Special Note: the next posting will be on the 23rd of February 2008

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 20th - 26th January 2008

NOTE: Amendment to KB articles: Microsoft are not not amending the date of a KB article if the change made is marked as a version point change (so from 2.2 to 2.3 for instance).
This ought to mean that the amendment made is cosmetic rather than important as important text changes ought to result in a major version change (such as from 2.2 to 3.0).
Because of this change and to avoid unnecessary effort I will in future not amend the listings in the WSS FAQ sites if only a minor version change has taken place.
I will continue to amend both the date and version numbers of major version changes and of course will continue to add all relevant new KB articles that my RSS feeds and other sources give me.

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

New

http://support.microsoft.com/?id=946517

FIX: You may be unable to manage IIS 6.0 by using Server Manager if two threads access IIS 6.0 at the same time (ver 2.0)

18th January 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/?id=827920

You receive an "Error 502" error message, or the Web page is not displayed when you try to access SharePoint Central Administration pages after you install SharePoint Portal Server 2007 or SharePoint Portal Server 2003 on a stand-alone computer (ver 2.2)

29th March 2007

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://webborg.blogspot.com/2008/01/backup-restore-and-migration-of-sites_21.html

Backup, restore and migration of sites on SharePoint 3 pt. 3/3 (stsadm -o export and stsadm -o import) (Blog - Boris Gomiunik)

23rd January 2008

http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepointdeveloperdocs/archive/2008/01/22/synchronizing-with-windows-sharepoint-services-part-2.aspx

Synchronizing with Windows SharePoint Services, Part 2 (MS Team  Blog - Albert Meerscheidt)

22nd January 2008

http://technet2.microsoft.com/windowsserver/WSS/en/library/1f505e96-60e2-41ac-bf5d-9739105f047c1033.mspx?mfr=true

Deployment for Office SharePoint Server 2007 (Web version with links to sections)

22nd January 2008 (date added)

http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/8a911115-de8a-4cf3-9701-f5ba78fa8bfc1033.mspx?mfr=true

Deployment for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 technology  (Web version with links to sections)

22nd January 2008 (date added)

http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepointdeveloperdocs/archive/2008/01/21/synchronizing-with-windows-sharepoint-services-part-1.aspx

Synchronizing with Windows SharePoint Services, Part 1 (MS Team  Blog - Albert Meerscheidt)

21st January 2008

http://webborg.blogspot.com/2008/01/backup-restore-and-migration-of-sites_23.html

Backup, restore and migration of sites on SharePoint 3 pt. 2/3 (stsadm -o backup and stsadm -o restore) (Blog - Boris Gomiunik)

21st January 2008

http://webborg.blogspot.com/2008/01/backup-restore-and-migration-of-sites.html

Backup, restore and migration of sites on SharePoint 3 pt. 1/3 (SharePoint Designer Backup and Restore) (Blog - Boris Gomiunik)

21st January 2008

https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastRegistrationConfirmation.aspx?culture=en-US&RegistrationID=1294877167&Validate=false

TechNet Webcast: SharePoint Server 2007 (Part 2 of 6): Securing Data in SharePoint Server 2007 (Level 200) (Kevin Remde)

21st January 2008

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/mdlotter/archive/2008/01/21/you-must-choose-a-publish-location-that-is-different-from-the-source-web-application-error-message-when-trying-to-publish-a-web-project-with-visual-studio-2005.aspx

You must choose a publish location that is different from the source Web application error message when trying to publish a web project with Visual Studio 2005 (Blog - M Lotter)

21st January 2008

http://sharepointnutsandbolts.blogspot.com/2008/01/workflow-tasks-which-can-only-be.html

Workflow: tasks which can only be actioned by task owner (Ed: Visual Studio workflows) (Blog - Chris O'Brien)

20th January 2008

http://sharepointsolutions.blogspot.com/2008/01/checking-for-null-date-field-in.html

Checking for a NULL Date Field in SharePoint Designer Workflow (Blog - Russell Wright)

20th January 2008

http://blogs.msdn.com/nikhil/archive/2008/01/19/sharepoint-workflow-feature-in-vs-2008-part-ii.aspx

SharePoint Workflow feature in VS 2008 (Part II) (MSBlog - Nikhil)

18th January 2008

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/mdlotter/archive/2008/01/18/using-the-expression-option-and-xpath-statement-for-comparing-two-values-in-infopath-2007-condition-statement.aspx

Using The expression option and XPath statement for comparing two values in InfoPath 2007 Condition statement (Blog - M Lotter)

18th January 2008

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/ggill1970/archive/2008/01/18/pulling-in-querystrings-into-a-sharepoint-2007-survey.aspx

