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 my blog at http://mikewalsh.bilsimser.com)

(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 18th - 25th 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;944267

How to troubleshoot common errors that occur when you run the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard on a computer that is running Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 or SharePoint Server 2007 (ver 2.3)

20th November 2007

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/tbone/archive/2007/11/20/re-using-sharepoint-designer-workflows-in-multiple-lists.aspx

Re-using SharePoint Designer workflows in multiple lists (Blog -TBone)

20th November 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;937208

Description of the SharePoint Server 2007 hotfix package: May 15, 2007 (2nd with this date) (ver 1.1)

15th November 2007

Modified

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;943076

Description of the Excel Services in Office SharePoint Server 2007 hotfix package: October 9, 2007 (ver 1.3)

23th November 2007

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

Attachments that are allowed by Outlook 2007 may be blocked by Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (ver 4.0)

20th November 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;932919

Description of the SharePoint Server 2007 hotfix package: February 26, 2007 (ver 1.2)

15th November 2007

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

Description of the SharePoint Server 2007 hotfix package: April 12, 2007 (ver 3.1)

15th November 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;936877Description of the SharePoint Server 2007 hotfix package for SharePoint Server 2007 and for SharePoint Server 2007 for Search: May 8, 2007 (ver 1.3)

15th November 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;937207

Description of the SharePoint Server 2007 hotfix package: May 15, 2007 (ver 1.1)

15th November 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;937906

Description of the SharePoint Server 2007 hotfix package: May 25, 2007 (ver 1.2)

15th November 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;937904

Description of the SharePoint Server 2007 hotfix package: May 25, 2007 (2nd one from May 25) (ver 1.2)

15th November 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;938535

Description of the SharePoint Server 2007 hotfix package: June 11, 2007 (ver 1.1)

15th November 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;938537

Description of the SharePoint Server 2007 hotfix package: June 12, 2007 (ver 1.1)

15th November 2007

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

Description of the SharePoint Server 2007 hotfix package for SharePoint Server 2007 and for SharePoint Server 2007 for Search: June 24, 2007 (ver 1.2)

15th November 2007

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

Description of the SharePoint Server 2007 hotfix package: June 29, 2007 (ver 1.2)

15th November 2007

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

Description of the SharePoint Server 2007 hotfix package: June 29, 2007 (2nd of the same date) (ver 1.3)

15th November 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;938241

Description of the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 for the Multilingual User Interface pack hotfix package: May 31, 2007 (ver 2.3)

15th November 2007

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

Description of the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 hotfix package: April 12, 2007 (ver 1.6)

15th November 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=931636

Description of the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 hotfix package: February 6, 2007 (ver 2.3)

15th November 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;931637

Description of the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 hotfix package: January 25, 2007 (ver 1.2)

15th November 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;938536

Description of the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 hotfix package: June 11, 2007 (ver 1.1)

15th November 2007

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

Description of the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 hotfix package: June 24, 2007 (ver 1.1)

15th November 2007

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

Description of the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 hotfix package: June 29, 2007 (ver 1.3)

15th November 2007

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

Description of the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 hotfix package: May 15, 2007 (ver 2.2)

15th November 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;937901

Description of the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 hotfix package: May 25, 2007 (ver 1.3)

15th November 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;938183

Description of the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 hotfix package: May 31, 2007 (ver 1.2)

15th November 2007

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

Description of the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 hotfix package: May 8, 2007 (ver 1.3)

15th November 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb%3Ben-us%3B941422

Description of the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 hotfix package: August 24, 2007 (ver 4.0)

31st October 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;934525

Description of the security update for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: October 9, 2007 (ver 5.0)

30th October 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;937832

Description of the security update for SharePoint Server 2007: October 9, 2007 (ver 3.1)

17th October 2007

I.b Forefront KB Articles

New

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/943621/en-us

The SharePoint Central Administration page is unavailable and Event IDs 2268 and 2214 are logged after you uninstall Forefront Security for SharePoint

20th November 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/943628/en-us

Error message is logged in ProgramLog.txt file after you relocate the database in Forefront Security for SharePoint: "ERROR: Unable to create SharePoint Notifications database."

