Andrew Connell (MCMS MVP and Author) has written an awesome list of MOSS 2007 WCM Resources.
There is approx. 100 items there – videos, web pages, and lots of other great stuff.
Everyone who is doing anything with MOSS 2007 Web Content Management needs to view this resource page.
Check it out here he also has setup a Change Log.
2007 Office System Videos
Collaboration
Microsoft Office System Developers Conference 2006Download this series of developer-oriented videos to view conference breakout sessions about how developers can use the 2007 Microsoft Office system to create powerful collaboration tools.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=029706c1-f20e-4bd1-99bb-78810e16f3d8&DisplayLang=en
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Enterprise Project Management
Microsoft Office System Developers Conference 2006Download this series of developer-oriented videos to view conference breakout sessions about Project 2007 and enterprise project management.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=440df8a5-339c-4643-9df7-f1916f898eb9&DisplayLang=en
Cool Stuff
Virtual Earth SDK
This software development kit (SDK) provides programming references and how-to topics for getting started with the standard map control for Virtual Earth.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=121cdae7-ea23-4634-b815-4300eb98ee88&DisplayLang=en
Microsoft Expression Graphic Designer July 2006 CTP
Microsoft® Expression® Graphic Designer July 2006 Community Technology Preview (CTP) brings together the best of vector-based and pixel-based capabilities, letting you explore new creative and cutting-edge possibilities.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=a81aa847-aae5-41b9-8804-ae72fbb845ec&DisplayLang=en
IW stuff
Microsoft Office Business Scorecard Manager - Microsoft Project Server Template Samples
These samples will get you up and running with Office Business Scorecard Manager 2005 utilizing the sample OLAP database provided from Project Server 2003.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=c55463df-2ea9-4587-bda5-cc97eccab7fc&DisplayLang=en
A thread was started internally with our local Information Worker team (Johann Kruse, Mario D’Silva, John Hodgson, Ian Palangio, Andrew Lowson and myself) discussion compliance and more specifically how Exchange 2007 and MOSS work together.
One of my colleagues, Andrew Lowson (Solution Specialist for Portals & Collaboration, based out of Melbourne) came up with a great response:
My view on this is a classic Better Together story, Compliance is so much more than just documents or email, it should be a holistic all encompassing solution that controls all electronic and non electronic records. So we can only affect some of the solution as it is a policy and process change.
With that said Exchange and SharePoint bring some very impressive tools to the table such as:
· Ability to capture messages between internal and external parties and between internal parties through the use of server side rules.
· Copy all messages to a central record store, and to journal emails in transit.
· The ability for and administrator to search all email across accounts centrally to discover content (never used to be able to do this).
· Enforce Chinese walls within organisations, important in FSI.
· Remove the ability to have PST folders.
· Enforce retention limits on users.
· Allow users to easily promote emails as records and enforce policy through AD.
· Create one or more centrally managed record repositories to handle electronic and physical records as well as all email communication.
· The ability to expire content and define what action should take place once that content has expired.
· Easily promote documents as records and capture all their meta-data including versions, audit trail etc.
· Legal holds.
Well I might have missed some but that is the general gist.
If anyone else has any commentary on this I’d love to see it.
BTW – Andrew Lowson would have put this on his blog but he hasn’t set one up yet - this is just a guest appearance/cameo.
Arpan was kind enough to send a shout out to the Aussies (and New Zealanders) as him and Mike Fitzmaurice will be rocking at TechEd 2006 ANZ.
We have lots of great US presenters coming over! - TechEd ANZ going to rock!
I was involved in the Innovation 2006 and I did 3 sessions.
- Keynote (15 minute Office 2007 & MOSS 2007 demo) (I start 45 minutes in)
- Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Overview
- WSSv3 Technical Fundamentals and Features.
Go and check out the recordings and give me feedback.
You can watch the rest of the sessions here.
I'm at a large Australian hosting provider, WebCentral, hanging out with their most hardcore SharePoint product engineers – Jorke & Ben.
The reason I'm here is we are installing MOSS into a highly scalable hosted configuration MOSS servers – YAY!) so we can get some early adopting customers onto it (and hopefully surprise MOSS 2007 hosting for TechEd).
Everything was going great, we had architected the environment as a large farm with lots of physical and virtual servers, planned how we were going to build and I had a great tour of their data centre.
