One of the many (?) benefits of maintaining a FAQ site (and doing everything manually as I do) is that you have at least a vague memory of things you've added and so when faced with a problem yourself you know roughly where (in that site) to look and/or with what Search criteria.

Add to that answering the odd newsgroup question and occasionally you find that problems at work just fall away.

I discovered for instance yesterday that a test site was completely out of space on C: Amazingly you could still access the site but you couldn't exactly do much ! Even more amazingly - as this is supposed to be a test site for several people - no-one had reported this (and the last 1KB log file went to the site in late August!).

The first step was of course to see if the obvious culprits (log files) were at work. But I'd cleverly (!) reduced those in scope so they were fairly small and while both sets had of course eaten up what little disk space that was left, they weren't the problem.

No, the problem - naturally - was the fact that as this was a quick "do this as quickly as you can and then vanish" test installation, I'd used the Basic installation - or in other words it was using the "Windows Internal Database" and that naturally enough was on C: and storing all its data on C: Meanwhile I had an empty (yes, virtually completely empty) E: drive because I was using a standard VMset-up of C: and E: (D: being the CD/DVD drive).

One look at that and I could see that the main problem wasn't even with the content databases (less than 1GB) but with the config databases (getting on for 3GB.

So - and here's where the experience comes in - as I knew that there was a FAQ item on moving the databases of the "embedded SQL Server 2005 Express" (the old name of what is now "Windows Internal Database"), all I needed to do was open the WSS v3 FAQ and Search on "embedded" and there was the solution. (Also found by looking at all the items starting with "Databases: " in section III Administration of the (note carefully) "WSS v3 FAQ" not the "WSS FAQ" which is v2 ...)

Well, actually, two solutions because there was the main text of the item (from Jim Sykora) and also a blog item from Ian Morrish.

I actually used the blog item because the statements you needed to use in the Command Line were clearer there and I did eventually get them to work but only after also interspersing with a bit of the information from the Jim Sykora piece with those commands (and also correcting a couple of spelling errors in them).

So, for instance, whereas I managed to detach; copy and then attach my content databases by just stopping the content database in the UI; and then stopping all the four running WSS services, this didn't work for the largest of the content databases (over 2GB) as that said it was in use.

It turns out that Ian makes a few assumptions about your knowledge (he didn't say to stop the WSS services either as far as I can remember) whereas Jim doesn't.

Jim clearly says to stop IIS (which in turn stops a couple more things and it's a good idea to write down what those are before you say OK) before doing the detach and that indeed was all that I was missing when trying to detatch the config databases (there being no "Stop Config Database" available in the UI.

So there you are. Spend inummerable hours of your own time updating a FAQ site and occasionally you save a bit of "work" time. Is that a bargain or not ? For your employer it certainly is!

P.S. I suppose I'd better say where the WSS FAQ site is - www.wssfaq.com (what else!?)

People who have ever used Firefox to go to the site behind www.wssfaq.com will have noticed I'm sure that the top page looks a mess with a very wide empty space between the left hand column (Quick Launch) and the first column with web parts

It was caused almost at the start by me amending the page in FP 2003 and testing it in IE6 only (and naturally not taking copies often enough). I made numerous attempts to get rid of that empty space and never suceeded.

Today (and I've ony been using this for 4 months or so ...) I noticed that Safari in the Mac didn't have that ugly amount of empty space. In fact the page looks just like it does in IE.

So I hereby declare my page to be conform and Firefox to have a bug !

P.S. As a result of a suggestion in the Comments, I got rid of the problem so you oughtn't to see this any more. Curiously amending something from =89% to =100% didn't solve it (and that was what I had probably tried many times before) but removing that width statement altogether did.

Last week was a good week mostly.

I was renewed as a SharePoint MVP.

That makes this (2007-2008) the sixth year, which sounds a lot until you heard that another SharePoint MVP - Michael Greth of Berlin - is now in his tenth year as an MVP.

How's that possible you may ask given that the SharePoint products first came out in 2001 ? Well Michael started as MVP for FrontPage which has been going for a bit longer (until it's life - or rather then name - was cut short at the beginning of this year).

Michael was one of the people behind the European SharePoint Conference which was held in Berlin in February earlier this year. Despite being heavily involved with the preparations of that, he still found time to buy and send me a week's travel card for the Berlin transport system so that I was able to get off my plane and jump right onto the right bus (he told me that too) that took me directly to the hotel. Nice guy !

Another good thing was that my Vista-based portable suddenly started recognizing my Apple AirPort Extreme Base Station so I no longer need to have both my old DLink wireless router and the Extreme Base station in order to use both the Vista and the MacBook remotely. So that's one small box; ethernet cable and power supply less on my desk.

Of course I still don't get anything more than the standard wireless speed from the Vista when connected directly to this, so the MacBook is still way faster, but at least it works. I have no idea whether this was caused by a Vista fix or a Extreme Base Station fix by the way - or even when this fix was downloaded. All I know is that I had forgotten to put the DLink plug in when I turned the Vista machine on and suddenly noticed it had spotted the Apple station. I still didn't expect the login to work (I'd fiddled with this for hours when I got the Apple station) but I tried it anyway and success.

Actually come to think of it, I had a similar experience with my Archos Wifi IPod-like device a couple of weeks ago. Earlier that too wouldn't connect to the Apple Station but a couple of weeks ago I tried again and this time it did. At the time I thought it was because I was sure to usual Capitals for the letters in the code but now I imagine that in the meantime there'd been a fix to the Station that had cleared problems with both the Archos and the Vista machine.

And finally sales of the Real World SharePoint 2007 (Wrox) book seem (looking at the Amazon site) to be going fairly well and the reviews of it are very positive.

They are probably by people who skipped my (Introductory) Chapter One so I was glad to hear from a old friend that although my photograph on the cover was terrible (so what else is new?), he was finding the first chapter useful and wished he had read it a few months ago when he was introducing himself to the SharePoint platform.

So that's three good things. What was the bad one?

Well, I'd better apologise for even mentioning this as no doubt most readers of this blog are slaving away 5 days a week ... but I realised that last week was the first week since mid April that I had worked four days rather than three days or not at all. Boy did the working week seem long ...

(I'm semi-retired and work 60% of the time, but in the non-summer I work 4 days a week and get a few extra weeks holiday as a result - so taking those extra holiday weeks in April and September led to it being so long since I last finished  my working week on a Thursday. (In the summer I worked either 3 days a week or was on regular holiday.))

