BizTalk Server
Host Integration Server 2009 Public Beta Program now open
https://connect.microsoft.com/site/sitehome.aspx?SiteID=66
New Case Studies
KAS Bank - Top 100 SWIFT User Streamlines Operations and Reduces Operational Risk with Migration
http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/casestudy.aspx?casestudyid=4000003002
Premier Foods - Distributor Collaborates from Supplier to Customer, Gains Competitive Advantage
http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/casestudy.aspx?casestudyid=4000003023
Comune di Roma - City Administration Uses Virtualization Solution to Drive Agility, Boost Productivity
http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/casestudy.aspx?casestudyid=4000003005
Hospital de Torrevieja - Healthcare Provider Increases Productivity, Saves €327 Per Patient Per Year
http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/casestudy.aspx?casestudyid=4000002958
Microsoft Internet information Server
Microsoft Web Platform Installer Release Candidate – Now works with XP and Windows 2003!
Nov 24, 2008
I’m excited to announce the availability of the Release Candidate version of the Microsoft Web Platform Installer (Web PI). Web PI is a free tool that makes it simple to download and install the latest components of the Microsoft Web Platform, including...
http://blogs.iis.net/bills/archive/2008/11/24/microsoft-web-platform-installer-release-candidate-now-works-with-xp-and-windows-2003.aspx
ASP.NET supported on Server Core - Windows Server 2008 R2
In case you haven’t already heard the news, ASP.NET will now be enabled on Windows Server Core starting with Windows Server 2008 R2. If you're not familiar with Server Core, it is a low footprint Server installation option that lays down just the...
http://blogs.iis.net/bills/archive/2008/11/24/asp-net-supported-on-server-core-windows-server-2008-r2.aspx
Why IIS7? Top 12 cool features…
Nov 20, 2008
Every time I talk with customers in meetings or at conferences I’m struck by how many cool amazing new capabilities IIS7 has. I can go on for literally hours talking about the new features and benefits, and showing demos. And with each new...
http://blogs.iis.net/bills/archive/2008/11/20/why-iis7-top-12-cool-features.aspx
IIS7 Request Routing and Load Balancer Release Candidate Available for Download
Nov 13, 2008
I’m excited to announce that IIS has released a Release Candidate of the new IIS7 Application Request Routing (ARR) extension! ARR enables Web server administrators to easily scale-out Web applications and improve reliability through HTTP-level...
http://blogs.iis.net/bills/archive/2008/11/13/iis7-request-routing-and-load-balancer-release-candidate-available-for-download.aspx
Find New IIS7 Extensions at http://www.iis.net/extensions/
Nov 11, 2008
I’m happy to announce that IIS7 Extensions have found their home at http://www.iis.net/extensions Every since IIS7 shipped 9 months ago, the IIS team has been cranking away adding new features to the platform. Last time I blogged about how we do this...
http://blogs.iis.net/bills/archive/2008/11/11/find-new-iis7-extensions-at-http-www-iis-net-extensions.aspx
URL Rewrite Module - Release to Web
Nov 10, 2008
Today IIS team has made the URL Rewrite Module for IIS 7.0 Release To Web (RTW) available for download. This is a final, production-ready release that is officially supported by Microsoft. Install the URL Rewrite Module for IIS 7.0 RTW today! Microsoft...
http://blogs.iis.net/ruslany/archive/2008/11/10/url-rewrite-module-release-to-web.aspx
IIS Media Pack 1.0 Released
Nov 07, 2008
Following up on our Smooth Streaming announcement last week, today we released IIS Media Pack 1.0! This first release of the IIS Media Pack features two IIS 7.0 extensions that focus on the intelligent delivery of video and audio to end users: Bit Rate...