Pulling in Querystrings into a SharePoint 2007 Survey (Blog - unknown)

18th January 2008

http://blogs.msdn.com/jingmeili/archive/2008/01/17/how-to-start-a-workflow-programmatically-in-the-infopath-code-using-workflow-web-service.aspx

How to start a workflow programmatically in the InfoPath code using Workflow web service (Blog - Jingmei Li)

17th January 2008

http://metahat.blogspot.com/2008/01/printing-sharepoint-web-part.html

Printing SharePoint Web Part (Blog - Raghu Iyer)

17th January 2008

http://blogs.msdn.com/nikhil/archive/2008/01/15/sharepoint-workflow-feature-in-vs-2008.aspx

SharePoint Workflow feature in VS 2008 (Part I) (MSBlog - Nikhil)

15th January 2008

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=2874d878-e28d-4530-a185-4dee1fcdd12e&displaylang=en&tm

Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Deployment Software Development Kit (SDK) (ver 4.0.0)

22nd January 2008 (added to get into the SDK set; note that there are two different CRM 4.0 SDKs)

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=8af004bd-ee06-43fa-a5b6-955689a66c84&displaylang=en&tm

ReportViewer Samples for Microsoft Visual Studio 2008

18th January 2008

http://www.ddj.com/article/printableArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=AXW3LU2FWD0SYQSNDLRSKHSCJUNN2JVN?articleID=205602188&dept_url=/development-tools/

Inside Visual Studio 2008 (Dr Dobb's - Dino Esposito)

10th January 2008

http://www.devx.com/codemag/Article/36317

Windows Workflow Foundation Essentials (Devx - Kevin McNeish)

7th January 2008

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

Microsoft Search Server 2008 SDK (pre-release version, Nov 2007)

29th November 2007

Modified

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=82e632a7-faf9-41e0-8ec1-a2662aae9dfb

Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Software Development Kit (ver 4.0.1)

23rd January 2008

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=cb944b27-9d6b-4a1f-b3e1-778efda07df8&displaylang=en

Microsoft Best Practices Analyzer for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and the 2007 Microsoft Office System (ver 2)

22nd January 2008

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=da0531e4-e94c-4991-82fa-f0e3fbd05e63&displaylang=en&tm

SQL Server 2005 Best Practices Analyzer (January 2008 - version 9.00.1007.00)

18th January 2008

Deleted

None

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

https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastRegistrationConfirmation.aspx?culture=en-US&RegistrationID=1294877510&Validate=false

TechNet Webcast: SharePoint Server 2007 (Part 3 of 6): Disaster Recovery (Level 200) (Kevin Remde)

23rd January 2008

https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastRegistrationConfirmation.aspx?culture=en-US&RegistrationID=1294877167&Validate=false

TechNet Webcast: SharePoint Server 2007 (Part 2 of 6): Securing Data in SharePoint Server 2007 (Level 200) (Kevin Remde)

21st January 2008

https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastRegistrationConfirmation.aspx?culture=en-US&RegistrationID=1294804168

TechNet Webcast: SharePoint Server 2007 (Part 1 of 6): Planning and Deploying SharePoint Server 2007 (Level 200) (Kevin Remde)

18th January 2008

https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastRegistrationConfirmation.aspx?culture=en-US&RegistrationID=1294804306

IT Manager Webcast: Introduction to the Windows Server 2008 Server Core Installation Option (Level 200)
 (Andrew Mason)

16th January 2008

http://rshelton.com/archive/2007/11/29/how-to-video-using-active-directory-searchinglookup-in-a-sharepointmoss.aspx

How to Video: Using Active Directory Searching/Lookup in a SharePoint/MOSS 2007 Workflow (with Visual Studio 2008) (MS private video - Robert Shelton)

29th November 2007

http://sheltonblog.com/archive/2007/11/27/how-to-video-building-a-multilevel-approval-workflow-with-sharepoint.aspx

How to Video: Building a Multilevel Approval Workflow with SharePoint (MOSS 2007) and Visual Studio (MS private video - Robert Shelton)

27th November 2007

http://sheltonblog.com/archive/2007/11/21/how-to-video-building-a-basic-approval-workflow-with-sharepoint.aspx

How to Video: Building a basic Approval Workflow with SharePoint (MOSS 2007) and Visual Studio (MS private video - Robert Shelton)

21st November 2007

http://www.sheltonblog.com/archive/2007/11/01/how-to-video-programmatically-escalating-an-overdue-task-document-workflow.aspx

