Just to let me know that searching Amazon Books for SharePoint (my standard search) isn't enough, I was pointed at three new (to me) SharePoint CD and DVD courses when I did a search for SharePoint but of the whole site.

It might be worth having a quick look at the three new ones (item numbers 174, 175 and 176) at the B. Courses section of the Books page

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

After that search had shown that I was missing a few things, I thought it might be time to do a new search of the German and French Amazon sites as it had been a while.

That too was worthwhile. There are very few books on SharePoint in French and German that aren't translations of English language books, but the search on the French site found another one that will be out (like so many - do they know something I don't know, as it seems late to me?) in the first quarter of 2009

That one is "SharePoint 2007 - Personnalisation, développement et déploiement (in French) (Editions ENI - Stéphane Eyskens, Ludovic Lefort)" at

http://www.amazon.fr/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/2746046725/wssfaq0fe-21

 and of course it's available for Pre-Order already.

Meanwhile the German site also managed to produce a couple of new original German language books (although I'm beginning to think a couple of the ones I've listed for years (!) will never arrive.)

"Access 2007 und SharePoint im Team (in German) (MS Press Germany - Dirk Grasekamp)"

(http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/3866456514/wssfaq0e-21)

is due in February 2009 (and for selfish reasons, as I have a chapter and a half on Access 2007 and WSS 3.0 in my own book, I hope it won't be earlier!) but the other

"Praxisbuch Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (in German) (Hanser Fachbuchverlag - Dirk Larisch)"

(http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/3446417079/wssfaq0e-21)

is due in December this year.

There were also a couple more books translated into German promised, including the very good

"Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 - Best Practices (in German) (MS Press - Ben Curry, Bill English, MS SharePoint Team)"

(http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/3866456506/wssfaq0e-21)

which should be out in December with a bit of luck, plus (out already) the translation of the Ed Hild, Susie Adams book called in German

"SharePoint-Lösungen entwickeln: Intelligente Office - Dokumente mit.NET und Share Point"

(http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/3772364896/wssfaq0e-21)

Enough for the German speakers to be getting on with for a while, I think.

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.

(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 November 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;951597

12th November 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;958714

Error message when you execute common searches in an Office SharePoint Server 2007 site: "Turn on more accessible mode Skip to main content Turn off more accessible mode"

11th November 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;958578

The "Check Names" button does not work as expected after you set a "Peoplepicker-searchadcustomfilter" LDAP filter in a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 site

7th November 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;958008

Security trimming is not honored when more than one List View Web Part is displayed on the same page in a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 site

7th November 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;958615

The index is corrupted when the SharePoint Server 2007 index server experiences power failure or restarts unexpectedly

6th November 2008

Modifed

None

I.b Forefront KB Articles

New or Modified

None

I.c InfoPath 2007 KB Articles

New or Modified

None

I.d SPD 2007 KB Articles

New

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;957250

Description of updates for SharePoint Designer 2007 Help: November 11, 2008

12th November 2008

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=1c356d9a-be11-4beb-88e7-4eb7141d7f89&displaylang=en&tm

Updates for Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 Help

11th November 2008

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=d9af2c25-989c-45c4-8008-1f15722190ed&displaylang=en&tm

External Collaboration Toolkit for SharePoint

10th November 2008

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=c9d6c8c5-8a62-4961-8c1b-df08b667b1c4&displaylang=en&tm

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Technical Library in Compiled Help format (Downloadable CHM version of WSS 3.0 content on TechNet) (ver 2)

6th November 2008

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd277864.aspx

Move Windows Internal Databases to a different drive (Windows SharePoint Services 3.0) (updated 6th November 2008)

6th November 2008

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd207313.aspx

Configure high availability (Office SharePoint Server) ((Starter Page with links only) updated 30th October 2008)

30th October 2008

B. Other Office 2007 products

None

C. Other relevant products

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=1bef6a35-9785-4a0b-b227-387c0ee85a36&displaylang=en&tm

