I recently amended the web parts of the WSS v3 FAQ in the default.aspx page of www.wssfaq.com. In fact I tried to reflect how many new and amended KB articles there are these days for the v3 products by making the previous one web part two - one for new KB articles and one for modified KB articles.

In order to make sure that something new to the WSS FAQ list is in the New list even if it's actually not ver 1.0, I use the difference between Created and Modified to decide whether something goes in the New web part view or in the Modified web part view. (As you know when you create an item, the same value is put in both the Created field and the Modified field, so all I need to do is make sure that Created is identical with Modified and I have a New (to this list) KB Article.)

So why are the web parts often but not always in Issue Date order in this View ?

The reason is that the intention is to show the latest KB articles that have been added to the WSS FAQ listing because these are I imagine what people checking the default page are looking for. These are usually also the latest KB Articles by Issue Date but occasionally I miss one and add it later when it pops up on yet another of my sources for these KB Articles.

In that case the Issue Date could well be a week or so earlier, yet people checking that default page will still see it as New - thanks to me listing here by Created/Modified date.

I must admit that I had today to go and look at why a KB Article with the date of the 10th of August was appearing in the middle of much later articles, so I thought it worth a small explanation here.

Now maybe I'll remember it myself !!

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 20th - 26th 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%3B888037

Medium server farm configurations that are supported in SharePoint Portal Server 2003 and in SharePoint Server 2007 (ver 3.1)

24th August 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb%3Ben-us%3B941212

The Document Conversions Launcher Service status on a SharePoint Server 2007 Web front-end server displays "Starting" but does not start or stop

24th August 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb%3Ben-us%3B939035

A new operation has been added to the Stsadm.exe tool to repartition a site collection of a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 content database

23rd August 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;939654

Description of the SharePoint Server 2007 hotfix package: June 29, 2007 (2nd of the same date) (ver 1.1)

23rd August 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb%3Ben-us%3B939592

Description of the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 hotfix package: June 29, 2007 (ver 1.1)

23rd August 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;939188

Description of the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 hotfix package: June 24, 2007

23rd August 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb%3Ben-us%3B941142

Error message when you try to upgrade from Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 or from SharePoint Portal Server 2003 to Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 or to SharePoint Server 2007: "Execution of a full-text operation failed"

22nd August 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;939535

How to use the new "renamesite" operation to change the URL of a host-named site collection in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0

22nd August 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;555967

UserControl security exception in SharePoint 2007 (Community Solution - Alvin Bruney)

19th August 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;555963

Accessing configuration settings from InfoPath 2007 browser-enabled form templates (Community Solution - S.Y.M. Wong-A-Ton)

18th August 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/937053/en-us

When you copy text from a Rich Text box in InfoPath on a computer that has Internet Explorer 7 installed, the pasted text unexpectedly appears inside a table cell (ver 2.1)

16th August 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=939942

FIX: You receive an error message when you try to access a report after you configure SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services to run under the SharePoint integrated mode

20th July 2007

Modified

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=936056

Description of the security update for the 2007 Microsoft Office system servers: August 14, 2007 (ver 1.1)

21st August 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=929074

The scan engines are not updated when you schedule a scan engine update in Forefront Server Security for SharePoint or Forefront Server Security for Exchange, and an error message occurs: "ERROR: Unable to load manifest" (ver 2.0)

20th August 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=894630

You receive a "The specified file or folder name is too long" error message when you create a new folder or a new document in a document library in SharePoint Portal Server or in Windows SharePoint Services (ver 2.1)

20th August 2007 (moved from v2 as now includes v3 products)

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;937203

Description of the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 hotfix package: May 15, 2007 (ver 2.0)

15th August 2007

Forefront for SharePoint (Modified)

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=929074

The scan engines are not updated when you schedule a scan engine update in Forefront Server Security for SharePoint or Forefront Server Security for Exchange, and an error message occurs: "ERROR: Unable to load manifest" (ver 2.0)

20th 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.sharepointblogs.com/zimmer/archive/2007/08/23/moss-2007-customize-the-search-result-using-xslt.aspx

MOSS 2007: Customize the Search Result (using XSLT) (Blog - Tobias Zimmergren)

23rd August 2007

http://andrewconnell.com/blog/archive/2007/08/22/6100.aspx

Creating custom Refactorings for use in Refactor! Pro: The "Create Web Part Definition" Refactoring (Part 5 of 5) (Blog - Andrew Connell)

