You'd be amazed. At least I was.

Here as far as I can see is the total list

Windows Server 2008 for Itanium - 64-bit

Windows Web Server 2008 - 32-bit  (without Hyper-V)
Windows Web Server 2008 - 64-bit  (without Hyper-V [? the MS text is unclear])

Windows Server 2008 Standard - 32 bit without Hyper-V
Windows Server 2008 Standard - 32 bit with Hyper-V
Windows Server 2008 Standard - 64 bit with Hyper-V

Windows Server 2008 Enterprise - 32 bit without Hyper-V
Windows Server 2008 Enterprise - 32 bit with Hyper-V
Windows Server 2008 Enterprise - 64 bit with Hyper-V

Windows Server 2008 DataCenter - 32 bit without Hyper-V
Windows Server 2008 DataCenter - 32 bit with Hyper-V
Windows Server 2008 DataCenter - 64 bit with Hyper-V

So what's that ? TWELVE versions.

This I suppose is what happens when the Marketing guys take over.

Just pity the poor support people. "Now was that Enterprise 32-bit with or without Hyper-V" ?

P.S. Actually when it comes to paying for the things there are even more versions because of course there's often the choice of product + CALs and paying per processor.

P.P.S. A piece on this from Redmondmag said that the difference in price between with Hyper-V and without Hyper-V was a massive (sarcasm level high) 28 dollars. Or less than 3% (sometimes much less than 3%) of the price.

Someone out there isn't ticking properly. They probably lose that 28 dollars on the printing costs of preparing the material for those extra versions.

Many of the SharePoint v3 books that are already published or soon to be published are written either in full or in part by MVPs.

This makes the job of an MVP reviewer of these books somewhat difficult because the internal code between MVPs is to be nice to each other. So for instance say that I make a completely wrong statement in a newsgroup and another MVP wants to correct me, then he doesn't say "That's complete rubbish" but something like "Umm, Mike, isn't actually XXX the solution?".

The other thing that makes reviewing these v3 books more difficult than reviewing the v2 books was is that now I (as the writer of one chapter in a v3 book) am standing in the book equivalent of a glasshouse. If I say nasty things about their chapters then they can say nasty things about mine - and they don't even need to buy the book, because my chapter is the free on-line one ...

Luckily there's a way out. Many of the books are written by multiple authors only some of whom are MVPs and usually you can't see who wrote which chapter.

One such book is O'Reilly's "SharePoint 2007 - The Definitive Guide"

(http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=889)

which is in effect the O'Reilly version of "Beginning SharePoint 2007 Administration: Windows SharePoint Services 3 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (Wrox)"

(http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=900)

As there is a dearth of SharePoint Designer 2007 books (although I'm told that "Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 Step by Step (MSPress - Penelope Coventry)" is likely to be out first (Jan 8th 200)

(http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1238)

I thought I'd look at the Chapter the Definitive Guide has on SPD 2007 and compared it with the equally short (20 pages) chapter that the "Real World SharePoint 2007: Indispensable Experiences From 16 MOSS and WSS MVPs (Wrox)" has

(http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=961)

I've already written about the Dustin Miller (the Wrox book says who wrote each chapter) chapter (5) on SPD 2007. I found it short but useful - well written with a good balance of text to screen prints.

I can't say the same about Chapter 19 of the Definitive Guide.

It seemed as if someone had knocked off a quick intro in a couple of hours, most of which were spent doing screen prints. There were in fact so many screen prints and so little text that there were six pages with only screen prints and a couple more with only a few lines of text. This also meant that the text and the relevant screen print were separated in some cases by several pages (so p426 had a reference to Figure 19-26 and that was on page 431!).

So the quality of the editing of at least this chapter was way below O'Reilly's usual standards. Maybe it was an impossible task with such a high proportion of screen prints to text, but in that case shouldn't O'Reilly's editor have demanded more text ?

As for the text. It wasn't that great.

The introductory two pages (no screen prints!) were not really very useful for someone wanting to learn how to use SPD 2007.

The two examples (creating a Data View Web Part after connecting to a database; a workflow example) were very trivial and went no further than someone just messing about with the product would be able to do. Just very basic, standard stuff in other words that you probably didn't need a book for.

The final section (Managing SharePoint Sites) is as trivial as they come,  with very short and very general text only.

All in all a very disappointing chapter and after working through it I know no more than I did before. So I won't be recommending this chapter as something to look at while waiting for a full-length SPD 2007 book to come out.

Dustin Miller's chapter on the other hand IS something worth mentioning. It would be better if it were longer but the few examples he includes are well worth having and unlike the chapter of the Definitive book  they encourage (and prepare the way for) your own experimentation.

For more of the same, keep in mind the Dustin Miller / Heather Solomon SPD 2007 for Dummies book

(http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=844)

which is likely to be out a couple of months after the MS Press one mentioned above (and which given the way these deadlines seem constantly to move [back] may actually beat it out).

