what in Windows Server 2003 and the WSS 3.0 download is the Basic Installation (although you can as there also have an installation that uses an existing SQL Server).

It's been churning for so long that I've finished everything I wanted to do on the PC portable I'm writing this on so this post goes out without final certainty. But it certainly looks to be a keeper.

 

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 25th June - 1st July 2007

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

New

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;938663

One-time timer jobs in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 are delayed by at least one hour when the jobs are scheduled to occur during daylight saving time (DST)

29th June 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;938536

Description of the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 hotfix package: June 11, 2007

29th June 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;938537

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

29th June 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;938535

Description of the SharePoint Server 2007 hotfix package: June 11, 2007

29th June 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;937291

You receive an error message when you run the pre-upgrade scan tool (Prescan.exe) to scan Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 sites before you upgrade to Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (ver 1.1)

26th June 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;938110

Site groups are not maintained, and users are assigned to roles after you upgrade from SharePoint Portal Server 2003 to SharePoint Server 2007 (ver 1.1)

26th June 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;923589

Error message when you try to change the name of a site column back to its original name in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: "The column name that you entered is already in use or reserved." (ver 2.0)

26th June 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;938182

Description of the SharePoint Server 2007 hotfix package for SharePoint Server 2007 and for SharePoint Server 2007 for Search: May 31, 2007

22nd June 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;938183

Description of the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 hotfix package: May 31, 2007

22nd June 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;889644

Error message when users try to change their password in Windows SharePoint Services: "Error setting password for user account '<UserName>' " (ver 2.0)

15th May 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;829065

Error message when you connect to the SharePoint Central Administration page in Windows SharePoint Services: "You are not authorized to view this page" (ver 5.0)

15th May 2007

Modified

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;939015

Support WebCast: Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 integration with Contact Lists and Document Libraries of Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) version 3 or Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 (ver 2.1)

29th June 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;929360

You cannot create a new document or check out an existing document in a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 document library when you have multiple versions of Office installed (ver 2.0)

28th June 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=930887

You experience issues with portal alerts in SharePoint Portal Server 2003 or with search performance in SharePoint Server 2007 after you create SQL Server 2005 maintenance plans (ver 2.0)

19th June 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;823506

Path of the log files in the Log file location box on the Configure Usage Analysis Processing page of Windows SharePoint Services Central Administration is truncated (ver 3.0)

(WSS 3.0 included in Applies To - moved in WSS FAQ to v3)

15th 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/mykiep/archive/2007/06/30/overriding-the-content-query-web-part.aspx

Overriding the Content Query Web Part (Blog - MdP)

30th June 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/technetmag/issues/2007/07/PublicFolders/default.aspx?rss%3dhttp%3a%2f%2fwww.microsoft.com%2ftechnet%2ftechnetmag%2fissues%2f2007%2f07%2fPublicFolders&pf=true

A Powerful Alternative to Public Folders (TechNet Mag July 2007 - Alan Maddison)

30th June 2007 (date added)

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/tbaginski/archive/2007/06/29/Which-WSS-3.0-_2F00_-MOSS-2007-site-Template-is-right-for-me_3F00_.aspx

Which WSS 3.0 / MOSS 2007 site Template is right for me? (Blog - Todd Baginski)

29th June 2007

http://blogs.msdn.com/joelo/archive/2007/06/29/sharepoint-groups-permissions-site-security-and-depreciated-site-groups.aspx

SharePoint Groups, Permissions, Site Security, and Depreciated Site Groups (MSBlog - Joel Oleson)

29th June 2007

http://vividgroup.com.au/pdf/MCMS2002ToMOSS2007Migration-WhitePaper.pdf

MCMS to MOSS upgrade (VividGroup whitepaper)

28th June 2007 (date added)

http://blogs.msdn.com/joelo/archive/2007/06/27/file-name-length-size-and-invalid-character-restrictions-and-recommendations.aspx

