July 2009 – Technical Rollup Mail – Internet
News
BizTalk Server
Case Studies
Vail Resorts - Resort Streamlines Skier Check-In, Improves Data Collection with RF Technology
https://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/Case_Study_Detail.aspx?casestudyid=4000004666
Tallard Technologies - International Distributor Sees ROI, Customer Satisfaction Soar with SOA-Based Solution
https://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/Case_Study_Detail.aspx?casestudyid=4000004448
Superbuild - Building Estimator Speeds Time-to-Market, Gains Flexibility, from Software + Services
https://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/Case_Study_Detail.aspx?casestudyid=4000004388
Microsoft Internet Information Server
FastCGI Extension 1.5 for IIS 6.0 and IIS 5.1 – RC
Today IIS team has released the FastCGI Extension 1.5 for IIS 6.0 and IIS 5.1 – Release Candidate. This version is based on FastCGI Extension 1.0 and it adds several important improvements and features. The release is believed to have a quality...
Patch for Dynamic IP Restrictions for IIS 7 - Beta
Dynamic IP Restrictions (DIPR) was created to give users a tool to help mitigate the effects of DOS attacks and certain brute-force password breaking attempts. The Out-Of-Band (OOB) feature description is (perhaps more elegantly) outlined on this page...
Announcing: IIS Search Engine Optimization Toolkit Beta 1
Today we are releasing the IIS Search Engine Optimization Toolkit . The IIS SEO Toolkit is a set of features that aim to help you keep your Web site and its content in good shape for both Users and Search Engines. The features that are included in this...
Download the New IIS SEO Toolkit Beta
Jun 03, 2009
Download the New IIS SEO Toolkit Beta Do you ever wonder what it would be like to tirelessly explore the Internet as a search engine crawler? What would you find? Would the sites you meet help you or are you on your own? Would the sites tell you where...
https://blogs.iis.net/windowsserver/archive/2009/06/03/download-the-new-iis-seo-toolkit-beta.aspx
SharePoint Technologies
Service Pack 2 Update
The public update for SharePoint Service Pack 2 expiration issue is now available for download.
June 26, 2009: Microsoft
https://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2009/06/25/service-pack-2-update.aspx
Enterprise 2.0: Spotlighting SharePoint's Wide Reach
Social networking applications in the enterprise span industries as diverse as education, the military, and software development.
June 24, 2009: Information Week
Explore the mini-site that spotlights SharePoint Social Computing
June 22, 2009: Microsoft
https://sharepoint.microsoft.com/social/Pages/Default.aspx
Social Computing Meets Product Development
Social computing gives information workers new ways to create value together. Blogs, podcasts, and other social media help them capture and share knowledge, enhancing innovation and teamwork.
June 12, 2009: Product Design & Development
https://www.pddnet.com/news-maa-computing-meets-product-development-061209
The Votes are in: SharePoint a clear winner for Web Content Management for ASP.NET Pro Readers
More than 8,000 aspnetpro.com visitors voted on approximately 300 products in 25 product categories.
June 1, 2009: ASP.NET Pro
https://www.aspnetpro.com/articles/2009/05/asp200905rca_f/asp200905rca_f.asp
SharePoint 2010: Preliminary System Requirements Announced
May 10, 2009: Microsoft
We've heard loud and clear that you want system requirements information as early as possible to assist in your budgeting and planning, so we're happy to announce (and confirm) some preliminary system requirements for SharePoint Server 2010.
SP2 for Office SharePoint Server and Windows SharePoint Services Now Available
April 28, 2009: Microsoft
Service Pack 2 for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server and Windows SharePoint Services is now available for download.
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/office/sharepointserver/bb735839.aspx#SP2
SharePoint Steers Companies Through Economic Downturn
April 23, 2009: Fresh Business Thinking
Leading IT experts have claimed that companies across the UK will be making a 'smart investment' by adopting Microsoft SharePoint during the credit crunch.
SP2 for Office 2007 and MOSS Arrives April 28
April 16, 2009: Redmond Developer News
On April 28, Microsoft plans to release Service Pack 2 (SP2) for Microsoft Office 2007, along with SP2 releases for some of its server products. Two of the servers that will get SP2 updates are Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0.
Announcing Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010
April 15, 2009: Microsoft
PressPass spoke with Chris Capossela, Senior Vice President of Microsoft's Information Worker Product Management Group to find out more about how the next version of Office related product will deliver a synchronized experience across devices and provide greater choice and flexibility for customers.
https://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2009/Apr09/04-15Office2010.mspx
Microsoft Offering SharePoint Designer for Free
April 2, 2009: ChannelWeb
Microsoft has decided to give away Office SharePoint Designer 2007 for free in order to get more organizations thinking creatively and building customized applications on the SharePoint platform.
https://www.crn.com/software/216402552
Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer is now a free download!