http://blogs.iis.net/chriskno/archive/2008/11/07/iis-media-pack-1-0-released.aspx
IIS Web Deployment Tool Beta 2 Released
Oct 30, 2008
The Web Deployment team had a big ‘coming out’ party yesterday at the PDC and announced immediate availability of a new Beta of the Microsoft Web Deployment Tool . MS Deploy - Fundamentals If you aren’t familiar with this tool yet, you’re going...
http://blogs.iis.net/bills/archive/2008/10/30/iis-web-deployment-tool-beta-2-released.aspx
SharePoint Technologies
SharePoint Online Out of Beta and Ready for Purchase November 17, 2008: Microsoft Press Pass Today, at a launch event in San Francisco, Stephen Elop, president of the Microsoft Business Division at Microsoft Corp., was joined by customers and partners to announce the availability of Microsoft Exchange Online and Microsoft Office SharePoint Online for businesses of all sizes in the United States.
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2008/nov08/11-17ExchangeSharePointOnlinePR.mspx
Announcing Microsoft Certified Master for SharePoint November 3, 2008: Microsoft Learning The Microsoft Certified Master: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 program provides the most in-depth and comprehensive training available today for Office SharePoint Server 2007. This three-week training program is delivered by recognized experts from Microsoft and Microsoft partner organizations.
http://www.microsoft.com/learning/mcp/master/Sharepoint/default.mspx
Can Microsoft Keep SharePoint Rolling? November 1, 2008: Information Week It's all-in-one approach to collaboration is winning over companies, but that can cause its own problems.
http://www.informationweek.com/news/telecom/collaboration/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=211800363
PODCAST: Creating a Competitive Edge: Extending the SharePoint Platform to meet Enterprise 2.0 October 29, 2008: PC PRO Using rich blog, wiki, RSS, mashup & social-networking solutions combined with the enterprise content management and search capabilities of SharePoint, SharePoint customers are well positioned to create a competitive advantage in good or bad economic times by leveraging the benefits of Enterprise 2.0.
http://research.pcpro.co.uk/detail/RES/1225284892_758.html?src=pcpro
Microsoft unveils Windows Azure for SharePoint at Professional Developers Conference 2008 October 27, 2008: Microsoft PressPass Microsoft releases comprehensive Azure Services Platform for the cloud, offering unprecedented power of choices and open connections for developers.
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2008/oct08/10-27PDCDay1PR.mspx
MOSS Tech Center
One stop shop for all your MOSS resources including recent whitepapers, articles, discussions, blogposts, training videos, demos and much more… lookout this month for a download of the Administration Guide CHM file http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/office/sharepointserver/default.aspx
BizTalk Server 2006 R2 Help
Newly released documentation for BizTalk Server 2006 R2 in two formats: CHM and HxS.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=1&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d4e6a9d40-dbfc-4474-826a-ddeca287e57d%26displaylang%3den
BizTalk Server 2006 Administration Tutorials
The BizTalk Server 2006 administration tutorials are designed to help you design and configure a multi-server BizTalk Server deployment.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=2&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3dd3add54f-4bb7-444d-9300-6230180dbb45%26displaylang%3den
Troubleshooting BizTalk Server SOAP Adapter
Troubleshooting techniques when using Microsoft BizTalk Server with the SOAP Adapter
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=3&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d0297745b-7636-4f4d-ab44-62d1abe2330d%26displaylang%3den
IIS DownloadCENTER
This is your single source for Microsoft Internet Information Services tools, samples, extensions, filters and modules created by Microsoft and the IIS community. Have you created an IIS script that others can use? Login, then submit it to the DownloadCENTER.