Microsoft Office SharePoint Online ("Service Description")

10th November 2008 (date added)

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=961db8ce-8473-47c2-92eb-b822ec5af0c9&displaylang=en&tm

Windows Server 2008 Evaluation Virtual Hard Drive Images (for Virtual Server 2005) (60 days extendable 60 days at a time to a max 240 days)

10th November 2008

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=5acd7537-87d2-43a8-a3e3-2709977de77f&displaylang=en&tm

Windows Essential Business Server Software Development Kit (SDK) (ver 6.0)

7th November 2008 (added because EBS contains WSS and also because this is an SDK)

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=3be0488d-e7aa-4078-a050-ae39912d2e43&displaylang=en&tm

SQL Server 2008 White Paper: Analysis Services Performance Guide

6th November 2008

Modified

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=e4600fd9-f53d-4ded-88bf-6bb1932794f9&displaylang=en&tm

SharePoint Monitoring Toolkit (version 1.0.0.46)

12th November 2008 (version number *down* from v2 30th July 2008)

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=ba006584-711d-4ce7-9e1f-181aedf6434a&displaylang=en&tm

Office SharePoint Server 2007 Technical Library in Compiled Help format (Downloadable CHM version of SharePoint Server content on TechNet) (ver 3)

6th November 2008

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

None

IV WSS v3 FAQ

New

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1590

VI.133 HelpDesk for Outlook and SharePoint (commercial - kalmstrom.com)

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1591

VI.134 SharePoint Attachments for Outlook (commercial - kalmstrom.com)

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1592

VI.135 myDocs (commercial - nSynergy)

Modified

None

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

Search Server 2008 Express is based on SharePoint v3 but to take that fact and draw the conclusion that you should use it when you are showing a company what it is possible to do with SharePoint is in my opinion taking things way too far.

The reason for me even mentioning this is that I saw a couple of days ago a blog item from someone who claimed that they had abandoned using WSS 3.0 for proof-of-concepts at prospective SharePoint users but nowadays always used Search Server 2008 Express.

In the case he was writing about, they had a prospect for whom even MOSS would be free so it seemed odd to me that you should do any proof-of-concept with anything less than MOSS - after all if a customer who doesn't need to pay for MOSS decides on using SharePoint they are hardly likely to choose WSS 3.0 (or Search Server 2008 express!) because it's free.

So there was an "he's mad" indication right there but what about the "we've given up using WSS 3.0 and nowadays only use Search Server 2008 Express"?

Well, if anyone has been looking at the Microsoft forums they'll see that Search Server 2008 Express ("MSSX" from here in this piece) is much worse supported than WSS 3.0 / MOSS 2007 so I suppose to get support they are going to have to lie and say they are using WSS 3.0 .... Strike 1.

But let's assume they are right and technically (for team sites etc.) MSSX is WSS 3.0 plus more, then is this still a valid approach?

Not in my view, because you can in this case have your cake and eat it too, because you can install WSS 3.0 and then install MSSX on top of that.

So now you have both.

But do you have any benefits in doing things this way? Well as I think the whole idea of just installing MSSX is mad, I'm not going to spend time on trying it out and thus won't be able to give you a list of what you miss out on, with one VERY BIG exception that I already know about - size of databases.

You see, if you install only MSSX you get *for all your databases* the 4GB size restriction that comes with the version of SQL Server 2005 Express that that product installs.

If, on the other hand, you install first WSS 3.0 and then MSSX, you have (WSS 3.0) the "Windows Internal Database" version of SQL Server 2005 Express for your default database (which to remind the world once again - unlike the MOSS version - does NOT have a database size limit) and only the search databases used by MSSX use it's (4GB restricted) version of SQL Server 2005 Express.

... and before you ask, after you have installed MSSX on top of WSS 3.0, the database system it will use for any new "WSS 3.0" databases will by default be the (4GB restricted) MSSX version of SQL Server 2005 Express. However, like most defaults, this too can be over-ruled and your system told to use the WSS 3.0 (not size restricted) database system for all new content databases.

