News
BizTalk Server
BizTalk Server Database Optimization
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb743398.aspx
New Case Studies
6 new case studies published this month
http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/search.aspx?ProTaxID=1265&NoDays=30
Microsoft Internet Information Server
The Tasty Morsels Found In Dogfood… MSCOM OPS Top 10 Changes In IIS7.0
The .NET Show: IIS 7.0
(Shipping with Windows Vista will be the latest version of Internet Information Services (IIS), which includes a broad collection of features and capabilities that have been anxiously awaited by both developers and IT Pros. Scott Guthrie and Bill Staples describe and demo new features in IIS 7.0. )
http://msdn.microsoft.com/theshow/episode.aspx?xml=theshow/en/episode056/manifest.xml
Sharepoint Technologies
Correction for last month where we missed the URL off from this post
The great Office Server smorgasbord: SharePoint 2007 - Microsoft's five new Office Servers give Office 2007 users a wealth of new features and capabilities. We examine how in this four-part series, starting with SharePoint 2007
So here it is: http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/08/13/33TCmoss_1.html
Gartners Summit 2008
Gartners Summit hear about Dow Jones and Linklaters moving to Sharepoint 2007
http://info-architecture.blogspot.com/2007/09/gartner-pcc-summit-2007-part-8.html
and http://info-architecture.blogspot.com/2007/09/gartner-pcc-summit-2007-part-7.html
SharePoint Designer
Microsoft SharePoint Designer team looking for customer needs for data design, view and functionality. Copies of Office Professional are available in a sweepstake for all entrants.
Latest Product test Drive
Test Drive Microsoft Office and SharePoint 2007 in a new online package
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/products/HA101687261033.aspx
DST Comes around again
Daylight Savings Time comes around again, make sure you are up to date.
Introducing the Performance Point Developer Portal
Performance Point Server 2007 provides all the functionality that is needed for performance management. Performance Point offers features that not only help analysts monitor and analyze organizational performance, but also do critical planning, forecasting, and financial reporting. In addition, Performance Point features make it possible for you to assign tasks such as data input and quality review to other users.
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/office/bb660518.aspx
Office and SharePoint Conferences
Bill Gates will deliver keynote sessions at the Office and SharePoint Conferences in 2008. See the links for registration details
Office System Developer Conference 2008: https://microsoft.crgevents.com/ODC2008/Signup.aspx
SharePoint Conference 2008: http://www.mssharepointconference.com/Pages/SPC2008.aspx
Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration Server
What’s New at the ISA Server TechCenter
Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2006 Supportability Update
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=939455
Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2006 Supportability Update provides enhanced troubleshooting tools, and improved log viewer functionality to ISA Server 2006 Standard Edition and Enterprise Edition. We strongly recommend customers install this supportability update on all computers running ISA Server 2006.
ISA Server 2006 Supportability Update can be installed directly on computers running ISA Server 2006, and includes:
• All software updates issued since ISA Server 2006 was released to manufacturing.
• Improved log viewer functionality, including an enhanced details pane view, text coloring, and new log filtering functionality.
• Updated ISA Server Microsoft Management Console (MMC) snap-in functionality that provides access to troubleshooting tools and options available directly from the ISA Server Management console.
• Integration with the Microsoft ISA Server Best Practices Analyzer Tool. For more information, see http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=79754.
• New diagnostic logging functionality.
