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 to 18th April 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/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;948319

A Web service call fails when you create a .NET Framework 1.1 application to use the QueryEx operation in SharePoint Server 2007 and in SharePoint Portal Server 2003

14th April 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;950438

Error message when you try to manage a site collection in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 or in SharePoint Server 2007: "User cannot be found" (ver 1.1)

10th April 2008

Modified

None

I.b Forefront KB Articles

New or Modified

None

I.c InfoPath 2007 KB Articles

New or 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/magazine/cc462809.aspx

Inside Sharepoint Building Your SharePoint Infrastructure (TechNet Mag, May 2008 - Pav Cherny)

17th April 2008 (date added)

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc434695.aspx

Integrating Access Databases with SharePoint (TechNet Mag, Mar 2008 - Peter Serzo)

17th April 2008 (date added)

http://download.microsoft.com/download/4/3/d/43de0f43-df6a-4cf2-8c91-2c9001df5945/cb_027_integration_of_sap_bsp_into_sharepoint_server_2007.pdf

Integration of SAP Business Server Pages (SAP BSP) in Share Point 2007

17th April 2008 (date added was May 2007)

http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/obapsftsak

OBA Sample Application Kit for PeopleSoft (MSDN Code Gallery)

17th April 2008 (date added)

http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/obasapsak

OBA Sample Application Kit for SAP ver 2.0 (MSDN Code Gallery)

17th April 2008 (date added)

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc462808.aspx

Utility Spotlight: SharePoint Capacity Planning (TechNet Mag, May 2008 - Peter Skjøtt Larsen, Satish Mathew)

17th April 2008 (date added)

http://paulgalvin.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!1CC1EDB3DAA9B8AA!970.entry

Fix for the Employee Training Template Available Seats Unregister Bug (Blog - Paul Galvin)

16th April 2008

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc406685.aspx

Understanding and Creating Customized and Uncustomized Files in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (Andrew Connell, Andrew Connell Inc.)

16th April 2008 (date added - date of article April 2008)

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc438798.aspx

Visual How To: Referencing and Linking: Using Secondary Lists to Maintain Relationships in SharePoint Server 2007 (unknown, Microsoft)

16th April 2008 (date added - date of article March 2008)

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc404818.aspx

Visual How To: Batch Updating List Items in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (unknown, Microsoft)

16th April 2008 (date added - date of article March 2008)

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc441430.aspx

Visual How To: Creating Document Libraries from List Items in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (unknown, Microsoft)

16th April 2008 (date added - date of article March 2008)

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc439415.aspx

Visual How To: Referencing and Linking: Using Custom Fields to Display Relationships in SharePoint Server 2007 (unknown, Microsoft)

16th April 2008 (date added - date of article March 2008)

http://blogs.technet.com/stefan_gossner/archive/2008/04/11/deep-dive-into-the-sharepoint-content-deployment-and-migration-api-part-6.aspx

Deep Dive into the SharePoint Content Deployment and Migration API - Part 6 (MS Blog - Stefan Gossner)

11th April 2008

http://www.houberg.net/blogcontent/Scaling%20SharePoint%202007%20-%20Storage%20Architecture.pdf

Scaling SharePoint 2007: Storage Architecture (Knowledge Lake - Russ Houberg)

11th April 2008

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=673dc932-626a-4e59-9dca-16d685600a51&displaylang=en&tm

Office SharePoint Server 2007 Training

11th April 2008

http://searchexchange.techtarget.com/tip/0,289483,sid43_gci1308762,00.html

Enable incoming and outgoing email in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2007 (SearchExchange - Bob Fox)

8th April 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)

None

 

Modified

None

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

http://wm.microsoft.com/ms/msdn/office/2007OfficeVisualHowTos/WSS30DocLibraryListItem.wmv

Visual How To: Creating Document Libraries from List Items in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (Video) (unknown, Microsoft)

16th April 2008 (date added - date of article March 2008)

http://wm.microsoft.com/ms/msdn/office/2007OfficeVisualHowTos/WSS30UseProcessBatchData.wmv

Visual How To: Batch Updating List Items in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (Video) (unknown, Microsoft)

16th April 2008 (date added - date of article March 2008)

IV WSS v3 FAQ

New

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1372

V.115 SharePoint for Project Managers: How to Create a Project Management Information System (PMIS) with SharePoint (O'Reilly - Dux Sy)

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1371

X.120 WssAnalyzeFeatures (free - Stefan Gossner)

Modified

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

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

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

V.76 Professional SharePoint Search (Wiley - Richard Riley, Tom Rizzo)

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1337

V.101 Teach Yourself SharePoint 2007 in 24 Hours (SAMS - Mike Walsh) (Ed.: The book concentrates on WSS 3.0)

None

V WSSv2 KB Articles (plus SPS 2003 Hot fixes)

New or Modified

None

VI WSSv2 FAQ

New or Modified

None

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 6th - 12th April 2008

NOTE: Amendment to KB articles: Microsoft are now 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/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;950437

