I've always used Outlook Express to handle newsgroups and like most other MVPs have moaned heavily when Microsoft have started trying to move SharePoint questions over to forums mainly because there is No "I've read that already" possibility when accessing a forum via a browser.

But "I've read that already" in Outlook Express (and now in the Vista OS that's called something else - which naturally as I'm now on the Mac I can't remember - Microsoft Reader maybe) only works when you are only using one single machine. Move to another machine and all the stuff you've read in the other one's copy of Outlook Express isn't marked as read in the second machine.

This isn't so much of a problem among my three machines at home, as when I switch machines I just make sure machine A is up-to-date; then switch; load all messages in each newsgroup; and then mark all as read. But it is a problem when I switch from my work portable (which I leave at work - it's quite a pain to work with as it is naturally one or two generations behind my home machines) to a home machine as there could be (depending on what I get up to between work and home) anything between 15 minutes and 3 hours or so between leaving work and arriving home.

The usual is probably more like 30 mins (drive home via the food shop(s)) and then I just assume that nothing important has come in in the meantime and check the very latest new threads only and then mark all as read. So if I ignore your reply to an earlier thread now and again, that could be it.

If it's more like 3 hours then I've been canoeing on the way home and then I try to read those otherwise lost messages but as that means re-reading a lot of messages I read at work I do it for a restricted group of newsgroups (the same restricted group I look at at work unless it's a very slow day).

Now Outlook Express I've always used so that it shows thread and messages within threads, but Outlook Express naturally isn't available on the Mac so there I use Thunderbird. I'd tried Thunderbird on the PC too but found it took forever to set up roughly to be like Outlook Express.

On the Mac though I didn't bother - although I did change the (stupid) defaults so that my replies were *above* what I was quoting - and so I started using it in a different way to the way I use Outlook Express.

I now use it so that it just shows the messages (if I really need to I can do a few clicks and see the thread) and I've found this to be a much faster method of checking all messages quickly. These days there's so much in the SP products and equally so much covered by each newsgroup that I only have a clue on a fraction of the messages anyway and in any case there are these days so many messages that answering them could easily turn out to be a full-time occupation if you are not careful. Certainly I tend to notice that these days there is no problem in waiting for the Public Library to open on a Saturday morning as I'm still clicking away mostly by 10.

This use of Thunderbird brings with it its own problems. Apart from the fact that an extra machine at home means that an extra manual "snyc" is needed, there's also the stupid difference that Thunderbird uses "Reply" to reply to the newsgroup whereas OE uses Reply Group to reply to the newsgroup (Reply means an e-mail to the person who wrote the message you are replying to); and there's also the need for people to quote messages when you are not reading them in a thread.

At the moment I'm not even sure if Thunderbird(Mac) and OE treat quotes in the same way. Certainly normal text quotes are repeated fine in both, but there has been more than one case recently when people replying via a certain web site(s) interface think they are quoting yet Thunderbird (and maybe OE?) doesn't show the quote at all.

But that's something to look closer at. First I have to have a look at a non-quote (Thunderbird) message in Outlook Express *and* in that Vista "equivalent".

Almost forgot. The web-based forums.

I have RSS feeds for them (so I can mark messages as read !) and then click and thus go to the forum itself only if I think I might be able to reply to the message.

The problem here is that I (using Newsgator's browser edition) can see the RSS feeds in both the PC and in the Mac; and can in both click to access the forum itself, but when it comes to replying, the PC lets me reply and the Mac's browser (Safari) doesn't! So mostly when using the Mac I don't bother with the forums at all. So if anyone is wondering why they haven't seen me there recently, that's why.

 

Regular readers will remember perhaps that I bought an Apple AirPort Extreme because I could attach a (in fact several via a hub at least theoretically) USB drive to it and then be able to access files on the USB drive wirelessly from the two portables I have (an Acer running Vista and a MacBook running OS X Tiger).

With this I mainly hoped to finally acheive the aim of having all my non-Classical music available on call via a portable without needing to have the portable physically near to the large USB drive I had them on.

It's working but there are a few problems.

The first is that most of my music files are .wma. This means that while I can play them from the MacBook, ITunes will not catalogue them so I can only play them one track at a time rather than per album or per artist.

The Acer has no such problems. Once they are added to the Media Viewer Library, all the usual functions are available there (and I suppose as it's Vista Ultimate in Media Center). The problem here was that in order to add 3000 tracks to the Library I had to click over 3000 times on different files on that same USB hard disk.

The reason seems to be that in order to atttach it to that Apple device, the USB disk needs to be Mac-formatted. Certainly it has to be Mac-formatted if I intend to add a Parallels VM to it.