22nd August 2007

http://andrewconnell.com/blog/archive/2007/08/22/6099.aspx

Use of StringProviders in AC's VS CodeRush/Refactor Tools for SharePoint Devs (Part 4 of 5) (Blog - Andrew Connell)

22nd August 2007

http://andrewconnell.com/blog/archive/2007/08/22/6098.aspx

MOSS Publishing Templates in AC's VS CodeRush/Refactor Tools for SharePoint (Part 3 of 5)  (Blog - Andrew Connell)

22nd August 2007

http://andrewconnell.com/blog/archive/2007/08/22/6097.aspx

Working with Templates in AC's VS CodeRush/Refactor Tools for SharePoint Devs (Part 2 of 5) (Blog - Andrew Connell)

22nd August 2007

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/chadclarkesmossblog/archive/2007/08/21/solution-for-multiple-filters-javascript-forms-solution.aspx

Solution for multiple filters... (Javascript/Forms Solution) (Blog - Chad Clarke)

21st August 2007

http://andrewconnell.com/blog/archive/2007/08/21/6095.aspx

Announcing AC's VS CodeRush/Refactor Tools for SharePoint Devs (Part 1 of 5) (Blog - Andrew Connell)

21st August 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=3e1dcccd-1cca-433a-bb4d-97b96bf7ab63&displaylang=en&tm

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Tools: Visual Studio 2005 Extensions, Version 1.1 CTP

20th August 2007

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb687711.aspx

Creating a Custom User Site Provisioning Solution with SharePoint Server 2007 (Part 1 of 2) (Sonya Zidek)

20th August 2007 (date added) (Article dated August 2007)

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb687710.aspx

Creating a Custom User Site Provisioning Solution with SharePoint Server 2007 (Part 2 of 2) (Sonya Zidek)

20th August 2007 (date added) (Article dated August 2007)

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb687718.aspx

Visual How To: Publishing InfoPath 2007 Form Templates to Servers Running InfoPath Forms Services (David Gerhardt, 3Sharp)

20th August 2007 (date added) (Article dated August 2007)

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb687712.aspx

Visual How To: Building Master Pages for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 using Site Definitions in Visual Studio 2005 (Joel Krist, Akona Systems)

20th August 2007 (date added) (Article dated August 2007)

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb687717.aspx

Visual How To: Designing InfoPath 2007 Forms for Mobile Web Browsers (David Gerhardt, 3Sharp)

20th August 2007 (date added) (Article dated August 2007)

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb629922.aspx

Visual How To: Building Custom Activities for Use in SharePoint Designer 2007 (Patrick Tisseghem, U2U)

20th August 2007 (date added) (Article dated July 2007)

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb684919.aspx

Visual How To: Building Custom Field Types in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (Erika Ehrli, Brian Jones)

20th August 2007 (date added) (Article dated July 2007)

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb674787.aspx

Visual How To: Creating and Editing Custom Document Information Panels in InfoPath 2007 (Erika Ehrli, Brian Jones)

20th August 2007 (date added) (Article dated July 2007)

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb684920.aspx

Visual How To: Building Simple Master Pages for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (Joel Krist, Akona Systems)

20th August 2007 (date added) (Article dated July 2007)

http://www.quest.com/landing/?ID=1090

Four Essentials for Building Your SharePoint Strategy (Quest - needs registration)

20th August 2007 (date added)

http://sharepointnutsandbolts.blogspot.com/2007/08/automatically-setting-custom.html

Automatically setting custom permissions on new sites (Blog - Chris O'Brien)

19th August 2007

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/roni/archive/2007/08/18/moss-2007-creating-an-asp-net-application-in-the-layouts-directory-using-the-visual-studio-2005-plug-in-web-application-project.aspx

MOSS 2007 – Creating an ASP.NET Application in the “_layouts” Directory using the Visual Studio 2005 Plug-In “Web Application Project” (Blog - Roni)

18th August 2007

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/dwarfnebula/archive/2007/08/18/how-to-create-a-custom-document-library-item-edit-upload-form.aspx

How to create a custom Document Library item edit/upload form (Blog - unknown)

18th August 2007

http://blogs.technet.com/wbaer/archive/2007/08/17/scripting-sharepoint-with-powershell.aspx

Scripting SharePoint with Powershell (Blog - William Baer)