I made a major blunder this weekend when I took advantage of a 25% off - last three days - offer to upgrade my copy of Nero to version 8.

Their offer had very cleverly not bothered to tell you just how much this upgrade would cost (and it was more than I expected for an upgrade let alone an upgrade -25%, but having got so far in the process [of finding my old code] I stupidly carried on and ordered it). In fact you had to enter the code of the product you were upgrading from for them to tell you.

So the first blunder was mine (but caused by them). Not knowing that the upgrade cost was going to be the same regardless of which version of the product you were upgrading it from (as later checks showed), I upgraded the Nero 7 Multimedia version I had on my Portable (which is the machine I do the majority of my burning on and on which Nero 7 Multimedia was working well despite the OS being 64-bit Vista). Instead what I ought to have done was upgrade the OEM Nero 6.3 I had on my older desktop where it had been bundled. Then of course I'd - for the same money - had one PC running Nero 7 Multimedia and one running Nero 8.

The second blunder was thinking that if I was upgrading a copy of the English version 7 to a copy of the English version 8, the installation routine would be in English.

No, the Nero (Ahead, actually) guys have now a certain amount of Finnish support, which means that without bothering to ask me that upgrade's menus were all in Finnish. Now I may live in Finland (location) and I may use Finnish settings on my PCs but that is purely to get a semi-automatic installation of a Finnish keyboard; Finnish decimals (= ",") and Finnish sort orders. What it does NOT mean is that I want them (for an installation of an English product, I remind you) to give me a set of Finnish installation menus once I press "Update" on the *English* language menu.

Now I've been here long enough and have worked in a Finnish language environment long enough to speak and understand Finnish, but there are lots of people living here who work solely in English because some of the big multinationals have English as their working language, and they would have had serious problems because of this Nero/Ahead cleverness.

For one they would have wondered for instance why after a re-boot the installation started up again. (Which only partly worried me because I had seen the screen way before the Re-boot now screen which had said roughly that some things were still open so the installation would continue after the re-boot). They would in any case have been pressing OK on every screen with no real idea of what they were pressing OK to.

At this point the first message was sent to the Nero support address. (Why the **** are the menus in Finnish?)

Anyway I was OK. I could read the Finnish menus (although cursing at the additional effort required of me) and I would in the end have an English installation wouldn't I ?

Well not exactly. There's something it installs called "Nero Home". THAT was in Finnish. There's also something called a Control Center. That was in Finnish too (actually only partly ...).

At this point the second message was sent to the Nero support address. (Why the **** are Home and Control Center in Finnish?)

I then decided I'm not having this and went to change my computer settings to English and also location to England. I removed Nero 8 from Control Panel / Add or remove Programs and re-installed (again using a custom installation to get everything and to be able to satisfy a location on the D: drive as C: was a bit full). I used the demo version download but specified the full version's code.

Great Joy - English language installation menus !!

The installation went through OK but then I saw that under Start / Programs the only things that were listed were two folders "Nero Manuals" and "Nero Tools". No links to any of the programs at all ....

Nero Manuals by the way is a joke as all it includes is a single file that says that you have to download the manuals as for reasons of space they are not included in the installation download.

Nero Tools includes Nero Control Center which at least this time had text in English.

But to get to the programs that do anything you need to wander down through the file system (and then drag the Nero8 file directory to your Start button to avoid needing to do this again).

I did this and started up the SmartStart application which in v7 I'd used as a quick way to get to the correct actual application for what I wanted to do.

This has some links on the left but there was also a line of Tabs above the main area of the screen so I selected something like (I'm on another machine now, I'll correct the name later) the "Copy and Burn" Tab and the main area came up with "Upgrade Now to the full version of Nero 8". As did all the other Tabs.

Time for a third message to Nero/Ahead support. I've paid; I've used the code I got back when I installed; why don't I have the full version ?

At this point (if not before!) I was getting very irritated. I'd upgraded because I was about to burn some CDs and thought the burning process might be minutely better if I had the latest version of the software. Now I'd spent several hours and seemingly I couldn't burn at all.

So I uninstalled again.

Finally I did yet another install (I've missed one above as I did 2 Finnish setting installs, so this was actually the fourth), this time using the upgrade exe rather than the trial exe (hoping that install would finally take notice of the code I'd bought and then during the installation I selected Typical settings (hoping that I'd now get the Nero products accesible via Start/Programs/Nero).

There was nothing more I could do, I felt.

Well the install apart from adding stuff to C: instead of D: made no difference.

There were still only Nero Manuals (still empty of manuals) and Nero Tools listed and all of the apps were still only available via the file structure (only now in C:\Program Files (x86) of course).

There were still a bunch of Tabs in SmartStart which said I needed to upgrade to the full version of Nero 8 (whereas by now I was wishing I could just revert to Nero 7 Multimedia).

Yet, strangely enough I could actually burn just as usual by going to Nero BurnRom (in the file structure of course) and starting the .exe there.