This means that Vista doesn't recognize the drive as a normal drive but as a drive of form \\xxxxxxx\xxx and this in turn seems to mean that the automatic finding of media files doesn't work properly. What happens is that it works until it finds a file it needs to add and then it stops. I discovered that by clicking *any* file on that disk and then another each time increases the count of files found by (usually) 2. So an awful lot of clicks later and with by no means all my CDs yet on that disk (and when I now put them on it they are .mp3 to allow the MacBook to access them from within ITunes), I now have a perfectly working Windows Viewer with wireless access to my "cheapskate's" Media Server.

There's still a lot of space on that disk so for now I don't need to find a good enough hub to add another USB disk. (But as I have several possibles, no doubt I'll be trying that sooner rather than later.)

 

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 16th - 22nd July 2007

I.1 2007 KB Articles    (*now only one section for WSS and MOSS*)

New

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;938218

Error message when you try to use a feature in SharePoint Server 2007 to open an InfoPath form in a Web browser: "The URL <URLToken>/FormServerTemplates/InfoPath.xsn is an unsupported relative URL"

17th July 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;938217

Error message when you run the "SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration" wizard to configure SharePoint Server 2007: "Failed to create the configuration database"

16th July 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;925381

Error message in the Unified Logging Service log files in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: “InvalidCastException”

16th July 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=939030

You receive an error message from the SharePoint 2007 provider when you try to provision a Windows SharePoint Services site by using HMC 4.0

29th June 2007

Modified

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 (ver 1.1)

27th June 2007

I.2 Forefront for SharePoint KB Articles

New

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;939414

Error message in Forefront Security or in Antigen 9.0: "ERROR: Call to engine scan function returned virus found with no virus name"

17th July 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.moss2007.be/blogs/vandest/archive/2007/07/20/office-2003-web-parts-and-office-2007-clients.aspx

Office 2003 Web Parts and Office 2007 clients (Blog - Steven Van de Craen)

20th July 2007

http://blogs.msdn.com/cjohnson/archive/2007/07/20/document-libraries-folders-content-types.aspx

Document libraries, Folders & Content Types (Blog - Chris Johnson)

20th July 2007

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb626127.aspx

Visual How To: Creating Search Queries Programmatically by Using the Search Object Model in SharePoint Server 2007 (Patrick Tisseghem, U2U)

20th July 2007 (date added - article is July 2007)

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb608684.aspx

Using the Business Data Catalog and Smart Tags with the 2007 Microsoft Office System (Scot Hillier, Ted Patisson Group, and Bhushan Nene)

20th July 2007 (date added - article is July 2007)

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb463068.aspx

Excel Services and Excel 2007 Windows Compute Cluster Server Job Submission Sample Developer Guide (Web version - intro page)

20th July 2007 (date added)

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/johnwpowell/archive/2007/07/19/what-happens-to-listings-during-upgrade-and-migration.aspx

What Happens to Listings During Upgrade and Migration (Blog - John Powell)

19th July 2007

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/johnwpowell/archive/2007/07/19/64-bit-gotchas.aspx

64-Bit Gotchas (Blog - John Powell)

19th July 2007

http://sharepointnutsandbolts.blogspot.com/2007/07/using-customaction-to-modify-system.html

Using CustomAction to modify system pages (Blog - Chris O'Brien)

18th July 2007

http://www.cjvandyk.com/blog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?List=744536f4%2D127e%2D4c4a%2Dbcff%2Db85408e7e7e5&ID=113

Beware – MOSS migration of SPS Listings generates problematic Site Columns (Blog - Cornelius van Dyk)

17th July 2007

http://johnholliday.net/archive/2007/07/19/Working-with-CAML.Net---Part-2--Introducing-the-CAML.aspx

Working with CAML.Net - Part 2 - Introducing the CAML Query Designer - (Blog - John Holliday)

19th July 2007

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/tonstegeman/archive/2007/07/18/using-sharepoint-2007-audiences-in-combination-with-moss-publishing-placeholders.aspx

Using SharePoint 2007 audiences in combination with MOSS Publishing placeholders (Blog - Tom Stgeman)

18th July 2007

http://blogs.msdn.com/joelo/archive/2007/07/18/upgrade-performance-and-time-to-upgrade.aspx

Upgrade Performance and Time to Upgrade (MSBlog - Joel Oleson)

18th July 2007

http://entmag.com/reports/article.asp?editorialsid=119

SharePoint Server Comes of Age (ENT News)