Expensive Transact-SQL queries are generated in the back-end instance of SQL Server when you perform a search in SharePoint Server 2007

10th April 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;950439

No results are returned when you search for German compound words or for German compound names in SharePoint Server 2007

10th April 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;950280

Description of the SharePoint Server 2007 hotfix package: March 21, 2008 (2nd with same name)

10th April 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;950438

Error message when you try to manage a site collection in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 or in SharePoint Server 2007: "User cannot be found"

10th April 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;950279

Description of the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 hotfix package: March 21, 2008

10th April 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;948322

The Stsadm.exe command-line tool does not back up or restore user profile information in Office SharePoint Server 2007 and SharePoint Portal Server 2003

10th April 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;950484

Description of the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 hotfix package: March 27, 2008

7th April 2008

Modified

None

I.b Forefront KB Articles

New

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=949238

You cannot access certain files because Forefront Security for SharePoint incorrectly blocks those files

27th March 2008

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=e06453b8-b2dd-4177-969c-2f89aa841e11&displaylang=en&tm

Microsoft Forefront Security for SharePoint Service Pack 2

10th April 2008

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/usecases/archive/2008/04/09/advanced-scenario-for-sharepoint-blog-site-template.aspx

Advanced scenario for SharePoint Blog site template (blog - Toni)

9th April 2008

http://www.cjvandyk.com/blog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?List=744536f4%2D127e%2D4c4a%2Dbcff%2Db85408e7e7e5&ID=158

How do I – Define a new Best Bet Keyword in SharePoint 2007? (Blog - Cornelius J. van Dyk)

9th April 2008

http://stsadm.blogspot.com/2008/04/fun-with-variations.html

Fun with Variations (Blog - Gary Lapointe)

8th April 2008

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=0150d17d-9f28-4ef6-8dc8-8fbb5fed5cfc&displaylang=en&tm

WhitePaper: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Search Backup for DPM 2007

8th April 2008

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc427068.aspx

Visual How To: Creating, Deploying, and Debugging Custom Timer Jobs in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (Andrew Connell, Andrew Connell Inc.)

8th April 2008 (date added) (dated March 2008)

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=5e94ad07-902c-422f-aadd-ff2bba9e540a&displaylang=en&tm

SharePoint Products and Technologies Protocol Documentation (ver Apr08d)

7th April 2008

http://www.intranetjournal.com/articles/200804/ij_04_07_08a.html

SharePoint Site Collection Governance (Intranet Journal - Robert Bogue)

7th April 2008

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/ajp/archive/2008/04/07/sharepoint-learning-kit-installing-on-single-server-farm.aspx?CommentPosted=true#commentmessage

SharePoint Learning Kit: Installing on Single Server Farm (Blog - Alex Pearce)

7th April 2008

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262485.aspx

Determine hardware and software requirements (Office SharePoint Server)

7th April 2008 (date added)

http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=83060&clcid=0x409

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Evaluation guide April 2008

7th April 2008 (date added)

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262696.aspx

Configure Web SSO authentication by using ADFS (Office SharePoint Server)

7th April 2008 (date added)

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

None

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

None

 

Modified

None

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

http://wm.microsoft.com/ms/msdn/office/2007OfficeVisualHowTos/WSS3CustomTimerJobs.wmv

Visual How To: Creating, Deploying, and Debugging Custom Timer Jobs in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (Video) (Andrew Connell, Andrew Connell Inc.)

8th April 2008 (date added) (dated March 2008)

IV WSS v3 FAQ

New

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1367

VII.17B Beginning Excel Services (Wrox - ISBN 978-0-470-10489-7) (Chapter 3 - Architecture)

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1368

VII.18B Professional Excel Services (Wrox - ISBN 978-0-470-10486-6) (Chapter 20: Excel Services Workflows)

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1369

VII.23D Real World SharePoint 2007: Indispensable Experiences from 16 MOSS and WSS MVPs (Wrox - ISBN 978-0-470-17402-9) Chapter 12: Securing SharePoint Communication)

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1370

X.119 SharePoint Backup Utility (free - Jerry Rasmussen)

Modified

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/EditForm.aspx?ID=971

I.31.01 What issues are fixed in the hot fixes to WSS 3.0?

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1337

V.101 Teach Yourself SharePoint 2007 in 24 Hours (SAMS - Mike Walsh) (Ed.: The book concentrates on WSS 3.0)

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/EditForm.aspx?ID=1348

V.102 The Microsoft SharePoint Step by Step Kit: Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Step by Step and Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 (MS Press - unknown) *released*

V WSSv2 KB Articles (plus SPS 2003 Hot fixes)

New or Modified

None

VI WSSv2 FAQ

New or Modified

None

I've been writing a book for Sams ("Teach Yourself SharePoint 2007 in 24 Hours") which has an ISBN number (and a listing in my own list of SharePoint 2007 books here

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/V%20Books.aspx)

but which is not listed yet (even pre-Order) at Amazon US.