(Which I'd perhaps been able to do all along).

So I was finally able (near midnight on Sunday with a work day ahead) to burn the things I had in mind to burn.

But I still don't know how many of the other applications will not work because I "need to upgrade to the full version". I still don't know if even the ones that work today will stop working after 30 days even though it ought to know that I've paid.

I don't know because I no longer trust this software.

The "upgrade" was truly a nightmare and I doubt if I'll get any joy from their support people as I have been, let's put it this way, not as friendly and matter-of-fact as I ought to have been (and in fact would probably have been if it hadn't for their **** software forcing Finnish on me and giving me no way to decide that I didn't want Finnish).

So this is one "upgrade" I recommend all Nero users to give a miss.

At least until SP1 is out :)


 

P.S. I did a fifth installation. This time I switched off the virus checker and everything else that was running before I downloaded the upgrade .exe which starts the installation. It required a couple of re-boots and then it said it was ready.

It had all the same problems. My (Nero) license info said both that I was running a non-expiring full version and that I was running an expiring Demo version (after an earlier installation I'd tried deleting the Demo version here but that didn't help, I'd found). Nero SmartStart still had Tabs that didn't work and said I needed to Upgrade to the full version. I couldn't find the Nero code in the registry where it was supposed to be and none of the products (except for Control Center) were listed in Start / All Programs / Nero8.

So I tried in Control Center to get the latest Updates.

This went fine for a while (going slowly) but then there was an "Error accessing the OLE registry" and the rest of the installation speeded up. Then a re-boot was needed after which there was an automatic (yet another - and again very slow !) installation of Nero8. When this was finally finished I actually had a list of all the products with version numbers listed in Control Center / Update and also had the products listed on Start/All Programs/Nero8.

What I unfortunately still had was a non-functioning SmartStart that still kept demanding that I upgrade to the full version; two Nero8 versions listed in Control Center/License; and no Nero code in the registry.

So this time I sent a very calm and detailed message to Nero support (and for good measure apologised for the earlier ones).

This "upgrade" was still a disaster though. Keep away from it (unless you are running an early OEM version when it's a good idea to do it anyway - but maybe wait a bit first :) )

Stop Press: It's no several days later. Their so-called "Help"-desk hasn't replied to a single one of my e-mails.

Could this be that they don't actually have a Help Desk or is it that everyone who has installed (or tried to install Nero 8) is sending messages to them.

I think I'll be generous to the Help Desk guy (singular intended) and say it is a bum product ...

... and to think I really liked Nero 7 Premium ... (when I still had it - pay 50 Euros and have your software destroyed, now that is what they should have had on their upgrade page!).

Most of the time when people complain that a Microsoft product doesn't work the way they think it should (and often complain that the people involved haven't a clue), I tend to think the people making the complaint are the ones who haven't a clue.

Being an MVP doesn't get you very far inside the MS tent, but at least close enough to realise that people who are inside that tent are trying to make the best products they can and that usually things that are missing (or not done the way the rest of us think they should be done) are the results of design decisions - i.e. they often *have* thought of the thing that we see as missing but decided for good (to them) reasons  not to include that functionality.

However occasionally they get it very wrong and in my opinion the worst cases of this are when they remove functionality in a later version that was in an earlier version of the same product (even if that product name has been changed in the meantime to confuse us and maybe make it seem it isn't the same product).

One good example of both of these last two points comes in SharePoint Designer 2007 (which - for SharePoint uses - is the follow-up product to Front Page 2003).

Whereas when you used Front Page 2003 to create a Data View Web Part (DVWP), you had access to all the SharePoint Lists on the same *server*, using SharePoint Designer 2007 you only have access to SharePoint Lists in the same *site collection* on that server.

I think discussion of this started in a thread in a SharePoint public newsgroup where I suggested using SPD 2007 to create a DVWP from any list on the server (based on FP 2003 experiences of doing just this) only for the person asking the question to come back and say this didn't work for sites in another site collection).

Now we have a blog post from Monty (the same guy as in the newsgroup, perhaps?) on this, complete with a reference to a basic MS page saying which SharePoint Lists you can add to a "Data Source Library" where it clearly states ". If the other site is in a different site collection, you can still access all of the other data sources, but not SharePoint lists and libraries."

That Monty blog (with that reference) is here:

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/mcotw/archive/2007/11/07/No-longer-able-to-create-a-DVWP-with-a-datasource-that-pulls-data-from-another-site-collection.aspx

What I'd like to know (but probably never will) is just what was the "design reason" in this case? SPD 2007 is a product that covers an awful lot more than FP 2003 ever did (making it more difficult to use, incidentally), so why, oh why, REMOVE functionality - and what's more, functionality that was easy to use? Yes, even for me.