File Name, Length, Size and Invalid Character Restrictions and Recommendations (MSBlog - Joel Oleson)

27th June 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=92fe268e-c232-44a3-8a78-95a38cc2a765&displaylang=en&tm

Installing and Configuring Microsoft Dynamics AX Enterprise Portal (ver 1.01)

(This document describes how to install and configure Microsoft Dynamics AX Enterprise Portal 4.0 for Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server)

27th June 2007

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/sezai/archive/2007/06/27/setting-up-a-multilingual-moss-2007-farm-english-and-chinese-simplified-websites-running-on-the-same-farm.aspx

Setting up a Multilingual MOSS 2007 Farm - English and Chinese (Simplified) Websites Running on the same farm (Blog - Sezai)

27th June 2007

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/sezai/archive/2007/06/27/programmatically-accessing-bdc-data-in-custom-web-parts-or-user-controls-in-moss-2007.aspx

Programmatically Accessing BDC Data in Custom Web Parts or User Controls in MOSS 2007 (Blog - Sezai)

27th June 2007

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/jeremewatts/archive/2007/06/26/aam-vanity-url-workarounds.aspx

AAM, Vanity URL workarounds (Blog - Jereme Watts)

26th June 2007

http://metahat.blogspot.com/2007/06/people-picker-in-moss-2007-unable-to.html

People Picker in MOSS 2007 unable to find user from Multiple Domain (Blog - Raghu Iyer)

26th June 2007

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/mkruger/archive/2007/06/26/free-sharepoint-dataview-tips.aspx

Free SharePoint DataView Tips (Blog - Mark Kruger)

26th June 2007

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/mkruger/archive/2007/06/26/howto-using-sharepoint-calculated-columns-to-display-a-list-item-as-quot-x-quot-days-old.aspx

HowTo: Using SharePoint Calculated Columns to Display a List Item as "X" Days Old (Blog - Mark Kruger)

26th June 2007

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/llowevad/archive/2007/06/25/site-collection-logical-architecture.aspx

Site Collection Logical Architecture (Blog - Dave Wollerman)

25th June 2007

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/llowevad/archive/2007/06/25/sharepoint-2007-single-sign-on-setup.aspx

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

25th June 2007

http://blogs.msdn.com/miketag/archive/2007/06/25/recommended-guidelines-for-search-boundaries.aspx

Recommended Guidelines for Search Boundaries (MSBlog - Mike Taghizadeh)

25th June 2007

http://blog.funknstyle.com/?p=503

InfoPath 2007: Creating a Template Part (Blog - Amanda Murphy)

25th June 2007

https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastRegistrationConfirmation.aspx?culture=en-US&RegistrationID=1291430402

MSDN Webcast: SharePoint Server 2007 and Business Intelligence (Level 200) (Mike Benkovich, Lynn Langit)

22nd June 2007

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb462636(office.11).aspx

Publishing and Synchronizing Excel 2007 Tables to SharePoint Lists (John Adams, Frank Rice)

(1st) June 2007

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

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/michael/archive/2007/06/28/how-to-clone-an-infopath-form.aspx

How to Clone an Infopath Form (Blog - M Hofer)

28th June 2007

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=1119

III.88.02 Indexing: How do I index OneNote files in a 64-bit system?

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1117

V.57 Programming Excel Services (MSPress - Alvin J. Bruney) *released*

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1118

VI.49 DWG IFIlter 2007 (CAD and Company)

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?

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

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

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1000

III.88.01 Indexing: How do I index DWG files (Autocad)?

IV WSSv2 KB Articles (plus SPS 2003 Hot fixes)

New

None

Modified

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;823279

Digest authentication and Advanced Digest authentication are not supported in Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003 or Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services (ver 6.0)

20th June 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;826803

Server that runs Windows SharePoint Services may run low on memory resources (ver 2.0)

18th May 2007

V. MS Articles for WSSv2

New or Modified

None

VI Non-MS Articles for WSSv2

New or Modified

None

VII WSSv2 FAQ

New or Modified

None

I now have a setup with three machines all of which are running on 64-bit processors and all of which are less than 3 years old.

