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)
(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 7th May - 13th May 2007
I 2007 KB Articles (*now only one section for WSS and MOSS*)
New
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;936759
E-mail notifications for alerts are not sent when content in a migrated list
or in a migrated document library changes after you perform a database
migration to upgrade to Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (ver 1.2)
10th May 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;936760
The URLs of alerts in e-mail notifications that you receive are incorrect
after the URL of a Web application for a site in Windows SharePoint Services
3.0 or in SharePoint Server 2007 changes
10th May 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;932118
Persistent cookies are not shared between Internet Explorer 7 and Office
applications in Windows Vista
7th May 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;928754
Excel Services does not support asynchronous queries
3rd May 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=934793
Description of the SharePoint Server hotfix package: April 12, 2007
3rd May 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=920278
Custom SharePoint task list columns may not appear in Outlook 2007 (ver 1.2)
25th April 2007
[SharePoint Designer 2007 follow]
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;927151&sd=rss&spid=11677
How to create a custom Index Server search page by using ASP in SharePoint
Designer 2007
9th May 2007
Modified
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;935504
Error message when you click "New" to create a new item in a list or when
you click an existing item in SharePoint Server 2007 or in Windows
SharePoint Services 3.0: "Invalid page URL" or "An unexpected error has
occurred" (ver 1.1)
11th May 2007 (Title changed as well)
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;888041
How to make Windows SharePoint Services use a pre-existing database as the
content database (ver 4.0)
4th May 2007
(version 3.0 was marked as a v2 KB article - now moved to v3 [it covers
both])
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=898631
Supported and unsupported scenarios for working with custom site definitions
and custom area definitions in Windows SharePoint Services, in SharePoint
Portal Server 2003, and in Office SharePoint Server 2007 (ver 3.0)
4th May 2007
(version 2.0 was marked as a v2 KB article - now moved to v3 as renamed [it
covers both])
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=925189
Error message when you try to use an existing site template to create a new
SharePoint Server 2007 site: "Failed to apply template" (ver 2.0)
3rd May 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=926062
Error message when you try to upgrade Windows SharePoint Services 3.0:
"Failed to detect if this server is joined to a server farm" (ver 2.0)
3rd May 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;934838
How to change the password of service accounts in SharePoint Server 2007 and
in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (ver 2.1)
2nd May 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=929072
Error message when you use Forefront Security for SharePoint: "ERROR: Unable
to connect to service." (ver 2.0)
1st May 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=929073
Error message when you start Forefront Server Security Administrator:
"ERROR: Unable to connect to service" (ver 2.0)
1st May 2007
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://blogs.msdn.com/joelo/archive/2007/05/11/sharepoint-rss-ttl.aspx
SharePoint RSS TTL [Time to Live tag] (MS Blog - Joel Oleson)
11th May 2007
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb466172.aspx
Upgrading an MCMS 2002 Application to SharePoint Server 2007 (Part 1 of 2)
10th May 2007 (date added)
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb466171.aspx
Upgrading an MCMS 2002 Application to SharePoint Server 2007 (Part 2 of 2)
10th May 2007 (date added)
http://www.sharepointblogs.com/zimmer/archive/2007/05/09/simple-excel-services-step-by-step-publishing-a-spreadsheet-to-sharepoint-2007.aspx
Simple Excel Services - Step by step, publishing a spreadsheet to SharePoint