 

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 4th - 10th November 2007

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

New

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/944433

The 2007 Office documents are not found when you try to search for the documents in the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 site collection

8th November 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=943105

After you install SharePoint Server 2007 Service Pack 1, the maximum disk space that is used on a query server or on an index server increases to 2.85 times the physical size of the index

6th November 2007

Modified

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;929360

You cannot create a new document or check out an existing document in a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 document library when you have multiple versions of Office installed (ver 3.0)

9th November 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=943345

How to defragment Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 databases and SharePoint Server 2007 databases (ver 1.3)

7th November 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;843578

Things to consider when you configure collation settings for SQL Server 2000 databases or SQL Server 2005 databases that are used by SharePoint Portal Server 2003, by SharePoint Server 2007, and by Windows SharePoint Services (ver 2.4)

6th November 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=841057

Support for changes to the databases that are used by Office server products and by Windows SharePoint Services (ver 7.3)

6th November 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb%3ben-us%3b932744

Information about the Maintenance Plan Wizard in SQL Server 2005 and about tasks that administrators can perform against SharePoint databases (ver 2.1)

7th November 2007

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

An external storage API is available for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (ver 1.1)

31st October 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;941330

How to automate the deletion of backups in SharePoint Server 2007 and in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 by using a Visual Basic script (ver 1.1)

31st October 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;936859

Error message when you click Reply in a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 discussion board in Subject view: "The page cannot be found" (ver 1.2)

31st October 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;936913

How to determine whether the Stsadm.exe command-line tool was run successfully in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and in SharePoint Server 2007 (ver 1.1)

31st October 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;934536

You cannot create a list that is based on a list template that has the E-Mail Notification option enabled in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 or in SharePoint Server 2007 (ver 1.1)

31st October 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;936623

Error message after you change the configuration database name when you perform a gradual upgrade from SharePoint Portal Server 2003 to SharePoint Server 2007: "An update conflict has occurred" (ver 2.1)

31st October 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=932118

Persistent cookies are not shared between Internet Explorer 7 and Office applications in Windows Vista (ver 1.3) [Note: relevance to SSO in MOSS 2007]

31st October 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;944105

How to customize application pages in the Layouts folder in SharePoint Server 2007 and in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (ver 3.0)

30th October 2007

I.b Forefront KB Articles

New

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;943624

Support information for Antigen or Forefront Security management console programs on a computer on which an Antigen server product or a Forefront Security server product is installed

7th November 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;943620

Folders to exclude when you perform a file-level antivirus scan on a server operating system

2nd November 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;943625

Antigen or Microsoft Forefront server security products may detect a file as being infected with the UnwritableCompressedFile virus

2nd November 2007

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 3.0)

7th November 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;943611

An error message is logged in the ProgramLog.txt file when you try to update a scan engine in Forefront Security for Exchange Server or in Forefront Security for SharePoint: "ERROR: Failed to create temporary manifest file" (ver 1.2)

2nd November 2007

I.c InfoPath 2007 KB Articles

New

None

Modified

New

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/bb954662.aspx

Upgrading SharePoint Portal Server 2003 Customizations to SharePoint Server 2007 (Part 1 of 2)

7th November 2007 (date added)

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb954661.aspx

Upgrading SharePoint Portal Server 2003 Customizations to SharePoint Server 2007 (Part 2 of 2)

7th November 2007 (date added)

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointdesigner/HA102098081033.aspx

Collect data from a user in a workflow (SPD 2007 article)

7th November 2007 (date added)

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointdesigner/HA102336241033.aspx

Assign a form to a group in a workflow  (SPD 2007 article)

7th November 2007 (date added)

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointdesigner/HA102336231033.aspx

Assign a to-do item in a workflow (SPD 2007 article)

7th November 2007 (date added)

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointdesigner/HA102376561033.aspx

Create a secondary workflow (SPD 2007 article)

7th November 2007 (date added)

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb330848.aspx

Setting Up a Development Environment for the 2007 Microsoft Office System (Keith Bunge, Alex Hart, Bryan Hart - all Solanite Consulting) (for Microsoft)

7th November 2007 (date added - revised date of paper October 2007)

http://blogs.technet.com/wbaer/archive/2007/11/06/moving-site-collections-between-domains.aspx

Moving site collections between domains (MSBlog - William Baer)

6th November 2007

http://www.sharepointforum.com/en-US/Wiki/Installation%20WSS%203.0.aspx

Installation WSS 3.0 (Daniel Bugday [not MS])

5th November 2007

http://www.sharepointforum.com/en-US/Wiki/Installation%20MOSS%202007.aspx

Installation MOSS 2007 (Daniel Bugday [not MS])

5th November 2007

http://blogs.msdn.com/jingmeili/archive/2007/11/05/how-to-exclude-a-site-collection-from-being-indexed-for-a-global-search-but-not-for-local-search.aspx

How to exclude a site collection from being indexed for a global search but not for local search?  (Blog - Jingmei Li)