The desktop, used mainly these days by my wife, will be three years old in September. It's running XPPro; Office 2003 and FrontPage 2003. It has 1GB and an Athlon processor (and it's Fujitsu-Siemens because the price was right. It has a 250GB hard disk.

The main portable is 18 months old and cost about twice the cost of the desktop. It's running Vista Ultimate and Office 2007. It has 2GB and a Turon processor. (It's an Acer Ferrari and has a 100GB hard disk)

The second portable is a MacBook. It runs OS X Tiger and has 2GB and a Core 2 Duo processor. It's about a month old (although the model has been out for six months) and is the cheapest MacBook in the range. Bought as an experiment when I was unsure whether I'd like it, I now regret that I didn't buy a more expensive version with a larger hard disk (the disk is 60GB).

At the moment I'm running my VMs on Parallels in the MacBook (as my VMWorkstation 5.5 i slow in the Vista machine and I don't want to pay for an upgrade ...). Because of the lack of local disk space I have only one VM (WSS 3.0) stored locally and am using a Mac-formatted (see earlier blogs) 80GB LaCie (very small) external USB 2.0 drive that runs off the portable's power to store other VMs. At present these other VMs are Office Server 2008 Beta3 (soon to be replaced with RCP) and a copy of the WSS 3.0 VM from the portable (which is soon to be stripped and from that stripped version to be a DC and a MOSS 2007 VM (2 VMs)).

The desktop is needed for a couple of things:
- The WSS FAQ sites still run on v2 so I use FP 2003 with them when needed.
- Edit in Datasheet View only works with the WSS FAQ sites from this machine (i.e. not from the Vista/Office 2007 portable) and so when I needed that (to transfer KB Articles and Articles - 2007 Products to the WSS 3.0 VM) this was the machine I had to use.
- It still uses IE 6.x so I can test its usage here too.

The Vista/Office 2007 portable:
- Here I use IE7 (at work I use Firefox and IE6 so I cover most things) and Outlook Express

The MacBook:
- Here I use Safari although Firefox is also installed.
- I use Thunderbird for newsgroups.

So with the basics established what improvements and non-improvements are there ?

One improvement with Safari (and probably Firefox on both platforms) when used with v3 is that drop-down works. So whereas I can not (using Safari) Edit a KB Article entry in v2 using a dropdown (but need to use the Maintenance View that has an Edit icon), I can do this with the identical v3 version.

What is bad of course is that the Vista/Office 2007 combination has a problem with Edit in Datasheet View with (at least) my SP v2 sites.

I'll add some more later when I come across them ...

I've recently had the Mac on more than one occasion recognize my Wireless router (etc.) but still claim I have no connection to the Internet.

I've been to look and the Internet connection is fine. I've also then loaded up the Acer and it's been able to access the Internet OK, so what's going on.

My theory is that a recent OS upgrade did something it shouldn't. Of course it may be that I installed this upgrade (or some other upgrade) in the wrong way because I for instance assumed that a Parallels upgrade had been done and yet all it had done was to put the file on the desktop.

Then when I started that file it didn't say it was updating but that it wanted to do a new installation (and this of a .x.x update version). All very odd and it's things like this that make me continually conscious that I'm like a child of ten with the Mac compared to with a PC.

Networking too - once it had decided I didn't have an Internet connection - wasn't the easiest thing to get working. There was nothing like repair connection which in the windows world often does the trick and the Assistant continued to insist I turn the hardware off and on which made no difference at all.

In the end I ended up (on both occasions) creating a totally new Internet connection as only that managed to create for me a working Internet connection.