17th July 2007 (date added)

http://blogs.msdn.com/joelo/archive/2007/07/16/unattended-and-silent-installs.aspx

Unattended and Silent Installs (MSBlog - Joel Oleson)

16th July 2007

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/mosslover/archive/2007/07/16/pulling-data-from-sql-server-for-use-in-sharepoint-2007.aspx

Pulling Data From SQL Server for Use in Sharepoint 2007 (Blog - Becky Isserman)

16th July 2007

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/michael/archive/2007/07/16/sharepoint-s-core-css-stylesheet-put-it-to-where-it-belongs.aspx

SharePoint's core.css stylesheet: Put it to where it belongs! (Blog - Michael Hofer)

16th July 2007

https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastRegistrationConfirmation.aspx?culture=en-US&RegistrationID=1291741821&Validate=false

Momentum Webcast: Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Application Templates (Level 100) (Hila Grinberger)

16th July 2007

http://www.jornata.com/presentations/MOSS_Security.pdf

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Security Model (Mauro Cardarelli,Nicholas Bisciotti - Jornata)

16th July 2007 (date added)

http://bobfox.net/spblog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?List=08b611f0%2D15a1%2D4708%2Da0c6%2D874f34da277d&ID=58

MOSS 2007 on Windows 2008 (Blog - Bob Fox)

13th July 2007

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb625950.aspx

Visual How To: Creating Search Queries Programmatically by using the Search Web Service in SharePoint Server 2007

10th July 2007

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb625970.aspx

Visual How To: Exposing Enterprise Search in SharePoint Server 2007 by Using Internet Explorer 7 and the Office Research Pane

10th July 2007

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb643160.aspx

Converting InfoPath 2003 Managed Code to the New InfoPath 2007 Object Model (Mark Roberts)

26th June 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=513D97DA-34B7-4346-A9E5-B8998170AADE&displaylang=en

SharePoint Server 2007 Sample: Excel Services and Excel 2007 Windows Compute Cluster Server Job Submission Sample (ver June07)

26th June 2007

http://www.paylasimnoktasi.com/en/programmingMOSSonclientmachines.aspx

Developing MOSS 2007 Applications On a Client Operating System (Nezih Tinas, MVP)

23rd June 2007

http://technet2.microsoft.com/windowsserver/WSS/en/library/21e4cc2f-5f0e-4d49-98ed-4e1d1fc852e21033.mspx?mfr=true

Install Windows SharePoint Services in the Windows Server 2008 operating system

14th June 2007

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb499682.aspx

Evaluating and Customizing Search Relevance in SharePoint Server 2007 (Dmitriy Meyerzon, Avi Schmueli, Jo-Anne West)

5th June 2007

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb462636.aspx

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

5th June 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=25836E52-1892-4E17-AC08-5DF13CFC5295&displaylang=en

Excel 2007 Add-in: Synchronizing Tables with SharePoint Lists (download)

4th June 2007

http://johnholliday.net/archive/2007/05/06/Working-with-CAML.Net---Part-1.aspx

Working with CAML.Net - Part 1 (Blog - John Holliday)

6th May 2007

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

http://sergeluca.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!E8A06D5F2F585013!986.entry

Creating Workflows for Windows Sharepoint Services and MOSS2007 (part 8/20) Bringing data from the workflow to the task form (Blog - Serge Luca)

18th July 2007

http://sergeluca.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!E8A06D5F2F585013!972.entry

Creating Workflows for Windows Sharepoint Services and MOSS2007 (part 7/20) Using association and initialization forms (Blog - Serge Luca)

17th July 2007

http://sergeluca.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!E8A06D5F2F585013!961.entry

Creating Workflows for Windows Sharepoint Services and MOSS2007 (part 6/20) Using Several Task Forms (Blog - Serge Luca)

16th July 2007

http://msmvps.com/blogs/benwalters/archive/2007/07/13/contact-selector-the-good-and-the-bad.aspx

Contact Selector the Good and the Bad (Blog - Ben Walters)

13th July 2007

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/infopath/HA102270681033.aspx

Guidelines for using colors, fonts, and images in a form template

1st June 2007 (info said June/July 2007)

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb509311.aspx

Working with XML Data Using the XPathNavigator Class in InfoPath 2007 Form Templates (Mark Roberts)

1st June 2007 (article dated June 2007)

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb456484.aspx

Guidelines for Creating InfoPath 2007 Converters

1st May 2007 (article dated May 2007)

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

Pulling CRM Data into InfoPath 2007 Browser Forms (David Gerhardt, 3Sharp)

1st May 2007 (article dated May 2007)

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb409614.aspx

How to: Share InfoPath 2007 Template Parts and ActiveX Controls

1st April 2007 (article dated April 2007)

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

None

Modified

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=2672f6f9-7028-4b30-99a2-18cb1eed1abe&DisplayLang=en

Project 2007: Software Development Kit (version 1.2-July07)

17th July 2007

Deleted

Various duplicates.