17th August 2007

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/stevekay72/archive/2007/08/16/create-sub-folders-in-lists-programmatically.aspx

Create Sub Folders in Lists Programmatically (Blog - Steve Kay)

16th August 2007

http://blogs.technet.com/wbaer/archive/2007/08/15/cluster-or-mirror.aspx

Cluster or mirror? (Blog - William Baer)

15th August 2007

https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastRegistrationConfirmation.aspx?culture=en-US&RegistrationID=1292197239&Validate=false

MSDN Webcast: MSDN geekSpeak: Custom Authentication Providers for SharePoint Server 2007 (Level 200) (Glen Gordon, Lynn Langit)

15th August 2007

https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastRegistrationConfirmation.aspx?culture=en-US&RegistrationID=1292197349&Validate=false

Microsoft Webcast: Creating a Global Human Resources System Foundation with SharePoint Server 2007 (Level 100) (Saumil Gandhi, Gaylon Blank)

15th August 2007

http://blog.thekid.me.uk/archive/2007/07/25/debugging-tips-for-sharepoint-and-wss-exceptions.aspx?id=85

Debugging tips for SharePoint (Blog - Vincent Rothwell)

25th July 2007

http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2007/02/24/updated-installation-guide-for-the-20-server-admin-application-templates-for-wss-3-0.aspx

Updated Installation Guide for the 20 server admin Application Templates for WSS 3.0 (MS Team Blog)

24th February 2007

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

None

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

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=21eabb90-958f-4b64-b5f1-73d0a413c8ef&displaylang=en&tm

Internet Explorer Application Compatibility VPC Image

20th August 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=389fcb89-f4cf-46d7-bc6e-57830d234f91&displaylang=en&tm

Microsoft Biztalk Server 2006 Management Pack for Operations Manager 2007 (ver 6.0.5000)

17th August 2007

 

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) (ver 1.2-Aug07)

22nd August 2007

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

SharePoint Server 2007 SDK: Software Development Kit(ver 1.2-Aug07)

22nd August 2007

 

III WSS v3 FAQ

New

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1201

I.37 Where do I see when my trial version of MOSS 2007 expires?

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1200

VI.76 DWG Parser Solution Accelerator (commercial - Bamboo Solutions)

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1199

X.71 Stock Quote Web Parts (free - Dor Rotman)

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1202

X.72 Imtech Fields Explorer (free - Waldek Mastykarz, Imtech ICT Business Solutions)

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1203

X.73 AddToEnvPath (free - Waldek Mastykarz, Imtech ICT Business Solutions)

Modified

None

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IV WSSv2 KB Articles (plus SPS 2003 Hot fixes)

New

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/937462/en-us

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

10th August 2007

Modified

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/933738/en-us

An update is available that addresses an issue in which items that use the Date and Time fields are off by one hour in Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 (ver 5.0)

17th August 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/292663/en-us

Error message when you add or edit an item in a SharePoint Web site (ver 5.4)

17th August 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=826803

Server That Runs Windows SharePoint Services May Run Low on Memory Resources (ver 3.0)

17th August 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/933853/en-us

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 2.0 software (ver 2.1)

15th August 2007

V. MS Articles for WSSv2

New or Modified

None

VI Non-MS Articles for WSSv2

New or Modified

None

VII WSSv2 FAQ

New

None

Modified

None

It's odd that even today the best article on how to install SQL Server 2005 SP2 Reporting Services is a SharePoint Team Blog from February but there (if I haven't missed something) you are.

(http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2007/02/19/microsoft-sql-server-2005-sp2-reporting-services-integration-with-wss-3-0-and-moss-2007.aspx)

(Aside: It's good that the SharePoint Team Blog mostly doesn't just repeat information from other team blogs about the release of beta products - see today's other blog item here)

I've been working through that article and it could do with some re-writing in my opinion - as a blog item it's fine, but if MS ever produce a white paper or TechNet article onthis subject they will need to improve the text quite a bit.

The first thing that I found confusing is the use of the "Reporting Services" term and the "Report Server" term. This has little to do with the writer of the piece however and more with the insane fact that when you in SQL Server 2005 click on "Reporting Services configuration" (Programs->SQL Server 2005->Configuration Tools->Reporting Services configuration) you get a screen headlined "Configure Report Server".

Yes, you saw that correctly you select ReportING ServICES and you get Report ServER. How mad is that!