Writing a book and attempting to keep updating the WSS FAQ sites and not being a stranger to the SharePoint newsgroups and forums is taking up most of my time these days which is one good reason for keeping the number of blogs down.

The other reason you may think is not a good reason.

While testing for and writing book sections I often come across things that it would make suitable content for a blog. But at the same time a lot of these things are things which may only be in *my* book and with so many other SharePoint books out there already I need those "only in my book" sections to have any chance of people chosing to buy it.

So sorry, no technical blogs at least until I've finished; handed it over; and the book is on the verge of becoming available to buy.

What I decided, however, that I could do is a quick outline about how this process went and how it's affecting my life.

I was approached to do the book so hadn't done any of the usual things such as preparing an outline of the book and a justification for it which is what you need to do if *you* approach a publisher.

(I've seen that sort of thing several times in the past when I've been asked to comment on them by a publisher)

Not having done that meant I had no outline for the book on hand so the first thing the publisher wanted from me was a proposed list of chapters.

This seemed like putting the cart before the horse as I didn't think I'd be able to write a Table of Contents until I'd written a good bit of the book, but they insisted and so I managed to find 24 chapter titles. (The "24 Hours" series is actually 24 separate chapters with each one containing (theoretically) an Hour of instruction/information).

Well let me tell you that these publishers knew what they were doing because, even though some Hours have become 2 or even 3 Hours and some have vanished or been merged, having that table of contents has become a blessing when actually writing the book.

The other thing to tell you is that all the dedications you read that say something like "thanks to my wife and kids for putting up with me for the six months it took me to write this book" are truly justified.

Maybe it's because it's my first book (the single chapter for the RealWorld SharePoint 2007 book doesn't count) but it's never far from my thoughts and I'm working in my head through what to say in the next chapter almost all the time it would otherwise be empty (bus journeys to work for instance) or what's worse when sitting at the lunch table with my wife.

I'm also completely aware when I am not writing it that I am "taking time off" although the obligatory walk in the woods to get needed exercise between testing/writing sessions doesn't qualify for that quite as much as sitting down and reading a (non-Computer) book does.

So the book is progressing well even though I always thinking that the next but one chapter (the one that hasn't been processed by my bus-travelling brain yet) will be a struggle and will be impossible to fill 20 pages with. So far, in fact, the problem has been more that of keeping the chapters/hours down to 20 pages.

(Luckily I don't have the kids problem - he's 34 and naturally lives elsewhere - and my wife has been nice enough to give me priority for the desktop computer (which is the only place that has a suitable chair and desk and keyboard to write a book at and space for the portable running the VM of WSS 3.0), but only for the time of writing the book, after that I'll be back to the portable(s)) on the sofa.

Anyway that's it for quite a while. Back to the grindstone.

Meanwhile just a couple of hints.

The book will be almost entirely for WSS 3.0 users/administrators/designers even though it occasionally may note if MOSS 2007 does something differently.

It will also be a book that covers a wider spectrum than most of its size and will thus save space for that extra content by going  into the parameters that I find most useful rather than like some books that are already out there going painstakingly through every single option.

In other words it's (so far at least - there's still quite a bit to go) a book I'd like to read.

Pity there are no good jokes.

 

P.S. Now (2 days later) it IS listed at Amazon US - none of the others yet and for the moment the listing at Amazon US is still full price (29.95) rather than the 19.95 or 24.95 I expect to see there soon). Don't forget the 5% discount on the lowest price between now and the date of availability if ordered early. Mind you November 2008 IS a long time to wait - I hope something can be done to improve that.)

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 30th March - 5th April 2008

NOTE: Amendment to KB articles: Microsoft are now 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/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;950786

Error message when you start Outlook 2007: "The file <Path>\SharePoint Lists.pst cannot be found"

3rd April 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;950487

Description of the SharePoint Server 2007 hotfix package: March 27, 2008

3rd April 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;950783

After you set the visibility of your profile attributes to "Only Me" on a SharePoint Server 2007 site, the profile attributes are no longer visible on the "My Site" home page

3rd April 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;950837

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

31st March 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;949606

Error message when you try to add KPI Web Part to a page in the French version of SharePoint Server 2007 or in the French version of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: "Impossible to add selected component"

30th March 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;949583

How to obtain the latest service pack for the 2007 Office server products

28th March 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;949603

No search results are returned after you detach and then reattach a content database in SharePoint Server 2007 or in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0

27th March 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://webborg.blogspot.com/2008/04/add-functions-and-events-to-sharepoint.html

Add functions and events to SharePoint form fields (Blog - Boris Gomiunik)

4th April 2008

http://bimvp.com/blogs/bsm/archive/2008/04/04/integrate-sharepoint-web-parts-into-a-performancepoint-server-dashboard.aspx

Integrate SharePoint Web Parts into a PerformancePoint Server Dashboard (MS Team Blog - Patrick Husting)

4th April 2008

http://scothillier.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!8F5DEA8AEA9E6FBB!410.entry