http://www.iis.net/downloads/default.aspx?tabid=3
SPGhostTool - Tool to fix broken setup path values in files without having to modify the database
WSS PM recently released a codeplex tool that you may find useful for fixing ghosted file issues in SharePoint. The tool uses the PRIME APIs to export and import an individual file to fix up the setup path value. Since it is relatively easy for a user to break this value and become permanently unable to re-ghost the file, hopefully this will help. http://www.codeplex.com/SPGhostTool
SharePoint Designer 2007: Non Technical Resources
SharePoint Designer 2007 Frequently Asked Questions on Trials, Pricing, Purchasing, Activation, Licensing and Support.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=1&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d0a8e1a32-6524-4567-af65-633f0dbe033c%26displaylang%3den
External Collaboration Toolkit for SharePoint
This solution accelerator is a collection of software and guidance that you can use to easily deploy a SharePoint-based environment for collaboration with people outside your firewall. The accelerator allows users to create collaboration environments that use the familiar SharePoint interface. Because the solution is easy to use, end users are more likely to use it rather than revert to e mail.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=1&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3dd9af2c25-989c-45c4-8008-1f15722190ed%26displaylang%3den
IT Compliance Management Guide
The IT Compliance Management Guide is intended for IT managers and IT professionals who must plan for and address the governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) requirements of their organizations.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=2&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3dbd930882-0d39-4900-9a79-b91f213ed15d%26displaylang%3den
Integrating Line-of-Business Data into MOSS 2007 with the Business Data Catalog
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=3&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d9fa34e43-1cc7-4af9-8e24-6252c8f0dde5%26displaylang%3den
Office SharePoint Server IT Pro content CHM
Downloadable CHM version of SharePoint Server content on TechNet.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=4&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3dba006584-711d-4ce7-9e1f-181aedf6434a%26displaylang%3den
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=5&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d0a8e1a32-6524-4567-af65-633f0dbe033c%26displaylang%3den
SharePoint Monitoring ToolKit for OpsMgr 2007
The SharePoint Monitoring Toolkit helps you manage Microsoft SharePoint environments of all sizes.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=6&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3de4600fd9-f53d-4ded-88bf-6bb1932794f9%26displaylang%3den
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=2&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3de4600fd9-f53d-4ded-88bf-6bb1932794f9%26displaylang%3den
Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Application Template: Application Template Core
The Application Template Core solution file for Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 contains all of the resources for each of the server admin templates. This solution must be installed and deployed prior to any other server admin Application Template installation.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=3&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3dc1039e13-94da-4d7d-8cae-3b96fa5a4045%26displaylang%3den
Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Application Templates: All Server Admin Templates
This download package includes all twenty server admin Application Templates for Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and the Application Template Core solution.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=4&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3daae4cb5a-91d2-4f1b-9a45-3bb894e218f8%26displaylang%3den
Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Application Templates: All Templates
This download package includes all forty of the Application Templates for Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 plus the Application Template Core solution, which is required to deploy server administration templates.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=5&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3d5807b5ef-57a1-47cb-8666-78c1363f127d%26displaylang%3den
Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 IT Pro content CHM
Downloadable CHM version of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 content on TechNet.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/info.aspx?na=22&p=6&srcdisplaylang=en&srccategoryid=&srcfamilyid=&u=%2fdownloads%2fdetails.aspx%3ffamilyid%3dc9d6c8c5-8a62-4961-8c1b-df08b667b1c4%26displaylang%3den
SharePoint Technology Conference
January 27–29, 2009: Burlingame, CA For three exciting days in January, you'll be eating, drinking, sleeping, talking and living Microsoft Office SharePoint Server and Windows SharePoint Services. The first day at SPTechCon is filled with intense full and half-day workshops, half in the morning, half in the afternoon. The next two days are filled with more than 50 break-out classes to choose from. Build your own custom program!
http://www.sptechcon.com/
SharePoint Best Practices Conference
February 2–4, 2009: San Diego, CA The SharePoint Best Practices Conference eliminates design, deploy, organization and administration confusion, replacing disorder with Clarity, Direction and Confidence.