How to Video: Programmatically Escalating an Overdue Task as a part of a Document Workflow in SharePoint (MOSS 2007) (MS private video - Robert Shelton)

1st November 2007

http://www.sheltonblog.com/archive/2007/10/29/how-to-video-creating-a-user-task-document-workflow-in.aspx

How to Video: Programmatically Creating a User Task in a Document Workflow for SharePoint (MOSS) 2007 (MS private video - Robert Shelton)

29th October 2007

http://www.sheltonblog.com/archive/2007/10/25/how-to-video-document-workflow-in-sharepoint-moss-2007-extracting.aspx

How to Video: Document Workflow in SharePoint (MOSS) 2007 (Extracting email addresses and sending emails) (MS private video - Robert Shelton)

25th October 2007

http://www.sheltonblog.com/archive/2007/10/24/document-workflow-extracting-document-details-with-your-workflow.aspx

How to Video: Document Workflow in SharePoint (MOSS) 2007 (Extracting document details with your workflow) (MS private video - Robert Shelton)

24th October 2007

http://www.sheltonblog.com/archive/2007/10/23/how-to-video-enabling-incomingoutgoing-email-for-sharepointmoss-2007.aspx

How to Video: Enabling incoming/outgoing email for SharePoint/MOSS 2007 (MS private video - Robert Shelton)

23rd October 2007

IV WSS v3 FAQ

New

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1316

VI.97 SharePoint Federator for WebSphere Portal (commercial - Mainsoft)

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1315

X.105 Tool for Migrating List and Document Libraries in MOSS between servers (free - Raghu Iyer)

Modified

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

V.66 Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 Step by Step (MSPress - Penelope Coventry) *released*

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

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

V WSSv2 KB Articles (plus SPS 2003 Hot fixes)

New

None

Modified

None

VI WSSv2 FAQ

New

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSS%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=652

I.23.5 What is fixed in WSS 2.0 Service Pack 3?

Modified

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSS%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=425

VII.08.17 Free WSS Web Parts - Chart Web Part (anonymous, Microsoft)

The reason I'm asking this is because I've just received a TechNet Flash email from Microsoft in which there is a plug for "Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Inside Out".

(Amazon US: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0735623236/heme0f - Amazon UK: http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0735623236/heme)

yet while it's true that this is recently out, my experience with earlier Inside Out books that I have seen (on other topics it's true) is that they are rather bland and - dare I as an MVP say it - "follow the party line".

Now I've not seen this particular Inside Out book but given a choice between the two general SharePoint v3 books that came out recently, that isn't the one I would go for.

Instead I'd pick C.A. Callahan's "Mastering Windows SharePoint Services 3.0"

(Amazon US: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0470127287/heme0f - Amazon UK: http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0470127287/heme)

because based on her replies to many questions in the public SharePoint newsgroups she has delved deeply into the product during the time she was writing the book.

In other words I expect somewhat more than the party line from her.

P.S. Who is "Errin O'Connor" anyway ?

P.P.S. The above general comments about MS Press books *are* general and they apply mainly to the more general series.

I imagine that for Developers both "Inside Windows SharePoint Services 3.0" (which I've seen)

(Amazon US: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0735623201/heme0f - Amazon UK: http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0735623201/heme)

and "Inside Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007" (which I haven't seen)

(Amazon US: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0735623686/heme0f - Amazon UK: http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0735623686/heme)

offer as much depth as any of the developer books that don't come from Microsoft Press.

I have a confession to make.

A long, long (very long) time ago before I had even heard the word SharePoint I had set up a WebSphere server for a customer.

This was so long ago that that was the only IBM product called "WebSphere" and it was quite a few years later that IBM decided they liked the name so much they would rename a lot of totally unrelated products "WebSphere" and thus make a family of products.

(Something IBM do often. The last invitational golf tournament I attended at IBM Finland's invitation was the last one because in the sauna afterwards I made a comment about the DB2 family not being a real family because the various DB2 products for different platforms were (at the time?) built on different code bases. My supply of free golf balls - at invitational tournaments they aways supplied you with half a dozen free golf balls at the start and more halfway through if you claimed you had lost most of the first six - dried up immediately afterwards.)

(Microsoft is not immune either. Remember SharePoint Team Services ? It had nothing to do with SharePoint Portal Server 2001 except for the "SharePoint" in the name ...)

Anyway, WebSphere, yes.

Occasionally it pops up as either a competitor to SharePoint or as something that a customer that also has a SharePoint product installed also has installed. (In one case I know of because the package solution to something that that company was using was built on top of WebSphere.).

