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 Sunday, August 05, 2007
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 30th July - 5th August 2007

I.1 2007 KB Articles    (*now only one section for WSS and MOSS*)
 
New
 
None
 
Modified
 
 
Description of the SharePoint Server 2007 hotfix package for SharePoint Server 2007 and for SharePoint Server 2007 for Search: May 8, 2007 (ver 1.1)
27th July 2007
 
 
The tab on the top link bar is not selected when you connect to a subsite after you enable the Office SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure feature in SharePoint Server 2007 (ver 2.0)
 
25th July 2007
 
 
You cannot search a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 site when the host header site uses HTTP and HTTPS (ver 3.1)
 
24th July 2007
 
 
Description of the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 hotfix package: February 6, 2007 (ver 2.1)
 
24th July 2007
 
 
Description of the 2007 Office hotfix package: June 17, 2007 (ver 3.4)
 
23rd July 2007
 
 
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 3.0)
 
20th July 2007
 
 
Error message when users try to change their password in Windows SharePoint Services: "Error setting password for user account '<UserName>' " (ver 2.1)
 
13th July 2007
 
 
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 3.1)
 
13th July 2007
 
 
Error message when you try to install Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: "This access control list is not in canonical form" (ver 2.0)
 
9th July 2007
 
 
No results are returned when you search for a document or a file in a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 site by using the URL of the document or of the file (ver 2.0)
 
9th 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
 
 
Visual How To: Building Simple Custom Approval Workflows with InfoPath 2007 Forms (Patrick Tisseghem, U2U)
 
1st July 2007 (dated July 2007)
 
 
Visual How To: Creating and Editing Custom Document Information Panels from Office SharePoint Server 2007 (Joel Krist, Akona Systems)
 
1st July 2007 (dated July 2007)
 
 
Integrating Siebel CRM with Office SharePoint Server 2007 (Balaji Gangishetty, Sierra Atlantic Inc)
 
1st July 2007 (dated July 2007)
 
 
Microsoft Forefront Security for SharePoint with Service Pack 1 Readme (ver 10.1)
 
31st July 2007
 
 
Examples of common formulas
 
31st July 2007 (date added)
 
 
SharePoint Server 2007 Document: Microsoft and EMC - Managing Content Across an Enterprise
 
30th July 2007
 
 
Using the Business Data Catalog with Single Sign-On (Blog - Michael Hofer)
 
30th July 2007
 
 
Using workflow and policies to view only certain list items (Blog - Maarten Eekel)
 
30th July 2007
 
 
Office SharePoint Server Management Pack Guide
 
19th July 2007
 
 
Deploying and Supporting Enterprise Search (How Microsoft Does IT)
 
19th July 2007
 
 
FAQ: Crawling Lotus Notes (Office SharePoint Server 2007)
 
12th July 2007
 
 
Troubleshoot a Lotus Notes configuration (Office SharePoint Server 2007)
 
12th July 2007
 
 
Manage My Site host locations
 
12th July 2007
 
 
Manage personalization site links
 
12th July 2007
 
 
Manage personalization policies
 
12th July 2007
 
 
Deploy in a simple server farm (Office SharePoint Server)
 
12th July 2007
 
 
Configure Office SharePoint Server Search to crawl Lotus Notes (Office SharePoint Server 2007)
 
5th July 2007
 
 
Cross-browser support (Office SharePoint Server)
 
5th July 2007
 
 
Planning an Extranet Environment for Windows SharePoint Services
 
1st June 2007 (dated June 2007)
 
 
Planning an Extranet Environment for Office SharePoint Server
 
1st June 2007 (dated June 2007)
 
 
Windows SharePoint Services Security
 
1st June 2007 (dated June 2007)
 
 
Office SharePoint Server Security
 
1st June 2007 (dated June 2007)
 
 
MOSS Document Management
 
1st June 2007 (dated June 2007)
 
 
Records Management Guide for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
 
1st May 2007 (dated May 2007)
 
 
Web Publishing and Planning Guide with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server
 