http://www.sharepointbestpractices.com/
FASTforward '09
February 9–11, 2009: Las Vegas, NV 3 days of compelling discussion on the evolving business environment and how search is enabling companies to succeed. http://www.fastsearch.com/l3a.aspx?m=1134&amid=14562
All upcoming Events\Webcasts
http://www.microsoft.com/sharepoint/learning/events.mspx
Internet Info Services 7.0 EN: FIX: Small memory leaks may occur when you use RSCA to query runtime statistics in IIS 7.0
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958661/EN-US
Internet Info Services 7.0 EN: FIX: The behavior of a Web site does not always correspond to the configuration that is specified in the ApplicationHost.config file in IIS 7.0
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/954267/EN-US
Internet Info Services 7.0 EN: FIX: The POST data is unavailable for custom error pages in IIS 7.0
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/956578/EN-US
Internet Info Services 7.0 EN: FIX: IIS ABO Mapper may cause an access violation for a non-privileged caller in IIS 7.0
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/959414/EN-US
Microsoft BizTalk Server supportability on a virtual machine (updated)
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=842301
FIX: The Backup BizTalk Server job is incorrectly associated with the time zone of a BizTalk Server 2006 server
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=936187
BizTalk Accelerator for SWIFT 2008 Message Pack is available (updated)
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=925731
SharePoint Portal Svr 2003 EN: You recieve error 7619 when you run a Full Text query on a SQL Server 2005 installation that is used by SharePoint Portal Server 2003
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/957050/EN-US
SharePoint Portal Svr 2003 EN: Description of the SharePoint Portal Server 2003 post-Service Pack 3 and the Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 hotfix package (Sts.msp): October 28, 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958706/EN-US
Office SharePoint Designr 2007: Description of the SharePoint Designer 2007 hotfix package (Spd.msp, Fpac.msp, Ewd.msp): October 28, 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958692/EN-US
Office SharePoint Designr 2007: Description of the SharePoint Designer 2007 hotfix package (Spd.msp): October 28, 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958565/EN-US
Office SharePoint Server 2007 ML: Description of the SharePoint Server 2007 hotfix package (Dlc.msp): October 28, 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958569/EN-US
Office SharePoint Server 2007 ML: Description of the SharePoint Server 2007 hotfix package (Coreservermui.msp): October 28, 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958567/EN-US
Office SharePoint Server 2007 ML: Description of the SharePoint Server 2007 hotfix package (Coreserver.msp): October 28, 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/957693/EN-US
Office SharePoint Server 2007 ML: Error message when you try to create a new Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Web application: "Absolute path information is required"
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958448/EN-US
Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: Description of the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 hotfix package (Sts.msp): October 28, 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/957691/EN-US
Office SharePoint Server 2007 ML: The index is corrupted when the SharePoint Server 2007 index server experiences power failure or restarts unexpectedly
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958615/EN-US
Office SharePoint Server 2007 ML: Http 400 error when you click a folder in the pending approval report in Office SharePoint Server 2007 site to manually approve or reject it
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958346/EN-US
Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: The "Check Names" button does not work as expected after you set a "Peoplepicker-searchadcustomfilter" LDAP filter in a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 site
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958578/EN-US
Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: Security trimming is not honored when more than one List View Web Part is displayed on the same page in a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 site
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958008/EN-US
Office SharePoint Designr 2007: Description of updates for SharePoint Designer 2007 Help: November 11, 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/957250/EN-US
Office SharePoint Server 2007 ML: MS08-069: Description of the security update for the 2007 Office servers: November 11, 2008
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/951597/EN-US
Office SharePoint Server 2007 ML: Error message when you execute common searches in an Office SharePoint Server 2007 site: "Turn on more accessible mode Skip to main content Turn off more accessible mode"
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958714/EN-US
Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: Error message when you perform a content deployment of a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 site collection that has a custom site template: "Cannot import site"
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958579/EN-US
Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: Error message when you visit a sub-folder under a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 list that contains more than 2,000 list items that have non-inheriting permissions: "#RENDER FAILED"
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958577/EN-US