April 2, 2009: Microsoft
SharePoint Designer 2007 now available as a free download.
https://www.microsoft.com/video/en/us/details/b259df52-9b96-4f3a-9e70-78429c129858
Downloads
Microsoft Internet Information Server
Bing API Web Page Error Toolkit
Re-architected to maximize deployment ease and minimize impact on your server
IIS DownloadCENTER
This is your single source for finding Microsoft Internet Information Services tools, samples, extensions, filters and modules created by Microsoft and the IIS community. Read more about the Microsoft Extensions.
SharePoint Technologies
Microsoft Office Protocol Documentation
The Office protocol documentation provides technical specifications for Microsoft proprietary protocols that are implemented and used in the Microsoft Office system.
Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Protocol Documentation
The Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies protocol documentation provides technical specifications for Microsoft proprietary protocols that are implemented and used in SharePoint Products and Technologies.
Microsoft Office Protocol Documentation
The Office protocol documentation provides technical specifications for Microsoft proprietary protocols that are implemented and used in the Microsoft Office system.
Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Protocol Documentation
The Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies protocol documentation provides technical specifications for Microsoft proprietary protocols that are implemented and used in SharePoint Products and Technologies.
Security Update for Excel Services for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (KB969737), 64-bit Edition
A security vulnerability exists in Excel Services in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, 64-bit Edition, that could allow arbitrary code to run when a maliciously modified file is opened on the server. This update resolves that vulnerability.
Security Update for Excel Services for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (KB969737), 32-bit Edition
A security vulnerability exists in Excel Services in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 that could allow arbitrary code to run when a maliciously modified file is opened on the server. This update resolves that vulnerability.
SharePoint IT Pro and Developer Training
A printable sheet of Training Resources for Developers and IT Pros for Learning SharePoint
Office SharePoint Server IT Pro content CHM
Downloadable CHM version of SharePoint Server content on TechNet.
Microsoft Office Protocol Documentation
The Office protocol documentation provides technical specifications for Microsoft proprietary protocols that are implemented and used in the Microsoft Office system.
Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Protocol Documentation
The Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies protocol documentation provides technical specifications for Microsoft proprietary protocols that are implemented and used in SharePoint Products and Technologies.
Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 IT Pro content CHM
Downloadable CHM version of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 content on TechNet.
Microsoft Office Protocol Documentation
The Office protocol documentation provides technical specifications for Microsoft proprietary protocols that are implemented and used in the Microsoft Office system.
Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Protocol Documentation
The Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies protocol documentation provides technical specifications for Microsoft proprietary protocols that are implemented and used in SharePoint Products and Technologies.
UrlScan 3.1
UrlScan 3.1 screens all incoming requests to the server by filtering the requests based on rules that are set by the administrator. Filtering requests helps secure the server by ensuring that only valid requests are processed.
https://www.iis.net/extensions/UrlScan Example use: https://blogs.msdn.com/rakkimk/archive/2009/06/12/urlscan-rejecting-the-request-depending-on-the-user-agent-string.aspx
Migration Manager for SharePoint
Migration Manager 2.0 provides a solid migration project management framework on top of Microsoft Content Migration API and the stsadm utility that automates and streamlines content migration for SharePoint 2007 (both MOSS and WSS 3.0) deployments.
SharePoint Diagnostics (SPDiag) Tool v1.0 for SharePoint Products and TechnologiesWhat does this tool do?
The SharePoint Diagnostics (SPDiag) tool v1.0 greatly simplifies the process of gathering and analyzing troubleshooting data, and can significantly reduce the time needed to diagnose issues. SPDiag v1.0 provides administrators with a unified interface for troubleshooting SharePoint performance issues, and saves collected data and reports to a SQL Server database.
Microsoft SharePoint Administration Toolkit v3.0 x86: https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=141504
Microsoft SharePoint Administration Toolkit v3.0 x64: https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=142035
SharePoint Diagnostics Tool (SPDiag) User Guide: https://www.microsoft.com/DownLoads/details.aspx?familyid=1C222804-51C7-4BB5-AE3D-89C68AD27A78&displaylang=en
SQLDiag and PSSDiag
PSSDIAG is also a diagnostics utility used to collect profiler trace, perfmon data for SQL Server. PSSDAIG was created to troubleshoot SQL Server 7.0 and 2000 issues. It evolved into SQL Server 2005 sqldiag.
https://sqlnexus.codeplex.com/Wiki/View.aspx?title=PSSDiag
Pre-upgrade scanning and reporting for future releases (Windows SharePoint Services)
The Upgrade Checker will scan your SharePoint Server 2007 deployment for many issues that could affect a future upgrade to SharePoint 2010, ships with SP2.
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd793607.aspx
Best Practices Resource Center for SharePoint Server 2007
To avoid common pitfalls and keep your Office SharePoint Server 2007 environment available and performing well, follow these best practices based on real-world experience from Microsoft Consulting Services and the product team.
