Note: All of the addresses of the KB / Articles - 2007 Products / MS / Non-MS Articles below were valid at the time I added them to the WSS FAQ
site and to this file. I can't guarantee that they still are.

(This is also posted to the WSS newsgroup at microsoft.public.sharepoint.windowsservices - web access via http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/newsgroups/server/sharepoint.mspx)

(Items are added to the WSS FAQ throughout the week so you will find new items more quickly by checking at wss.collutions.com or www.wssfaq.com daily.)

From 23rd - 29th December 2007

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

New

None

Modified

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

"The email address '<EmailAddress>' is unknown" error message when you add a user to a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 or Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 Web site (ver 2.3)

20th November 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=827751

The menu that displays online presence settings and commands is not displayed in Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 or in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (ver 3.3)

10th October 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=825488

How to add members of a distribution list to your Windows SharePoint Services Web site (ver 3.2)

9th October 2007

I.b Forefront KB Articles

New

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb%3Ben-us%3B943442

Forefront Security for SharePoint removes offensive words from a document, but then it displays those offensive words in a user message (ver 1.1)

26th December 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb%3Ben-us%3B946462

An error is logged in the ProgramLog.txt file after you relocate the Forefront Security for SharePoint database files: "Unable to create SharePoint Notifications database"

20th December 2007

Modified

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb%3Ben-us%3B943221

Security for SharePoint Service Pack 1 Rollup 1 package (ver 1.1)

20th December 2007

I.c InfoPath 2007 KB Articles

New

None

Modified

None

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

New

A. Office 2007 Server Products

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb802976.aspx

External Storing of Binary Large Objects (BLOBs) in Windows SharePoint Services (Starter Page)

27th December 2007 (date added)

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/tbaginski/archive/2007/12/26/how-to-programmatically-customize-site-navigation-in-wss-3-0-and-moss-2007.aspx

HOW TO: Programmatically customize site navigation in WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007 (Blog - Todd Baginski)

26th December 2007

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/ssa/archive/2007/12/25/enabling-anonymous-access-in-surveys.aspx

Enabling Anonymous access in surveys (Blog - S. S. Ahmed)

25th December 2007

http://paulgalvin.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!1CC1EDB3DAA9B8AA!550.entry

Implementing Master / Detail Relationships Using Custom Lists (Blog - Paul Galvin)

24th December 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=8c0f970e-c653-4c15-9e51-6a6cadfca363&displaylang=en&tm

Microsoft SQL Server 2000/2005 Management Pack (ver 6.0.6247.5)

22nd December 2007

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/aaronrh/archive/2007/12/21/free-sharepoint-business-data-catalog-column.aspx

Free SharePoint Business Data Catalog Column (Blog - Aaron Robertson-Hodders)

21st December 2007

http://download.microsoft.com/download/b/6/7/b67b78c3-13b3-4567-9065-0c06f04f9e45/MS_Studio_Module_1_Farm_Architecture.pdf

31729 SharePoint Modules: Module 1 - Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Server Farm Architecture

19th December 2007

http://download.microsoft.com/download/b/6/7/b67b78c3-13b3-4567-9065-0c06f04f9e45/MS_Studio_Module_2_Configuring_Farms.pdf

31729 SharePoint Modules: Module 2 - Configuring Microsoft SharePoint Technologies Farms

19th December 2007

http://download.microsoft.com/download/b/6/7/b67b78c3-13b3-4567-9065-0c06f04f9e45/MOSSAdvITPro_03.pdf

31729 SharePoint Modules: Module 3 - Securing Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Server Farms

19th December 2007

http://download.microsoft.com/download/b/6/7/b67b78c3-13b3-4567-9065-0c06f04f9e45/Module_4_Capacity_Planning.pdf

31729 SharePoint Modules: Module 4 - Capacity Planning for Microsoft SharePoint Technologies

19th December 2007

http://download.microsoft.com/download/b/6/7/b67b78c3-13b3-4567-9065-0c06f04f9e45/Module_5_Caching_and_Compression.pdf

31729 SharePoint Modules: Module 5 - Configuring and Testing Caching and Other Performance Options in Microsoft SharePoint Technologies

19th December 2007

http://download.microsoft.com/download/b/6/7/b67b78c3-13b3-4567-9065-0c06f04f9e45/Module_6_Disaster_Recovery.pdf

31729 SharePoint Modules: Module 6 - Backup, Restore, High Availability, and Disaster Recovery for Microsoft SharePoint Technologies

19th December 2007

http://download.microsoft.com/download/b/6/7/b67b78c3-13b3-4567-9065-0c06f04f9e45/Module_7_Operations.pdf