The problem with that method is that I have a very long WPA PSK password that of course I can never remember. So I suppose there is nothing for it but to post it to myself because otherwise I'll be stuck if they same thing happens when I'm on the road.

Maybe it's time to look at that big OsX Tiger edition book and see what it says about Networking. Child of nine, more like.

On thing that I've learnt since buying a Mac and trying to do most of my MVP "work" on it has been that what people moving to the Mac from the PC (or even those like me who are working in parallel with both environments) need is a friend with a good level of Mac experience.

He or she would need to have infinite patience however to put up with a barrage of "how do you do this in the Mac" questions ranging from the extremely simple ("what's the Mac equiavlent of Ctrl-C") to more complicated ones (which turned out in my case to be how do you format a USB drive - or indeed anything).

If you don't have such a friend very handy, the next best step is to have a book. In my case the book I found at Amazon and which has been solving most of my Mac adjustment problems since is the O'Reilly book "Switching to the Mac: The Missing Manual, Tiger Edition http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0596006608/heme0f

I blogged briefly earlier that I was going to buy this and was a bit worried by the fact that it first came out in September 2005 which seems a lifetime away. Well that's true but it is now on it's Ninth Printing and corrections have been made on its journey there.

In fact the Ninth Printing includes a whole new appendix on running Windows on the Mac (Boot Camp or Parallels) which contains fairly basic information but at least is there (and wasn't in the Eighth Printing). So to a certain extent this is (at least) a Second Edition.

Anyway what of the book?

The good news is that it has solved many of my basic problems - most of which have to do with simple/stupid things such as the afore-mentioned Ctrl-C (which is AppleKey-C like most such Ctrl- codes) and Ctr-Alt-del which thank goodness was in the index because I needed it in order to boot a Windows machine running under Parallels. (It's *in this order* Ctrl; Alt; fn; and 'erase previous' !!).

In fact that is both the strength and weakness of the book. It's written more as a book to read through rather than as a reference manual.

I'd better explain that because it might give the wrong impression.

All parts and programs that come with Tiger are covered and points of difference to Windows equivalents clearly stated. So, yes, you can use it as a "Missing Manual" by looking up for instance the chapter on Mail. The index too while not brilliant (I couldn't find how to format a disk there!) is fairly long - however to a certain extent I thought that perhaps it was a slightly amended version of an index for Tiger for Mac users rather than a newly written index for the benefit of former Windows users (otherwise surely Formatting wouldn't be missing).

To a certain extent however needing to actually read full sections of the manual is beneficial. Certainly I found out things (and they were always compared with Windows things) there when just browsing that I didn't know and what's more that I wouldn't have learnt about if I had only grabbed the book when I had a problem.

A good example of this is the PDF reader. I naturally (?) from my PC background assumed that as I could open PDF files without the need to download Acrobat Reader from the Adobe site, that Apple had done a deal with Adobe and it was built in.

Far from it. Reading the book, I found that it was actually using an internal application called Preview to open the PDF files and that Preview was actually also (mainly) a graphics program. The book gave me the URL of where I could download Adobe Reader for the Mac if I wanted but also gave me some additional information about the functionality of Preview with PDF files that made we wonder whether I'd actually need to.

The conclusion I suppose is that I'm happy with the book and glad that I got it. Without it I'd no doubt be scrambling through the Internet looking for tips (such as I needed to do for formatting - the answer to which was "Use Disk Utility"; something that I found to make formatting a USB disk seem like a major operation). I would have probably in fact given up half way but I wanted to use this USB disk (80GB) to store some Parallels (Windows Servers running WSS and MOSS) VMs and Parallels said that USB disks when used for that needed to be Mac formatted. I took them at their word.

I discovered yesterday after writing the above that the PDF files I was seeing were actually not using Preview but were just being shown by the browser (Safari) which unlike IE doesn't require an installation of Acrobat Reader in oder to show them.

