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The many faces of SharePoint

Paul Cunningham — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 00:11:00 +0000

Did you know that SharePoint is behind several of Microsoft’s online services? If you didn’t then check out this post at the Microsoft Office SharePoint Blog.

Link: The many faces of SharePoint

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SharePoint Security Resources

Paul Cunningham — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 08:00:00 +0000

Microsoft provides two useful resources for MOSS security:

Security for Office SharePoint Server 2007 (downloadable book)
Office SharePoint Server Security Account Requirements (worksheet)

Link: John Westworth’s blog on Technet

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MOSS 2007 with SP1 slipstreamed install package released

Paul Cunningham — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 23:32:22 +0000

Microsoft has announced the release of Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server (MOSS) 2007 with SP1 and Windows Sharepoint Services (WSS) 3.0 with SP1.

This is a significant release as it allows Sharepoint administrators and developers to deploy an SP1 integrated installation of MOSS or WSS on a new server. The RTM version of MOSS and WSS will not run on Windows Server 2008, so the best outcome of this new release is the ability to deploy the products on Windows Server 2008.

The two updated products are available for download now.

The RTM versions of both products are still available for download if you happen to be rebuilding an RTM server, however any new deployments should ideally be installed with SP1 regardless of the operating system you are installing on.

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Exchange, Forefront, and SharePoint Service Pack 1

Paul Cunningham — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 09:28:44 +0000

It must be Service Pack 1 Week at Microsoft.

Exchange Server 2007 SP1

Service Pack 1 for Exchange Server 2007 has finally gone RTM. This release includes support for Windows Server 2008, enhanced functionality for Outlook Web Access, new administrative tools for Public Folders, and the new Standby Continuous Replication feature for HA/DR.

A full list of what is new is available here. Make sure you read the release notes before you deploy as there are some important known issues to consider.

Forefront Security for Exchange Server SP1

This is an important update for Forefront that is primarily delivering compatiblity with Windows Server 2008 and Exchange Server 2007 SP1, and a rollup of current hotfixes. One of the great new features is the ability to enter proxy details to download antivirus engine updates during setup. The Forefront team blog has a full writeup here.

If you are currently running FSE on your Exchange 2007 servers and considering upgrading Exchange to SP1, be sure to upgrade FSE first.

MOSS 2007 and WSS 3.0 SP1 Preview

Not to be outdone, the SharePoint team has released a preview into WSS 3.0 SP1 and SharePoint 2007 SP1. Again this update will provide Windows Server 2008 compatibility, as well as new AJAX enhancements, STSAdm command options, and a rollup of over 60 hotfixes for the WSS and SharePoint products.

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Microsoft Search Server 2008 Express Edition test run

Paul Cunningham — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 21:00:42 +0000

Microsoft announced the release of Search Server 2008, which comes in both a free “Express” edition, and a paid enterprise edition.

Microsoft Search Server 2008 is the next version of Office SharePoint Server 2007 For Search. They have basically taken MOSS 2007, stripped it down to just the index and search components, and then added some new enhancements such as a streamlined installation and more connectors to content sources.

Installation is a breeze.

The administrative interface is almost indentical to that of SharePoint Server 2007. For this test install the only configuration changes I made were to set a content access account and some crawl sources on our network.

I’ve chosen a basic theme for the site so the users can pretend its as much fun as using Google.

Microsoft Search Server 2008 Resources:

Overview of Microsoft Search Server 2008
Planning and architecture for Search Server 2008
Deployment for Search Server 2008
Operations for Search Server 2008
Microsoft Enterprise Search Blog

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Real World SharePoint: Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2008

Paul Cunningham — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 08:34:53 +0000

Microsoft is holding the Microsoft Office SharePoint Conference 2008 in Seattle from March 3rd to March 6th next year. The conference brings together Microsoft product specialists, customers, partners and industry analysts to share their wealth of real life product and deployment experiences.

And of course, the conference website is powered by Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.

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Real World Sharepoint: Hawaiian Air

Paul Cunningham — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 02:27:23 +0000

The Microsoft Sharepoint Products and Technologies Team Blog published a write up back in April this year written by Avneesh Kaushik about their experience using Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server 2007 and ASP.NET 2.0 to develop the Hawaiian Air internet website.

The HawaiianAir.com website is mission critical for Hawaiian Airlines because it transacted the majority of the company’s estimated $880 million in revenue last year…. The HawaiianAir.com website was quietly launched on March 6, 2007, a Tuesday, without any formal announcements or fanfare. On that first full day, the site had over 48,000 unique visitors!

Today they have released two excellent technical articles based on that experience.

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Microsoft resources for end-user Sharepoint training

Paul Cunningham — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 21:56:32 +0000

Microsoft has released some training materials to help with end-user training for Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server 2007. These slick, professional looking PowerPoint decks can help end-users understand MOSS 2007 terminology and assist them with how to perform routine tasks within the portal.

The Sharepoint Team Blog has linked directly to the files here.

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Event ID 104 When Upgrading To Windows Sharepoint Services 3.0

Paul Cunningham — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 22:58:41 +0000

Installing Windows Sharepoint Services 3.0 to an existing Windows Small Business Server 2003 server involves a few steps. After confirming you have a good, working backup of the server, you then need to ensure that .NET Framework 2.0 and 3.0 are both installed.

I ran the WSS 3.0 installer and chose to upgrade the existing sites. The existing sites aren’t modified though, not until the Sharepoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard is run. This will launch immediately after the WSS 3.0 installer finishes, but in my case it failed on the first step.

The Event Log showed the following error:

Event Type: Error
Event Source: SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard
Event Category: None
Event ID: 104
Date: 27/03/2007
Time: 8:41:56 AM
User: N/A
Computer: LLSRV01
Description:
Failed to initialize SharePoint Products and Technologies upgrade.
An exception of type Microsoft.SharePoint. PostSetupConfiguration. PostSetupConfigurationTaskException was thrown. Additional exception information: The pre-upgrade scan tool has not yet been run successfully on all content databases in the server farm. The pre-upgrade scan tool must complete without errors before you can continue with the upgrade process.
Microsoft.SharePoint. PostSetupConfiguration. PostSetupConfigurationTaskException: Exception of type ‘Microsoft.SharePoint. PostSetupConfiguration.PostSetupConfigurationTaskException’ was thrown.
at Microsoft.SharePoint. PostSetupConfiguration. InitializeTask.PrepareForUpgrade()
at Microsoft.SharePoint. PostSetupConfiguration. InitializeTask.Run()
at Microsoft.SharePoint. PostSetupConfiguration. TaskThread.ExecuteTask()

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

The pre-upgrade scan tool referred to is located in C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\BIN. To run it you simply navigate to that folder in a command line window, and then run “prescan /all”.

C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\BIN>prescan /all 0% 99% 100% Operation completed successfully. File Name:C:\DOCUME~1\ADMINI~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\1\ PreupgradeReport_633105822209429795_Log.txt File Name:C:\DOCUME~1\ADMINI~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\1\ PreupgradeReport_633105822209429795_Summary.xml

When this has completed successfully, you can rerun the Sharepoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard from the Administrative Tools folder in the Start Menu.

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