So there you are. Why it is foolhardy to install only MSSX.

Having written the above comes the thought "So why do they do it the way they do?" After all it would have been just as easy to carry on using WSS 3.0 for their proof-of-concepts.

Could it be that this was hidden marketing - "we know so much about SharePoint that we are advising you to use MSSX rather than the WSS 3.0 less well-informed companies are telling you to use! I've seen stranger things.

I subscribe to a lot of RSS feeds of blogs. I also look at them (at newsgator) on a regular basis. So when there is suddenly a massive increase in the number of blogs I know by now exactly what is happening.

Microsoft has decided that the world once again needs to see historic posts from blogs that haven't been updated in over a year.

I don't know if this is their intention but that's the result of some process that obviously turns off whichever settings are there that say that this RSS feed has already been picked up.

And before you ask, although I am using Newsgator to see the RSS content, this only ever happens with blogs in Microsoft's own blogging system.

Anyway, now that I know, it's a fairly simple process. Open the feed; check date of the first (latest) post. If it's not this week then mark the entire section as read *and* (something I've added because they do this about once every two months and even marking all the feeds as read is a pain) decide whether to delete the feed completely.

The only really annoying thing left (once my hands have controlled themselves and stopped pointing small bits [of the hands] in the direction of Redmond) is that the Newsgator web interface which makes it easy to delete a lot of feeds at one time, doesn't make it easy to delete a single feed. So you have to try to remember (never my strong point) which feeds you want to remove and then remove them all at once.

P.S. I've actually discovered a good way to do the deletes.

Section by section go through all the blog feeds until the only ones still visible (in my case that means the ones that still have unread posts) are the feeds you want to remove from the list of feeds you have at Newsgator.

Then right-click on one of those feeds and select "unsubscribe". The left hand section of the page(containing the feeds you want to get rid of) will still be visible when in the right-hand section of the page you get a list of all feeds. So now you can - without using your memory - mark off the correct feeds for deletion.

I do this one section at a time, but there's nothing stopping you doing this for all feeds in all sections at once.

Special Note: This is the first post of this regular item that is only being posted in my blog. I received a single comment to my request in the .windowsservices newsgroup as to whether people there wanted me to keep posting it there(he was in favour) and that just wasn't enough. From now on therefore this will be posted only here.

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.

(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 2nd - 8th November 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;958346

Http 400 error when you click a folder in the pending approval report in Office SharePoint Server 2007 site to manually approve or reject it

3rd November 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;958852

You cannot change the file properties for a Word document, Excel workbook, or PowerPoint presentation when the file in posted on a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 document library or on a Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 document library

31st October 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;958448

Error message when you try to create a new Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Web application: "Absolute path information is required"

31st October 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;957691

Description of the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 hotfix package (Sts.msp): October 28, 2008

29th October 2008

Modifed

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;955593

Description of the SharePoint Server 2007 post-2007 Microsoft Office servers Service Pack 1 hotfix package: July 21, 2008 (ver 2.0)

3rd November 2008

I.b Forefront KB Articles

New

None

Modified

None

I.c InfoPath 2007 KB Articles

New 

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;957385

Error message when you try to open multiple instances of an InfoPath 2007 form at the same time by using different input parameters

3rd November 2008

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=c3722dba-6ee7-4e0e-82b5-fdaf3c5ec927&displaylang=en&tm

SharePoint Guidance - November 2008

4th November 2008

http://www.sharepointjoel.com/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=123

Best Practices for Enterprise User Scalability in SharePoint (Blog - Joel Oleson)

31st October 2008

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=9fa34e43-1cc7-4af9-8e24-6252c8f0dde5&displaylang=en&tm

Integrating Line-of-Business Data into MOSS 2007 with the Business Data Catalog

30th October 2008

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd256003.aspx

Configure index and query server roles (Office SharePoint Server 2007) (updated 30th October 2008)