Hence the occasional need for the two to work together.

and at this point we have the old problem of the chicken and the egg - Microsoft (except it seems if it is SAP) don't want to ease their product's working with an IBM competitor product and IBM think exactly the same in reverse.

So it's up to a third-party to grab the niche and in this case that third party is MainSoft.

I've added their "SharePoint Federator for WebSphere Portal" product to the WSS FAQ's list of commercial v3 products here

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1316

so go there if you have a dominant WebSphere Portal product with lots of department level SharePoint sites.

(Because unfortunately that's the niche Mainsoft chose. Now I would have liked to see a product that integrated that unimportant WebSphere stuff into a dominant SharePoint system ....)

If you ignore the SPD 2007 book that Amazon once said was out only for it to first be rapidly marked as out of stock and then later as Pre-Order, then the first (real?) SharePoint Designer 2007 book of the few expected in the next few months is now out and can be ordered at both the Amazon US

It (and the one coming in a few months from Dustin Miller and Heather Solomon) is on my list for sure.

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 13th - 19th January 2008

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

New

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;946790

Unpublished pages are not migrated when you migrate a Content Management Server 2002 site to SharePoint Server 2007

16th January 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;946484

Search results are incomplete when you use a CAML query that uses the SPSiteDataQuery class to search content on a SharePoint Server site or on a Windows SharePoint Services site

16th January 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;941836

You are prompted to approve a connection to a SharePoint feature in Outlook 2003

15th January 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;940026

Office SharePoint Server Search and Windows SharePoint Server Search may not work as expected after you update Office SharePoint Server 2007 Search

15th January 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;946483

Error message when you try to upgrade from Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 to Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 or to SharePoint Server 2007: "Job failed"

11th January 2008

Modified

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

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

16th January 2008

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 3.0)

10th January 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=927376

Error message when you try to create a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Web application in SharePoint 3.0 Central Administration: "The IIS Web Site you have selected is in use by SharePoint" (ver 3.0)

10th January 2008

I.b Forefront KB Articles

New

None

Modified

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/933858/en-us

How the cumulative time zone update for Windows operating systems affects Antigen and Forefront (ver 2.0)

15th January 2008

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.combined-knowledge.com/Downloads/How to move MOSS2007 from W2003_32bit to W2008_64bit.pdf

How to move a SharePoint Server 2007 32-bit environment to a 64-bit environment on Windows Server 2008 (Steve Smith, Penny Coventry - Combined Knowledge)

16th January 2008 (date added)

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=65f21935-cbc0-4178-8c08-4c56f721c87d&displaylang=en&tm

SharePoint Products and Technologies White Paper: Implementing Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Solutions (Rona Lustig - paper dated Aug 2007 but copyright 2008!)

15th January 2008

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/cwogle/archive/2008/01/15/programmatically-set-the-value-of-a-spfieldlookup-list-field.aspx

Programmatically set the value of a SPFieldLookup list field (Blog - Chris Ogle)

15th January 2008

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/helloibm/archive/2008/01/15/programmatically-adding-a-sitecollection-with-custom-membership-provider.aspx

Programmatically adding a SiteCollection with custom membership provider (Blog - "helloibm")

15th January 2008

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/holliday/archive/2008/01/14/hide-edit-page-in-site-actions-menu.aspx

Hide Edit Page in Site Actions Menu (Blog - Jeff Holliday)

14th January 2008

http://blogs.msdn.com/martinkearn/archive/2008/01/14/how-to-create-a-slipstream-installation-for-moss-with-sp1.aspx

How to create a ‘Slipstream’ installation for MOSS with SP1 (Blog - Martin Kearn) (Ed: how to install MOSS 2007+SP1 on Windows Server 2008)

14th January 2008

http://www.tonstegeman.com/Blog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=52

MOSS 2007 Filter webparts part 3 - Adding and connecting SharePoint filter webparts in code and a the page layout (Blog - Ton Stegeman)

13th January 2008

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/zimmer/archive/2008/01/13/moss-2007-creating-a-custom-ajax-usercontrol-that-will-query-the-sharepoint-search-query-object-model-to-perform-searches.aspx

MOSS 2007: Creating a custom AJAX UserControl that will query the SharePoint Search Query Object Model to perform searches (Blog - Tobias Zimmergren)

13th January 2008

http://www.mtelligent.com/journal/2008/1/11/using-the-delegate-control-to-add-meta-tags-to-sharepoint-pa.html

Using the Delegate Control to Add Meta Tags to SharePoint Pages (Blog - David San Filippo)

11th January 2008

http://blogs.technet.com/wbaer/archive/2008/01/11/dynamic-application-of-master-pages-in-microsoft-office-sharepoint-server-2007.aspx