31729 SharePoint Modules: Module 7 - Microsoft SharePoint Technologies Operations

19th December 2007

http://download.microsoft.com/download/b/6/7/b67b78c3-13b3-4567-9065-0c06f04f9e45/Updated_MOSSAdvITPro_08.pdf

31729 SharePoint Modules: Module 8 - Search and Indexing

19th December 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=72262ead-e49d-43d4-aa45-1da2a27d9a65&displaylang=en&tm

Visual Studio® Team System 2008 Team Foundation Server VPC Image (Trial) [Expires April 1 2008]

21st December 2007

 

Modified

None

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

None

IV WSS v3 FAQ

New

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1300

V.80 SharePoint 2007 - Der schnelle Einstieg (Addison Wesley Verlag - Seth Bates, Tony Smith) (Translation of User's Guide)

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1301

V.81 Pratique de Sharepoint 2007 (in French - translation of Essential SharePoint 2007) (O'Reilly France - Jeff Webb)

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1302

V.82 Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Development: 10 Solutions Every Sharepoint Developer Should Know How to Create (Video Livelessons) (Sams - Scot Hillier)

Modified

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/EditForm.aspx?ID=1121

V.58 Windows Workflow Foundation (.NET WF). Workflowprogrammierung mit .NET (Hanser Fachbuchverlag - Matthias Markl, Holger Schwichtenberg)

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/EditForm.aspx?ID=1210

V.63 Inside the Index and Search Engines: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MS Press - Patrick Tissgehem, Lars Forstrup)

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/EditForm.aspx?ID=1218

V.65 Microsoft Office SharePoint 2007 Introduction Quick Reference Guide (Cheat Sheet of Instructions, Tips & Shortcuts - Laminated) *released*

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

V.71 Microsoft SharePoint-Technologien (in German) (MSPress Deutschland - Ben Curry) *released* (available *via* Amazon.de)

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/EditForm.aspx?ID=1293

V.78 Professional SharePoint Search (Wiley - Richard Riley, Tom Rizzo)

V WSSv2 KB Articles (plus SPS 2003 Hot fixes)

New

None

Modified

None

VI WSSv2 FAQ

New

None

Modified

None

Sometimes Microsoft works in strange ways.

This paper http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/logredir.aspx?MODE=CT&CTT=ToExternal&target=%2FOffice%2Flogredir.aspx%3FMODE%3DCT%26CTT%3DToExternal%26target%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fgo.microsoft.com%252Ffwlink%252F%253FLinkId%253D105704%2526clcid%253D0x409%26referrer%3 is an example of this.

Theoretically it's a white paper about the recent Service Pack Ones for WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007.

Now I don't know about you, but my understanding of White papers are that they are much longer than the 3 whole (actually more like 2 and a bit) pages taken up by this "white paper".

They also tend not to be a place to announce things. But I'm getting ahead of myself ...

The paper has five sections.

"About Service Pack 1" isn't. It's a very brief list of what's in it and a few links to more information.

"Installation on Windows Server 2008" is also short but does include essential information both about which version of WSS 3.0 you have to use in order to install on the latest (RC1) version of Windows Server 2008 at all and about needing to upgrade to the Windows Internal Database SP2 if you are running the version of WSS 3.0 that uses the included "Windows Internal Database" - something (WID SP2) which, as they point out, isn't out yet!! (Which makes you wonder why they include this confusing piece of information in this version of this "white paper" - at less than 3 full pages it wouldn't be too much effort to write a new version when Windows Internal Database SP2 is out, would it?

"ASP.NET AJAX compatibility and support" just says that you can now use AJAX to create Web parts and where to get the control kit from. The "support" part of the heading is the totally useless "you can get help from Microsoft customer support". Where; How ??

"New Stsadm operations and properties" just gives links (which it repeats for WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007 - to make it past the end of page 2?) to the couple (three in the case of MOSS 2007) of new stsadm functions.

"Recommendations for 64-bit hardware" is even shorter than any of the above sections and yet it includes the important statement that WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007 are the last SharePoint versions able to run on 32-bit hardware and operating systems.

It's a mystery to me why the announcement of this has been hidden away in what is virtually a footnote to a white paper that isn't, but there you are, as I started this piece, Microsoft sometimes works in strange ways.

 

I got one of the these days fairly rare comments to the Collutions site (wss.collutions.com) and this time it was asking if I could I do anything about the amount of stuff that is being accessed when the "Articles - 2007 Products" default page is being loaded.

My first reaction was to think that I'd in effect already solved this in the mirror site (wss.wssfaq.com) by splitting off the Web Casts (and similar) from the Articles - 2007 Products list into their own list (thus reducing the total number of items in the list) and that - because the Collutions site was about to have a re-vamp anyway (including a long overdue move to being based on WSS 3.0) - any change could wait.

