Anticipation and excitement around Service Pack 1 for WSS 3.0 and Office SharePoint Server 2007 has been building, and I'm excited to share some information on the upcoming service packs. There are truly gifts for everyone in Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) 3.0 SP1 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 SP1. From developers getting excited about AJAX support and compatibility to IT Pro's being excited about the new STSADM commands allowing them to repartition their databases not to mention the new performance, manageability, and security enhancements in Windows Server 2008 and IIS 7. (Which easily promises to be best server OS release ever.) Even information workers are well served with over 60 hotfixes across the SharePoint Products and Technologies
PowerShell+ is now free for non-commercial use. Get your personal copy now: http://www.powershell.com/downloads/psp1.zip! Read more : www.powershell.com/plus
If you installed the software Update for Web Folder of may 18,2007 (kb97306) you may discovered afterward that you can't uninstall it. Here's a trick to do that : Re-download the update from Microsoft Downloads Open a command line in the directory containing the downloaded file (webfldrs-KB907306-ENU.exe) Launch the package with the /C switch (Webfldrs-KB907306-ENU.exe /C) to extract the MSI file from the package. Right-click the webfldrs.msi file and chose uninstall
Looks like there is a new version of VMRCplus available since November 2, sorry I missed it. According to 4sysops the Snapshot feature is now working (didn't test it yet). You can read about this new version on Aaron Tiensivu's Blog Download : microsoft.com/downloads
Now you can Digg my posts ! Check the little Digg it! icon on the bottom of each post (next to the labels) and vote for me. For those of you interested, here's the code I have added to my blog template : <!-- digg post link --> <span class='item-action' style='padding-left: 12px'> <a expr:href='"http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&url=" + data:post.url + "&title=" + data:post.title' target='_blank'> <img alt='Digg it!' border='0' height='16' src='http://digg.com/img/badges/16x16-digg-guy.gif' style='border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px' width='16'/> </a> </span>
The FastCGI Extension for IIS 6.0 enables popular application frameworks that support FastCGI protocol to be hosted on the IIS web server in a high-performance and reliable way. FastCGI provides a high-performance alternative to the Common Gateway Interface (CGI), a standard way of interfacing external applications with Web servers that has been supported as part of the IIS feature-set since the very first release. CGI programs are executables launched by the web server for each request in order to process the request and generate dynamic responses that are sent back to the client. Because many of these frameworks do not support multi-threaded execution, CGI enables them to execute reliably on IIS by executing exactly one request per process.
ADInsight is an LDAP (Light-weight Directory Access Protocol) real-time monitoring tool aimed at troubleshooting Active Directory client applications. Use its detailed tracing of Active Directory client-server communications to solve Windows authentication, Exchange, DNS, and other problems. Source : bink.nu
Download : www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals
This download consists of a virtual hard disk (VHD), along with a walkthrough guide. The guide gives a hands-on tour of the product, along with useful information for administrators and other IT professionals. You can use the guide and VHD to demonstrate many of the key features of Microsoft Search Server 2008. The VHD includes all of the files and software you need in order to complete the walkthrough. They will provide you with a basic understanding of the configuration, administration, and end-user search capabilities in Microsoft® Search Server 2008 Express edition. Source : www.microsoft.com/downloads/
Microsoft Deployment, the next version Business Desktop Deployment (BDD) 2007, is finally available at Microsoft’s Download Center. A description of all new features can be found here.
View the Windows PowerShell 2.0 help (including cmdlet help and the About topics) in a fully-searchable, graphical format (a standard Windows .chm file). Also included in the help file is the VBScript to Windows PowerShell Conversion Guide and a collection of PowerShell Tips of the Week. Source : www.microsoft.com/downloads
Michael Pietroforte has a few screens shots of the new Graphical "IDE" in PowerShell 2.0 CTP in his 4sysops.com blog
Microsoft just enabled the @live.xx signup! Go grab yours now! http://get.live.com/getlive/overview for the local domains (eg @live.co.uk) or use the following link for @live.com - @live.com signup ... Signup is still somewhat buggy as it is being rolled out so just bear with it. Tip : You could also try this link to get an @live.ca account (in french) Source : www.liveside.net
Wish you could get a network capture from a computer with no capture software installed? Wish you could have a network traffic "flight recorder" on a USB key? Here's your answer!" The motivation behind creating this tool was to provide an extremely simple way to get a trace from an end user. And the name says it all, though maybe a small bit of false advertisement as it may take a bit more than just one click :). Once you have it downloaded to your machine, you can launch the executable and it will lead you through some simple dialogs that install the tool and start a trace. Once the trace is complete, which means it was
Thank you to everyone who tried out the beta releases of Writer over the last year and gave us feedback. Over 1.5 million of you downloaded our last beta release, and your input helped make Writer the product it is today. Our goal from the start has been to help make blogging more powerful, intuitive, and fun for everyone. Today, we’re proud to announce that Windows Live Writer 2008 is now available! Download it : Windows Live Writer 2008 (version 12.0.1366.1026) Mostly this new version is focused on raising the quality of Writer and putting the final fit and finish on the product. However, there are still a few new features in this release to check
The following Windows Live applications are now out of beta : Windows Live Messenger 8.5 Windows Live Mail Windows Live Writer Windows Live Photo Gallery Windows Live OneCare Family Safety Check them out at www.windowslive.com
I’m pleased to announce that we're unveiling Microsoft Search Server 2008 today at the Enterprise Search Summit in San Jose! The really exciting news is that we're also offering a free version of this product – Microsoft Search Server 2008 Express – which you can download now as a release candidate. Our team worked extremely hard to get this release to you, and we’re proud of what we’re delivering today. Our aim for Search Server Express is to give you a free and powerful enterprise search product that’s incredibly easy for you to deploy. After you download it, you’ll find it takes just a few minutes to get it up and running. It’s going to be the
The Community Technology Preview (CTP) of PowerShell 2.0 is now available for download. But first you should read the "What's new" posted by the Windows PowerShell Team.
SharePointPedia is the successor of the "Recommended Reading" lists on the Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Blog. Here's what the have to say about this new site : SharePointPedia.com is a web site where people discover and share useful content about SharePoint and SharePoint related products and technologies. It’s a social computing application built on top of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007. Anyone with a Windows Live ID may become a registered user and can then submit content recommendations or requests, leave comments, or just vouch for whatever they like. Note that SharePointPedia is not a wiki. It’s a “pedia” in the sense of being a compendium of useful content, but rather than being limited by just
