Hiran Salvi

Attention: Important Information on SharePoint Service Pack 2

Fri, 22 May 2009 05:20:00 GMT

SharePoint Product Group has released new Blog Post related to serious Issue Related to SP2 Please have a look at the Blog Post if you have installed SP2 or planning to Install SP2 on your environment.

http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2009/05/21/attention-important-information-on-service-pack-2.aspx

SharePoint Server 2007 Service Pack 2 Now available

Tue, 28 Apr 2009 05:08:00 GMT

SharePoint Server 2007 Service Pack 2

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/953334

Technical Details about Service Pack http://support.microsoft.com/kb/970358

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 SP2

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/953338

Technical Details about Service Pack http://support.microsoft.com/kb/970359

Hear is Download Links

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Service Pack 2 (x86)

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=79BADA82-C13F-44C1-BDC1-D0447337051B

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Service Pack 2 (x64)

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=20A100C0-BD58-40CD-A5D9-36C1986FBED9

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Language Pack Service Pack 2 (x86)

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=085E5AC8-58F6-4CF9-8012-33B95EE36C0F

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Language Pack Service Pack 2 (x64)

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=2C2B6CAF-B46D-45EB-AC4D-DEAAA48C3A2C

2007 Microsoft Office servers Service Pack 2 (x86)

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=B7816D90-5FC6-4347-89B0-A80DEB27A082

2007 Microsoft Office servers Service Pack 2 (x64)

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=B7816D90-5FC6-4347-89B0-A80DEB27A082

2007 Microsoft Office servers Language Pack Service Pack 2 (x86)

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=01C6A3E8-E110-4956-903A-AD16284BF223

2007 Microsoft Office servers Language Pack Service Pack 2 (x64)

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=66C5026F-9F47-4642-8378-2526918009FA

Downloadable list of issues that are fixed:

MOSS

http://download.microsoft.com/download/C/2/C/C2C36159-600C-4EEA-B80A-F988EE7A418F/2007%20Office%20Service%20Pack%202%20Changes.xlsx

WSS

http://download.microsoft.com/download/C/2/C/C2C36159-600C-4EEA-B80A-F988EE7A418F/2007%20Office%20Service%20Pack%202%20Changes.xlsx

More Details on Service Pack 2 Can be Found here.

http://blogs.msdn.com/spfargo/archive/2009/04/28/microsoft-office-sharepoint-server-service-pack-2-is-now-available.aspx

Windows 7 RC on April 30 for MSDN & Technet Subscribers & May 5 for Pubic

Sat, 25 Apr 2009 12:42:00 GMT

Windows Team Blog Published a Blog Post yesterday that Windows 7 RC is on track for April 30th for download by MSDN and TechNet subscribers. Broader, public availability will begin on May 5th.

Read Complete Post Here http://windowsteamblog.com/blogs/windows7/archive/2009/04/24/windows-7-release-candidate-update.aspx

They are not talking anything about Server Version which is called as Windows Server 2008 R2 but I hope that will be announced soon.

SharePoint Designer available as a free download

Fri, 03 Apr 2009 12:00:00 GMT

Microsoft Announced yesterday about SharePoint Designer is now Free Product. Read following Blog on SharePoint Product Group Blog.

http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2009/04/02/sharepoint-designer-available-as-a-free-download.aspx

IE 8 is now RTM and available for Download

Thu, 19 Mar 2009 18:26:00 GMT

Microsoft Announced RTM Version of IE 8 today. Download latest Version of Internet Expolorer from here.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/internet-explorer/worldwide-sites.aspx

You get more information about this new Version of Internet Explorer here.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/internet-explorer/default.aspx

SharePoint February Cumulative Update Now Available...............

Wed, 25 Feb 2009 02:49:00 GMT

February Cumulative Update is Finally Available for Download.

Read Blog Post By SharePoint Product Group.

http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2009/03/09/uber-packages-of-february-cumulative-update-are-ready.aspx

Download SharePoint February UBER Pack from Here.

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (Version: 12.0.6341.5000)

http://support.microsoft.com/hotfix/KBHotfix.aspx?kbnum=961755

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (Version: 12.0.6341.5002)

http://support.microsoft.com/hotfix/KBHotfix.aspx?kbnum=961756

IE 8 is now RC1

Tue, 27 Jan 2009 03:11:00 GMT

IE 8 is now RC1 and is available to download from here http://www.microsoft.com/windows/internet-explorer/beta/worldwide-sites.aspx

Windows Server 2008 R2 Beta 1 is Appering in MSDN Subscriber Downloads

Sat, 10 Jan 2009 12:22:00 GMT

Windows Server 2008 R2 Beta is also available for download on MSDN Subscriber Downloads.

If you have MSDN Account then go get this you should see huge Improvement in Performance. This Basically Windows 7 Server.