20th November 2007

Modified

None

I.c InfoPath 2007 KB Articles

New

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/891162/en-us

BUG: The results of the calculations in an InfoPath form are incorrect (ver 2.1)

16th November 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/891165/en-us

An ActiveX control does not appear as you expect it to when you add the control to a form in InfoPath(ver 2.1)

16th November 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;938182

Description of the SharePoint Server 2007 hotfix package for SharePoint Server 2007 and for SharePoint Server 2007 for Search: May 31, 2007 (ver 1.3)

15th November 2007

Modified

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

Description of the InfoPath 2007 hotfix package: June 11, 2007 (ver 1.2)

15th November 2007

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

Description of the InfoPath 2007 hotfix package: June 17, 2007 (ver 1.2)

15th November 2007

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

Description of the InfoPath 2007 hotfix package: June 24, 2007 (ver 1.2)

15th November 2007

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

Description of the InfoPath 2007 hotfix package: June 29, 2007 (1st of same date) (ver 1.2)

15th November 2007

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

Description of the InfoPath 2007 hotfix package: June 29, 2007 (2nd of same date) (ver 1.2)

15th November 2007

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

New

A. Office 2007 Server Products

http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/PDF_iFilter_8_-_64-bit_Support

PDF iFilter 8 - 64-bit Support (Adobe - how to get the 32-bit IFilter included in Adobe 8 to work in a 64-bit MOSS 2007 system)

21st November 2007 (date added)

http://blogs.msdn.com/jingmeili/archive/2007/11/20/how-to-sign-an-infopath-form-template-with-verisign-certificate.aspx

How to sign an InfoPath form template with VeriSign certificate? (Blog - Jingmei Li)

20th November 2007

http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/b18c35f6-2107-40b8-8102-7540d35d0de91033.mspx

Sites and subsites roadmap (Note: MOSS 2007)

20th November 2007 (date added - was 12th November)

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/mdlotter/archive/2007/11/19/why-the-text-on-my-infopath-form-is-so-large.aspx

Why the text on my InfoPath form is so large (Blog - Michael Lotter)

19th November 2007

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb944807.aspx

Downloading InfoPath 2007 Forms in a Specific File Format from a SharePoint Form Library (S.Y.M Wong-A-Ton)

18th November 2007 (date added - actually dated November 2007)

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb892784.aspx

Integrating SharePoint Server 2007 with Community Server Membership Databases (Hans Hugli)

18th November 2007 (date added - actually dated November 2007)

http://www.elumenotion.com/Blog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=23

You Don't Need to Copy PDB Files to Debug in the GAC! (Blog - Doug Ware)

12th November 2007

http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/fc47c930-cab9-4dee-b829-b5fb6fc9512d1033.mspx

Recycle Bin: Stsadm properties (Office SharePoint Server)

8th November 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=b273269c-97e0-411d-8849-5a8070698e4a&displaylang=en&tm

BizTalk Server 2006 Installation and Upgrade Guides (ver 1.1)

20th November 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=30402623-93ca-479a-867c-04dc45164f5b&displaylang=en&tm

Visual Studio 2008 SDK Version 1.0

20th November 2007 (added here to get in SDK list)

Modified

None

III WebCasts (+ PodCasts, On-Line courses) for 2007 Products
 
New

http://wm.microsoft.com/ms/msdn/office/2007OfficeVisualHowTos/Wd2007ConsumingQueryServicesUsingVSTOSE.wmv

Visual How To: Consuming SharePoint Server 2007 Query Services from Word 2007 Using Visual Studio Tools for Office SE  (Video) (Joel Krist, Akona Systems)

20th November 2007 (date added - actually 30th October 2007)

IV WSS v3 FAQ

New

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1266

III.101 I get 'System error 67 has occurred' when I map a path to a WSS document library. What's the solution?

