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WSS FAQ additions and corrections CXXIX - 16th - 22nd November 2008Today

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*)

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The strange story of the missing search entries. (WSS 3.0 + MSSX)Yesterday

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.

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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.

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

Several new SharePoint courses and French/German books added to the WSS FAQ sitesNovember 16

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 produ

WSS FAQ additions and corrections CXXVIII - 9th - 15th November 2008November 15

(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

Should you really demo SharePoint by installing (only) Search Server 2008 Express?November 13

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, becaus