Then of course this is all about installing the Reporting Services *Add-In* so there is an over-abundance of Reporting Services which the documentation doesn't make a really great job of distinguising among.

Anyway enough of the general mutters, what about some specifics.

There's first a list of what components need to be installed.

- SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services
- SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2
- Office SharePoint Server 2007
- Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services Add-In for Microsoft SharePoint Technologies

(Aside: why is SQL Server 2005 ... and Office SharePoint Server enough for those items but the final name - which is long enough anyway - has a Microsoft shoved in front of it?)

Anyway you see that list; think you've already installed SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services; the SP2 and MOSS 2007 and so you now install The Add-In.

WRONG.

This is just a list. Preparing the ground as it were. Don't you hate it when they do that?

Instead you have to read on and here there's a para on "Report Server Configuration". *This* is the first thing you do (*before* installing the Add-In).

This is a completely useless paragraph - except that is for the information that you need in a **screen** headed "Configure Report Server" to have a tick next to the SharePoint Integration item.

What it misses are many key points.

1. You access this page by "Reporting Services configuration" (how - see my earlier mutters above)

2. When you do there is a question mark next to SharePoint Integration.

This it says is because you haven't specified a Database for reports. You go to Database Setup and see that there is a database specified for Reports. You try just saving that. I can assure you it's not going to be enough.

Instead what you need to do is to create a NEW Database for reports or amend the existing one (which SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services installed for you which the writer of the paper knows you have done ....)

I created a new database just to be 100% sure.

3. That new database needs to have "SharePoint Integration" selected (the same page where you create it - i.e. in the Database Setup part of the Configure Report server page).

Now finally you have a tick next to SharePoint Integration and your own "Configure Report Server" page looks like the one in the Team Blog.

Only now can you install the Add-In!

(The paper doesn't bother to tell you this (the next para starts "After installing the .... Add-In ... a new application becomes available) so if you were reading through this paper before installing anything you would in fact already have installed the Add-In before doing the necessary Report Server Configuration change ...)

OK. So so far the steps are

1. Run Reporting Services configuration so that you can amend the Configure Report Server page (!)

2. Install the Add-In.

You are then supposed to see a new "Reporting Services" section in Central Authorization/Application Management.

Chances are that there's a 50% chance that you won't.

That's because again there is something missing from the instructions (if you can even call them that) in the team blog article. In this case it's the information that you need to be logged in as the user that you used to install MOSS 2007.

In my case I was logged in as the Administrator of the server which was a fine choice for doing the SQL Server (Report Server / Reporting Services) configuration changes. But try (and re-install; and do occasional iisresets etc.) as I might I never saw the Reporting Services section in Application Management after installing the Add-In.

No, instead, you need to (first as Administrator uninstall the Add-In); log-out; log back in as the user used to install MOSS 2007 and only then install the Add-In.

Now you will, finally, see the Reporting Services section in Application Management.

You'd think that would be worth mentioning wouldn't you ?

The next step is described in in the Team Blog as "you must set each of the options ... as follows"

• Manage integration settings – To configure the Report Server Web Service URL and Authentication Mode (either Windows or other trusted account).
• Grant database access – To configure the name of the report server database server instance name.
• Set server defaults – To configure report server timeouts and other options.

Based on previous experience of this Team Blog, I doubt if that's going to be that straightforward (if you look at the above text for the second two items, all it seems to say is that you need to configure somethings - not what to configure them as!), so for today (or at this this blog) I'm going to quit while I'm ahead.

P.S. I'd like at this point to express my thanks to Corleen Heiderken for posting a response to my newsgroup question asking why "Reporting Services" wasn't appearing in Application Management. I was thinking of looking there next, but it was good to get a quick confirmation in advance.

P.P.S. I couldn't, of course, leave well alone and I tried to configure all three of the items listed under Reporting Services. It *seemed* (but who really knows) that the first two went OK (at least they  didn't crash and burn) but the third one crashed and burned even before I got it opened claiming that "An unexpected error occurred while connecting to the report server. Verify that the report server is configured for SharePoint integrated mode."

There's a KB article for this message but it's only for Forms Authentication which i don't have. My weekend starts here so I'll now be wondering about it all that long weekend. I ought to have stuck to having a break after getting something working instead. (I have no idea whether this problem is caused by filling out the two earlier items incorrectly or not btw - I filled them out with things that were a) valid (produced no error message) and b) seemed reasonable. But what do I know.

