WSS FAQ additions and corrections - 9th - 15th December 2007



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 9th - 15th December 2007


I.1 2007 KB Articles (*now only one section for WSS and MOSS*)

New

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;937961

Description of Office 2003 Web Components Service Pack 1 for the 2007 Office system (ver 2.1)

12th December 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;937162

Description of SharePoint Designer 2007 Service Pack 1 (ver 2.1)

12th December 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;943589

Error message when you try to upgrade 2007 Office programs, Expression Web or Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 to the Service Pack 1 level if the Windows system drive has insufficient free disk space: "The installation of this package failed" (ver 1.1)

11th December 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;871149

How to force an upgrade in Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 and in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (ver 2.0) (previously a WSS 2.0 article with a different name [about version number])

11th December 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/942388/

Issues that are fixed in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 by Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Service Pack 1

11th December 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;936984

Description of the 2007 Microsoft Office servers Service Pack 1 and the 2007 Microsoft Office servers Language Pack Service Pack 1

11th December 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;945967

You receive an error message when you try to install a slipstream installation of SharePoint Server 2007 on a server that is running Windows SharePoint Services 3.0

11th December 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;942390

Description of the SharePoint Server 2007 issues that are fixed by the 2007 Microsoft Office servers Service Pack 1

11th December 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;936988

Description of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Service Pack 1 and of Windows SharePoint Services Language Pack 3.0 Service Pack 1 (ver 2.0)

11th December 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;944531

How to preserve Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 content when you upgrade Windows Server 2008 RC0 to Windows Server 2008 RC1

10th December 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;945013

How to deploy 2007 Microsoft Office System Servers Service Pack 1 and Microsoft Office Server Language Pack 2007 Service Pack 1 (ver 1.1)

8th December 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;943663

How to manually update the time zone definition in Windows SharePoint Services for the Venezuela time zone change

7th December 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;942995

You are prompted unexpectedly to restart the computer after you install a 2007 Office service pack or a 2007 Office update (ver 1.1)

6th December 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;944447

After you install the 2007 Office System Servers SP1 or Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 SP1 on a server that has the Foxit PDF IFilter installed, .pdf document types are not indexed (ver 1.1)

19th November 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;944446

Error message when you try to install 2007 Office System Servers Service Pack 1 (SP1) on a computer that also has Project Server 2007 installed (ver 1.2)

15th November 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;943100

How to set restrictions on a site collection to allow only users in a particular organizational unit on a computer that is running SharePoint Server 2007 Service Pack 1 (ver 1.1)

14th November 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;943105

After you install SharePoint Server 2007 Service Pack 1, the maximum disk space that is used on a query server or on an index server increases to 2.85 times the physical size of the index (ver 1.2)

7th November 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;943102

How to enable the indexing of .xlsb files and of .zip files in SharePoint Server 2007 Service Pack 1 (ver 1.1)

5th November 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;942620

You receive an error message when you try to install 2007 Office System Servers Service Pack 1 on a computer that does not have Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Service Pack 1 installed (ver 1.2)

18th October 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;942621

The SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard unexpectedly runs when you use quiet mode to install 2007 Microsoft Office System Servers or Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and you apply a service pack, an update, or a hotfix (ver 1.3)

17th October 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;942619

After you apply Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 SP1, an event is logged in the Application log on the server: "User, group, or role 'WSS_Content_Application_Pools' already exists in the current database" (ver 1.1)

21st September 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;942618

The /log command-line switch and the /passive command-line switch do not function as expected when you run the installation package that contains Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Service Pack 1 (ver 1.1)

20th September 2007

Modiifed

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=832809

Icons are not displayed for Adobe PDF documents that are listed in the search results when you search your portal site in SharePoint Portal Server 2003 and in SharePoint Server 2007 (ver 4.0)

11th December 2007

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;942381

Issues that are fixed in InfoPath 2007 by the 2007 Microsoft Office suites Service Pack 1

11th December 2007

Modified

None


II. Articles - 2007 Products (no longer with all links to articles for other Office 2007 and other 2007 Products)

New

A. Office 2007 Server Products

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/office/sharepointserver/bb735839.aspx

