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 8th - 14th June 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;953455

You cannot create subsites that can inherit permissions when you do not have “Manage Web Site” permissions in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0

13th June 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;923280

SharePoint Services may not function as expected in the Turkish locale

5th June 2008

Modified

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/951654/en-us

Duplicate workflows are displayed after you create a SharePoint Server 2007 site from a site template (ver 2.0)

10th June 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;941653

Description of the SharePoint Server 2007 hotfix package: January 31, 2008 (ver 2.0) (3rd one with same name)

30th May 2008

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://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc546557.aspx

Delivering Modular SharePoint Workflow Functionality (Part 1 of 2) (David Mann, Mann Software, LLC)

13th June 2008 (date added - article dated June 2008)

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc546558.aspx

Delivering Modular SharePoint Workflow Functionality (Part 2 of 2) (David Mann, Mann Software, LLC)

13th June 2008 (date added - article dated June 2008)

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

Sample Code: Delivering Modular Workflow Functionality in SharePoint Server 2007

13th June 2008 (to match the articles)

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc627341.aspx

How to Create a Silverlight Web Part in ASP.NET for Use in SharePoint Server 2007 (Avneesh Kaushik)

13th June 2008 (date added - article dated June 2008)

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc627283.aspx

Visual How To: Building an Expense Report Approval Workflow for SharePoint Server 2007 Using Visual Studio 2008 (Mike Rand, 3Sharp)

13th June 2008 (date added - article dated June 2008)

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc627285.aspx

Visual How To: Configuring and Deploying Workflows to SharePoint Server 2007 Using Solution Packages (Mike Rand, 3Sharp)

13th June 2008 (date added - article dated June 2008)

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc627284.aspx

Visual How To: Creating Custom Workflow Activities for SharePoint Server 2007 Using Visual Studio 2008 (Mike Rand, 3Sharp)

13th June 2008 (date added - article dated June 2008)

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb852170.aspx

Editing Business Data Using Business Data Catalog Actions and InfoPath Forms Services (Jason Masterman, Collaboration Experts)

13th June 2008 (date added - article dated June 2008)

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc537498.aspx

Introduction to SharePoint Products and Technologies for the Professional .NET Developer (Erika Ehrli Cabral, Paul Andrew)

13th June 2008 (date added - article dated June 2008)

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc511934.aspx

Building and Distributing Workflows in SharePoint Products and Technologies for Use in Customer and Partner Environments (David Mann, MVP)

13th June 2008 (date added - article dated June 2008)

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=c67a9276-bc20-444c-b60d-8500f4b8d713&displaylang=en&tm

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services Add-in for Microsoft SharePoint Technologies (ver 10.00.1442.32)

11th June 2008

B. Other Office 2007 products

None

C. Other relevant products

None

Modified

None

Deleted

None

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

http://wm.microsoft.com/ms/msdn/office/2007OfficeVisualHowTos/MOSS2007BuildingExpenseReportApprovalWorkflow.wmv

Visual How To: Building an Expense Report Approval Workflow for SharePoint Server 2007 Using Visual Studio 2008 (Video) (Mike Rand, 3Sharp)

13th June 2008 (date added - article dated June 2008)

http://wm.microsoft.com/ms/msdn/office/2007OfficeVisualHowTos/MOSS2007ConfiguringDeployingWorkflowUsingSolutionPackage.wmv

Visual How To: Configuring and Deploying Workflows to SharePoint Server 2007 Using Solution Packages (Video) (Mike Rand, 3Sharp)

13th June 2008 (date added - article dated June 2008)

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

Visual How To: Creating Custom Workflow Activities for SharePoint Server 2007 Using Visual Studio 2008 (Video) (Mike Rand, 3Sharp)

13th June 2008 (date added - article dated June 2008)

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=e2ec5bd7-5766-4d40-a2e1-12056bcb7760&displaylang=en&tm

Building Web Parts with User Controls and AJAX (Ted Pattison)

10th June 2008

IV WSS v3 FAQ

New

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1392

V.122 Microsoft Office SharePoint Server Disaster Recovery Reference Guide (Charles River, John L. Ferringer, Becky Isserman)

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1393

V.123 Programming Microsoft Office Business Applications (MS Press - Steve Fox, Rob Barker, Joanna Bichsel, Erika Ehrli Cabral, Paul Stubbs)

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1394

V.124 Pro ADO.NET Data Services: with ASP.NET 3.5, Sharepoint and BizTalk (Apress - John Shaw, Simon Evans)