Dynamic Application of Master Pages in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MSBlog - William Baer)

11th January 2008

http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=98123&clcid=0x409

Managing Social Networking with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (Eric Charran, Dino Dato-on, Greg Lang)

10th January 2008 (document marked December 2007)

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/zimmer/archive/2008/01/10/moss-2007-using-ajax-usercontrols-in-sharepoint.aspx

MOSS 2007: Using AJAX UserControls in SharePoint (Blog - Tobias Zimmergren)

10th January 2008

http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/21dcf8aa-8a6e-4325-aa17-0188e491361c1033.mspx?mfr=true

Resources for upgrading from Content Management Server 2002 (List of Links)

7th January 2008

http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/f136c3bd-14e6-4f3f-b7ef-36581e515c6f1033.mspx

Configure Kerberos authentication (Office SharePoint Server)

20th December 2007

http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/8a438ef6-a4dc-4313-91db-67ba2b60f6961033.mspx

Overview of upgrading from SharePoint Portal Server 2003 to Office SharePoint Server 2007 and new methods for common customizations

20th December 2007

https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastRegistrationConfirmation.aspx?culture=en-US&RegistrationID=1294294594

IT Manager Webcast: Enabling Innovation Process Management Using the Microsoft EPM Solution and SharePoint Server 2007 (Level 100) (Simon Floyd)

18th December 2007

http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/991e55bd-b3e2-4260-beb3-b23861934f0a1033.mspx?mfr=true

Troubleshoot backup and recovery for Office SharePoint Server 2007

19th July 2008

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

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=1cd6acf9-ce06-4e1c-8dcf-f33f669dbc3a&displaylang=en&tm

Excel Viewer (for all Excel versions from Excel 97 to Excel 2007)

14th January 2008

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

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=3a4468ca-247c-4fcb-b4ff-62acb005cceb&displaylang=en&tm

Microsoft Office Live Communications Server 2003 SDK Documentation

15th January 2008

(added to SDK view)

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=8f3d12ea-0dd1-4b22-b530-156e90a2616e&displaylang=en&tm

Microsoft Business Intelligence VPC Release 5.1

10th December 2007

Modified

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=4f2f1339-cbcd-4d26-9174-f30c10d7ec4c&DisplayLang=en

Microsoft Exchange Best Practices Analyzer Web Update Pack (ver 2.11.18.0)

15th January 2008

(included in Best Practices view)

Deleted

Microsoft Windows Software Development Kit (SDK) for Windows Server 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 (pre-release)

(RTM release out)

Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 SDK (ver 3.0.6362.0)

(later version in site)

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=1313

V.87 Professional SharePoint 2007 Design (Wiley - Jacob J. Sanford, Randy Drisgill, David Drinkwine, Coskun Cavusoglu)

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1314

V.88 Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Best Practices (MS Press - Bill English, Mark Schneider, Ben Curry)

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1312

X.104 stsadmWin 2007 (free - Ronalus)

Modified

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=947

V.32 Mastering Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (Sybex - C. A. Callahan) *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*

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V WSSv2 KB Articles (plus SPS 2003 Hot fixes)

New

None

Modified

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;933738

An update is available that addresses an issue in which items that use the Date and Time fields are off by one hour in Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 (ver 7.0)

15th January 2008

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

How to manually update the TIMEZONE.XML file to be DST 2007-compliant if you cannot install update 924881 or a later update for Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 software (ver 3.0)

15th January 2008

VI WSSv2 FAQ

New

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSS%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=651

I.28.3 What is fixed in SPS 2003 Service Pack 3 ?

Modified

None

I've just installed Windows Server 2008 RC1 on a VM in order to see what I need to do to get "WSS 3.0+SP1" to work on it.

I first installed Windows Server 2008 months ago and I don't remember thinking that it was any different (or in typical MS words "a different installation experience") to installing Windows Server 2003 and then adding WSS 3.0.

Maybe my memory is going but I certainly think I would remember some of the decisions I needed to make this time.

This post by the way is only going to be an "as I remember" post. I can see that I'm going to have to install this thing many many times with different parameters before I can get a real grasp of what is really needed before you install WSS 3.0.

The first choice is that you can decide between Core functions only and Full. Now I don't know about you, but I had no idea whether installing Core functions only would mean that WSS 3.0 would install or run or not, so I installed Full.

That in turn just lies there (at first not accepting that I have network connection until I re-boot it but that's maybe because it was installed in a VM) and you need to specify the Applications Server role.

Now that was all you needed to do with Windows Server 2003 before running the .Net Framework install and installing WSS 3.0, but now with 2008 it *appears* that this doesn't include IIS support and so you are - shall we say - "encouraged" to install "Web Services (IIS)" (some such name) as well.