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1264

VII.29 Inside Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (MS Press - ISBN 9780735623200) (Chapter 2 - SharePoint Architecture)

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1265

X.89 SharePointUpload (free - Gluegood Software)

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1267

X.90 Content By Type webpart (free - Ton Stegeman)

Modified

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1085

V.55 Pro SharePoint 2007 Development Techniques (Apress - Margriet Bruggeman, Nikander Bruggeman) *released*

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) *released*
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V WSSv2 KB Articles (plus SPS 2003 Hot fixes)

New

None

Modified

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=934000

Description of the Windows SharePoint Services post-Service Pack 2 hotfix package: March 9, 2007 (ver 2.2)

15th November 2007

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 4.1)

15th November 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;933853

Note: It seems that every single SPS 2003 post-service pack 1 and 2 was updated on November 15th 2007. I'm not going to list them here and I'm not going to amend the dates in the site. (I imagine they have added a code at the end and there are no other changes)
Note: The same applies to every Windows SharePoint Servic!es 2.0 post-Service Pack 2 hotfix package

VI WSSv2 FAQ

New

None

Modified

None

Finally, 10 days after I posted a series of messages to the support address for the Nero range from Ahead, I got a reply.

It asked me in some detail (included how to do an image of a screen) to supply some screen print images of what I was seeing and also to send them some more information.

I couldn't send them any of this information (which is why I didn't bother to note down what exactly they wanted apart from the screen prints) because as I wrote earlier this week I'd already given up after EIGHT bad installations and had re-formatted my entire Vista 64-bit partition; installed Vista 32-bit and then the Nero 8 installation worked perfectly.

However, you have to wonder about a support address that takes 10 days to respond with what is probably a fairly standard response for more information. I know I do.

Most computer Pros prefer getting their information in English and if their users/customers allow them will also if possible install Operating Systems and Server products in their English language versions.

For one they are tested better and the bug fixes come out faster and also because having English language error messages makes finding a Knowledge Base article (if one exists) much easier.

The same to a large extent happens with computer books in English. There are more of them; they come out quicker and their screen prints reflect the software versions that most Pros are using.

There is however still a market for computer books (and from now on this piece will be about SharePoint books) in other languages and this is reflected in the books I have listed in my SP v3 Books page (http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/V%20Books.aspx) where I try to be language-neutral and give as much space to non-English books as to English books.

The books available are either books originally written for the "local" market and books originally written and published in English but then translated into one or more other languages. The above-mentioned page has examples of both.

What has been a striking feature of the SharePoint v3 books is that - with the very honourable exception of the French language Sharepoint 2007 book written by several French experts but steered by Erol Giraudy (http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=968) - all the early books were translations of English language originals.

Microsoft Press has had a very active role, in especially the German but also the French market, in quickly making translations available of some of their key books but also the For Dummies series has a SharePoint book out in German so it's not just a Microsoft effort. (O'Reilly had a German translation of the v2 book Essential SharePoint but so far hasn't brought out a translation of either of their two v3 books).

As for other languages, I don't have as good sources of information there, although I try to snap up references in people's blogs. Suffice it to say that I don't know of many books in any other languages and that those are few (two in Spanish ...)

Anyway, to save you doing your own search, here is a summary of the numbers for each foreign langauge

German:

Released: 6  (Translations 5 / Originals 1)  - One of the translations is WWF

Not Released: 5 (Translations 1 / Originals 4)

The sole German language original that is released is this one

Microsoft SharePoint - Technik und Einsatz (Microsoft Press, Deutschland - Egbert Jeschke) - http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/3866456158/wssfaq0e-21 € 39.90.

French:

Released 4 (Translations 2 / Originals 2) - One of the translations is WWF

Not Released: 0

The second released French language original (the first is linked to above) is this

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS 2007) - Personnalisation et Développement (in French) (Editions ENI - Antony Bidet) - http://www.amazon.fr/exec/obidos/ASIN/2746038153/wssfaq0fe-21 at a fraction of the price of the Giraudy book at ca € 25.78

Spanish:

Released 2 (Originals 2) - One of the books is WWF

The released books are

Modelando procesos de negocio con Workflow Foundation (Editorial Krasis Press - Unai Zorrilla Castro) - http://www.campusmvp.com/CampusMVP/Modelando_procesos_de_negocio_con_Workflow_Foundation.htm (€ 32)

and

Programación con SharePoint 2007 (in Spanish) (dotNetMania - Gustavo Vélez) - orders via www.dotnetmania.com for ca € 24.50.