III WSS v3 FAQ

New

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1132

III.55.03 Workflows: Why can't I start a Workflow from Word 2007?

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1136

V.60 Professional SharePoint 2007 Web Content Management Development: Building WCM Sites with Office SharePoint Server (Wrox - Andrew Connell, Spencer Harbar)

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1137

V.61 Exploring Microsoft SharePoint Designer 2007 (Prentice Hall - Robert Grauer)

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1135

VI.51 Semaphore MOSS Edition (commercial - Smartlogic)

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1141

VII.12B Beginning SharePoint 2007 Administration: Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (Wrox - ISBN 978-0-470-12529-8) (Chapter 8 *extract* Advanced Configurations - section on Searching in MOSS 2007)

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1143

VII.17B Beginning Excel Services (Wrox - ISBN 978-0-470-10489-7) (Chapter 14 *extract* - Building Custom Solutions)

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1142

VII.18B Professional Excel Services (Wrox - ISBN 978-0-470-10486-6) (Chapter 3 *extract* - Inside Excel Services)

(Note the next three take over spots previous used by re-numbered books - I have done A and B numbers for two chapters/extracts from the same book to get them next to each other)

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1138

VII.23 Real World SharePoint 2007: Indispensable Experiences from 16 MOSS and WSS MVPs (Wrox - ISBN 978-0-470-17402-9) Chapter 4 *extract* - Developing Publishing Sites The Smart And Structured Way)

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1140

VII.24A SharePoint 2007 and Office Development Expert Solutions  (Wrox - ISBN 978-0-470-09740-3) (Chapter 1 - What’s New for Developers)

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1139

VII.24B SharePoint 2007 and Office Development Expert Solutions  (Wrox - ISBN 978-0-470-09740-3) (Chapter 6 *excerpt* SharePoint Application Services)

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/EditForm.aspx?ID=1131

VIII.19 Working with Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0 (MS Press - Mike Snyder, Jim Steger) *released*

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1133

X.60 FilteredViewWebPart (free - Steven Van de Craen)

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1134

X.61 GroupByItemLimitWebPart (free - Steven Van de Craen)

Modified

None

Deleted

None

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IV WSSv2 KB Articles (plus SPS 2003 Hot fixes)

New

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;937886

No site usage data appears on the Site Usage Report page of a site after you enable usage analysis processing in Windows SharePoint Services

16th July 2007

Modified

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;918744

Description of a new command-line operation that you can use to repair content databases in Windows SharePoint Services (ver 1.3)

28th June 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;838117

How to disable FrontPage authoring for Windows SharePoint Services (3.3)

26th June 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=888946

You cannot use a Web browser to access a document library after you delete the document library Forms folder in Windows SharePoint Services (ver 4.2)

26th June 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=832769

How to configure a Windows SharePoint Services virtual server to use Kerberos authentication and how to switch from Kerberos authentication back to NTLM authentication (ver 9.0)

23rd June 2007

V. MS Articles for WSSv2

New or Modified

None

VI Non-MS Articles for WSSv2

New or Modified

None

VII WSSv2 FAQ

New and Modified

None

When Jerry Pournelle was writing for the Byte magazine when it was still published by McGraw-Hill in paper form, he used to do all his testing himself. Often he'd do stupid things and write about his experiences with the motto "we do these (stupid) things so you don't have to" and more often than not to solve his problems he'd grab some expert from the company concerned.

When his column moved to the on-line edition he started using his son Alex more and more and also some other younger guys and since he moved from that on-line site to his own site, he's added a few more guys who seem to have taken over most of the actual testing.

I meanwhile have been restricted mainly to my own stumbles and (even) positive experiences but this mutter about books has been prompted by my wife's recent experiences with Word 2003.

Without going into details as to why, she has ca 300 pages of connected text she needs to write and she decided for some reason that Master Pages were what she needed to use.

The only problem was that when she tried using them, things didn't work as she thought they should.

I was keeping well out of this so I just handed her the 1500 page blockbuster "Microsoft Office System 2003 Edition Inside Out" and said "look in that".

Several hours later I was told that there was one reference to master pages that referred you to a section two pages earlier in the book and that (2 page earlier) page said "master pages, look in the product's on-line help".

