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 Sunday, August 12, 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 6th - 12th August 2007


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

New

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb%3Ben-us%3B939599

Description of the SharePoint Server 2007 hotfix package: June 29, 2007

8th August 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;940183

Workflows are incorrectly run multiple times when you add a new document to a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 document library in Explorer view

6th August 2007

Modified

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/935751/en-us

Error message when you try to iterate through Windows SharePoint Services site objects or SharePoint Server 2007 site objects by using the SharePoint object model: "Unhandled Exception: System.IO.FileNotFoundException" (ver 2.0)

31st July 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=936864

Description of the 2007 Office hotfix package: June 17, 2007 (2nd with same name) (ver 2.0)

31st 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 (ver 1.1)

31st 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 (ver 1.1)

27th July 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/829065/en-us

Error message when you connect to the SharePoint Central Administration page in Windows SharePoint Services: "You are not authorized to view this page" (ver 5.1)

13th July 2007

I.2 Forefront (New) KB Articles

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=940879

Users cannot upload documents or files that are larger then 128 MB on the SharePoint site after you install Forefront Security for SharePoint

31st July 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=940874

Compatibility of Forefront Security for SharePoint with Exchange Server 2007

1st August 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=940878

After you install Forefront Security for SharePoint, and then you change the antivirus settings on the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Antivirus page, the SharePoint site stops responding

1st August 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=940875

A manual scan fails in Forefront Security for SharePoint

2nd August 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=940880

Error message when you try to upload files to or download files from a Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Web site or a Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Web site: "Virus Found"

2nd August 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=941006

You must press CTRL+C to close the Operation Completed Successfully dialog box when you import or export SharePoint Server 2007 site data on a computer that is running Forefront Security for SharePoint

7th August 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=940877

The manual scan process does not work as expected in Microsoft Forefront Security for SharePoint

9th August 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=940876

SharePoint keyword filtering does not scan 2007 Office documents correctly and the list of scanned items may not be correct

10th August 2007      

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

New

A. Office 2007 Server Products

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=5b6c8fb0-9b67-47db-8a09-bca76bc9a5d1&displaylang=en&tm

SharePoint Server 2007 Sample: Creating a Custom User Site Provisioning Solution with Office SharePoint Server 2007 (ver Jul07)

8th August 2007

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/tanujashares/archive/2007/08/07/impersonation-in-sharepoint-2007.aspx

Impersonation in SharePoint 2007 (Blog - Tanuja Bapat)

7th August 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=47ffc540-1858-4d80-adee-e1cdb1a46090&displaylang=en&tm

Microsoft Forefront Server Security for SharePoint 10.x Management Pack for Operations Manager 2007 (ver 6.0.5000.0)

6th August 2007

http://www.cjvandyk.com/blog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?List=744536f4%2D127e%2D4c4a%2Dbcff%2Db85408e7e7e5&ID=118

How do I? – Work around the BUG where Site Columns for a custom Site Content Type do not show up as field controls in SharePoint Designer when customizing the Page Layout (Blog - Cornelius J. van Dyk)

6th August 2007

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/mirjam/archive/2007/08/06/renaming-a-moss-server.aspx

Renaming a MOSS Server (Blog - Mirjam van Olst)

6th August 2007

http://sharepointnutsandbolts.blogspot.com/2007/08/creating-deploying-and-updating-custom.html

Creating, deploying and updating custom site definitions, Part 1 (Blog - Chris O'Brien)

5th August 2007

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/tonstegeman/archive/2007/08/04/creating-custom-editor-parts-for-a-sharepoint-webpart.aspx

Creating custom editor parts for a SharePoint webpart (Blog - Ton Stegeman)

4th August 2007

http://blog.funknstyle.com/?p=577

Understanding Reusable Content in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (Blog - Amanda Murphy)

3rd August 2007

http://sharepointsolutions.blogspot.com/2007/08/take-custom-action-upon-sharepoint-fba.html

Take Custom Action Upon SharePoint FBA User Login

3rd August 2007

http://blogs.technet.com/wbaer/archive/2007/08/02/stress-testing-microsoft-office-sharepoint-server-2007-windows-sharepoint-services-3-0.aspx

Stress Testing Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007/Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (Blog - William Baer)

2nd August 2007

http://blogs.technet.com/wbaer/archive/2007/08/01/sql-server-2005-database-mirroring-and-windows-sharepoint-services-3-0-microsoft-office-sharepoint-server-2007-part-3-failover.aspx