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/office/sharepointserver/bb736746.aspx
SharePoint Disaster Recovery Advisor Tool Now Available as Freeware!
What does this tool do?
Reads your farm configuration from the database backup or from the live config database, Lists all the servers, databases and services in the farm. Verifies availability of all these components in real time, Verifies and re-creates appropriate SQL Server logins to enable SharePoint services access to the databases, In a DR situation, advises on the psconfig.exe commands needed to provision SharePoint front end, Central Administration, and application servers
Site Administrator Repository Query Tool
This tool allows you to run simple and quick queries from the Site Administrator repository, which includes information gathered about systems, as well as configuration information on Recovery Manager for SharePoint and Migration tools.
https://sharepointforall.com/media/p/8.aspx
SharePoint PowerShell PowerPack v1 Feb 2009
This download includes 4 PowerPacks.
SharePoint PowerPack - List the SharePoint Webs, folders, and List, and monitor the SharePoint usage.
SharePoint Farm PowerPack - Monitor your SharePoint farm servers, services, web services and web applications
SharePoint Remove Access PowerPack - PowerPack which connects to SharePoint over its webservices
SharePoint Navigator PowerPack - allows you to display the properties of the local farm, get a list of servers running in your farm, list SharePoint services and monitor the status and which services needs upgrade, and list the web services and web applications.
https://sharepointforall.com/media/p/38.aspx
SmartTools for SharePoint
The SmartTools for SharePoint project is a collection of SharePoint extensions to make your life as a SharePoint user, developer or administrator a little bit easier!
https://smarttools.codeplex.com/
Dive in with our latest free training
Download our new training right to your desktop or have your team download it to your SharePoint Server.
https://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointserver/HA102488011033.aspx
Events/Webcasts
SharePoint Technologies
TechNet Webcast: How Microsoft IT Designs and Creates Enterprise Publishing Portals Using Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (Level 300)
Tuesday, July 07, 2009 9:30 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada)
Join this session to learn valuable lessons and strategies from the implementation of MOSS 2007 publishing portals at Microsoft. Learn planning and development approaches for rich publishing portals. See customizations and lessons learned in the process of building these flexible, extensible platforms across the Microsoft enterprise. Walk away knowing how to more deeply leverage, customize, and extend native MOSS 2007 functionality.
https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032417603&culture=en-US
MSDN Webcast: Knee-Jerk Reactions to Proactive Solutions: Improved SharePoint Performance (Level 300)
Friday, July 10, 2009 10:00 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada)
Attend this webcast to learn one dozen easy-to-implement performance tips for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. We discuss a wide range of topics from adjusting out-of-the-box settings to identifying memory leaks in custom code. We also describe several ways to proactively improve the user experience and squeeze more performance out of a SharePoint Server farm. Anyone currently designing a SharePoint Server implementation can benefit from this webcast.
Presenter: Dennis Bottjer, Solution Architect/MVP, SpringPoint Technologies
Dennis Bottjer is a solution architect at SpringPoint Technologies (www.myspringpoint.com), a Microsoft Gold Partner. He is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for ASP and ASP.NET and an International .NET Association (INETA) membership mentor. Before joining SpringPoint, Dennis worked for the Bank of America and was the president of the Jacksonville, Florida, Developers User Group (www.jaxdug.com). He is the current president of the Tulsa SharePoint Interest Group and vice president of the Developer Round Table (www.developerroundtable.com). Dennis routinely presents at user groups, community events, and technical conferences, and he regularly blogs at www.dennisbottjer.com and actively tweats (www.Twitter.com/dbottjer).
View other sessions from: SharePoint Server: Connect People, Processes, and Information
If you have questions or feedback, contact us.
https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032417629&culture=en-US
TechNet Webcast: How Microsoft IT Scaled Enterprise Services by Standardizing Business Processes and Integrating a Global Tools Platform (Level 300)
Tuesday, July 14, 2009 9:30 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada)
When the Enterprise Services group committed to more than doubling its business, it realized that its existing processes and tools could not support the projected growth. Join this session to see how Microsoft IT (MSIT) provided a standard set of robust business processes and an integrated global tools platform, using Microsoft Office applications as the interface. The solution reduced core transaction costs and incorporated compliant policies, such as SOX, directly into processes. Tools and processes are integrated, reporting integrity is high, and engagement management is streamlined.