Microsoft ISA Server Diagnostic Logging Viewer
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=81315
Configuring and Troubleshooting the Password Change Feature in ISA Server 2006
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/isa/2006/operations/passwordchange.mspx
Please note that if you have feedback on documentation or wish to request new documents - email isadocs@microsoft.com
ForeFront Edge Security Forums at http://forums.microsoft.com/ForeFront/default.aspx?ForumGroupID=384&SiteID=41
Discuss ISA Server at the new Microsoft Forefront™ Edge Security forums, available at TechCenter
Internet Security and Acceleration Server Blog
The ISA Server Product Team Blog (http://blogs.technet.com/isablog/) is updated on a regular basis. Latest entries include:
ISA Server 2006 Supportability Update
http://blogs.technet.com/isablog/archive/2007/09/17/isa-server-2006-supportability-update.aspx
Certificates with Multiple SAN Entries May Break ISA Server Web Publishing
Diagnostic Improvements in ISA Server 2004 Service Pack 3
Password Change with FBA
http://blogs.technet.com/isablog/archive/2007/08/23/password-change-with-fba.aspx
Downloads
Sharepoint Technologies
SharePoint Portal Server 2003 SP3
Windows SharePoint Services v2 SP3
Security white papers that address the specific security needs of particular industries, such as the professional services and financial services industries.
This download contains the base setup and step-by-step instructions for the deployment and customization of a custom business application designed for a Microsoft Office Live Essentials or Premium subscription. This application is designed to manage the reservations for an inn
BizTalk Server
BizTalk Accelerator for SWIFT 2007 Message Pack
BizTalk 2006 R2 Datasheet
BizTalk 2006 R2 Capabilities posters
Introducing BizTalk Server 2006 R2
BizTalk Server 2006 R2 Documentation (CHM)
BizTalk Server 2006 R2 Installation and Upgrade Guides
BizTalk Server 2006 R2 Evaluation (2 links)
Canadian General Tower II
Hewlett Packard Case Study
BizTalk Server 2006 R2 Help (HxS collection update)
Improving Ordered Message Delivery in BizTalk Server 2006 R2 During Concurrent Processing
Microsoft BizTalk RFID Documentation Downloads
Microsoft BizTalk Server and Microsoft Dynamics: A Line of Business Management and Integration
Events/WebCasts
SharePoint Technologies
Momentum Webcast: Discover the Benefits of SharePoint Server 2007: Presented by Microsoft and CDW (Level 100)
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 provides a single, integrated platform to help you manage intranet, extranet, and Internet applications across your enterprise. Bridging the gap between a deluge of information and business action is becoming increasingly essential to succeed in the new world of work. Join this webcast to discover how Microsoft's information management solutions can help empower people and organizations to make better business decisions, be more productive, and achieve greater business success by enabling them to find, use, and share information more quickly, easily, and securely. Do not miss this chance to see how Microsoft information management solutions can help you.
MSDN Webcast: MSDN geekSpeak: Using SharePoint Server as a Development Platform with Paul Stork (Level 200)
MSDN geekSpeak is a new kind of webcast series hosted by Glen Gordon and Lynn Langit from the MSDN Events team. Dispensing with slide decks and scripted demonstrations, geekSpeak webcasts bring you industry experts in a "talk-radio" format. These experts share their knowledge and experience around a particular developer technology. Hear about industry trends, new technology, real-world experiences, and more. Have your questions answered in real time, hear lively discussions and debates, and add your comments to the fray. Who knows, you might even see a whiteboard sketch or an off-the-cuff demonstration. In this installment of geekSpeak, we hear from Microsoft Office SharePoint Server expert Paul Stork on Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 as a developer platform, so get those questions ready! To have a question or comment addressed during the webcast, visit the geekSpeak blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/geekspeak and ask it now!