5th November 2007

http://www.sharepointforum.com/en-US/Blog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?List=f0104928%2D1beb%2D4409%2Db7f3%2Df577171376fd&ID=5

Content Types: Rename Title Column Issue (Blog - Daniel Bugday)

5th November 2007

http://blogs.inetium.com/blogs/rmitchell/archive/2007/11/01/use-powershell-to-list-your-views.aspx

Use PowerShell to list your Views (Blog - Raymond Mitchell)

1st November 2007

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/toth/archive/2007/10/31/using-named-anchors-in-sharepoint-wiki-pages.aspx

Using named anchors in SharePoint Wiki pages (Blog - Adam Toth)

31st October 2007

http://sharepointsolutions.blogspot.com/2007/10/sharepoint-designer-workflows-how-to.html

SharePoint Designer Workflows: How to Tell Which Fields Have Changed (Blog - Ricky Spears, SharePoint Solutions)

31st October 2007

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

None

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

None

Modified

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=f9956176-cf66-478b-b20d-b9b92dd0dbfa&displaylang=en&tm

Microsoft Office 2007 Professional VHD (ver 1.1)

5th November 2007

III WebCasts (+ PodCasts, On-Line courses) for 2007 Products
 
None

IV WSS v3 FAQ

New

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1249

I.39 What are the differences between .stp and .wsp template files?

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1253

I.40 What are the differences between using (AD) Domain Groups and using SharePoint Groups?

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1256

III.49.15 Search: How do I enable Search Server 2008 Express features for WSS 3.0?

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1257

III.49.16 Search: Why am I getting an error when I install Search Server 2005 Express on my MOSS 2007 server?

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1248

V.72 SharePoint 2007 Fundamentals: Interactive Training Course (DVD-ROM) (Pilothouse Consulting, Inc.. - Andre Abramenko) *released*

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1252

V.73 Modelando procesos de negocio con Workflow Foundation (Workflow Book in Spanish) (Editorial Krasis Press - Unai Zorrilla Castro)

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1250

VI.82 Lighting Tools Data Viewer Web Part (commercial - Lighting Tools Ltd)

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1251

VI.83 eSENSE Bridge (commercial - nse)

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1254

VI.84 Newsletter Web Part for Microsoft SharePoint (commercial - SharePartXXL International Gmbh)

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1255

VI.85 CorasWorks Data Integration Toolset for MOSS 2007 (commercial - CorasWorks)

Modified

V WSSv2 KB Articles (plus SPS 2003 Hot fixes)

New

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=944445

SharePoint Portal Server 2003 cannot index a 2007 Office document or file [My assumption is that this applies to WSS 2.0 as well]

5th November 2007

Modified

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;822697

Problems that may occur in Meeting Workspace information when you use Outlook Web Access (ver 3.4)

5th November 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=823569

E-mail message attachments are not uploaded to the document library in your SharePoint Services virtual server (ver 1.5)

25th October 2007

(was "E-Mail Message Attachments Are Not Uploaded to the Document Library When You Configure an E-Mail Enabled Document Library (ver 1.2)")

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=913402

Description of the Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 post-Service Pack 2 hotfix package: February 7, 2006 (ver 2.1)

24th October 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=915746

Description of the Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 post-Service Pack 2 hotfix package: March 21, 2006 (ver 2.1)

24th October 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=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 2.0 (ver 5.0)

23rd October 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=829067

You may receive a "The initializestrings method returned the incorrect number of strings" error message when you use FrontPage 2003 to open the properties of a Web Part (ver 4.0) [Only in an SPS 2003 environment]

22nd October 2007

Deleted

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

Description of the Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services post-Service Pack 2 hotfix package: June 1, 2006

VI WSSv2 FAQ

New

None

Modified

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSS%20FAQ/EditForm.aspx?ID=67

III.05.2 Forbidden characters

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSS%20FAQ/EditForm.aspx?ID=242

III.77 SQL Reporting Services on a WSS Server. How do I get it to work?

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSS%20FAQ/EditForm.aspx?ID=307

VII.08.09 Free WSS Web parts - Outlook Folders and others (Sigi Weber)

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSS%20FAQ/EditForm.aspx?ID=329

VII.08.13 Free WSS Web Parts - Logout WebPart (Sigi Weber)

I ended with being unable to play the avi (mp4) files in the Mac (scratchy sound in the Mac itself and/or player crashing and reversed and upside-down pictures in a Parallels VM running Server 2003) yet being able to play them in my Vista based portable (right away) and in an XPPro set-up after installating Windows Media Player 11 and installing the divx codec.

So the logical thing to do was to try to upgrade the Windows Media Player 10 in the Server VM to 11 and see if that managed to clear up the reverse (etc) picture problem there.

This was the point at which I started cursing Microsoft and their "we know better attitude". They just *knew* that I had Finnish settings and so they *knew* I'd be wanting the Finnish version of the Media player. So I'd find an English language link in a MS site to Media Player 11; click on it and be directed to a page in Finnish offering me a download of Media Player 10 (yes 10!). After jumping through so many hoops that I can't even remember them, I finally was able to download the English language version of Media Player 11 and installed it - well up to the point where it said it could only be installed on XPPro with SP2 ...

