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 16th - 22nd 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;958577

Error message when you visit a sub-folder under a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 list that contains more than 2,000 list items that have non-inheriting permissions: "#RENDER FAILED"

13th November 2008

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;958579

Error message when you perform a content deployment of a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 site collection that has a custom site template: "Cannot import site"

13th November 2008

Modifed

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;953445

Error message when you edit an .aspx Web page in SharePoint Server 2007: "Value does not fall within the expected range" (ver 2.0)

17th November 2008

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 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/magazine/dd148643.aspx

Light Up SharePoint With Silverlight 2 Web Parts (MSDN Mag, Nov 2008 - Steve Fox, Paul Stubb)

21st November 2008 (date added - Magazine date November 2008)

http://redmondmag.com/features/article.asp?editorialsid=2581

The SharePoint Upgrade Trap (Nov 2008 Redmond Mag - Brien Posey)

15th November 2008 (date added)

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263467.aspx

Deploy software updates for Office SharePoint Server 2007 (Updated 12th November 2008)

12th November 2008

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc288269.aspx

Deploy software updates for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (Updated 12th November 2008)

12th November 2008

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=752cb725-969b-4732-a383-ed5740f02e93&DisplayLang=en

Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 Training Kit - November Preview

12th November 2008

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd277865.aspx

Performance and capacity requirements for Hyper-V (Updated 6th November 2008)

6th November 2008

B. Other Office 2007 products

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=537ac5b3-9ac2-4667-916b-99928bca9f70&displaylang=en&tm

SharePoint Designer 2007: Non Technical Resources (Trials, Pricing, Purchasing, Activation, Licensing and Support) (ver 2.0)

13th November 2008

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd197636.aspx

Move all databases (Office Forms Server 2007) (updated 23rd October 2008)

23rd October 2008

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd197635.aspx

Recover your farm after a configuration database problem (Office Forms Server 2007) (updated 23rd October 2008)

23rd October 2008

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc197307.aspx

Plan for capturing and storing deleted objects (Office Forms Server) (updated 16th May 2008)

16th May 2008

C. Other relevant products

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=0a8e1a32-6524-4567-af65-633f0dbe033c&displaylang=en&tm

Windows Small Business Server 2008 Premium Trial Software Download

13th November 2008

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=0f513086-078b-47a8-a889-842dc93a69ab&displaylang=en&tm

Live Search SDK (ver 2.0)

13th November 2008  (added because it's an SDK)

Modified

None

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

http://www.microsoft.com/emea/teched2008/itpro/tv/default.aspx

TechEd EMEA session: Using MOSS 2007 to Create Rich Internet Facing Publishing Sites Using Web Content Management (Ryan Duguid)

7th November 2008

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032391390&EventCategory=5&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US

TechNet Webcast: Building SQL Server Reporting Services 2008 Large-Scale Solutions (Level 400) (Denny Lee)

31st October 2008

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032390947&EventCategory=3&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US

Sharepoint: Basics Tips & Tricks (Dominic Aguilar)

14th October 2008

IV WSS v3 FAQ

New

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1604

VI.136 TaskSync (commercial - MicroLink LLc)

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1593

X.220 SharePoint User Change Password (codeplex - "Filip_CZE")

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1594

X.221 SharePoint User AD information Web Part (codeplex - "Filip_CZE")

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1595

X.222 SharePoint Search Bench v2.0 (codeplex - "kindohm")

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1596

X.223 ULS Viewer (codeplex - Keir Gordon)

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1597

X.224 SharePoint PowerEventReceivers 1.0 (codeplex - cglessner)

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1598

X.225 SharePoint SUSHI (codeplex - " josephflu")

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1599

X.226 SharePoint Farm Site Collection Backup (codeplex - fmuntean)

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1600

X.227 Office SharePoint Server 2007 farm automated setup (codeplex - "emberger")

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1601

X.228 WSS and MOSS Home Drive 1.1 (codeplex - " gilesh")

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1602

X.229 Welcome Webpart for MOSS 2007 (codeplex - "cygoh")

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1603

X.230 InfoPath Forms Services 2007 Web Testing Toolkit for VS 2008 (codeplex - MS people)

Modified

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

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

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) *released*

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1410

V.127 Using Content Types in SharePoint 2007 (Charles River Media - David Gerhardt, Kevin Martin)

(chapter titles added)

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

When I wrote my book I did it using Windows Server 2003 R2 and in order. In other words anyone following it chapter by chapter would see what the screen shots show. No more, no less.

Now I'm using a WSS 3.0+SP1 installation (the same version number I used in the book) that was installed on Windows Server 2008 and I've done exactly the same installation of MSSX (Search server 2008 Express) on top of it that I did when writing the book. Only, oddly, things are different.

To save me writing it all again here's the text of a message I wrote today to the Search Server 2008 Express forum.

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

I earlier installed MSSX on top of WSS 3.0 + SP1 on Windows Server 2003.

At the end of that process I went to (WSS) Central Administration/Application Management/Manage Web Applications and needed to Activate Office Server Enterprise Search and Office Server Site Server.

I then went to the (WSS) Home Page and went to Site Actions / Site Settings and three new Search selections (Search settings; Search sources; Search keywords) were listed under the Site Collection Administration section.

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

I later installed MSSX on top of WSS 3.0 + SP1 on Windows Server 2008.   (same version number of WSS 3.0)

At the end of that process I went to (WSS) Central Administration/Application Management/Manage Web Applications and Office Server Enterprise Search and Office Server Site Server were already activated.

I then went to the (WSS) Home Page and went to Site Actions / Site Settings and NONE of the three new Search selections (Search settings; Search sources; Search keywords) were listed under the Site Collection Administration section.

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

Now I see this as extremely odd to say the least - unless the Search Server team have amended their download exe since I downloaded it for the book (which would be odd because that was the RTM version - not the beta). Can it really make such a big difference which Operating system you are running your apps on ?

The more serious problem is that the reason I had these details (and screen shots - so I can prove they look differently now) was because I showed in the book how to amend the standard WSS search box once you had installed MSSX to give more options. Even going manually to the Search Settings page at the WSS (as opposed to the MSSX) site and entering the value of the MSSX default page for where to search seemingly has no effect any more.

 

 

P.S. There's another curiousity. The book version of the Advanced search results (for MSSX) included a column with Live Search results. This so-called "Federated Search" was something that I hadn't specified in that Windows Server 2003 version (mainly because at the time I had no idea what Federated Search meant (!)), yet it was there, as the screen shot clearly shows. I even commented on it being there by using "no such thing as a free lunch - Live Search" as the caption of the screen shot. Now, in the present (Win 2008) version, there's no Live Search column (unless you go in an manually specify one). How odd.

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!)