[Via Mark Harrison ] From the Microsoft Anti-Malware Engineering Team blog ... We have analyzed this software ( Sony DRM Rootkit ), and have determined that in order to help protect our customers we will add a detection and removal signature for the...

[Via Angus and Patrick Tisseghem] Last week I mentioned the new book 'Advanced Microsoft Content Management Server Development' from Andrew Connell, Angus Logan, Lim Mei Ying and Stefan Gossner. If you want a taste of it, go here and download chapter...

As Office 12 will leverage Windows Workflow Foundation as Workflow engine it might be interesting to see the differences between Biztalk Server (the other Workflow product shipped by Microsoft) and Windows Workflow Foundation. Brian Loesgen has provided...

Now after MCMS 2002 SP2 has been released I would like to point you again to an article series I have written earlier about MCMS 2002 and ASP.NET 2.0: ASP.NET 2.0 and MCMS - a first look ASP.NET 2.0 and MCMS - The easy way to site navigation...

[Via Andre Kieft ] Microsoft® Windows® SharePoint® Services Step by Step http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=761f1eac-2eb4-428b-86f0-bbc995913771&DisplayLang=en Microsoft® Windows® SharePoint® Services Inside Out Chapters...

[Via MikeKim ] Read the November 2005 IIS Insider column on TechNet, which covers the following topics: Compressing Files Other Than HTML and Plain Text Protecting Static Content Without Using Windows Authentication ...

I just uploaded the pictures I took during my vacation with my girlfriend Michaela last week during our vacation in Cairo (Egypt): http://www.stefan-gossner.de/FotoGallerien/Kairo2005/fullscreen.html (you need to click on the "Bitte hier klicken" button...

[Via Mark Harrison ] The November Community Technology Preview of Enterprise Library for .NET Framework 2.0 is now available to download .

Running a system with MCMS 2002 SP2 is a little bit more tricky than running one with the previous versions. Especially when it comes to VS.NET integration: VS.NET developer tools It is not possible to install the MCMS 2002 developer tools on a...

Together with SP2 three KB articles have been released with information about Service Pack 2: 906142 - How to obtain the latest Microsoft Content Management Server 2002 service pack 906145 - Content Management Server 2002 Service Pack 2 installation...

The message was that MCMS 2002 SP2 will be available "short after the release of VS.NET 2005". And the product team really managed to release SP2 today. Be aware that SP2 can only be installed after installing SP1a. So if your system is currently on SP1...

Advanced Microsoft Content Management Server Development Lim Mei Ying , Stefan Goßner , Andrew Connell , Angus Logan This book has the most in depth-coverage of important MCMS development topics found anywhere. Each author of...

MSDN subscibers around the world are now able to download and install any one of the retail versions of the Visual Studio family products from the MSDN subscriptions site. In additon the 32bit and 64bit versions of the .NET framework 2.0 and .NET framework...

The WCM (Web Content Management) Team in Redmond just started blogging. If you are interested in the future of MCMS you should definitily add this blog to your favorites: http://blogs.msdn.com/wcm

Since my first article on how I modified the look and feel of my blog I have made some additional changes. Here is a summary of all changes I made to the original "Marvin3 - green" Theme: Insert picture in title Move title text to right to give...

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Recently a question came up in the newsgroup on how to limit the size of a resource uploaded through Site Manager. Chester has now provided information on how to achieve this . As it requires the modification of an MCMS internal ASP file you should...

Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Portal Server 2003 Service Pack 2 (SP2) contains significant security enhancements, in addition to stability and performance improvements. Some of the fixes included with SP2 have been previously released as separate updates...

[Via jhawk ] Kent Sharkey (who manages the ASP.NET Dev Center) says that the ASP.NET 2.0 Provider Model series of whitepapers are live on MSDN - 10 parts, 120 pages! The providers page at http://msdn.microsoft.com/asp.net/beta2/providers/default.aspx...

MCMS has two built in approval roles: Editors and Moderators. This leads to the common misunderstanding that MCMS ships with two levels of approval - which is not correct! Editors and Moderators are not approving the same things. To understand the...

[Via Eileen ] Small Business Webcast: Take the "Work" Out of Teamwork with Microsoft Office Word 2003 and Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services (Level 100) Wednesday, November 02, 2005 - 1:00 PM - 1:30 PM Pacific Time Darin Browning, Business Development...

Have you ever wondered what happens inside IIS when a request comes in? There a several different scenarios depending on what file type the request accesses including static files, ISAPI extensions and CGI. David Wang has written a nice article explaining...

Today I received the second question in a row about the fact that the protocol and domain part of the entered URL is removed for links to postings. This behaviour is a feature of MCMS: In reverse proxy scenarios where requests are forwarded by a proxy...

The MCMS FAQ I'm maintaining on the Microsoft Website got some respect by www.cmswatch.com : Microsoft's enviable CMS FAQ

[From a mail thread] Data stored in clipboard can be accessed by a malicious website through a combination of Javascripts and server side code (like ASP, ASP.NET, PHP, CGI, ...). Just try this: Copy any text by ctrl+c Click the Link: http...