Building a MOSS Workflow with Visual Studio 2008 and InfoPath (Blog - Scot Hillier)

2nd April 2008

http://blog.thekid.me.uk/archive/2008/03/30/remove-saturday-sunday-from-a-calendar-view-in-sharepoint.aspx

Remove Saturday & Sunday from a calendar view in SharePoint (Blog - Vincent Rothwell)

30th March 2008

http://blogs.msdn.com/ecm/archive/2008/03/29/building-a-news-workbench-on-moss-2007-part-4.aspx

Building a news workbench on MOSS 2007 -- Part 4 (MS Team Blog)

29th March 2008

http://sharepointsolutions.blogspot.com/2008/03/close-individual-sharepoint-blog-posts.html

Close Individual SharePoint Blog Posts for Comments (Blog - Ricky Spears,SharePoint Solutions)

26th March 2008

http://www.devx.com/enterprise/Article/36628

SharePoint's Delegate Control Power (devx - Robert Bogue)

18th 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=E754F35D-59DB-4BC4-8386-E83E66A16FAD&displaylang=en

System Center Capacity Planner 2007

(Note: also for WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007 - does not require System Center)

6th March 2008

Modified

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=5d0681e7-da18-4a9f-84a0-660934f27b80&displaylang=en&tm

Office SharePoint Server 2007 DoD 5015.2 Resource Kit ver 2

4th April 2008

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=0cefac3f-91ed-40c3-a684-603f149a4e32&displaylang=en&tm

Microsoft Forefront Client Security BPA (ver 1.0)

3rd April 2008    (new date, same release number, odd)

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

Microsoft SQL Server 2000/2005 Management Pack (ver 6.0.6278.8)

31st March 2008

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

https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastRegistrationConfirmation.aspx?culture=en-US&RegistrationID=1296236045

MSDN Webcast: SharePoint Server 2007 and Silverlight (Level 100) (Mike Benkovich)

27th March 2008

IV WSS v3 FAQ

New

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1362

V.112 Professional Microsoft Office Business Application Development: Using SharePoint and VSTO to Automate Business Processes (Wrox - Steve Fox, Bill Sheldon)

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1363

V.113 Professional Workflow Design Patterns for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (Wrox - John Holliday)

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1364

V.114 Seamless Teamwork: Using Microsoft SharePoint Technologies to Collaborate, Innovate, and Drive Business in New Ways (MS Press - unknown)

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1365

VI.104 Lightning Conductor Web Part (commercial - LightningTools)

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1366

X.118 Access Checker Web Part v1.1 (free - Tom Shirley)

Modified

None

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

V WSSv2 KB Articles (plus SPS 2003 Hot fixes)

New and Modified

None

VI WSSv2 FAQ

New and Modified

None

 

(A short week to get back to schedule)

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 25th - 29th March 2008

NOTE: Amendment to KB articles: Microsoft are now 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/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;950292

Description of the SharePoint Server 2007 hotfix package: March 21, 2008

27th March 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;948321

How to create a custom e-mail alert alert handler in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (ver 1.1)

26th March 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;949955

Description of the SharePoint Server 2007 hotfix package: March 17, 2008

25th March 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;949956

Description of the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 hotfix package: March 17, 2008

25th March 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=948946

Description of the SharePoint Designer 2007 hotfix package: February 19, 2008

17th March 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 

A. Office 2007 Server Products

None

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=2b7eb5f7-6358-4086-a80f-62f3fb289b24&displaylang=en&tm

Search Server 2008 (x86) Language Pack

25th March 2008

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=f8256add-b5c9-493d-9735-4d9cafaf51ea&displaylang=en&tm

Search Server 2008 (x64) Language Pack

25th March 2008

 

Modified

None

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

IV WSS v3 FAQ

New

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1360

X.116 SharePoint Branding Tool (codeplex - Douglas Leung)

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1361

X.117 External Collaboration Toolkit for SharePoint (free - Microsoft)

Modified

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=971

I.31.01 What issues are fixed in fix packs for WSS 3.0?

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=958

I.31.02 What issues are fixed in fix packs to MOSS 2007?

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1322

*** The next is a number change only - was I.31.10 ***

I.31.09 What issues are fixed in the hot fixes to WSS 3.0 Service Pack 1?