 

 

If just one more SharePoint blogger tells me that

VSeWSS 1.1 CTP released

I'll go mad.

P.S. I apologise if in the earlier version of this blog item I seemed to be picking on one particular blogger. I intended only copying the text not the link. (Now there's only the text)

P.P.S. One comment flamed me. It included the words "probably a deleted comment". Whoever wrote it was right :)

As promised the first thing I did when I finally got my own copy of the Real World SharePoint 2007 book (all links via the usual book list page -http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/V%20Books.aspx) was to quickly read through my own chapter and look for errors that had crept in (or hadn't crept out) during the final proof-reading and editing sessions.

I found as expected a couple of Americanisms I hadn't managed to kill; a few missing commas and even (typically Finnish!) a missing "a" or two, but mainly it wasn't too bad.

There was however one biggy that was quite amusing.

On page 22 I explain that URLs have to be of certain forms and that for many forms of URL "Test this link" will work OK even when the Link actually won't work when used from a SharePoint Link List.

So http:// is fine but only if it's an absolute URL but a relative URL won't work even if "test this link" is happy with it.

I then go on to say that (I think that's is what it was!) "similarly file:/// will work in WSS 3.0 but things like ftp:// will not, even though "test this link" has no problems with them".

At least that is what I tried to say. What actually appeared was

"similarly "Error! Hyperlink reference not valid" will work in WSS 3.0 but things like ftp:// will not, even though "test this link" has no problems with them".

Maybe we'd better go back to hand-setting. I bet Gutenburg had no such problems ...

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 13th - 19th August 2007

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

New

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=832809

Icons are not displayed for Adobe PDF documents that are listed in the search results when you search your portal site in SharePoint Portal Server 2003 and in SharePoint Server 2007 (ver 3.1)

16th August 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;928750

The Office SharePoint Server 2007 Excel Services server may not have sufficient memory to function correctly when the "Maximum Private Bytes" attribute is set to a value that is less than 100 MB (ver 1.3)

15th August 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;938487

Error message when you add invalid characters to a Content Editor Web Part in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: "An unexpected error has occurred"

14th August 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;939077

Description of the SharePoint Server 2007 hotfix package for SharePoint Server 2007 and for SharePoint Server 2007 for Search: June 24, 2007

14th August 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;936227

MS07-042: Vulnerability in Microsoft XML Core Services could allow remote code execution

14th August 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;936056

Description of the security update for the 2007 Microsoft Office system servers: August 14, 2007

14th August 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;940882

Installing Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 on a Windows Home Server-based computer is currently not supported

13th August 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/941268/en-us 

How to install a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 software update on a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 server that also has Forefront Security for SharePoint installed

13th August 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/939187/en-us

Description of the InfoPath 2007 hotfix package: June 24, 2007

10th August 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/939605/en-us

Description of the InfoPath 2007 hotfix package: June 29, 2007 (2nd of same date)

10th August 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/938540/en-us

Description of the InfoPath 2007 hotfix package: June 11, 2007

10th August 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/939593/en-us

Description of the InfoPath 2007 hotfix package: June 29, 2007 (1st of same date)

10th August 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/938894/en-us

Description of the InfoPath 2007 hotfix package: June 17, 2007

8th August 2007

Modified

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=832809

Icons are not displayed for Adobe PDF documents that are listed in the search results when you search your portal site in SharePoint Portal Server 2003 and in SharePoint Server 2007 (ver 3.0)

13th August 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=920785

Attachments that are allowed by Outlook 2007 may be blocked by Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (ver 2.0)

10th August 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb%3Ben-us%3B939246

The names and the IP addresses of client computers are not logged when you enable auditing for a site collection in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0

8th 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://download.microsoft.com/download/0/9/c/09cda3f2-6d3d-4082-aec5-9a62b7679ecf/2007OfficeDeveloperMap.pdf

Developer Map for the 2007 Microsoft Office System (Poster)

14th August 2007 (date added)

http://tinyurl.com/29b72n

MSDN Webcast: Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007: It's for Developers Too (Level 300) (Dustin Miller, SharePoint Experts)

14th August 2007 (date added)

http://sharepointnutsandbolts.blogspot.com/2007/08/site-definitions-custom-code-in-site.html

Site definitions - custom code in the site creation process (Blog - Chris O'Brien)