SQL Server 2005 Database Mirroring and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0/Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 - Part 3 (Failover) (Blog - William Baer)

1st August 2007

http://www.devx.com/enterprise/Article/35068/1954?pf=true

Customize a SharePoint Login Page (devx, Robert Bogue)

31st July 2007

http://www.devx.com/dotnet/Article/35070/1954?pf=true

Sync Your Database to SharePoint Using SSIS (devx, Lee Richardson)

30th July 2007

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

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=95fece79-65b6-41ad-bc52-f34ad19a6eba&displaylang=en&tm

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

6th August 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/EditForm.aspx?ID=1185

III.88.03 Indexing: How do I index CSF files?

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1189

III.93 How can I adjust the display size in a List when I have an image in a "Hyperlink or Picture" column?

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1191

III.96 How do I stop WSS 3.0 asking me for login details when I open a document from a document library?

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/EditForm.aspx?ID=1188

VI.79 Brava! Enterprise for SharePoint (commercial - Informative Graphics)

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/EditForm.aspx?ID=1186

X.65 ShareIt Desktop Bundle (free - InformativeGraphics)

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/EditForm.aspx?ID=1187

X.66 Net-It Now Plug-in (free - InformativeGraphics)

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1190

X.67 Anonymous Comment Feature for SharePoint Blog (free - Codeplex [ex Microsoft])

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1192

X.68 SharePoint Web Parts for Moodle (free - Codeplex [ex Microsoft])

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1193

X.69 Microsoft Learning Gateway Refresh for MOSS 2007 and WSS 3.0 [Ed. includes various web parts] (free - Codeplex [ex Microsoft])

Modified

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/EditForm.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=1137

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

(aadditional author, new [later] publication date)

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

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=937462

Description of the SharePoint Portal Server 2003 hotfix package: May 15, 2007

10th August 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=933738

An update is available that addresses an issue in which items that use the Date and Time fields are off by one hour in Windows SharePoint Services (ver 4.0)

8th August 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=933853

How to manually update the TIMEZONE.XML file to be DST 2007-compliant if you cannot install update 924881 or a later update for Windows SharePoint Services software (ver 2.0)

7th August 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=840024

You cannot edit an existing document or create a new document in a document library in your Windows SharePoint Services Web site or in your SharePoint Team Services Web site (ver 1.5)

1st August 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=918744

Description of a new command-line operation that you can use to repair content databases in Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 (ver 1.4)

31st July 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/832769/en-us

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

31st July 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 2.0 (ver 5.0)

27th July 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/826803/en-us

Server that runs Windows SharePoint Services may run low on memory resources (ver 2.1)

13th 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

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSS%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=580

I.28.02 What is fixed in the fix packs for SPS 2003 Service Pack 2

8/12/2007 11:39:34 AM (FLE Standard Time, UTC+02:00)  #    Comments [0]   Other Computer | SharePoint  | 
 Saturday, August 11, 2007
I promised more details on the disk upgrade from 60GB to 160GB in the MacBook so here they are.

In fact I could save myself the trouble and just post this URL www.macinstruct.com/node/130 which is a very high quality description of how to upgrade a MacBook's hard disk but that would be too easy, so here's a briefer description with no pictures :)

The very first thing is to make a backup of your hard disk. For this I butchered a fireware disk I had by moving most stuff from it to another external but USB2 drive and then re-formatting it for the Macintosh. I then partitioned it 70 and 160 (or so).

Having done that I used SuperDuper! (free) to make a bootable copy of the internal disk to that 70GB partition in the firewire drive; then tested that I could boot from that copy (which of course had SuperDuper! too already installed).

Then I had to deal with the hardware. The first thing is that the memory and hard disk is easily accessible when you remove the battery. They are covered by a thin metal plate held in place by three small screws, but I'd already been able to remove that easily (with a screwdriver I already had!) so it was no problem to remove it again.

Then I saw what I was completely oblivious to when I took out the memory, namely that the hard disk was on the left and that it had a piece of white "paper" covering most of the visible side of it. From that tutorial I knew in fact that this could be opened and used to pull the disk out (if I hadn't read that I wouldn't have dared !) so I did that and the disk came out remarkably easily.

The next step should have been to unscrew the protective plate on the original hard disk and put it on the new hard disk, but no screwdriver I had would fit. I did however know from the description that I needed a Torx T8 screwdriver.