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1321

I.31.10 What issues are fixed in the hot fixes to MOSS 2007 Service Pack

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=916

X.21 SmartPart for SharePoint 2007 v2.0 (free - Jan Tielens)

V WSSv2 KB Articles (plus SPS 2003 Hot fixes)

New

None

Modified

None

VI WSSv2 FAQ

New and Modified

None

(Apologies for the delay)

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 - 24th March 2008

NOTE: Amendment to KB articles: Microsoft are now 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/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;949399

Description of the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 hotfix package: February 27, 2008

21st March 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;949582

How to obtain the latest service pack for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0

20th March 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;949008

SQL Server experiences a high load, and blocking problems may occur when you check a page in in SharePoint Server 2007

18th March 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;949058

When you try to filter Web pages whose dates are after the twelfth of any particular month in SharePoint Server 2007, no Web pages are displayed even though there are Web pages that meet this condition

18th March 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;949402

Description of the SharePoint Server 2007 post-Service Pack 1 hotfix package: February 27, 2008

18th March 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;949003

You are directed to an English Web site even though you created the Web site in a different language in SharePoint Server 2007

18th March 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;948947

Description of the SharePoint Server 2007 hotfix package: February 21, 2008

18th March 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;948945

Description of the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 hotfix package: February 21, 2008

18th March 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;949749

Description of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 hotfix package: March 4, 2008

18th March 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;948726

Error message when you use the Content Deployment feature in SharePoint Server 2007: "Failed to compare two elements in the array"

17th March 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://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc298466.aspx

Caching in Office SharePoint Server 2007

24th March 2008

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc298801.aspx

Physical storage recommendations (Office SharePoint Server)

24th March 2008

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc298578.aspx

Physical topology recommendations (Office SharePoint Server)

24th March 2008

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc298550.aspx

Planning recommendations for Web servers (Office SharePoint Server)

24th March 2008

http://searchexchange.techtarget.com/tip/0,289483,sid43_gci1303082,00.html

Improve SharePoint 2007 design and navigation with managed paths (SearchExchange - Bob Fox)

22nd March 2008

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/smuller/archive/2008/03/21/our-initial-use-of-email-enabled-libraries.aspx

Setting Up Email Enabled Libraries (Blog - ScottM)

21st March 2008

http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/sharepoint/SPC20081/SPC2008%20-%20Accessibility%20Kit%20for%20SharePoint%20-%20Building%20Accessible%20Websites%20on%20MOSS%202007.ppt

SharePoint Conference Slide Deck: Accessibility Kit for SharePoint - Building Accessible Websites on MOSS 2007

20th March 2008 (date added)

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb530303.aspx

Selective Content Migration in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (Nick Gattuccio, Patrick Simek, Stefan Gossner)

20th March 2008 (date added - published March 2008)

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc337908.aspx

Visual How To: Displaying Search Results in a Grid View in SharePoint Server 2007 (Microsoft, no name specified)

20th March 2008 (date added - published March 2008)

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc374980.aspx

Visual How To: Using Metadata Tags to Route Documents to Libraries in SharePoint Server 2007 (Microsoft, no name specified)

20th March 2008 (date added - published March 2008)

http://www.microsoft.com/enterprisesearch/serverproducts/searchserverexpress/download.aspx

Microsoft Search Server Express (RTM version - links to x86 and x64 versions)

20th March 2008 (date added but roughly the release date)

http://www.zimmergren.net/archive/2008/03/19/how-to-get-up-and-running-with-the-silverlight-2-0-blueprints-for-sharepoint-2007.aspx

How To: Get up and running with the Silverlight 2.0 Blueprints for SharePoint 2007 (Blog - Tobias Zimmergren)

19th March 2008

http://sharepointnutsandbolts.blogspot.com/2008/03/great-controls-to-be-aware-of-when.html

Great controls to be aware of when building SharePoint sites (Chris O'Brien)

16th March 2008

http://blogs.technet.com/josebda/archive/2008/03/15/complete-reference-of-all-stsadm-operations-with-parameters-in-moss-2007-sp1.aspx

Complete reference of all STSADM operations (with parameters) in MOSS 2007 SP1 (MS Blog - Jose Baretto)

15th March 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=064a995f-ef13-4200-81ad-e3af6218edcc&displaylang=en&tm

System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Software Development Kit (SDK) v4.0 (version 2007)

17th March 2008

(added to include in SDK View)

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=c271309b-02de-42a7-b23e-e19f68667197&displaylang=en&tm

Live Search SDK (ver 1.1b)

15th March 2008

(added to include in SDK View)

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=c271309b-02de-42a7-b23e-e19f68667197&displaylang=en&tm

MSN Search SDK Beta (ver 1.1b)

15th March 2008

(added to include in SDK View)

 

Modified

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 (ver 2.0)

17th March 2008

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

Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5

17th March 2008 (seems to be same version as Jan 2008 but re-released ...)

Deleted

None

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

https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastRegistrationConfirmation.aspx?culture=en-US&RegistrationID=1296066694

IT Manager Webcast: Deploying SharePoint Server with Project Server 2007 (Level 200) (Christophe Fiessinger)

20th March 2008

https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastRegistrationConfirmation.aspx?culture=en-US&RegistrationID=1296066770

MSDN Webcast: SharePoint Server 2007 and AJAX (Level 100) (Mike Benkovich)

20th March 2008

http://wm.microsoft.com/ms/msdn/Office/2007OfficeVisualHowTos/MOSS2007DisplaySearchResultsInGridView.wmv

Visual How To: Displaying Search Results in a Grid View in SharePoint Server 2007 (Video) (Microsoft, no name specified)