I spotted this thanks to the section in the book that told me how to Zoom In or Zoom Out in Preview (as this wasn't working!) and when trying to correct this with the equivalent of a Right-Click (Ctrl-Space in a Mac without a 2 button mouse) I discovered an "Open in Preview" option. Now Zoom In not only worked but produced extremely good quality enlarged text - very clear and sharp - which made reading the front page of an Italian newspaper (where the first page in pdf form is free on the web) extremely pleasant.

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 18th June - 24th June 2007

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

New

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/889647/en-us

How to change the TCP port that SharePoint Portal Server or SharePoint Server uses to connect to SQL Server (ver 3.0)

13th June 2007

Modified

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;930147

Mobile browsers and devices that are supported in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and in SharePoint Server 2007 (ver 2.0)

13th June 2007

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

Error message when you click "New" to create a new item in a list or when you click an existing item in SharePoint Server 2007 or in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: "Invalid page URL" or "An unexpected error has occurred" (ver 2.0)

5th June 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/jason/archive/2007/06/21/how-to-connect-web-parts-programmatically-in-wss-3.aspx

How to connect Web Parts programmatically in WSS 3 (Blog - jason)

21st June 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=513d97da-34b7-4346-a9e5-b8998170aade&displaylang=en&tm

SharePoint Server 2007 Sample: Excel Services and Excel 2007 Windows Compute Cluster Server Job Submission Sample

21st June 2007

http://www.cjvandyk.com/blog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?List=744536f4%2D127e%2D4c4a%2Dbcff%2Db85408e7e7e5&ID=109

SharePoint gradual migration “gotcha” to be aware of… (Blog - Cornelius van Dyk)

21st June 2007

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb530302.aspx

Development Tools and Techniques for Working with Code in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (Part 1 of 2) (MSDN - Patrick Tissgehem, U2U)

21st June 2007

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb530301.aspx

Development Tools and Techniques for Working with Code in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (Part 2 of 2) (MSDN - Patrick Tissgehem, U2U)

21st June 2007

http://sharepointnutsandbolts.blogspot.com/2007/06/using-delegate-control.html

Using the Delegate Control (Chris O'Brien)

20th June 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=67f93dcb-ada8-4db5-a47b-df17e14b2c74&displaylang=en&tm

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 VHD

20th June 2007

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/teameli/archive/2007/06/20/modifying-the-workflow-association-data-in-sharepoint-2007-pre-initiation.aspx

Modifying the Workflow Association Data in SharePoint 2007 Pre-Initiation (Blog - "Team Eli")

20th June 2007

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/smc750/archive/2007/06/20/custom-cross-list-search-development-pitfalls-part-two.aspx

Custom Cross List Search Development Pitfalls (Part Two)  (Blog - Steve Curran)

20th June 2007

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/smc750/archive/2007/06/20/custom-cross-list-search-development-pitfalls-part-one.aspx

Custom Cross List Search Development Pitfalls (Part One)  (Blog - Steve Curran)

20th June 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=c49a6b00-e0aa-4102-b585-b25cd3cbb383&displaylang=en&tm

Windows SharePoint Services Document: Application Templates for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 – Under the Hood

20th June 2007

http://blogs.technet.com/wbaer/archive/2007/06/19/excel-calculation-services-for-cross-forest-deployments.aspx

Excel Calculation Services for Cross-Forest Deployments (William Baer)

19th June 2007

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/teameli/archive/2007/06/19/adding-a-sites-listing-amp-setting-owner-from-wss-object-model.aspx

Adding a Sites Listing (& Setting Owner) from WSS Object Model (Blog - "Team Eli")

19th June 2007

http://www.cjvandyk.com/blog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?List=744536f4%2D127e%2D4c4a%2Dbcff%2Db85408e7e7e5&ID=107

Step-by-Step – A REAL world upgrade of a SharePoint Portal Server 2003 (SPS) farm to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS) (Blog - Cornelius van Dyk)