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 September - 6th October 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;941678

The SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard does not finish successfully on a computer that also has GroupBoard Workspace 2007 installed

3rd October 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;941955

A Web Part that contains an ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 UpdatePanel control that uses the _doPostBack() function does not work when the URL of the hosting SharePoint Web site contains international characters

28th September 2007

Modified

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;926959

Error when you try to edit the content source schedule in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007: "Access is denied" (ver 2.4)

1st October 2007

I.b Forefront KB Articles

New

None

Modified

None

I.c InfoPath 2007 KB Articles

New

None

Modified

None

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://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb802729.aspx

Visual How To: Writing and Debugging Event Handlers for Project Server 2007 (Joel Krist, Akona Systems)

4th October 2007 (date added) (article is October 2007)

http://wm.microsoft.com/ms/msdn/office/2007officevisualhowtos/pj2007writingdebuggingeventhandlers.wmv

Visual How To: Writing and Debugging Event Handlers for Project Server 2007 (Video - Joel Krist, Akona Systems)

4th October 2007 (date added) (article is October 2007)

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=ff617264-2145-44fa-9e0d-caa89ce51183&displaylang=en&tm

.NET Rocks! - Vishwas Lele on MOSS as an Application Platform

3rd October 2007

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb852172.aspx

Searching Sites Protected by Forms Authentication with Enterprise Search in SharePoint Server 2007 (Jo-Anne West)

3rd October 2007 (date added) (article is October 2007)

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb852171.aspx

Helper Classes for the SharePoint Server 2007 Search Query Web Service Built Using the Microsoft .NET Framework (Callum Shillan)

3rd October 2007 (date added) (article is October 2007)

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb852081.aspx

Overview of Web Service Support in InfoPath 2007 (Mark Roberts)

3rd October 2007 (date added) (article is October 2007)

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb814929.aspx

Usage Event Logging in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (Radu Rusu, Erick R. Lerma, Les W. Smith)

3rd October 2007 (date added) (article is September 2007)

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb727372.aspx

How to Create a SharePoint Server 2007 Custom Master Page and Page Layouts for a Web Content Management Site (Avneesh Kaushik)

3rd October 2007 (date added) (article is September 2007)

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb787184.aspx

Advanced Server-Side Authentication for Data Connections in InfoPath 2007 Web-Based Forms (Nick Dallett, Mark Roberts)

3rd October 2007 (date added) (article is September 2007)

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/tommysegoro/archive/2007/10/02/create-an-image-item-from-asp-upload-control-in-sharepoint-list-programmatically.aspx

Create an Image Item from ASP File Upload Control in Sharepoint Image Library Programmatically (Blog - Tommy Segoro)

2nd October 2007

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/sam/archive/2007/10/02/restore-a-production-sharepoint-farm-to-a-test-environment.aspx

Restore a production sharepoint web farm to a new web farm (Note: This is WSS 3.0) (Blog - "sam")

2nd October 2007

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb850574.aspx

Visual How To: Displaying Custom Fields in Content Query Web Parts in Office SharePoint Server 2007 (Joel Krist, Akona Systems)

2nd October 2007 (date added)  (date of article September 2007)

http://wm.microsoft.com/ms/msdn/office/2007officevisualhowtos/moss2007displayingcustomfieldscontentquerywebparts.wmv

Visual How To: Displaying Custom Fields in Content Query Web Parts in Office SharePoint Server 2007 (Video - Joel Krist, Akona Systems)

2nd October 2007 (date added)  (date of article September 2007)

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb847941.aspx

Visual How To: Creating User Profiles in the User Profile Store in SharePoint Server 2007 (Joel Krist, Akona Systems)

2nd October 2007 (date added)  (date of article September 2007)

http://wm.microsoft.com/ms/msdn/office/2007officevisualhowtos/moss2007creatinguserprofilesintheuserprofilestore.wmv

Visual How To: Creating User Profiles in the User Profile Store in SharePoint Server 2007 (Video - Joel Krist, Akona Systems)

2nd October 2007 (date added)  (date of video September 2007)

http://www.rodneyviana.com/portal/Sharepoint/MOSS2007Install2of2/tabid/57/Default.aspx

Sharepoint 2007 Installation Part 2 of 2 (Camtasia Video - Rodney Viana, Alfredo Fortenboher)

1st October 2007 (date added)

http://www.rodneyviana.com/portal/Sharepoint/MOSS2007Install1of2/tabid/55/Default.aspx

Sharepoint 2007 Installation Part 1 of 2 (Camtasia Video - Rodney Viana, Alfredo Fortenboher)

1st October 2007 (date added)

http://www.combined-knowledge.com/Downloads/Demo%20-%20resetting%20customized%20sites%20and%20configuring%20search%20after%20an%20Upgrade%20to%202007%20RTM.zip

Resetting customized sites and configuring search after an Upgrade to 2007 RTM (Combined Knowledge)

1st October 2007 (date added)

http://www.combined-knowledge.com/Downloads/Securing%20Central%20Administration%20in%20SharePoint%202007.zip

Securing Central Administration in SharePoint 2007 (Combined Knowledge)

1st October 2007 (date added)

http://www.combined-knowledge.com/Downloads/Modify_Alert_Notifications.zip

Modify Alert Notifications using AlertTemplates.xml in SharePoint 2007 (Combined Knowledge)

1st October 2007 (date added)

http://www.combined-knowledge.com/Downloads/How%20to%20configure%20Email%20Enabled%20Lists%20in%20Moss2007%20RTM%20using%20Exchange%202007.zip

How to configure Email Enabled Lists in Moss2007 RTM using Exchange 2007 (Combined Knowledge)

1st October 2007 (date added)

http://www.combined-knowledge.com/Downloads/How%20to%20configure%20Email%20Enabled%20Lists%20in%20Moss2007%20RTM%20using%20Exchange%202003.zip

How to configure Email Enabled Lists in Moss2007 RTM using Exchange 2003 (Combined Knowledge)

1st October 2007 (date added)

http://www.andrewconnell.com/blog/articles/UsingCodeBehindFilesInSharePointSites.aspx

Using ASP.NET 2.0 Code Behind Files in SharePoint v3 Sites (MVP Andrew Connell)

30th September 2007

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/ethan/archive/2007/09/30/setting-permissions-through-code.aspx

Setting Permissions Through Code (Blog - Ethan)

30th September 2007

http://blogs.msdn.com/outlook/archive/2007/09/28/sharepoint-outlook-the-perfect-link.aspx