20th March 2008 (date added - published March 2008)

http://wm.microsoft.com/ms/msdn/Office/2007OfficeVisualHowTos/MOSS2007CreateMetadataTagRouter.wmv

Visual How To: Using Metadata Tags to Route Documents to Libraries in SharePoint Server 2007 (Video) (Microsoft, no name specified)

20th March 2008 (date added - published March 2008)

https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastRegistrationConfirmation.aspx?culture=en-US&RegistrationID=1295959242

MSDN Webcast: SharePoint Server 2007 and Authentication (Level 100) (Mike Benkovich)

13th March 2008

https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastRegistrationConfirmation.aspx?culture=en-US&RegistrationID=1295959403

TechNet Webcast: Assure the Availability and Performance of Your SharePoint Environments (Level 300) (Sacha Dawes)

10th March 2008

https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastRegistrationConfirmation.aspx?culture=en-US&RegistrationID=1295959489

MSDN Webcast: Office Development in Visual Studio: Windows SharePoint Services Workflow (Level 200) (Robert Green, MCW Technology)

6th March 2008

IV WSS v3 FAQ

New

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/EditForm.aspx?ID=1351

V.103 SharePoint 2007 and Office Development Expert Solutions (Kindle Edition) (Wrox - Randy Holloway, Andrej Kyselica, Steve Caravajal) *released*

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/EditForm.aspx?ID=1352

V.104 Integrating Microsoft Office Access 2007 and Microsoft SharePoint, Digital Shortcut (Kindle Edition) (Pearson Education - Alison Balter)

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/EditForm.aspx?ID=1353

V.105 SharePoint 2007 User's Guide: Learning Microsoft's Collaboration and Productivity Platform (Kindle Edition) (Apress - Seth Bates) *released*

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/EditForm.aspx?ID=1354

V.106 Microsoft Sharepoint Interview Questions: Share Point Certification Review (Equity Press - Terry Sanchez-Clark) *released*

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/EditForm.aspx?ID=1355

V.107 Microsoft InfoPath 2007 Quick Reference on Filling & Design (Cheat Sheet of Instructions, Tips & Shortcuts - Laminated) (Beezix Inc) *released*

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/EditForm.aspx?ID=1356

V.108 Beginning Excel Services (Kindle Edition) (Wrox - Liviu Asnash, Eran Megiddo, Craig Thomas)

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/EditForm.aspx?ID=1357

V.109 Sharepoint Server 2007 : Tome 2, Mise en oeuvre de solutions et gestion des informations (in French) (Dunod - Bill English and others) *released*

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/EditForm.aspx?ID=1358

V.110 SharePoint 2007 - Créez votre site collaboratif étape par étape (in French) (Editions ENI - Sandrine Schmitt) *released*

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/EditForm.aspx?ID=1359

V.111 Asp.Net 2.0 and Sharepoint 2007 Webparts (Wiley - Matt Butler)

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1350

X.115 OBA Sample Application Kit for SAP (free - Microsoft)

Modified

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/EditForm.aspx?ID=1136

V.60 Professional SharePoint 2007 Web Content Management Development: Building WCM Sites with Office SharePoint Server (Wrox - Andrew Connell)

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/EditForm.aspx?ID=1216

V.64 MCTS: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Configuration Study Guide (70-630) (Sybex - James Pyles) *released*

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

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

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

V.74 Office and SharePoint 2007 User's Guide: Integrating SharePoint with Excel, Outlook, Access and Word  (Apress - Michael Antonovich)

(new title and new prices)

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

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

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

New

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;941204

Description of the SharePoint Portal Server 2003 post-Service Pack 3 hotfix package: February 26, 2008 (ver 2.0)

14th March 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;943167

Description of the SharePoint Portal Server 2003 post-Service Pack 3 hotfix package: February 27, 2008

13th March 2008

Modified

None

VI WSSv2 FAQ

New

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSS%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=653

I.28.4 What is fixed in the post-SPS 2003 Service Pack 3 hotfixes?

Modified

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSS%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=193

III.59 How can I make the link between Web Part Connections a dropdown list rather than the standard radio buttons?

I did my usual sweep through the Amazon sites to see if any new SharePoint books had were listed or if any of the books I had listed were now being delivered.

I wasn't expecting much actually but I was quite surprised by several things.

The first was that my search threw up a SharePoint book in English that had come out in the beginning of 2007. I've been doing these searches for books on a regular basis so I can't imagine how I could have missed it in all the searches throughout that time.

Perhaps the most pleasant news was that there is at last a third French language original book on SharePoint. I'm pleased at expanding that part of the total list (http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/V%20Books.aspx) with this.

So pleased in fact I'm going to give you the title and the link so you can order it ...

SharePoint 2007 - Créez votre site collaboratif étape par étape (in French) (Editions ENI - Sandrine Schmitt) from http://www.amazon.fr/exec/obidos/ASIN/2746041693/wssfaq0fe-21. I wonder about the "etape par etape" (stage by stage) though as that sounds very much like Microsoft Press's "step-by-step.

