Dave Pae's SharePoint Server WebLog

Start here if you need technical information regarding SPS2003: http://office.microsoft.com/home/office.aspx?assetid=FX011209761033&CTT=98

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sppt/reskit/default.mspx

In the next few weeks, MCMS customers will be able to download a special control (r.a.d. edit control) developed by Telerik for an enhanced editing experience. Customers can use this new control free of charge. This will be advertised next month from...

Bell Sympatico and MSN entered into a partnership which together resulted in a merger of sypmatico.ca and msn.ca forming a new (Super) portal. Content channels are either hosted by Sympatico or MSN. Bell Sympatico engaged Microsoft Consulting Service...

Check out Scott Woodgate's blog for links to training, webcasts and all sorts of other stuff that float in and out of the BizTalk team. Look under my Blogs category for a direct link to his site.

http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/3e3b8737-c6a3-4e2c-a35f-f0095d952b781033.mspx?mfr=true Click the tree view to access 2007 reskit, MOSS, WSSv3 and even project server content. Enjoy!

As part of the Beta 2 Technical Refresh (TR), we have updated our Software Development Kit (SDK) downloads on the Microsoft.com Download Center. You can download the updated SDK Content for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 here: http://www.microsoft...

Last week, we released b2tr for SharePoint. The first thing I urge you to do is read the instructions to install the patch and also the readme. The time spent understanding what the product group has spent time documenting will save you alot of time vs...

It's was great to dive into the technical guts of the upcoming MOSS2007 product with the product group last week. Learned *ALOT*! Check out MikeG's blog (my sharepoint buddy for TR3): http://www.mikeysgblog.com/Lists/Categories/Category.aspx?Name=Conferences

You really need this: http://download.microsoft.com/download/b/1/a/b1a6dceb-92a3-4808-8dac-b4e40c90ce00/StandaloneDCWorkaround.msi RTM version will not need to change on the DC.

IT planning, deployment, and upgrade content is available for these products at the following locations: Office SharePoint Server: http://officebeta.iponet.net/en-us/help/HA101639811033.aspx Office Project Server: http://officebeta.iponet.net/en-us...

§ Part 1: http://officebeta.iponet.net/search/redir.aspx?AssetID=AM101638541033 § Part 2: http://officebeta.iponet.net/search/redir.aspx?AssetID=AM101638551033 § Planning for security: http://officebeta.iponet.net/download/afile.aspx?AssetID...

MOSS2007 has two levels of scopes: scopes that are created in a SSP and scopes that are created in a Site Collection. In Beta 2, the SSP scopes that you created must be added to the Display Groups in a Site Collection. Here's how: Create your...

So a colleague asked where's the save site to a template located. I told him to check out the Site Settings page. NO joy! Here's a quick work around. Visit the site you want to save as a site template. URL should look like http://servername/sites/sitename...

Microsoft IT supports one if not the largest SharePoint architecture in the world. Here's a podcast to hear how we do it: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=72234c3d-49be-4fb9-9cd1-cf79fe9beea6&displaylang=en

So, getting alot of questions regarding writing custom web parts for MOSS2007. Check out the article posted here: http://www.developer.com/net/asp/article.php/3620316

https://www.microsoftelearning.com/catalog/itprodev.aspx#officeSystem2007 Clinic 3041: Deploying Microsoft® Windows Vista™ and the 2007 Office System Client Products (Beta) Summary: In this clinic, you explore Windows Vista deployment scenarios and...

I can't stress how many times Keith Richie's SharePoint Suite has helped me in solving customer requests. Once again, he has come thru with a blog on how to audit users in a sharepoint environment. Check it out: http://blogs.msdn.com/krichie/archive/2006...

Whew! The BDC is a powerful way to tie LOB data into the MOSS2007 environment. If you spend some time with the MOSS SDK, then you can see how to manually generate a BDC application definition based upon the data you want to tap into. Now, the obvious...

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/office/office2003/maintain/fp03wss.mspx

Alot of peolple have asked about the future of CMS2002. Arpan and Manish broadcasted a LiveMeeting session to provide guidance on WCM futures. Here's a recording of the session: http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?culture=en...

Virtualization is really hot specifically after the release of Virtual Server 2005 R2. Working with my collegues, they are seeing excellent performance gains running VS2005R2 on 64-bit host servers. Many of my customers are asking about running WSSv2...

Check out the LiveMeeting broadcast from the Office developer conference!

With my last whirlwind trip to the East Coast meeting with customers and partners, it was great to witness the enthusiasm behind the Office System 2003. There was an equal level of interest around the Office 12 wave of products. One site that I want...

New capacity information is available for SQL 2005. Check it out here .