When SharePoint 2003 was released, the biggest gripe of its champions was the the near-total lack of documentation. With MOSS 2007 we're just on Beta 2 and Microsoft already has a wealth of developer documentation , online training, and Virtual Labs . I completely recommend the Virtual Labs ; these...

When SharePoint 2003 was released, the biggest gripe of its champions was the the near-total lack of documentation. With MOSS 2007 we're just on Beta 2 and Microsoft already has a wealth of developer documentation , online training, and Virtual Labs . I completely recommend the Virtual Labs ; these...

or, "Everything you know about Word is wrong." With all the talk about the SharePoint 2007 beta , it would be easy to miss the fact that SharePoint and Office are now really two sides of the same product. Both were released for public trial yesterday with Beta 2. So what's different? Everything! All...

It's here ! There are separate downloads for WSS B2TR , MOSS B2TR , Forms Server , SharePoint Designer , the Office System Clients , and everything else . Optionally, you can run the Office Client upgrades first. Some of the documentation contained in the other patches may even require it. Note that...

The Issue Last night's automatic Windows Updates trashed my Office 2007 clients, including Outlook, Word, Excel and OneNote. Only Groove survived, and it went through a reconfiguration when the machine restarted. Re-applying B2TR returned the message that "this update has already been applied...

People find it annoying that when accessing a SharePoint extranet, when you open a file stored in a Document Library, MS-Word will challenge you to enter your username and password again. It happens because the machine is outside the SharePoint domain, and your two desktop applications (Word and Explorer...

The Business Data Catalog (BDC) is one of the best features of MOSS 2007 (no, it's not in WSS 3.0). What excites me is the prospect of not only reading from, but writing back to data sources defined in the BDC. It's recently come up a few times and I've found that many people believe that...

This is a head-slapper that happened to someone on my team, the answer wasn't on-line so here it is... Issue Description After installing the bits, he runs Configuration enters credentials to connect to SQL and create the configuration database. Next fails with a message that the database server...

Received via e-mail and also distributed on TechNet. You need a Live ID to register. Note that the first two plus the webcast on March 8 are for Vista rather than MOSS. Enjoy! The US Webcast Series: Plan, Deploy and Manage Microsoft Search Solutions for the Enterprise One webcast per week for 8 consecutive...

The short answer is that URLs don't support spaces, and UNC paths do. You're probably copying the URL into Windows Explorer, so just replace each %20 in your path with a space and you should be off to the races. This: http://moss.mysite.com/Shared %20 Documents/ Becomes: \\moss.mysite.com\Shared...