However today, I thought "why don't I give him something in the meantime?" and made a "Latest 20" View which is restricted (entirely) to 20 items and made that the default view.

At first sight it didn't seem to make that much difference. A bit snappier maybe but not excessively so. But then I started adding New items to the list (which of course meant that every time an item was added the default page was opened) and suddenly that snappiness started to really mean something.

Now, despite having had sites that use the SharePoint products since early 2002, I've never really seen the point of that final option for Item Limit when creating a View ("Limit the total number of items returned to the specified amount") because I always so far have wanted to be able to click on Next and see some more. Well now I do. Snappiness!

I noticed that one of the Google ads on the WSS FAQ posting here said

 

Get Ready for SPS 2007

Note: All of the addresses of the KB / Articles - 2007 Products / MS / Non-MS Articles below were valid at the time I added them to the WSS FAQ
site and to this file. I can't guarantee that they still are.

(This is also posted to the WSS newsgroup at microsoft.public.sharepoint.windowsservices - web access via http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/newsgroups/server/sharepoint.mspx)

(Items are added to the WSS FAQ throughout the week so you will find new items more quickly by checking at wss.collutions.com or www.wssfaq.com daily.)

From 16th - 22nd December 2007

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

New

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb%3Ben-us%3B943221

Description of the Forefront Security for SharePoint Service Pack 1 Rollup 1 package

20th December 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb%3Ben-us%3B946338

How to register Microsoft Filter Pack with Windows SharePoint Services 3.0

18th December 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;946336

How to register Microsoft Filter Pack with SharePoint Server 2007 and with Search Server 2008

18th December 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;943587

How to install Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 on a computer that is running Windows Server 2008

13th December 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;943924

Tomorrow's date is displayed when you set the default value in the "Date and Time" column to "Today's Date" in SharePoint Server 2007 or in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0

13th December 2007

Modified

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;936984

Description of the 2007 Microsoft Office servers Service Pack 1 and the 2007 Microsoft Office servers Language Pack Service Pack 1 (ver 2.1)

12th December 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;943663

How to manually update the time zone definition in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and in Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 for the Venezuela time zone change (ver 2.0)

12th December 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;942390

Description of the SharePoint Server 2007 issues that are fixed by the 2007 Microsoft Office servers Service Pack 1 (ver 2.1)

I.b Forefront KB Articles

New

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb%3Ben-us%3B943221

Description of the Forefront Security for SharePoint Service Pack 1 Rollup 1 package

20th December 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb%3Ben-us%3B944137

A hotfix is available to let you customize the keyword deletion text in Forefront Security for SharePoint

20th December 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb%3Ben-us%3B946461

Information in the Forefront Security Diagnostic tool (FSCDiag) mentions "Exchange" instead of "SharePoint" on a computer that is running Forefront Security for SharePoint

20th December 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb%3Ben-us%3B946462

An error is logged in the ProgramLog.txt file after you relocate the Forefront Security for SharePoint database files: "Unable to create SharePoint Notifications database"

20th December 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb%3Ben-us%3B946463

A hotfix is available to enable default logging of the LegacyScanAccount registry entry in Forefront Security for SharePoint

20th December 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb%3Ben-us%3B946662

Real-time scan operations time out, and event IDs 2054 and 28721 are logged on a computer that is running Forefront Security for SharePoint

20th December 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb%3Ben-us%3B946663

An import or export operation that you run by using the STSAdm tool never finishes on a computer that is running Forefront Security for SharePoint

20th December 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb%3Ben-us%3B946664

Real-time scan operations time out when Forefront Security for SharePoint tries to scan small files

20th December 2007

Modified

None

I.c InfoPath 2007 KB Articles

New

None

Modified

None

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

New

A. Office 2007 Server Products

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=b35b5f08-1b69-4508-9669-2c96615f1802&displaylang=en&tm

Interoperability between SAP NetWeaver Portal and Microsoft SharePoint Server 2007

20th December 2007

http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/logredir.aspx?MODE=CT&CTT=ToExternal&target=%2FOffice%2Flogredir.aspx%3FMODE%3DCT%26CTT%3DToExternal%26target%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fgo.microsoft.com%252Ffwlink%252F%253FLinkId%253D105704%2526clcid%253D0x409%26referrer%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Ftechnet2.microsoft.com%252FOffice%252Fen-us%252Flibrary%252F5157c2bf-1f2f-4483-a788-aebedcc7b5c41033.mspx%26reldir%3Den-us%252Flibrary&referrer=http%3A%2F%2Ftechnet2.microsoft.com%2FOffice%2Fen-us%2Flibrary%2F5157c2bf-1f2f-4483-a788-aebedcc7b5c41033.mspx&reldir=en-us%2Flibrary