Momentum Webcast: Microsoft Enterprise Search Solutions in SharePoint Server 2007 (Level 100)
Providing the people in your organization the ability to find, use, and share the right information quickly is critical to helping them make better business decisions, be more productive, and achieve greater business success. Information workers need to locate other experts and access information on their desktop computers, the company network, and application databases. Join us for this webcast on Microsoft Enterprise Search capabilities in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. Learn how Enterprise Search can help reduce the time people spend looking for information by providing business-ready search solutions that enable users to quickly, securely, and seamlessly find, use, and share information using familiar, easy-to-use, integrated interfaces
New KB’s
Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration Server
A Web client may receive incorrect responses from a Web site that is published in ISA Server 2006 when multiple Web clients access the published Web site
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/937451
Error message when you try to visit a Web site that is published in ISA Server 2004: "HTTP error 500: network name no longer exists"
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/940659
Description of the ISA Server 2004 hotfix package: July 25, 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/940709
Error message when you access a Web site through ISA Server 2006: "HTTP 400 - Bad Request"
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/941293
Description of the ISA Server 2006 hotfix package: August 15, 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/941297
Description of the Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2006 Supportability Update package
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/939455
BizTalk Server
BizTalk Accelerator for SWIFT 2007 Message Pack is available
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/925731/en-us
FIX: BizTalk Server 2006 suspends the orchestration and logs event 10033 in the Application log when BizTalk Server 2006 detects a schema version mismatch
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/938483
FIX: A long-running orchestration may be suspended when a schema-version mismatch is detected in BizTalk Server 2004
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/925502
BizTalk Server 2006 R2 installation or configuration fails when you download the CAB files that contain the dependency software
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/942181
FIX: BizTalk Accelerator for RosettaNet 3.3 incorrectly returns an HTTP status code 202 response to your trade partner after you receive a RosettaNet Implementation Framework (RNIF) 1.1 document from your trade partner
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/921474
FIX: Event 4096 is logged in the Application log when you use Microsoft BizTalk Accelerator for SWIFT 2.3 to process a valid MT103PLUS SWIFT message in BizTalk Server 2006
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/922716
Error message when you try to start the Microsoft BizTalk RFID service in BizTalk Server 2006 R2: "Could not start the Microsoft BizTalk RFID service on Local Computer"
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/942521
You may receive an error message when you try to start a provider in RFID Manager in BizTalk Server 2006 R2
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/942467
A software update is available that improves the tracing capabilities of Transaction Integrator Windows Initiated Processing internal tracing when you use persistent connections in Host Integration Server 2004
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929900
How to troubleshoot a memory leak or an out-of-memory exception in the BizTalk Server process
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/918643
SharePoint Technologies
Windows Sharepoint Services Version 2
You receive error messages after you install security update 931212 (MS07-040) on a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Web front-end server or on a SharePoint Server 2007 Web front-end server
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=941789
How to point to a custom 404 error Web page in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 or in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=941329
How to automate the deletion of backups in SharePoint Server 2007 and in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 by using a Visual Basic script
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=941330
Description of Windows SharePoint Services Service Pack 3
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=923643
Microsoft Sharepoint Portal Server 2003
Issues that are fixed in SharePoint Portal Server 2003 by SharePoint Portal Server 2003 Service Pack 3
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=938795
Description of SharePoint Portal Server 2003 Service Pack 3
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=923644
Windows Sharepoint Services Version 3
You receive error messages after you install security update 931212 (MS07-040) on a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Web front-end server or on a SharePoint Server 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=941789
The ItemUpdating event or the ItemUpdated event occurs two times when you enable the Require Check Out option for a document library in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=939307
How to point to a custom 404 error Web page in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 or in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=941329
How to automate the deletion of backups in SharePoint Server 2007 and in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 by using a Visual Basic script
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=941330
Description of the update that addresses the issue in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 in which items that use the Date and Time fields are off by one hour
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=939809
Description of the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 hotfix package: August 24, 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=941422
Microsoft office Sharepoint Server 2007
How to point to a custom 404 error Web page in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 or in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=941329
How to automate the deletion of backups in SharePoint Server 2007 and in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 by using a Visual Basic script
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=941330
How to add a custom Web Part that was created by using Visual Basic to a SharePoint Server 2007 Web site
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=939306
The Scheduling End Date page field on a SharePoint Server 2007 Web site displays Immediately instead of Never
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=940957
No items are returned in the search results when you run an SQL query that contains an OR clause to search for items in document libraries in SharePoint Server 2007
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=939309
You receive error messages after you install security update 931212 (MS07-040) on a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Web front-end server or on a SharePoint Server 2007
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