Today I have uploaded the latest version of the MCMS 2002 FAQ to the Microsoft Website. Here are the links to access the FAQ: Html Version CHM Version (perfect as offline version)

Just found a nice tidbit on Scott Hanselman's blog: http://www.hanselman.com/blog/WindowsPreLoginWallpaper.aspx

[Via Kevin Remde ] Windows Server 2003 R2 Webcast Series – Extend Connectivity and Control in Your Environment Did you know that there is a new version of Windows Server 2003 coming? Did you know there are new features coming in Windows Server 2003...

Brian has provided a list of answers to the following questions about the new PDF support in Office 12: Do we support tagged PDF (for accessibility)? If we do support tagged PDF, what kind of semantics will Office 12 require the author to use...

Arpan pointed me to an PC World article which talks about new file formats in Office 12 like PDF, XML and Metro: http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,122831,00.asp

David has posted two articles about his thoughts on IIS Security vs. Apache which I would like to recommend to you: Thoughts on IIS Security vs Apache Thoughts on IIS Security vs Apache, Part 2

[Via Andrew Connell ] At the MVP Global Summit, Microsoft disclosed that Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, InfoPath, Publisher, Visio, and OneNote in Office 12 will support saving documents to PDF natively… no need for PDF printer drivers any more ...

The latest version includes full multi-lingual support, twice as many forms, and a full SharePoint integration. [Via BusinessWebSoftware ] AFLite now offers integration with both SharePoint Portal Server and Windows SharePoint Services . Other major...

Great news for Microsoft Partners – Three courses that will enable you to be able to gain the certification requirements for the Portals and Content Management Specialisation have been anounced: Accelerated Customising Microsoft Office SharePoint...

ASP.NET 2.0 makes it very easy to consume and display an RSS feed on an ASP.NET web site. Andrew Duthie demonstrates how to do this using a XmlDataSource control and a DataList bound control with a little XPath on Channel 9: http://channel9.msdn.com...

[Via Andrew Connell ] WSS SP2 is now available: MSFT WSS SP2 Aside from a hotfix rollup, the following features/capabilities that are provided by WSS SP2: Reverse Proxy and Alternate URL support IP Bound virtual servers SQL Server 2005...

MCMS ships with a nice comparison feature for revisions. But there is nothing available to compare to different postings! Chester has spent some time to analyze how MCMS does the revision history comparison and managed to get the CompareHTML.dll shipped...

Mike Rousos has put together a great article series for the ASP.NET 2.0 tracing system. A must read for all ASP.NET 2.0 developers! A Tracing Primer - Part I Introduction Instantiating a TraceSource Adding Tracing Events Configuring...

ASP.NET 2.0 Security Guidance Index http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnpag2/html/ASPNET2SecurityGuidanceIndex.asp?frame=true ASP.NET 2.0 Security Guidelines http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnpag2/html/PAGGuidelines0001.asp?frame=true...

Now after Arpan posted his Top 10 favorite features for next version of SharePoint and MCMS Lawrence Liu has posted his favorite list: A "Global" Template that is applied/provisioned before any other template, and a Feature Framework that provides...

IIS 7.0 Operations Guide http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windowsserver2003/library/iis7/Ops/9a90c800-3f09-4a3f-87b0-caae34076aca.mspx Procedures for how to do tasks in IIS 7.0 IIS 7.0 Technical Reference http://www.microsoft...

Just found the following great article on this topic: HOWTO: Diagnose IIS6 failing to accept connections due to Connections_Refused

Sometimes - especially when a large site update is required MCMS customers decide to use database copy rather than using Site Deployment to move the changes to the production machine. That is a valid way to do this but some things need to be considered...

Arpan Shah , Product Manager for MCMS and SharePoint has provided a nice list of his personal top 10 features in the next version: There's a lot of great buzz in the community as well as Microsoft around the next version of Windows SharePoint Services...

[Via Angus and Mikael Söderström] I was just watching some videos from the PDC at WinSuperSite . I really wish I was there. If you weren't there, check this videos out. They are amazing. Convention Center Walkthrough Bill Gates and Napolean...

Lawrence Liu has attended the Office "12" Curriculum Design Summit which I was also invited to but couldn't attend. Here are here impressions one the new product: I spent the past day and a half participating in an Office “12” Curriculum Design...

J.D. Meier, Alex Mackman, Blaine Wastell, Prashant Bansode, Kishore Gopalan Microsoft Corporation August 2005 Security Guidance for .NET Framework 2.0 Summary This page explains the rationale behind the patterns & practices Security Guidance...

[Via Andrew ] Heather Solomon has put together a nice list of resources to many different SharePoint related topics, pointers to web parts, documentation and specs. Check it out!

[Via Eileen ] TechNet Webcast: Getting Started with Microsoft Collaboration: 30 New Applications for SharePoint Services (Level 100) Tuesday, October 4, 2005 - 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM Pacific Time Jason Bunge, SR. Product Manager - WSS, Microsoft Corporation...

[Via Mei Ying ] Building Websites with Microsoft Content Management Server is now available as an eBook. Get the bundle now from directly from Packt Publishing @ http://www.packtpub.com/mcms/book and enjoy a discount of 10% of the book...