Around this point you are presented with sub-menus for those two main things and, yes, I did click a few things almost at random (well they looked as if I might need them).

Also at some point around here (maybe one of those sub-menus in fact) you could X for the installation of .NET Framework 3.0, so that's no longer a seperate install but is part of Windows Server 2008.

Anyway all that lot was set to churn around for a while and eventually was done and (with or without a re-boot ? I must really learn to write these things down) then I could run the standard "WSS 3.0+SP1" installation after which I had of course the configuration wizard phase and after that (perhaps not "of course") a working WSS 3.0 default site.

I'm ashamed to say that although I "could" run the standard '"WSS 3.0+SP1" installation' what I actually first tried to run (and twice too) was the WSS 3.0 SP1 download which not surprisingly didn't find a product it could update and posted a message to that effect. My excuse is that this installation was working on a Mac behind my back while I was also doing work on my work machine and thus I was distracted, but TWICE ??

So there you have it. Obviously I'm going to have to do this install again and write down exactly what I installed. Then once more missing one thing out and seeing if the installation still went through (and so on). I'll also need to do this for both the core and the full version - although I think I'll go to hunt for some documentation on the core version first, I'm not that mad.

So lot's of "fun" ahead and by the time I've finished I'll have to do it all again for the RTM version.

P.S. I first tried to install this on VMWare Fusion (which is the Mac equivalent of VMWare workstation) and it complained about missing drivers and wouldn't install. So I installed it in Parallels and there at the same point in the install it just went straight to the screen that asked for the MSDN code. Thus proving that sometimes it is good to have two completely different sets of Virtual Machine software available even though the machine has fits if one VM from each system is running at the same time (but that might well be caused by memory shortages as it doesn't exactly crash).

P.P.S. Later: (much later) A fellow MVP confirmed that WSS 3.0 would install on the core system. Something about not being able to install .Net Framework on the core version. So what *can* you do with the core version I wonder ?

I have a lot of admiration for the SBS 2003 MVPs as this requires knowledge of a vast quantity of Microsoft products combined with how they work together in the SBS 2003 environment.

I don't however have much time for some of the people who post questions about WSS 2.0 or WSS 3.0 *running on SBS 2003* in a SharePoint newsgroup as at least half the time their problems derive from the fact that they are running either WSS product in a SBS 2003 environment (and some of them arise just from an SBS 2003 environment and have nothing really to do with WSS at all - think network connections)

But I still have to read their questions and decide for myself whether the answer is a universal one that would also apply to WSS 2.0/3.0 in a Windows 2003 Server environment or not, which needs at least a minimal amount of knowledge about what you get in SBS 2003.

So (preamble over) I was interested to see a Redmond Channel Partner article (Jan 2008 edition) about what the next "SBS" product will include.

The Standard edition has:

Windows Server 2008; Exchange Server 2007 and System Center Essentials for Management with ISA Server (version not specified) and Forefront Security for Exchange

The Enterprise edition is the Standard edition plus SQL Server 2008.

So it's based on Windows Server 2008, which is one reason why it's still in beta.

But where's Windows SharePoint Services ? I presume it isn't "missing in action" and all this means is that just as with Windows Server 2008 itself, WSS will no longer be bundled with "SBS xxxx" but you will just use the standard download the rest of us use.

This will be a "Good Thing" as hopefully this means that running WSS xxxx (to start with no doubt WSS 3.0) or even MOSS 2007 on SBS xxxx will be identical to running it on Windows server 2008. **** But see below - Late News ***

I certainly hope so as then I can just ignore whether someone has SBS xxxx or (directly) Windows Server 2008 as their platform and just get on with answering the question if I can.

P.S. The other news from that article is that from being a single server solution for a maximum of 75 users (SBS 2003), SBS xxxx can be run on up to three servers to divide the load.

Oddly enough though there is no mention of any new maximum number of users, nor is there any mention that 64-bit machines will be needed. At least I presume so (64-bit machines that is) because doesn't Exchange 2007 require them *and* a 64-bit OS ?

P.P.S. The new name is said to be "Windows Essential Business Server". We'll see if it makes it to RTM with that name. Somehow WEBS is a bit off.  *** But see below "slightly later news" ***

Late news: Wayne in the first comment here said that the Beta of SBS 2008 does include WSS 3.0. So it's just the guy who wrote that RCP article who didn't think it worthwhile mentioning ... Shame on you !