So the next step was to create a VM running XPPro. Again under Parallels. So I did that and because the Swedish keyboard is the same as the Finnish one, I specified Swedish settings for a change. The XPPro installation (as always the English language version) went OK and then I went to install Media Player 11.

If my problems with the Finnish settings and continual attempts by Microsoft to give me the Finnish version were bad enough, they were ten time worse with their attempts to give me the Swedish version. The main trick I had done with the Finnish version to get it to give me the English version (search on worldwide) didn't work with the Swedish version and there were things like menus that automatically decided to only select links if the text was in Swedish; even resetting this to all languages and picking English language pages still always led to a download of the Swedish language version until a random event happened and for no apparent reason I did finally have an Enlgish language version of Media Player 11 to download.

I installed it; tested the avi file; as expected only sound; installed the dix codec; and ....  got both sound and vision *reversed and upside-down*!

Conclusion: there must be something wrong with Parallels. Next test: Install XPPro SP2; Media Player 11 and the divx codec on a VM under VMWare Fusion (for which I have the beta of version 1.1). Then finally I might be able to play these files on the Mac.

Meanwhile a note that Firefox downloads also suggest the Finnish language version to me BUT they have one line lower a link to "other language versions". Nice and simple. Why oh why doesn't Microsoft do something similar and stop assuming they know best (and virtually forcing their choice on me)?

P.S. I've now created an XP Pro with SP2 VM under VM Fusion; added Media Reader 11; added the divx codec. Just in fact what I did on a real XPPro. It didn't help. The file is still upside down and reversed (and it's not the file as I tried with a smaller file; same thing).

So now the question is, is this a MAC VM "feature" or do I have a reverse back codec on both the XPPro and the Vista (native) machines on which this has run correctly ?

Next stop a VM running XPPro on the Vista machine.

Note: The main problem with this is that each test uses up an XPPro authentication because otherwise you can't install Media Reader 11 and even MSDN users don't have that many to use for testing (which is very clearly what I am doing here).

P.P.S. It will play fine using the free Divx Player (from www.divx.com and included in the divx codec download) but use Real Player in that same VM Fusion:based XPPro system and it's reversed and upside down again just like in Media Player 11.

As you have seen from the title this for once is not a SharePoint blog piece.

I have a recently bought Digibox with a hard disk. I carefully bought one of the few that had a USB port so that I could transfer files to my PC.

Well I can but these files are in a very strange format and I discovered there are no free ways of converting these files into a normal video file format that is anything less than very complicated and time consuming. (Nor did there seem to be any solution I could pay for)

So it was time to look at something else.

Well, by chance, in addition to a video IPod (80GB) I also have an Archos 604 Wifi device and I've recently bought its add-on for adding content direct from the TV because it also included a charger for the Archos' battery (which you can charge via USB port if you have half a day to spare).

So I connected that to one of the many output places on my (expensive) digibox and started a program going from the digibox and recorded it to the Archos device. (In real time of course and with - at least the way I did it - no way of telling it automatically when to stop recording, so I had to monitor it).

I now had a mp4 format .avi file that I could transfer to my  Portable PC or MacBook and play there.

Well not actually and not entirely.

It will play on the Portable PC (Vista) but the MacBook is odd.

Firstly in QuickTime it plays OK (video) but with very scratchy/jumpy sound. I paid for a codec from Apple that helped not a bit. I tried adding the divx codec (free) for luck but to no effect.

So I tried it in a Parallels VM running VM Server and after I loaded Windows Media Viewer 10 I got sound but no picture. So I added here the divx codec and now I get perfect picture and sound.

BUT the picture is upside down and also horizontally switched by 180 degrees (so left is right and right is left - only noticeable because of the TV stations logo)

(There's a message about "error downloading codec" and simultaneously playback starts).

So almost there but not quite.

Obviously it's a codec problem. Equally obviously my PC portable has it ... (but which and where did I get it from?)

P.S. I tried to run the .avi file on an XPPro. Sound only. So I upgraded to Windows Media Viewer 11 and tried again. It said it was uploading a codec and that went OK. I still only got sound though ..

So I tried adding the divx codec (from http://www.divx.com and installing only the codec part of the free download) and now I had both vision and sound. Maybe I should try Media Viewer 11 on the Windows Server 2003 running in that VM ...?