2007 (Blog - Tobias Zimmergren)
9th May 2007
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=7ea93b92-07c1-4de6-9c74-be48df443a0f&displaylang=en&tm
SharePoint Server 2007 Demo: Add a Library to a Records Center Site
9th May 2007
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=c910a323-164d-4fad-8646-64872ffe4c46&displaylang=en&tm
SharePoint Server 2007 Demo: Configure a SharePoint Server 2007 Site to
Receive E-Mail
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=29e28ae2-0b3f-4e5d-9d34-a1452968703c&displaylang=en&tm
SharePoint Server 2007 Demo: Enable Excel Services and Data Connections for
a SharePoint Team Site
9th May 2007
http://blogs.technet.com/wbaer/archive/2007/05/08/database-management-concepts-for-large-and-growing-content-databases.aspx
Database Management Concepts for Large and Growing Content Databases (Blog -
William Baer)
8th May 2007
http://download.microsoft.com/download/A/A/1/AA13E922-FFA3-4EB1-BA3D-D177AB058746/SP_Users_Guide.doc
Forefront Security for SharePoint - User's Guide
8th May 2007 (date added)
http://www.appliedis.com/Library/MOSS%202007%20as%20an%20Ap%20Dev%20Platform%20vfweb.pdf
MOSS 2007 as an Application Development Platform (Applied Information
Sciences Inc. white paper - Vishwas Lele)
8th May 2007 (date added)
http://blogs.msdn.com/sherder/archive/2007/05/07/excel-services-saving-workbooks-back-to-the-server.aspx
Excel Services: Saving Workbooks back to the Server (MS Blog - Sherman Der)
7th May 2007
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=c5480d57-6a0b-4a65-a17f-8bea296c0402&displaylang=en&tm
Office SharePoint Server 2007 Guide: Setting up the Role-Based My Site
Template for Sales Account Managers
7th May 2007
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=d69da344-d4e2-49ef-bd44-4c9e8ef761bf&displaylang=en&tm
Office SharePoint Server 2007 Guide: Setting up the Role-Based My Site
Template for Controllers-Financial Analysts
7th May 2007
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=b2da1095-faba-44b0-9935-a00dceeca0f3&displaylang=en&tm
Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Demo: Tour a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
Site
7th May 2007
http://www.sharepointblogs.com/mossman/archive/2007/05/07/how-to-add-a-button-the-html-editor-control-in-sharepoint.aspx
How to Add a Button to the HTML Editor Control in SharePoint (Blog -
MOssman - based on and adding to the MSDN article of the same name)
7th May 2007
http://www.sharepointblogs.com/yeon/archive/2007/05/06/how-to-create-2-step-approval.aspx
How to create 2 step approval using SPD 2007 without VS2005 (Blog - Yeon)
6th May 2007
http://www.sharepointblogs.com/pholpar/archive/2007/05/06/hunting-the-encoding-problem-in-content-deployment-part-2.aspx
Hunting the encoding problem in content deployment - part 2 (Blog - Péter
Holpár)
6th May 2007
http://www.projectservergurus.com/adnan/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=5
Best Practices for Project Server 2007 Deployment in a Large Server Farm
with Office SharePoint Server 2007 (Blog - Syed Adnan Ahmed)
5th May 2007
http://www.sharepointblogs.com/pholpar/archive/2007/05/05/hunting-the-encoding-problem-in-content-deployment-part-1.aspx
Hunting the encoding problem in content deployment - part 1 (Blog - Péter
Holpár)
5th May 2007
http://weblogs.asp.net/soever/archive/2007/05/03/sharepoint-features-elements-scope-and-other-info.aspx
SharePoint Features - elements, scope and other info (Blog - Serge van den
Oever)
3rd May 2007
http://blogs.msdn.com/sherder/archive/2007/05/01/excel-services-snapshot-vs-open-in-excel-what-the-diff.aspx
Excel Services: Snapshot vs Open in Excel - What's the diff? (MS Blog -
Sherman Der)
1st May 2007
http://blogs.msdn.com/sherder/archive/2007/04/09/excel-services-only-let-them-see-what-you-want-them-to-see.aspx
Excel Services - Only let them see what you want them to see (MS Blog -
Sherman Der)
9th April 2007
http://www.u2u.info/Blogs/Kevin/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=8
Showing list items from another site (Blog - Kevin DeRudder)
3rd April 2007
http://blogs.msdn.com/sherder/archive/2007/03/13/excel-services-welcome-to-the-future-of-spreadsheets.aspx
Excel Services: Welcome to the future of spreadsheets (MS Blog - Sherman
Der)
13th March 2007