Approval Workflows are failing when SharePoint is in a child domain

Sat, 13 Dec 2008 15:34:00 GMT

My Friend Paul has Nice Post on Approval Workflows are failing when SharePoint is in a child domain

Visual Studio 2010 Tools for SharePoint Announced at TechEd EMEA Developers 2008

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 18:57:00 GMT

Get More on this here http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2008/11/10/visual-studio-2010-tools-for-sharepoint-announced-at-teched-emea-developers-2008.aspx

List of STSADM Commands

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 20:54:00 GMT

Get them Here http://blogs.technet.com/josebda/archive/2008/03/15/complete-reference-of-all-stsadm-operations-with-parameters-in-moss-2007-sp1.aspx

or you can get them Here (Updated Regularly) http://www.wssdemo.com/Lists/stsadm/AllItems.aspx

Download Zipped List Items Feature Released for SharePoint

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 15:16:00 GMT

Read More about this on SharePoint MVP Mohamad Zaki's Blog Post

http://mzaki.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!E3340AEAC1CDD449!1411.entry

Microsoft Unveils Next Version of Visual Studio and .NET Framework

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 14:44:00 GMT

Recently Microsoft Unvelled some Details about Next Version of Visual Studio & .net Framework 4.0 here is link to press release.

http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2008/sep08/09-29VS10PR.mspx

.NET 3.5 Enhancements Training Kit is available for Download

Sat, 12 Apr 2008 15:33:11 GMT

I found on couple of blog so though to share this information as well....

ASP.NET MVC
ASP.NET Dynamic Data
ASP.NET AJAX History
ASP.NET Silverlight controls
ADO.NET Data Services
ADO.NET Entity Framework

Download the training kit

SharePoint protocol documentation released...

Thu, 10 Apr 2008 01:00:00 GMT

Displaying a list on another site (in the same site collection)

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 23:51:00 GMT

A pretty common request is the ability to display content from one site on another site. Using WSS 3.0, this is easy to do with SharePoint Designer.

Open SharePoint Site in SharePoint Designer and open the page in Edit mode with Designer........

Inside SharePoint Designer, in the design view of the page, click where you want the list to go, and then select "Insert Data View" from the Data View menu:

In the Data Source Library Task Pane, select "Connect to another library...", since we want to display a list that is not in the site where we are currently loggedin Click Connect to another library option from the bottom of Data Source Library Task Pane.

Click Add, then choose a display name and type in the URL of the site where the list is:

Click OK in both dialogs, and then expand the new Library until you reach the list you want to display on the page. Now right click on the list & Select Show Data. Data Source Details Task Pane shows the columns from the selected list. Insert the items by selecting Multiple Item View from the insert menu:

You can change the layout of the dataview webpart Properties.This is almost similar how we modify view of other SharePoint WebParts.

Office SharePoint Server 2007 with SP1

Sat, 08 Mar 2008 13:34:01 GMT

Office SharePoint Server 2007 with SP1 (32 bit)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=2E6E5A9C-EBF6-4F7F-8467-F4DE6BD6B831&displaylang=en

Office SharePoint Server 2007 with SP1 (64 bit)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=3015FDE4-85F6-4CBC-812D-55701FBFB563&displaylang=en

Silverligt Blue Print for SharePoint

Mon, 03 Mar 2008 16:01:06 GMT

Integrate Silverlight with SharePoint? Check out the brand new Silverlight Blueprint for SharePoint site: http://www.ssblueprints.net/sharepoint/ !

'Office 14' to be more Web-friendly

Wed, 27 Feb 2008 21:43:54 GMT

Here is the link to the Article on this http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/02/11/Office-14-to-be-more-Web-friendly-Gates-says_1.html

Configuring BLOB Caching for SharePoint Web Application

Sun, 10 Feb 2008 08:56:20 GMT

BLOB Caching is a feature that isn't well known in SharePoint but serializes large objects to disk on the Web Front Ends to avoid database round-tripping. BLOB Caching would prove beneficial for those who work with large file sizes as this improves page delivery time as cache stores files on front-end server and reduces database traffic. You need to enable BLOB Caching you need to edit your web.config file and changes will be applied to all site collections within the web application.

BLOB is Binary Large Object. here are the steps......

Open web.config file of your Web Application.

You can locate web.config file's location from IIS Manager.

Enable and configure the disk-based cache(BLOB)

In the web.config file, find the following line:

<BlobCache location="C:\blobCache" path="\.(gif|jpg|png|css|js)$" maxSize="10" enabled="false"/>

change enabled parameter, from "false" to "true"

To change the size of the cache, type a new number for maxSize

. The size is expressed in gigabytes (GB), and 10 GB is the default.

If the directory that is specified in the location parameter does not have enough space to accommodate the cache size, you can type a new directory

for the location.

To add new file types to the BLOB cache, type the file type next to the other file types. Separate each file type with a pipe (|) character as shown in the file.

Save the file, and close the file

There is no need to reset the iis after doing this.