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1396

VII.31A Programming Microsoft Office Business Applications (MS Press - ISBN 9780735625365) - Chapter 4: Integrating Web Services into Your Office Business Applications

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1395

VII.31B Programming Microsoft Office Business Applications (MS Press - ISBN 9780735625365) - Chapter 7: Managing Complex Business Processes with Custom SharePoint Workflow

Modified

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1379

V.119 Inside SharePoint Administration (Charles River - Steve Caravajal, Shane Young, Todd O. Klindt)

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1390

V.121 Microsoft Sharepoint Designer 2007 Bible (Wiley UK - Vikram Kartik)

V WSSv2 KB Articles (plus SPS 2003 Hot fixes)

New or Modified

None

VI WSSv2 FAQ

New or Modified

None

VII. MS Articles

New or Modified

None

I've just been on a three day IT course which was probably the first course in my life where I had to just hope for time to go by and hope i could last the course without going completely mad or walking out midway through.

There were on reflection four reasons for this sorry state of affairs

- me
- the language of the course
- the subject
- the trainer

The problem with me was that although my Finnish is perfectly fine for normal living and even normal work situations, it isn't that great when it comes to seminars and it seems some courses because new words are used (and in Finnish if you don't know a word, you can't guess it) and by the time you worked out what the word might have meant (based on the rest of the sentence) the speaker has moved on and you're struggling.

In fact I long ago gave up the idea of going to the free seminars Microsoft Finland organise unless either there were some people giving their talks in English or because I was desperate for a day off work and was prepared to sit in the back row most of the time with my eyes closed letting the Finnish roll over me.

This time however I had no choice. The project I've been assigned to for the next 9 months wanted me to go on this course and it was in Finnish (and I suspect no-one even thought that would be a problem for me - a compliment of sorts I suppose).

The language of the course (the second reason) has been adequately mentioned already. This became particularly important because the subject was new to me. I can follow (say) SharePoint presentations because I know the subject and can thus more easily guess those words that are new to me.

That of course covers the third problem. Given a new subject there's not only the problem that it's more difficult to (mentally) "translate" the Finnish, but having done that even the "translation" needs to be understood which isn't easy for a new IT subject even without the earlier mental strain of trying to grasp what the Finnish meant.

However the final nail in the coffin was the instructor who was very much a typical Finnish IT male without (at least it seemed to me) any teaching skills. (He obviously knew the subject but that's a completely different matter).

So what we had was a monotonous voice saying sentence after complicate sentence in a half-mumbled Finnish with no stresses to make the points clearer (because Finns and especially Finnish men don't speak that way).

So half the time I hadn't a clue what he was saying because I had to concentrate to hear him; concentrate to try to pick out the individual Finnish words; and concentrate to try to understand the IT stuff that was the result of all that.

Then there were the demos. They were OK but half the time when he showed how to do something he was only showing how to do it and then suddenly (with no warning) he wasn't and was already about four steps into a process that we were supposed to do on our PCs before anyone had a clue that this was something we were supposed to do.

Then there were sessions of maybe 90 minutes each unbroken by any demo with just that monotonous voice going on and on.

I feel tired just thinking of it.

(and if I want to feel even more tired I only need to think of that annoying way most Finns have of pronouncing English computing words as if they were Finnish words which he too was very "good" at doing).

So REGSEARCH became Regg-Sé-Axe; Create = Cre-Aah-Té - you name it almost every single English word was pronounced in such a way that even if I knew the word I hadn't a hope of realising that that English word was what he was saying.

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 1st - 7th June 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 or Modified

None

I.b Forefront KB Articles

New

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/952164/en-us

The recommended backup and restore procedure for Forefront Security for SharePoint

4th June 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=120119&clcid=0x409

Checklist: Deploying Service Pack 1 for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007

2nd June 2008 (date added)

B. Other Office 2007 products

http://download.microsoft.com/download/1/e/c/1ec46e32-734f-40a2-a09b-1410a8c81f00/FSSP_datasheet_April08.pdf

Microsoft Forefront Security for SharePoint datasheet

4th June 2008 (date added)

C. Other relevant products

None

 

Modified

None

Deleted

None

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

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=8111d71e-d79b-4c7d-bc0e-e958af2e545f&displaylang=en&tm

Building Simple Custom Approval Workflows with InfoPath 2007 Forms (Video)

31st May 2008

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=b54bb271-19ed-43c4-9d9f-a70f1cd6e715&displaylang=en&tm

Pulling CRM Data into InfoPath 2007 Browser Forms (Video)

31st May 2008

https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastRegistrationConfirmation.aspx?culture=en-US&RegistrationID=1297327790

Microsoft’s Internal Use of Rights Management Services (RMS) and Best Practices

28th May 2008

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032380233&EventCategory=3&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US

MSDN Virtual Lab: A SharePoint Developer Introduction - Web Parts - C#

22nd May 2008

IV WSS v3 FAQ

New

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1389

III.68.08 Admin Basics: What do I need to do to have more than two site collection administrators?