http://udayakumarethirajulu.blogspot.com/2007/02/creating-publishing-infopath-form-using.html
Creating and Publishing an InfoPath Form using Form Services in Moss 2007
(Blog - Uday)
21st February 2007
http://www.thelineberrys.com/default-category/hosting-multiple-unique-sharepoint-sites-on-a-single-server-2.html
Hosting Multiple unique SharePoint Sites on a single server (Blog - Steve
Lineberry)
17th January 2007
B. Other Office 2007 products (selected few only since 1.1.2007)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=fc2ca984-e9c3-451c-a225-b1a5812722db&displaylang=en&tm
InfoPath 2007 Demo: Convert a Word Document into an InfoPath 2007 Form
Template
9th May 2007
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=821c81df-ffcf-4116-ac35-288a177a0a60&displaylang=en&tm
InfoPath 2007 Demo: View the Business Logic in an InfoPath 2007 Form
Template
9th May 2007
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=aeeaec61-2dfc-4ee3-aaa0-5bf007f3d697&displaylang=en&tm
InfoPath 2007 and Outlook 2007 Demo: Use InfoPath E-Mail Forms to View Data
in Outlook 2007
9th May 2007
C. Other New 2006/2007 Products (selected few only since 1.1.2007)
http://sambbiblog.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!794708049C7AE9C2!762.entry
Add "minibars" to your SQL Server Reporting Services Reports (Blog - Sam Sam
Batterman)
11th May 2007
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=d6266f43-549f-492a-b1ab-70c5ac6b213b&displaylang=en&tm
Visual Studio 2005 Team System Training Videos
10th May 2007
http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/ifilter/
Foxit PDF IFilter (free)
8th May 2007 (date added)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=2e575633-e357-4ee7-aaff-34138f00e830&displaylang=en&tm
Hands-on Labs for Windows Workflow Foundation in C# and VB.NET
7th May 2007
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=6096ce0f-d21e-47ac-afe2-d4e1c2fce670&displaylang=en
A Microsoft Windows Workflow Foundation timer does not resume correctly
after reloading a workflow
(relevant to solving SPD 2007 workflow problems)
12th April 2007
Modified
None
Deleted
None
III WSS v3 FAQ
New
http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1059
I.35 What (main) Excel 2007 features are not available in Excel Services
http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1060
III.54.06 Templates: (Any that use Project Tracking features): Why aren't
fields showing up in the new or edit item pages?
http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1061
III.54.07 Templates: Bug Database Template: Problems?
http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1064
V.48 Programming Excel Services (Pro Developer) (MS Press - Alvin J. Bruney)
http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1055
VI.33 Tzunami Deployer (commercial - Tzunami)
http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1056
VI.34 Tzunami Designer (commercial - Tzunami)
http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1057
VI.35 ComplianceBuilder / SharePoint Edition (commercial - Vital Path)
http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1058
VI.36 Scanning Enabler 2007 (commercial - darkblueduck)
http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1063
VI.37 WSS Cross Site Search (commercial - KWizCom)
http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1065
VI.38 DSP Performance Canvas 2007 (commercial - DSPanel)
http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1062
X.56 .STP Language Converter (free - KWizCom)
Modified
http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/EditForm.aspx?ID=958
I. What issues are fixed in fix packs to MOSS 2007?
http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=983
VI.15 Nintex Workflow 2007 (commercial - Nintex)
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IV WSSv2 KB Articles (plus SPS 2003 Hot fixes)
New
None
Modified
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;835559&FR=1
You cannot access portal sites or Web sites, certain areas of SharePoint
Portal Central Administration display the incorrect server name, and e-mail
notifications contain incorrect URLs after you rename the server (ver 5.5)
2nd February 2007
V. MS Articles for WSSv2
New
None
Modified
None
VI Non-MS Articles for WSSv2
New
None
Modified
None
VII WSSv2 FAQ
New
None
Modified
None