So I put everything back (the shops were already shut for the day) and checked that everything still worked and next day set out to buy a Torx T8 screwdriver. There are no longer any small shops that sell that kind of thing so I went to a large handyman store quite a way away and got one there along with 10 empty DVD-RWs which cost ten times as much as the screwdriver. Next - as I was where I was, a long way from my usual haunts - I also went into a shop to buy a cheap electric razor that was on offer, only to buy one that cost twice as much ... before finally heading for home. That screwdriver had by now cost me 80 Euros or about 100 dollars plus petrol ...

Once home I opened everything again.Switched the hard disk; closed everything up and then attached the firewire disk; booted from it (hold Alt-A and start the Mac) and restored from the copy on the Firewire disk to the new internal drive (and made it bootable). All (the last bit) courtesy of SuperDuper!

There just remained the final test. Turn everything off; uncouple the firewire drive and boot from the new 160GB internal drive.

It worked so now for less than 150 dollars (and 100 dollars for the screwdriver!) I have 160GB instead of 60GB and can finally start adding my SharePoint-related VMs to the internal disk instead of to an external USB drive. Luxury!

Oh, yes, and if I ever feel like backing up that 160Gb drive I have both the software and the firewire drive partition of a suitable size waiting for me.

P.S. Thunderbird (Mac) needed a re-install.

P.P.S.Zinio's rights protection didn't like the new disk and so I had to delete the Zinio folder and re-install the Zino Reader (2.2 Mac).
8/11/2007 7:51:38 PM (FLE Standard Time, UTC+02:00)  #    Comments [0]   Other Computer | SharePoint  | 
 Thursday, August 09, 2007
One of the problems of being in the computer business for as long as I've been (which for the record is since 1968 for mainframes and 1985 for micros) is that you learn some "facts" and they stick with you.

One such fact is "you can't upgrade the hard dsk of a portable yourself". This to a certain extent even in my mind became less of a 100% fact when IBM came out with the first (?) ThinkPad models and you could easily pull out the hard disk and replace it with another one, but it still stayed with me as the revised "you can't upgrade the hard disk of a portable unless it's a ThinkPad".

This in turn naturally led to a couple of "rules" when buying portables - get the best processor; graphics card and biggest hard disk you can afford because you can't upgrade them. Memory I felt incapable of changing so I added that to the rule too.

This, naturally, led to me buying desktops (where I could change all of the above, and I did (OK, maybe not the processor)) and not portables which by the time I'd added decent processors; graphics; hard disk and memory to my standard requirements were way beyond my price range.

I suspect that if I'd stayed with PC portables, these principles would have gone with me to my grave although I must confess to increasing the Acer's memory all by myself - ca two weeks after buying it (the memory that is) and with a series of "shall I take it in for them to do - or not" moments behind me.

Luckily, though, (as I'm hopefully not that far gone) I bought the cheapest MacBook going and since then I'm having to learn everything again (which I guess makes it "re-learn" except for the fact that I'm learning them for the Mac and not for the PC).

So one of the things I learnt was that adding memory is really simple (it was easier than I thought on the Acer but on the MacBook they seem to expect people to do it themselves so made it even easier) but I thought that was it and I would be forced to stay with my far too small 60GB disk. (If you think that's not small, try adding a few SharePoint Server VMs).

But - new to the Mac as I am - I'm reading a lot of Mac magazines (from the library) and there was a casual mention in the letter section of one of them of upgrading the hard disk in a MacBook.

So a quick Google search later (maybe on "changing hard disk MacBook" - something like that anyway) and I had an article of several pages with good pictures of how to do this.

The next step of course was to buy the necessary hard disk. There's a good selection at reasonable prices at the Finnish "networksales" store ("networksales" being a term that here means Internet sales) so the first drive I picked was the largest one (250GB).

Luckily I then checked that in Google / MacBook and found a comment saying that that particular disk range had caused problems when used as a MacBook replacement because it had head parking technology built-in that was conflicting with the Mac's own head-parking technology. They then went on to say that they replaced that drive with the similarly-priced drive from another company and all was well.

That of course made me decide for the other company's drive and as the max they had was a 160GB drive, that (or rather 150GB - odd that) is what I've now got installed and running.

How, is the story for another day, but for today it's enough to say that most of the time spent doing the install was looking for a screwdriver and being distracted on the way home with that!

8/9/2007 2:10:29 PM (FLE Standard Time, UTC+02:00)  #    Comments [0]   Other Computer | SharePoint  | 
 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