19th June 2007

http://blogs.technet.com/stefan_gossner/archive/2007/06/19/adjusting-the-robots-meta-tag-for-3rd-party-search-engines.aspx

Adjusting the MOSS ROBOTS meta tag for 3rd party search engines (Blog - Stefan Goßner)

19th June 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=585dca89-c9fe-442f-91f6-cdaaa2e9939d&displaylang=en&tm

2007 Office Sample: Using the Business Data Catalog and Smart Tags with the 2007 Office System (ver 0707)

19th June 2007

http://www.u2u.info/Blogs/Patrick/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=1744

Making the Quick Launch appear again on Web Part pages stored in a document library (Blog - Patrick Tisseghem)

19th June 2007

https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastRegistrationConfirmation.aspx?culture=en-US&RegistrationID=1291187712

MSDN Webcast: Sites and Templates in SharePoint Server 2007 and Visual Studio (Level 200) (Mike Benkovich, Lynn Langit)

15th June 2007

http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/21dcf8aa-8a6e-4325-aa17-0188e491361c1033.mspx?mfr=true

Index for Stsadm operations and properties (Office SharePoint Server)

14th June 2007

http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/21dcf8aa-8a6e-4325-aa17-0188e491361c1033.mspx?mfr=true

Plan for administrative and service accounts (Office SharePoint Server)

14th June 2007 (says 14 December 2006 but this is wrong)

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=25836e52-1892-4e17-ac08-5df13cfc5295&displaylang=en

Excel 2007 Add-in: Synchronizing Tables with SharePoint Lists

4th June 2007

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb395217.aspx

Working with Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 from Excel 2007

(1st) March 2007

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

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=f9956176-cf66-478b-b20d-b9b92dd0dbfa&displaylang=en&tm

Microsoft Office 2007 Professional VHD

20th June 2007

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

None

 

Modified

None

Deleted

None

III WSS v3 FAQ

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http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1112

III.55.02 Workflows: How do you turn on the Three-State Workflow that is included in WSS 3.0

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1113

III.95 Why does IE crash when I open Office documents stored in a SharePoint system and how do I fix it?

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1109

VI.47 Security Explorer 6.5 for SharePoint (commercial - ScriptLogic) [Beta Jun 2007]

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1115

VI.48 RadEditor for ASP.NET (commercial - Telerik)

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1108

VII.22 Professional SharePoint 2007 Development (Wrox - ISBN 978-0-470-11756-9) (Chapter 11 *extract* - Creating Content Type Metadata for SharePoint 2007 Document Management Solutions)

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/EditForm.aspx?ID=1110

VII.23 Pro SharePoint Solution Development: Combining .NET, SharePoint and Office 2007 (Apress - ISBN: 1590598083) (Chapter 6 - Integrating Spreadsheets into the Enterprise)

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/EditForm.aspx?ID=1111

VIII.18 Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 Resource Kit (MS Press - Robert Larson, Janique Carbone, The  Microsoft Virtual Server Team)

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/EditForm.aspx?ID=1114

X.58 SharePoint Spy (free - echoTechnology)

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/EditForm.aspx?ID=1116

X.59 SharePoint 2007 Flash Animation Web Part (free - Mahdi Abdulhamid)

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X.38 radEditor Lite for MOSS 2007 (free - telerik with Microsoft)

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VII WSSv2 FAQ

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This is both funny and sad.

This blog always has one set of two Google Ads (the weekly WSS FAQ list has three sets which are there because the text is long and needs splitting up), and - just in case you didn't know this - what you see there varies to a certain extent according to where you are located.

This doesn't usually matter much because a lot of the ads are US anyway, but occasionally some of them are European and even less often (= very rarely) these ads are in Finnish.

So don't both checking the previous blog item out unless you actually live in Finland because the ad you see won't be this one.