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1390

V.121 Microsoft Sharepoint Designer 2007 Bible (Wiley UK - Vikram Kartik)

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1388

VI.106 Nintex Reporting 2008 (commercial - Nintex)

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1391

VI.107 Chart Plus Web Part (commercial - Bamboo Solutions)

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1387

VII.30A Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Administrator’s Companion - Chapter 16 Enterprise search and indexing architecture and administration (MSPress)

Modified

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=844

V.20 SharePoint Designer 2007 for Dummies (For Dummies - Dustin Miller, Heather Solomon)

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1332

V.98 The SharePoint Shepherd’s Guide for End Users (privately published - Robert Bogue) *released*

(Amazon links now available)

V WSSv2 KB Articles (plus SPS 2003 Hot fixes)

New or Modified

None

VI WSSv2 FAQ

New or Modified

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSS%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=198

III.64.1 I am getting "#50070: Unable to connect to the database STS_Config?". What's my problem?

VII. MS Articles

New

None

I came across this when I was setting up a VM of XP Pro SP2 that was supposed to be an exact copy of what a customer company was running.

So I set it up to be Finnish for settings and location and keyboard.

(Usually I set all the settings to UK English (or leave at US English) except for the Keyboard and then go in and amend by hand the decimal points; commas etc. which are all wrong.)

Anyway it as usual warned me that I didn't have virus-checking software installed and I asked for its list as usual.

To my amazement instead of the 8 or so companies that are usually listed, only three (F-Secure - which is a Finnish company; Panda and something else) were listed.

So watch out for this. If you are not installing your Operating System with US English settings you may well be missing out on the number of different virus-checker systems that you are told you could use.

In my case I've learned that I can just go to http://www.avg.com; select Trial and just download the file (with no registration needed) and I'm good for a month. (and that of course works even with Finnish settings)

I have a (work) PC that long ago was running Office 2003 and I put OneNote 2007 beta on it.

That was the end of Datasheet View and upload multiple files. So I quickly learned that if I wanted to use either I had to go back to my by now over six years old reserve office PC (where there have only ever been Office 2003 applications installed).

About six months ago my work machine was so sc***d up that it was necessary to put a new image on it. That image included the (work standard) Office *2003* (unbelieveable but true) which I then upgraded to Office 2007 myself.

I kept on assuming that Datasheet View and upload multiple files wouldn't work.

However yesterday there was a message in a forum about someone's upload mutiple files not showing PDF files, so without thinking I checked it on my work machine today. Yes, I could see PDF files OK.

But hang on, upload multiple files shouldn't work on this machine .... So I tried Edit in Datasheet View and that worked too.

Motto: Even if these once don't work, check them now and again as something you have done in the meantime might get rid of the remnants of that mixed (Office 2003 level / Office 2007 level) environment that was causing these things to fail.

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 - 31st 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 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/kb/952172/en-us

Event ID 2436 is logged in the Application log when you search for a URL in SharePoint Server 2007

30th May 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/953127/en-us

How to integrate SharePoint Server 2007 or Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 with SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services by using the Reporting Services Add-in

30th May 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/951654/en-us

Duplicate workflows are displayed after you create a SharePoint Server 2007 site from a site template

29th May 2008

Modified

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/952167/en-us

Folders may have to be excluded from antivirus scanning when you use a file-level antivirus program in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 or in SharePoint Server 2007 (ver 4.0)

28th May 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 (ver 2.0)

22nd May 2008

I.b Forefront KB Articles

New

None

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://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=d41140ab-0ea3-47c7-be56-f42424166608&displaylang=en&tm

SharePoint IT Pro and Developer Training Resources Sheet

30th May 2008

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=5474a014-0298-4c45-a8f4-f3e38abfc424&displaylang=en&tm

SharePoint Products and Technologies Document: Developing Custom Applications with SharePoint Server 2007 (ver May08)

30th May 2008

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=3bfa11be-815a-414d-b69f-c2add07d8733&displaylang=en&tm

SharePoint: A Platform for Enterprise Mashups

30th May 2008

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=6231f77e-a8d5-43b2-a8d8-a9bb60304505&displaylang=en&tm