The next book that makes me happy is that finally the only German language original on SharePoint Designer 2007 (and only the third overall) is finally out.

Again that gets a boost here with the title and the link (to Amazon Germany in this case). Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 - Das Handbuch (in German) (MSPress Deutschland - Dirk Grasekamp) from http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/3866451083/wssfaq0e-21

 It's a good job I checked out the link as it seems two more authors (Michael Greth and Bernhard Straub to be exact) have been added. Must go off to add them. More here later (there are some more new "books" worth mentioning).

OK that's the advert break over. Now what else is interesting?

Well, I've posted before about Amazon US's Kindle device for reading books. Their range of SharePoint books is now up to 10.

What IS interesting is that one of them appears to be one that was written specially for the Kindle format. There seem to be two indications of this a) I can't find it listed anywhere as a book and b) it's much shorter than any of the other SP books.

For those of you in the US (we poor people outside the US can't buy Kindle devices or download content for them), here are the details of just that one.

"Integrating Microsoft Office Access 2007 and Microsoft SharePoint, Digital Shortcut (Kindle Edition) (Pearson Education - Alison Balter)" from http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000P28WQ2/heme0f

They don't actually say how many pages it is, but the topic is one that's hardly covered anywhere else (although I'm planning to cover it in the book I'm writing at the moment) and the price (at 7,99) is more like the sort of price I expect these Kindle "books" to be at.

Oh, yes, and by the way if you are wondering if I'm only plugging that one because it's from Pearson (the company behind the Teach Yourself series), it's just a coincidence. Honest!

P.S. Andrew Connell revealed in his blog this week that his important book on Content Management with MOSS 2007 has been handed over to the publishers and that he is hoping for it to be out in a couple of months. We'll see how that estimate holds up. Meanwhile if you want to pre-order it, here's the Amazon US link. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0470224754/heme0f (You know I hope about the extra 5% deduction on pre-orders? I have myself a Kasparov chess book I would buy anyway on pre-order for delivery in June - what with 5% off because it was in my gold chest offers and 5% off for pre-order, I think they are paying me! ..)

(Oops, more work to do. My price info for that book in the WSS FAQ sites is non-existent. Must do a bit of updating.)

P.P.S. In a sadder note, I saw this week that the date for the Dustin Miller, Heather Solomon book on SPD 2007 had been put back yet again and now was due out, in was it September 2008 (?) Pity, that's about 7 months after the first announced date.  

Just over a year ago MVPs were offered a free subscription to the NOD virus-checker application.

The aim of this was no doubt the usual one of getting a product in use by MVPs so that that fact (visibility at demos; "which virus checker are you using") would influence other people to install it too.

There are plenty of free offers open to everyone for limited periods of virus-checker support and so many MVPs including myself thought that this *special* offer might need the MVP in a year to once again prove that he/she still was an MVP, but otherwise the virus checker offer would continue to be in operation.

Well it wasn't. After a year the name/password received no longer worked and no updates came for the software. In the case of normal software that wouldn't matter over-much but in the case of virus software it does, so off I went to look for one of the other free offers - this time the ones for the general public.

Microsoft have a link to a page with all companies providing such a thing and the first snag is that they have "improved" that page so that it no longer says "XXX offers a 3 month free subscription" so you can see at a glance which company offers the longest free subscription but now only has company logos.

Anyway I hadn't used Panda before so I set up a new hotmail address for it and applied and got the free subscription and installed it (and it works). It's for three months.

Only evey day I now get a a message telling me that I still haven't configured the updates (and that it will "shortly cease to update itself").

This is like a Russian doll because if you try to configure the updates, it says you need to register first and if you try to register it won't let you saying that you have specified the wrong application code.

So you check the registration page and there is no place where you can enter an activation code ! So you click on "what is an application code" and it tells you (at the end) that it's something you don't get with a trial version of the product.

So Panda are daily telling me to configure my updates even though they know full well that this is a trial product which I thus can't register and which I thus can't specify updates for.

The next question is what this "will shortly cease to update" means.

Is this a free 3 month trial or not? If it stops updating after a month say, it's a one month's trial in my book.

Time therefore to hate Panda and start checking through the possibilities on the MS page to see which offers the longest free protection. Luckily provided I don't use the same company again, I already have a hotmail address lined up just for it.

 

P.S. I've now dropped Panda. A week of having pop-ups arriving on an *hourly* basis (yes, even when you said later and got rid of the pop-up it still came back (often) in the same computer session) telling me to specify my upgrade settings (which they ten - see above - wouldn't let me do) was enough. No doubt this is supposed to "encourage" you to pay - me it just made completely MAD at Panda and never want to have anything to do with them again.
We'll see how Kapersky Labs are. There was a good start. They only wanted my e-mail address. Panda wanted full and valid postal address ... The snag is that Kapersky Labs like more of the rest of the free trials is for 30 days only. I'll have to dig out the offer for company employees' home machines even though it is McAfee ....