I'm not happy with the lack of information on that web page on non-released books in French and Spanish and surely there is or will be something in Italian soon, so please let me know about such things at englantilainen@hotmail.com

P.S. One interesting question is whether those native books provide anything which the vast quantity of English languages books don't.

It may be a cliché but Germans do tend to be more rigorous than Anglo-Saxons and so it could well be that one of the reason for the delays in availability of most of the German language books could lie in that they are better researched. It may well also be that German readers (and Swiss-German, Austrian and even Luxemburgers and Liechensteiners [and even a small Belgian minority]) prefer a drier style than that found in many of the English language books.

Here too I'd like to know for myself, so if any of the German writers of SP books is asked by his publishers who should receive a copy, my e-mail address is above.

The book "Pro SharePoint 2007 Development Techniques" (Apress) from Margriet and Nikander Bruggeman (Amazon US: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1590599136/heme0f
 $ 32.99) seems to have started off the next phase of SharePoint 2007 books with also the release of the long-awaited "Digital" book "Microsoft SharePoint 2007 Technologies: Planning, Design and Implementation" (Digital Press) by Kevin Laahs, Emer McKenna and Veli-Matti Vanamo (Amazon US: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0123736161/heme0f
 which was earlier $ 44.07 but now Amazon US list at the list price of $ 69.95 so look instead at Amazon UK: http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0123736161/heme where it is £26.39 if you are in Europe until Amazon US has regained its senses)  expected to be released in mid December.

There's also a heavily researched book by C. A. Callahan (Mastering Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (Sybex) (Amazon US: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0470127287/heme0f $ 31.49) which is due out a few days before the Laahs etc. book

Then in February 2008 we might finally see the release of mainstream SharePoint Designer 2007 books including what might well be my favourite "SharePoint Designer X for Dummies" (For Dummies) by Dustin Miller and Heather Solomon (Amazon US: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0470096012/heme0f $16.49) although the rival book from Penny Coventry might also be worth an only slightly less cheap look ("Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 Step by Step (MSPress) : Amazon US: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0735625336/heme0f $19.59)

Why most (all?) of the SharePoint Designer 2007 books are out so late in the cycle is a separate discussion and I can only guess the causes of that delay. SPD 2007 was certainly too difficult for me to even consider writing a book about unless all it consisted of were chapters on Data View Web Parts. But it seems this was the case for all the authors originally signed up - if indeed many were signed up. I remember being shown a proposal before RTM for yet another standard SharePoint book and of suggesting to the publisher that what we really needed was ONE SharePoint Designer 2007 book. If only they'd followed my advice ...

As for the new wave of standard SharePoint books mentioned above, it's clear to me that these only have a chance of success if they provide in-depth information obtained by extensive working with the released product. The first phase was books based entirely or almost entirely on the Beta versions. The second phase (summer?) was books sketched out in the beta phases and with the text adjusted after checks were made using the released version(s). Finally this third (and possibly final) phase could and ought to be the same again but with a greater amount of detail.

I haven't seen any of the books from this third phase unlike the books from earlier phases where I have seen quite a large number and so that's my assumption only. All the three writers/sets of writers mentioned above have it in them to do extensive research so we'll soon see whether they have included the fruits of their research in these new books and whether by doing so they have made them unreadable :)

P.S. I'm not sure whether to assign the two O'Reilly books to Phase 2 (for which they were late) or to Phase 3 (for which they were early). Certainly from my quick look at the Definitive Guide, that is not heavily researched so I won't be generous and allocate it to Phase 3 but Jeff Webb usually does a lot of research for his books so maybe his Essential SharePoint (Amazon US: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0596514077/heme0f $ 26.39) might just sneak in.

P.P.S. The total book list (which of course includes the very worthwhile (!) "Real World SharePoint 2007" book!) is still here http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/V%20Books.aspx  It includes several foreign language books which I hope to take a closer look at tomorrow.

 

 

Installations 6, 7, and 8 of Nero 8 (caused by my seeing a suggestion on the Nero web site's upgrade section to use a new tool they have for completely removing old versions) still didn't work and in fact it took until the 8th installation before I was back to where I was after the 5th installation.

During these installations there were increasing signs that the Registry was in a mess and once again - and despite having Location and Settings set to English(UK) I once again got Finnish language installation menus (6, 7).

