STOP PRESS.

It was nice while it lasted but I suspect it lasted for only a week. I've checked four of the books listed below today (10th May) and all are back to their usual 34% off - my upcoming one wasn't 60% off so is still at the same price as last week.

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I'm just doing a massive check through of the books in my books page to update the prices to May 2008 prices (and reverse the order of the links) and I've so far found three books that are all at 60% off at Amazon US.

Grab them while the price stays this low.

Beginning SharePoint 2007 Administration: Windows SharePoint Services 3 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (Wrox - Göran Husman)

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0470125292/heme0f

$ 15.99

MCTS: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Configuration Study Guide (70-630) (Sybex - James Pyles)

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0470226633/heme0f

$ 19.99

P.S. Another 60% one - this one I might even buy myself (to be fair to the other three I already have two of them).

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

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0470127287/heme0f

$ 19.99

P.P.S. I'm still (this is about 2 hours later than the P.S.) working my way through the books and I've come to the RealWorld one I wrote a chapter for AND they are selling that at 60% off as well. I don't know whether to be offended or not :)  ?

Real World SharePoint 2007: Indispensable Experiences From 16 MOSS and WSS MVPs (Wrox - Editor: Scot Hillier. Authors: 16 MVPs

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0470168358/heme0f

$ 19.99

P.P.P.S. I did order the Mastering SharePoint book. I thought I'd need to order some more books to make an order from the US to Finland worthwhile but as I'd just ordered a few books a few days earlier (typical!), I decided to see how much they'd charge for just one book. For $27 and change I will get it here in about 2-3 weeks. Not bad.

(I've also amended the price of Göran's book. I vaguely wondered at the time how that could be the same price as the other ones if it too was 60% off. It turns out it wasn't $19.99 at all but a mere $15.99).

 

.... and a massive thanks to the first person to order *my* book (via my links that is, but it's still the only pre-order I know about). What a feeling especially as I have just handed in the final chapters!

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 27th April to 3rd May 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 usually 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/?kbid=950483

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

3rd April 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=928729

When you open an Excel 2007 workbook by using Excel Web Access, you are presented with a Security Information dialog box (ver 1.4)

May 14th 2007 (new here)

Modified

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;936759

E-mail notifications for alerts are not sent when content in a migrated list or in a migrated document library changes after you perform a database migration to upgrade to Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (ver 2.1)

1st May 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=948725

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

30th April 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/940958/en-us

How to prevent SharePoint Designer 2007 users from changing a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 site or a SharePoint Server 2007 site (ver 2.0)

29th April 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;938663

One-time timer jobs in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 or in SharePoint Server 2007 are delayed by at least one hour when the jobs are scheduled to occur during daylight saving time (DST) (ver 1.5)

(23rd October 2007)    i.e. not the date of this amendment

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/928738

How to configure the Excel Services Unattended Service account in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (ver 1.1)

(6th July 2007)    i.e. not the date of this amendment

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;928754

Excel Services does not support asynchronous queries (ver 1.2)

(May 14th 2007)    i.e. not the date of this amendment

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;928737

A hyperlink does not work in an Excel 2007 client workbook that is published to Excel Services in SharePoint Server 2007 (ver 1.3)

(May 14th 2007)    i.e. not the date of this amendment

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;928730

You may expose internal server names or path names when you post an Excel 2007 file to a SharePoint Server 2007 Web site if the file uses a CELL(<address>) function (ver 1.5)

(May 14th 2007)    i.e. not the date of this amendment

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;928726

Error message when a user tries to view a chart in Excel Web Access: "Failed to download Excel Services Chart" (ver 1.2)

(May 14th 2007)    i.e. not the date of this amendment

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;928728

You receive an error message when you use Excel Web Access to refresh the data connections for an Excel 2007 workbook (ver 1.4)

(May 14th 2007)    i.e. not the date of this amendment

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;928739

The "Get Filter Values From" command is not displayed in the Connections menu when you try to edit an Excel Web Access Web Part in Excel Services (ver 1.2)

(May 14th 2007)    i.e. not the date of this amendment

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;928731

Data appears in a way that is incorrect when you click Filter in the drop-down menu for a PivotTable report in Excel 2007 (ver 1.2)