SharePoint Products and Technologies Service Pack 1 Resource Center (Note: web page)

12th December 2007 (date added)

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=EF93E453-75F1-45DF-8C6F-4565E8549C2A&displaylang=en

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 with Service Pack 1

11th December 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=9FB41E51-CB03-4B47-B89A-396786492CBA&displaylang=en

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 x64 with Service Pack 1

11th December 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=4191A531-A2E9-45E4-B71E-5B0B17108BD2&displaylang=en

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Service Pack 1 (SP1)

11th December 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=05046B1D-DD7B-456A-8838-8D978C5F3579%20&displaylang=en

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Language Pack Service Pack 1 (SP1)

11th December 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=C7CF102B-5DD8-4D86-BE5A-D56F63EF37A4&displaylang=en

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Language Pack Service Pack 1 (SP1), 64-Bit Edition

11th December 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=AD59175C-AD6A-4027-8C2F-DB25322F791B&displaylang=en

The 2007 Microsoft Office Servers Service Pack 1 (SP1)

11th December 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=B57C805D-2821-4625-A6F1-80725267F887&displayLang=en

Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 Service Pack 1 (SP1)

11th December 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=8D72B284-24F7-4CFB-9D22-D2A2651D4734&displaylang=en

Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer Language Pack 2007 Service Pack 1 (SP1)

11th December 2007

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointtechnology/HA101736671033.aspx?

Manage lists and libraries with many items

11th December 2007 (date added)

http://h71019.www7.hp.com/ERC/downloads/4AA1-6598ENW.pdf

Deploying F5 Networks BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager with WebAccelerator for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (HP)

11th December 2007 (date added)

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/tmt/archive/2007/12/09/extending-the-sharepoint-fieldvalue-webcontrol.aspx

Extending the SharePoint:FieldValue WebControl (Blog - Waldek Mastykarz)

9th December 2007

http://paulgalvin.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!1CC1EDB3DAA9B8AA!491.entry

Display Content Query Web Part Results in a Grid / Table (Blog - Paul Galvin)

9th December 2007

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/erickraus/archive/2007/12/09/enable-session-state-in-sharepoint-2007.aspx

Enable Session State in SharePoint 2007 (Blog - Eric Kraus)

9th December 2007

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/sam/archive/2007/12/08/test.aspx

Developing a reusable SQL Data viewer WebPart for Sharepoint -Part 3 (Blog - Sam)

8th December 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=C815DFFA-D5F3-4B71-BF46-13721BD44682&displaylang=en

Microsoft Office 2003 Web Components Service Pack 1 (SP1) for the 2007 Microsoft Office System

8th December 2007

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb896018.aspx

Visual How To: Customizing Search Results with Custom XSLTs in SharePoint Server 2007 (Patrick Tisseghem, U2U)

8th December 2007 (date added - date of documentation/video December 2007)

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

SharePoint Monitoring Toolkit (ver 1)

7th December 2007

http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepointdeveloperdocs/archive/2007/12/07/customizing-alert-notifications-and-alert-templates-in-windows-sharepoint-services-3-0.aspx

Customizing Alert Notifications and Alert Templates in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (MS TeamBlog - Albert Meerscheidt)

7th December 2007

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/george/archive/2007/12/07/draft-sharepoint-best-practices.aspx

SharePoint Best Practices (Blog - George Bonney)

7th December 2007

http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=105624&clcid=0x409

Performance Recommendations for Storage Planning and Monitoring

7th December 2007 (date added - date of white paper December 2007)

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/help/HA100214341033.aspx

View, restore, or delete items in the Recycle Bin

7th December 2007 (date added)

http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/829cfa96-89b1-4a7b-b980-6d5d3e2a3ee11033.mspx?mfr=true

Mergecontentdbs: Stsadm operation (Office SharePoint Server) (new option after SP1 installation)

6th December 2007

http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/f577614d-e3ff-4e91-affc-6fdf7e94a9a31033.mspx?mfr=true

