Yes, that's the name we will be using going forward with the next release of the SharePoint.
MOSS has been taken away citing the official needs of the name "Office" should explicitly be attached to the Microsoft Office clients.
Nevermind, SharePoint will still be a great tool to work on with lots of new upcoming features.
Happy Twenty-Ten !!!
It looks like SharePoint 14 is going to be cool in a multiple ways. Trust me, the look-n-feel will definitely give you throbs, if you think finding an option to configure AAM or setting up a Policy for Web Applications is very easy to find. This may again take a while for of all of us to get used to the drill-downs of the Central Admin options.
The new layout of the Central Administration is drastically changing. Though still in its ALPHA stage, a lot would change in the coming BETA and any further releases. So it all depends on the feedback Microsoft gets back. So hold on tight and wait for the exciting 14 release (maybe late 2009 or early 2010).
To give you a bit of taste, here are few of the MUST-HAVEs that was always desired in MOSS 2007.
- Web Analytics Web Service
- Word viewing Service
- LotusNotes connector
- Visio Graphics Service
- BDC Service
- Application Registry Service
to name a few. Not gauranteed, but we may possibly see these getting integrated into the next release.
I also expect Microsoft to either acquire some of the great SharePoint tools available today in the market or have it developed internally. These could be SharePoint Security Explorer, Backup-Restore from AvePoint, Idera and some cool web parts from Bamboo Solutions. There are also some Imaging solutions which are highly wanted in the MOSS world.
Stay tuned...
This can be really helpful in case you are planning for an upgrade or trying to migrate content from one another.
I found this Blog where Dirk has tried to compile all of them in a tabular format. Nice work from him !
Updated: Aug 17, 2010
Bringing the tabular data from Dirk's site here as recently I experienced problem accessing his site.
Remember that you can find these version numbers in Central Administration -> Operations -> Servers in Farm (/_admin/FarmServers.aspx)
| Service Pack/Hotfix Version | WSS V3.0 | MOSS 2007 |
| 12.0.0.6318 | 12.0.0.6318 | |
| Post-SP1 hotfix (KB948945) | 12.0.0.6303 | 12.0.0.6303 |
| Post-SP1 hotfix (KB941274) | 12.0.0.6301 | 12.0.0.6301 |
| Post-SP1 hotfix (KB941422) | 12.0.0.6300 | 12.0.0.6300 |
| Service Pack 1 | 12.0.0.6219 | 12.0.0.6219 |
| Release To Manufacturing (RTM) | 12.0.0.4518 | 12.0.0.4518 |
Microsoft has made the next generation browser available for download here.
Windows Internet Explorer 8, as described is easier to use, faster and offers leading-edge security features in direct response to people's increasing concerns about online safety.
Furthermore, It can be downloaded in 25 different languages starting at noon EDT on March 19.
How many times you have cursed Microsoft for that single line error message that always appear for so many different reasons but always says "An unexpected error has occured." :-(
To have a more detailed messages in MOSS while you perform your development tasks, you may want to enable debugging in the web.config file for the SharePoint web application. Please note here that this is not recommended to be done in a Production environment.
Edit your web.config file as shown in red below:
<SafeMode MaxControls="200" CallStack="true" DirectFileDependencies="10"TotalFileDependencies="50" AllowPageLevelTrace="false">
And:
<customErrors mode="Off" />
And get rid of any bugs from your application quickly.
Good news guys. The most useful tool for the MOSS community has finally come out-of-the shell, it is believed to be made available for "FREE" coming 1st April, 2009.
Yes, you heard it right. Free, you may download the designer from the official Microsoft download site starting April 1st, 2009.
But administrators, watch out. There may be a bit of thinking required before the developers start using this tool to make those site-level changes. This could mean more efficient backup-restore planning would be required.
But definitely, this is yet another big step for MOSS to get closer to the world.
The EventLog.WriteEntry code runs successfully under Win Server 2003, but doesn't execute with Windows Server 2008. This line generates and error:
"The source was not found, but some or all event logs could not be searched. Inaccessible logs: Security".
This can be resolved by following the below steps:
#1 Go to Start -> Run -> regedit
#2 Navigate to Computer > HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\EventLog
#3 Right click on "EventLog" key, select Permissions, and add the [Network Service] account with read/write permissions.
Note: Microsoft seems to have replaced the ASPNET account with the "Network Service" account.
#4 Restart the IIS (start -> Run -> iisreset)
#5 Now Go to Start -> Administrative Tools -> Computer Management -> Local Users and Groups -> Groups
Double click the [Administrator] Group -> Add the "Network Service" account.
Go back and try to refresh your web page again.
There you Go.....
Hope this saves some time for the others.
A requirement to reduce the time period for which the "! New" tag is displayed for any new items uploaded to a site made me hunt for this solution.
And it is right under the STSADM hood, such a powerful tool indeed !
I wanted to get the "! New" tag displayed only for the current day on which a document is uploaded to a document library. By default, MOSS looks like it remembers this for more than a day.
Here is a simple command, which does the job fairly easily.
stsadm.exe -o setproperty -pn days-to-show-new-icon -pv 1 -url [your site url]
You may set the propertyvalue (pv) = 0, if you don't want to display it ever.
Great !!! So last week-end I was successfully able to install Windows 7 Beta on the Microsoft Virtual PC 2007.
Pretty slick ! Based on the similar lines of Vista, Windows 7 follows a very much identical approach to getting things started up and running.
I will try to get the walk-through document and upload here very soon. This would include the screen-shots of each step I captured during the install.
Stay tuned !!!
This one was a long awaited from Microsoft. They have released "SPDisposeCheck" which looks at the code in SharePoint and confirms that there are no memory leakages or extra memory consumption. As we are all aware of, this has been an issue since long going un-noticed into the deployment. So let's use this tool to run our projects through this checker before we go for any deployments.