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 28th October - 3rd November 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;944104

Error message when you try to configure the SSO service on a computer that is running SharePoint Server 2007: "Failed to connect to the database server"

31st October 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;944154

You receive an HTTP 404 error message when you browse the SharePoint site collections after a hotfix package or a public update for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 is applied

31st October 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;944106

When you programmatically use the SPUser.RegionalSettings object on a server that is running Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, the value of the returned object is NULL

30th October 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;843578

Things to consider when you configure collation settings for SQL Server 2000 databases or SQL Server 2005 databases that are used by SharePoint Portal Server 2003, by SharePoint Server 2007, and by Windows SharePoint Services (ver 2.3)

30th October 2007

(moved from v2)

Modified

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;944105

How to customize application pages in the Layouts folder in SharePoint Server 2007 and in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (ver 2.0)

29th October 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=934793

Description of the SharePoint Server 2007 hotfix package: April 12, 2007 (ver 3.0)

29th October 2007

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

Description of the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 hotfix package: April 12, 2007 (ver 1.5)

11th September 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=934251

Description of the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 hotfix package that includes the English, French, and German MUI: April 12, 2007 (ver 1.1)

11th September 2007

 

I.b Forefront KB Articles

New

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;943611

An error message is logged in the ProgramLog.txt file when you try to update a scan engine in Forefront Security for Exchange Server or in Forefront Security for SharePoint: "ERROR: Failed to create temporary manifest file"

1st November 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://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/3c5ea34d-e9da-44b0-a1a7-e92107203b8d1033.mspx?mfr=true

Manage Web Parts page and controls security (Office SharePoint Server)

2nd November 2007

http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/a219574c-783b-49e2-84a5-691685cd4b821033.mspx?mfr=true

Site Use Confirmation and Automatic Deletion: Stsadm properties (Office SharePoint Server)

1st November 2007

http://blogs.technet.com/wbaer/archive/2007/10/30/installing-windows-sharepoint-services-3-0-on-windows-server-2008.aspx

Installing Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 on Windows Server 2008 (MS Blog - William Baer)

30th October 2007

http://sharepointnutsandbolts.blogspot.com/2007/10/stsadm-export-content-deployment.html

STSADM export, Content Deployment, Content Migration API, Features/Solutions - deployment options compared (Blog - Chris O'Brien)

29th October 2007

http://blogs.msdn.com/joelo/archive/2007/10/29/sharepoint-app-pool-settings.aspx

Recommendations for SharePoint Application Pool Settings (MS Blog - Joel Oleson)

29th October 2007

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointdesigner/HA100996241033.aspx?mode=print

Apply conditional formatting to a Data View

29th October 2007 (date added)

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/zimmer/archive/2007/10/28/moss-2007-customize-the-search-result-using-xslt-part-3-customize-using-sharepoint-designer-2007.aspx

MOSS 2007: Customize the Search Result (using XSLT) - Part 3 - Customize using SharePoint Designer 2007  (Blog - Tobias Zimmergren)

28th October 2007

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/zimmer/archive/2007/09/01/moss-2007-customizing-the-search-results-page-xslt-part-2-add-highlighting.aspx

MOSS 2007: Customizing the Search Results Page (XSLT) - Part 2 - Add highlighting (Blog - Tobias Zimmergren)

1st September 2007

http://www.toddklindt.com/blog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=48

Redirection options in SharePoint (Blog . Todd Klindt)

19th August 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=be706c39-b73b-4b6f-8d22-87aeec1ebfa2&displaylang=en&tm

Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 R2 Reviewer's Guide (ver 1.0)

29th October 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=8790e652-1da5-4e80-88fe-b87606233db4&displaylang=en&tm

BizTalk Server 2006 R2 Runtime Architecture Poster (ver 1.0)

29th October 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=ff468298-64be-4947-a086-f61584caf995&displaylang=en&tm

BizTalk Server 2006 R2 Scale-Out Configurations Poster (ver 1.0)

29th October 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=b9f13051-1cfd-462b-a637-013fd923b177&displaylang=en&tm

Business-to-Business Integration with BizTalk Server 2006 R2 (ver 1.0)

29th October 2007

 

Modified

http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/82c09ad6-6137-438d-a324-16a7f99e12681033.mspx?mfr=true

Plan to crawl content (Office SharePoint Server)

1st November 2007

III WebCasts (+ PodCasts, On-Line courses) for 2007 Products
 
https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastRegistrationConfirmation.aspx?culture=en-US&RegistrationID=1293376675

Momentum Webcast: Microsoft Enterprise Search Solutions in SharePoint Server 2007 (Level 100) (Chris Ertz)

24th October 2007

IV WSS v3 FAQ

New

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1244

V.62 Sharepoint Server 2007 : Tome 1, Installation et déploiement (in French) (MSPress - Bill English and others) *released*

(uses free V.62 number)

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1240

V.68 Administrator's Guide to Microsoft Office 2007 Servers: Forms Server 2007, Groove Server 2007, Live Communications Server 2007, PerformancePoint Server, SharePoint Server 2007 for Search (Unleashed) (SAMS - J. Peter Bruzzese, Ronald Barrett)

(replaces former V.62 - author and up-to-date prices added - (mistake adding as new!)