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 March 2008

NOTE: Amendment to KB articles: Microsoft are now 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/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;948325

Links in the Quick Launch bar do not work as expected in SharePoint Server 2007 (ver 1.1)

14th March 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;949605

Error message when you view Audit log reports on a Microsoft Office SharePoint site: "The specified web does not contain a reporting metadata list"

14th March 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;948324

You cannot use the ItemUpdating event to retrieve an updated value in SharePoint Server 2007 or in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0

14th March 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;948985

Items can be added to a SharePoint .pst file even when the PstDisableGrow registry value for Outlook 2007 is configured to prevent the addition of items

11th March 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;950174

Upgrading Windows SharePoint Services from version 2.0 to 3.0 after upgrading Team Foundation Server 2005 to version 2008

10th March 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;948724

Changes are not committed when the Commit() method is called in SharePoint Server 2007 or in SharePoint Portal Server 2003

8th March 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;948725

Restoration of the configuration database is not supported in SharePoint Server 2007 and in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0

8th March 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;949405
 
Description of the SharePoint Designer 2007 hotfix package: February 27, 2008

7th March 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=941422

Description of the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 post-Service Pack 1 hotfix package: January 31, 2008 (ver 8?.0)

6th March 2008

Modified

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=929360

You cannot create a new document or check out an existing document in a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 document library when you have multiple versions of Office installed (ver 5.0)

6th March 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=939310

The blog posts are not filtered correctly when you click a link to a category on a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 blog site (ver 2.0)

25th February 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;941274

Description of the SharePoint Server 2007 and SharePoint Server 2007 for Search post-2007 Office servers Service Pack 1 hotfix package: January 31, 2008 (ver 2.0)

25th February 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=837847

How to customize SharePoint Portal Server 2003 or Office SharePoint Server 2007 by using IFilters, noise word files, and thesaurus files (ver 7.1)

18th February 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=926718

How to attach a content database backup during a gradual upgrade of a Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 farm to Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (ver 2.0)

18th February 2008

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://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=106632

Installation Guide for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 ("Downloadable Book")

12th March 2008 (date added - paper dated December 2007)

http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=107358

Installation Guide for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 ("Downloadable Book")

12th March 2008 (date added - paper dated December 2007)

http://blogs.msdn.com/ecm/archive/2008/03/11/building-a-news-workbench-on-moss-2007-part-3.aspx

Building a news workbench on MOSS 2007 -- Part 3 (MS Team Blog)

11th March 2008

http://www.devcow.com/blogs/jdattis/archive/2008/03/10/forms-based-authentication-application-pool-account-permissions.aspx

Forms Based Authentication - Application Pool Account Permissions (Blog - Dan Attis)

10th March 2008

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263004.aspx

Back up Office SharePoint Server 2007 by using the Stsadm command-line tool

10th March 2008 (date added)

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc261704.aspx

Restore Office SharePoint Server 2007 by using the Stsadm command-line tool

10th March 2008 (date added)

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc261685.aspx

Configure self-service site creation

10th March 2008 (date added)

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=2E6E5A9C-EBF6-4F7F-8467-F4DE6BD6B831&displaylang=en

Office SharePoint Server 2007 with SP1 (32 bit)

9th March 2008 (date added)

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=3015FDE4-85F6-4CBC-812D-55701FBFB563&displaylang=en

Office SharePoint Server 2007 with SP1 (64 bit)

9th March 2008 (date added)

http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/gearup/Documents/SharePoint%20Server%202007%20Buzz%20Kit.zip

Office SharePoint Server 2007 Buzz Kit

9th March 2008 (date added)

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

http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepointdesigner/archive/2008/02/25/filtering-and-formatting-with-date-values.aspx

Filtering and Formatting with Date Values (MS Team Blog - Andy Lewis)

25th February 2008

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

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=572be8a6-263a-4424-a7fe-69cff1a5b180&displaylang=en&tm

DirectX Software Development Kit (version 9.22.1284)

7th March 2008

 

Modified

None

Deleted

None

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

https://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/WebCastRegistrationConfirmation.aspx?culture=en-us&RegistrationID=1295793772&Validate=false

MSDN Webcast: Customizing SharePoint Server 2007 (Level 100) (Mike Benkovich)

6th March 2008

https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastRegistrationConfirmation.aspx?culture=en-US&RegistrationID=1295793856&Validate=false

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

5th March 2008

IV WSS v3 FAQ

New

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/EditForm.aspx?ID=1349

X.114 MOSS Feature Generator (free - codeplex, Alfred de Weerd)

Modified

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/EditForm.aspx?ID=1322

I.31.10 What issues are fixed in the hot fixes to WSS 3.0 Service Pack 1?

V WSSv2 KB Articles (plus SPS 2003 Hot fixes)

New

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/EditForm.aspx?ID=1348

V.102 The Microsoft SharePoint Step by Step Kit: Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Step by Step and Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 (MS Press - unknown)

Modified

None

VI WSSv2 FAQ

New or Modified

None