1st May 2007 (dated May 2007)
 
 
Getting Started with Office SharePoint Server 2007
 
1st May 2007 (dated May 2007)
 
 
Getting Started with Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
 
1st May 2007 (dated May 2007)
 
 
Plan for availability (Office SharePoint Server)
 
16th November 2006 (new here)
 


B. Other Office 2007 products (selected few only since 1.1.2007)
 
 
Groove 2007 Document: Planning and Architecture for Office Groove 2007
 
3rd August 2007
 
 
Groove 2007 Document: Getting Started for Office Groove 2007
 
3rd August 2007
 
 
Groove 2007 Document: Operations for Office Groove 2007, Part 1
 
3rd August 2007
 
 
Groove 2007 Document: Operations for Office Groove 2007, Part 2
 
3rd August 2007
 
 
Groove 2007 Document: Operations for Office Groove 2007, Part 3
 
3rd August 2007
 
 
Groove 2007 Document: Operations for Office Groove 2007, Part 4
 
3rd August 2007
 
 
Groove 2007 Document: Security for Office Groove 2007
 
3rd August 2007
 
 
Groove 2007 Document: Troubleshooting for Office Groove 2007
 
3rd August 2007
 
 
Groove 2007 Document: Deployment for Office Groove 2007
 
3rd August 2007
 
 
Groove 2007 Document: Enterprise Services Security
 
2nd August 2007
 
C. Other New 2006/2007 Products  (selected few only since 1.1.2007)
 
 
SQL Server 2005 Samples and Sample Databases (ver 9.00.3042)
 
3rd August 2007
 
 
Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2006 Hands-On Labs
 
3rd August 2007
 
 
Microsoft Windows Software Development Kit (SDK) for Windows Server 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 (pre-release)
 
30th July 2007 (added to get it in the SDK view)
 
 
Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 SDK July 2007
 
27th July 2007 (added to get it in the SDK view)
 
 
How to: Upgrade a SQL Server Express Report Server to Other SQL Server Editions
 
14th  April 2006
 
 
Modified
 
 
Index for Stsadm operations and properties (Office SharePoint Server)
 
26th July 2007
 
 
Using SQL Server Database Mirroring with Office SharePoint Server and Windows SharePoint Services
 
5th July 2007
 
 
Deployment for Office SharePoint Server (Downloadable version - revised June 2007)
 
(previous version 15th March 2007)
 
1st June 2007
 
 
Planning and architecture for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 technology, part 2 (Downloadable version - revised June 2007)
 
(previous version 15th March 2007)
 
1st June 2007
 
 
Deployment for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 technology (Downloadable version - revised May 2007)
 
(previous version 15th March 2007)
 
1st May 2007
 
Deleted
 
None
 

III WSS v3 FAQ
 
New
 
 
V.62 Administrator's Guide to Microsoft Office 2007 Servers: Forms Server 2007, Groove Server 2007, Live Communications Server 2007, PerformancePoint Server 2007, Project Portfolio Server 2007, Project Server 2007, SharePoint Server 2007 for Search (Sams)
 
 
VI.52 Picture Library Plus (commercial - KWizCom)
 
 
VI.53 CRM Connector to SharePoint (commercial - KWizCom)
 
 
VI.54 List Integrity Web Part (commercial - Bamboo Solutions)
 
 
VI.55 Map Chart Web Part (commercial - Bamboo Solutions)
 
 
VI.56 Password Expiration Web Part (commercial - Bamboo Solutions)
 
 
VI.57 Virtual Map View Web Part (commercial - Bamboo Solutions)
 
 
VI.58 Calendar Plus Web Part (commercial - Bamboo Solutions)
 
 
VI.59 Form Auto Save Web Part (commercial - Bamboo Solutions)
 
 
VI.60 Grants Management Solution Accelerator (commercial - Bamboo Solutions)
 
 
VI.61 Group Redirect Web Part (commercial - Bamboo Solutions)
 
 
VI.62 Job Requisition and Interview Management (JRIM) Template Extension (commercial - Bamboo Solutions)
 
