December 2009 – Technology Rollup Mail – Internet
News
Biztalk Server
Newell Rubbermaid - Newell Rubbermaid Expects to Save $1.5 Million Managing Brand Web Sites Over Two Years
https://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/Case_Study_Detail.aspx?casestudyid=4000005682
BizTalk Server 2009 R2 Announced at the Microsoft PDC Conference
https://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/SVR15
Windows AppFabric announced at the Microsoft PDC Conference
https://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/FT14
Microsoft Internet Information Server
Lots of new software for IIS, ASP.NET, AJAX and PHP this week
Wow, what a week of innovation for the Microsoft Web Platform. This week we released a ton of new software which, if you haven’t already, you’ve got to check out. Here is a quick overview: IIS Search Engine Optimization v1 final release...
Windows Cache Extension for PHP (aka, “WinCache”) 1.0 General Availability Today
Today we announce the general availability of the Windows Cache Extension for PHP 1.0 (affectionately known as “WinCache”), which is an open source built-for-Windows caching extension to the PHP engine. You can view, contribute and download the source...
IIS SEO Toolkit 1.0 Final Release Available Today
Today, IIS launched the IIS SEO Toolkit 1.0 , a free, fully supported extension to IIS7 that makes it easy for you to build and maintain Web sites optimized for search engines and site quality. In a world where thousands of new Web sites appear on the...
Improve Web User Experience with IIS SEO Toolkit RTW and IIS URL Rewriter 2.0 RC
Remember the scene in Diehard when he shoots the glass? That was cool. What’s even cooler is now you can fine tune your Web site for the search engine, thus improving the experience for your Web users. Today, Microsoft announced the releases of IIS Search...
Download a powerful load balancer and caching solution free on Windows Server 2008 or later with Application Request Routing (ARR) 2.0
I am very pleased to announce the final release of Application Request Routing (ARR) 2.0 , which provides a powerful load balancer and caching solution for free download onto Windows Server 2008 or Windows Server 2008 R2. As with all the IIS Web server...
URL Rewrite Module v2 – Release Candidate
The URL Rewrite Module 2.0 – Release Candidate is available for download . The release contains functionality and stability improvements and it is believed to have a quality level suitable for production deployments. Overview Microsoft URL Rewrite Module...
https://blogs.iis.net/ruslany/archive/2009/11/09/url-rewrite-module-v2-release-candidate.aspx
Increase Web Application Scalability and Reliability with ARR 2.0 RTW
Today, Microsoft announced the final release of IIS Application Request Routing (ARR) 2.0 RTW . Customers - such as hosting providers, Content Delivery Network (CDN) providers, and IT Professionals are changing the way they do business as a result of...
SharePoint Technologies
First look: Microsoft SharePoint 2010 beta
2009-11-24: InfoWorld
Major upgrade to Microsoft's Web site, intranet, and collaboration platform offers wealth of improvements for end-users, IT professionals, and developers
https://www.infoworld.com/d/windows/first-look-microsoft-sharepoint-2010-beta-588
SharePoint 2010 Public Beta is now available for download
2009-11-18: Microsoft
announcing the general availability of the public beta of Office 2010, SharePoint Server 2010, Visio 2010, Project 2010 and Office Web Apps for our customers and partners. Millions of people can download the beta at https://www.microsoft.com/2010.
Why Developers Like SharePoint 2010
2009-11-17: Infoworld
SharePoint 2010, the newly announced upgrade to Microsoft's popular Web and collaboration platform, is receiving a thumbs-up from developers pleased with the product's capabilities, including its use of Visual Studio as a tool for building SharePoint applications.
https://www.infoworld.com/d/developer-world/why-developers-sharepoint-2010-224
Small Company Makes Big Splash at Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2009
2009-11-02: Reuters
IncWorx Consulting was the recipient of Microsoft's 2009 SharePoint Deployment and Planning (SDPS) Partner of the Year Award. The world's most prominent technology and business professionals met during Microsoft's SharePoint 2010 Conference hosted by Microsoft at Las Vegas' Mandalay Bay
https://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS128011+02-Nov-2009+PRN20091102
SharePoint 2010's Sandboxed Solutions
2009-11-02: Windows IT Pro
One of the biggest problems with SharePoint 2007 development is that all of its solutions run as full trust. This makes farm administrators reluctant to publish any solution that may disrupt the stability of the farm. Sandboxed solutions, new in SharePoint 2010, address this by allowing site collection administrators to deploy solutions that are safe to run.
https://windowsitpro.com/article/articleid/103063/sharepoint-2010s-sandboxed-solutions.html
SharePoint 2010: Re-thinking Information Work
2009-10-30: IDC
Microsoft SharePoint is a phenomenon that obviously answers an enterprise need for a platform that integrates the major information work tools – search, content management, business intelligence, workflow, and messaging – into a collaborative work framework.
https://www.idc.com/downloads/IW20091021.pdf
Documents
Biztalk Server
New Features in BizTalk Server 2006 R2 SP1 (pre-release)
https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=163958
SharePoint Technologies
Deploy software updates for Office SharePoint Server 2007
Updated: 2009-11-05
This article has been updated with information about the October Cumulative Update, which contains several hotfixes and improvements to the Pre-Upgrade checker.