Great. A really wonderful book. I think we don't need to bother giving that one house room any more. (Did I ever tell you about the Microsoft Press book on Windows XP Pro Networking which told me absolutely nothing that I didn't already know from wandering around the menus in the product. I think I'll dump that at the same time.)

So as I was desperate, I got out my copy of O'Reilly's "Word 2007: The Missing Manual" and found it had a very clear 5 page section only on Master Pages. Not only was it clearly written but my wife (after all those problems with Master Pages) took great delight in reading aloud to me various sections where the writer was saying things like "if you really must use Master Pages" and about a nifty feature (?) that when you remove a link to a file all that file's text is copied into the main document (surprise!!).

All-in-all obviously a very worthwhile book. While Microsoft Press books are mainly (always?) very wary about pointing out product warts, obviously this Missing Manual at least isn't.

Not that she's yet solved her problem. But at least she's now got both some information to help her along and some confirmation that it's hardly her fault this "feature" didn't work as it should.

Neither of which she got from blockbuster ...

P.S. Yes, I did say she was using Word 2003 and I did in the end give her a Word 2007 book. You weren't dreaming. I'm hardly going to at this stage rush out and buy a book on Word 2003 am I (and especially not when I've got a good one on Word 2007 on the shelf).

P.P.S. The book link: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/059652739X/heme0f

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 9th - 15th 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;938241

Description of the SharePoint Server 2007 hotfix package: June 4, 2007 (ver 1.1)

12th July 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;937901

Description of the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 hotfix package: May 25, 2007

10th July 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;937498

Servers that run Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 together with Office Live services can now track Windows Live ID user accounts by using the Passport User ID feature (ver 1.1)

10th July 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=938499

An external storage API is available for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0

10th July 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=939311

The menu appears as empty white space when a user clicks Site Actions or My Settings in a SharePoint Server 2007 site or in a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 site

10th July 2007

Modified

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=939313

Error message when you try to open a help window from a SharePoint Server 2007 site or from a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 site: "Cannot display help" (ver 1.1)

11th July 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=923905

The tab on the top link bar is not selected when you connect to a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 subsite (ver 1.5)

13th July 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=936865

Users who are color-blind cannot distinguish between the red presence icons and the green presence icons on a SharePoint Server 2007 site (ver 1.1)

10th July 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/934793

Description of the SharePoint Server 2007 hotfix package: April 12, 2007 (ver 2.2)

9th July 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/931509

Message in the Information bar in Internet Explorer 7 when you browse to a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 site or to a SharePoint Server 2007 site: "The Web site wants to run the following add-on: 'Name ActiveX Control'" (ver 2.0)

9th July 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/923906

When you try to open a folder in a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 document library in Explorer View, the folder does not open (ver 1.5)

9th July 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=934790

Description of the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 hotfix package: April 12, 2007 (ver 1.4)

24th May 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;841216

"0x80040E14" or "HTTP 500" error message when you connect to your Windows SharePoint Services Web site after you install a Windows SharePoint Services service pack or a security update (ver 8.0)

27th January 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.wssdemo.com/blog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?List=d5813c18%2D934f%2D4fd6%2D9068%2D5cdd59ce56ba&ID=292

How to get a filtered RSS feed of a SharePoint List (Blog - Ian Morrish)

14th July 2007

http://sergeluca.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!E8A06D5F2F585013!936.entry

Creating Workflows for Windows Sharepoint Services and MOSS2007 (part 5/20) Using Infopath Forms for Communicating between the workflow and the user (Blog - Serge Luca)

14th July 2007

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/johnwpowell/archive/2007/07/13/display-version-number-and-other-sharepoint-metadata-in-word-2003-documents.aspx

Display Version and Other SharePoint Metadata in Word 2003 Documents (Blog - John Powell)

13th July 2007

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/johnwpowell/archive/2007/07/12/migrating-sharepoint-portal-2003-database-to-sharepoint-2007-using-content-database-migration.aspx

Migrating SharePoint Portal 2003 Database to SharePoint 2007 using Content Database Migration (Blog - John Powell)

12th July 2007

http://sergeluca.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!E8A06D5F2F585013!924.entry

Creating Workflows for Windows Sharepoint Services and MOSS2007 (part 4/20) Creating the tasks (Blog - Serge Luca)

12th July 2007

http://sergeluca.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!E8A06D5F2F585013!904.entry

Creating Workflows for Windows Sharepoint Services and MOSS2007 (part 3/20) Extending the workflow: finding the manager and creating a custom activity (Blog - Serge Luca)

12th July 2007

http://sergeluca.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!E8A06D5F2F585013!891.entry