Document Library syncing capability with Outlook 2007 (MS TeamBlog)

28th September 2007

http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=344635

Channel 9: InfoPath and SharePoint (Philo)

28th September 2007

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/tonstegeman/archive/2007/09/27/localizing-sharepoint-2007-site-columns-using-resource-files.aspx

Localizing SharePoint 2007 site columns using resource files (Blog - Ton Stegeman)

27th September 2007

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/ethan/archive/2007/09/27/generating-test-data.aspx

Generating Test Data using the SharePoint Work Acceleration Toolkit (SWAT) from iDevFactory (Blog - Ethan)

27th September 2007

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/michael/archive/2007/09/27/sharepoint-wiki-create-pages-based-on-a-template.aspx

SharePoint Wiki: Create pages based on a template (Blog - Michael Hofer)

27th September 2007

http://devcow.com/blogs/jdattis/archive/2007/09/27/11463.aspx

SharePoint 2007 - Content Editor Web Part and Absolute Url's (Blog - Dan Attis)

27th September 2007

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/tmt/archive/2007/09/27/sharepoint-programmatically-managing-solutions.aspx

SharePoint Programmatically: Managing Solutions (Blog - Waldek Mastykarz)

27th September 2007

http://www.heathersolomon.com/blog/articles/brandsppart2.aspx

Branding SharePoint - Part 2: Creating the Design in SharePoint  (Blog - Heather Solomon)

26th September 2007

http://sharepointnutsandbolts.blogspot.com/2007/09/blending-publishingcollaboration.html

Blending publishing/collaboration functionality in SharePoint (Blog - Chris O'Brien)

26th September 2007

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/jeff102410/archive/2007/09/25/adhoc-task-rollup.aspx

Adhoc Task Rollup (Blog - Jeff Rogers)

25th September 2007

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/smc750/archive/2007/09/25/deep-dive-sharepoint-2007-object-model.aspx

Deep Dive SharePoint 2007 Object Model (using Classmaster from www.certdev.com) (Blog - Steve Curran)

25th September 2007

http://www.moss2007.be/blogs/vandest/archive/2007/09/24/splistitem-replacelink-method.aspx

SPListItem.ReplaceLink Method (Blog - Steven Van de Craen)

24th September 2007

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/ethan/archive/2007/09/23/working-with-features-through-code.aspx

Working With Features Through Code (Blog - Ethan)

23rd September 2007

http://blog.tedpattison.net/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?List=80e51818%2D7b98%2D41d8%2Db313%2D955977ecd68f&ID=2

Stapling Features to the Global Site Definition (Blog - Ted Pattison)

23rd September 2007

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/tonstegeman/archive/2007/09/22/moss-2007-filter-webparts-part-2-providing-and-consuming-a-default-value-and-using-excel-services.aspx

MOSS 2007 Filter webparts part 2 - providing and consuming a default value and using Excel Services (Blog - Ton Stegeman)

22nd September 2007

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/tonstegeman/archive/2007/09/21/moss-2007-filter-webparts-part-1-create-your-own-provider-and-consumer.aspx

MOSS 2007 Filter webparts part 1 - create your own provider and consumer (Blog - Ton Stegeman)

21st September 2007

http://blogs.technet.com/wbaer/archive/2007/09/21/deploying-proclarity-viewer-6-3-for-sharepoint.aspx

Deploying ProClarity Viewer 6.3 for SharePoint (Blog - William Baer)

21st September 2007

http://www.moss2007.be/blogs/vandest/archive/2007/09/19/sharepoint-2007-and-pdf-indexing.aspx

SharePoint 2007 and PDF indexing (Blog - Steven Van de Craen)

19th September 2007

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/erickraus/archive/2007/09/19/create-workflow-feature-to-copy-content-to-new-list.aspx

Create Workflow Feature to Copy Content to New List (Blog - Eric Kraus)

19th September 2007

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/dez/archive/2007/09/19/employee-training-and-scheduling-template-a-couple-fixes-part-2.aspx

Employee Training and Scheduling Template - a couple fixes Part 2 (Blog - "dlink")

19th September 2007

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/dez/archive/2007/09/19/employee-training-and-scheduling-template-a-couple-fixes.aspx

Employee Training and Scheduling Template - a couple fixes Part 1 (Blog - "dlink")

19th September 2007

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/andynoon/archive/2007/09/18/reparenting-a-workflow-to-a-different-list.aspx

Re-parenting a SharePoint Designer workflow to a different list (Blog - Andrew Noon)

18th September 2007

http://www.heathersolomon.com/blog/articles/brandsppart1.aspx

Branding SharePoint - Part 1: Designing your SharePoint Site (Blog - Heather Solomon)

13th September 2007

http://blogs.msdn.com/joelo/archive/2007/09/12/sharepoint-disk-allocation-and-disk-i-o.aspx

SharePoint Disk Allocation and Disk I/O (MSBlog - Joel Oleson)

12th September 2007

http://www.harbar.net/devtips.pdf

10 Essential SharePoint Developer Tips (slides of presentation - Spencer Harbar)

10th September 2007

http://weblogs.asp.net/jan/archive/2007/09/10/adding-breadcrumb-navigation-for-sharepoint-application-pages.aspx

Adding Breadcrumb Navigation for SharePoint Application Pages (Blog - Jan Tielens)

10th September 2007

http://weblogs.asp.net/erobillard/archive/2007/09/07/moss-and-forms-based-authentication-the-tricks.aspx

MOSS and Forms-Based Authentication: the Tricks (Blog - Eli Robillard)

7th September 2007

http://weblogs.asp.net/jan/archive/2007/09/05/using-the-current-page-url-in-the-urlaction-of-a-sharepoint-feature.aspx

Using the Current Page URL in the UrlAction of a SharePoint Feature (Blog - Jan Tielens)

5th September 2007

http://planetwilson.blogspot.com/2007/08/how-to-add-picker-to-send-to-other.html

How to add a picker to the send to other location screen (Blog - Mark Wilson)

29th August 2007

http://wm.microsoft.com/ms/msdn/office/2007OfficeVisualHowTos/MOSS2007DesigningInfoPathFormsforWorkflows.wmv

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

20th August 2007

http://wm.microsoft.com/ms/msdn/office/2007officevisualhowtos/infopathcreatingandeditingcustomdocumentinformationpanelsfromofficeinfopath2007.wmv

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

20th August 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=5B6C8FB0-9B67-47DB-8A09-BCA76BC9A5D1&displaylang=en