Service Pack 1 for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and Office SharePoint Server 2007 (very short - 4 pp - white paper)

18th December 2007 (date added)

http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=105621&clcid=0x409

Planning and Deploying Service Pack 1 for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 in a Multi-server Environment

18th December 2007 (date added)

http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=106117&clcid=0x409

SharePoint Products and Technologies Search Deployment

18th December 2007 (date added)

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=125efb1e-7ff8-4cc8-934a-28fc7c7e59f0&displaylang=en&tm

Microsoft Forefront Security for SharePoint with SP1 Documentation

17th December 2007

http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/blogs/fromthefield/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=42

Moving MySite data to its own web app and own DB (Blog - Lisa Guthrie)

16th December 2007

http://mindsharpblogs.com/ben/archive/2007/12/16/3837.aspx

Installing SharePoint Server 2007 on Windows Server 2008 RC1 (Blog - Ben Curry)

16th December 2007

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/mdlotter/archive/2007/12/16/using-the-iisapp-command-to-get-the-process-id-for-the-correct-w3wp-process-for-visual-studio-debugging-when-doing-sharepoint-workflow-or-infopath-development.aspx

Using the iisapp command to get the Process ID for the correct w3wp process for Visual Studio debugging when doing SharePoint, Workflow or InfoPath development (Blog - Michael Lotter)

16th December 2007

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb975136.aspx

Forms Authentication in SharePoint Products and Technologies (Part 1): Introduction (Steve Peschka)

16th December 2007 (date added - date of article December 2007)

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb975135.aspx

Forms Authentication in SharePoint Products and Technologies (Part 2): Membership and Role Provider Samples (Steve Peschka)

16th December 2007 (date added - date of article December 2007)

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb977430.aspx

Forms Authentication in SharePoint Products and Technologies (Part 3): Forms Authentication vs. Windows Authentication (Steve Peschka)

16th December 2007 (date added - date of article December 2007)

http://blogs.msdn.com/cjohnson/archive/2007/12/15/building-a-simple-asp-net-page-based-sharepoint-application-in-visual-studio-with-the-visual-studio-extensions-for-wss-ctp-1-1.aspx

Building a simple ASP.Net page based SharePoint application in Visual Studio with the Visual Studio Extensions for WSS CTP 1.1 (Blog - Chris Johnson)

15th December 2007

http://www.sharepointbeagle.com/channels/realworld/Pages/HumanResourcesTalentAcquisitionSolution.aspx

Human Resources Talent Acquisition Solution [using out-of-the-box MOSS and WSS features to meet a set of real-world business requirements] (SharePoint Beagle - Paul Galvin)

15th December 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=21aa25bf-864b-4223-acf7-256a9aa1be53&displaylang=en&tm

Optimization Service for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 with Desired Configuration Monitoring Datasheet

14th December 2007

http://msmvps.com/blogs/shane/archive/2007/12/14/how-to-install-wss-and-moss-sp1.aspx

How to install WSS and MOSS SP1 (Blog - Shane Young)

14th December 2007

http://www.sharepointbeagle.com/channels/development/Pages/MOSSasaSearchToolforBackendData.aspx

MOSS as a Search Tool for Backend Data (SharePoint Beagle - Brett Lonsdale)

14th December 2007

http://www.sharepointbeagle.com/channels/administration/Pages/ExtendingYourCollaborationPortalToTheOutside.aspx

Extending your Collaboration Portal to the Outside (SharePoint Beagle - Bob Fox)

14th December 2007

http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=98103

Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 Service Pack 1 (x86 version)

13th December 2007

http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=98104

Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 Service Pack 1 (x64 version)

13th December 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=ec2ca85d-b255-4425-9e65-1e88a0bdb72a&displaylang=en&tm

Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 Service Pack 1 (x86 version)

13th December 2007

http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=98106

Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 Service Pack 1 (x64 version)

13th December 2007

http://www.sharepointbeagle.com/channels/realworld/Pages/MOSS2007ContentDeployment-Part1.aspx

MOSS 2007 Content Deployment (Part 1 of 4) (SharePoint Beagle - Johnny Harbieh)

13th December 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=17C36612-632E-4C04-9382-987622ED1D64&displaylang=en

Software Update for Web Folders (KB907306) [This update fixes various issues that occur when you use Web folders from your client computer to connect to a server that supports Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV)]

18th May 2007

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

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb968857.aspx

Creating InfoPath 2007 Add-Ins by Using Visual Studio 2005 Tools for the Office System SE (Robert Green - MCW Technologies, LLC)

16th December 2007 (date added - date of article December 2007)

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

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=60c92a37-719c-4077-b5c6-cac34f4227cc&displaylang=en&tm