https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032417612&culture=en-US
TSG presents TSG Microsoft SharePoint Express Workshop
Free of charge
Date: 7&8 July 2009, 09:30
Location: Multiple UK Locations
Event Category: Kettering\Solihull
Audience: IT Professional
Products: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server
https://www.tsg.com/page.aspx?id=81
System Center Technologies with Exchange Server 2007 & SharePoint Server 2007
Free of charge
Date: 9 July 2009, 16:00
Location:
Event Category: Live Meeting
Audience: Partners
Products: Other
https://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/EventDetail.aspx?culture=en-GB&eventid=1032419014
BSG Ltd presents Microsoft SharePoint 2007 Masterclass - an introduction to SharePoint 2007
Free of charge
Date: 23 July 2009, 09:15
Location: London
Event Category: Onsite Event
Audience: Architect, Business Decision Maker, Business Professional, Partners, Technology Decision Maker
Products: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server
https://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/EventDetail.aspx?culture=en-GB&eventid=1032408109
All upcoming Events\Webcasts
https://www.microsoft.com/sharepoint/learning/events.mspx
BizTalk Server
BizTalk Server 2009 Virtual Labs
https://www.microsoft.com/events/series/msdnbpi.aspx?tab=virtuallabs
New KB's
BizTalk Server
BizTalk Server Ent 2006 R2 EN: FIX: The number of concurrently running orchestrations in BizTalk Server reaches 250, and you experience poor performance after you install the .NET Framework 2.0 SP1 or a later version of the .Net Framework
https://support.microsoft.com/kb/961810/EN-US
BizTalk Server Ent 2006 R2 EN: FIX: Error message when you try to deploy BAM update when partitioning is enabled for an existing activity: “All queries combined using a UNION, INTERSECT or EXCEPT operator must have an equal number of expressions in their target lists”
https://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=969558
BizTalk Server Ent 2006 R2 EN: FIX: A Message Disposition Notification (MDN) is not received when the compression feature is enabled for the AS2 adapter in Microsoft BizTalk Server
https://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=970075
BizTalk Server Ent 2006 R2 EN: FIX: Event ID 14014 is logged in the BizTalk Server Application log and BAM Alerts are not sent as expected
https://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=969217
BizTalk Server Ent 2006 R2 EN: FIX: Arithmetic overflow exception after you run a BAM activity for a long time in Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 R2: "Arithmetic overflow error converting expression to data type int"
https://support.microsoft.com/kb/963690/EN-US
BizTalk Server LOB Adapters 2006: FIX: Slow performance when you use the BizTalk Adapter for Oracle Database as a receive adapter in Microsoft BizTalk Server
https://support.microsoft.com/kb/971274/EN-US
BizTalk Server Std 2006 R2 EN: FIX: Binding configurations for some binding types are not saved in the WCF-Custom adapter or in the WCF-CustomIsolated adapter in BizTalk Server Administration Console
https://support.microsoft.com/kb/967036/EN-US
BizTalk Server Std 2006 R2 EN: FIX: You receive a NullReferenceException error message after you rehydrate an XLANG orchestration that was running for a long time in BizTalk Server 2006 R2
https://support.microsoft.com/kb/967939/EN-US
BizTalk Server Std 2006 R2 EN: FIX: The BizTalk Server 2006 R2 FTP adapter randomly stops retrieving files from an FTP server until you restart the BizTalk host instance
https://support.microsoft.com/kb/968016/EN-US
BizTalk Server Std 2006 R2 EN: FIX: Messages of the System.Xml.Xmldocument type that are sent from orchestrations are suspended with a routing failure report when you specify the Direct Binding type for the ports in the orchestrations in BizTalk Server 2006 R2
https://support.microsoft.com/kb/968654/EN-US
BizTalk Server Std 2006 R2 EN: FIX: Error message when you view the EDI Batching Report in BizTalk Server 2006 R2: "This operation failed while accessing at least one of the Message Box databases"
https://support.microsoft.com/kb/970292/EN-US
BizTalk Server Std 2006 R2 EN: Error message when you use the HTTP.NET SDK Sample Adapter to send messages in Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 R2: "The adapter failed to transmit message going to send port "httpnet" with URL "https://<URL>""
https://support.microsoft.com/kb/972175/EN-US
Microsoft Internet Information Server
Internet Info Services 7.0 EN: FIX: The FastCGI module does not process requests after you enable the CPU Limit feature for an application pool in Internet Information Service (IIS) 7.0
https://support.microsoft.com/kb/970208/EN-US
Internet Info Services 7.0 EN: FIX: IIS Manager does not display the user interface in the language of the remote server when you connect to a remote Internet Information Service (IIS) 7.0 server
https://support.microsoft.com/kb/970772/EN-US
Internet Info Services 7.0 EN: A server certificate renewal request that is created in Internet Information Services 7.0 is invalid
https://support.microsoft.com/kb/971832/EN-US
SharePoint Technologies
Office SharePoint Server 2007 ML: No item exists at https://SERVER/SITE/mypage.aspx?ID=1. It may have been deleted or renamed by another user
https://support.microsoft.com/kb/972225/EN-US
Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: Description of the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 hotfix package (Sts.msp): May 22, 2009