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263467.aspx
Administer variations
Updated: 2009-11-05
This article has been updated to note that if you want to add nonpublishing pages to the Pages library, you must create the variations labels and hierarchies before adding nonpublishing items to the Pages library.
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc770241.aspx
SharePoint guidance for SQL Server database administrators (Downloadable book)
Published: 2009-10-29
This book is a guide for database administrators who implement or maintain Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. It provides guidelines for improving the performance of Office SharePoint Server 2007 solutions that run on Microsoft SQL Server 2008. It also provides information about key considerations for configuring storage and SQL Server 2008 before installing Office SharePoint Server 2007; the required steps in installing Office SharePoint Server 2007 when using DBA-created databases; backup and recovery considerations for Office SharePoint Server 2007, including what can and cannot be protected by SQL Server 2008 backups; and maintaining and monitoring SQL Server 2008 databases that support a Office SharePoint Server 2007 implementation
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee721075.aspx
Planning and Monitoring SQL Server Storage for Office SharePoint Server: Performance Recommendations and Best Practices (white paper)
Updated: 2009-10-29
This paper provides key recommendations and best practices to help administrators of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 plan and monitor their Microsoft SQL Server 2008 storage requirements to support optimal performance and operation of their server farms. The paper has been updated to address the capabilities of SQL Server 2008.
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263261.aspx
Downloads
Biztalk Server
Microsoft BizTalk Server Management Pack for System Center Operations Manager 2007
Microsoft Internet Information Server
IIS DownloadCENTER
This is your single source for finding Microsoft Internet Information Services tools, samples, extensions, filters and modules created by Microsoft and the IIS community.
SharePoint Technologies
Download SharePoint 2010 Beta
Find out how this integrated suite of server capabilities can help your organization by providing comprehensive content management and enterprise search, accelerating shared business processes, and facilitating information-sharing across boundaries for better business insight.
https://sharepoint2010.microsoft.com/try-it/Pages/Trial.aspx
LogViewer Feature
All those log files in the [..]\12\LOGS folder are hard to look at, now you can use a browser-based viewer snapin to simplify the task. This adds a new link to the Central Administration Operations page that lets you pick & filter the log files. https://www.andrewconnell.com/blog/archive/2008/06/11/SharePoint-Debugging-and-Logging-Tips-and-Tricks.aspx
Download: https://www.codeplex.com/features
Disk2VHD v1.3
Disk2VHD enables on-line export of volumes into VHD format for use in VPC or Hyper-V, allowing customers experiencing issues to provide images of their systems so that CSS can diagnose the problem without costly steps attempting to reproduce the issues in-house. It uses shadow copies to obtain consistent images of volumes while the source system continues to operate and possibly modify the volumes.
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/ee656415.aspx
Events/Webcasts
SharePoint Technologies
November 2009
Understanding Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
Free of charge
Date: 26 November 2008, 18:00
Location:
Event Category: Live Meeting On-Demand
Audience: Additional Information Worker, IT Decision Maker, IT Generalist, Non-Tech Influencing BDM
Products: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
https://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/EventDetail.aspx?culture=en-GB&eventid=1032395058
TechNet Presents: MCS Talks Enterprise Architecture Session 9 – SharePoint as the Strategic Platform for the Enterprise
Free of charge
Date: 27 November 2008, 02:00
Location:
Event Category: Live Meeting On-Demand
Audience: IT Decision Maker, IT Generalist
Products: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, Windows Server
https://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/EventDetail.aspx?culture=en-GB&eventid=1032393353
December 2009
Business Agility presents SharePoint for Current & Future Intranets
Free of charge
Date: 04 December 2008, 09:00
Location: Microsoft UK, Victoria St, London
This free seminar will be focusing on SharePoint 2007, and we will be showcasing a preview of SharePoint 2010 features, functionality and demos
https://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/EventDetail.aspx?culture=en-GB&eventid=1032431363
Deployment Planning Days Overview
Free of charge
Date: 18 December 2008, 13:30
Location:
Event Category: Live Meeting On-Demand
Audience: Additional Information Worker, IT Decision Maker, IT Generalist, Non-Tech Influencing BDM
Products: Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server
Future Events
SharePoint 2010 Evolution Conference
Fee charged
Date: 19-21st April 2010
Location: London, QEII
This 3 day SharePoint 2010 Evolution Conference, consists of over 50 Sessions dedicated to SharePoint Professionals at every level from IT Pro, Developers, Designers to Project Managers and Executives.