30th October 2008

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd256004.aspx

View the content index location for an index server (Office SharePoint Server 2007) (updated 30th October 2008)

30th October 2008

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd256002.aspx

View the content index location for a query server (Office SharePoint Server 2007) (updated 30th October 2008)

30th October 2008

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd255990.aspx

View or change content index locations (Office SharePoint Server 2007) (Office SharePoint Server 2007) (updated 30th October 2008)

30th October 2008

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd239178.aspx

Workflow Security in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (white paper) (updated 30th October 2008)

30th October 2008

B. Other Office 2007 products

None

C. Other relevant products

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=1ad953e6-2ca9-4d8b-95ff-d5242c4c627a&displaylang=en&tm

SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services Datasheet (ver 2.0)

4th November 2008

Modified

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=e4600fd9-f53d-4ded-88bf-6bb1932794f9&displaylang=en&tm

(note: changed URL as well)

Microsoft SharePoint Services 3.0 Management Pack for Operations Manager 2007 (ver 6.0.6447.0)

4th November 2008

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

Planning and Monitoring SQL Server Storage for SharePoint: Performance Recommendations and Best Practices (updated 30th October 2008) (Bill Baer and the SharePoint team)

30th October 2008 (date in paper October 2008)

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

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/rampup/dd221355.aspx

RampUp: SharePoint for Developers Track – Part 1

6th November 2008 (date added)

IV WSS v3 FAQ

New

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1588

V.129 SharePoint 2007 - Personnalisation, développement et déploiement (in French) (Editions ENI - Stéphane Eyskens, Ludovic Lefort)

(uses an abandoned number - IS a new addition)

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1579

V.174 Microsoft Sharepoint Designer 2007 Self-Study Video Training (3 CD value Pack) (Amazing eLearning LLc) *released*

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1579

V.175 Microsoft SharePoint Services 3.0 Computer Based Training DVD Rom (BrainStorm Inc.) *released*

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1580

V.176 Sharepoint 3.0 End User Instructor-based Video Training (Keystone Learning Systems) *released*

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1581

V.177 Access 2007 und SharePoint im Team (in German) (MS Press Germany - Dirk Grasekamp)

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1582

V.178 Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 - Best Practices (in German) (MS Press - Ben Curry, Bill English, MS SharePoint Team)

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1583

V.179 Praxisbuch Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (in German) (Hanser Fachbuchverlag - Dirk Larisch)

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1584

V.180 SharePoint-Lösungen entwickeln: Intelligente Office - Dokumente mit.NET und Share Point (in German) (Franzis Verlag - Ed Hild, Susie Adams) *released*

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1575

X.214 Extended Document Library Webpart (codeplex - "edesigau")

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1576

X.215 Document Link Handler for MOSS 2007 Enterprise Search (codeplex - "cdog")

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1577

X.216 BlancoWorld Workflow Reporting (codeplex - "cwhite")

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1578

X.217 BlancoWorld Event Receivers Manager v1.1 (codeplex - "cwhite")

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1579

X.218 SharePoint 2007 stsadm customized extension - modify incorrect display names and e-mail (codeplex - huagang)

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1589

X.219 MySite WebPart Property Changer (codeplex - Madhur Ahuja)

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)

(was once marked as released but never seems to have made it - latest guesses are February 2009)

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.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=1412

V.128 Social Computing with Microsoft SharePoint 2007 (Wiley - Brendon Schwartz, Matt Ranlett, Paul Galvin)

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

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

Deleted

V.129 Microsoft SharePoint-Technologien - Best Practices (MSPress Deutschland - Ben Curry, Bill English)

(Title changed so I didn't spot the duplicate ...)