12th August 2007

http://blog.funknstyle.com/?p=578

Add Advanced Search to a Top Level Team Site in MOSS 2007 (Blog - Amanda Murphy)

12th August 2007

http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2007/02/24/updated-installation-guide-for-the-20-server-admin-application-templates-for-wss-3-0.aspx

Updated Installation Guide for the 20 server admin Application Templates for WSS 3.0 (MS Team Blog)

24th February 2007

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

None

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

None

 

Modified

http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/26c07867-0150-463d-b21a-a6d42aecf05a1033.mspx?pf=true

Deploy Office SharePoint Server 2007 in a server farm environment - 1E - Deploy language packs

10th August 2007

Deleted

None

III WSS v3 FAQ

New

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1194

I.31.03 What issues are fixed in the hot fixes for InfoPath 2007?

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/DispForm.aspx?ID=1196

X.70 UploadToContentTypeTool (free - Steven Van de Craen)

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1195

XI.03 2007 Microsoft Office System Podcasts (includes SharePoint v3 podcasts)

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?

Deleted

None

IV WSSv2 KB Articles (plus SPS 2003 Hot fixes)

New

None

Modified

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;918741

Description of the SharePoint Portal Server 2003 post-Service Pack 2 hotfix package: May 30, 2006 (ver 2.0)

13th August 2007

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

How to disable FrontPage authoring for Windows SharePoint Services (3.4)

30th 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

None

I installed the Beta for a suite of programs yesterday.

I very carefully followed the installation instructions (which were long and in a seperate PDF file) and yet only one application in that suite was installed.

I followed the instructions for removing all traces of an earlier installation and tried again - being even more careful this time. Still only one application.

So I started wondering which newsgroup I should post to - if any, as this is a beta - and decided that before I do any posting I was going to look again at the page that said "download here" to see if there was another download link.

There was only this one link specified as being for the whole suite of programs, BUT a few lines below was the text that read something like "the present beta contains only Application X. Applications Y and Z will come soon when they have reached beta status."

Motto: read everything. I thought I was being extremely thorough reading the installation documentation before I installed. (OK. I confess - after I'd installed it the first time!) but a little bit more reading before clicking the install link and I wouldn't have needed to.

A while back and long enough ago for me to manage to forget the details, I had the problem that having done a basic installation of WSS 3.0, I could only access the site from within the VM itself.

Today I had the same thing. Access from within the VM OK but from everywhere else it was blocked (although I could ping the server). It didn't work over the network and not even from the mother PC.

...and I'd set AAM so it wasn't that. (That I *do* remember).

Several screaming bouts later and several breaks (hoping that moving from the computer would help) later and I started looking through my old blogs (Google Search specifying the blog's URL) for something I thought I'd written on this first time around.

Despite knowing that it had something to do with Windows Server 2003 *R2*, I couldn't find a thing.

So I wander through the VM and find **Windows Firewall**.

Turn that b***** thing off and I'm OK. I can access from everywhere.

Anyone who wants to call R2 an improvement over the original version has my fist heading in their direction.

Maybe it's just the upcoming "Labor Day" weekend in the US but yesterday evening (US time) the .windowsservices newsgroup got only a few questions and most of those were for SPS 2003 or for MOSS 2007. I.e. they were posted in the wrong newsgroup completely.

Here is an Info message I felt necessary to post there.

I'm at a loss to understand why given the clear name of this newsgroup (.windowsservices) there were last night virtually only questions about SPS 2003 and MOSS 2007 here.

There is an old newsgroup for SPS 2003 and MOSS 2007 at microsoft.public.sharepoint.portalserver

There are also new newsgroups (that Microsoft prefer that people use) which cover all SharePoint products and versions and these thus cover even SPS 2003 and MOSS 2007 questions and also question on WSS 2.0 and 3.0 and questions on (for instance) WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007.

These new newsgroups are per question type and are

microsoft.public.sharepoint.setup_and_administration (Installations; Administration)

microsoft.public.sharepoint.design_and_customization (Simple customization; typically with SPD 2007)

microsoft.public.sharepoint.development_and_programming (Difficult customization; web part creation and other programming issues typically with Visual Studio 2005

microsoft.public.sharepoint.general for questions that don't fit in any of the above three newsgroups.

There's enough choice there, so please don't post questions about SPS 2003 and/or MOSS 2007 in this WSS newsgroup but instead post to ONE of the above possibilities.