Slightly later news (note to myself: don't ever write anything on SBS ....): Handy Andy's comment is that

The "EBS or EBS Essential Busness Server (was code named Centro)"mentioned above "is not the next version of SBS, it is a new Mid Market Multi-Server product for folks getting too big for SBS, it will have a limit in the range of 250-300 seats (still not set in stone from my understanding)"

He adds

"For more on EBS http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/presskits/ServerSolutions/businessserver.mspx"

There was an earlier thread about trying to save copies of streaming videos from zdf.de for viewing in weeks where I had more time. There the thread was mainly about why paying to upgrade QuickTime to QuickTime Pro to get a Save Video function didn't help.

Later I discovered that the basic (old) methods work - but only in one case, which is odd. What follows below started out as a comment to that earlier blog but simply became too long.

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What's even odder is that in one XPPro system (Murphy's Law means it's the slowest machine in the house) I can find the .mov file in the Internet Explorer cache and can copy it across to another place in the file system and play it.

In Vista and in the dual-booted XPPro on that machine, the .mov file (theoretically created in the same way by running the video in Quick Time to the end) doesn't appear.

(and, Yes, I have checked the locations - the only difference is that where it IS working I've changed the default location in IE; where it isn't working I haven't).

Thinks: could it be that the old IEPro is IE6 and the new IE7 ??

P.S. Of course my Mac knowledge is such that I haven't a clue where to look for the Safari cache !

P.P.S. Yesterday my Internet access was down so I decided that this was a perfect opportunity to go to that IE6 machine and play back the .mov file. Guess what !? It didn't work. It turned out that was a stub too ... Ah well, back to the drawing board.

I've been exchanging e-mails with a fellow SharePoint MVP who works for Newsgator muttering about the Newsgator Online service having abandoned its "Classic" look and gone completely with their "faster" (= not for me) Beta version. A couple of days ago he advised me to go to http://www.newsgator.com/Individuals/Default.aspx and sign up for both Feed Demon for my Vista portable and NetNewsWire for my Mac, both of which had become free to use (as Newsgator Online always was).

My counter for that was that the reason I was using Newsgator Online was because I could switch machines (including work machines) when using that because things I'd read on the Vista machine (or work machine) were no longer visible on the Mac (and vice versa). He assured me that there would be synchronization between Feed Demon and NetNewsWire so I thought I'd give them a try.

Having first thought I was on the Mac (which shows how Tiger and Vista can have a similar feel to them - but probably more likely just shows I wasn't properly awake [I had both the Mac and the Vista switched on as the Mac was running my WSS 3.0 site but was actually using the Vista machine]) I finally stopped wondering why NetNewsWire didn't want to install and instead installed Feed Demon.

I had of course the standard "do you want us a) to give you some sample feeds b) no feeds c) import some feeds and I decided to import my many existing feeds from Newsgator Online by doing an Export to OPML and using that file to import into Feed Demon. I then spent a good 15 mins going through all the options in Newsgator Online only to find that in this beta look (now the only one you have) you CAN'T export your feeds to an OPML file. You can Import but that was of no use to me.

So I was left with the choice of no feeds or give me some sample feeds. A toss-up really, but I went for "some sample feeds" and was somewhat amazed to find that the sample feeds it had generated were in fact my Newsgator On-line feeds. Unfortunately with a lot of additional rubbish as well, but still.

So I was happy - or was I ?

I was until I went back to Newsgator On-line and found that it too had miraculously acquired all those other rubbish feeds from Feed Demon.

So as a result and rather sooner than expected I'm going to have to spend the next hour or so removing all those rubbishy feeds from Feed Demon (or Online?) so that I can use one of these things without that baggage.

In fact, on second thoughts (isn't it a good thing I decided to write this blog article as otherwise I wouldn't have thought about it) I'm going to install the Mac NetNewsWire first and then remove the rubbishy feeds - otherwise no doubt I'm going to have to do that all over again.

In the long run of course this synchronization among the three products is a real boom - I'll probably only use Newsgator On-line in future when in Internet Cafés (= never or rather hardly ever)

P.S. The NetNewsWire implementation was awful. (Looked nice but was a pig to use sensibly) so I was forced to remove it from the machine completely (as even URLs to forum messages entered into Safari were being opened there rather than in Safari so I could only read them and not reply to them).

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.)

P.S. Yes the Roman numbers I started when I moved this weekly post from one blog to another are getting to be boring but I'm stuck with them now.