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

8th August 2007

http://wm.microsoft.com/ms/msdn/office/2007officevisualhowtos/wssbuildinglistdefinitionswitheventreceiver.wmv

Visual How To: Building List Definitions with Event Receiver in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (Video - Joel Krist, Akona Systems)

1st August 2007 (actually just August 2007)

http://wm.microsoft.com/ms/msdn/office/2007officevisualhowtos/wssbuildingmasterpagesusingsitedefinitions.wmv

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

1st August 2007 (actually just August 2007)

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb737887.aspx

Creating a Web Service Connection by using the Business Data Catalog Definition Editor (Jo-Anne West)

1st August 2007 (actually just August 2007)

http://wm.microsoft.com/ms/msdn/office/2007officevisualhowtos/ip2007publishingformtemplatestoformsserver.wmv

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

1st August 2007 (actually just August 2007)

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/office/bb677157.aspx

How Do I: Create Excel Services with User-Defined Functions? (Video - Steve Hansen)

24th July 2007

http://wm.microsoft.com/ms/msdn/office/2007officevisualhowtos/2007mosscreatingsearchqueriesprogrammaticallyusingtheom.wmv

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

20th 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 (Patrick Tisseghem, U2U)

20th July 2007

http://wm.microsoft.com/ms/msdn/office/2007officevisualhowtos/moss2007creatingsearchqueriesusingthewebservice.wmv

Visual How To: Creating Search Queries Programmatically by Using the Search Web Service in SharePoint Server 2007 (Video - Patrick Tisseghem, U2U)

20th July 2007

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/office/bb629437.aspx

How Do I: Bind Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) to Word Content Controls? (Steve Hansen)

17th July 2007

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/office/bb649501.aspx

How Do I: Bind SharePoint Content to Excel Ranges? (Steve Hansen)

10th July 2007

http://wm.microsoft.com/ms/msdn/office/2007officevisualhowtos/2007mossexposingsearchbyusingie7andtheofficeresearchpane.wmv

Visual How To: Exposing Enterprise Search in SharePoint Server 2007 by Using Internet Explorer 7 and the Office Research Pane  (Video - Patrick Tisseghem, U2U)

10th July 2007

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/office/bb649501.aspx

How Do I: Bind SharePoint Content to Excel Ranges? (Video - Steve Hansen)

10th July 2007

http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepointdesigner/archive/2007/07/06/porting-sharepoint-designer-workflows-to-visual-studio.aspx

Porting SharePoint Designer Workflows to Visual Studio (MS TeamBlog - Eilene)

6th July 2007

http://wm.microsoft.com/ms/msdn/office/2007officevisualhowtos/2007sharepointdesignerbuildingcustom%20activities.wmv

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

1st July 2007 (actually just July 2007)

http://wm.microsoft.com/ms/msdn/office/2007officevisualhowtos/2007infopathbuildingsimplecustomapprovalworkflows.wmv

Visual How To: Building Simple Custom Approval Workflows with InfoPath 2007 Forms (Video - Patrick Tisseghem, U2U)

1st July 2007 (actually just July 2007)

http://wm.microsoft.com/ms/msdn/office/2007officevisualhowtos/wss3.0buildingsimplemasterpages.wmv

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

1st July 2007 (actually just July 2007)

http://wm.microsoft.com/ms/msdn/office/2007officevisualhowtos/mosscreatingandeditingcustomdocumentinformationpanels.wmv

Visual How To: Creating and Editing Custom Document Information Panels from Office SharePoint Server 2007 (Video - Joel Krist, Akona Systems)

1st July 2007 (actually just July 2007)

http://wm.microsoft.com/ms/msdn/office/2007officevisualhowtos/wssbuildingcustomfieldtypes.wmv

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

1st July 2007 (actually just July 2007)

http://wm.microsoft.com/ms/msdn/office/2007officevisualhowtos/infopath2007pullingcrmdatabrowserforms.wmv

Visual How To: Pulling CRM Data into InfoPath 2007 Browser Forms (Video - David Gerhardt, 3Sharp)

1st May 2007 (actually just May 2007)

http://wm.microsoft.com/ms/msdn/office/2007officevisualhowtos/wss3enablingintellisensewithcaml.wmv

Visual How To: Configuring IntelliSense with CAML Files When Developing for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (Video - Ted Pattison, Ted Pattison Group)

1st May 2007 (actually just May 2007)

http://wm.microsoft.com/ms/msdn/office/2007officevisualhowtos/wss3createcustomhttphandler.wmv

Visual How To: Create a Custom HttpHandler in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (Video - Ted Pattison, Ted Pattison Group)

1st May 2007 (actually just May 2007)

http://wm.microsoft.com/ms/msdn/office/2007officevisualhowtos/wsscreatingafeatureforanecbitem.wmv

Visual How To: Creating a Feature for an Entry Control Block Item in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (Video - Ted Pattison, Ted Pattison Group)

1st May 2007 (actually just May 2007)

http://wm.microsoft.com/ms/msdn/office/2007officevisualhowtos/wsscreatingafeatureforthesiteactionsmenu.wmv

Visual How To: Creating a Feature for the Site Actions Menu in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (Video - Ted Pattison, Ted Pattison Group)

1st May 2007 (actually just May 2007)

http://wm.microsoft.com/ms/msdn/office/2007officevisualhowtos/wss3createsolutionpackage.wmv

Visual How To: Creating a Solution Package in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (Video - Ted Pattison, Ted Pattison Group)

1st May 2007 (actually just May 2007)

http://wm.microsoft.com/ms/msdn/office/2007officevisualhowtos/wss3createvisualstudioproject.wmv

Visual How To: Creating a Visual Studio Project for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (Video - Ted Pattison, Ted Pattison Group)

1st May 2007 (actually just May 2007)

http://wm.microsoft.com/ms/msdn/office/2007officevisualhowtos/wsscreatecustomapplicationpage.wmv

Visual How To: Creating an Application Page in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (Video - Ted Pattison, Ted Pattison Group)

1st May 2007 (actually just May 2007)

http://wm.microsoft.com/ms/msdn/office/2007officevisualhowtos/wss3displayingdatainspgridviewctrl.wmv

Visual How To: Displaying Data by Using the SPGridView Control in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (Video - Ted Pattison, Ted Pattison Group)

1st May 2007 (actually just May 2007)

http://wm.microsoft.com/ms/msdn/office/2007officevisualhowtos/wss3readingauditentries.wmv