V.130 SharePoint-Lösungen entwickeln: Net, SharePoint und Office 2007 (Franzis Verlag - Ed Child, Susie Adams) *released*

(another one I didn't spot)

V WSSv2 KB Articles (plus SPS 2003 Hot fixes)

New

None

Modified

None

VI WSSv2 FAQ

New

None

Modified

None

VII. MS Articles

New

None

Modified

None

I while ago I had to confess in a blog item here that I wasn't aware that what I had always described as being the "web part representation of a List" actually had a name - "List View Web Part"

From that it's not a very long step to confessing that only today I found out that in SharePoint Designer 2007 what I was still calling the "Data View Web Part" (as it was called in FrontPage 2003") was actually nowadays called the "Data Form Web Part".

This time however I have an excuse. Microsoft in their wisdom (?) when deciding "let's change the name!" also made the decision not to change the title of the thing in the SharePoint Designer 2007 User Interface.

So you still go to the menu item "Data" and still when there create a "Data View Web Part", only what you are actually doing is creating a "Data Form Web Part".

Those MS guys are (deliberately?) tricky people.

Why did they change the name, you ask? Because they now use ASP.Net 2.0 Data Source Controls for data access. Why that justifies changing the name, I'll never know - why not call it a Data View Web Part ver 2.0 if you really must make us aware that you've changed something ?

P.S. Many thanks to Steven van de Craen for helping me out with the different names.

P.P.S. He added that "the 'Form' part (of the name) is because of form writeback functionality". (He didn't tell me what that meant, so don't ask!)

Rather than going to Channel 9 and wading through several pages of their rather large images to see which PDC videos are available (see an earlier blog where I was impressed about all the different formats that were available), you can instead go to this page

http://coolthingoftheday.blogspot.com/2008/10/pdc2008-quick-video-link-list.html

and see the lot at one go. It's much more efficient than checking out the Channel 9 site.

If the format you want isn't linked on this list at the time you access it, that format might be a later addition to the Channel 9 site so access that site for the particular presentation you are interested in by clicking on the title of the presentation in the list linked above.

I had this vague feeling that Essential Business Server was the follow-up product to the larger version of Small Business Server 2003 (with the follow-up for the smaller version still being called Small Business Server).

Because of this I was somewhat perplexed to see a page that said you "could" install WSS 3.0 on it because WSS 2.0 was always installed as part of SBS 2003 - at least that's what I've always thought as without that there is no "companyweb" which seemed to be a key function of SBS 2003.

The other thing that perplexed me was the suggestion that people install the (WSS 3.0) Help-Desk template "to manage the process of handling service requests". So we have a template that was created to show what people *could* do with WSS 3.0 and has an level of support appropriate for a sample (i.e. none) and here's an official Microsoft product wanting you to use it to manage a key process. Are they mad?

But what really perplexed me was this "It is highly recommended that you use SQL Server to store the SharePoint data." Hello guys, WSS 3.0 can only store it's data in SQL Server. Oracle or UDB (or whatever IBM is calling DB2 these days) just won't do.

Anyway, all this didn't put me off looking a bit at Essential Business Server - it did however put me right off ever using it - so I went off to the Getting Started section for it in TechNet. That surely would be the place where it told me which products it contained.

The Product Overview section in Getting Started told me "Windows Essential Business Server combines several Microsoft technologies" and not much else. Yes - but which ones, do they consider that information unimportant ??

The next section of the Getting Started part was "Features and Benefits". That told me "Windows EBS combines several Microsoft products and technologies into a single, integrated server solution." and in a longer text than the Product Overview one doesn't tell me which ones either.

I'm screaming and tearing out what little hair I have left by now. I then find a section that tells me "Windows EBS consolidates all of the licenses that you need to install and manage the product components." Still nothing on what product components of course. Who wrote this thing ?

Finally at the bottom I find that "Exchange Server 2007 and Forefront Security for Exchange Server are installed with Windows EBS". That's an interesting way of putting it - they are installed *with* Windows EBS so should we assume that they too are not *part of* Windows EBS and thus aren't part of the "several" products that it "combines"?

I really can't be bothered any more and quite seriously I wonder if anyone who is trying to find out what Windows EBS is via the TechNet content, will get much further than I did.

That leaves the question of who wrote this stuff and was this their last job before they left to join a competitor?