2007 Office System Converter: Microsoft Filter Pack

17th December 2007

http://download.microsoft.com/download/6/0/f/60fc5854-3cb8-4892-b6db-bd4f42510f28/dotnetfx35.exe

Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 (full download)

17th December 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=af18b941-1c70-4ca7-bb9c-a4a2bdc0adfb&displaylang=en&tm

Key Benefits of Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008 White Paper

13th December 2007

 

Modified

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms441339.aspx

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 SDK (web edition) (revised for SP1 - Dec 2007)

16th December 2007 (date added - date of page December 2007)

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms550992.aspx

SharePoint Server 2007: Software Development Kit (web edition) (revised for SP1 - Dec 2007)

16th December 2007 (date added - date of page December 2007)

http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=102839&clcid=0x409

Data protection and recovery for Office SharePoint Server in small to medium deployments (Bruno Lanceleaux) (revised 13th Dec 2007)

13th December 2007

http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=83725&clcid=0x409

Using SQL Server Database Mirroring with Office SharePoint Server and Windows SharePoint Services (revised 10th Dec 2007)

10th December 2007

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

https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastRegistrationConfirmation.aspx?culture=en-US&RegistrationID=1294230438

TechNet Webcast: Excel Services Technical Overview (Level 200) (Chris Avis)

15th December 2007

https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastRegistrationConfirmation.aspx?culture=en-US&RegistrationID=1294230510

Momentum Webcast: Search, Share, Collaborate with SharePoint Server 2007 and Improve Your Business Productivity. (Level 100) (warning: Forrester)

4th December 2007

IV WSS v3 FAQ

New

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1297

I.31.05 What issues are fixed in WSS 3.0 Service Pack 1?

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1298

I.31.06 What issues are fixed in MOSS 2007 Service Pack 1?

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1299

III.88.05 Indexing: Which file types are included in the Dec 2007 (I)Filter Pack?

Modified

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

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

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V WSSv2 KB Articles (plus SPS 2003 Hot fixes)

New

None

Modified

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=823208

There is no option in the Shared Workspace task pane of an Office 2003 program to edit the "Location for new workspace" list (ver 2.5)

30th November 2007

VI WSSv2 FAQ

New and Modified

None

(Here's copy and paste at its best - or worst)

Microsoft give you a KB article with a list of issues that have been fixed in MOSS 2007 SP1, however about 30% of those fixes are not actually listed in the article !

Instead Microsoft just give you a list of all the KB articles and titles which earlier contained the hot-fixes which are now included in SP1. As these KB articles have Titles like "Description of the SharePoint Server 2007 hotfix package - June 29 2007" they aren't much use.

So to avoid everyone having to go in to each of those (16) earlier "Description of .." articles, I've expanded them all and added them to the list of new fixes from the MS Issues that are fixed .. paper to give a complete list of all the problems that the MOSS 2007 SP1 contains fixes for.

It's here

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1298

P.S. I suspect that in order to have everything that has been fixed in MOSS 2007 SP1, you also - in addition to this FAQ item - also need to look at the equivalent item for WSS 3.0 SP1 (http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1297)

After all in order to upgrade MOSS 2007 to SP1 level you need to install both the WSS 3.0 SP1 upgrade *and* the MOSS 2007 SP1 upgrade.

In a perfect world, I'd combine those two lists into one, but for now (and maybe for ever) you're going to have to search both of them.

First to wrap up my review of the User's Guide book.

Yes, it's clear that it's target audience is Users who have had a site set up for them (as one correspondent mentioned).

Yes, too, it is very bland and hardly makes any "do this", "don't do this" recommendations (as another correspondent mentioned).

Despite occasional glimpses of user level guidance (for instance in the workflow section there are a couple of "how do I do this" examples), the book does not to my mind cover the "Learning ..." which is one of the three key "check items" included in the title.

It does more than justify the "comprehensive guidebook" second "check item" however. That this wasn't a source of joy for me doesn't remove my respect for the time taken by the writers to catalog everything in sight.

As for a User's Guide (third check item - and probably the buzz word which is selling this book), I am by no means sure. I would want my users to have a feel for what they should use a SharePoint site for in real life. I personally don't think this is achieved by giving them a complete list of all template types; list types etc. with full details as to which fields etc. are available/listed. It takes a special kind of user to want to wade through this amount of detail and an even more special kind of user to be able to feel anything less than overwhelmed (and very likely that "I don't want to have anything to do with this monster").

Anyway the book now has to go back to the library as time is almost up and it can't be renewed because someone else is waiting for it. Hopefully they gain more out of it than I did.



After that it's a pleasure to report that the third chapter of RealWorld SharePoint 2007 - which is Todd Klindt on SharePoint v3 Administration - is very good and immediately useful. I especially liked the part on using stsadm which was full of practical hints. (Something sadly lacking in the User's Guide book. Or did I say that already :) )

Microsoft give you a KB article with a list of issues that have been fixed in WSS 3.0 SP1, however about 35% of those fixes are not actually listed in the article !

