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It's a busy week indeed with two great user group meetings covering SharePoint in Toronto.

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) are running as separate Applications, each of which needs to get its own Authentication token. Note that this doesn't happen over a VPN, which connects your machine as though it were sitting inside the domain.

This is really cool. The latest bits to be released of the Windows Presentation Framework are for WPF/E. If you do ASP.Net, this is definitely something you want to catch up on before it's released. What is it? From Scott Guthrie's blog:

So I come in to the office today and Thomas has a great story for me.

The MS-Word on the street is that the Office 2007 Professional (but not Pro+ or higher) bits are now available to MSDN subscribers. Thursday is still the day that the floodgates open for the other "smart client" SKUs and the Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 products.

Liam Cleary has a fantastic in-depth series running on rebuilding a corporate website with the new WCM features of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. We're talking deep practical dives into CSS, master pages, navigation, and content types. Highly recommended!

Problem
Starting a Parallel Approval workflow returns an error and produces an item in the Event Log:

Problem
Can't Publish or Approve a MOSS 2007 Publishing Site.