Tzmove: Stsadm operation (Office SharePoint Server) (new option after SP1 installation)

6th December 2007

http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/9b626a78-2b65-445c-b159-a9aa1dd48b3a1033.mspx

Renamesite: Stsadm operation (Office SharePoint Server)

6th December 2007

http://www.liveside.net/blogs/developer/archive/2007/12/05/add-silverlight-to-sharepoint-2007.aspx

Add Silverlight to Sharepoint 2007 (Blog - "Hackersoft")

5th December 2007

http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/blogs/GetThePoint/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?List=8d9e2a99%2Df288%2D47c2%2D916b%2D2f32864f7b82&ID=34

When to Create a New Library (Blog - Janis Hall)

4th December 2007

http://technet2.microsoft.com/windowsserver/WSS/en/library/91e1ed5d-d35e-4eb6-8013-7e323af5f4e61033.mspx?mfr=true

Enable and configure versioning (Windows SharePoint Services 3.0)

3rd December 2007

http://technet2.microsoft.com/windowsserver/WSS/en/library/5e32c8ec-0831-491a-8b3f-09fbbfc5a78a1033.mspx?mfr=true

Configure the Recycle Bin (Windows SharePoint Services 3.0)

3rd December 2007

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/dez/archive/2007/11/30/moving-copying-documents-between-libraries-with-metadata-including-version-history.aspx

Copying documents between libraries with metadata - including version history (Blog - dink)

30th November 2007

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

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb952744.aspx

Visual How To: Adding User Information from Active Directory Domain Services to InfoPath 2007 Forms (Mark Roberts)

8th December 2007 (date added - date of documentation/video November 2007)

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=7f4ce9c5-9e02-4b99-aa09-360d920d3ee0&displaylang=en&tm

Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 SDK (ver 3.0.6362.35)

7th December 2007 (added for inclusion in the SDK View)

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

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=cb119c51-0171-4108-91db-4bd708c28f0d&displaylang=en&tm

Visual Studio 2008 Rhythm Training Virtual PC (Windows Server 2003) (expires March 2008)

13th December 2007


Modified

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=2672f6f9-7028-4b30-99a2-18cb1eed1abe&DisplayLang=en

Project 2007: Software Development Kit (version 1.3-Dec07)

12th December 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=27342759-e9d6-4073-918c-e9dff77d0206&displaylang=en&tm

Microsoft System Center Essentials 2007 VHD (ver 1.1)

7th December 2007 (added for inclusion in the VHD View)

http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/f484f5f2-35bb-4d70-bf56-dd1c4c287c721033.mspx

Deploy software updates for Office SharePoint Server 2007

6th December 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=43621a8f-12fb-4e7c-bb38-1cbb6ef272c5&DisplayLang=en

Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 SP1 VHD - 32-bit version (ver 1.0)

4th December 2007 (added for inclusion in the VHD View)

http://technet2.microsoft.com/windowsserver/WSS/en/library/91649a7e-6b5a-4e5a-9ee5-51951f4b857f1033.mspx?mfr=true

Deploy software updates for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0

3rd December 2007

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

New

http://wm.microsoft.com/ms/msdn/office/2007officevisualhowtos/MOSS2007CustomizingSearchResultsWithCustomXSLTs.wmv

Visual How To: Customizing Search Results with Custom XSLTs in SharePoint Server 2007 (Video) (Patrick Tisseghem, U2U)

8th December 2007 (date added - date of documentation/video December 2007)

http://wm.microsoft.com/ms/msdn/office/2007officevisualhowtos/ip2007GettingUserInformationActiveDirectory.wmv

Visual How To: Adding User Information from Active Directory Domain Services to InfoPath 2007 Forms (Video) (Mark Roberts)

8th December 2007 (date added - date of documentation/video November 2007)


IV WSS v3 FAQ

New

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1291

III.54.08 Templates: Why do I not see "Save Site as Template" for certain sites?