Visual How To: Reading Entries from the Audit Log in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (Video - Ted Pattison, Ted Pattison Group)

1st May 2007 (actually just May 2007)

http://wm.microsoft.com/ms/msdn/office/2007officevisualhowtos/wssreadinglistidanditemidfromanapppage.wmv

Visual How To: Reading ListId and ItemId from an Application Page in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (Video - Ted Pattison, Ted Pattison Group)

1st May 2007 (actually just May 2007)

http://wm.microsoft.com/ms/msdn/office/2007officevisualhowtos/wss3runningcmdwithelevatedprivileges.wmv

Visual How To: Running Commands with Elevated Privileges in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (Video - Ted Pattison, Ted Pattison Group)

1st May 2007 (actually just May 2007)

http://wm.microsoft.com/ms/msdn/office/2007officevisualhowtos/wss3writingcustomauditentries.wmv

Visual How To: Writing Custom Entries to the Audit Log in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (Video - Ted Pattison, Ted Pattison Group)

1st May 2007 (actually just May 2007)

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb466221.aspx

Visual How To: Writing Custom Entries to the Audit Log in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (Ted Pattison, Ted Pattison Group)

1st May 2007 (actually just May 2007)

http://wm.microsoft.com/ms/msdn/office/2007officevisualhowtos/moss2007writingafilterconsumerwebpart.wmv

Visual How To: Writing a Filter Consumer Web Part for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Using Excel Services (Video - Joel Krist, Akona Systems)

1st May 2007 (actually just May 2007)

http://wm.microsoft.com/ms/msdn/office/2007officevisualhowtos/wss3writingafilterproviderwebpart.wmv

Visual How To: Writing a Filter Provider Web Part for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (Video - Joel Krist, Akona Systems)

1st May 2007 (actually just May 2007)

http://wm.microsoft.com/ms/msdn/office/2007officevisualhowtos/wssactivatingauditingforsitecollection.wmv

Visual How To: Activating Auditing Programmatically for a Site Collection in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (Video - Ted Pattison, Ted Pattison Group)

1st May 2007 (actually just May 2007)

http://wm.microsoft.com/ms/msdn/office/2007officevisualhowtos/wssactivatingaudtingondocumentlibrary.wmv

Visual How To: Activating Auditing Programmatically for a Single Document Library in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (Video - Ted Pattison, Ted Pattison Group)

1st May 2007 (actually just May 2007)

http://wm.microsoft.com/ms/msdn/office/2007officevisualhowtos/moss2007enablinguserslobdatawithbdc.wmv

Visual How To: Enabling Users to Act on LOB Data with Business Data Catalog Actions (Video - John Peltonen, 3Sharp)

1st May 2007 (actually just May 2007)

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb397403.aspx

Item-Level Auditing with SharePoint Server 2007 (Ted Pattison (Ted Pattison Group), Joanna Bichsel)

1st April 2007 (actually just April 2007)

http://wm.microsoft.com/ms/msdn/office/2007officevisualhowtos/moss2007creatingcustomsearchpages.wmv

Visual How To: Creating a Custom Search Page and Tabs in the Search Center of SharePoint Server (Video - Patrick Tisseghem, U2U)

1st April 2007 (actually just April 2007)

http://wm.microsoft.com/ms/msdn/office/2007officevisualhowtos/moss2007creatingexposingmanagedproperties.wmv

Visual How To: Creating and Exposing Managed Properties in the Advanced Search Page of SharePoint Server Enterprise Search (Video - Patrick Tisseghem, U2U)

1st April 2007 (actually just April 2007)

http://wm.microsoft.com/ms/msdn/office/2007officevisualhowtos/moss2007creatingexposingsearchscopes.wmv

Visual How To: Creating and Exposing Search Scopes in SharePoint Server 2007 Enterprise Search (Video - Patrick Tisseghem, U2U)

1st April 2007 (actually just April 2007)

http://wm.microsoft.com/ms/msdn/office/2007officevisualhowtos/moss2007creatingcontentsourcestocrawlbusinessdata.wmv

Visual How To: Creating Content Sources to Crawl Business Data in SharePoint Server 2007 Enterprise Search (Video - Patrick Tisseghem, U2U)

1st April 2007 (actually just April 2007)

http://wm.microsoft.com/ms/msdn/office/2007officevisualhowtos/moss2007xlservicescreatingmanagedcodeudfs.wmv

Visual How To: Creating Managed-Code UDFs for Excel Services (Video - Joel Krist, Akona Systems)

1st April 2007 (actually just April 2007)

http://wm.microsoft.com/ms/msdn/office/2007officevisualhowtos/moss2007refiningbdcsearchscopes.wmv

Visual How To: Refining Business Data Catalog Search with Scopes (Video - Ryan Femling, 3Sharp)

1st April 2007 (actually just April 2007)

http://wm.microsoft.com/ms/msdn/office/2007officevisualhowtos/moss2007excelservicesretrievingworkbooks.wmv

Visual How To: Retrieving an Entire Workbook or a Snapshot of a Workbook in Excel Services (Video - Siew Moi Khor, Danny Khen, Microsoft and Joel Krist, Akona Systems)

1st April 2007 (actually just April 2007)

http://wm.microsoft.com/ms/msdn/office/2007officevisualhowtos/infopathparameters.wmv

Visual How To: Using Business Data Catalog Actions to Pass Parameters to InfoPath 2007 Browser Forms (Video - David Gerhardt, 3Sharp)

1st April 2007 (actually just April 2007)

http://wm.microsoft.com/ms/msdn/office/2007officevisualhowtos/moss2007filteringbdcsusingassociations.wmv

Visual How To: Filtering One Business Data Catalog List from Another by Using Associations in SharePoint Server 2007 (Video - John Peltonen, 3Sharp)

1st April 2007 (actually just April 2007)

http://wm.microsoft.com/ms/msdn/office/2007officevisualhowtos/moss2007creatingbusinessdatacatalogs.wmv

Visual How To: Creating Business Data Catalog Entities in SharePoint Server 2007 (Video - John Peltonen, 3Sharp)

1st April 2007 (actually just April 2007)

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb153523.aspx

Working with ASP.NET 2.0 Web Parts and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (Erika Ehrli, Jo-Anne West)

1st March 2007 (actually just March 2007)

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb380251.aspx

Improving the Performance of InfoPath 2007 Forms (Andrew Begun)

1st March 2007 (actually just March 2007)