That was a catchy title wasn't it?

I'm referring of course to the fact that the "MVP Book" on SharePoint is now out.

Just like all of the other (16) writers of chapters in it, I'm duty bound to write a blog item saying that it's out.

Unlike some of them (!) I didn't jump the gun and now that Amazon are listing it as no longer "Pre-Order" status (and in fact one copy has been ordered *and delivered* by a link on my site), I can safely bang the drum for the book.

You can order it here.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0470168358/heme0f  (Amazon US)

(or see here http://wss.collutions.com/Lists/WSSv3FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=959 for a link to your local Amazon)

When you get it most of you will want to skip chapter one. That is namely my chapter for the people who were given the book by their bosses with the words "Learn SharePoint". In other words it's a very fast introduction into the basics so that people without prior SharePoint experience can have a chance at following the somewhat more difficult stuff in the specialist chapters.

I'll be looking at the first chapter too but mainly only to find the errors I missed when doing my final revision. I only hope I didn't add any in at that stage ...

Just look at it this way - even without the first chapter you are still buying 15 chapters each written by someone who knows the subject of that chapter in depth. Must surely be a worthwhile investment ...

I'm running this Acer portable on Vista Ultimate with Finnish settings (but with IE set to English (UK) for web sites).

I have Finnish settings so I can get Finnish style dates and punctuation.

As a result of this far too many companies are amazingly kind to me and offer me without me asking Finnish language downloads and products. Even Firefox and Thunderbird decide that because of my settings I must be interested in the Finnish language versions of those products and I have to do an extra click to be able to download the one any person with any sense will want - i.e. the English language version.

Now one click isn't that bad, but Apple and Microsoft have conspired to make a simple thing such as an ITunes (Windows) upgrade a nightmare - no one-click solution there.

Note: I am - as usual - running the US English version of ITunes.

What happens is that at Operating systems level I'm informed by Apple *in Finnish* that there's an Upgrade available for ITunes. I'd be stuck if I didn't speak Finnish but I do so I say I want it and a long download starts. At the end of it the installation starts and at some time crashes.

My guess is because it's trying to install a Finnish language update on top of English language software.

So I open my *English language* ITunes and look for the Upgrade this software menu item (the Finnish message when the previous installation crashed was of course no use at all). I find it and this time I presumably am installing an English language upgrade.

Well, in fact I probably am, but after a couple (maybe only one) of screens in English guiding me through that installation, there's suddenly a spate of Finnish language screens for the next stages in the installation. Again **and unlike many foreigners who live here** I can speak Finnish so I click on the right things; the installation ends and I have an upgraded and still working English language ITunes.

But this is consumer software isn't it and Apple pride themselves on producing quality software don't they?

Well this time they've overdone the "user-friendliness" !

There's no documentation about upgrading WSS 3.0 to MOSS 2007 that I have found.

This is I'm told because it's easy.

Never one to avoid trying easy things, I had a go.

I had a working and non-customized working WSS 3.0 site in a VM. I made a copy of the VM; increased the memory from 512MB to 1GB; added the MSDN MOSS 2007 .iso file as my "CDROM" and let it rip.

Note: I had the WSS 3.0 running with the built-in Windows Internal Database on a single server. This was in a Workgroup not a domain.

I thought I'd get a problem in the Configuration Wizard stage (the "installation" phase is only putting the software in place so problems don't happen until the *real* installation is going on), but it ran through completely smoothly.

At the end though it was supposed to access the MOSS site (not :80 because I didn't want to mess that up) and it couldn't. Instead I got the well-known "Server Error in "\" Application" message telling me that I should set  a part of config.web from "On" to "RemoteOnly" (or to "Off" is accessing remotely).

I was accessing from the server itself so I set this to "RemoteOnly" in every single web application's web.config file (= "the config.web in the root of the web application").

and there was no change at all.

I tried iisreset; I tried re-booting the machine; I even tried a new browser and using the TCP/IP address rather than the server address. All gave the same "you should set it to "RemoteOnly" - hello, is there anyone there - I have!

Now it may well be that what it is objecting to is that this is still in a workgroup and not in a domain (and at some stage I'm going to have to try creating a small DC in the same network and adding this supposedly OK MOSS server to it) but that certainly isn't what that message is saying. Instead it's saying do something I've done already.

Ah, the joys of installations!