Instead Microsoft just give you a list of all the KB articles and titles which earlier contained the hot-fixes which are now included in SP1. As these KB articles have Titles like "Description of the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 hotfix package - June 29 2007" that isn't much use.

So to avoid everyone having to go in to each of those (15 - of which one is actually a duplicate as it's embedded in another one) earlier "Description of .." articles, I've expanded them all and added them to the list of new fixes from the MS Issues that are fixed .. paper to give a complete list of all the problems that the WSS 3.0 SP1 contains fixes for.

It's here

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1297

(The MOSS equivalent will be on its way when my fingers stop hurting....)

Like anyone else I'm happy when an application update goes smoothly. But in my case with WSS 3.0 SP1 this happiness is tempered *a bit* by the fact that because it went smoothly I am unable to give any assistance in the newsgroups to people whose upgrade to SP1 did not go smoothly.

(I think, though, on balance that I prefer it to work for me ....)

Anyway here is the sum total of what I did.

1. Took my slightly out-of-date (as far as the information in the Lists/Libs go) copy of a WSS 3.0 VM (running with 1GB of memory) and installed WSS 3.0 SP1.

It worked.

(At this point I checked the version number in Site Settings and updated my FAQ item with version numbers)

2. I turned that VM off and started the original WSS 3.0 VM (with up-to-date lists/libs = WSS 3.0 versions of the V3-related lists from the WSS FAQ site, which is still v2-based).

First I did the poor man's backup (but fast) by just Saving all four Lists as Template (with content) - so I could recover to my copied VM that I'd already updated.

Then I updated the original WSS 3.0 VM. That worked too.

(Note: I always do this kind of upgrade by accessing www.wssfaq.com to get at the download link. It saves time compared to going to the MS download site and searching)

So there you are. It IS possible to upgrade WSS 3.0 to WSS 3.0 SP1 with no grief.

P.S. A semi-related warning. If you are upgrading MOSS 2007 to SP1 level, you need to run both the WSS 3.0 SP1 and then the MOSS 2007 SP1. That's I suspect common knowledge and you probably don't need to be warned about it.

What however you may need warning about is that that installation means that you run the WSS 3.0 SP1 but then uncheck the "run the configuration wizard" box. You then run the MOSS 2007 SP1 and only then (with both SP1s "installed" on your server) do you run the configuration wizard.

It says it somewhere in the documentation, but it's easy to miss so perhaps it's worth the warning here. Even if it only saves one person's grief it'll be worth my spending the extra time needed to mention it.

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 9th - 15th December 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;937961

Description of Office 2003 Web Components Service Pack 1 for the 2007 Office system (ver 2.1)

12th December 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;937162

Description of SharePoint Designer 2007 Service Pack 1 (ver 2.1)

12th December 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;943589

Error message when you try to upgrade 2007 Office programs, Expression Web or Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 to the Service Pack 1 level if the Windows system drive has insufficient free disk space: "The installation of this package failed" (ver 1.1)

11th December 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;871149

How to force an upgrade in Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 and in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (ver 2.0)  (previously a WSS 2.0 article with a different name [about version number])

11th December 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/942388/

Issues that are fixed in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 by Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Service Pack 1

11th December 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;936984

Description of the 2007 Microsoft Office servers Service Pack 1 and the 2007 Microsoft Office servers Language Pack Service Pack 1

11th December 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;945967

You receive an error message when you try to install a slipstream installation of SharePoint Server 2007 on a server that is running Windows SharePoint Services 3.0

11th December 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;942390

Description of the SharePoint Server 2007 issues that are fixed by the 2007 Microsoft Office servers Service Pack 1

11th December 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;936988

Description of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Service Pack 1 and of Windows SharePoint Services Language Pack 3.0 Service Pack 1 (ver 2.0)

11th December 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;944531

How to preserve Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 content when you upgrade Windows Server 2008 RC0 to Windows Server 2008 RC1

10th December 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;945013

How to deploy 2007 Microsoft Office System Servers Service Pack 1 and Microsoft Office Server Language Pack 2007 Service Pack 1 (ver 1.1)

8th December 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;943663

How to manually update the time zone definition in Windows SharePoint Services for the Venezuela time zone change

7th December 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;942995

You are prompted unexpectedly to restart the computer after you install a 2007 Office service pack or a 2007 Office update (ver 1.1)

6th December 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;944447

After you install the 2007 Office System Servers SP1 or Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 SP1 on a server that has the Foxit PDF IFilter installed, .pdf document types are not indexed (ver 1.1)