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb219479.aspx

Best Practices: Writing SQL Syntax Queries for Relevant Results in Enterprise Search (Dmitriy Meyerzon, Jo-Anne West)

1st January 2007 (actually just January 2007)

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa973805.aspx

Deploying and Optimizing a SharePoint Web Part That Calls Excel Web Services (Dan Battagin)

1st November 2006 (actually just November 2006)

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa972194.aspx

Excel Services Technical Overview

1st November 2006 (actually just November 2006)

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

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb851478.aspx

Visual How To: Creating Custom Web Parts for Project Server 2007 (Joel Krist, Akona Systems)

2nd October 2007 (date added)  (date of article September 2007)

http://wm.microsoft.com/ms/msdn/office/2007officevisualhowtos/pj2007creatingcustomwebparts.wmv

Visual How To: Creating Custom Web Parts for Project Server 2007 (Video - Joel Krist, Akona Systems)

1st October 2007 (date added)

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

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=73906bf5-4197-4941-a73f-a43c0d38618f&displaylang=en&tm

Installing and Configuring Microsoft BizTalk Adapters for Enterprise Applications (ver RTM)

28th September 2007

Modified

None

Deleted

None

III WSS v3 FAQ

New

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1227

I.38 What are the different Version Numbers of WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007?

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1225

III.55.04 Workflows: How can I avoid having workflow associations deleted after 60 days?

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1224

III.100 Why are some top link tabs not highlighted?

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1226

VII.28 7 Microsoft Office Business Applications for Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MS Press - ISBN: 9780735622760) (Chapter 1? - Getting Started with Office Business Applications)

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1228

VIII.05B Implementing and Administering Microsoft Office Project Server 2007 (msProjectExperts - Gary L. Chefetz, Dale Howard)

(note that the numbers in section VIII have changed in order to group books by product or product type)

X.75 Smart Search for SharePoint (Codeplex - China's Enterprise Search team)

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1220

X.76 Predefined Search for MOSS2007 (Codeplex - China's Enterprise Search team)

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1221

X.77 MOSS Search Admin (Codeplex - China's Enterprise Search team)

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1222

X.78 Forms Base Authentication Tools and Utils for SharePoint 2007  (Codeplex - Stacy Draper)

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1223

X.79 MOSS Faceted Search (CodePlex - "leonidly")

Modified

None

Deleted

X.1 MOSS BDC MetaData Manager (free - Todd Baginski)

X.18 Metadata Manager for the Microsoft Office SharePoint Server Business Data Catalog (MMMOSSBDC)

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IV WSSv2 KB Articles (plus SPS 2003 Hot fixes)

New

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;924298

Description of the SharePoint Portal Server 2003 post-Service Pack 2 hotfix package: August 17, 2006 (ver 2.0)

3rd October 2007

Modified

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;924931

Description of the SharePoint Portal Server 2003 post-Service Pack 2 hotfix package: August 31, 2006 (ver 4.0)

3rd October 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;939770

Description of the update that addresses the issue in Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 in which items that use the Date and Time fields are off by one hour (ver 2.0)

28th September 2007

V. MS Articles for WSSv2

New or Modified

None

VI Non-MS Articles for WSSv2

New or Modified

None

VII WSSv2 FAQ

New or Modified

None

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.

(There were so many Modified KB articles that I may have added some WSS 2.0 ones to the WSS 3.0 list by mistake (and vice versa) - apologies for that)

(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 September 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;826797

You cannot search for content, or you may receive unexpected results when you search for content in the portal site in SharePoint Server 2007 or in SharePoint Portal Server 2003 (ver 3.2)

26th September 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;934577

Sites that require forms-based authentication or cookie-based authentication are not crawled in SharePoint Server 2007

25th September 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;938569

When the database status for a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 site collection has been set to offline, you may be unable to find items that are saved in the site collection

25th Septmber 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;838109

"The email address '<EmailAddress>' is unknown" error message when you add a user to a Windows SharePoint Services Web site (ver 2.2)

22nd September 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;934838

How to change service accounts and service account passwords in SharePoint Server 2007 and in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (ver 2.3)

21st September 2007

Modified

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;828812

Extension of a virtual server with Windows SharePoint Services does not complete successfully when you use Active Directory account creation mode (ver 2.2)

26th September 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;828813

You receive a "Specified domain does not exist" or an "Adding user name failed" error message when you extend a virtual server with Windows SharePoint Services (ver 3.2)

26th September 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;817929

Files do not appear when you use Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) to add a network place shortcut to a Windows SharePoint Services Web site (ver 5.1)

26th September 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;825488

How to add members of a distribution list to your Windows SharePoint Services Web site (ver 3.1)

26th September 2007

I.b Forefront KB Articles

New

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;929073

Error message when you start Forefront Server Security Administrator: "ERROR: Unable to connect to service" (ver 3.0)

26th September 2007

Modified

None

I.c InfoPath 2007 KB Articles

New

None

Modified

None

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=b3c932a5-b3c0-4473-8ea5-62ae44190878&displaylang=en&tm

Hotfix Roll-up for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 for Search (KB939077)

26th September 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=d5090bc4-5b4f-411b-8cde-e37d33f7efdf&displaylang=en&tm

SharePoint Server 2007 Tool: Add/Edit Crawl Rules with Form/Cookie Credentials

25th September 2007

http://www.itpro.co.uk/reviews/124871/microsoft-forefront-security-for-exchange-and-sharepoint.html

Microsoft Forefront Security for Exchange and SharePoint (Review by ITpro (UK))

25th September 2007 (date added)

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=530804e2-b92b-43ae-9381-e71c6638e8a9&displaylang=en&tm

Microsoft Office Excel Services Business Value (whitepaper)

22nd September 2007

https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastRegistrationConfirmation.aspx

Momentum Webcast: Enterprise Content Management and Workflows in SharePoint Server 2007 (Level 100) (Chris Ertz)

19th September 2007

http://www.devx.com/dotnet/Article/35324/1954?pf=true
 
Business Intelligence for the Average Joe: Getting Excel Data into SharePoint 2007 Lists (devx,  Colin Spence)

6th September 2007

http://technet2.microsoft.com/windowsserver/WSS/en/library/91649a7e-6b5a-4e5a-9ee5-51951f4b857f1033.mspx?mfr=true

Deploy software updates for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0

31st August 2007

https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastRegistrationConfirmation.aspx?culture=en-US&RegistrationID=1292793194

MSDN Webcast: Introduction to Windows Workflow Foundation (Level 200) (Glen Gordon)

24th August 2007

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsserver/sharepoint/bb684453.aspx

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Overview

26th March 2007 (probably)

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

http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=343092

Channel 9: Using InfoPath to design database forms (Philo)

22nd September 2007

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

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=4e6a9d40-dbfc-4474-826a-ddeca287e57d&displaylang=en&tm

BizTalk Server 2006 R2 Documentation

25th September 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=fd67aaa4-596c-4e54-ade1-4cdfa91f76ad&displaylang=en&tm

Understanding BizTalk Server 2006

24th September 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=41ab3b0a-d752-42c3-a3ed-412b3be2e7b3&displaylang=en&tm

Microsoft BizTalk Server and Microsoft Dynamics: A Line of Business Management and Integration (white paper)

21st September 2007

Modified

None

III WSS v3 FAQ

New

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1217

I.31.04 How do I request a hot fix *on-line*?