(May 14th 2007)    i.e. not the date of this amendment

I.b Forefront KB Articles

New

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=951384

Software fixes and features that are included in Forefront Security for SharePoint Service Pack 2 (ver 2.0)

21st April 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=951545

You cannot install Forefront Security for SharePoint on a computer that is running both Exchange 2007 and Office SharePoint 2007

15th April 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=951507

The Performance Monitor does not show the statistics for Forefront Security for SharePoint

15th April 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=951480

The start date and the end date are not set correctly when you try to use the Forefront Server Security for SharePoint console to schedule a Manual Scan job

15th April 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=951471

The Filter Set Template section displays non-filter set templates in addition to filter set templates in Microsoft Forefront Security for SharePoint

15th April 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=951506

You may encounter problems when you try to use the Forefront Server Security for SharePoint Administrative console to connect to an Office SharePoint 2007 server (ver 1.1)

15th April 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=950949

Error message when you upload a document to a SharePoint Web site that has Forefront Security for SharePoint installed: "Virus Found DocumentName contains the following virus: VirusName"

15th April 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=951466

Scan engines may not load correctly after an engine update is not completed successfully in Microsoft Forefront Security for SharePoint

15th April 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=951479

The FSCController service may not log a Stopping event during a system shutdown in Forefront Security for SharePoint

15th April 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=951478

Forefront Security for SharePoint may incorrectly apply keyword filters to all the text of an e-mail message

15th April 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=950943

Some scan engine update settings do not reflect the new settings after you apply a new scan engine update template in Forefront Server Security for SharePoint

14th April 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=950945

Viruses may not be correctly removed by Forefront Security for SharePoint when you select the "Require documents to be checked out before they can be edited" option

11th April 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=950939

Keyword filters in Forefront Security for SharePoint are not applied to text files

10th April 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=950947

Support information for using Forefront Security for SharePoint on a Windows Server 2008-based computer or on a Windows Vista-based computer

10th April 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=950942

When a proxy server tries to redirect the engine update path, the scan engine updates fail in Forefront Security for SharePoint

9th April 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=950941

The files that are deleted during a manual scan are not renamed in Forefront Security for SharePoint

2nd April 2008

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://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=105623&clcid=0x409

White Paper: Planning and Monitoring SQL Server Storage for SharePoint: Performance Recommendations and Best Practices

2nd May (date added, date of paper May 2008)

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc531334.aspx

Administering workflows (Annoying Starter Page including links to pages which consist of links to pages)

2nd May (date added)

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263021.aspx

Monitoring the Records Center site (Somewhat Annoying Starter Page including links to pages which consist of links to pages)

2nd May (date added)

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc560988.aspx

Plan SSP architecture

2nd May (date added)

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc424952.aspx

Plan for host-named site collections

2nd May (date added)

http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=116395&clcid=0x409

White paper: Advantages of Deploying SharePoint Products and Technologies with Windows Server 2008

2nd May (Article dated April 2008)

http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=117905&clcid=0x409

Case Study: Creating a Highly Available Microsoft Office SharePoint Server Environment by using Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Database Mirroring (Ralf Günther, Microsoft Gmbh and Bernd Kemmler, Alegri International Service Gmbh)

2nd May (Article dated April 2008)

http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=117212&clcid=0x409

White Paper: Microsoft SharePoint Administration Toolkit (Kirk Stark)

2nd May (Article dated April 2008)

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=f8eea8f0-fa30-4c10-abc9-217eeacec9ce&displaylang=en&tm

SharePoint Administration Toolkit x64

30th April 2008

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=263cd480-f6eb-4fa3-9f2e-2d47618505f2&displaylang=en&tm

SharePoint Administration Toolkit x86

30th April 2008

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=a438a9b9-9f15-42ec-866f-2ea58e10db36&displaylang=en&tm

Windows Workflow Foundation Web Workflow Approvals Starter Kit

30th April 2008

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc539928.aspx

Building Excel 2007 and Excel Services Dashboards by Consuming Two-Dimensional Data from Web Services (Bhushan Nene, Microsoft and Scot Hillier, MVP)