19th November 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;944446

Error message when you try to install 2007 Office System Servers Service Pack 1 (SP1) on a computer that also has Project Server 2007 installed (ver 1.2)

15th November 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;943100

How to set restrictions on a site collection to allow only users in a particular organizational unit on a computer that is running SharePoint Server 2007 Service Pack 1 (ver 1.1)

14th November 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;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 (ver 1.2)

7th November 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;943102

How to enable the indexing of .xlsb files and of .zip files in SharePoint Server 2007 Service Pack 1 (ver 1.1)

5th November 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;942620

You receive an error message when you try to install 2007 Office System Servers Service Pack 1 on a computer that does not have Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Service Pack 1 installed (ver 1.2)

18th October 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;942621

The SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard unexpectedly runs when you use quiet mode to install 2007 Microsoft Office System Servers or Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and you apply a service pack, an update, or a hotfix (ver 1.3)

17th October 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;942619

After you apply Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 SP1, an event is logged in the Application log on the server: "User, group, or role 'WSS_Content_Application_Pools' already exists in the current database" (ver 1.1)

21st September 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;942618

The /log command-line switch and the /passive command-line switch do not function as expected when you run the installation package that contains Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Service Pack 1 (ver 1.1)

20th September 2007

Modiifed

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

Icons are not displayed for Adobe PDF documents that are listed in the search results when you search your portal site in SharePoint Portal Server 2003 and in SharePoint Server 2007 (ver 4.0)

11th December 2007

I.b Forefront KB Articles

New

None

Modified

None

I.c InfoPath 2007 KB Articles

New

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;942381

Issues that are fixed in InfoPath 2007 by the 2007 Microsoft Office suites Service Pack 1

11th December 2007

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://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/office/sharepointserver/bb735839.aspx

SharePoint Products and Technologies Service Pack 1 Resource Center (Note: web page)

12th December 2007 (date added)

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=EF93E453-75F1-45DF-8C6F-4565E8549C2A&displaylang=en

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 with Service Pack 1

11th December 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=9FB41E51-CB03-4B47-B89A-396786492CBA&displaylang=en

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 x64 with Service Pack 1

11th December 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=4191A531-A2E9-45E4-B71E-5B0B17108BD2&displaylang=en

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Service Pack 1 (SP1)

11th December 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=05046B1D-DD7B-456A-8838-8D978C5F3579%20&displaylang=en

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Language Pack Service Pack 1 (SP1)

11th December 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=C7CF102B-5DD8-4D86-BE5A-D56F63EF37A4&displaylang=en

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Language Pack Service Pack 1 (SP1), 64-Bit Edition

11th December 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=AD59175C-AD6A-4027-8C2F-DB25322F791B&displaylang=en

The 2007 Microsoft Office Servers Service Pack 1 (SP1)

11th December 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=B57C805D-2821-4625-A6F1-80725267F887&displayLang=en

Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 Service Pack 1 (SP1)

11th December 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=8D72B284-24F7-4CFB-9D22-D2A2651D4734&displaylang=en

Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer Language Pack 2007 Service Pack 1 (SP1)

11th December 2007

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointtechnology/HA101736671033.aspx?

Manage lists and libraries with many items

11th December 2007 (date added)

http://h71019.www7.hp.com/ERC/downloads/4AA1-6598ENW.pdf

Deploying F5 Networks BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager with WebAccelerator for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (HP)

11th December 2007 (date added)

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/tmt/archive/2007/12/09/extending-the-sharepoint-fieldvalue-webcontrol.aspx

Extending the SharePoint:FieldValue WebControl (Blog - Waldek Mastykarz)

9th December 2007

http://paulgalvin.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!1CC1EDB3DAA9B8AA!491.entry

Display Content Query Web Part Results in a Grid / Table (Blog - Paul Galvin)

9th December 2007

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/erickraus/archive/2007/12/09/enable-session-state-in-sharepoint-2007.aspx

Enable Session State in SharePoint 2007 (Blog - Eric Kraus)

9th December 2007

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/sam/archive/2007/12/08/test.aspx

Developing a reusable SQL Data viewer WebPart for Sharepoint -Part 3 (Blog - Sam)

8th December 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=C815DFFA-D5F3-4B71-BF46-13721BD44682&displaylang=en

Microsoft Office 2003 Web Components Service Pack 1 (SP1) for the 2007 Microsoft Office System

8th December 2007

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb896018.aspx

Visual How To: Customizing Search Results with Custom XSLTs in SharePoint Server 2007 (Patrick Tisseghem, U2U)

8th December 2007 (date added - date of documentation/video December 2007)

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=e4600fd9-f53d-4ded-88bf-6bb1932794f9&displaylang=en&tm

SharePoint Monitoring Toolkit (ver 1)