SharePoint Server 2007 Internal Buzz Kit

30th May 2008

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=25f9cc59-4ea3-4381-8b37-9430f664eac6&displaylang=en&tm

PPTs and Demos for Introductory SharePoint Developer Modules (an msi file to install these)

29th May 2008

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=b47a2590-3f3c-42e8-b9f1-334d65a88c4a&displaylang=en&tm

SharePoint Deployment Planning Services Overview Brochure

27th May 2008

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=2BE66504-21FB-4130-844C-0F89DA54515F&displaylang=en

Enterprise Search Indexing Connector 2008 for EMC Documentum (works with "Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, Microsoft Search Server 2008, or Microsoft Search Server 2008 Express installed and configured")

23rd May 2008

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=150004F9-FA15-41C6-902B-202AD2FC16D2&displaylang=en

Enterprise Search Indexing Connector 2008 for IBM FileNet (works with "Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, Microsoft Search Server 2008, or Microsoft Search Server 2008 Express installed and configured")

23rd May 2008

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

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=5c4e9dea-ab34-40f6-8c73-bd94051331b4&displaylang=en&tm

Windows Small Business Server 2008 (RC0 = Release Candidate 0)

(includes  WSS 3.0 so included here despite being only a release candidate)

28th May 2008

C. Other New 2006/2007/2008 Products  (selected few only since 1.1.2007)

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

Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Software Development Kit (ver 4.0.5)

30th May 2008 (relevant to SP and an SDK)

Modified

None

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

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=b885dce8-c93f-48aa-b798-4422febcc200&displaylang=en&tm

Hands on Labs for Developing Applications on Windows SharePoint Services 3.0

30th May 2008

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032378833&Culture=en-US

MSDN Webcast: Introduction to SharePoint Products and Technologies for .NET Developers: Using Event Handlers (Level 200) (Andrew Connell, Independent Consultant)

27th May 2008

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=dd1fac2c-2d6b-449c-8d28-2e28ee96b6e1&displaylang=en&tm

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Demo: Boost teamwork with a wiki

27th May 2008

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=b300ccfd-5fb1-4e77-a6c4-2639248642b0&displaylang=en&tm

Outlook 2007 Demo: Work with SharePoint calendars

27th May 2008

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032378831&Culture=en-US

MSDN Webcast: Introduction to SharePoint for .NET Developers: Silverlight and SharePoint Server (Level 200) (Andrew Connell, Independent Consultant)

27th May 2008

http://www.microsoft.com/winme/0804/32391/ConnectorTraining_EMCDocumentum/index.html

Installing and Configuring Enterprise Search Indexing Connector 2008 for EMC Documentum (Video) (requires Siverlight)

25th May 2008 (date added)

http://www.microsoft.com/winme/0804/32391/ConnectorTraining_IBMFilenet/index.html

Installing and Configuring Enterprise Search Indexing Connector 2008 for IBM FileNet (video) (requires Siverlight)

25th May 2008 (date added)

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?culture=en-US&EventID=1032378829&CountryCode=US

MSDN Webcast: Introduction to SharePoint for .NET Developers: Data Lists (Level 200) (Robert L. Bogue, Thor Projects LLC)

21st May 2008

IV WSS v3 FAQ

New

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1385

VI.105 blueKiwi SharePoint connector (commercial - blueKiwi)

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1382

X.123 SharePoint autocomplete lookup field with AJAX (free - Stephane Eyskens, Codeplex)

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1383

X.124 SharePoint Custom Field - Variation labels (free - Codeplex, Gael Duhamel)

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1384

X.125 Application Pool Manager (free - Spencer Harbar)

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1386

X.126 SharePoint List columns manager (free - Codeplex, StephaneEyskens)

Modified

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)

(new and much later date of issue)

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1379

V.119 Inside SharePoint Administration (Charles River - Steve Caravajal, Shane Young, Todd O. Klindt)

(Has suddenly acquired two new authors who actually do know a lot about SP *Administration*!)

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V WSSv2 KB Articles (plus SPS 2003 Hot fixes)

New or Modified

None

VI WSSv2 FAQ

New or Modified

None

VII. MS Articles

New

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=3c6c7a37-82cb-46c4-a300-902d184c9d96&displaylang=en&tm

Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 (2003) Management Pack for OpsMgr 2007 (ver 6.0.6278.0)

27th May 2008

This is what I wrote on the twelve of May

*********************

"A new book on SharePoint administration has just made it to Amazon (which means it will be out in the fall/autumn).