28th April 2008 (date added - date of article April 2008)

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/benrobb/archive/2008/04/25/using-msbuild-to-manage-deployments-in-sharepoint-part-3.aspx

Using MSBuild to manage deployments in SharePoint - Part 3 (Blog - Ben Robb)

25th April 2008

http://www.devx.com/enterprise/Article/37675

Upgrading SharePoint from SPS2003 to MOSS 2007 (devx.com - Vikram Srivatsa)

11th 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)

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=AD0B72FB-4A1D-4C52-BDB5-7DD7E816D046&displaylang=en

Open XML Format SDK (Apr08)   (added the the SDK section)

17th April 2008

Modified

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

Using SQL Server Database Mirroring with Office SharePoint Server and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0

2nd May (Article dated November 2007 and updated February 2008 and April 2008)

Deleted

None

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

http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=115635&clcid=0x409

MOSS 2007 Enterprise Search - Training Videos: Workshop Overview

26th April 2008 (date added)

http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=115636&clcid=0x409

MOSS 2007 Enterprise Search - Training Videos: Enterprise Search Overview

26th April 2008 (date added)

http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=115637&clcid=0x409

MOSS 2007 Enterprise Search - Training Videos: SharePoint Search 2007 Walkthrough

26th April 2008 (date added)

http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=115638&clcid=0x409

MOSS 2007 Enterprise Search - Training Videos: Search Architecture and Deployment Scenarios

26th April 2008 (date added)

http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=115639&clcid=0x409

MOSS 2007 Enterprise Search - Training Videos: Crawl and Query Processes

26th April 2008 (date added)

http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=115640&clcid=0x409

MOSS 2007 Enterprise Search - Training Videos: Relevance Ranking

26th April 2008 (date added)

http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=115641&clcid=0x409

MOSS 2007 Enterprise Search - Training Videos: Customizing the End-User Experience

26th April 2008 (date added)

http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=115642&clcid=0x409

MOSS 2007 Enterprise Search - Training Videos: Developing Search Solutions

26th April 2008 (date added)

http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=115643&clcid=0x409

MOSS 2007 Enterprise Search - Training Videos: Business Data Catalog Search

26th April 2008 (date added)

http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=115644&clcid=0x409

MOSS 2007 Enterprise Search - Training Videos: Extensibility and Integration for Search

26th April 2008 (date added)

http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=115646&clcid=0x409

MOSS 2007 Enterprise Search - Training Videos: Search Administration

26th April 2008 (date added)

http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=115647&clcid=0x409

MOSS 2007 Enterprise Search - Training Videos: Security for Search

26th April 2008 (date added)

http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=115648&clcid=0x409

MOSS 2007 Enterprise Search - Training Videos: Performance Scalability and Capacity Planning for Search

26th April 2008 (date added)

http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=115649&clcid=0x409

MOSS 2007 Enterprise Search - Training Videos: Search Operations

26th April 2008 (date added)

IV WSS v3 FAQ

New

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1374

V.116 Office SharePoint Server 2007-Programmierung. Anwendungsprogrammierung für SharePoint (Microsoft Press, Patrick Tisseghem)

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1375

V.117 Extending the MOSS Publishing HTML Editor Field Control (Wrox, Andrew Connell) *released*  (Note: a 23 page Wrox Brox downloadable pdf file at $6.99)

Modified

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1283

V.76 Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 - Das Handbuch (in German) (MSPress Deutschland - Erin O'Connor) *released*

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V WSSv2 KB Articles (plus SPS 2003 Hot fixes)

New

None

Modified

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

Considerations That Apply When You Use Multiple Log Files for Usage Analysis Processing in Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 (ver 3.3)

(2nd October 2007)    i.e. not the date of this amendment

VI WSSv2 FAQ

New or Modified

None

I have no intention in joining the number of people keen to inform you in their blogs that Microsoft have just issued a "SharePoint Administration Kit" (for both x86 and x64 with also a white paper) as I presume you've already seen the links to them in the WSS FAQ sites.