 
VI.63 List Rollup Web Part (commercial - Bamboo Solutions)
 
 
VI.64 List Rotator Web Part (commercial - Bamboo Solutions)
 
 
VI.65 Mini-Calendar Web Part (commercial - Bamboo Solutions)
 
 
VI.66 Office to PDF Conversion Solution Accelerator (commercial - Bamboo Solutions)
 
 
VI.67 Password Change Web Part (commercial - Bamboo Solutions)
 
 
VI.68 Password Reset Web Part (commercial - Bamboo Solutions)
 
 
VI.69 SharePoint Desktop Explorer (commercial - Bamboo Solutions)
 
 
VI.70 SQL View Web Part (commercial - Bamboo Solutions)
 
 
VI.71 Tree View Web Part (commercial - Bamboo Solutions)
 
 
VI.72 User Account Setup Web Part (commercial - Bamboo Solutions)
 
 
VI.73 User Directory Web Part (commercial - Bamboo Solutions)
 
 
VI.74 User Redirect Web Part (commercial - Bamboo Solutions)
 
 
VI.75 Decatec Help Desk for MOSS 2007 (commercial - Decatec, Italy)
 
 
VI.76 CRM for Sharepoint MOSS 2007  (commercial - Decatec, Italy)
 
 
VI.77 Credit Management (commercial - Decatec, Italy)
 
 
VI.78 Procurement - (commercial - Decatec, Italy)
 
 
VII.25 Beginning SQL Server 2005 Administration (Wrox - 0470047046) (Chapter 1 - Introducing SQL Server 2005)
 
 
VIII.21 Beginning SQL Server 2005 Administration (Wrox - Dan Wood, Chris Leiter, Paul Turley) *released*
 
 
VIII.22 Professional SQL Server 2005 Administration (Wrox - Brian Knight, Ketan Patel, Wayne Snyder , Jean-Claude Armand, Ross LoForte, Brad
McGehee), Steven Wort, Joe Salvatore, Haidong Ji ) *released*
 
 
X.64 WebControl for hiding unauthorized WebParts (free - Laurent Cotton)
 
Modified
 
 
VI.37 WSS Cross Site Search (commercial - KWizCom)
 
 
VI.40 SharePoint Survey Plus Web Part (commercial - KwizCom)  [much lower price]
 
 
VI.42 SharePoint Calendar Plus Web Part (commercial - KWizCom) [much lower price]
 
 
VI.43 SharePoint Search String Highlighter (commercial - KWizCom) [lower price]
 
 
VI.46 SharePoint List Filter - Multiple Drop-Down (commercial - KWizCom) (new id because added by mistake and then older version replaced)
 
Deleted
 
(In order to put all the webpart items together, various web part items have been moved to 33.xx)
 
 
IV WSSv2 KB Articles (plus SPS 2003 Hot fixes)
 
New
 
None
 
Modified
 
 
You cannot use a Web browser to access a document library after you delete the document library Forms folder in Windows SharePoint Services (ver 5.0)
 
27th July 2007
 
 
No site usage data appears on the Site Usage Report page of a site after you enable usage analysis processing in Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 (ver 1.1)
 
27th July 2007

V. MS Articles for WSSv2
 
New
 
None
Modified
 
None
 
VI Non-MS Articles for WSSv2
 
New or Modified
 
None
 
VII WSSv2 FAQ
 
New
 
None
 
Modified
 
 
IV.23 How do I remove the *headings* in Quick Launch?
8/5/2007 9:11:43 AM (FLE Standard Time, UTC+02:00)  #    Comments [0]   Other Computer | SharePoint  | 
 Saturday, August 04, 2007
I thought we'd seen the end of the people who are running SPS 2003 yet insist on posting their questions in the WSS newsgroup because "SPS 2003 contains WSS and I'm asking about the WSS bit of it"

This was fine (in certain circumstances) when the WSS newsgroup was only covering WSS 2.0 and *if the question was one that would equally apply to a standalone WSS 2.0 installation* but was often abused for questions that relied on this being a SPS 2003 installation.