7th December 2007

http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepointdeveloperdocs/archive/2007/12/07/customizing-alert-notifications-and-alert-templates-in-windows-sharepoint-services-3-0.aspx

Customizing Alert Notifications and Alert Templates in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (MS TeamBlog - Albert Meerscheidt)

7th December 2007

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/george/archive/2007/12/07/draft-sharepoint-best-practices.aspx

SharePoint Best Practices (Blog - George Bonney)

7th December 2007

http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=105624&clcid=0x409

Performance Recommendations for Storage Planning and Monitoring

7th December 2007 (date added - date of white paper December 2007)

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/help/HA100214341033.aspx

View, restore, or delete items in the Recycle Bin

7th December 2007 (date added)

http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/829cfa96-89b1-4a7b-b980-6d5d3e2a3ee11033.mspx?mfr=true

Mergecontentdbs: Stsadm operation (Office SharePoint Server) (new option after SP1 installation)

6th December 2007

http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/f577614d-e3ff-4e91-affc-6fdf7e94a9a31033.mspx?mfr=true

Tzmove: Stsadm operation (Office SharePoint Server) (new option after SP1 installation)

6th December 2007

http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/9b626a78-2b65-445c-b159-a9aa1dd48b3a1033.mspx

Renamesite: Stsadm operation (Office SharePoint Server)

6th December 2007

http://www.liveside.net/blogs/developer/archive/2007/12/05/add-silverlight-to-sharepoint-2007.aspx

Add Silverlight to Sharepoint 2007 (Blog - "Hackersoft")

5th December 2007

http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/blogs/GetThePoint/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?List=8d9e2a99%2Df288%2D47c2%2D916b%2D2f32864f7b82&ID=34

When to Create a New Library (Blog - Janis Hall)

4th December 2007

http://technet2.microsoft.com/windowsserver/WSS/en/library/91e1ed5d-d35e-4eb6-8013-7e323af5f4e61033.mspx?mfr=true

Enable and configure versioning (Windows SharePoint Services 3.0)

3rd December 2007

http://technet2.microsoft.com/windowsserver/WSS/en/library/5e32c8ec-0831-491a-8b3f-09fbbfc5a78a1033.mspx?mfr=true

Configure the Recycle Bin (Windows SharePoint Services 3.0)

3rd December 2007

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/dez/archive/2007/11/30/moving-copying-documents-between-libraries-with-metadata-including-version-history.aspx

Copying documents between libraries with metadata - including version history (Blog - dink)

30th November 2007

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

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb952744.aspx

Visual How To: Adding User Information from Active Directory Domain Services to InfoPath 2007 Forms (Mark Roberts)

8th December 2007 (date added - date of documentation/video November 2007)

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=7f4ce9c5-9e02-4b99-aa09-360d920d3ee0&displaylang=en&tm

Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 SDK (ver 3.0.6362.35)

7th December 2007 (added for inclusion in the SDK View)

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

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=cb119c51-0171-4108-91db-4bd708c28f0d&displaylang=en&tm

Visual Studio 2008 Rhythm Training Virtual PC (Windows Server 2003) (expires March 2008)

13th December 2007

Modified

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=2672f6f9-7028-4b30-99a2-18cb1eed1abe&DisplayLang=en

Project 2007: Software Development Kit (version 1.3-Dec07)

12th December 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=27342759-e9d6-4073-918c-e9dff77d0206&displaylang=en&tm

Microsoft System Center Essentials 2007 VHD (ver 1.1)

7th December 2007 (added for inclusion in the VHD View)

http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/f484f5f2-35bb-4d70-bf56-dd1c4c287c721033.mspx

Deploy software updates for Office SharePoint Server 2007

6th December 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=43621a8f-12fb-4e7c-bb38-1cbb6ef272c5&DisplayLang=en

Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 SP1 VHD - 32-bit version (ver 1.0)

4th December 2007 (added for inclusion in the VHD View)

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

Deploy software updates for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0

3rd December 2007

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

http://wm.microsoft.com/ms/msdn/office/2007officevisualhowtos/MOSS2007CustomizingSearchResultsWithCustomXSLTs.wmv

Visual How To: Customizing Search Results with Custom XSLTs in SharePoint Server 2007 (Video) (Patrick Tisseghem, U2U)

8th December 2007 (date added - date of documentation/video December 2007)

http://wm.microsoft.com/ms/msdn/office/2007officevisualhowtos/ip2007GettingUserInformationActiveDirectory.wmv

Visual How To: Adding User Information from Active Directory Domain Services to InfoPath 2007 Forms (Video) (Mark Roberts)

8th December 2007 (date added - date of documentation/video November 2007)

IV WSS v3 FAQ

New

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1291

III.