From 6th - 12th January 2008

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

New

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;943605

The Windows SharePoint Services Search index may be corrupted when you upgrade Windows Server 2003 to Windows Server 2008 (ver 1.1)

8th January 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;944981

You cannot upload files that are larger than 28 MB on a Windows Server 2008-based computer that is running Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (ver 1.1)

7th January 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;946306

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 does not appear in the list of the components that can be backed up when you use Windows Server Backup in Windows Server 2008

3rd January 2008

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://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb986729.aspx

Visual How To: Adding Code-Behind Files to Master Pages and Page Layouts in SharePoint Server 2007 (Andrew Connell, Andrew Connell Inc.)

12th January 2008 (date added - article is January 2008)

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb986730.aspx

Visual How To: Adding Custom Quick Access Buttons to the Page Editing Toolbar in SharePoint Server 2007 (Andrew Connell, Andrew Connell Inc.)

12th January 2008 (date added - article is January 2008)

http://www.bdcmetaman.com/downloads/bdc-sso-whitepaper.zip

Configuring BDC and SSO (Brett Lonsdale, Lightning Tools) *needs site registration*

9th January 2008 (date added)

http://blogs.technet.com/wbaer/archive/2008/01/08/dynamic-application-of-master-pages-in-microsoft-office-sharepoint-server-2007.aspx

Dynamic Application of Master Pages in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MSBlog - William Baer)

8th January 2008

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=30a7365b-91c5-4c28-85a5-9ab861168c0e&displaylang=en&tm

Update for Windows Internal Database x86 (WYukon SP2 x86) (version 09.00.3042.3)

8th January 2008

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=de6b898b-1e59-4571-a301-d26fb39d6d9f&displaylang=en&tm

Update for Windows Internal Database x64 (WYukon SP2 x64) (version 09.00.3042.3)

8th January 2008

http://sharepointsolutions.blogspot.com/2008/01/single-server-rms-and-moss-2007_06.html

Single Server RMS and MOSS 2007 Installation from a SharePoint Perspective (Blog - Russell Wright, SharePoint Solutions)

6th January 2008

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/tmt/archive/2008/01/06/automatically-generating-a-hierarchical-title-in-lt-title-gt-element.aspx

Automatically generating a hierarchical Title in <title> element (Blog - Waldek Mastykarz)

6th January 2008

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/zimmer/archive/2008/01/04/moss-2007-add-support-for-ajax-in-your-sharepoint-installation.aspx

MOSS 2007: Add support for AJAX in your SharePoint installation (Blog - Tobias Zimmergren)

4th January 2008

http://sharepointsolutions.blogspot.com/2007/06/three-state-workflow-forgotten-out-of.html

The Three-State Workflow - The Forgotten Out-Of-The-Box Workflow for Both WSS and MOSS (Blog - Rickey Spears, SharePoint Solutions)

22nd June 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=ec2ca85d-b255-4425-9e65-1e88a0bdb72a&displaylang=en&tm

Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 Service Pack 1

11th January 2008

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=333325fd-ae52-4e35-b531-508d977d32a6&displaylang=en&tm

Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5

11th January 2008

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=82e632a7-faf9-41e0-8ec1-a2662aae9dfb

Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Software Development Kit (ver 4.0.0)

4th January 2008

Modified

(The web page with the link to the following download no longer exists; the download location however does)

http://download.microsoft.com/download/0/e/c/0ecd3738-e5f8-4196-aaaf-cdf1d53b6462/STSV2.EXE

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Beta 2 Technical Refresh

(previous date of 14th September 2006 kept)

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

http://wm.microsoft.com/ms/msdn/office/2007OfficeVisualHowTos/MOSS2007CodeBehindPublishing.wmv

Visual How To: Adding Code-Behind Files to Master Pages and Page Layouts in SharePoint Server 2007 (Video) (Andrew Connell, Andrew Connell Inc.)

12th January 2008 (date added - article is January 2008)

http://wm.microsoft.com/ms/msdn/office/2007OfficeVisualHowTos/MOSS2007CustomWcmQuickAccessButtons.wmv

Visual How To: Adding Custom Quick Access Buttons to the Page Editing Toolbar in SharePoint Server 2007 (Video) (Andrew Connell, Andrew Connell Inc.)

12th January 2008 (date added - article is January 2008)

IV WSS v3 FAQ

New

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/EditForm.aspx?ID=1311

I.31.08 What issues are fixed in the Service Pack 2 for the Windows Internal Database?

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/EditForm.aspx?ID=1309

X.102 User Comments and Ratings web parts (free - SharePoint Solutions) *requires registration on the site*

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/EditForm.aspx?ID=1310

X.103 A little GUID picker (free - Ronalus)

Modified

None

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V WSSv2 KB Articles (plus SPS 2003 Hot fixes)

New

None

Modified

None

VI WSSv2 FAQ

New

None

Modified

None