But what I think might get hidden is the fact that that Kit sneaks in a new stsadm command which you might well think ought to have been included in SP1 or as a hot fix rather than being included in a semi-official "Kit" many people probably won't bother to download.

This is a solution for a common enough problem where e-mail alerts weren't sent out if a WSS 2.0 installation had been upgraded to WSS 3.0 by the third standard upgrade method (using the 2.0 database to move the WSS 2.0 installation to another server).

This is nicely described in KB 936759 (http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;936759) which has just been updated.

"E-mail notifications for alerts are not sent when content in a migrated list or in a migrated document library changes after you perform a database migration to upgrade to Windows SharePoint Services 3.0" (ver 2.1)

 

After spending the past four months living and breathing the book, it's now almost written and I can soon relax for a bit until the technical reviewer's comments come back and I see how much the text needs to be changed (or not) as a result of the comments. Then, I would guess there's the final run through after the publisher's people have made a book out of it (although I've tried as much as possible to follow their rules on length; content (style) and formatting).

But for now, with 23 out of 24 chapters written and with the final chapter already planned and probably ready by the end of this week, all I have left to do is to read printouts of the final half of the book; correct them off-line (using a pen!) and then enter the corrections into the Word 2003 text (and naturally then hand them all in to the publishers for the technical reviewer to have a go at).

With the short Finnish summer rapidly approaching I won't be short of things to do in my suddenly available spare time.

Meanwhile though, a comment on other SharePoint 2007 books. No, not what you think, no reviews but merely the strange fact that despite me having a vast collection of SharePoint 2007 books, I've during this whole book-writing process done my best to keep them shut. I haven't wanted the text of those books and the way they treat the subjects - which naturally tend to come up in my book too - to affect what I write.

In fact, when I look back, the only subject where I really expected (and looked for) guidance from existing books was workflow but after I searched the indexes of a few and didn't find much (and this was for the basic three stage workflow in WSS 3.0 - one of the specialist SPD 2007 had a good chapter on workflow in that which I did my very best to ignore; while the other SPD 2007 book had nothing at all on workflow [hint the first was the MS Press one]) I just went ahead and spent the time to run through and document the whole process myself. This turned out to be a different approach to the one taken in the one book where I later actually did see something on workflow in WSS 3.0, so it'll be interesting to hear a comparison later.

It's actually not too difficult a process and most of the several days I spent on the chapter were caused by my local (to my server) SMTP server not working as it should and so the e-mails that are part of the 3-stage process weren't going to the people who were supposed to get them. In the end after going back and back and back to working VM snaphots of the WSS 3.0 site, I came to the conclusion that my ISP was only letting my SMTP server work correctly in the first couple of hours of any session because my contract with them doesn't include being allowed to connect a server to the Internet. So they had some routine that dropped me, making the e-mails work and then not work irrespective of my settings for either the workflow or the SMTP server (which is what I was spending far too many hours trying to get correct!).

So now the big question is do I wait to open any other SharePoint books until I've finished that last chapter or until all the review phases are past and there's nothing more I can add or amend?

At the moment I'm thinking the latter although I've just opened a book with a chapter on how to install Forms Server 2007 as that product only rates a very brief mention in my book and the book doesn't have anything (and never will) on how to install it.

Meanwhile I'm still waiting for the price of the book to go down at Amazon and in fact for the other Amazons (apart from Amazon US) to list it. Maybe then there'll be the first pre-order of it via the link in SP 2007 Books page (http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/V%20Books.aspx)

P.S. I saw yesterday that Patrick Tisseghem's Inside SharePoint 2007 book is now listed in a (Pre-Order still) German translation at Amazon Germany and only last week one of the two books specialising on Search reached released status (with the second one due soon).

Meanwhile on Search, the WSS FAQ now lists 14 web casts on Enterprise Search in MOSS 2007. So maybe you should watch those first and see if you still need a book :)

 

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 to 26th 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;950442

Error message when a user clicks the hyperlink in the invitation e-mail that is generated when you add the user to a group in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 or in SharePoint Portal Server 2007

21st April 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;950901

Error message when you try to expand an entry in a Grouped By view in Windows SharePoint Services, in SharePoint Server 2007, or in SharePoint Portal Server 2003: "<!-- #RENDER FAILED# -->"

21st 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://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc441431.aspx

Visual How To: Automating Solution Package Creation for Windows SharePoint Services by Using MSBuild (Andrew Connell, Andrew Connell Inc.)