You can with that massive introduction perhaps guess that it was written by someone from Microsoft.

Here's the blurb.

"Steve Caravajal is a principal architect with the Microsoft Corporation. He has been architecting, deploying and customizing SharePoint solutions for over 7 years."

Ah, yes, but has he actually been administering them ?

It would seem not.

Wouldn't you think that they could find a Microsoft guy (from internal Microsoft computing perhaps) with Administration experience if they really insist on having someone from Microsoft.

I'd have picked Todd Klindt (MVP, not Microsoft) myself.

Other info on that upcoming book here:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1584506016/heme0f "

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The full quote on Steve Caravajal that I referred to above is still there

"Steve Caravajal is a principal architect with the Microsoft Corporation. He has been architecting, deploying and customizing SharePoint solutions for over 7 years. Steve has 25+ years experience in technology and product development, consulting and training. He holds a B.S. degree in chemistry and mathematics and a doctoral degree in chemistry and computer science. Steve is a developer at heart, having written and managed the development of numerous enterprise software applications in C++, Java and .NET. He currently lives in Cincinnati, OH, with his wife Rosemary."

Note the "developer at heart" and remember this is an Admin book !!!

But the main thing of interest considering what I wrote above is that two more authors have been added to that Amazon page (and to the book). Both are SharePoint MVPs; both are very good at SharePoint Administration AND one of them is Todd Klindt !!!

Now my main thrust in that 12th May 2008 blog was that I would hardly rush out and buy a book if it were written by someone from Microsoft and the Microsoft guy (Steve Caravajal) is still presumably the lead writer for this one, but I still find it perhaps more than a coincidence that I blogged on him being the wrong guy for this book and just over two weeks later it turns out he no longer is the sole author.

Wouldn't it be interesting if we actually knew just when those guys were added.

This blog started off with being a short report on OneNote 2007 synchronizing with WSS 3.0 and why couldn't we have a List in one WSS 3.0 site synchronizing with an identical List in a different WSS 3.0 site in a different server.

Which (the latter) of course is impossible.

But thinking about that got me thinking (yes, it happens occasionally) and I realized that a solution to my particular WSS 3.0 synchronization problem had been staring me in the face for a long time.

But I'm getting ahead of myself. Let's start at the beginning.

I now have three different Windows PCs all of which are running OneNote 2007 and all of which have loaded the same two notebooks that were created as shared OneNote notebooks and stored in WSS 3.0.

The WSS 3.0 containing these notebooks is in a VM on my MacBook.

So now when using any of those three PCs (even the work one), if I ever see anything I want to keep, I just take a quick Copy-C and paste it into that PC's OneNote 2007 copy of one of those 2 notebooks and rely on the fact that whenever I have the MacBook and that PC in the same place I can synchronize the two.

This of course - as it's a two-way sync - will also get amendments/additions made in PC1 into PC2 and PC3 (in time).

That worked so nicely I thought wouldn't it be nice if I could synchronize two copies of WSS 3.0 in the same way. Then I could have my personal WSS 3.0 system (with those OneNote 2007 notebooks but also other things) stored in different machines without being forced to do this on a semi-regular basis via Save Site/List as Template and/or Backup/Restore methods.

A dream of course, but while thinking about that I realised that there was a solution of sorts for my problems in getting my non-OneNote data into that WSS 3.0 site when the MacBook wasn't available.

What's more I already had that solution both available to me; working (on one machine) and I also had several licenses. It was just that I'd always used it with my public web sites (because they were there) and they were always available so there never was any point in using an off-line product to update them.

Yes, I'm talking about Colligo Contributor.

Once I realized that it was simple to work out how to set up a similar thing to the OneNote solution. I would need to install Colligo Contributor on those same three Windows-based PCs at a time when the MacBook and it's WSS 3.0 VM were available. I'd then be able to connect each in turn (maybe days apart) to the VM and download the contents of the same Lists in every case.

Now whenever I wanted to add something non-OneNote to the WSS 3.0 site and I didn't have the MacBook around (or open in the wrong VM) I could just add that something to the Colligo Contributor copy and next time the MacBook and the VM were around/open I could do a sync.

I only came up with this earlier today when I was washing the dishes (!) and thinking about this blog and the whole synchronization issue, but I've no doubt that it'll work and work well. (I just need to check that the program will cope with being in three different PCs and still synchronize - I know it works from one perfectly.

It's just really annoying to realize I could have solved this problem a long time ago if I'd just had the MacBook on-line when I installed that test copy of Colligo Contributor.