Creating Workflows for Windows Sharepoint Services and MOSS2007 (part 2/20) Extending the workflow: checking the amount and setting the status (Blog - Serge Luca)

12th July 2007

http://sergeluca.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!E8A06D5F2F585013!859.entry?_c=BlogPart

Creating Workflows for Windows Sharepoint Services and MOSS2007 (part 1/20) Creating and Testing the project (Blog - Serge Luca)

12th July 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=e120ae9b-750b-4f1d-ab98-9c10c48cc52e&displaylang=en&tm

IT Showcase: Streamlining Records Management Using SharePoint Server 2007 Workflow (ver 3.0)

12th July 2007

http://sharepointnutsandbolts.blogspot.com/2007/07/modifying-system-pages-in-sharepoint.html

Modifying 'system' pages in SharePoint safely - with sample code (Blog - Chris O'Brien)

12th July 2007

http://sharepointsolutions.blogspot.com/2007/07/overcoming-challenges-in-modifying-and.html

Overcoming Challenges in Modifying and Adding Page Content with JavaScript (Blog - Ricky Spears, SharePoint Solutions)

11th July 2007

http://www.wssdemo.com/blog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?List=d5813c18%2D934f%2D4fd6%2D9068%2D5cdd59ce56ba&ID=289

Creating SharePoint document library folders from CSV file (Blog - Ian Morrish)

10th July 2007

http://blogs.technet.com/wbaer/archive/2007/07/10/understanding-hierarchy-and-basic-concepts-of-navigation-in-microsoft-office-sharepoint-server-2007-windows-sharepoint-services.aspx

Understanding Hierarchy and Basic Concepts of Navigation in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007/Windows SharePoint Service (Blog - William Baer)

10th July 2007

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/johnwpowell/archive/2007/07/10/how-to-enable-anonymous-access-for-a-site-collection-and-disable-anonymous-access-for-sub-sites.aspx

How to enable anonymous access for a site collection and disable anonymous access for sub-sites (Blog - John Powell)

10th July 2007

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/tonstegeman/archive/2007/07/10/deploy-a-sharepoint-list-template-to-sharepoint-mysites.aspx

Deploy a SharePoint list template to SharePoint MySites (Blog - Ton Stegeman)

10th July 2007

http://www.toddklindt.com/blog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=46

Free Disaster Recovery options for SharePoint (Blog - Todd Klindt)

9th July 2007

http://www.wssdemo.com/blog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?List=d5813c18%2D934f%2D4fd6%2D9068%2D5cdd59ce56ba&ID=288

CQ CQ CQ Using the SharePoint Content Query Web Part with the Fantastic 40 Application Templates (Blog - Ian Morrish)

9th July 2007

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/smc750/archive/2007/07/09/making-your-sharepoint-applications-information-management-policy-aware.aspx

Making your SharePoint applications Information Management Policy Aware (Blog - Steve Curran)

9th July 2007

http://sharepointchris.googlepages.com/customizingsharepointsupportedway

Customizing SharePoint the supported way - from end user to admin interfaces (Chris O'Brien to UK SharePoint UserGroup)

9th July 2007 (date added)

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/michael/archive/2007/07/08/building-professional-internet-sites-using-moss-2007-page-titles-part-3.aspx

Building professional internet sites using MOSS 2007 - Page Titles (Part 3) (Blog - Michael Hofer)

8th July 2007

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/michael/archive/2007/07/07/building-professional-internet-sites-using-moss-2007-metatags-part-2.aspx

Building professional internet sites using MOSS 2007 - Metatags (Part 2) (Blog - Michael Hofer)

7th July 2007

https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastRegistrationConfirmation.aspx?culture=en-US&RegistrationID=1291548463

Microsoft Dynamics Webcast: Accessible Business Intelligence with Microsoft Dynamics GP 10.0 and SharePoint Server 2007 (Level 100) (Jeff Lowe)

25th June 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

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=05e0dd12-8394-402b-8936-a07fe8afaffd&displaylang=en&tm

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: Software Development Kit (SDK) (Download RTM version - ver 1.1-July07)

13th July 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=6d94e307-67d9-41ac-b2d6-0074d6286fa9&displaylang=en&tm

SharePoint Server 2007 SDK: Software Development Kit and Enterprise Content Management Starter Kit (Download RTM Version - ver 1.1-July07)

13th July 2007

Deleted

None

III WSS v3 FAQ

New

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1124

III.30.02 Databases: How do I configure the embedded edition of SQL Server 2005 Express ="Windows Internal Database") to allow remote connections?