Special Note: (to run 25th October and 1st November only).

I've been posting this weekly to first the .teamservices newsgroup and then to the .windowsservices newsgroup since early 2002.

I'm now moving more and more over to the forums where no longer need to read all the threads and also can move posts to more appropriate places without annoying people, so it's perhaps time to call it a day with this post here and just leave the weekly (and better looking) post to my blog at mikewalsh.bilsimser.com.

If you have strong feeling for or against this idea send me mail to my hotmail account (englantilainen = Englishman in Finnish))

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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 my blog at http://mikewalsh.bilsimser.com)

(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 26th - 1st November 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;958847

Cumulative update packages for the 2007 Microsoft Office core suite applications and for 2007 Microsoft Office servers: October 28, 2008

28th October 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;958569

Description of the SharePoint Server 2007 hotfix package (Dlc.msp): October 28, 2008

28th October 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;958567

Description of the SharePoint Server 2007 hotfix package (Coreservermui.msp): October 28, 2008

28th October 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;957693

Description of the SharePoint Server 2007 hotfix package (Coreserver.msp): October 28, 2008

28th October 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;958565

Description of the SharePoint Designer 2007 hotfix package (Spd.msp): October 28, 2008

28th October 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;958692

Description of the SharePoint Designer 2007 hotfix package (Spd.msp, Fpac.msp, Ewd.msp): October 28, 2008

28th October 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;959375

How to change the Default Web Site port on a Team Foundation Server 2008 Application Tier Machine

28th October 2008

Modifed

None

I.b Forefront KB Articles

New

None

Modified

None

I.c InfoPath 2007 KB Articles

New 

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;957695

Description of the InfoPath 2007 hotfix package (Ipeditor.msp): October 28, 2008

28th October 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;958787

Description of the InfoPath 2007 hotfix package (Contactpicker.msp): October 28, 2008

28th October 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;958139

Description of the InfoPath 2007 hotfix package (Infopath.msp, Ipeditor.msp): October 28, 2008

28th October 2008

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=34fd138a-f3e9-4ea0-ae60-dad4b8dab7ec&displaylang=en&tm

Windows SharePoint Services Add-in for Windows Essential Business Server (version 6.0)

29th October 2008

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=c523ac7a-5724-48be-b973-641e805588f4&displaylang=en

Whitepaper - Understanding and Troubleshooting the SharePoint Explorer View

26th October 2008

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc766807.aspx

Archive and retrieve content by using Stsadm import and export operations (Office SharePoint Server 2007) (updated 23rd October 2008)

23rd October 2008

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc706866.aspx

Archive and retrieve content by using Stsadm import and export operations (Windows SharePoint Server 3.0) (updated 23rd October 2008)

23rd October 2008

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc825328.aspx

Move site collections to a new database (split a content database) (Office SharePoint Server 2007) (updated 23rd October 2008)

23rd October 2008

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc825327.aspx

Move site collections to a new database (split a content database) (Windows SharePoint Services 3.0) (updated 23rd October 2008)

23rd October 2008

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc896556.aspx

Migrate an SSP to another farm (Office SharePoint Server 2007) (updated 9th October 2008)

9th October 2008

B. Other Office 2007 products

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=cd39607f-7bfb-4a07-844e-b00602ddeb38&displaylang=en&tm

Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 Technical Library in Compiled Help format

29th October 2008

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=019e280a-ac1c-4182-bda2-c32730aa230e&displaylang=en&tm

Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 Samples

22nd October 2008

C. Other relevant products

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=060f0c51-339a-4c4e-bb6e-716bb7401fd4&displaylang=en&tm

Windows Server 2008 Evaluation Virtual Hard Drive Images (for Hyper-V)

24th October 2008

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=5bbcc7fb-8ca0-43b3-86bd-0a42186e12ef&displaylang=en&tm

Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 Virtual PC

22nd October 2008

Modified

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=c1039e13-94da-4d7d-8cae-3b96fa5a4045&displaylang=en&tm