It was difficult on occasions to draw a line in the sand but nowadays the line is simple. The .windowsservices newsgroup is for people who have installed the WSS 2.0 or WSS 3.0 product. The .portalserver newsgroup is for people who have installed the SPS 2003 product or the MOSS 2007 product.

The reason this hard and fast division ought to be accepted by everyone is that there are now four newsgroups that are for all products. So if you have a question about "WSS in SPS 2003" you can ask it in one of those new newsgroups and there's no dispute about as to whether it's a WSS or a SPS question as both products are covered.

Mostly this has been clear to everyone and people who have posted in error to the WSS newsgroup just move on. But occasionally there is someone who wants to object to the clear division because "it's a WSS question even though I'm running SPS 2003" and they won't let go.

They of course do themselves no favours. The thread is long and full of the argument about the right to post it there (or not) and with no attempt to answer the question. It would be so much better just to post in an appropriate newsgroup ...

Luckily this only happens occasionally and is nothing like the problem in all newsgroups that are caused by people asking (in some cases) a detailed question but without bothering to say which SharePoint product they are running.

With even the WSS and SPS newsgroups now covering two products (v2 and v3) and the other newsgroups covering all products, such questions almost automatically these days provoke a "which SP product are you using?" question before most people are prepared to spend time on the question itself.

Mostly then the answer (of which product) comes by return and we can get on with answering the original question but today there was a wonderful (?) reply from someone who had asked a question that replied on knowledge of which web part and which SP product and had been asked to supply the names of them. His reply was that he was not a member of the SharePoint team and didn't have access to that information.

It's hard to imagine how someone who can find a SharePoint newsgroup isn't even aware of which SharePoint product is in use, but that apparently was the case. It's also hard to understand the SharePoint team not even being prepared to disclose (to a user who asks) which SharePoint version that company is running.

But maybe that's just me.

P.S. One thing that I'd like to add here while I'm niggling. I do NOT understand people who write a question in a newsgroup and then say things like "Please anyone help" (often more than once). Apart from being completely pointless because people answering questions in newsgroups are going to answer a question they can anyway, it's a fact - at least as far as I'm concerned - a reason to NOT respond. Mind you the people I definately don't bother responding to are the ones who write that a question is "Urgent!" when it is nothing of the kind. For me Urgent should be saved for "my server has stopped working" and not for "my boss has asked me to create a list of who is accessing the site" (the like of which I've seen).
8/4/2007 10:06:04 AM (FLE Standard Time, UTC+02:00)  #    Comments [2]   Other Computer | SharePoint  | 
 Monday, July 30, 2007
Microsoft produce a lot of documentation on upgrading from WSS 2.0 to WSS 3.0; from SPS 2003 and MOSS 2007; and I suppose from CMS 2002 to MOSS 2007.

Free documentation that's available on-line.

So what is the extra value in providing the same information in the "Upgrading to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007" section of the MS Press book "MOSS 2007 Administrator's Companion"?

The usual reason is that - from past experience - the information in such a book is better. Certainly I used to always do my WSS 2.0 and especially SPS 2003 (where I had less practice) installations with one eye on the MS documentation and the other on the relevant chapter of the v2 equivalent of the MOSS 2007 Administrator's Companion - i.e. the SPS 2003 Resource Kit (leaving my middle eye to look at the screen and the keyboard).

I would hope that that's the case here too although there is a small risk because the Admin Companion came out right after the release of the product and giving lead-times in the publishing business was obviously written on pre-production builds.

However there is one aspect of upgrading that is a curious omission from that book and as far as I can see it's not (much?) covered by Microsoft on-line documentation either.

This is upgrading from WSS 3.0 to MOSS 2007.

Now I'm aware (and I've said so often enough in the newsgroups) that the way to upgrade WSS 2.0 to MOSS 2007 is to first upgrade WSS 2.0 to WSS 3.0 (following one of three methods listed in the MS documentation and/or that book) and then to upgrade WSS 3.0 to MOSS 2007.