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1130

III.36.06 Backups: Why am I getting "Cannot find path\exportsettings.xml" when I restore using SharePoint Designer 2007?

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1126

V.24 Développer avec Windows Workflow Foundation (in French) (Dunod - Kenn Scribner)

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1125

V.59 Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS 2007) - Personnalisation et Développement (in French) (Editions ENI - Antony Bidet)

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1127

VIII.16 Microsoft ISA Server 2006 - Das Handbuch. Das ganze Softwarewissen (in German) (MS Press Deutschland -  Marc Grote, Christian Gröbner, Dieter Rauscher) *released*

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1128

VIII.17 Microsoft Office Project 2007 - Das Profibuch (in German) (MS Press Deutschland - Renke Holert) *released*

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1129

VIII.18 Microsoft Office Project 2007. Das offizielle Trainingsbuch (in German) (MS Press Deutschland - Carl Chatfield, Timothy Johnson ) *released*

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?

Deleted

The original V.24 was deleted as it turned out to be the same book in French
that was elsewhere under a different title. There is a new book in French
at V.24 now - this is NOT the same book as the one elsewhere!

IV WSSv2 KB Articles (plus SPS 2003 Hot fixes)

New or Modified

None

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 bought an (Apple) AirPort Extreme to replace my D-Link Wireless Modem that was working well.

Why, you ask ? (and if you don't, you should)

1. I can now get 1GB between it and the Mac.

2. (and more important, actually) I can connect a USB hard disk to it (and more if I have a suitable fast USB hub) and have it be visible to all the computers on the network.

The first snag was that all my USB drives were formatted (of course) with NTFS. It wanted a particular Mac Format or Fat-32. Curiously enough on XPPro it said this network" drive required SP2 and yet on my XPPro SP2 it refused to format even an empty USB drive as FAT-32. Catch 22.5 ..

So after messing about with that for a while I connected the drive to the Mac and re-formatted it there (in that Mac format it wanted). In the Mac there were several Mac formats available and Unix and something else, but not FAT-32 ...

That however was nothing compared to getting the Vista portable to recognize the AirPort Extreme.

First I connected it to the XPPro desktop. No problem. I installed the Apple software and connected to it and then specified all the security stuff.

I then repeated for the Mac using the written down passwords.

At this stage I added the hard disk (after it had been suitably formatted) and both systems let me specify its name and password and *both* systems let me copy files to it and open files from it in local applications (and remember it was Mac formatted).

But Vista. Not a hope as it couldn't even connect to it.

For a start it is really very very messy trying to specify a network connection in Vista. Amazingly messy compared to XPPro. But even when I'd finally worked out where to specify the security (and even amending the AirPort Extreme to make sure it was exactly the same one that I was setting on the Vista), there still wasn't a flicker of a connection.

So I dug out the old D-Link wireless modem and connected it to the AirPort Extreme via Ethernet and now believe it or not I have access to that "network" hard disk from the Vista machine too.

But what a mess (on my shelf). I now have

Vista -> (100mb wireless) DLink Wireless -> (via Ethernet) AirPort Extreme -> ADSL Modem -> Internet

Mac -> (1GB wireless!) AirPort Extreme ->  ADSL Modem -> Internet

XPPro -> (fast enough) (via Ethernet) AirPort Extreme -> ADSL Modem -> Internet

Now how to get my music from the other non-newly-Mac-formatted USB disk to this one ...

 

P.S. Did I mention that on the Vista it insisted on installing the AirPort Extreme software in B*****Y Finnish. How I hate it when they do that without giving you a chance to change the language. It it really too much to ask? I can't remember this problem when installing the software on the Mac and I'm sure it was in English in the XPPro too, as that's where I installed it first. So it's Vista being clever again. *******

Imagine the situation. There is one television program that you want to watch this evening. Just one.

You're settled in front of the TV; you've watched the first part up to the first twist in the plot and *whoosh* the entire cable system goes down taking with it not only your digital TV stations but also your analog ones because they are coming to you via the same central system.

No problem you think. I'm covered for this situation, I've got a USB TV gadget that gets its digital pictures from the air not from the cable system.

So cursing that that doesn't work on the fast starting MacBook, you get the PC Portable; start it going and go to hunt for the USB TV thingie. On the first pass you don't find it so you type in the PC's password and go on the second pass. Still nothing. Finally after opening drawers; pulling out boxes you finally realise it's on top of the spare video recorder (logical place) and the reason you haven't seen it while passing that was because the painters were in the house and so you've covered that up with a cloth. (They haven't of course reached that room yet but it was covered up anyway ...)