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1293

V.78 Professional SharePoint Search (Wiley - Richard Riley, Tom Rizzo)

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1294

V.79 SharePoint 2007 Development Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (Apress - Mark Gerow)

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1295

VI.93 MOSS BDC Design Studio (commercial - Simego)

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1296

VI.94 ARK for SharePoint 2007 (ARKSP) (commercial - Vyapin)

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1290

X.10 MOSS 2007 and WSS v3 Backup Script (free - Jerry Rasmussen) (previously at wwss.collutions.com only by mistake)

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1289

X.100 Imtech Test Content Generator v1.3.0.0 (free - Codetech, Waldek Mastykarz)

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1292

X.101 WPGalleryGroupChanger (free - Steven Van de Craen)

Modified

http://wss.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=813

V.07 Microsoft SharePoint 2007 Technologies: Planning, Design and Implementation (Digital Press - Kevin Laahs, Emer McKenna, Veli-Matti Vanamo) *released*

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V WSSv2 KB Articles (plus SPS 2003 Hot fixes)

New

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;826789

How to Configure SQL Full-Text Search to Search for MHT Files (ver 1.3)

30th November 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;821512

Only Operations That Are Performed by Administrators Are Logged to the W3wp<ApplicationPoolName>.log File (ver 2.4)

30th November 2007

Modified

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=823379

You receive a "Server Error in '/' Application. Access to the path <path> is denied" error message when you log on to Windows SharePoint Services (ver 9.1)

11th December 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=891983

Supported scenario to restore a backup of data from the original release version of SharePoint Portal Server 2003 to SharePoint Portal Server 2003 Service Pack 1 (ver 3.5)

4th December 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=827701

How to perform a disaster recovery operation of SharePoint Services Companyweb and SharePoint Services Databases (ver 5.5)

3rd December 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=829112

How to back up and restore http://companyweb data in Windows Small Business Server 2003 (ver 8.4)

3rd December 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=829114

How to remove and how to install the Windows Small Business Server 2003 SharePoint Services Companyweb Web site (ver 6.2) (Applies only to the WSS in SBS 2003)

3rd December 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=829113

How to restore a Windows SharePoint Services CompanyWeb database after the intranet component and SQL Server or MSDE 2000 have been removed on Windows Small Business Server (ver 8.1)

3rd December 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=886618

"HTTP 500 - Internal Server Error" error message when you try to open the Companyweb Web site after you perform a disaster recovery in Windows Small Business Server 2003 (ver 2.3)

3rd December 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=829036

The Microsoft SharePoint Administrator option on the Administrative Tools menu does not open the Windows SharePoint Services administration Web page in Windows Small Business Server 2003 (ver 2.3) [Only in an SBS 2003 environment]

3rd December 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=833019

You receive an "Error code: 2779" error message when you install Windows SharePoint Services, create a new content database, or provision a new virtual server (ver 10.5)

3rd December 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;841216

"0x80040E14" or "HTTP 500" error message when you connect to your Windows SharePoint Services Web site after you install a Windows SharePoint Services service pack or a security update (ver 8.1)

3rd December 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;821501

Considerations That Apply When You Install Class Server and You Install Windows SharePoint Services on the Same Server (ver 1.2)

30th November 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;837849

How to add an icon to Windows SharePoint Services to represent Adobe PDF documents that are stored in document libraries (ver 2.3)

30th November 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=823208

There Is No Option in the Shared Workspace Task Pane of an Office 2003 Program to Edit the "Location for New Workspace" List (ver 2.4)

30th November 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=827395

You Receive an "Error Occurred While Processing Data For This Request..." Error Message When Try to Access a Page on Your Windows SharePoint Services Web Site (ver 2.4)

30th November 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;875339

"No Updates Were Installed" error message when you try to install Windows SharePoint Services Service Pack 1 from the Windows Update Web site (ver 4.7)

26th September 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=823547

You receive an "Exception of type System.OutOfMemoryException was thrown" error message when you access a Web page on the portal site in SharePoint Portal Server 2003 and in Windows SharePoint Services (ver 3.6)

31st May 2007

VI WSSv2 FAQ

New

None

Modified

None
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