Once we started the installation using the standard build images we started getting this error:
Task configdb has failed with an unknown exception
Exception: System.InvalidOperationException: This access control list is not in canonical form and therefore cannot be modified.
at System.Security.AccessControl.CommonAcl.SetQualifiedAce(SecurityIdentifier sid, AceQualifier qualifier, Int32 accessMask, AceFlags flags, ObjectAceFlags objectFlags, Guid objectType, Guid inheritedObjectType)
at System.Security.AccessControl.DiscretionaryAcl.SetAccess(AccessControlType accessType, SecurityIdentifier sid, Int32 accessMask, InheritanceFlags inheritanceFlags, PropagationFlags propagationFlags)
at System.Security.AccessControl.CommonObjectSecurity.ModifyAccess(AccessControlModification modification, AccessRule rule, Boolean& modified)
at System.Security.AccessControl.CommonObjectSecurity.SetAccessRule(AccessRule rule)
at System.Security.AccessControl.RegistrySecurity.SetAccessRule(RegistryAccessRule rule)
at Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPDiagnosticsService.Provision()
at Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPFarm.Join()
at Microsoft.SharePoint.PostSetupConfiguration.ConfigurationDatabaseTask.CreateOrConnectConfigDb()
at Microsoft.SharePoint.PostSetupConfiguration.ConfigurationDatabaseTask.Run()
at Microsoft.SharePoint.PostSetupConfiguration.TaskThread.ExecuteTask()
After searching this on the web there were a few articles which jumped out – the first was the Known MOSS issues list which said this was caused by NewSid. None of our boxes had been NewSid'd so this was a bit strange.
In the end this is the resolution which we have modified from the original source, Tom Wisnowski, because he was doing this on a different key.
When you get the exception:
The keywords so other people who experience this issue can locate this article are: canonical, installation, SharePoint 2007, SharePoint 12, MOSS, 2007, registry, ACL, DACL, Error, ERR, System.InvalidOperationException.
I just got this email from a school buddy, Alistair Speirs (now working for this partner)
From: Alistair Speirs Sent: Monday, July 24, 2006 5:28 PMTo: Angus LoganSubject: FW: Behind the scenes at TechEd 2006 (Australia/New Zealand) Office System Track!
Nothing for 2 months and then three posts in a day? Did you just get a blog budget?
Feed: Angus Logan's Portals BlogPosted on: Tuesday, 25 July 2006 7:09 AMAuthor: aloganSubject: Behind the scenes at TechEd 2006 (Australia/New Zealand) Office System Track!
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Firstly – great to see Alistair is aggregating his blogs using Outlook 2007!
Secondly - No I didn't get a blog budget – I've always had one.
Why I started blogging again
I recently (2 months ago) lost the password to my blogs.msdn.com account so it was pretty hard for me to blog – I'd always reset the password but then would never get around to blogging because the urge would go away.
Also the nature of my job means that I get access to a lot of internal only information and lots of IRM'd emails – either way if I accidentally blogged something from those I'd get in trouble J, so I've been super careful – now I can't bottle it up anymore.
New (Financial) Year resolution to blog more
All of that really means nothing because the reason I've started blogging again is – I've configured my Word 2007 RTM build (just kidding, it is a random build) to act as a blogging client for our Community Server instance.
This way I blog directly from word and I get benefit of spell check, styles and the lovely new Ribbon.
One of the benefits Penelope Lewin and myself share being co-owners of the Office System track at TechEd Australia is being interviewed by Geoff Appleby of TechTalkBlogs.
Read the interview here – you will learn lots…
About an hour ago I met with a Microsoft Partner who specialises in SharePoint/InfoPath/BizTalk/BI/Exchange and lots of other great things.
The reason I'm blogging about them is that within 60 minutes of meeting with them I got a request to be "LinkedIn" to one of their senior consultants using. This is social networking to the extreme! And I like it!
It got me thinking about Microsoft's offering in this space.
If you haven't already checked out Microsoft's Social Networking capability for your enterprise, Knowledge Network for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, do it now!
I demo'd Knowledge Network at Microsoft Australia's Company Meeting and some of the scenarios were:
All this goodness is done by analyzing your Emails & Communicator buddy list and then recommending a profile to you. You can then add/remove/edit/approve/reject items in the profile and publish it to the Knowledge Network server which makes it searchable within your organization – Very Cool!
BTW – I'm not a Knowledge Network expert I can find one using our own implementation J), just a fan! – to hear from the experts check out the Knowledge Network blog.
I downloaded this session, Build Your Next Generation Internet Site Using SharePoint Technologies, by Jackie Bodine from MIX06 a while ago and completely forgot about it until a partner mentioned it.
This session is great if you are interested in using MOSS 2007 for Internet Sites and you will also see a killer masterpage based on Xbox.com.