Anyway you now have it and you plug it in and wait for the program that can use it to load. Which it does - slowly.

You now have a picture and sound and for 1 minute you watch the program when of course there is the second advert break (in Finnish commercial TV these are about every 15 mins which tells you how long you hunted for the USB TV thingie).

4 or so minutes later the advert break is over; the program starts and almost instantaneously all the applications in the PC shut down (including the TV)  and Vista tells you it's installing upgrades and re-boots.

A Vista re-boot takes a long time. Normally. This time it takes even longer because it spends what seems like eternity "configuring upgrades".

Then there's the typical long drawn-out process of pre-loading various things; running NOD32 to see if there's a new fix; etc. etc. until finally it's possible to load the TV-watching program.

By now there is exactly 2 minutes of program time left to watch.

Today I really REALLY hate Microsoft security updates!!

This isn't a review in the true sense of the word as I don't really feel the urge to give this book the time needed to write a real review. That doesn't mean it's a bad book though, so read on.

Each Wrox SharePoint 2007 book has a diagram on the back cover with a heirarchy of Wrox SharePoint 2007 books. At the bottom row there are three books all including "Beginning" in the title. There's Beginning Excel Services; Beginning SharePoint 2007 and Beginning Sharepoint 2007 Administration.

The next two levels are a bit odd in that level two is Advanced Excel Services and SharePoint 2007 Development and level three is (presumably) the Experts level with "SharePoint 2007 and Office Development" and "SharePoint 2007 MVP" .

I have no objection to them regarding the MVP book as for Experts (all except my chapter that is) but it seems very odd that SharePoint 2007 and Office Development is considered more for experts than SharePoint 2007 Development given that because of the inclusion of Office it has to cover more ground and thus not cover that ground in as much detail.

Ah well, I suppose Wrox know best...

Because the MVP book is not yet out "Sales" of it aren't that great (in fact I think I've had a grand total of one Pre-Order of it via the links in my WSS FAQ sites) but I anyway go to have a look at how it's doing in Amazon every couple of weeks or so.

Last time I looked it was position 100,000 in Books with Beginning SharePoint 2007 (which is out) at ca 70,000 and Beginning SharePoint 2007 Administration at 10,000.

This struck me as very odd - why should one of the two Beginning SharePoint 2007 be doing better than the other, especially when Beginning SharePoint 2007 Administration is very much a very straightforward computer manual and if truth be told rather boring in all the detail it includes whereas the Beginning SharePoint 2007 book is much more a labour of love with very useful insights spread throughout it.

I looked at both books again. I decided that there were two reasons why the Administration book was doing so much better.

One reason was simply the title. Many people are SharePoint Administrators so they buy a book with Administration in the title.

The other reason is probably that a book that contains a lot of detail about how to do various standard things (in the same kind of detail that KB Articles contain including Press OK) collected in one place (most information it includes is no doubt spread throughout Microsoft articles and KB article) is precisely what people need who have been given an already-designed SharePoint site and told to administer it.

Note an already designed SharePoint site - by and large the Administration book is not one for people seeking hints as to how to design their sites and what clever things to do when designing it. That is much more the area of the "Beginning SharePoint 2007" book.

That's the reason why I couldn't understand the difference in sales figures. For me designing a site is part of "Administration" but in certain companies (and it seems from what I've heard, in mine too where people administrating Exchange sites for customers seem to be acquiring the job of administrating SharePoint sites too for the same customers) it isn't and these people will really need this book (because at the moment it is the only one that goes into this level of detail when explaining how to do (for me!) the most simple administrative tasks.

It doesn't really explain the 7 to 1 sales ratio, but that I suspect comes solely from the clearer title - after all do you know what the sub-title "Building Team Solutions with MOSS 2007" of the Beginning SharePoint 2007 book really means ?

Ah, with that I've found another reason for the 7 to 1 in sales - the sub-title of the Administration book is "Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007". Maybe all those extra sales come from WSS 3.0 people ?

Finally as always the Book links -

All v3 Books: http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/V%20Books.aspx

Beginning SharePoint 2007: http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=888

Beginning SharePoint 2007 Administration: http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=900

 

P.S. Actually a book like this (Beginning SharePoint 2007 Administration that is) can be really useful even if you know how to do most of the things it covers and don't need the detail it provides. I just had a case where someone asked a question in a newsgroup. Rather than quickly opening a VM to check out my spontaneous answer (which was correct) I just grabbed the book; turned to the right section and quickly found confirmation.

Similarly I can imagine situations where someone asks you how to do something and rather than showing them on a live site you just throw the book at them and say "Chapter 4" ...