Anyway a certain Finnish company via a third-party site is looking for people with skills in various technical areas (most of which you can only see listed if you go to the web site which I can't because it would break my agreement with Google not to click myself on ads on my site/blog).

The point is that I don't know for sure that they are looking for people with SharePoint skills or not - but why else would their advert be picked up for my blog ?

As for "both funny or sad".... Funny is because their ad appears on my blog; Sad is the fact that internal systems seem incapable of locating me as someone who knows the SharePoint products reasonably well (yet Google apparently can ...).

I found the on-line chapter of Professional SharePoint 2007 Development (WROX) to be a tough read.

I imagine it is supposed to be. After all it is one of the very few Chapter Ones that doesn't have the word "Introduction" in the Chapter Title (which is "The Microsoft Application Platform and SharePoint").

No doubt this is what most developers want. After a few pages of text there are a series of tables "XXXX Services" giving in column one Microsoft Technology and in Column two brief descriptions of the various services in the XXX section that are connected with that technology.

So for instance in the table "Security Services" and for the Microsoft Technology "Office SharePoint Server" there are two items mentioned in column 2 - Single Sign-On and Information Rights Management both with very brief descriptions.

I suppose developers love this kind of information presented in this way, but it didn't do that much for me, I'm afraid.

As for the naming. Yes, there was the by now typical naming confusion for these on-line chapter ones (so much so I'm wondering if my own chapter one messes up the naming too - time will tell).

It this case it all started well with Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 written out in full. But then we had a "SharePoint is" which you at first think might possibly mean all SharePoint products since the beginning of time but then you see "SharePoint takes advantage of the first workflow platform" and you realise that here "SharePoint" could only possibly mean the v3 SharePoint products.

Well that I can just about live with, but I can't live with a section on "Windows SharePoint Services" which only talks about what is in WSS *3.0* but apart from one mention that actually says "WSS 3.0" (some mistake, surely!) all the references in that paragraph like the heading say "WSS".

Then we have this "Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS or OSS)". Hands up those of you who have heard MOSS refered to as OSS! One person only (the writer of this probably). Let's for goodness sake stick to MOSS 2007 as the name (MOSS is just about OK just like WSS once was **when it refered to WSS 2.0 that is ** (as it was at that time the only WSS) but OSS, wasn't that a CIA predecessor? (and by CIA I don't mean the Common Interface Architecture))

Following this we have mostly "MOSS" but occasionally "OSS" too. In fact this entire chapter is a delight with MAP (anyone guess ? "Microsoft Application Platform") as well as MMC, SOA, OLAP, KPI, WF, OCS (Office Communications Server) which is "an IP BTX which means it can act as a company's VoIP phone switch or it can communicate with an existing IP PBX or TDM switch" and so on (there are more).

Yes, indeed, a book for developers. They'll no doubt love it.

Which actually brings me to a serious point. This book was written by 8 people and the MVP book was written by 16 people. In this case the writer of the on-line Chapter 1 probably wrote one more chapter; in the case of the MVP book - just like all the other MVPs - the writer of Chapter One wrote only Chapter One.

So let's say you love the style of the guy who wrote Chapter One of this book. There are something like 14 chapters he didn't write, how can you tell if you'll love the style of the guys who wrote them ? You can't.

Now in this case this is not an easy Introduction chapter so there is a fair chance that at least the difficulty level will be the same from Chapter to Chapter. But in the case of the MVP book the first (my, only) chapter is probably going to be the only one at that easy level. How do you then choose whether or not to buy the book? Is the magic word "MVP" enough? No, I really hope they use another sample chapter for the MVP book than Chapter One.

P.S. Oops, I forgot the links again ...

Professional SharePoint 2007 Development: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0470117567/heme0f

MVP Book (unlike the above - not yet out): http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0470168358/heme0f

...and of course for the list of all v3 books: http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/V%20Books.aspx

... and a list of the on-line chapters: http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/VII%20Book%20Extracts.aspx