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1214

III.88.04 Indexing: How do I index PDF files *for WSS 3.0*?

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1216

V.64 MCTS: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Configuration Study Guide (70-630) (Sybex - James Pyles)

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1215

VII.02B Microsoft SharePoint 2007 Unleashed (ISBN: 0672329476) (Chapter 10 - Using Word, Excel, and Excel Services with SharePoint 2007)

Modified

http://wss.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?

IV WSSv2 KB Articles (plus SPS 2003 Hot fixes)

New

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;837850

Error message when you click Explorer View in a document library in Windows SharePoint Services or in SharePoint Team Services from Microsoft: "This page contains both secure and nonsecure items" (ver 3.2)

26th September 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/923643/en-us

Description of Windows SharePoint Services Service Pack 3 (ver 3.0)

21st September 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/938793/

Issues that are fixed in Windows SharePoint Services by Windows SharePoint Services Service Pack 3

18th September 2007

Modified

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=832815

"The page cannot be displayed" error message when you try to open a Visio XML drawing (.vdx) in a document library on your Windows SharePoint Services site (ver 2.7)

26th September 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=825214

Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 and earlier versions of Windows SharePoint Services do not support forms-based authentication (ver 5.1)

26th September 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=823552

You Receive a "Service Unavailable" Error Message When You Browse a Windows SharePoint Services Web Site (ver 3.5)

26th September 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=823378

"Virtual server is running FrontPage 2002 Server Extensions" message when you run Windows SharePoint Services Setup or when you try to extend the virtual server with Windows SharePoint Services (ver 4.2)

26th September 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=883506

A user who logs on to a Windows SharePoint Services Web site by using anonymous access cannot view a document that is checked out by another user (ver 2.3)

26th September 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=885652

Metadata of non-Office documents is not retained after you copy documents to a document library in SharePoint Portal Server 2003 or in Windows SharePoint Services (ver 1.2)

26th September 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=841215

You cannot connect to a document library in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 or Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 by using Windows shell commands or by using Explorer View (ver 3.1)

26th September 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;832811

How to restore a corrupted Windows SharePoint Services home page (ver 2.3)

26th September 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;830980

Storing ASP pages in Windows SharePoint Services document library may expose sensitive information (ver 2.1)

26th September 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;827751

The menu that displays online presence settings and commands is not displayed in Windows SharePoint Services (ver 3.1)

26th September 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;827926

Considerations that apply when you use multiple log files for usage analysis processing in Windows SharePoint Services (ver 3.1)

26th September 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=906795

How to obtain the latest service pack for Windows SharePoint Services (ver 1.4)

27th September 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=883973

New items that you add to a custom Calendar view of a list in a Windows SharePoint Services Web site may not be displayed (ver 2.3)

26th September 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=843344

"Outlook cannot add the requested Windows SharePoint Services folder" error message when you click Link to Outlook to add a Windows SharePoint Services Events list to Outlook 2003 (ver 1.2)

26th September 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=842570

"You do not have permission to upload this document" error message when you upload a document to a document library in SharePoint Portal Server 2003 or in Windows SharePoint Services (ver 1.5)

26th September 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=835559

You cannot access portal sites or Web sites, certain areas of SharePoint Portal Central Administration display the incorrect server name, and e-mail notifications contain incorrect URLs after you rename the server (ver 5.6)

26th September 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=838702

Usage analysis processing applies only to Windows SharePoint Services Web sites  (ver 1.3)

26th September 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=830320

Comparison of features that are included in Windows SharePoint Services and in SharePoint Portal Server 2003 (ver 2.3)

26th September 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=889380

How to obtain the latest service pack for SharePoint Portal Server 2003 (ver 2.2)

21st September 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=906795

How to obtain the latest service pack for Windows SharePoint Services (ver 1.3)

21st September 2007

V. MS Articles for WSSv2

New or Modified

None

VI Non-MS Articles for WSSv2

New or Modified

None

VII WSSv2 FAQ

New or Modified

None

An "audience" was one of those SPS 2003 things I knew were in SPS 2003 and not in WSS (2.0) but that was about the extent of my knowledge. Well, that and the fact that you could use them to show different information to different people.

(I was WSS only and only needed to know what was only in SPS 2003 so I could ignore questions on them (newgroups) or pass them on to a colleague (conferences))

Now, in the v3 products, this (showing different information to different people) is automatic, isn't it, as people now see only what they are allowed to see, so I'll admit that I didn't see the point in having Audiences in MOSS 2007 any more, yet there they were.

This has niggled me for some time (as has the question of why do some people think that WSS 3.0 has audiences too [wrongly as it happens]) so I finally grabbed a pile of SharePoint v3 books and looked through the indexes.

I  found sections on audiences on both the MVP written "Beginning SharePoint xxx" books from Wrox and Göran Husman's Administration section comes out with a definite "Remember that Audience Groups are exclusive to MOSS" (followed by the fact that with WSS you could use "target filtering using SP Groups and security groups") and both that book and Amanda/Shane's define audiences in a Shared Services Administration site (=MOSS).

So that solved the "It's not in WSS 3.0 question?" (= it isn't) but it still didn't solve the "why on earth do we still have Audiences?" question which needed me to read on (in those same books).

It soon became very clear.

Whereas the new interface means that you only see what you are allowed to see (=security), Audiences mean that you see what you want to see (or at least what the SP admin thinks you want to see).

Let's take the sort of example they use in those two books. Sales.

You can specify that certain sites / doc libs / Link Libraries etc. can only be accessed by Sales people and then these sites/doc libs/Link libraries won't appear on the web pages of non-Sales people because they are not allowed to access them. (Security!)

