Sometimes it's useful to have actually read the documentation before you do things. Sometimes even that doesn't help if you don't have your wits about you.

I knew that in order to upgrade a MOSS 2007 installation to SP1 you need first of all to install the WSS 3.0 SP1 *files* - that is you do NOT run the SharePoint configuration wizard.

So I ran the WSS 3.0 SP1 installation .exe and prepared to get the page that has a cross at the bottom left hand corner which selects "run the SharePoint confiugration wizard" and when that page arrived I was prepared to un-select it before ending the installation.

Needless to say that page didn't come. Instead I got a page that said "This wizard will upgrade ...."; Next to continue or Cancel.

This left me in a bit of a quandry. Would Next just go to a Page where I had the check box I was expecting, or would it immediately run the wizard ? Would Cancel back-out the "installation" of all those files or would it leave them in the system ?

The page didn't help me decide what would happen so I went for the safe option and pressed Cancel. After all I could re-do the (file) installation if it did back it out.

As it happens, it doesn't. Cancel just means "Don't run the configuration wizard". Isn't it a pity they don't say so instead of writing "cancel to exit the wizard" which leaves you in some doubts as to which wizard they mean and at what stage you are exiting.

That done and with the WSS 3.0 SP1 installation files on the server, I set off to run the MOSS 2007 SP1 installation.

Now I know I should have known better but when - as usual - I went to the Download section of the Articles - 2007 Products part of the WSS FAQ site looking for this, I looked for all combinations of MOSS 2007 SP1.

It doesn't exist of course. MS in their wisdom have a common Service Pack 1 for "Office Servers" (MOSS, Project; Groove) and eventually I remembered this and couldn't find it under that name either ! So a search of the page for SP1 and there it was "The 2007 Microsoft Office Servers Service Pack 1 (SP1)". Somehow looking under "The 2007" in the view that was sorted by Name wasn't obvious.

Anyway there it was. I set it going knowing that if the WSS 3.0 SP1 files weren't already there there'd be an error message. There wasn't. The Office Servers SP1 installed *its* files on the server and now again there was the Next = run wizard page.

This time I wanted to run it and (crossing my fingers) set it going.

After all the above (and naturally the earlier copy of a working MOSS 2007 VM just in case the upgrade crashed in flames), it's perhaps a disappointment to you all to hear that the upgrade worked successfully.

So, sorry, once again I can't help people whose upgrades have gone wrong at some stage in the wizard routine.

P.S. But, once again, not that sad :)

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.

Special Note: No, I've not been lazy. It's just been a very slow week.

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

From 30th December 2007 - 5th January 2008


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

New

None

Modified

None

I.b Forefront KB Articles

New

None

Modified

None

I.c InfoPath 2007 KB Articles

New

None

Modified

None

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

New

A. Office 2007 Server Products

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/llowevad/archive/2008/01/02/moving-to-a-new-database-server-or-instance.aspx

Moving to a new database server (or instance) (Blog - Dave Wollerman)

2nd January 2008

http://projectserver201.blogspot.com/2008/01/issues-fixed-in-project-server-2007.html

Issues fixed in Project Server 2007 with SP1 (Blog - Scott M. Wagner)

1st January 2008

http://blogs.technet.com/wbaer/archive/2008/01/01/microsoft-office-sharepoint-server-2007-to-windows-sharepoint-services-3-0-site-level-migration.aspx

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 to Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Site-Level Migration (Blog - William Baer)

1st January 2008

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/ssa/archive/2007/12/30/using-business-data-catalog-definition-editor.aspx

Using Business Data Catalog Definition Editor (Blog - S.S.Ahmed)

30th 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=74dd6e2d-89c6-4e1e-af00-fc7d70f15439&displaylang=en&tm

Microsoft Windows Software Development Kit (SDK) for Windows Server 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 (ver 6.1)

2nd January 2008


Modified

None

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

New

None

IV WSS v3 FAQ

New

Note: I've moved the InfoPath 2007 books from the "Non-SP Books" section for better visibility (and to line them up with the existing Forms Services book).

(For the moment I've also left them in the Non-SP Books section, but this may change)

I'm always grateful for information about books - especially non-English language books - that I don't include in the list.

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1306

I.31.07 What issues are fixed in Project Server 2007 SP1?

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1303

V.83 InfoPath 2007 (in French) (Editions ENI - Jean-François Fustec) *released*

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1304

V.84 Microsoft Office InfoPath 2007 - Das Handbuch (mit Sonderteil Forms Server) (in German) (MS Press Deutschland - Egbert Jeschke, Helmut Reinke, Sven Maier) *released*

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1305

V.85 Pro InfoPath 2007 (apress - Philo Janus) *released*

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1308

V.86 MOSS for Engineers and Architects Resource Kit (MS Press - unknown)

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1307

VI.96 Epok Edition for Microsoft SharePoint (Epok)

Modified

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

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

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=816

V.10 Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services Version 3.0 Inside Out (MS Press - Errin O'Connor) *released*

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) *released*

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V WSSv2 KB Articles (plus SPS 2003 Hot fixes)

New

None

Modified

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=827926

Considerations That Apply When You Use Multiple Log Files for Usage Analysis Processing in Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 (ver 3.2)

2nd October 2007

VI WSSv2 FAQ

New

None

Modified

None

Deleted

(site no longer exists; can't find any other reference to this control)

VII.10.58 Free WSS-relevant Programs - Drop-down menu control (Dan Marth) (SPS 2003 - WSS too?)

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 :) )