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Application Template: Application Template Core (ver 2)

29th October 2008

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=aae4cb5a-91d2-4f1b-9a45-3bb894e218f8&displaylang=en&tm

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Application Templates: All Server Admin Templates (v2)

29th October 2008

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=5807b5ef-57a1-47cb-8666-78c1363f127d&displaylang=en&tm

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Application Templates: All Templates (v2)

29th October 2008

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=1e53f882-0c16-4847-b331-132274ae8c84&DisplayLang=en

Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services Add-in for Microsoft SharePoint Technologies (ver 9.00.3204)

26th October 2008

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

None

IV WSS v3 FAQ

New

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3 FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1556

III.47.05 E-Mails: Can you customise the Request Access E-mail?

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3 FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1557

III.104 Is it possible to export from MOSS 2007 to WSS 3.0?

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3 FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1552

V.168 Building the SharePoint User Experience: Understanding and Implementing SharePoint Design Principles (Apress - Björn Christoffer, Thorsmaehlum Furuknap)

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3 FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1553

V.169 Professional SharePoint 2007 Web Content Management Development: Building Publishing Sites with Office SharePoint Server 2007 (Kindle Edition) (Wrox - Andrew Connell) *released*

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3 FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1554

V.170 Microsoft Office 2007 Business Intelligence (Kindle Edition) (McGraw-Osborne, Doug Harts) *released*

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3 FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1555

V.171 Microsoft Office 2007 Business Intelligence (McGraw-Osborne, Doug Harts) *released*

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3 FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1559

V.172 Workflow in the 2007 Microsoft Office System (Kindle Edition) (Apress - David Mann) *released*

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3 FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1560

V.173 Designing Forms for Microsoft Office InfoPath and Forms Services 2007 (Kindle Edition) (Addison-Wesley - Scott Roberts, Hagen Green) *released*

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3 FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1569

VI.129 Pointadmintoolset (commercial - Idera)

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3 FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1570

VI.130 Site Administrator for SharePoint (commercial - Quest)

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3 FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1571

VI.131 Capacity Manager for SQL Server-SharePoint Module (commercial - Quest)

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3 FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1572

VI.132 FoxIt PDF IFilter (commercial - FoxIt)

(Yes, this has been available for years - I thought it was already in the list!)

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3 FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1558

VII.39A Expert WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007 Programming (Wrox - ISBN: 978-0-470-38137-3) Chapter 1: The SharePoint 2007 Architecture

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3 FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1561

X.204 ARF (development environment) (free - Vincent Rothwell)

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3 FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1562

X.205 CKS EBE – Comments Manager – Version 1.1.0.0 (free - Tobias Zimmergren)

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3 FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1563

X.206 WSS and MOSS Google Directions 1.2 (codeplex - "gilesh")

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3 FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1564

X.207 Sharepoint Download Zipped List Items (codeplex - Mohamed Zaki)

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3 FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1565

X.208 BKS (makes sites accessible to people with special needs) (codeplex - J. Weibel)

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3 FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1566

X.209 SPAdvancedSearch v1.0 (codeplex - "emau")

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3 FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1567

X.210 SharePoint Workflow Library for ASP.NET Forms 2.0 (codeplex - "hauser")

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3 FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1568

X.211 SharePoint 2007 Web Part Zone Management Tools: Zone Hider (codeplex - "cdomino")

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3 FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1573

X.212 MSIT SharePoint Reporting Framework (codeplex - MS IT team)

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3 FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1574

X.213 SharePoint Calculated Field: IconSet (codeplex - Stefan Costan)

Modified

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3 FAQ/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) *released*

V WSSv2 KB Articles (plus SPS 2003 Hot fixes)

New

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;958706

Description of the SharePoint Portal Server 2003 post-Service Pack 3 and the Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 hotfix package (Sts.msp): October 28, 2008

28th October 2008

Modified

None

VI WSSv2 FAQ

New

None

Modified

None

VII. MS Articles

New

None

Modified

None