I usually throw this off as if it were obvious. But is a WSS 3.0 to MOSS 2007 upgrade obvious?

As to why it's not in the book, I suspect it was because they were thinking in terms of product families when they wrote it.

WSS 2.0 -> WSS 3.0               (WSS) family upgrade
SPS 2003 -> MOSS 2007         (SPS)  family upgrade
and
CMS 2002 -> MOSS 2007 is the only way CMS 2002 can be "upgraded".

But WSS 2.0 to MOSS 2007 is moving in two directions at once (up and over). Did the writers of the book chapters not think anyone would be doing that? or did they just run out of time?

(Or is it in the book and I just haven't found it yet?)

7/30/2007 12:19:39 PM (FLE Standard Time, UTC+02:00)  #    Comments [1]   Other Computer | SharePoint  | 
 Sunday, July 29, 2007

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 23rd - 29th 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;936877

Description of the SharePoint Server 2007 hotfix package for SharePoint Server 2007 and for SharePoint Server 2007 for Search: May 8, 2007

20th July 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;936867

Description of the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 hotfix package: May 8, 2007

20th July 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;937038

Error message when you try to connect to a site in a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 site collection: "HTTP 500 - Internal server error"

20th July 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;935958

Error message when you try to connect to a site in a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 site collection after you configure a document library to inherit permissions: "HTTP 500 - Internal server error"

20th July 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=937039

Some documents are not returned in the search results when you search for content that contains particular Chinese Traditional characters in SharePoint Server 2007 (ver 1.3)

20th July 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;938216

Error message when you run the "SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard" when you upgrade to SharePoint Server 2007 or to Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: "Failed to initialize SharePoint Product and Technologies upgrade"

18th July 2007

Modified

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;925083

Error message when you try to upload a large file to a document library on a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 site: "Request timed out" (ver 2.0)

20th July 2007

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

One-time timer jobs in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 or in SharePoint Server 2007 are delayed by at least one hour when the jobs are scheduled to occur during daylight saving time (DST) (ver 1.2)

20th July 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 (ver 1.1)

18th 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.sharepointblogs.com/holliday/archive/2007/07/26/creating-a-new-document-template.aspx

Creating a New Document Template (Ed: for a content type) (Blog - Jeff Holliday)

26th July 2007  (*)

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/holliday/archive/2007/07/26/delete-files-using-workflow-using-duration.aspx

Delete Files (Ed: from a document library) with Workflow Using Duration (Blog - Jeff Holliday)

26th July 2007 (*)

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/holliday/archive/2007/07/26/display-css-classes-within-sharepoint.aspx

(Script To) Display CSS Classes within SharePoint (Blog - Jeff Holliday)

26th July 2007 (*)

http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=95450&clcid=0x409

Working with Large Lists in Office SharePoint Server 2007 (Steve Peschka)

26th July 2007 (date added - was July 2007)

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=070d73cb-e2d5-467f-80b7-a3fd91ae4303&displaylang=en&tm

2007 Office System Document: How to Use Information Rights Management in the 2007 Microsoft Office System

24th July 2007

http://blog.richfinn.net/2007/07/23/CreatingAWSSSolutionToDeployCustomPublishingItems.aspx

Creating a WSS Solution to deploy custom publishing items (Blog - Rich Finn)

23rd July 2007

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/serval/archive/2007/07/23/activar-desactivar-quot-mi-sitio-quot.aspx

Activar / Desactivar "Mi Sitio" (in Spanish - Activate/De-Activate "My Site") (Blog - Serval)

23rd July 2007

http://daniellarson.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!D3543C5837291E93!1128.entry

Accessing the User Profile in both MOSS and WSS (Blog - Daniel Larson)

23rd July 2007

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/tonstegeman/archive/2007/07/23/associating-the-default-page-in-a-sharepoint-2007-publishing-site-with-a-custom-content-type-and-a-custom-page-layout.aspx

Associating the default page in a SharePoint 2007 publishing site with a custom content type and a custom page layout (Blog - Ton Stegeman)