All upcoming Events\Webcasts
https://www.microsoft.com/uk/events/default.aspx
New KB's
Biztalk Server
BizTalk Acc for SWIFT 3.0: FIX: An MT564 message that does not contain 97A or 97C field in Sequence B2 does not fail validation as expected when you use Microsoft BizTalk Accelerator for SWIFT 2009 Message Pack
https://support.microsoft.com/kb/974834/EN-US
BizTalk Server Dev 2006 R2 EN: FIX: SQL connections to BizTalk databases are not cleaned up or reused when you use the BiztalkOperations class in BizTalk Server 2006 R2
https://support.microsoft.com/kb/976927/EN-US
BizTalk Server Ent 2009 EN: FIX: Some BAPI messages in a batch are not sent successfully to an SAP system when you use a WCF-based SAP adapter that is included in BizTalk Adapter Pack 2.0
https://support.microsoft.com/kb/974800/EN-US
BizTalk Server Ent 2009 EN: A hotfix is available that lets you promote the GE01 segment as an EDI context property in BizTalk Server 2009
https://support.microsoft.com/kb/975020/EN-US
BizTalk Server Ent 2009 EN: FIX: Special characters are not written into the output document after they are processed by a send pipeline that uses the Flat File Assembler in BizTalk Server 2009
https://support.microsoft.com/kb/976074/EN-US
BizTalk Server LOB Adapters 2006: FIX: Error message when you use BizTalk Adapter for JD Edwards EnterpriseOne in BizTalk Server 2009: "Error occurred during initialization of VM"
https://support.microsoft.com/kb/976943/EN-US
Microsoft Internet Information Server
Internet Info Services 7.0 EN: FIX: Error message when you use the OpenRemote method to administer Web servers remotely in an IIS 7.0 shared configuration environment: "Cannot write configuration file due to insufficient permissions"
https://support.microsoft.com/kb/970691/EN-US
Internet Info Services 7.0 EN: FIX: Windows Process Activation Service (WAS) does not start when you use the IISRESET /RESTART command to restart IIS 7.0 on a computer that is running Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008
https://support.microsoft.com/kb/975443/EN-US
Internet Info Services 7.0 EN: FIX: You cannot save changes back to the WebDAV 7.5 Web folder when a site level change is made to IIS configuration
https://support.microsoft.com/kb/976526/EN-US
SharePoint Technologies
Office SharePoint Server 2007 ML: The link of an old site is displayed instead of the link of a new site after you restore the old site to the new site in SharePoint Server 2007
https://support.microsoft.com/kb/974549/EN-US
Office SharePoint Server 2007 ML: Description of the SharePoint Server 2007 Cumulative Update Server Hotfix Package (Wssmui-hu-hu.msp): October 28, 2009
https://support.microsoft.com/kb/975003/EN-US
Office SharePoint Server 2007 ML: Description of the Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 hotfix package (Coreserver-x-none.msp): September 30, 2009
https://support.microsoft.com/kb/975527/EN-US
Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: The ServerInfo rule in Pre-Upgrade Checker for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Service Pack 2 lists the servers in a farm
https://support.microsoft.com/kb/954758/EN-US
Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: The FarmInfo rule in Pre-Upgrade Checker for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Service Pack 2 provides information about a farm
https://support.microsoft.com/kb/954759/EN-US
Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: The UpgradeTypes rule in Pre-Upgrade Checker in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Service Pack 2 checks the current setup of a farm and determines what kinds of upgrade are available to the administrator
https://support.microsoft.com/kb/954760/EN-US
Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: The SiteDefinitionInfo rule in Pre-Upgrade Checker for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Service Pack 2 lists information about site definition templates
https://support.microsoft.com/kb/954761/EN-US
Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: The FeatureInfo rule in Pre-Upgrade Checker for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Service Pack 2 lists all features and scans the content databases for references to the features
https://support.microsoft.com/kb/954762/EN-US
Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: The LanguagePackInfo rule in Pre-Upgrade Checker for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Service Pack 2 lists the languages that your Web sites are using
https://support.microsoft.com/kb/954763/EN-US
Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: The AamUrls rule in Pre-Upgrade Checker for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Service Pack 2 scans a Web application and reports certain AAM URLs and databases
https://support.microsoft.com/kb/954764/EN-US
Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: The OSPrerequisite rule in Pre-Upgrade Checker for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Service Pack 2 warns you about incorrect operating system prerequisites when you upgrade SharePoint servers
https://support.microsoft.com/kb/954770/EN-US
Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: The ContentOrphan rule in Pre-Upgrade Checker for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Service Pack 2 lists the names of content databases whose data is corrupted
https://support.microsoft.com/kb/954773/EN-US
Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: The SiteOrphan rule in Pre-Upgrade Checker for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Service Pack 2 lists the names of site collections that are not in the site map
https://support.microsoft.com/kb/954774/EN-US
Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: The PendingUpgrade rule in Pre-Upgrade Checker in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Service Pack 2 warns that the gradual upgrade of a farm is not yet completed
https://support.microsoft.com/kb/954775/EN-US
Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: The MissingWebConfig rule in Pre-Upgrade Checker for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Service Pack 2 (SP2) lists the name of the computers and the Web site URLs that have missing Web.config files
https://support.microsoft.com/kb/954776/EN-US
Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: The InvalidHostName rule in Pre-Upgrade Checker for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Service Pack 2 warns you about an invalid host name in the URL of a Web application
https://support.microsoft.com/kb/954777/EN-US
Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: The ReadOnlyDatabase rule in Pre-Upgrade Checker for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Service Pack 2 reports any databases that are set to read-only
https://support.microsoft.com/kb/954779/EN-US
Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: The WindowsInternalDatabaseMigration rule in Pre-Upgrade Checker in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Service Pack 2 warns you about databases that are larger than or close to 4 gigabytes (GB)
https://support.microsoft.com/kb/954780/EN-US
Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: The WindowsInternalDatabaseSite rule in Pre-Upgrade Checker for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Service Pack 2 warns you about the site collections that are hosted on the Windows Internal Database that are larger than or close to 4 GB
https://support.microsoft.com/kb/954783/EN-US
Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: You encounter performance problems when you run a crawl on a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 site
https://support.microsoft.com/kb/975532/EN-US
Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: The Windows SharePoint Services Search service does not start when the fully qualified domain names of the server are used to configure a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 single server installation
https://support.microsoft.com/kb/976043/EN-US
Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: The UnsupportedSQLServerVersion rule in Pre-Upgrade Checker for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 warns you about SQL Server versions that are running with incompatible architecture or about unresponsive databases
https://support.microsoft.com/kb/976215/EN-US
Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: The EventReceiverInfo rule in Pre-Upgrade Checker for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 provides information about event receivers that are referenced in a farm
https://support.microsoft.com/kb/976216/EN-US
Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: The WebPartInfo rule in Pre-Upgrade Checker for Windows SharePoint Service 3.0 October 2009 cumulative update provides information about the Web parts that are referenced in a farm
https://support.microsoft.com/kb/976217/EN-US
Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: The ServerConfigErrors rule in Pre-Upgrade Checker for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 October 2009 cumulative update warns you about missing server files or server configuration issues
https://support.microsoft.com/kb/976218/EN-US
Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: The FormsAuthenticationApplications rule in Pre-Upgrade Checker for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 provides information about forms-based authentication providers or WebSSO authentication providers that are referenced in a farm
https://support.microsoft.com/kb/976384/EN-US
Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: You upload a file to a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 site, and the custom content type that you selected from the New menu is not used
https://support.microsoft.com/kb/976393/EN-US
Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: The Check Names feature in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 resolves names very slowly
https://support.microsoft.com/kb/976396/EN-US
Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: When you click "Search" without specifying search words in the Advanced Search page of a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 site, you receive all the results from the index
https://support.microsoft.com/kb/976429/EN-US
Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: The SharePoint search results in a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 site displays the size of the Welcome page as zero (0) bytes and displays an incomplete URL for the Welcome page
https://support.microsoft.com/kb/976430/EN-US
Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: You run a crawl for some Lists or Surveys, and you receive access violation error messages
https://support.microsoft.com/kb/976431/EN-US
Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: When SharePoint crawls a Web page, the last modified date of the Web page that is displayed in the search results is incorrect
https://support.microsoft.com/kb/976439/EN-US
Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: Users who have read permission do not receive alerts for drafts or for minor version documents when the Content Approval option is enabled in a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 site
https://support.microsoft.com/kb/976440/EN-US
Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: Values for some crawled properties are lost when you perform a full user profile import in a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 site