Meanwhile the laughably-named support department of the Ahead people (makers of the Nero product) still hadn't got round to replying to any of my e-mails (even the 100% nice one) of a week ago (and still haven't).

So I finally got so fed up with all of this that I decided that Vista 64-bit (which I perhaps  unwisely was blaming for most of my installation problems) was just too much hassle (I was already using only 32-bit IE within it because various things wouldn't work in 64-bit IE) and that it was time to wipe it.

I couldn't of course use the 32-bit DVD Vista version I had bought a year ago because that being corrupt was the only reason I had installed 64-bit Vista in the first place, but I still have MSDN and this is a development machine (for SharePoint web sites) so I used the MSDN DVD instead. (Actually as I have a legal copy of this version of Vista that's not in use anywhere else, it would have been legal to use the MSDN copy even if it wasn't a development machine).

But first I moved off a couple of things (probably on reflection not enough) from the drive to an external USB disk; re-booted into the still present original OS (XP-Pro) and then re-formatted the entire drive used by the 64-bit Vista.

I then shoved in the MSDN DVD and installed 32-bit Vista Ultimate - naturally as a new installation - and for the first time ever just left the settings as English (US) hoping in that way that the problems caused by over-intelligent software installations deciding that I would just love to have my installation screens in Finnish would vanish.

I did however say that I wanted a Finnish keyboard.

This combination doesn't by the way work as you would expect. I was later using my Finnish keyboard and had to type a " ' " and I got a " \ ". So I looked in the keyboard settings expecting to see that it was in fact still specifying a US keyboard. No, it was saying Finnish but it was an odd Finnish - what it seems to have defined was a "US English - Finnish" keyboard as a sub-set of the US English keyboard rather than as a separately listed Finnish keyboard.

Very, very odd. It was solved easily enough by adding a new Finnish keyboard and selecting that rather than the odd hybrid "US English - Finnish" and now a check showed that " ' " was indeed showing up as " ' ".

Most of the rest of the installations (Office 2007; Adobe Reader 2007; Thunderbird; VMWare Workstation 6.x) went fine with not a hint of Finnish in either the products selected or in the installation screens and then it was time for the big test - would Nero 8 install correctly ?

Naturally it did (it needed a re-boot partway through which made me slightly nervous) and all the Nero products are listed correctly in Start / Programs / Nero8 and SmartStart tabs no longer ask me to upgrade.

Meanwhile I have, for the first time in months, a fast, lean, system again. I wonder how long that will last ?

P.S. The mottos of the story.

1. Every cloud has a silver lining.

2. Vista 64-bit is a big black cloud.

3. Intelligent installation routines aren't.

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 11th - 17th November 2007

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

New

None

Modified

None

I.b Forefront KB Articles

New

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;943608

The Forefront Security for SharePoint keyword filter blocks Shockwave Flash Extensions (.swf) files

9th November 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;941005

An error message may be logged in the STSADM export log file after you install Forefront Security for SharePoint on a computer that is running Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: "Access Denied" (ver 2.0)

7th 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://blogs.technet.com/stefan_gossner/archive/2007/11/15/some-comments-on-common-variation-problems.aspx

Some comments on common Variation problems (MS Blog - Stefan Gossner)

15th November 2007

http://unitedsupplyco.sharepointsite.net/publicfacing/bensblog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=48

Use Conditional Formatting in Data Views based on User Security Permissions (Blog - Ben McCormack)

13th November 2007

http://unitedsupplyco.sharepointsite.net/publicfacing/bensblog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=49

Create Custom E-mail Alert Templates for SharePoint Workflows (Blog - Ben McCormack)

13th November 2007

http://www.sharepointforum.com/en-US/Blog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?List=f0104928%2D1beb%2D4409%2Db7f3%2Df577171376fd&ID=6

How to build an optimal developer VPC for SharePoint Development

12th November 2007

http://sharepointnutsandbolts.blogspot.com/2007/11/change-sharepoint-site-url.html

Change a SharePoint site's URL (Blog - Chris O'Brien)

11th November 2007

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/mirjam/archive/2007/11/11/setting-item-level-security-in-an-eventhandler.aspx