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1241

V.69 Windows SharePoint Services 3.0-Programmierung (in German) (MSPress Deutschland - Ted Pattison, Daniel Larson)

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1242

V.70 Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 - Das Handbuch. (in German) (in German) (MSPress Deutschland - Dirk Grasekamp)

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1243

V.71 Microsoft SharePoint-Technologien (in German) (MSPress Deutschland - Ben Curry)

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1247

VII.19B Professional SharePoint 2007 Development (Wrox - ISBN 978-0-470-11756-9) (Chapter 5 *extract* - Programming Event Handling in Windows SharePoint Services

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1246

VII.23A Real World SharePoint 2007: Indispensable Experiences from 16 MOSS and WSS MVPs (Wrox - ISBN 978-0-470-17402-9) Chapter 1 - Introduction to SharePoint

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1245

VIII.03C InfoPath 2007 (in French) (Editions ENI - Jean-François Fustec) *released*

Modified

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=966

V.39 Microsoft SharePoint 2007 im Einsatz (in German) (Addison-Wesley - Torsten Mollien, Thomas Hauser)

(author added; new delivery date)

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=967

V.40 Microsoft SharePoint - Technik und Einsatz (in German) (Microsoft Press, Deutschland - Egbert Jeschke)

(new title; new delivery date)

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1074

V.50 Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services v3. Das offizielle Trainingsbuch (in German) (MS Press Deutschland - Olga M. Londer, Todd Bleeker, Penelope Coventry) *released*

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1107

V.56 Microsoft Sharepoint 2007 für Dummies (Wiley - Vanessa L. Williams) (In German) *released*

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

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

(also VII.23A and 23B have been moved to become 23B and 23C)

V WSSv2 KB Articles (plus SPS 2003 Hot fixes)

New

None

Modified

None

VI WSSv2 FAQ

New

None

Modified

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

Description of Windows SharePoint Services Service Pack 3 (ver 5.1)

29th October 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;941412

Description of the Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 hotfix package: August 23, 2007 (ver 2.1)

26th October 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;911559

Description of the SharePoint Portal Server 2003 post-Service Pack 2 hotfix package: December 5, 2005 (ver 2.1)

24th October 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=910920

Description of the Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 post-Service Pack 2 Hotfix Package: February 14, 2006 (ver 2.1)

24th October 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=915424

Description of the Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 post-Service Pack 2 hotfix package: March 13, 2006 (ver 2.2)

24th October 2007

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

Description of a new command-line operation that you can use to repair content databases in Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 and Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server 2003 (ver 2.2)

24th October 2007

Unfortunately most publishers have got wise to my method in early days as an MVP of having such a large set of free on-line chapters stored in my private STS (later WSS 2.0) site that they covered the whole subject.

These days if there are on-line chapters available in full, they tend to be Chapter One - Introduction to XXX and so having a collection of 12 on-line chapters on a particular subject no longer means that you cover the content of an entire book. Instead you are very well information about the basics.

Nevertheless these on-line chapters do have a role to fill and that is of letting you see whether the writer's style is something you can put up with through an entire book.

There was a book a while back that got a comment from one person that the humour was laid on so thickly that he couldn't bear to read it, even though the technical matter was good. Other people of course praised the humour. So that was one book where to make your own mind up you could usefully read the on-line chapter. (The writer is now an MVP so I'm not going to say which book even if you ask).

Another snag is that many books have more than one author (this seems to be almost the norm for SharePoint v3 as it becomes more and more complicated / covers more areas) and so deciding you like (or dislike) the style of the writing based on the on-line Chapter One isn't going to help you to much if that writer has only written Chapter One and the other chapters were written by others.

The final snag that comes to mind is that Chapter One is sometimes written at a completely different level to the rest of the book.

In Real World SharePoint 2007,  my Chapter One (yes, called "An Introduction to SharePoint" - accurate for once, because it also mentions the history of the SharePoint products) is intentionally the only one written for non-experts. Its aim is to get people quickly up-to-speed in SharePoint 2007 (using WSS 3.0 as a simpler example) so that they have a chance of understanding the rest of the book and know where to find (and ask for) more information.

So I was very happy when that Chapter was not the one used - as a free on-line chapter - to show what the book was like, but instead there were some extracts available of (parts of) other chapters. "WAS happy" because yesterday I discovered that that Chapter One is now available in full, on-line as a free download (and one, what's more, that is easier to find than those extracts). Oops.

Anyway for people just itching to read it and find all the factual and spelling errors (another reason for me being fairly happy it wasn't available on-line), you'll find it linked to on my page with links to all the on-line chapters and part-chapters I could find.

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/VII%20Book%20Extracts.aspx

(item 23A)

When there, if you've been before, you might also take a look at 19B which has also just been added.

P.S. As always, if you know of any on-line chapters or part chapters that are available but for which I haven't got a listing, please let me know. SharePoint only of course (although I'm wondering how far chapters of ASP.NET 2.0 books are relevant these days).