23rd April 2008 (date added - dated April 2008)

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc441429.aspx

Visual How To: Configuring Multiple Authentication Mechanisms with Alternate Access Mappings in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (Andrew Connell, Andrew Connell Inc.)

23rd April 2008 (date added - dated April 2008)

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc453774.aspx

Visual How To: Creating a Custom Expiration Formula Based on Metadata in SharePoint Server 2007 (Part 1 of 2) (unknown, Microsoft)

23rd April 2008 (date added - dated April 2008)

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc453773.aspx

Visual How To: Creating a Custom Expiration Formula Based on Metadata in SharePoint Server 2007 (Part 2 of 2) (unknown, Microsoft)

23rd April 2008 (date added - dated April 2008)

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc461987.aspx

Visual How To: Creating Custom Routers in SharePoint Server 2007 (unknown, Microsoft)

23rd April 2008 (date added - dated April 2008)

http://blogs.technet.com/collaboration/archive/2008/04/18/how-to-copy-items-from-a-populated-outlook-2007-calendar-to-a-sharepoint-calendar.aspx

How to copy entries from a populated Outlook 2007 calendar to a MOSS 2007 Calendar (Blog - James Kemp)

18th April 2008

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/jscott/archive/2008/04/15/integrating-asp-net-2-0-web-pages-into-sharepoint-2007.aspx

Integrating ASP.NET 2.0 Web Pages into SharePoint 2007 (Blog - J Scott)

16th 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

https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastRegistrationConfirmation.aspx?culture=en-US&RegistrationID=1296655837

Momentum Webcast: Introduction to Templates in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and SharePoint Server (Level 100) (Bob Sutton)

23rd April 2008

http://wm.microsoft.com/ms/msdn/Office/2007OfficeVisualHowTos/MOSS2007CustomExpirationPart1.wmv

Visual How To: Creating a Custom Expiration Formula Based on Metadata in SharePoint Server 2007 (Part 1 of 2) (Video) (unknown, Microsoft)

23rd April 2008 (date added - dated April 2008)

http://wm.microsoft.com/ms/msdn/Office/2007OfficeVisualHowTos/MOSS2007CustomExpirationPart2.wmv

Visual How To: Creating a Custom Expiration Formula Based on Metadata in SharePoint Server 2007 (Part 2 of 2) (Video) (unknown, Microsoft)

23rd April 2008 (date added - dated April 2008)

http://wm.microsoft.com/ms/msdn/Office/2007OfficeVisualHowTos/MOSS2007CreateCustomRouter.wmv

Visual How To: Creating Custom Routers in SharePoint Server 2007 (Video) (unknown, Microsoft)

23rd April 2008 (date added - dated April 2008)

http://wm.microsoft.com/ms/msdn/Office/2007OfficeVisualHowTos/WSS3AutomatingSolutionPackageCreation.wmv

Visual How To: Automating Solution Package Creation for Windows SharePoint Services by Using MSBuild (Video) (Andrew Connell, Andrew Connell Inc.)

23rd April 2008 (date added - dated April 2008)

http://wm.microsoft.com/ms/msdn/Office/2007OfficeVisualHowTos/WSS3MultipleAuthMechanisms.wmv

Visual How To: Configuring Multiple Authentication Mechanisms with Alternate Access Mappings in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (Video) (Andrew Connell, Andrew Connell Inc.)

23rd April 2008 (date added - dated April 2008)

https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastRegistrationConfirmation.aspx?culture=en-US&RegistrationID=1296656044

Momentum Webcast: Creating Information Workplaces to Find, Share, and Communicate (Level 100) (Justin Chandoo, Microsoft and Leslie Owens, Forrester Research)

16th April 2008

IV WSS v3 FAQ

New

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1373

X.121 RSS Reader Web Part (free - Codeplex, Phil Wicklund)

Modified

None

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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 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.microso