Setting item level security in an eventhandler (Blog - Mirjam)

11th November 2007

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointdesigner/HA101191181033.aspx

Add another SharePoint site to the Data Source Library

11th November 2007 (date added)

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb931107.aspx

Welcome to Microsoft Search Server 2008 (pre-release documentation)

11th November 2007 (date added)

http://www.crackerbelly.com/?p=4

Recover a document if the SharePoint Recycle Bin is not in use (Crackerbelly - Mark Shea)

11th November 2007 (date added)

http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/07/11/OfficeSpace/default.aspx

Events in SharePoint 2007 (MSDN Magazine, November 2007 - Ted Pattison)

11th November 2007 (date added)

http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/07/08/Excel/default.aspx

Excel Services: Develop A Calculation Engine For Your Apps (MSDN Magazine, August 2007 - Vishwas Lele, Pyush Kumar)

11th November 2007 (date added)

http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/07/08/OfficeSpace/default.aspx

Solution Deployment with SharePoint 2007 (MSDN Magazine, August 2007 - Ted Pattison)

11th November 2007 (date added)

http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/07/05/OfficeSpace/default.aspx

Features for SharePoint (MSDN Magazine, May 2007 - Ted Pattison)

11th November 2007 (date added)

http://www.tonstegeman.com/Blog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=47

Querying SharePoint for content - using SPSiteDataQuery and CrossListQueryInfo (Blog - Ton Stegeman)

10th November 2007

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb870301.aspx

Visual How To: Creating a Custom Task Pane to Consume SharePoint Server 2007 Query Services in Word 2007 (Joel Krist, Akona Systems)

10th November 2007 (date added - date of article is October 2007)

http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepointdesigner/archive/2007/11/09/an-introduction-to-conditional-formatting.aspx

An Introduction to Conditional Formatting (MS Team Blog - "Jon")

9th Novmber 2007

http://blogs.msdn.com/markarend/archive/2007/11/08/scripting-stsadm-commands.aspx

Scripting STSADM commands (MS Blog - Mark Arend)

8th Novmber 2007

http://blogs.msdn.com/joelo/archive/2007/11/08/what-not-to-store-in-sharepoint.aspx

What Not to Store in SharePoint (MS Blog - Joel Oleson)

8th Novmber 2007

http://blogs.msdn.com/joelo/archive/2007/11/07/is-the-hotfix-or-service-pack-going-to-break-my-sharepoint-pages-or-deployment.aspx

Is the hotfix or service pack going to break my SharePoint pages or deployment? (MS Blog - Joel Oleson)

7th November 2007

http://blogs.msdn.com/joelo/archive/2007/11/06/web-usage-reporting-tools.aspx

Web Usage Reporting Tools (MS Blog - Joel Oleson)

6th November 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=a2f225fd-dfb8-4e2a-b0b5-2facd681541f&displaylang=en

2007 Office System Sample: Setting Up a Development Environment (ver 1007)

23rd October 2007

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

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=e5e6d7dc-e0b0-4387-9c28-c49b1ffe34d7&displaylang=en&tm

Microsoft Forefront Server Security Management Console Log Purge Tool

14th November 2007 (relevant to Forefront for SharePoint)

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

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=bc381af4-9bd0-49dd-be1a-0c6ee49cd2bc&displaylang=en&tm

Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 SP1 Beta 2 VHD - 32-bit version

14th November 2007 (added because it's a semi-relevant VHD)

http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/07/05/BizTalk/default.aspx

8 Tips And Tricks For Better BizTalk Programming (MSDN Magazine, May 2007 - Marty Wasznicky, Scott Zimmerman)

11th November 2007 (date added)

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=6662c7be-d79b-475a-863c-f976239ac0af&displaylang=en&tm

Microsoft Search Server 2008 Express VHD (Note: NOT with WSS 3.0)

9th November 2007 (added because VHD)

Modified

None

III WebCasts (+ PodCasts, On-Line courses) for 2007 Products
 
http://wm.microsoft.com/ms/msdn/office/2007officevisualhowtos/wd2007consumingqueryservicesusingvstose.wmv

Visual How To: Creating a Custom Task Pane to Consume SharePoint Server 2007 Query Services in Word 2007 (Video) (Joel Krist, Akona Systems)