23rd July 2007

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/tonstegeman/archive/2007/07/23/sharepoint-field-objects-classname-name-and-types.aspx

SharePoint field objects - classname, name and types (Blog- Ton Stegeman)

23rd July 2007

http://sharepointnutsandbolts.blogspot.com/2007/07/building-and-deploying-sharepoint.html

Building and deploying SharePoint Solution packages

22nd July 2007

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/mkim/archive/2007/07/20/relocation-of-existing-sharepoint-site-s.aspx

Relocation of existing SharePoint site(s) (Blog - Michael Kim)

20th July 2007

http://blogs.msdn.com/joerg_sinemus/archive/2007/01/26/wss-version-number-in-the-word-2003-document.aspx

WSS version number in the Word 2003 document (Blog - Joerg_Sinemus)

26th January 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)

Note: The following are for the SDK category (while I see them)

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=529f03be-1339-48c4-bd5a-8506e5acf571&displaylang=en&tm

DirectX Software Development Kit (SDK)

27th July 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=c72f125f-a6f6-4f4e-a11d-6942c9ba1834&displaylang=en&tm

Microsoft® Silverlight™ 1.0 Software Development Kit Release Candidate

27th July 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=ed1cce45-cc22-46e1-bd50-660fe6d2c98c&displaylang=en&tm

Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 SDK (ver 2.0.6362.0)

27th July 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=7f4ce9c5-9e02-4b99-aa09-360d920d3ee0&displaylang=en&tm

Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 SDK (ver 3.0.6362.0)

27th July 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=b30306e4-7dc1-44d2-9a68-9b4a6fc5c2df&displaylang=en&tm

Microsoft Unified Communications Managed API SDK (Release Candidate) (ver 6362.0)

27th July 2007

 

Modified

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=84504cad-893b-4212-9ab2-999ad1d8fe68&displaylang=en

Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2006 Enterprise Edition 180-Day Trial Version (ver 5.0.5720)

27th July 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=d22ec2b9-4cd3-4bb6-91ec-0829e5f84063&displaylang=en&tm

Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server Best Practices Analyzer Tool (ver 5.5.14.100)

23rd July 2007

Deleted

Various duplicates.

III WSS v3 FAQ

New

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1144

III.30.03 Database: How do I move WSS 3.0 for "Windows Internal Database" (the embedded version of SQL Server 2005 Express) to the full SQL Server 2005?

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1147

III.71 Why can users with Full Control for a site not create pages?

(the previous III.71 has been moved - see below)

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1145

VIII.20 Managing Enterprise Projects Using Microsoft Office Project Server 2007 (EPM Learning - Gary L. Chefetz, Dale Howard) *released*

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1146

X.62 ProfilePictureEventHandler (free - Steven Van de Craen)

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1147

X.63 EventHandlerManager (free - Steven Van de Craen)

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

(In order to put all the database admin items together, 84.01 has been moved to 30.04; 84.02 to 30.05; 71 to 30.06 and 89 to 30.07.)

IV WSSv2 KB Articles (plus SPS 2003 Hot fixes)

New and Modified

None

V. MS Articles for WSSv2

New

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb190871(office.11).aspx

InfoPath 2003 SDK (on-line version)

20th July 2007 (date added)

Modified

None

VI Non-MS Articles for WSSv2

New or Modified

None

VII WSSv2 FAQ

New

None

Modified

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSS%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=193

III.59 How can I make the link between Web Part Connections a dropdown list rather than the standard

7/29/2007 7:32:07 AM (FLE Standard Time, UTC+02:00)  #    Comments [0]   Other Computer | SharePoint  | 
 Tuesday, July 24, 2007
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.

 

7/24/2007 9:00:21 PM (FLE Standard Time, UTC+02:00)  #    Comments [0]   Other Computer | SharePoint  | 
 Monday, July 23, 2007

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.)

 

7/23/2007 3:27:00 PM (FLE Standard Time, UTC+02:00)  #    Comments [0]   Other Computer  | 
 Sunday, July 22, 2007

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