However you might have things that you don't really care if non-Sales people see or not, but you don't think that they will be particularly interested in them. In this case the built-in security trimming isn't going to do the job for you and you need something more.

So you set up an Audience of Sales People and assign that Audience to those things that aren't by any means secret to Sales people only but which normally only Sales people will want to see. Now the Sales people's web pages will show those things but the web pages of non-Sales people won't.

So what's the difference ?

- If the non-Sales person hasn't got (security) access rights to something. he can't access it.

- If however the non-Sales person is excluded from having certain information presented to him on his web pages via Audiences, then he/she can still access that information provided he knows where it is. He/she is not blocked from seeing the information, it's just made more difficult.

So that's why Audiences are still there. They are if you like there so that users can avoid having too much Information available to them at first glance.

Of course the question remains that if they are so useful why can't we have them in WSS 3.0.

Well we can - in the words of fellow MVP Robert Bogue talking about IRunTimeFilter "the underlying technology works in WSS -- the implementation of IRunTimeFilter in MOSS is Audiences." - it's just that Microsoft provides the code in MOSS 2007 and you have to write it yourself in WSS 3.0.

In addition, as the quote above from the Göran Husman book makes clear, you can still have target filtering in WSS 3.0. Not so powerful maybe and not applicable everywhere, but still a solution to the same problem.

P.S. You'll find those Wrox books as items 25 and 22 here

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

 

It's now over a week since the WSS FAQ's URL www.asaris.de/sites/walsh became wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh and site hits are still running at a fraction (40% on a good day) of what they were before the URL change so I thought I'd see what Google was giving for a simple WSS FAQ search (i.e. Typing WSS and FAQ in a simple search with no ").

Google was fine. It gave first the Collutions site (wss.collutions.com) which has had the same name for years and then the wss.asaris.de address.

So I thought I'd check www.live.com.

They still had www.asaris.de ....

So much for that. Google wins this comparison handsdown.

We are creatures of habit and it's really only by chance that I've recently discovered that I can save myself a lot of time and still get the same amount of MVP "work" done.

The first time savings was a big one. I've been using Outlook Express to handle the newsgroups as using any newsreader is a major time-saver compared to any use of the browser in particular because a newsreader keeps track of what messages you have read already.

There were two main problems with OE.

Firstly because I track newsgroups both at home (on at the time two machines) and at work (1) there was always the need to bring the second machine's OE to the same level as the first machine's OE. This was easy enough if I went straight home from work and immediately turned the home computer on but even only stopping off a the shops on the way home meant I had to either take the risk of marking messages as read that I hadn't in fact read OR re-reading more messages than I cared to read.

The second problem was that I read messages by thread and OE had this good feature that when you opened a newsgroup in it it would go straight to the earliest unread message BUT then had no feature to go to the next earliest unread message. So I would open .windowsservices; read the earliest unread message there; open .general; read the earliest unread message there and then repeat. Messy; took extra time (but less usually than finding that next unread message) and had the risk of me thinking I was in .windowsservices when I was actually in .general.

I'd tried Thunderbird but used it too in thread mode and had seen no advantages in it (and a couple of oddities) and so abandoned it again.

But then I got the MacBook and guess what OE doesn't work in the Mac. So Thunderbird again only this time (and don't ask me why) I started using it in message mode - in other words single messages are listed sorted according to the date with the latest at the end.

Suddenly I solved the above two problems. Once I'd found the first unread message, all the rest followed neatly directly after it and it was now simple t update the home machine - just mark all messages until the time 'd last looked at the newsgroup (often visible because of a reply from me). Simple.

So I started using Thunderbird everywhere .

However this thread was about time saving. There is a major time saving with only having to do down arrow to see the next message's opening (or complete) text. So my sessions take maybe 25-50% (nearer to the lower figure) of the time I used to take.

There is always a snag and in this case it's minor. Sometimes either people don't quote what they are replying to (or sometimes Thunderbird doesn't pick up the quote) and so without after all selecting thread mode (*for that message*) I can't see the context. The other even more minor snag is that if someone posts a message to two newsgroups *at once* (not as two separate messages) it appears in both my Thunderbird newsgroups as unread whereas in OE once I read it in one it is marked as read in the other one.

That's one time saving.

The other involves keeping track of the SP KB articles and the changes to them.

Because I'm far too curious for my own good I have printed copies of all the SP KB Articles I know about and every time there is a modification (ver 1.1 say) I compare that with the 1.0 version (and file that new version too).

Because printing from IE doesn't always work properly for A4, I print in Firefox and so far what I've done is keep track (when I add new or modified articles to the WSS FAQ sites) of articles I've not printed yet by listing them in the file I use to post the WSS FAQ additions and changes message/blog. Then I copy/paste them one by one to Firefox and print them out.

Today I realised (about time!) that all I needed to do was open in Firefox my Blog site and the latest WSS FAQ additions and comments Blog.

Now I just go down the list there of KB articles click enter; print; back browser; click next entry etc. Saves 50% of the time when printing and all the time taken to keep that separate list up-to-date.

Why didn't I think of that before ?

So there you are. It's worth having a look at your semi-manual methods now and again to see if - based on experience - there aren't better methods around.

When you buy an Apple "HiFi" loudspeaker (of the kind that came out last year and that you can put an IPod into but can also - as I mostly do - connect to the headphone plug of your HiFi amplifier) then you get a small unit that looks roughly like an IPod which which you remotely control basic functions of the Ipod that is stuck into the loudspeaker.

I use it mostly to control the volume of the speaker (as its much smaller and more responsive than the amplifier's remote control).

Apple have been "clever" and you can if you have a Mac also use the same control to control the volume of ITunes on the Mac. This sounds a useful function doesn't it?

As I discovered today when I was starting up a VM in Parallels that contained WSS 3.0 and WSS 3.0 versions of several of the WSS FAQ sites' Lists, this dual functionality isn't always a great feature.

I namely amended the volume of the loudspeaker just as the VM was opening and there was a dull click from the MacBook and an ominious message that Parallels was unable to open the VM. Luckily the VM opened after doing the re-boot of the Mac they suggested (and without the addition of a volume click from me) but my heart was in my hands for a short while.

Sometimes Apple just go one step too far. (I'd like a right click on this keyboard too as the method you can use in OsX (Ctrl-Click) doesn't work in a Windows 2003 VM so you need to use one of you USB ports to add an external *proper* mouse.)