10th November 2007 (date added - date of video is October 2007)

https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastRegistrationConfirmation.aspx?culture=en-US&RegistrationID=1293635296

TechNet Webcast: SAP Enterprise Portal and SharePoint Server 2007 Interoperability (Level 200) (Tilo Boettcher, Anu Chawla, Thomas Reimer)

8th November 2007

https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastRegistrationConfirmation.aspx?culture=en-US&RegistrationID=1293635406

Microsoft Office System Webcast: More Tips and Tricks for Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies (Level 300) (Evan Archilla)

6th November 2007

IV WSS v3 FAQ

New

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1262

I.41 How do I quickly check if I am running WSS 3.0 or MOSS 2007?

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1258 

III.49.17 Search: How do I change the scope of a search in MS Search Server 2008?

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1259

III.49.18 Search: Are there any issues I need to know about when using PDF IFilters with MS Search Server 2008 ?

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1261

V.74 Microsoft Office User's Guide to SharePoint 2007 (Apress - Michael Antonovich)

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1260

VI.86 Longitude for SharePoint (Ed: Search) (commercial - BA-Insight)

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1263

X.88 Visio Stencils for Sharepoint 2007 Site Structures documentation. Version 0.2. (Blog - Maxime)

Modified

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=813

V.07 Microsoft SharePoint 2007 Technologies: Planning, Design and Implementation (Digital Press - Kevin Laahs, Emer McKenna, Veli-Matti Vanamo)

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) *released*

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1046

V.45 6 Microsoft Office Business Applications for Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MS Press - Microsoft [no author given]) *released* (out of stock Nov 11th)

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=997

X.19 Ontolica Wildcard for MOSS 2007 (free limited version - Ontolica)

V WSSv2 KB Articles (plus SPS 2003 Hot fixes)

New

None

Modified

None

VI WSS v2 FAQ

New

None

Modified

None

The day after I no longer am an MVP (all good things come to an end) it will be very tempting to send messages with a certain text to all the newsgroup threads that I have been involved with and where the originator hasn't come back in the thread with a "Thanks, that solved my problem" reply.

Here's the text of that proposed message

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Hi XXX,
 
How's everything going?

I wanted to check to see if you have any questions on it. Please let me
know if you need further information.

---------------

Of course if I do then everyone will think that losing MVP status has finally pushed me over the top and I've gone completely mad, because equally everyone knows that in newsgroups no answer means there no longer is a problem (or the poster no longer needs to know the answer).

So why then are managed newsgroups "colleagues" continuing to post completely pointless messages to the public newsgroups which contain (only) the following text.

--------------
Hi XXX,
 
How's everything going?

I wanted to check to see if you have any questions on it. Please let me
know if you need further information.

---------------

Why is it that they continually break the unwritten rules of public newsgroups in this way? Everyone wants to know.

I'm following the revised (end October) version of the "Setting Up a Development Environment for the 2007 Microsoft Office System" and apart from a minor bit of confusion where they had (Steps 1-3) *downloads* of .Net Framework 3.0; Windows SDK for the .NET Framework 3.0 and Visual Studio 2005 Extensions for WWF, followed by *installing* .NET Framework 3.0 (which I naturally had already installed in step 1) it is a good piece of work with the right links in the right place.

But why do I have to keep looking at the screen (especially as I'm working on another PC at the same time and that PC is at 180 degrees from the installation PC - which also goes very quickly black so I can't just turn my head) in order to make sure the installation is still progressing.

I just had a typical (and really stupid, Microsoft guys) case where I had installed Visual Studio 2005 and the next step was to install Visual Studio 2005 SP1. So I clicked on the link; started the link; answered a couple of message boxes and it started downloading. I then ignored it.

Big mistake. When I checked 40 mins later it was showing a message "Do you want to update Visual Studio 2005 Professional Edition with the SP1 for Visual Studio 2005 Professional Edition". What the h*** do you think, MS guys ?

P.S. Wasn't it the Bob Newhart Driving Instructor sketch that had something like "Madam, you said you were going to turn left; you put out your indicator to turn left so naturally I assumed you were going to turn left" ?

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).